I was never a professional drinker, but I played one on teevee.
Once, I had a reisling leftover after trying to make my own strawberry martini. Wow, what a sweet yummy wine. I’d heard of people kinda taking a bottle to wine with them to the bathtub and treating themselves to several glasses during their soaks. Sounded so romantic and cosmopolitan to me; I decided to try it with the reisling. I finished the bottle and slept in my cubicle at work for two days. Turns out, as my next-door cubicle neighbor informed me, people who finish off entire bottles of wine after work are professionals who have been practicing their craft for a very long time. Who knew.
No more drinking for me these days. I can handle only one addiction at a time, and how could I spend 24 hours on the Interwebs with a buzz?
I’m still messing around with the template of this new blog. Baby steps since I have no idea what I’m doing. I’d like for the featured post at the top of the home page to be dictated by date and not by category. Can’t figure out how to do that. I’ll concentrate on that once I find the perfect Twitter platform.
How did I get caught in Twitter? By reading that its 40 percent retention rate is caused by people who aren’t doing it right. I wish I could find the link to that article, but I’m on a post-writing high and if I stop to search for a useful link, I’ll lose the buzz. [Found it!] Anyway, I revisited my Twitter account and followed the advice in the article: follow lots and lots of people. The tweet thread is what makes it fun and interesting. That makes total sense. When it was just Q and me, I couldn’t figure out what the big deal was. Tweeting was like chatting, and we already had Google chat. Now that I am following more people, I am using it more. I’m still too shy to carry on about my entire day like the Twitter professionals, but I like reading what everyone else is doing.
The opposite is true on Facebook. The more people on my “friends” list, the more overwhelming it became for me, but once the privacy options were modified on the site, I discovered that I could be on Facebook, yet remain hidden in plain sight which is like my favorite thing to be. Facebook, Twitter and freefringes.com feed my Internet addiction quite nicely. Nothing illegal or immoral unless, of course, I am at work where it is all off-limits.
Speaking of, I am returning to work next Tuesday three weeks earlier than I anticipated. I wonder if I can hide a flask of Interwebs in my desk drawer somehow.
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