AH! Ever since returning from

AH!

Ever since returning from Kentucky I've felt like I'm behind in everything. Let me make a list to see if this is true:

* Must fix all bugs over at textads.nervousness.org.

* Must update this site. Phew, at least I can cheat on this one by just updating with with an update saying I need to update.

* Must help someguy at 1000 Journals move his site over to another server, including all the work that I did a couple months ago which has yet to launch due to problems with the server. ?

* Work on my secret business project. If you want to see the not-quite-finished version of my new website, you can have a sneak peak.

* Move all of the textads stuff over to a new domain which I bought while in Kentucky. Redesign and enhance. Woo!

* Write a Seattle Story about houses.

* Write a christmas extravaganza email to my family and friends who live far away.

* Buy K's christmas present(s).

* Figure out how to complete an old project for a friend who is paying us way too little to do what is becoming a tedius job.

* Answer three billion emails (or actually, just read but don't answer) from people at Nervousness.

* Begin to sketch out plans on a way to allow a little bit of moderation for LMAO owners to remedy the reoccuring problem of uncooperative users at Nervousness.

* Watch LOTR.

* Clean house.

* Okay, those are the major ones, I'm now digging for things that I probably should do but know I won't.

Anyway, it seems like I've got as many days off as I do days on at the office, so maybe it'll all be okay in the end.

We were going to have christmas dinner at Kristen Hirsh's house, through some strange turn of fate, but it looks like we're not. Instead, we'll be having a chinese brunch that, in order to celebrate christmas, has promised to serve RIBS. It sure does hearken back to the days when america was america and christmas meant large chuncks of meat on the bone. Yeah.

Breathe in.

Breathe out.

I went running today. It was cold. I really like the new Mick Jagger song, "God Gave Me Everything," strange. It's the first song on my mp3 player as I run, and it makes me run quickly, but then by the time the song ends I'm about ready to call it a day.

Oh! K got us this original Robert Rauschenberg lithograph from 1960ish. It's one of his first, and it's a poster that he made for the 100th birthday of the Met. It's worth lots of money, we think, though she got it for free from work. She wants to give it away, to like our friends, or something. I'm like, no way! I want it.

So, about this whole shebang over the Scripting News Awards is hilarious. People take weblogging so seriously, as if it were an actual career. Those people at metafilter are so funny you know, fighting and calling names to each other about the awards, how it's basically a celebration of the award-maker's friends and all that. And I'm like, the metafilter crowd cracks me up. Sure, they're not all funny, but for once, I'm on dave's side. But really, it's so close to the "don't care" line that... hey! Nominate me for something, will ya!

Do you ever look at someone and realize how completely and utterly different their life and perspective must be? When I do that, I often feel robbed. But then, I think how they're being robben of being me. And I think, okay, fair enough. Oh, crap, I just can't explain it right now. What ever happened to my nice eloquent entries, dude. I'm not in the spirit of the whole thing.

Merry Christmas.

Comments

[BeigeNova]

Yes, I have thought about other how different other people's perception is. I have often wished I could see the world through other people's eyes for a day. And do feel jipped that the only eyes I ever will get to see through are my own. Even when you read a book or see a movie, your perception of the character still flavors the story! The story might feel really different to someon else.

[velouria]

Hi Erik,

I don't want to leave a comment. I actually have two questions for you about your forms (login and q&a) and after looking at your programming suggestion list on amazon, i'm still pretty much stuck. I would like to email you. How to do?

Could you please email me? I would love to figure out how you did some of this groovy stuff on your site.

Thanks, vel.