My Crazy World

Devyl at Random Thoughts and Musings managed to trick me into being tagged :)=

Here are the rules:

1. Go to your picture files
2. Go to your 6th folder.
3. Go to your 6th picture.
4. Tell us about it.
5. Tag 6 friends to do the same.

You’re lucky enough to be seeing a fairly recent picture.  The littlest guy is my nephew, Josh.  He’s my best buddy in the world.   The little man holding him is my 2nd cousin.  On the left (you’re right) of the two of them, you have my daughter.  This picture was taken very recently at another 2nd cousin’s birthday party.   I think the pic is otherwise pretty much self-explanatory.. I will tell you guys that I can’t wait to have another baby though. It sucks I’ve had to wait, and still do, but eventually I will… (Beer talking) I had  a lot of fun this night.

As for tagging 5 people, i’m not quite sure who to tag…  Devl did such a good job that I’m not sure who to tag.   If she hadn’t tagged me after I’d had entirely too much to drink, maybe… Just MAYBE I wouldn’t be at such a loss

For it has been a seemingly endless summer.  My daughter, Brooke, went to Missouri with her mother for the summer, and she’s finally coming home today.  Prior to her mother moving this year, I had never been away from her for more than a week.  Even that had only happened once when her mother and I first split.

Now she’s coming back for the school year, and there’s a whole summer of stuff that we need to catch up on before it gets cold.  I bought her a new bike in the spring, so we could go on bike rides, now we’ll actually be able to do that.  We’ll go the YMCA and use our memberships to go swimming.   I’m excited.

Today I discovered one hundred push ups, a site dedicated to getting people to complete the challenge of being able to do 100 pushups consecutively.  On seeing this challenge, I had to join in.  I’ve been trying to get into better shape for quite a while, and this may be just the motivation I need.

I started today with the test initial test and managed to do 13 pushups.  I probably could have done more, but I already knew that this put me into the 10+ pushup group.  I rested for about half an hour and began on week one day one completing 5 sets of pushups (10, 10, 8, 6, at least 7)  on the fifth set I went all out and managed to do 15.

Before I started, I took a picture of myself as I look now, but I haven’t decided whether I want to share

that or not.  I will however take at least 1 picture a week through the entire challenge.  Perhaps at some point, I’ll decide to post them between now and the completion of the challenge.

If you’re out of shape, I highly encourage you to join in.  I can’t think of a better way to spend 30 minutes a week!

I’m pretty pumped.  I’m just about finished porting my social anxiety blog, SociallyDistressed to WordPress.  All of the template is done and looking pretty good.  The only left to do is to port all of my links to other blogs over.  I’ll do that tonight.

I’m really starting to like WordPress as a blogging platform.  I have used quite a few platforms in the past such as PHPNuke and DotNetNuke, but both of those required quite a bit of work, and had a ton of little quirks.  WorkPress and all of the plugins I’m using have worked pretty much out of the box.  In fact, other than editing templates, I havn’t had to write or change a single line of PHP up to this point.

Tonight I went to see “Hellboy 2″ with my mom, aunt, nephew and second cousin.  The movie was rated pg-13, and the boys are 8 and 9 years old, so we figured they could handle it.  Everything was great until the previews came on.  Suddenly we saw “This preview is rated R” on the screen, and then the preview for the movie “Quarantine” which freaked both kids out.  Once Hellboy started they were fine, but I am still upset that they showed an R-rated preview before a PG-13 movie.

This just doesn’t make sense and definitely doesn’t seem right.  Both kids will probably have nightmares tonight, because of the previews they saw rather than the movie they watched.  Can we no longer trust the ratings on movies because of the previews that are shown?

As I was driving home with my lunch today, I was thinking about my blogs, and my marketing strategies, when a thought popped into my head.  I have seen some bloggers shun advertising just because they blog for fun.  If you’re one of these people, I have a suggestion for you.  Why not monetize your blog?  Here’s my reasoning.

If you’re anything like me, you could use any extra money that you can get coming in the door.  If people are reading your content it’s worth something, so why shouldn’t you get paid even if getting paid isn’t the reason you do it?  Even if you have enough money coming in your door every month, you could still put advertisements on it and donate the revenues to your favorite charity.  To me it almost seems like a foolish waste to throw that potential away.

Being a single guy, working a full time job, and owning a whole house can be overwhelming.  Perhaps it’s because I never learned to clean right when I was young.  Maybe it’s because my mom used to yell “You know!” at me when I thought my room was clean, she insisted it wasn’t, and I asked what else I had to clean.  I don’t know, but I really suck at cleaning and can never seem to keep up.

I decided that this weekend is going to be the weekend that I get everything clean, so I started off the day in the bathroom.  There’s still alot to go in there, but it’s already looking better.  Once that’s done I’m moving on to the dishes and the kitchen.  Once those two are done, I think I’m going to recuit help to get the rest of the house spottless and start trying to habitually keep it clean.

As some of you may know I actually have quite a few sites and blogs, a few of which have stagnated over the last few years.  While some I dropped because of lack of demand, a few of my better ideas have been hindered by a bad choice in web hosts. 

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Today I bring you the newest incarnation of AndrewAlmquist.com.  AndrewAlmquist 1.0 was designed with only my family in mind, and when they failed to contribute much, I quickly slacked off and lost interest.  Recently I have found myself needing a place to put my general musings without just starting a new site all together, so I now bring you this.

As for my family, if you did ever use the old site, all is not lost, I am in the process of backing up the pictures that were stored there, and will work to get them online for you somehow in the near future.