Wow. Today flew by. I guess that’s what “working” will do for you.

Actually, I’m not sure what people think I really do all day, but it’s not just sitting around playing on Facebook and Twitter and just looking at the web. Now, I do that as much as I ever did when I was gainfully employed, but just different sites now.

No, not porn. I am treating my current “job situation” as a temporary work-from-home program, kinda like a work-release program for convicts. I go to the office around 8:30 a.m. each day and work till between Noon and 1 p.m., take lunch, and then work more until around 5ish. Today was almost 6 p.m. before I realized I hadn’t done my blog.

What did I do all day? Well, some of it was applying for jobs. And I wrote a few follow-up emails for contacts I made with people last week while “networking.” And I’m writing stupid little stories for a web site, which can take a little time if I pick a topic I have no clue about. I’ll get more into detail about this in another blog, but as of right now, 6:01 p.m., the first topic I saw available on “Herring Fishing History in Cheboygan, Michigan”.

Seriously. That is what it was about. So if I want to make $15, I can write a 400-500 word article about that topic, get the stupid editors to look it over and make their (unnecessary) changes, and get paid. I didn’t do that one, but I did one yesterday on “Kinds of Casino Hotels” that was easy money despite having to find references to justify what I wrote.

And I’m doing some other sports writing and starting a little side business that will probably appear on here in the next couple weeks as I roll it out. I’m actually pretty scared about that. I’ve mentioned it to a couple people and got some interesting feedback, and am in full-throttle to get set up and running next week. I’m not sure if I’m scared that it will suck and I won’t get a single call and will never make any money from it, or if I’m scared because I actually think it’s something that if I press it, I might actually be able to make it work. I’ve always had that fear that I suck at what I do and will be kinda “caught” someday, and exposed because I don’t know what I’m doing. But if that’s the case, then I guess I’ll just do like I normally do anyway and just fake it.

So, after all that “work” today, I’m now ready to give you two things: one is so damn depressing, I dreaded seeing it on my Twitter feed. The other is so stupid, I almost want to take it, strip the audio, add in my own voiceover and then put it on here.

The first is this ESPN story about reality. How, you say, is this about reality? Well, because I’m getting fuckin’ old. And that’s bullshit.

I remember all but two of these guys when I was growing up. And hell, half of them were starting their careers around the time when, gulp, I was in college. It’s just sickening.

And the worst movie scene of the week? Well, it’s long and horrible. Just like it should be if it’s the worst. And how’s it a topper for the week? Because the main character actually won a Best Actor Oscar two years after this movie was released. I know, I know. I said no fucking way either, but I looked it up. Somehow that tool actually won an Oscar and then went on to make such classics as Ghostrider, The Bad Lieutenant, Bring Out the Dead and Lord of War. Now, I’ll give him a little break because I am actually a fan of National Treasure. But still. This is shit.

To make up for that, here’s a little added bonus, a song of the day that rocks lot in an old-school way. (Husker basketball fans,  notice the song of the day spelled correctly and noted accordingly. Ha.)