A little behind the scenes info for visitors to IM.

The other day somebody was asking if there was an alert to let people know when I am about to put up a new post.

Simply put, nuh uh.

However I am nothing if not a creature of habit. And if you have been paying attention you should have recognized a rather obvious pattern.

I almost always put up seven posts a day. (Occasionally that number drops by one or two, but that is the exception to the rule.)

Before I go to bed at night I write three robo-posts that will publish while I am in La La Land.  One at 2 AM, one at 4 AM, and one around 6 AM. (Though I am usually awake before this last one hits the internet.)

I also have my I-Pad on the bed next to me, like a totally non-cuddly teddy bear, so if you see that comments have been published in the middle of the night that is often because I had to get up and pee, or had that nightmare where a hairless, floppy breasted, Sarah Palin tries to seduce me again. ("Oh God, oh God, make it stop!")

When I finally do wake up, which is usually around five, I immediately stumble into my office and fire up the old computer and then continue upstairs to start my morning coffee. (It's a bitch when I get these two confused.)

After that I come back downstairs, where I sit at my desk and peer through my bleary bloodshot eyes at the monitor to start sorting through the comments that I did not get through the night before.

After I have finished that I stumble back upstairs, often tripping over my daughter's dog, and then get a cup of piping hot inspiration juice.

Back downstairs and the day officially begins.

I also have an actual job so that is often what I work on for the majority of the morning, but I do like to type another post before 9:00 AM my time. (I also fit in an hour and a half or two hour workout in there as well at least five days a week.)

My usual modus operandi is to put up a post every two, two and half, or three hours.

Usually that goes something like this:

2 AM Alaska time (6:00 AM EST)
4 AM Alaska time (8:00 AM EST)
6:15 AM Alaska time (10:15 EST)
9 AM Alaska time ( 1:00 PM EST)
12 PM Alaska time (4:00 PM EST)
2:30 PM Alaska time (6:30 PM EST)
4:30 PM Alaska time (8:30 PM EST)

If you go back several days you will see that I adhere to this schedule almost religiously.

Now what this does not take into account are stories that break during the day which require an immediate response, updates to posted stories as new information becomes available, and of course comments that arrive any damn time they want which add interesting details or clarification to a post.

So hopefully this will be of some use for those who are worried that they are going to miss anything earth shattering.

However this does NOT mean you should stop obsessively checking IM every five minutes. Because then I'll start to miss you, and that's not good.