Sunday (Day 49)

Got up and went for a nine mile walk with #1GF! on the beach and surrounding areas. Got burned and have raccoon eyes from my sunglasses. Watched some cruddy movies on Netflix Watch Now because Netflix was screwing with my dvd delivery times this week. Got a little disillusioned with the quality of the Watch Now service.

Monday (Day 50)

Wrote a little and spent a good chunk of time trying to create a header image for my sister’s site. I’m no designer, so it took a few hours to come up with ten or so designs, none of which are very good.

Tuesday (Day 51)

Thought it was Thursday so #1GF! called me an old man. Went back and tagged some of my posts from 2003 that never made the transfer from Blogger to dyers.org. Made it all the way to January ‘03 before getting completely bored. There is still a year of posts to go through, but some of the categories are finally filling out.

Wednesday (Day 52)

Wrote all my posts for the week. Wrote a Perl script that reformats my Shotgun CD review posts for me because it’s generally a pain in the ass to format them. I continued reformatting all the posts from my Blogger days. It was not all that fun.

Thursday (Day 53)

Built my sister a logo and started building her site. I also started creating a map for her because she is too busy to do it herself. As a hobo, I have plenty of time. Like a good boss, she doesn’t return my calls or emails. Like a good employee, I’m staging a work slowdown.

Friday (Day 54)

Facebook has been available for anyone to join for almost a year now, but in the last couple of months it has been popping up on my radar very frequently. Like so many people my age, I have been successfully ignoring them. After reading articles from Scobleizer and Web Worker Daily, I gave a little thought as to whether Facebook might have something more to it than the drunken teen stigma that follows it around. After getting over the embarrassment of actually signing up, exploring the site ate my whole day. There are so many ways to connect with people on the service that it makes Linkedin look like a dinosaur. Whether I’ll end up using it regularly as a networking tool is still up in the air, but I have to say that it is worth a look.

Saturday (Day 55)

Invited myself and #1GF! to a friend’s house for dinner. On the way, we picked up desert and stopped off at Staples to get cards cut for a game of 1kbwc. I took so long finding index cards that #1GF! came in to the store looking for me. $6 later we made the hour journey to the North Shore in the pounding rain. He has a good job, she has a good job, they have a nice house, people stay over all the time, and they’re great hosts. It sort of got me down for a little while about my own life, being unemployed, and not being career or money driven. Then it dawned on me that their life is not my life, and I went back to being happy with writing all day trying to claim my corner of the web. After dinner, I tried to get them into a game of 1kbwc, but they were completely resistant to the idea. The game has no set rules, allowing the players to create nearly any game they want out of it. It’s typical for people to resist the game because (oddly enough) people seem to need rules for playing, but it was probably a bit myopic on my part to expect a lawyer and an engineer to be receptive to the idea. This is especially true since I was warned that any game I bought would end up on the grill. Rather than loose a $25 game to the fire, I thought it would be safer to risk some notecards. All cards are sitting in the Staples bag untouched awaiting another victim. Went to bed and dreamed about answering nasty blog comments and running around trying to figure out which college class I was late for.

What I learned

• There are a lot of things that I see on the web every day that I assume other people have seen. This is not necessarily true and I should probably make posts out of them.
• My Perl kung fu is getting weak.
• I’m still clueless about making money on the web.
• Sometimes the kids know better than the suits on what works for connecting.

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