Headline Surfer® image / DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Even with the best intentions, sometimes biting off more than one can chew can prove embarrassing.
Such is the case with our Countdown of the Top 100 Local Stories of 2014, which as of today, still has 38 entries to go.
Let's face it: We're just a couple of weeks from Thanksgiving. So this leaves us with two choices: 1. Finish it; 2. Bag it.
In previous years, we've chosen the latter, even with the best intentions.
Our readers seem to like the countdown, based on comments we have received over the past 11 months, even though the timing is so totally out of whack.
Regardless, a longtime follower, Rosemarie Gordon Frutchey, a former president of the SE Volusia Chamber of Commerce and a New Smyrna Beach resident, took us to task following the posting of entry No. 41 on the death of former Gov. Reuben Askew.
Frutchey made the following comment Thursday in no uncertain terms a couple of days ago on two of our multiple Facebook pages: "A year ago.....little late."
Our readers seem to like the countdown, based on comments we have received over the past 11 months, even though the timing is so totally out of whack. Regardless, a longtime follower, Rosemarie Gordon Frutchey, a former president of the SE Volusia Chamber of Commerce and a New Smyrna Beach resident, took us to task following the posting of entry No. 41 on the death of former Gov. Reuben Askew.
She made the following comment a couple of days ago in no uncertain terms on two of our multiple Facebook pages: "A year ago.....little late."
Well, she's absolutely right!
Palmer Wilson, another New Smyrna Beach resident, constantly messages us with bewilderment as to why this countdown wasn't abandoned months ago.
So here's the game plan: We are going to finish what we started. And so we have given ourselves "(me) a self-imposed deadline of one week -- mathematically, that's close to six completed entries over each of the seven days to get it done.
Then on Thanksgiving Day, we will begin the Countdown of the Top 100 Local Stories of 2015, with No. 1 unveiled on New Year's Day. That timeline averages out to 2.7 entries published per day.
No excuses: Just do it!