Category: Amuse Me

I’ve mentioned in the past that I know a lot of people named Mike. When we were at SXSW, all of the Mikes there ended up with nicknames so that we could keep them straight. Coffee Mike, Moose Mike, Beta Mike (also known as Mike the Lawyer), Disney Mike, and the list went on.

So it shouldn’t be a surprise that my latest spam had a subject line of “Mike Wants You to See This”. I figured that Mike probably saw something that he knew I would be interested in and sent me an e-mail about it using the “E-mail to a Friend” options that some sites have. Nope. It was spam, and I was suckered in to opening it. This weekend, I’m installing iHateSpam after reading Jennifer’s testimonial about it. The softwares is free after rebate on Amazon right now, so if I like it I’ll order a full copy. I’m still waiting on the pointers from Matt on anti-spam tactics too. Have any tips that you want to share?

I am going to win this battle. Oh yes, yes, I am.

BlogShares is live! It seems I was 22 minutes late to the party – all of the stock in MT and all of the other “biggies” on my list are already gone. The server is moving at a slow crawl. I may just wait to amass my fortune another day…

It should have been a sign that my evening with J-Mo was going to be rather slap-happy in the best of ways when I walked in to the Crazy Horse Cantina and caught her drinking my margarita. See, she called while I was at the bank picking up cash, and she asked me if I wanted her to order me a drink before happy hour ended. I said yes, but it took me a little while to get there from my office – game traffic and all. She was concerned that it was going to melt, so she decided to drink it for me. “But I only drank a little bit… you can have it back!”

Ohhhh yeah, we had a good time.

And it wasn’t just any one thing in particular that made it a good time – it was a chance to chat about all sorts of things, to drink margaritas, to take pictures, to laugh, to relax, to sing, and to dance.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I need to drink at least one more glass of water before I go to bed.

Just a reminder – if you’ve been playing BlogShares, you have less than 12 hours or so (since it is 1pm GMT already) to cash out all your stocks so that you can take your cash over to the game when it leaves beta mode to go live.

Or you can do what I’m doing, scoop up some good stock cheap, and continue making money. You know, whatever works for you…

There it is. Photographic evidence that J-Mo and I met in person Friday night. Well, the picture was actually snapped in the wee hours of Saturday morning, but do you still call that Friday? Or is it Saturday? I think if I haven’t slept yet, it counts as Friday. Right?