{"id":573899373,"date":"2026-09-23T20:09:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T00:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573899373"},"modified":"2026-10-02T17:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T21:17:13","slug":"woefully-behind-branding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2026\/09\/23\/woefully-behind-branding\/","title":{"rendered":"Woefully behind, branding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been given a memo making me aware that I am behind &#8230; the phrase the memo used was &#8220;woefully behind&#8221; in the site&#8217;s most popular weekly feature. I&#8217;m not sure which cat wrote it, I&#8217;m not even sure which one knows the word &#8220;woefully&#8221; but whoever did it, they are correct. <\/p>\n<p>I am contractually obligated to share photos of them every week &#8212; until next month when they take over the site &#8212; but they haven&#8217;t been on the front page of the blog in almost three weeks. Woefully behind, indeed. <\/p>\n<p>This might explain some of the early wake up calls, and the claws, that have come my way in the last few days. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;ve just been waiting for me to figure out causation. <\/p>\n<p><em>Maybe he&#8217;ll get it today,<\/em> one cat says at 6 a.m. every day. <\/p>\n<p>Well I figured it out. Let me sleep. <\/p>\n<p>Phoebe is, I think, about to perform a magic trick. Keep your eye on my paw. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept26\/sept55.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>We got some takeout recently and that came in a bag and they don&#8217;t even care about the food, but they both enjoy the bag. We cut the handles for safety and this bag lived in the kitchen for a few days until, having taken turns, they both had their fill. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept26\/sept56.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s Poseidon, impatiently waiting for his turn in the paper bag. I don&#8217;t claim to be the best photographer in the world, but I think you can fairly well hear his huff and sigh in this particular still image. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept26\/sept57.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Poe is also fascinated by the ice dispenser. He sometimes will chase a cube for a while, though the big thrill these days is watching me toss one into the sink. He&#8217;ll follow my hand, the underhand flick, the cube arcing through the air, the clang-a-lang-crash of ice meeting steel, and then he&#8217;ll leap onto the counter and stare down into the sink. I&#8217;m not sure what about that is satisfying, but it&#8217;s a better deal than leaving one on the floor, forgetting about it, and then walking into a small puddle later. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here he is checking one out up close. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/sept26\/sept58.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>So, as you can see, the kittehs are doing fine, even if they are a bit miffed at my uploading negligence. <\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/blog\/banners\/bannerrowan2.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Tonight, I grew immediately wearing of thinking that I have a night class. This should be a later afternoon, early evening class, but the shortening days, the soon-to-change-clocks &#8230; this is a night class. I&#8217;m not sure if anyone really feels up for that just now, but we work where we are asked.<\/p>\n<p>So my organizational communication in sport class today endured my discussing this evening about branding. We talked about some core concepts and watched videos. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just a bunch of this. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rBo8F9S5EHU?si=bmLup9t-v5u3qAmY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though no one reacted to that spot at all. People always have some sort of reaction to that piece. I will wonder about this for weeks. <\/p>\n<p>So I knew I was in trouble when I got to the cutesy stuff. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b9jZDUquUvI?si=yWbi4PBNkYfbsoru\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a nice little assignment tied to this lecture, which everyone approached with gusto. Since they&#8217;re all broken into groups and running fantasy football teams, we&#8217;re doing a lot of assignments through that context. Tonight they had to break down all of the starters on their teams using the various criteria we discussed in class. I was pleased to see they were interested in that. <\/p>\n<p>This class has more exercises like that, but I think I need to dream up a few more, too. Can I come up with something for roughly every other week? Do you have ideas you can share? <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d ask the cats, but I&#8217;m afraid about the memo I&#8217;d receive in reply. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been given a memo making me aware that I am behind &#8230; the phrase the memo used was &#8220;woefully behind&#8221; in the site&#8217;s most popular weekly feature. I&#8217;m not sure which cat wrote it, I&#8217;m not even sure which one knows the word &#8220;woefully&#8221; but whoever did it, they are correct. 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