If the post I made yesterday wasn't obvious enough that it was an April Fools' Day joke, well, it was. I am not really quitting my job, I didn't really leave Billie, and I will never sell my electronics. Ever.
I did it mostly just to spite Keith, who hates internet jokes on April Fools' Day.
It's been a fun ride, guys. I've been thinking about this for a while and I finally think it's time I throw in the towel. I'm not cut out to do this anymore, in fact, I'm not even interested in doing this anymore. I've told my boss that I'm quitting. It's not about the money. I've just lost all desire to continue down this path. I told Billie that I have to leave, and after a few hours of discussion, she agreed.
I'm going to be selling most of what I own. My car, my electronics, CDs and DVDs, and I am just going to take off. Everything else can stay here. I haven't decided exactly where I am going yet, but it's not important. Somewhere overseas, for sure, though. I'll buy a plane ticket to France, maybe. Then take a train to Italy. Then hitchhike to a small town or village and start a new life. Get lost, forever.
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of people that will scoff at this idea, but it doesn't matter. I know it's going to be hard, but what isn't? I know I'll still need to work somewhere, but I don't need to earn a lot. Just as long as I can make enough to eat, and find a place to sleep, I'll be happy.
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
- Carl Sagan
I wrote a script that reads Trent Reznor's Twitter profile, converts it to pirate-speak, and then retweets it on another account.
I give you: Pirate Trent Reznor.
When I got my new cellphone a few months ago, I had to manually add all of my old contacts into the new phonebook. As you can imagine, there were several that got lost or forgotten in the process. Skip ahead to just a couple weeks ago, I received a seemingly random text message from a number I didn't recognize. I was secretly wishing it was a stranger who accidentally sent a message to the wrong number, but after asking around, I found out it was actually from somebody I knew whose contact information got lost during the transition to my new phone.
This gave me the idea of sending text messages to random local numbers, asking them questions when I am having trouble making up my mind. Much more fun than asking somebody you know. So I set about making up five random local numbers, and sent them all the same message: "What should I have for supper tonight?".
I got two responses:
Me: What should I have for supper tonight?
Them: Who is this?
Me: Just wanna know what I should eat
Them: Well I think you cant go wrong with lasagna
Me: What should I have for supper tonight?
Them: Beans. Green beans.
Me: Thanks.
Two out of five ain't bad for a first try. I saved both numbers in my phonebook as "The Oracle".
People always tell me that I am too indifferent. Not anymore.
If you found this via Twitter or Facebook, it's because I've got my blog automatically publishing new articles on Twitter now. The Twitter application on Facebook also automatically sets my Facebook status to whatever I "tweet". Amazing. Now I can shamelessly plug my own website in a much more trendy fashion.
So if you've subscribed to my website's news feed RSS (different than the regular blog RSS), then be ready for some insane redundancy.
Jan 17, 2010 Update: I've changed my blog around and this link no longer works.
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Sad but true. Sigh.