So I’m driving to the local community college to get my teeth cleaned, and on their flashy billboard I see that they’re hosting a performance by a “Hand Percussion Ensemble”.
My most annoying bad habit is now taught for college credit.
Wottawoild.
:)
Well, another Sanction Saturday has gone by and it seems that the stories are always the same, just the faces are new.
The state NPC chairman dolloped praise on Ian (the now-Official NPC photographer) like whipped cream on pumpkin pie, including crediting him with providing “the best photos we’ve ever had” (that I can live with, it’s an opinion) and “bringing us into the new technology” (that one gets to me a bit– I’ve always tried to stay on the cutting edge).
This isn’t about Ian– I love him to death, we’re gear-heads to the core and spend 95% of our time at the shows talking tech. Apart from a Nikon fixation that I can’t seem to snap him out of, we get on like two peas in a pod– we in fact ate lunch together after the meeting, and have some other plots brewing that I can’t talk about yet (insert demonaical laugh).
But this was the same topping lavished on Doris back in the day, completely plausible and even partially true, right up to the point that it would have to acknowledge I exist.
I have to wonder if the NPC officials are aware of the outpouring of gratitude and support I get from the athletes themselves (and you know who you are: thank you. You’re the reason I do this).
Or that my site’s popularity helps make bodybuilding in Florida look so good to so many people (it’s coming up on 2/3 of a million hits soon– and that’s just the front page!) .
Or my contest search page, that presents in one place all the information a potential competitor or spectator needs to find a local show. (I have asked for this to be put on the NPC official site, but have had no interest– it belongs there, not on my site).
My guess would be, “no”.
I’m reminded of a scene from Die Hard:
Al: “How you feelin’, ‘Roy’?”
McClane: “Pretty f^(#in’ unappreciated, Al.”
So I’m going to think long and hard before I commit too much more to this. When I started, I saw a need. Now Ian pretty much fills that need, and moreover he does a great job at it.
Maybe it’s time to become Official, or just walk away from it.
At least if I became a judge, I’d get a room, a meal, and a couple of bucks for my effort.