This past Friday morning saw me sitting at my desk doing what my employer pays me to do when a text from Ms. Boss (my wife, if you haven’t figured that out by now) arrives. A friend of a friend, it seems, writes a blog and featured a post she felt compelled to share.
‘I would love to see you and support you in doing something like this,’ urged Ms. Boss.
Knowing that Ms. Boss is a) wiser than me, and b) someone I don’t wish to disappoint, I took her up on the offer – and went all in. No, I didn’t go to Blogspot or a similar space where they would gladly host me for free, I went all out and purchased my own domain name and parked it on a web host. This is because I a) am occasionally filled with hubris, and b) am an obdurate male. Thus, ‘The Life of C.L. Boss’ entered my life.
Saturday rolls around and a small crisis looms at Boss household. After months of resisting our daughters’ pleas to get a dog, we finally gave in the previous Monday. We found the dog for us – quiet, calm, small, housebroken – it was almost too perfect. In fact, it was too perfect – the people who gave us the dog hounded and pestered us until they got the dog back. Ms. Boss and her brood were quite beside themselves. We spent Saturday looking in vain at shelters. On Sunday, we found the newest member of the Boss clan. Thus, ‘Ozzy’ entered our lives.
Other than the fact that the two words rhyme, I have discovered early on in my relationship with the two that a ‘dog’ and a ‘blog’ have some eerie similarities.
1) Both need care and attention: Unlike our cat, Ozzy needs cared for quite a bit during the day. It doesn’t help that he isn’t quite housebroken yet. While a blog won’t poop in your house, it also needs love lest it devolve into a mess.
2) Both take time: I wasn’t much of a dog person growing up. The one dog I had growing up was either extremely low maintenance or my parents shouldered a lot of burdens I wasn’t aware of. A blog? Let’s just say I haven’t been able to put as much into it as I would have liked early into the progress.
3) I have no idea what I’m doing: Ms. Boss and I have scoured the Internet looking for sources on how to take care of our dog. While some of it has worked, we’re still cleaning up our fair share of accidents. As far as the blog goes, I have a few vague ideas of where I’m leaving from, but I haven’t found the right star to steer towards yet (see yesterday’s haiku).
4) It’s still early in the game: A scant two days have passed since both the dog and the blog came into my life. Who knows? Ozzy could grow up to be the bestest dog ever. ‘The Life of C.L. Boss’ could be the bestest blog ever written. Both are unlikely, but the possibility remains if I can put the proper effort into it.
For now, I’ll remain ever vigilant for the next great idea… as well as poop on the floor.