I finally enabled the keyboard shortcuts in Gmail. I've been reluctant to use them for.. well.. years now, mostly because I was afraid that I'd start typing something without being in a textfield and end up randomly deleting, archiving, and replying to emails without realizing in time. I decided that that's a stupid thing to worry about and finally turned the shortcuts on.

I'm still getting used to them, but so far I'm finding that I can fly through my email now that I can keep both hands on the keyboard.

I went shopping with my roommate last night, got some new shirts, it was good.

There's an Arby's right next to the outlet malls in Johnson Creek, so we stopped in there to eat. There was a big sign by the front door for their new "Mac 'n Cheezers" which are basically breaded mac and cheese nuggets. They looked gross, but I was curious and had to get an order. Holy crap! They were great! Something that normally requires a fork to eat is now portable and convenient. I'll never order them again, because they weren't exactly cheap for the amount that you get, but… nummy.

This is why I'm not allowed to own a deep fryer.

Edit: I'm going to throw some google juice at this - Outdoor Solar Lights

To really understand the humor and extent of what happened yesterday requires me to go into depth and conversations that would just take too long for me to explain fully in a post. It's probably a story best told over a drink, so if you want the whole thing.. you're gonna have to buy me a drink I guess.

Yesterday I stopped a kid from stealing magazines from the library. My initial response was one of frustration that turned into one of these wonderful anxiety attacks that I seem to have during stressful situations. I got his information and then I let the kid wait it out while I went and tried to find my boss, not because I needed her for this, but because I needed to chill out a bit, and I thought she would appreciate being a witness to this guy's complete stupidity. He was coming up with excuses about how "he didn't know how they got in his backpack" (the covers were ripped off of all of them), all the way to "I'm holding them for a friend" (they're not drugs, you don't "hold" a library's magazines for a friend).

By the time I got her, and got back to the kid, it was obvious that the wait had just made him more nervous, while I was now completely calm and prepared to handle the situation - and it was two against one now, which made him pull even further back from fear until he was basically unable to really talk. Mumbling and staring at his feet, fidgeting, his hands shaking, we got everything out of him that we needed, including the name of the guy that was with him that bailed at the first sign of trouble.

It's true. I am in love with Wordpress. I use it for this blog, I'm using it as a content management system for some of my client's websites, and I'm using it to run my uber affiliate marketing project (which I optimistically refer to as my "retirement plan").

But right now.. it's fighting with me and my bizarre customizations that were supposed to super-automate my "retirement plan" and make it as easy as possible for me to expand. I've got the main cause fixed, so it'll work right in the future, but the existing parts now requires me digging around in the database to fix. Everything is working, so it's not a big deal, but it's not as pretty as I would like.

Frustrated, and this post has no point.

Wow. I've bitten off more than I can chew.

I'm supposed to be helping build a house. I've got my hands in several websites now. I've just finished my ebay niche blog plugin thing (I'm pretty impressed with myself on this one) and now have to start churning out content and hoping for the money to start flowing in. I've become almost a counselor for a couple friends (this is draining as all hell). And now I'm supposed to be going to Minneapolis this weekend for band stuff.

There's nothing bad in that list, and nothing overly stressful. But all together, I feel friggin exhausted and overwhelmed - but in a good way.

It's times like these, when almost everything is good, that I remember why I'm here.

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But wait.. there's more!

You may have noticed a bit of a change in posting frequency, from every weekday to "every whenever". You may not care.

There is a reason though. Several reasons. First, I've been pretty busy at work, which is normally when I take the time to write and post on here. Second, I've been working on my ebay affiliate niche blog script THINGY (EANBST for short). Third, well, that's a secret. A secret that I may announce here in the next coming weeks, once I get it a bit closer to being finished.