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MY RANT
February 2010
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Internet Ingrates
When I launched this website last May, I really had no idea how much time, effort, and money it would take to keep it up and running. To be honest, the website wasn’t even my idea. My business manager, Brian Rowan, talked me into it, and I pretty much just decided to go along for the ride. In retrospect, I’m glad I did, because for the first time ever you and I have a chance to actually communicate with one another. And that alone makes it all worthwhile. Besides, I like writing the stuff that goes onto the site, at least when I can.
And that brings me to the gist of this rant.
I’ve been very busy traveling lately, and I was sick as a dog for nearly three weeks due to some awful bug I caught while on the road. (My theory: germ-laden remote controls in hotel rooms.) As a result I haven’t been able to spend as much time on the site as I’d like. Fortunately, new visitors click on every day, and for them the experience is new. Unfortunately, regular visitors justifiably get upset when the content gets stale. Sorry about that.
But some of those in the latter group have gotten very upset, to the point of saying relatively mean and nasty things and threatening to never return to the site. And to them I say, quite simply, good riddance. I don’t consider it my purpose in life to satisfy the needs of ingrates who have nothing more to do than criticize me for failing to meet their expectations.
Thankfully, of the hundreds of comments I’ve received from visitors in the past two months – and yes, I read every single one of them -- the vast majority have been incredibly positive. And most of them have included lengthy and heart-warming tales detailing how much “Gardening by the Yard” has meant to them. It’s for those people that I plan to keep the site up and running as a way of saying thanks for spending a half hour watching my show each week for all these years.
But let’s have an understanding right here and now. I’ll do my best to update the website regularly, but if I fail to do so as often as you’d like, it’s only because I’m busy. Or because I forgot to disinfect a remote control.
