On Myspace I have over 21,000 friends that I try and network with as much as I can. This comes in most useful when I run my girl and guy of the moments contest (hopefully a new one will be coming soon). I also have a few thousand followers on Twitter as well. With Twitter it is a different story though, I tend to get more work off of Twitter than anything dealing with my site or friendship wise, but that’s fine since we all need to work.

Now I am trying to get out there and actively affiliate with other sites. I just recently made an affiliation with MobsterAddz.com after doing some work for them. Now I am looking for affiliates for other parts of the site. If you want to affiliate with me on my blog, on my recipes site, Myspace Adder, Proxy, fanlistings, anything at all, let me know and maybe we can work out a link exchange or something.

When it comes to my blog it seems to be a whole other thing. I had set up a schedule a few weeks ago with blog topics that I wanted to talk about on certain days of that week, but as the days went by I wasn’t keeping to the schedule. How do you handle your blog schedule and sticking to the topics you want to talk to on certain days?

It snowed here on Thursday into Friday. Unfortunately for me on Thursday I was in the city doing some work for a client and my iPod ended up getting wet and I am pretty sure it is fried. It still acts like it works, when I plug it in it says Please Wait… Very Low Battery, but other than that it doesn’t do anything. I guess next time I go, I better use my phone as a music player.

Other than that I’ve been trying to come up with a better blog schedule and plan, but some things came up work wise that didn’t allow me to. Maybe this week will be better.

I can’t say that I didn’t kind of know, but having an inkling and then finding out for sure are two totally different things. I hadn’t seen her on AIM in a while, but I can’t believe it’s been two years. Where does the time go? It doesn’t seem like that long ago that we were talking about me writing a better blog program than just her using text files. I think she will always be an inspiration to me. It’s weird when I think back to our conversations, over ten years ago she first told me what cable internet was (though it would be years until it was available in my area), and what AOL’s BYOIA was.

Goodbye Megan, I hope you continue to inspire people wherever you are.

The next case of stupidity I read yesterday, a 12 year old girl was arrested for drawing on her desk. The teacher sent the child to the principal and the principal called the police saying that it was part of zero tolerance. Zero brains is more like it. Not only was the teacher wrong, not only was the principal wrong, but the police were wrong in arresting the 12 year old. Why would they arrest someone when there was not even a crime committed?

The third comes from the Alaskan moron herself, Sarah Palin. She’s pissed off because Family Guy made fun of the fact that she has a child with down syndrome. Family Guy has made fun of black people, Chinese people, retarded people, gay people, Irish people, in fact the list is shorter for the people that they haven’t made fun of yet, but Palin thinks that she and her family should be above the jokes. Why would she think that she would be so special to not be made fun of?

I thought after we got Bush out of office we’d be seeing more intellect from people in charge, but it seems that the people in charge are just as dumb as ever.

In work news, I have been swamped trying to finish up a lot of stuff. I have stuff from months ago that I need to finish and other new sites I need to get up. I am trying to do all the old stuff and get them up, but as of right now I am swamped and haven’t had much time for anything else.

Well I better get back to work on these sites. Hopefully I can make a huge dent in one or two before I finally crash for the night.

On Saturday Kris and I bought some new toys. With Kris trying to go back to school she needed a laptop she could take with her wherever she went in order to do school work. She ended up picking up an HP netbook. She isn’t the only one who picked up a new toy though, I picked up a Wacom Bamboo tablet. Last year I did a few daily sketches and I am hoping to get a section up for sketches soon, but before I do I want to get more used to the tablet. I am thinking about finishing up that Superman artwork with it, or sketch something then color it and shade it with the tablet. So far I can say that using it in Photoshop is a lot easier than using a mouse.

On Sunday Kris and I are heading down to NJ for a Super Bowl party at my father’s. He has a high definition 62″ television, so add that to the fact that we will probably head down early and get Denny’s for lunch, it is well worth the trip. It only takes about two hours to get down there, so it shouldn’t be too bad, hopefully traffic won’t be too bad on the way down or on the way back. It would mean more if the Jets could have actually made it into the game though, I guess there’s always next year.

I am getting really tired of saying there’s always next year. Come on Jets, make it all the way already.

As for what I am going to do with this current section as it stands, I am thinking a mailing list for Recipe of the Day and possibly a Recipe of the Day widget like the Zen Quote of the Day widget. It all depends on how successful this section is though, as those two will be a few if I do them.

I don’t necessarily think being powerless would be a bad thing though, I think it brings people together. I know that more sex happens when there is no power with no other distractions. I also think that without power you get to know people better. Years ago neighbors knew each other, people watched out for each other, today there’s television and video games and so many other things that get in the way, I think if we didn’t have so many distactions, then we’d get closer to the people around us. It’s strange, the more technology, the more isolated we seem to get.

Now I am not saying that it is just the distractions at home, people tend to work more nowadays, so being out 6 or 7 days a week at work isn’t an uncommon occurrence, so that too plays a factor in it, but if you think about it, work is just another distraction keeping people from each other. I know there are people sitting there saying I am spitting out BS, but when I had a Playstation if I wanted to play with someone, then they’d need to be in the same room as me. Now, I can hop on the XBox and play with my friends in New Jersey. Yes, back then the distance would be hard, but back then you would go out and meet new people because you wouldn’t have anyone else, now you are simply a voice in a video game, or on a phone, or on Skype, actual human interaction seems to be a thing of the past.

Going a day without power was hard for me, but maybe more people should go days without power and go and have a beer with a neighbor, it may bring you closer to the people who are nearest to you.

Being without power is horrible. Our lives revolve around power, so not being able to play video games, watch television, or even just check emil was a real shell shock. The only thing that I was able to do was play some Lego Star Wars 2 on Kristen’s DS and sleep. I don’t know how people can live without modern conveniences, but if I can never go another day without them, I’d really like that.

I got a lot of work done today, but I am still behind with not being able to work yesterday, so I guess I should be working, but I am using a laziness excuse since I already finished up some stuff today and am going to go work on this site.