News: Back from Vacation

The Director's Cut Blog has returned from a brief vacation after a stretch of time off.

While vacation is nice, it's always nice to come back to work (yeah, right?!) since your work routine gets broken when you are off and at times, life seems boring. You get to sleep in late, do nothing - and still get paid for it.

I had hoped to be a little further along in planning new features for the blog. But the reality is, I'm not. Several things over the last few weeks have become a distraction - some personal, some professional. So, we just plug away and we'll take it day by day.

To be honest, the summer doldrums are here and not a lot of anything is really happening at the WKYC Digital Broadcast Center. All is quiet on Lakeside Avenue - for the moment.

I was able to think back to this vacation and to compile a brief list of things that a director SHOULD NEVER DO while on vacation:

NUMBER 5..... NEVER watch your own newscasts to see if the fill-in guy is doing better with your show than you do when you're at work.

NUMBER 4..... NEVER try and impress the people you meet on vacation by telling them that since you aren't at work, the station's ratings will suffer. They won't.

NUMBER 3..... NEVER think about your job being eliminated because it's going to happen someday, anyways.

NUMBER 2..... NEVER check your email cause the boss will know they can ruin your vacation by telling you all the things to expect when you get back.

NUMBER 1..... NEVER blog cause management will catch on that you can do your work anywhere with this little thing called the internet.

ONWARD AND UPWARD!

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