A funny thing occurred to me the other day.
So, I've been doing a lot of work for my artist friend. Mainly Photoshop stuff and design work, but, still... Anyway, hanging out with him is changing me. In a good way. I find myself more and more concerned with aesthetics. I see art everywhere. My camera is starting to feel like a third eye with which I may yet see miraculous things.
In short, I'm finding myself very connected to the art world in a good way.
Oh, how I miss the hotel industry!
Back in the day, I used to sell my soul to the hospitality industry, one minimum-wage paycheck at a time, and, as a result, tune into all kinds of crazy travel and hotel trends. Apparently, one of the latest trends is something stolen from the Japanese, capsule hotels. Now, these used to be the province of drunken salarymen who missed the last train home, but they're being exported everywhere.
Um, pretty self-explanatory, actually.
...And the first of this year, in review.
First, there was the Simpson's Movie. That was part of the Saddest Bachelor Party ever. Half of us didn't drink, half of us were gay, and I wasn't quite done with chemotherapy treatments. No alcohol, no strippers, and I looked like a walking corpse. Hell, I felt like a walking corpse.
I'm not sure how well I communicate with God.
Just a few random thoughts to wrap up the year.
I like toast.
I like all kinds of toast. I like diner toast soaked in thinned, anemic butter. I like dry toast. I like toast with honey. And, I like toast with jam. I like toast with peanut butter. I like toast with runny eggs, over easy. I like to soak up the runny yolks after scarfing the eggs.
Today, almost the only thing I ate was toast.
It's yummy.
What else can I add to that?
I mean, really, pancake batter in a pressurized can that you can squirt out into the skillet. What else is there to say?
Oh, and there's still time to autogenerate your New Year's Resolutions!
So, I'm still thinking about ways to market my blogs.
Well, not just my blogs, but my entire suite of websites, blogs and digital identities. I have ideas, naturally, and I've already shared some of the ideas that I've tried. I'll keep working on those and on ways to measure the effectiveness of those methods. But, I also need to think of different ways to market my digital self, or selves.
I'm hoping someone will know this.
I vaguely recall a quote by someone, possibly famous, about the relationship of the number of keys on your keyring to the amount of attachment to the world. I can't remember the quote, or the person who made it, but I recall that the point was to have fewer keys, and not the giant wad of them that I have. Oh, it was related to Buddhism in some way. Either the speaker was Buddhist or was paraphrasing one, I think.
So, tell me, esteemed readers, does anyone else remember the quote?
