Sunday (Day 42)

I looked at houses all day. I found nothing and went home to watch movies.

Monday (Day 43)

Switched out my Sociable plugin for Share This because it’s a lot less obtrusive at the bottom of my posts. No one seems to bookmark anything on this site, so a bunch of icons on the bottom of the post didn’t make much sense. I started putting together my cinematic character playlist for the August edition of FineTune Friday. I wrote the rest of the day away and went outside only to take out the garbage. I didn’t shower or shave, and writing for over 12 hours can produce one smelly hobo. #1GF! came home and laughed at me for both my insane hair and crazy smell.

Tuesday (Day 44)

Wrote for 14 hours.

Wednesday (Day 45)

Went to the gym, did the food shopping, and wrote a post for Miro. Cooked up some sausages and peppers and watched Season 3 of Rescue Me. Realized that I like say “like” a lot and got totally like frustrated by it because, you know, I’m not like 12.

Thursday (Day 46)

Somehow lost the day moderating videos for Miro and didn’t get much writing in. Joined some social bookmarking sites like stumbleupon and del.icio.us. Still don’t see the point of these sites, but I want to test them out to see if they could prove to be useful. I’m not ready for myspace or facebook. Ate pizza for dinner and got bored with the lack of people dancing like a robot on “So You think You can Dance”.

Friday (Day 47)

Got up, worked out and cranked out a few posts. Moderated 120+ videos for Miro. Felt like I gave up a healthy salary doing mundane things only to trade it in for a volunteer job doing mundane things. Read a post from the Miro player blog, which linked to a whole bunch of high traffic Miro articles but didn’t link to mine. I told them about my article, so they knew about it, but they didn’t link to it because it didn’t generate enough traffic for them. It would’ve been nice to get a link because I do so much moderating for them, but I guess it doesn’t work that way. Eh. I’m not in the big leagues. I didn’t write the post for a link, I wrote it because I love the idea of the player. But when the post was intentionally full of links on press for Miro, I thought I would’ve gotten a link because I help them out. I’m not angry with them or anything like that. I’m a small fry and they’re big leagues. It is what it is. But there’s nothing like feeling like you’re doing something worthwhile and then realizing you’re just a grunt. I drowned my disappointment in a ton of free music sites until #1GF! got home. The best thing I found was a free Wynton Marsalis album called Here…Now, which is available for free directly from Marsalis himself.

Saturday (Day 48)

Had some strawberries on my Cheerios. Man, I forgot how good fruit can make breakfast. Tried to get my parents to give me ideas for a project that might help them. Babysat #1GF!’s niece and nephew. Went home and watched Big Love Season 1.

What I learned

• Waiting three days to shave makes me look like a hobo. I need to keep shaving every two.
• I asked myself the question: “What did you want to be as a kid?” I wanted to be a writer. Now, I’m just a hobo.
• When you take away all the things that you have to do, life doesn’t necessarily get better. You might even realize that it’s pretty pointless. You can amass as much money as you want, or conquer as much of the world as you want, and in the end, it won’t matter. 90% of what we do during the day is a distraction designed to keep us from realizing this.
• Mortgages are designed to keep you afraid to leave a job you hate. You’re paying more money than you have just to sleep in a certain place. There was a time in the not so distant past where you could save up for and buy a house. What we live under is modern feudalism.
• School and jobs are meant to break people. You learn to make concessions, accept meaningless raises, fight for favor, and internalize problems that are not your own. You become something that you’re not. In reality, there are very few problems that can’t be solved in a short amount of time, if you have the time to solve them. The further you get from from both jobs and school, the more insane they seem.
• I’m ok with mundane tasks, as long as they are limited in scope. I don’t like being a grunt in any capacity if it seems endless.
• People will always overlook you. It’s not personal. Sifting is the nature of modern life. We are trained to sift information and sometimes, we sift people.
• Making a decision to embark down a path is better than indecision. It’s worse to fear failure than to fail. Life is not a dress rehearsal.
• Kids can be a bear when they’re tired. Being able to go home to an empty house is sometimes pretty great.
• While I have ideas on how to monetize the web, I haven’t found my niche.
• I think blogging may be a waste of time. It’s a fun waste of time, but there is probably more money and notoriety in writing a book.
• I forgot how much I love free music and what a pain in the ass it is to sift through music sites full of awful bands. It’s like mining: You have to sift a lot of garbage to find a gem. And when you find it, it’s not nearly as polished as the ones in the store.

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