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So much for a TGIF! This Friday was a pretty damn slow day. Thank God the day is over. Well, how to describe my day…

As usual, my day started out with a distress call from Katie, so her last days at her job (she has 1 week left) won’t be so hard. It’s always good to hear from her. Meanwhile, I also managed to get caught up with Jules, who’s getting ready to get her Mets blog going. It’s about that time right? Baseball season baby, yeah! (well I’m excited for the Mariner’s at least.)

The day was pretty blah in the morning as the clock seemed to flow backwards. Oh, and I did help out Joz with her site and got a new theme going for her. You should go over and check it out, because she’s trying to decide if she likes it or not. It’s been like a tennis match, going back and forth. So why not help decide and leave a comment?

To jump to a different subject, it seems Colin is having issues with his site too. It apparently doesn’t want to send any follow up emails to let you know a new comment has been posted. Any help here is appreciated, because we’re just about pulling our hair out on this one. And if you didn’t know, he did a reply to Rent by Danalyn, and you simply have to see it. He sang Seasons of Love, and he does a great job! The video is after the bump!

Oh! Luka is back to posting on the blog, so you really need to go there! And not just videos either, although that wouldn’t be a bad thing!

So here we come to the end, let me look into my magical mirror and see what other bloggers are out there on my mind… I see Melanie, Danalyn, cybr, Muse, and Pandora! Don’t forget the video after the bump!

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So we had quite a few guest bloggers for this Free for all Friday! I myself did indeed post some myself, of which you can find here:

Evil? Going to Hell? Fear no more! @ Therapy in the Making
Happy Leap Day! @ Pandora’s Box
Kimchi in space @ Kat Scratch Fever

As for around here, let me recap them for you!

Death of the PC by cybrpunk
Second Internet for Security by Insomnic
Google and it’s ads by Colin
Leap Year Math by Katie
My Shoulder Hurts by Sir Jorge
American Idol: Why should I care? by Lucy
I soooo AM going to get fat! by Danalyn
Oh Hai! by Daniel
Meh by my arch-nemesis Swan

Wow, that’s enough isn’t it? :D

Thanks to all of you for a great Free for all Friday. Let’s hope next month, I’ll have more sites to post to! The next Free for all Friday will be on 3/28/08. Be ready for it! If you haven’t had a chance to read any of the posts, please check them out and comment on them. They’re all pretty funny and/or informative!

This morning seems like I’m rushing here and there and here and there. I get around to greeting my peeps, and first, what happens, I get an email from Katie telling me I dropped from the world. WTH? I’m right there, logged on GTalk. Then I get another message on Yahoo from Melanie: Hmm. No, I don’t see you online. WTF? What’s up with Google this morning? So I then notice that Katie is “offline”. Then I message Jules and sure enough I get the stupid error box : Cannot send your message bleah bleah bleah. Damn Google. what gives?

So I’m restarting apps, restarting browsers, going this way and that, rushing rushing rushing. Life seems like it’s a big rush sometimes doesn’t it? Anyways, finally after all this time, Google wakes up and now I can reach it.

Of course, I’m sure it could have been my connection to Google too. But you know what, it’s just easier to blame them. Danalyn and I say it all the time, “Google sucks”.

So tonight I’m struck with the Insomnia bug yet again. I’m tired, but I can’t sleep. I lay down and I’m wide awake. It sucks. Insomnia blows.

You might notice that the top graphic has changed away from my mac. It was a masthead made by Colin who said I had won it from last years Blogathon. Yay! It’s awesome isn’t it? I Love it.

In other news, my angelic, better half Meesh has Acute Bronchitis. At least it’s not Chronic Bronchitis which is supposed to be rather painful, or so I was told by her. We’re coping though and I swear if she’s not feeling good tomorrow I’ll have to detain her here at home. She’s feeling guilty that she’s not at work and thinks she should go. She’s so nice, she puts tears in my eyes I’m telling you.

In even more news, if you’re looking to find out what’s going on with American Idol, there’s really no need to wait or watch the actual show. Spare yourself and stop by Pandora’s or Daniel’s to get a good idea of how the show went down. As a matter of a fact, I prefer either one of them over Ryan Seacrest. Perhaps they should try out for host next year? You never know!

cybr is in Malaysia right now, and got sick after drinking some water at a local restaurant. Which is too bad because he’s in Kuala Lumpur and I could think of a lot of things better to do than be sick in bed! Wish him some good thoughts and take a visit over there.

I think I’m just about done with the link pimping on this episode of “Yoshi’s Insomnia attack”. If you’ve made it this far, please don’t forget that tomorrow is Free for all Friday and you’ll be able to make a post on this site to talk about anything! There will be a “sticky” post when the form is available to use! Get ready to pimp your own site! No spammers please, those will be deleted!

Well, since I can’t really think of a really good post, I thought I’d go ahead and see what other people are doing on the net. I did watch the Interview with Matt about Wordpress 2.5 and other stuff @ Yahoo. That was interesting. I’m anxious to see what the back end will look like. He says that they’re making it “simpler”. Wow. I don’t know how much more simple you can get.

cybrpunk is obsessing about capsule toys. I have to admit I’m a bit jealous, I really want a Goomba for myself!

Katie posted some song lyrics, of which I don’t think I know any of. But that’s nothing new, I’m not up on the music with the kids nowadays.

Pandora is discussing American Idol - the girls. I would feign interest, but even that is too much effort for me. American Idol just doesn’t aMuse me anymore.

Daniel keeps continuing to kill me laughter. He’s good at that.

Muse will never get used to the smells in HK, and you know what, that’s good as far as I’m concerned.

So there we have it, a small summary of some things I read today.

28. I have way too many domain names. Well, let me correct that. I have too many domain names I don’t use. I’d like to throw out a list, but sheesh, there’s just too many of them. One time, I believe it was Jules who called me a “Domain Ho” at one point in time. Do I have too many domain names? Probably.

And now, for something completely different…

Please take a visit over to see Daniel, it’s his birthday today (12/22) and wish him a happy birthday and to have a better December. Damn that retail business!

Also take a visit over to hello! Food, where I’ve actually made an update. Can you believe it? (I know, huh?)

Finally, we’ll be going on vacation to see my folks in good ol’ New Jersey. We’ll be there from 12/27 to 1/3, so if you’re in the area and wanna hang out, let me know! I’m trying to plan a big bash, but alas, it might not turn out to be so big. Or a bash, we’ll see.

Ok, so I was persuaded by Pandora to at least give going to Barnes and Noble tonight a chance by getting dressed at least. So I did. and I jumped in the car immediately. And I drove to B&N. And I saw that the parking was full, and there was no where to park. No big deal, there’s plenty around. Then… I saw the line.

Holy crap people, it’s raining and the line is outside? Well, I wasn’t going to wait in the rain in a line for probably about 2 hours just get a book that I will have delivered to my front door in the morning.

So, I went to McD’s, got a chicken nugget meal and came home. Oh I got gas too. And let tell you, I never thought we’d get back to under 3 bucks! 2.96 a gallon, what a steal. seriously.

Also, I wanted everyone to know that I made a pretty good instructional post on How to eat Ramen over at hello! Food. You should really check it out, only because it made some people comment who never have before, and well, it’s pretty darn instructional. seriously.

Believe it or not, this post is not mainly about the Blogathon. Although I guess I just plugged it anyways. Regardless, I just wanted to talk about some stories.

cybrpunk has been writing up a zombie story on his site. You really need to check it out, and be sure to start off at Day One. It’s some really great stuff. I suggest checking it out. He’s currently up to Day Four (as of the writing of this post), and I’m highly anticipating Day Five.

You may also recall that I recently just opened a new site called DarknessWithin.net. It’s a fiction based site, featuring stories that take place in the Darkness Within universe. This universe is a conglomeration of ideas that cybr and I have had. Recently, I started the Prologue to the main story. Part One is now up. cybr has also contributed another story, called The Magician. A very good read. You should definitely check it out.

I also want to highlight Pandora’s Blogathon theme! She is going to be writing an interactive story. Towards the end, we (the readers) will be able to make a choice and determine how the story will end. How cool is this? She’s already put up a summary of characters and the story line in her latest entry! Check it out folks, I cannot wait!

Because I can’t have enough websites, I’ve opened up a new website. This could get interesting.

DarknessWithin.net

Today is the last day of Kimmie’s stay here as my renter, so please feel free to click on her thumbnail underneath the “Rent” section on the right.

Send her off with some love, as she’s now back, but she’s got an ear infection in BOTH ears. You gotta give her some love folks!