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Day 2: guilt?

February 13, 2009 / / 0 Comments

The day after one’s birthday is always feels a bit weird.  I still feel like I should be in a bit of a celebratory mood, but there’s nothing to really celebrate.  It’s just one of the 364 other days of the year when I wasn’t born.  If anything, there’s the tingling anticipation of Valentine’s Day, when I get to walk around and mock single people for their failures.

In attempting to “get serious” about blogging daily, I’ve done what any reasonable blogger would do.  I wasted some time online, by looking into what tools I could use to make my blogging experience easier.  I’m typing this up on Windows Live Writer, a free Microsoft tool that lets me blog without having to log in to the annals of my WordPress administration area.

That’s not completely true.  I didn’t really look it up.  It was conveniently sitting there in a Microsoft update utility when I was trying to install MSN Messenger.  I was trying to update my MSN Messenger because that’s the IM program that my parents choose to use, and I have slight guilt that I don’t keep in touch with my parents enough.

I don’t really keep in touch with anyone if they’re not using the Internet.  The most I ever talk to high school and college friends (other than in person because we work or hang out together) is on IM or on Facebook or on Twitter.  I don’t think this is a bad thing; it’s just a very different way of staying in touch.

But it does make me feel guilty, because even with all the ways I can keep in touch with people, I tend not to proactively do it.  I talk to maybe one of my high school friends with any regularity and a handful of college friends.  I put the onus on everyone else to keep up.  “I have a blog and a Twitter feed!  How can you not know that I bought a house?  I posted it everywhere!  Don’t you check??”

That’s not fair.  I have to work to bridge that gap between people who’ve created accounts on Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce and have syncronized posts that they check on their FriendFeed and those people that don’t quite understand how IMs work.

In a world that is so connected, it’s a tragedy if all I do with that power is let people know when I’m eating a burger or to watch Peanut Butter Jelly Time again.

Speaking of which, it’s been way too long since I watched Peanut Butter Jelly Time.

P.S. Random Flash Game I’m Playing This Morning: Sentences

Day 1

February 12, 2009 / / 0 Comments

I’ve decided, partially inspired by the 25 Things epidemic on Facebook, partially because I miss writing, and partially because I’m a narcissist who loves a challenge, that I will write a short blog entry every day of the 365 days from today (my 26th birthday) until my birthday next year.

What will I write about? I’m not certain. I can’t guarantee that each day’s entry will be fascinating reading; in fact, I can probably guarantee the opposite. There will be days when what I write about will hold no interest for you whatsoever. There may be days when what I write about spurs you to engage in a discussion with me (or others) about the topic. I’m not really doing it to pound out 365 juicy bits of prose that can later be compounded into a bestselling Web 2.0 self-published book – although if I actually complete this, I may do that anyway. Minus the bestselling part.

Also, this is the only post that will show up on the front page of this blog. For all future posts, click that year26 link that’s on the right side of this page.

A few guidelines for myself: it’s not the length of the entry, but the content. I’ll try to keep things under 500 words a day so I don’t burn myself out or overwhelm anyone reading this. I’ll attempt to also keep up with everything else I’m doing in life – this daily post should not take away too much time from my busy life.

And…I’m 26 years old. Two baker’s dozens. And while I’m no Dakota Fanning or Michael Phelps, I feel like I’ve done OK with my 26 years so far. I’m very happily married, own a house and two cats, work in a job that I adore, and have enough extra income and savings to be able to not worry about dining out or splurging on entertainment from time to time.

If there’s anything I miss, it’s theatre and improv and, in general, storytelling on stage. I feel like I’m often too busy for such things now, although that’s really an excuse, just like I’m “too busy” to exercise. Perhaps this year I’ll persuade myself to audition for a community play or local troupe. Or, like I always threaten, maybe I’ll finally direct a hit Youtube series on inner city life.

Lastly, this Onion article about being 26 is only partially correct.

Bear Bait

May 22, 2008 / / 1 Comment

Katie and I will head out tomorrow to Castle Crags, a state park in Northern California in order to go camping. This will give us an opportunity for us to use our awesome tent away from a cow pasture. We also got a new nifty camping stove that we’ll be trying out for the first time.

Castle Crags SP

We’ll be there for three nights and probably be nigh unreachable with modern technology such as cell phones, email, or Twitter.
We’ll respond to any carrier pigeons that you send, assuming we don’t get consumed by bears.

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