And you're right, who the hell likes Mondays? I'm not a great Monday fan. Thank you, Boontown Rats, for getting us started on that. I am Michael Gross, and this, what is this?
It's Monday. It's the Daily Grateful. Do you know what I'm doing? Do you want to know what I'm doing?
You may notice that I've been adding little daily bits of music here and there that I don't own. And you're not supposed to do that. Back in the old days of radio, there was this thing that everybody swore by, and by the way, it turned out not to be true. It was called the 28-second rule.
You could play just about whatever the hell you wanted for 28 seconds or under 28 seconds, and ask Captain BMI and all these other people who would not come and try and eat your dog. Boont, as it turns out, and I found out in a very painful way, and I'm not going to go into it. But, well, I'll give you a brief tip. I did a gardening show.
I did the number one rated weekend gardening show in America. I finally overtook the one guy that was better than me. And he was better than me until he started talking about putting P in your, never mind. But anyhow, and I, it was painful, but anyhow, one day I was talking with my board operator and my boss, and I said, I want to do the rock and roll gardening radio show, and my boss, Bill, said, what?
I said, I want to start out each segment, playing a rock song, and I want to come in, and I want to be Mr. DJ, you know, and having music happening now, and the whole garden show with Michael Croz-D's, where there'll be anything, you know, just take songs out all of this, and when I went into commercial, I wanted to play like a song, and he said, well, you got to keep it under 28 seconds. I said, not a problem. So my board operator, this very nice young man, did all of this.
He did all, you know, ran all of the things and had each one, and as we went to commercial, you know, I'd say, 22 minutes after the hour, you're listening to Elton John, you know, whatever it was. I never done the DJ thing, and here I'm doing this nationally syndicated show, and I wanted to do the DJ thing, and I did for an hour, just for an hour, we only did it for one hour, even back to regular, you know, opening and closing music, and all that stuff. And it was fun. And as it turned out, I was on by 260 radio stations, and all of a sudden, these radio stations started getting hit with, you know, requests from one of the music people say, you need to pay us because this gardening guy played a little bit of our music.
And they all went under the 20th. There is no 28 second rule. Anyway, my boss had to negotiate this whole thing if he had to fix it. He had to fix it.
But since he gave me permission, he couldn't be too mad at me, but he was mad at me. And we just did it. And now we will start the podcast with music that I own, and this being Monday, I wanted to talk about daily routines because we start the daily routines on Mondays, don't we? They just seem to be like this never ending loop, but at least they give us something to claim to, you know, having having do you have a Monday routine?
I have a Monday routine. I'm not going to share with you, but I have a Monday routine, and I'm very grateful my day for my daily routine, so I can't even talk. I'm just busy listening to the Boontown rats and my headphones. I got to shut that down.
They're only hit, by the way. They only came out with one. He was a remarkable man, but one hit, and then he did live aid and all of that stuff. But folding laundry isn't thrilling, but when you pretend it's meditative, it could be zen-like.
And you know what? In my laundry room, I have a pile of laundry. This is so disgusting. I'm admitting this to you.
Instead of doing a routine, and by the way, I went and totally redesigned my laundry room. I told, I have this big table out there to fold laundry in, and I was going to put a bigger table out there to fold more laundry in, and then the kids moved in with me and they put all their stuff out there. And it's a tiny table out there. It's a tiny table.
But, you know, and I just throw my laundry there when it comes out of the dryer. I don't fold it. I don't hang it. I had this thing working before.
I had a place where I was hanging on my clock. I can't even get to the place where I was hanging on my clock. So that routine shot out the window and so did my laundry. I've got to develop a new routine for that.
Okay? Being grateful for routines is a fancy way of saying is I'm proud of myself for getting out of bed and pretending to be a functional person. If you can muster up gratitude for your daily routines, you're probably one step ahead of thinking that your to-do list may give you leave, you know, meaning for your life. I don't think so.
But got our Monday routine that we're going to do starting today, and then, ah, and then we should go on with the rest of the week. I don't have a Tuesday routine. I need one. You can email me, michael.croes at gmail.com and give me a suggestion for a Tuesday routine.
Oh, I do have a routine. I write a newsletter on Tuesday. I forgot. Every Tuesday I write a newsletter that goes out to the Tampa Bay Technology Center and I do it every Tuesday and it's published on Wednesdays.
But that's kind of cool. I already know what I'm going to write about this week. And then Wednesday, when I got going on Wednes, I don't know. But I have this really nifty book now that I write shit down in.
Did I just say a pep word? I'm not taking it out. I don't have it. Have a great day.
Have a great week. Start your routines.