Last year during NaBloPoMo, a lot of the bloggers who had been doing very well were busted during American Thanksgiving. They were travelling and couldn’t get internet access during transit, or their parents’ place didn’t have a computer, or it was just too busy to find time to dash off a few lines.
I’m not proud to say that I was pretty smug about the fact that Canadian Thanksgiving comes in October. We’d already made our big family trip and now I was free to sit at home, in comfort, using my own pretty little computer to blog every day. (I wouldn’t find it out of line if you wanted to slap me around, just a little bit. Smugness, begone!)
Now it’s payback time. We didn’t go down to Southern Ontario to visit our families this past Thanksgiving because my mother and my sisters made the trek up here. That doesn’t happen very often, so we definitely wanted to encourage them to come on up and have a good time. And it really was a great time, plus, having Thanksgiving dinner here had the major bonus of giving me cold turkey sandwiches with stuffing for FIVE DAYS after the fact, which: BLISS.
But. Since my family came up, Sir Monkeypants’ family did not get their usual visit. And since we would like to spend Christmas at home, that means we have to make a quick weekend trip down in November to visit his side of the family.
So I have just realised that I’ll be away for five days in the middle of November with NO INTERNET. Yipes!
Think my in-laws will notice if I slip off to an internet cafe every day for an hour or so? No?
It’s time to strategize. I’m not giving up yet. Is it cheating to post-date your posts?
TurtleHead 
I don’t think it’s cheating. I’m going to try to do all my posts on the day that I’m posting, but we have plans to go up to Ottawa for a weekend in November (okay, Kanata really, but close enough) and I may have to post-date my posts just to make sure I get something out there daily. Sometimes it’s just what you gotta do.
You mean post-date as it set them ahead of time to automatically post on days that you will be away, right? That’s not cheating at all. It’s no different than having a bunch of posts pre-written and actually physically pushing the “publish” button. Where in Southern Ontario are your families? I may have asked you this before, maybe? I’m asking because mine are down in Niagara.
XUP — Yup, I mean post-date as in write them in advance, and then set up WordPress to publish them for me on the days in question. I’m thinking of doing a five-day series on “weddings I have attended and the shoes that I wore.”
My husband’s family is in Mississauga (the far west end of Toronto) and my family still lives in the lovely town of Cambridge (near Kitchener, about halfway between Toronto and London — and home of the famed Toyota plant). Niagara sounds much nicer for a visit!
It’s not cheating to ‘post date’ (lol) your posts!
I find the whole whatever it’s called in November bloggy thingy too much anyway because it just means I have that many more blogs to keep up with!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It’s definitely not cheating – I remember reading something about it in the NaBloPoMo rules last year. I think I post-dated at least one of my posts last year. I hope I’ll be able to keep up this year!
I’ll be there! I just have to freakin’ remember every day!