Odds, ends, and hashtags.

Today, I had a long and painfully dull shift at work.  Right now, we're in between phases of a project and the tasks that I am to work on for the new phase have not been cleared to start work.  It wasn't until a coworker told me about something he could use help with that I had any tasks at all.

Until then, I spent much of the day playing on twitter.  I decided to come up with the hashtag #TodayWouldBeGreatlyImproved.  Go check out some of my more creative tweets on the topic.  I'd have to say that my favorite would be this one.  I mean, just think about it!  Lightsabre battles!

Wishing my readership looked like this.

I was somewhat hoping that by some miracle, my little hashtag would catch on and more people would join in the fun.  But I suppose I just don't have the readership or follower base to make that happen at this time.  That's the frustrating part of just starting out a blog.  I have to be patient and wait for people to find me and spread me around like...no, we won't go with that analogy....

The  thing is, patience is not one of my strong points.  I often joke that I have plenty of other virtues (obviously, humility is not among them) and should therefore get a pass on my complete lack of patience.  I'm not sure it works that way, but hey.

In the meantime, I just continue to make connections and get myself out there.  Right now, I've started adding a blogroll to my side bar.  (Scroll down to find it.)  It currently has only three blogs on it, but they're all great blogs and there are elements about each of them (particularly the candid openness of them) that remind me of my own goals and the way I want to blog here.

Any of my (handful of) readers know about any other blogs I might enjoy?

Improvements for the G(WT)P Experience

Hello, my small but (hopefully) growing group of readers!  It's your generous (No, not that kind of "generous."  You hustlers can sit back down.) and fun-loving host, Colorful.  I just woke up a little bit ago and just wanted to draw your attention to some of the changes I've been making here at Getting (Way Too) Personal over the past few days.

Look Ma, I'm phallic!

I recently added a comment policy to give people an idea of what sort of behavior is and isn't acceptable for people who comment here.  Most of, being as wonderful as you host, probably don't even need to bother reading it.  Let's face it, we all know that comment policies are written for that tiny fraction of a blog's reader who either didn't have a mommy who knew how to teach them to be a decent human being or couldn't be bothered to learn that particular lesson.  Nonetheless, I'd appreciate it if you would all read it, just to be on the safe side.  Plus, you know, I wrote it!  I at least tried to make it entertaining.  And besides, what ever blog threatens to banish misbehaving commenters to Tartarus?

If you haven't noticed, I also added a Facebook Like button for G(WT)P.  Yes, that means that my blog has a Facebook page!  Right now, it only has links to my blog entries here, but that may change.  But if you could give me a bit of love and like the page, that would be awesome.  Also, if you could share my page (and blog) with your friends, I'll try to slip you some ambrosia or something.

Just today, I've also added a feed from my Twitter account, along with a link for subscribing.  I've had the account for a few days and I'm trying to have a bit of fun with it.  I'll do more and more as time permits.  But please consider following me.  Not only is it another way to stay abreast of what I'm blogging about, but you can get short bursts of my rainbow-flavored zaniness when you just don't have time to read a full post.  And again, #FF will be awarded with ambrosia or something (like sexual favors if you're cute and can find me in real life).

Anyway, that should give you an idea of the things going on here.  I'll keep working on improving the site and making the G(WT)P experience as enjoyable as possible.  But right now, I need to go start my day.  I'll try to write again later.  May your days be filled with excitement.  Just be sure to clean up the mess afterward!