Rest in Peace, L.A. Daddy
Published April 24th, 2007 in Bloggin', It's Really Just All About Me....Over on the Cocktails with Kevin blog, he laments how some people who blog sometimes… disappear. There’s a blogging exodus where some of his favorite writers seemingly abandon their blogs. What happens to them? Do they get too busy? Has there been some tragedy?
Well, it got me thinking…
What happens to my blog if I get run over by the Oscar Weiner mobile? What if I slip and fall down into a manhole because someone left the cover off? Don’t laugh - that happened to a girl on my college campus… Her name was Kim Dick. And I thought she had bad luck with her name!
It could happen to anyone. At any time. My problem is that L.A. Mommy has her own blog but she doesn’t really know how the whole WordPress thing works. I put her blog posts up for her. So what if I buy the farm, cash out, flatline, become living-impaired?
How will you know?
I don’t want Kevin and any one else who reads this blog to wonder what in the hell happened to my big, goofy self…
So I decided to do something about it! I’m going to write a post that says my “Goodbye!” in advance. I’ll set it up, with some future date, and it will say something like, “Hey, all! Well… bad news. If you’re reading this it must mean that I’m dead.” Or something else as equally witty and original!
I can give it a future date in the timestamp, like July or August of this year. As I get close to that date, I’ll just push it back to October or November. So long as my number isn’t up, I can keep moving it out of the way. Buuuuut… if I do find myself pushing up daisies at some point, that “death post” will magically appear to let you know!
Or it could just mean that I forgot to push the timestamp date back…
Hmm. Maybe it’s not such a good idea.
I occasionally think about writing a letter to my kids for if I die unexpectedly, but every time i start contemplating it i get too upset. its weird but dying doesn’t scare me half as much as leaving my children without a dad does. that’s becoming a father for you.
With you on that one, Dan. Though I do have a recurring fantasy about coming back to my own funeral service (the body never having been found) and watching from the organ loft.
I wonder about this as well. Mr. Half doesn’t have the first clue about how to post my death. What I think I’ll have to do is host a blogger workshop for my family…or just hand my password over to another Typepad blogger whom I trust. When I kick, Mr. Half can give them a call with the “thumbs up”…er…”thumbs down”. Depending upon how you look at it.
OMG…I knew a girl named Kim Dick. (& you and I are the same age…sorta) Actually her name in high school was Kim Cox she married a Dick and became Kim Cox Dick. They couldn’t take the comments anymore, so they had it legally changed to Dixson.
We just did our will. Perhaps adding in a letter with instructions would be a way to go.
Give it a few more years and LA toddler will have it all figured out. She will also know how to get on and off your computer without you ever knowing she was there. If I weren’t such a fabulous PI parent my kids would still be trying to do that stuff. They went through the stage of clearing history, deleting temp internet files. cookies. I could still trace it though. So no worries. leave the info for your daughter and she can continue the LA Family cyber life.
I was thinking about the same thing a while back. NO one would know what the heck happened. Lately I have been taking miny hiatuses from blogging due to the issues with my son or a crazy work schedule or just being lazy, and I wondered if people thought I had just dropped off the face of the earth. And how would they know, right? My husband doesn’t know the access to my blog. So I guess you know what happened to me, if one day I just seem to disappear. Hopefully that’s long time away….
As long as your laptop doesn’t die I can hack in and post for you! Muahhahaha!
Every now and then, I write down all of my login information for everything under the sun in my journal, and Fiance knows if anything ever happens to me he can check in there. Some of it, like the blog, I’m not as worried about. And then there is some of it like subscriptions, bank account info, passwords on documents on my computer (like letters that I write and keep to my family JUST IN CASE because my parents always did that for us and I think it’s important that they know JUST HOW MUCH they have meant to me, etc) that are more important. The passwords are mostly the same, but I still write it all down periodically so that Fiance can access it if anything were to happen to me.
I have an easy solution to your problem: just stay alive =)
Unfortunately this plan wouldn’t work for me in blogger. Another reason to stop using that darn thing.
I have often thought the same thing! I’m also in the same boat as my wife is blogging impaired.
I love your idea of the post dated “I’m dead” post. You’re a genius, man!