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contemplating life’s little choices over a fine plate of chicken tenders.

Time sure is flying lately. Around the first of the year, I thought my world was crashing down all around me and all forward progress was halted. Looking back with an April point of view, the clouds have cleared and new opportunities have been introduced.

I am on the right track and making plans. I have decided to add a little bit of Chaos Theory to my normal quasi-planned out OCD boring self. So far I am still quite reserved, but am making the strides in the right direction when I can.

Plans-

I am accomplishing my goals of travel and developing life stories to tell as I age. I am still on track for my 12 states in 12 months goal. I don’t have any planned out visits, I’m just going where the road takes me. I do have some states on my to do list. Fl, TX, OH, and GA being among those I need to hit up soon. Anyone feel like getting out? I am also thinking of a trip down the Natchez and on the Tail of the Dragon, either by Bicycle, Bike, or car.

Awesome meter-

Still not up on the site, though I am still adding points. Keep on the look out.

Memphis-

Ah, my second… or Third home. How I do love thee. Memphis has both taught and scolded me on several visits.  It allowed the completion of  “Stage 1″ and passed me into “Stage 2″. The friends in this southern town are both accepting and true. Many more visits are to come.

Clockwatching-

With 4 months down, I am still here and kicking harder than ever. I noticed by not watching the hands on the clock expecting drastic changes, I was able to enjoy what came along, at it’s own pace.

Here to the best year of my life and the continued success of finding oneself.  No GPS needed.

~Hoyter

Finally, someone gets it. Im not sure if you have been following Late night with Jimmy Fallon, but it is incredible. I was already a pretty big fan of his nervous almost startled comedy, but am becoming a bigger fan of his new show. Not even on the air for two weeks yet and we already have Kevin (@KevinRose) and Alex (@alexalbrecht) from Diggnation and Joshua from Engadget. It appears that Geek cred is finally starting to leak out into the world.

Jimmy (@Jimmyfallon) has been using Twitter to reach out to his fans, promote show segments, and acquire interview questions for his guests. Last night (3-11-09) Jimmy with the help of Kevin, Alex, and Russell Brand used twitter to promote an audience member’s following and see how popular they can make him.  Bryan Brinkman (@bryanbrinkman) was new to twitter and had around 7  followers. At 6pm EST. Tweets and reTweets started flowing asking for everyone to follow Bryan. I clicked the magic follow button around the 256 fan mark. Within minutes, I watched his count raise by several a second. Within an hour, the count rose to 7,000+ and the show had not even aired yet. This only goes to show the power of Twitter for connecting people. (Cue 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon) Qoolquest(@qoolquest), the drummer for the house band (The Roots). He even tweets while the show is taping.

As of this posting, Brian Brinkman has around 26,000 followers on Twitter.

The Brian Brinkman Experiment:

LA Times Article on the Experiment.

Joshua on LNwJF

Read more for Twitter explanation.
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So,

Its a new year, a new me, and more free time. I added some toys to the site and might actually post more with them. I have been drawn into Facebook lately. I am working to intrergrate some FB, Twitter, and Random other places I visit to the site. I am kinda hoping Hoyter.net will become a little portal. I just have to stop being lazy and get to posting more.

Night folks and hope you had a great Fat Tuesday!

~Hoyter

So, another weekend is behind me. Where did it go?

My weekend Haiku-

My friend the weekend
Why have you left me all alone
Tomorrow Is work

And remember to go buy Night Watch/Day Watch on DVD. We really need to convince Bekmambetov to get going with Twilight Watch.

Question for today:

Does a bad economy breed betrayal?

Discuss.

~Hoyter