And Another Thing

I forgot to mention last night that spending an hour or two playing games most days helps me with something else. I subscribe to a lot of podcasts— between 25 and 30 of them. Most are weekly, several are daily, and a few of them are sporadic. Most are 45 to 90 minutes in length. My game playing time is also my podcasting time. So, when I'm not playing games regularly, my podcasts stack up. Right now I have over 250 backlogged podcasts. About half of that backlog built up the three weeks I was in Florida.

So there's another reason I need my WoW back. :-P

I listed a few items on CraigsList this afternoon. They were items I picked up at BlizzCon a few years ago. As such, they're small and easy to get rid of. I had dreams of scoring some quick cash off them, but as yet I've not received even one response. I'll leave them posted another day or two, and if there's still no response, I'll try ebay.

Here's an update on me watching Lost. I am well and truly into the show now. I'm only a few episodes further along than the last time I wrote about watching the show, and that's because I discovered that I can watch episodes of Craig Ferguson's show online. Keeping up with those is my top priority, and Lost comes in second place. But, I believe it's safe to say I'm truly hooked on Lost now. I find the flashback sequences to be a bit annoying, even though they round out the characters and show why the characters are behaving the ways they do. Still, my interest is primarily concerned with what's happening on the island.

I don't think I mentioned it here yet, but my brother recently hired me to help build a merchant website for his company. It's nice work, something I've always wanted more experience with, but also something I've been hesitant to dive into. When there's a site to show off, I'll definitely link it here so that everyone can check it out and buy something nice. :-P Of course, since my brother represents about 25% of the readership of this blog, there probably won't be a huge sales jump after the free advertising here.

Along the same lines, I am trying to study C#, hoping it might be useful to me professionally in the long run. I scanned an article that Monster sent to me this afternoon about trying to maintain a career in I.T. when you're older. One of the key points was staying up on current technologies. That's hard enough when you're active in the field. I used to get maybe half a dozen different magazines when I was the I.T. manager at FirstAm. I couldn't do much more than leaf through them, reading a few paragraphs here and there when something caught my eye. Now I don't have those resources, and I can't afford magazine subscriptions. But, I have always enjoyed programming, and C# is the newest and brightest baby out there so I'm giving it a shot.

A friend of mine told me the other day that another friend of hers develops apps for the iPhone. She suggested I check that out as well. I will admit that it interests me, but I have no iPhone (or iPod Touch) to play with, making development rather tricky. Along a similar line, however, I've been thinking about developing something for Facebook. I'm not sure what I could do, but there seems to be a call for brainless apps on Facebook. I have a tiny idea for one in the back of my head, but I'm not sure about it yet.

Well, this has been something of a hodgepodge. See you again soon!

"Radio is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."— T. S. Eliot