Sunday evening Veronica and I had the opportunity to meet our Twitter friend @Just JadeJames for dinner, as she’s visiting the area for a few days. As Veronica and I were walking from the Boston Common parking garage to Jade’s hotel, I turned and saw this view. Not too bad of a view, huh?
Jade, thank you for a very nice evening, it was truly a pleasure to meet you!
No real coherent post today, just some thoughts on various topics…
A reader commented the other day “Not really a swingshift topic, but it would be interesting to get both of your takes on Tiger after that (pathetic) news conference. You’d think he killed someone by the tone of it.”
Okay, here it is:
I. Don’t. Care.
I’m a big Tiger Woods fan, have been since I saw him come from behind to win a US Amateur (or maybe it was Jr Amateur) open. I watch golf if he is in contention to win or I don’t watch at all.
When I heard he was having a news conference, I purposely avoided the TV at that time, when I was home and certainly could have watched if I wanted. I haven’t seen any of the clips or read the transcript, all I know is he apologized profusely. It was a 13 1/2 minute statement? I’m glad I didn’t lose that 13 1/2 minutes of my life listening to him.
That’s how I feel.
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A little over a week ago, I wrote that I was considering self-hosting Hubman’s Hangout. Well, I’ve taken the first step and Hubman’sHangout.com is mine now! You can click on the link if you’d like, but there’s nothing there yet. Veronica is taking the kids to NY this weekend for her step-dad’s retirement party (I have work obligations and can’t go), so I’m hoping to migrate all of the content then.
For my blogger friends who self-host their blogs, consider yourself warned, I may be bugging you for help!
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I had a nice little rant written about some things I don’t like on Twitter, but I deleted it. Rather than appear to lecture others on how to use a form of social media, I’ll just keep those thoughts to myself and quietly un-follow anyone whose feed no longer interests me.
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Sunday afternoon I made the kids bundle up and we took the dog for a walk around the block. For some stupid reason, I decided to propose a game of “guess how many times she pees and poops on the walk”.
Anyone care to guess what the dominant conversation piece was for the next 10 minutes?
Yeah, I won’t be trying that idea again!
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I was a little sad to read last week that the TMI Tuesday meme might be coming to an end soon. For many of us, TMI Tuesday, along with Half-nekkid Thursday, has been a reliable, sometimes risque, source of blog content while we were trying to find our individual blog “voices”. While I haven’t played all that often lately, I’ll still miss it, if it really is going away.
That being said, I believe that Professor Fate has offered the keys to TMI Tuesday to anyone who is interested in taking the reigns and continuing the tradition (mixed metaphors anyone?). His contact info is on the TMI Tuesday page.
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When Veronica bought the DSLR for me for Christmas, she got it at a store that offers a free 4 week/2 hrs per week course in digital photography. Tomorrow night is the first class, and I’m excited to start learning how to take full advantage of my fancy-schmancy camera. By the end of my Project365 I hope to be shooting in manual mode more often than not.
Happy Tuesday!!!
Last Friday night the week had caught up with me and I was pretty stinkin’ tired, so I went to bed fairly early. Veronica stayed up and decided to spend some time browsing our favorite swingers website, found several couples that she liked and figured that I’d like, so she contacted each of them.
Apparently, it’s been too long of a dry spell for her.
Dry spell, you ask? In a way, it has been. Let me explain…
If you look carefully at my blog over the last 3 months, with the exception of her fucking another guy at a house party we attended on her birthday, we haven’t swapped with another couple since this date with Paul and Sally back in late August. I just realized we never wrote about that party we attended on her birthday. Oops…
Now don’t get me wrong, we’ve had plenty of fun, just the two of us and with certain lady-friends both here and in Las Vegas. But as much as I enjoy the variety of women in our life, so Veronica enjoys a different man once in a while. And it’s been a while, so she took the initiative. Have I told y’all lately how much I love my wife?
One of the couples got back to us, we’ve chatted online with them, then yesterday Veronica chatted on the phone with the woman. They’re going to chat again later today and hopefully arrange a date!
Way back in March we wrote about a couple we played with at a hotel meet-and-greet, Stan and Darla. We never managed to see them again, until this past Saturday night. We went to a house party and they were there. While we didn’t play with them or anyone else that night, we got the distinct impression that they would like to see us again.
As if that isn’t enough, Paul and Sally’s life has apparently calmed down enough that we might get to see them sometime soon.
And last but not least, today I’m taking the day off from work. Why, you ask? I’ll let this Twitter exchange between myself and ZenMom do the talking:
You never know, if you follow me on Twitter, perhaps you’ll read about it and maybe even see a picture or two during the day…
Have a happy hump day, I know I will!
Ok, I’ll admit it, I’m thinking about re-creating my Twitter account.
Sometime last winter, the blogger known as Spanking Barbie [she's gone, far as I know, so no link] invited me to join Twitter. So I did, then found that I posted something maybe 3 times in a month and really found no use for it. At the time, it just seemed so very narcissistic and I never really got into it, so I deleted my account. [I wrote about social networks a few months ago. See the post here] But apparently, I can restore my account and reclaim my user name.
As my mind wandered, thinking about Twitter, I wondered how they make any money and found this little nugget on Wikipedia:
Privacy and security: Twitter collects personally identifiable information about its users and shares it with third parties. The service considers that information an asset, and reserves the right to sell it if the company changes hands. While Twitter displays no advertising, advertisers can target users based on their history of tweets and sometimes may quote tweets in ads.
I hope none of you are surprised by that. And as far as I know, Google does the same thing.
So tell me, Twitter-philes, what do you think? What am I missing out on by not being on Twitter? Educate me, please. What do you like about it. What don’t you like. Any suggestions for things or people I should be following. Besides my blogger friends who are on Twitter, of course 
Have a good weekend! We have family descending upon us for Darling Boy’s birthday party later today and Veronica and I will be vanilla-prepping the house this morning!
