paid by the click

Ran across a piece by David Carr that amused me. Not sure why, but I started following him on Twitter @carr2n . I guess it's due to the sort of things he's interested in covering for the NYT: Media.

I get a few clicks a day here on this soon to be dead blog (stbdb), and Adsense seems to keep a tally of the pennies clicks upon the ads in the margins have generated for your humble owner of this stbdb.

I shall have ample time to pursue a number of neglected interests without this stbdb. I'm thinking of joining a church for the artificial extended family factor (google "Vonnegut and artificial extended family"), completing a novel, completing a memoir, writing my last will and testament, learning what my kids like doing aside from screen time, research my beliefs to see if my gut instinct is right, sleep better, eating better, being a better husband, and worrying about things, which I have control.

The last time I wrote down goals and accomplished them was when I was in solitude 20 years ago. I think I may have  the original list still, but also I think the purple notebook was acidic and vanished in to a spring-like coil. No tv, no music, and no English for a month left me to a lot of self-refection.