i'm like a beaver

By Todd Stadler · Tuesday, June 25, 2002 2:04am

Busy, busy, busy. Those are the three words I would use to describe the past several weeks for me.

I continue to remain employed at Timber Press, where I am currently working both on web stuff (huzzah!) and data entry (hiss!).

The data entry project is highly annoying because it involves several thousand British addresses that need typing in.

Maybe you're not aware of it, but British addresses were conceived of by the same man who came up with English spelling. As such, there are all sorts of irregularities. Sometimes addresses have six or more lines, sometimes three. And the abbreviation for Shropshire is "Salop".

It's enough to make me want to stomp on over to there and complain, but then they'd point out how stupid America's use of the customary unit system is, and what can you say to that?

So I try not to worry too much about the British and their postal system. Instead, I enjoy the web work, the URL of which I will be able to post Real Soon Now.

I'm also keeping busy in the evening, working on yet more web stuff. At least one of my "fun time" (as opposed to "business time") sites will be done soon, and I will also point you to it, whereupon you can tell me it doesn't work at all on your particular browser.

I've even started making money doing freelance web work, with more potential work on the horizon. Which would be a whole lot nicer if I wasn't continually committing myself to not have a free moment for the next several months.

As such, I am too busy to lavish time on reading all manner of news articles and writing cynical commentaries on them. So you get goofy little status reports like this one.

But wait, there's more! Or there soon will be. I also have plans to change Cock-a-hoop in the near future. Hopefully, it'll have a nice image gallery that I will fill with all the digital photos I've done nothing with.

I also plan on separating the journal entries into longer article-type pieces and shorter blog-type thoughts. That way, I won't feel compelled to write a well-thought-out novella every time I have something I want to say. I'll simply post a hastily-composed paragraph (like, say, this one) in the "blog" section and be done with it.

After all, isn't that what the Internet is really about?