Wings Over the Pyre

Current Mood: blah
Current Music: Trace Adkins - Rough & Ready (Squid's Redoubt)

Just a bit random tonight:

• I dare say I think I’ll start posting shorter blog bits.

  I think Twitter has begun both spoiling me and changing how I think about blogging in general. I’ve been feeling a kind of compulsion to only post long-form writing, extended rants, or that sort of thing to my LJ, but that’s essentially irrational. There’s no reason I can’t or shouldn’t post ideas, thoughts, and/or rationalizations that are only a paragraph or two long. I’m not required to go on at length.

  I know there are several folks out there boggling at the idea of me not going on at length. Totally fair.

  Anything under 140 charas will still go to Twitter though.

• I’m going back to being nocturnal.

  I don’t really have a reason to be up during the morning hours, and frankly I haven’t been doing so much of it since I finished ABI, plus I’m just generally more aware at night. Better to stay up, get some things done between 3a and 5a, when there’s no one but me about but I feel conscious and competent, and simply not worry about it. I’m not working right now (plenty of resumes out — no call-backs) and not going to school.

  Why bother getting up?

• I need to start doing the Top Ten Podcast more often.

  Not just because it’s fun, or because it’s a solid production, or it’s good practice.

  All of those are true.

  No, the real reason is because if I post them to the Squid’s Redoubt TalkShoe feed*, the downloads will be counted, and the more downloads I get, the more jingle I’ll see in my pocket at the end of the month. Though we’re talking about “jingle,” not “crinkle,” since even with nearly 200 downloads last month, I only saw about $4. But that’s $4 I’d never have seen otherwise!

  Incidentally, Operation BSU saw 55 downloads last week across all posted episodes. That’s up from 29 the week before. Why the huge leap? I have no idea at all, but I’d like to encourage everyone that can read this to go out and tell all your friends about this fantastic call-in talk show that’s podcasting recorded episodes and that goes live every Sunday night at 9p. Oh, yes, and that can support up to 250 folks tuned in via the phone lines at any given time.

  Yeah, so, call.

  This coming Sunday, we’ll have the band Fire and Ice as our special live guests in via fabulous technology, and the week after … well, that’s a special treat. I’ll announce it closer in.

I think that’s about it for the life-updates tonight. More thoughts as they ping through my brainmeats.