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I’m going to be travelling a lot over the next three weeks. Mostly, this travelling takes place on the weekends. The weekends when I usually write my blog posts for the coming week.  I’m sure you can see the conundrum that’s coming along, any moment now, to serve as the point for this blog post.

The good news is that it doesn’t actually take all that long to prep posts and set them up while I’m away. What usually takes me the better part of the weekend is figuring out what to blog about (you know, when I’m *not* blathering on about the new writing routine and the joy of getting stuff done). To this end, I’m going to turn to you, the readers of this blog, to help me out a little:

Give me topics.

Ask me questions.

Set me challenges.

Basically, fire stuff my way that you think would make for an interesting blog, even if it’s just one word, and I’ll take the list with me to help fill in those lonely hours spent in airport departure lounges waiting for planes to take me places. For the next few weeks I’m happy to be your dancing monkey, all you gotta do is hum the first few bars of the tune.

I pitched a similar kind of question at twitter last week, and got the suggestion of Where/how to find ideas to write about? from Nathan Russel, so that’s going to be kicking things off on Friday. After that, I’m trusting in you folks to serve as a crowd-sourced muse to supplement the subconscious one that’s going to burnt out by five AM flights and day-job seminars.

What d’ya say, can you help me out?

So there’s a bunch of things on the website that I’ve been meaning to fix for ages and last night I finally got around to it, which inevitably led to the decision that maybe it’s time to gussy the place up a bit given that I’ve been using the same theme and layout for three years now. It’s something of a work in progress, since there’s plenty of changes I’ll be making when I get the time, but for the moment it feels a bit cleaner and the links on the front page work and my parents can finally stop saying “You’ve only got Horn on your website. When are you going to put up a link to Bleed? You should really do that.”

Well, now it’s done. I have a vague feeling that I should go and clean my room.

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And my spell-checker is trying to tell me that gussy isn’t a word, but this is one of those situations where I’m totally sure that it’s wrong. For some reason I always assumed this was an Americanism, which the various spell-checkii are pretty good at detecting, but I suppose I could be wrong. Any Americans out there want to confirm?

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Finally, since it is actually Sunday morning and I spent much of yesterday remembering just how much I used to love the Velvet Underground: