Everything’s #Shiny

Today has been a day in a half already. I woke up at 5am and played around with the idea of getting out of bed for a few hours. The dog finally convinced me to get up and let him out, only he wouldn’t go out and was being stubborn. He just kept looking at me but wasn’t telling me what he wanted, so I suppose he just wanted a little loving.

The majority of my day was actually spent watching tv, listening to music and generally tweeting about everything. I’ve fallen in love with twitter I admit and I didn’t quite understand it a week or so ago. Glad that opened up for me. I’ve actually met a lot of interesting people and had some good conversations so far–I hope to have a lot more, and hopefully I’m not bugging anyone as much as I try to talk to people.

The one thing I noticed about twitter is there are a lot of people using auto-tweet programs and posting random things like advertisements. I had to unfollow a whole lot of them. Before I was used to following more people than were follow me. I just don’t like my twitter feed clogged up with spam I guess.

Originally I was going to post a blog about Twitterific vs. Tweetbot, but I found I preferred Twitterific until I discovered Twitbird, which is my absolute favorite twitter ipod app at present. It just has a lot more features, a better design, I can even find people close to me geographically. That’s always fun.

In other news #shiny is my new tag when I tweet, I’ll tweet it usually when I’m saying something nice or something I think is absolutely brilliant. The world pertains to the Serenity/Firefly series if you were wondering. "Everything’s shiny captain."

I feel so tired today I haven’t done anything productive, but it has been quite relaxing. I’ve got to enjoy every moment as the grind is coming back soon, work work work. I prefer sleep, sleep, sleep.

I’m getting back in the blogging habit, though I am looking forward to the time when I have a real event to blog about. My life is a bit dull somedays so it is nice hearing other peoples stories.

#Shiny

A True Quixotic Haven

So I typed the name of my blog in the other day and I got two results concerning myself: one was my actual blog over on blogger and the other was my nationstates nation.

This got me thinking I could go for a little more exposure. I already have a quixotichaven twitter that I’ve been using frequently, but I decided I wanted a few more blogs to host my same content. Hence the addition of Livejournal and WordPress. I’ve had pleasant experiences with livejournal in the past and I’m definitely ready to try out wordpress. Blogger is my current favorite so we’ll see if a little friendly competition helps out.

I’ve setup email posting so now writing a blog is as easy as just writing an email. It’s a sweet setup. Perhaps the triple exposure will bring some actually cash-flow into my blogger. At the very least I hope to meet some new people. It’ll be fun playing around with livejournal as well once again.

Blogging to me is not only about expressing my opinion and writing a bit but also about making connections with others through those words.

A writer has to write and I’m a writer and a journalist. I don’t have a newspaper so I prefer to head to my own forum–my quixotic haven, now my quixotic empire!

This is my first entry for livejournal and wordpress so hello new blogs, I’m still keeping the old one 🙂

Twitter Addictions and other Business

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

I have to face facts, I think I am beginning to develop a twitter addiction. Just the other day I was just randomly posting a barrage of thoughts and it improved by leaps and bounds when I actually started talking to people and following them. In the real world when you follow someone it tends to be called stalking, in the twitter world is accept and encouraged–fancy that. I’ve had some very interesting conversations and met some really interesting people. Up for a little more than a 100 tweets three days ago to now more than 500, and I’m looking forward to even more. I never really dove in until now.

My inter-linking blogs are now complete, and this post will be another test as wordpress misfired the last time. If I’m free tomorrow I expect I will try to find some Livejournal friends.

If you are my twitter friends you may have noticed I talk about Mello Yello a lot, I find it interesting as Mello Yello is following me on twitter and I’ve loved that soda since I was a kid. It brings back a lot of memories. In fact I tend to love the majority of Coca-Cola products, even bought a sweet hat with Coke reward points. I love Coca-Cola for several reasons, it is a regional favorite first of all, so I grew up drinking various sodas from the company and have a lot of childhood memories centered around it. Secondly I got a scholarship from them while in college that helped ease the massive pile of student loans that was piling up. Consider me Team MelloYello!!!

In retrospect, I haven’t really done all that much today outside of playing nationstates, sleeping til 1PM, drinking 1/3 a liter of a MelloYello, and just generally chatting on Twitter. Where does the day go honestly? Why does time often slip away so easily?

My summer and seasonal lay-off is almost over, so very soon I will be back in the grind. But I will never forget this lovely summer as I feel like I’ve grown up a lot more than the past few years I’ve been out of college. Funny how the mind works–it’s hard to dig out of a rut, and I’ll admit I’m not out yet but I’m most certainly still climbing.