[	mood	|	chipper	]
[	music	|	the dishwasher	]

By the time I got home I was exhausted. When I woke up the next morning, I was sick. I had the virus du jour, a head ache and bad lung conjestion. That kept me home from work Tuesday and Wednesday. On Thursday, I made it to work but I was only operating at about 60%. By Friday, I was up to 90%.

Friday night we went to see The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. What an excellent movie! Everyone had been telling me it was the best of the three and they were right. Yesterday, Pam had a Midnight Tea Party for all her girlfriends. I retreated to the bedroom and watched TV and played on the computer.

That was the other thing I accomplished this week. I bought a domain name and signed up with a web hosting site, primarily to help Pam set up her web store. As a side affect I also have a site to host my totally customized blog. I had been shopping at several other sites and had come to the conclusion that none of them had all the blogging features that I was after. Also, this way I can set up a blog for Pam. I consider blogging slightly different than Journaling. LJ is where I intend to post my personal journal entries. My blog is where I will write essays and point to various items of interest on the web, etc. You know, a blog. Like BoingBoing and Scripting News.

Anyway, I may not be the typical LJ user but I don't plan to stop participating anytime soon. LJ is a social phenomenon. One of my primary research interests is Computer Mediated Communication. You can bet there's a lot for me to experience and observe here. That's one of the things I like about social sciences. You can't pretend that you're not a part of the phenomena that you are studying.

I guess that's it for this week. I may try to start posting more frequently than I said in my last post now that I have gotten it clear in my own mind what I intend to write where.