Another Late Night

Another late night of working on the computer. I just can’t believe how much there is to learn. I am working, as some of you may know, to develop free web traffic to my new employer’s site tatstore.com. This is a pretty tall order, but I had no idea going into it. I will be happy to see the fruits of my labor coming to term, even just a little.

My days have been strange. For example today, I have been literally working at my computer since I woke up this morning at 10:30 which has been what… 16 hours not quite. I haven’t slept haven’t eaten, but I also somehow strangely feel like I haven’t gotten much done. Fortunately for me, I have a gigantic list of sites that I registered for today to remind me that I have in fact done something. But other than that, those hours are just lost. I just spend so much of my day learning that it is difficult to point to what I’ve done at the end of the day. Mercifully, as I am getting to know all of google’s organizational products, like their calendar, I am able to keep myself on track. Unfortunately, the breath of this “track” seems to grow every day. Throughout the day I build up my to-do list for the next day or so. And every evening, when I’m putting my final items in that list, I look and see that I hadn’t checked off a single thing from the previous day. I feel like I am chasing a ghost down a rabbit hole. When I set out, to learn about rss, I end up learning javascript. Once I learn a little about javascript, I find that I need to know more when I try to use bookmarklets (applets that function like bookmarks in your browser), and I still don’t know anything about rss, which reminds me I might need to know about xhtml (which is actually just smoke and mirrors anyways). At times though, the chase can be exhilarating (which explains why I have not gotten up from my computer in 16 hours).

Anyway, I am really excited for tomorrow. I have some actual implementation steps to do tomorrow, so at the very least I will have something to show for all of my efforts, in fact one and one half weeks of work.

Wish me luck, and I’ll be thinking of you all.

Thank you all,
Benn