_8:10
I did it - I woke up a half-an-hour earlier today. However, in the process of getting my thoughts to trickle down to my fingers my body realized it didn’t have any coffee in it. I don’t even have coffee at my house right now so I did the next best thing - I got on the Internet.
While jumping from site to site (as I like to do here and there) I came across meetup.com. This isn’t a site I’ve seen for the first time but today is when I decided to actually become apart of the sites mission.
Stolen from their front page:
MEETUP helps groups of people with shared interests to meetup in local cafes (and other places) around the world.
The concept is everything you could wish for in something new. I found myself gravitating more toward blog.meetup.com and webstandards.meetup.com. Sadly I knew everyone in the webstandards meetup group and probably won’t go to that one unless more people show up. The blog meetup looks like alot of fun and I have Wednesday, August 21 @ 7:00PM marked on my calendar.
I would love to see any of you there and if you’re new to theparagon.ORG then I would love for nothing more than to get together and talk over cup of joe and talk about life as a weblogger.
posted on July 30, 2002| 8:23 AM EST
_20:17
With everything the way it is right now do you ever find yourself wondering if now is really - “The End Times”?
I’ll be the first to admit that it’s gone through my head a couple times since Sept. 11, 2002. Of course on that day almost everyone and their mother had that run through their head at least once.
With Terrorism, Enron, WorldCom, Martha Stewart, the Miners of SOMERSET - Pennsylvania, and now Amtrak’s derailment - it just makes you wonder why things are getting so bad.
I have more in me about the end of the world but this all was my initial thought while looking at cnn.com these past couple days. I don’t normally read cnn.com - maybe I shouldn’t anymore.
Update: 45 minutes later
I just read over my post and thought to myself - people are gonna start thinking I’m really depressed. I’m honestly not at all. I just have to stop posting in the middle of long projects.
Maybe it would be better if I started posting in the mornings. Supposedly it’s the best time to write since you’re still in your dream sense and your adult self hasn’t quite woken up yet. This drastic change in schedule probably means I should get to bed earlier.
Cross your fingers but I wouldn’t suggest holding your breath just yet.
posted on July 29, 2002| 8:34 PM EST
_16:00
Some wise words on Investing:
If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Nortel stock one year ago, it would now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 of the original $1,000.00.
With Worldcom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had bought $1,000.00 worth of Budweiser (the beer, not the stock) one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the cans for the 10 cent deposit, you would have $214.00.
Based on the above, my current investment advice is to drink heavily and recycle.
[Hat tip to Jodi Broersma]
posted on | 4:03 PM EST
_17:31
Without being able to actually come up with anything provocative to say I decided to say a couple random pieces on my mind.
One:
I woke up this morning at 7:00 and just sat there for a good 5 minutes, trying to figure out why my alarm went off at such and early hour. Most of that 5 minutes was, however, wasted trying to figure out what day it was.
They’ve all been slowly moving into one big day and only little things allow them to actually register as a different one.
Two:
I’ve been reading these books on what good writing is and it’s really helped me understand why I’ve had such a huge slump these past couple months.
One book mentioned that writers aren’t really writers but merely people that write everyday no matter what. Another book had the idea that everyone had the skill of becoming a writer but had to understand the 2 different types of people inside ourselves.
The first person is our child. Our child has many stories to tell and wants to yell them out to everyone and at any time. The second person is our adult. The adult is constantly yelling at our child to calm down and explaining, “Telling everyone everything isn’t proper”.
The job of a wanna-be-writer is to constantly ignore our adult and let the child run free. Our child can’t be held down or kept quiet for us to keep telling stories and emotions freely.
I’m not yet at the point where can let my child run free but it’s something I’m working on. It might need to start by simply posting everyday. Whether I have something to say or not. If I write enough it should start feeling natural and then hopefully better.
Or so these books seem to suggest.
Three
Why does Winterfresh Gum have such a fricken awesome website?
posted on July 27, 2002| 5:53 PM EST
_23:12
Having a weblog is great! I get to express myself in as many ways as I wish along with listening to what people have to say on various topics.
The hard thing about writing is coming up with, what many people call, good writing. I’ll admit I’m not the best writer, nor am I even able to write everyday. However writing has always been a great way for me to get things off my chest - even if they don’t make any sense to the reader (which I try to avoid doing).
Today during my one-hour lunch I decided to drop by the Library and pick up a couple books on writing. Ya know, see what other people have to say about it and learn different styles that are out there.
I’m hoping to find some inspiration in these readings along with learning to write about my every day experiences as a man in his early 20’s. Honestly, I don’t have a clue if reading these books will really help and if they’re like any other book I pick up - it will take me awhile to actually read through it.
Nonetheless my goal is to become a better writer of my experiences in life and maybe if I’m lucky — more.
posted on July 23, 2002| 11:27 PM EST
