Seth W. Is My Name

My weekend has been one blur. It's been fast forward since Thursday night, and I couldn't be happier. Been spending so much time with video, writing, emailing, and other madness -- kind of nice to unwind a bit.

So it's complete. I've managed to move my online life, at least in part, to my new meta-blog:
the seth werkheiser meta-blog

Updating my life from my mobile phone via Twitter is so simple it hurts. So I do that more often now. When I'm doing a photo shoot (which I did yesterday), or running around the city, or on the bus, or shooting a film - bam - I can update from the road. Want the full story? Rather than some 500 word post published to the internet - email me. Then I can tell you all about it.

And my Flickr photos are pulled in, as well. Soon I'll be pulling in my del.icio.us bookmarks. Maybe some recently played iTunes tracks. Or albums I've been listening to.

Simple. Plain. RSS feeds. Whatever. Enjoy.

the seth werkheiser meta-blog

I've come to realize that my life is a series of headlines these days. I scan and ingest so much content it's all become a blur. Ever since loading my news reader (newsfire) with most of my life (blogs, news, flickr contacts) I have consumed, digested, processed, and injected more content into my cerebral cortex than in my previous 29 years of life. Zoink.

In trying to keep my parents, inlaws, friends and past co-workers up to date I've been sort of jumping from blog platforms to blog platforms. With each comes new logins, HTML editors, photo uploading and more RSS feeds. Plus, updates always wait till I'm at home, around midnight, with all my other online commitements taken care of.

Well, no more. I think.

I've been playing with Twitter for the past few months. It's like an always updated status message (like you set on IM), but you update it via cell phone or web. And the updates are quick and sweet.

There's an RSS feed.
Permalinks.
And nothing more.
No comments. No pretty pictures. That's it.

It's my life, and it's updated every so often via cell phone.

Enjoy.

Well, we had Optimum Online here again yesterday. Our entire building has had spotty internet for the past two weeks. This was the THIRD time a tech was in our house. And now the internet has gone out again today. This will be the fourth time we'll have a tech here. Awesome.

Also, the cops rang out doorbell at 5:30am. Usually on saturday mornings some guy rings our bell, though he means to ring it for someone else. Lydia was ready to yell at him.

But she answered the doorbell, "Who is it??"
"The police."

Ouch. There were SIX cops. They joked with Lydia, and asked if she had any coffee on. Haha. They're funny.

And now the cops are here again. One of our upstairs neigbors ran out with a baseball hat. Awesome. Awesome. Oh, and my inlaws will be in today. I hope they see someone get arrested. That'd be sweet.

Flickr. Vox. Buzzgrinder. Yahoo Fantasy Football. Buzzgrinder Email. Buzzgrinder.com. Work email. Sports blogs. News Readers. IM. Revver. FeedBurner. iTunes. Comedy Sites. More news feeds. Twitter. Blogs. Writing for Scene Points. more buzzgrinder emails.

The weather has taken a dip in tempature, and now our apartment is a bit chilly. But the laundry is done, and I'm watching the Detroit MLB playoff game, and everyone in the stands is wearing a jacket and mitten. Brr.

With the cold weather comes a great product - pumpkin spice creamer. It really reminds me of the pumpkin spice latte at Starbucks, except it only costs me $3.00 for a ton of flavored coffees, as opposed to $4 for just one cup. Still, I like Starbucks. But the flavor and the smell reminds me of this favorite time of year - when the leaves fall off the trees and I get to wear hooded sweatshirts on a daily basis. And this gray hat that my sister bought me a few years back. I love that hat.

I've been riding to work more often now, too, since I can do so and not sweat myself to death. I leave early enough to really take my time, which sometimes means that I get to work like an hour early, but it's okay since I get to hang out at Rockefeller Center and watch all the tourists and the important people in suits. The tourists are so easy to pick out - two horribly dressed parents with outdated hair cuts, over anxious eight year old in flip-flops, and the trademark 15 year old punk with a long face and skater shoes. But I love the tourists. I hear that as it gets close to Christmas the area becomes a sea of people.

Lydia is still looking for work. That's a horrible situation for her to be in. We joke how she has one a half masters degrees and can't find a job, and yet me, with no degree, work for a huge company like AOL.

Funny story there - in a recent meeting we were talking about plastic surgery blogs (yes, they exist) and I was given the task of finding them. We were all laughing, and the guy next to me (a pretty high-up guy) joked with me, "Boy, you're really using that degree, huh?!?!"

I didn't tell him I don't have one.

But yea - keep Lydia in thought as she works through this. I wish I could do more for her.

Sorry about that. Life has been mucho busy, with work, Buzzgrinder, and the general day-to-day stuff. I hope you accept my apologies.

Some stuff that has been keeping me busy:

1. Work has been going awesome. My job of "reaching out to bloggers and media outlets" thing is going well. I've been able to bring our one project from a 50,000 to 9,000 Technorati Ranking. Not too shabby.
2. Biked three days last week to work. It was good, but sweaty. Eeek.
3. Been blogging on something new. Puntbag.
4. Recorded some more video. The Scene Points show is now listed in iTunes.
5. Been watching my wife apply to about a million jobs.
   

Yet another day of fun work and bicycle riding. I need to get offline, for real. I'm online, deep online, all day at work. Then at home after dinner with the wife I'm online doing stuff. Whew.

That's the best part of the 16 mile bike ride everyday. If nothing else, I did manage to ride almost 20 miles. At four days a week that's around 75+ miles per week. And with the weather getting colder (my fave time to ride!) it'll be even nicer.

The picture here is me riding over the williamsburg bridge, heading home. I like to take it nice and easy, as to not work up too big of a sweat. Plus I don't like being "that guy" who's riding at 25mph everywhere. Those guys are funny. Going slow makes things very enjoyable.

Rode my bike to work again today. Much better than subway life. Though I am sorta bummed that my 30 day unlimited card is going to waste. Ick. Nearly crashed into some pedestrians this morning. oops.

Lydia is looking for work. My work is going well. Other than that, not a whole lot going on. I think we might make a full time gig of renting a car or something, driving into PA, hitting auctions and garage sales, and selling on eBay for income. hah. We can dream.

Thank gawd for the curb-side bus service, AKA the "china town" bus. For just $15 per person, one way, we went to Boston. Then from Boston we got a lift to New Hampshire. I love the cheap prices, but Lord, can we bend space and time so it doesn't take FOUR house via bus, each way? We got on the bus tonite at 4pm and got back into Manhattan at about 8:15pm. Yikes.

Other than that it was good time. Except there was no internet. I must be addicted to the internet.