Katie: "So what are you blogging about tomorrow?"
Kevin: "Self-Love Day."
Katie: "I don't think the world needs to read about that."
Kevin: "Love you, too."
So, despite the detractors and doubters, today is Self-Love Day and I plan to celebrate it. And if you'd like to do so, click on the link above or the image at right and check out what it's all about.
What do I love about myself? I love that I have found the capacity to love another person and that she loves me back. Um, that would be Katie, you smartasses.
Before Katie, I went through a series of slightly self-destructive relationships in which my feelings went unrequited. Trying to date those that were not genuinely interested in me. Re-dating one girlfriend. Being cheated on... twice. Being the one that somebody cheated on their significant other with (I truly had no idea, seriously).
And all this left me somewhat jaded as you might expect. I got to a point where I was content with the idea of living my life through a series of sordid flings. Of course, not a single fling happened either, but it was, at the time, a nice thought.
Then Katie came along and I realized it was possible to love and be loved in return. And I thank her for that.
So now, according to the rules, it's your turn to say something nice about me. And, if you decide to participate on your own blogs, let me know so I do go over there and read. My feed reader should catch it, but it's been a bit wonky of late. Some feeds aren't coming through until many hours later.
Totally Unrelated Aside (TUA): One of my biggest frustrations with Typepad since the start was their lack of "smart" spam comment filters. They claimed they had a system in place that would learn as you mark comments or trackbacks as spam. Well, it was all a bunch of bunk. I kept reporting the same sort of messages (even with the same message, sender, and IP address) over and over again. So much for "smart," eh? But I kept hoping against hope it might happen.
Somebody seems to have listened. They now have a system in place that seems to learn what is spam and now they put it in a separate section of your "List Comments" area so you can check them to make sure they are actually spam. In the last couple months, I have found about a dozen messages in there. This morning, I looked and found that in the last seven days, I'd been hit with 275 spam comments. And Typepad caught all but one all by itself. Do you realize how pissy I would be if I had to go through and delete them all myself? I don't want to be pissy on Self-Love Day. That just wouldn't be good.
I'm so proud of you, Typepad. They grow up so quickly, don't they? *sniffle*
TUA2: Katie told me she heard on TV or the radio about this new thing called the Doodle 4 Google contest. Basically, it's a contest open to K-12 students to design a homepage screen for Google's search engine based on the theme "What If." After going through a series of state and regional selection stages, the final overall winner will receive a $10,000 scholarship to the college of their choice, a trip to Googleplex, a laptop (hopefully a Mac!), a T-shirt with their logo, and a $25,000 grant for the establishment or improvement of computer facilities in their school.
How freakin' cool is that?
So if you have a K-12 kid who likes to doodle or design stuff or you are an educator in that level, click on the link above. May as well get some money for the skills, right?
I want to be a kid again. This would be right up my alley.
