2:18 a.m. / March 07, 2005 - -
work in fifteen hours
avalanche of comments and notes. thank you all, i really enjoy reading them. i hope that you enjoy my now small amount of entries, and also that you will read on into the future.i try to post at least once a day. sometimes, i'll go almost a week or more without anything, and other times, i'll end up posting thirteen entries in one day. one thing i really didn't like about livejournal was the weblog style, the compression of twenty entries to a page. i like this setup. the previous button is an old friend in need of affection.
to be perfectly honest i am obsessed with my statistics and banner view click-through rates. i have been checking them both every hour or so, seeing from where these people are coming, what brought them here, what they saw here, trying to figure out where they're located from the small bit of information i'm given. i wonder how many will stay and read on as write, or, conversely, how many will be disappointed and never come back.
most of the people in my profile, i've found via the members area most recently updated list. i go on constantly and check out the names which i think are interesting. most of the time the diaries live up to the interesting names.
i am home. i was just arriving back a month ago. before that, i was in las vegas. i stayed for two weeks with an ex-girl (not to be confused with an ex-girlfriend). a lonely divorced couple, i was back in town on business, she had a new boyfriend, and eating a sad breakfast that first morning at the i-hop, we both thought out loud, "why did we get a divorce if we were still so in love?"
and before that there was portland, oregon. which. well. it did not go as planned. it involved a different girl. i'm not upset. i do not regret going, if only because the portland incident brought me back to las vegas.
and now i'm home. in my parents house, living in the basement, i have a part-time job and will very soon need a full-time one to fill my health insurance void, as i've opted out of the college path. there are new girls everywhere, and my head is still very much confused by and wrapped around them. a curse and a gift; i like to think that the passion has been at least a little bit tempered by experience at this point, but really, it's hard to tell until i jump right into it again.
