The day after one\u2019s birthday is always feels a bit weird. I still feel like I should be in a bit of a celebratory mood, but there\u2019s nothing to really celebrate. It\u2019s just one of the 364 other days of the year when I wasn\u2019t born. If anything, there\u2019s the tingling anticipation of Valentine\u2019s Day, when I get to walk around and mock single people for their failures.<\/p>\n
In attempting to \u201cget serious\u201d about blogging daily, I\u2019ve 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\u2019m typing this up on Windows Live Writer<\/a>, a free Microsoft tool that lets me blog without having to log in to the annals of my WordPress administration area.<\/p>\n That\u2019s not completely true. I didn\u2019t 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\u2019s the IM program that my parents choose to use, and I have slight guilt that I don\u2019t keep in touch with my parents enough.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t really keep in touch with anyone if they\u2019re 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\u2019t think this is a bad thing; it\u2019s just a very different way of staying in touch.<\/p>\n 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. \u201cI have a blog and a Twitter feed<\/a>! How can you not know that I bought a house? I posted it everywhere! Don\u2019t you check??\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s not fair. I have to work to bridge that gap between people who\u2019ve created accounts on Twitter, Jaiku, Pownce and have syncronized posts that they check on their FriendFeed and those people that don\u2019t quite understand how IMs work.<\/p>\n In a world that is so connected, it\u2019s a tragedy if all I do with that power is let people know when I\u2019m eating a burger or to watch Peanut Butter Jelly Time<\/a> again.<\/p>\n Speaking of which, it\u2019s been way too long since I watched Peanut Butter Jelly Time.<\/p>\n