Ya know, after living through my share of holiday seasons, I’ve come to realize that there are two ways people enjoy Christmas. You can either enjoy Christmas as a participant, or you can play the part of the observer. The former is the preferred stance of snot-nosed kids everywhere, and the latter is the route chosen by us boring adults. Despite the differing roles on Christmas, I would argue that neither is necessarily a “better” way to enjoy the holiday – both can be equally entertaining, as I’ll illustrate below.
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From the monthly archives:
December 2005
When I first got into blogging, I never realized what a challenge it was to come up with good content on a consistent basis. In order to crank out truly memorable articles or even to come up with things that will strike a chord with your readers, you’ve really got to be on your toes – you need to train yourself to seize the blog moment!
Sounds easy enough, right? Like a lot of things, this is something that turns out to be much tougher in practice, at least until you really get the hang of it. Today marks the 38th day that I’ve been running this site, and I will freely admit that I’m nowhere near being seamlessly connected with my inner blog…at least not like this chick or this guy. Seizing the blog moment requires a keen sort of awareness, but I think those who do it best would argue that it’s really pretty simple.
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More and more, consumer efficiency is becoming a big deal to me. In fact, I feel so strongly about this particular area that I’m thinking of dethroning Ralph Nader as the world’s foremost consumer advocate (Ralph, you reading this? Nah, you’re not – scrub). Seriously, though, I can’t stand it when things are inefficient for customers, and I think this is an area that is often overlooked in many product-oriented business models.
Earlier this morning, I had the distinct displeasure of gassing up my car during a time span that happened to be especially windy. Combine that with the effects of wind ripping underneath the awning at a gas station, and you have an arctic mini-tornado. Now go pump your gas.
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I kinda had a lame weekend thanks to packing up one zillion outbound Ebay shipments. On Saturday night, I played poker with Charles for at least four hours and lost $20. The good news, however, is that I bet him $20 that Reggie Bush would win the Heisman. Genius took the bet, so I ended up breaking even on the night, at least as far as money goes. Where I didn’t break even, however, was on the health side of things. I stayed up way too late, and then I felt like crap all day yesterday.
As if that weren’t enough, yesterday was filled with minor annoyances that just don’t work too well when you feel all shitty on a weekend. The big news item of the day actually played out over the course of the entire day, and it was pretty much all Liddi B’s (one of my dogs) deal. Here goes…
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