Archive for March, 2010

Well, I’ve completed another item on my list. Went to the gun range the other day and fired a 9mm Glock. Cool stuff. I still would never want to own a gun, but I’d be lying of I said it wasn’t fun. I included a picture of my target after, I’m really not the greatest shot.

A crack shot, I am not

I technically could have crossed this off my list a couple of weeks ago, but I decided to wait until finished writing. I pitched my first article to Cracked a little while ago (technically, it was an abandon pitch that I repitched, but meh) and it got accepted! I just finished writing it about 20 minutes ago and submitted it, so barring them making me re-do it or anything, it should be on the site sometime in the next month or so. My first paying gig, I’m actually a freelance writer, now!

I decided that I’ll give NaBloPoMo one more shot, except I won’t be doing it on this blog. I decided to start up a side-blog specifically for this. The side blog will follow NaBloPoMo’s monthly theme for March of “strange(r)” and will be called One Strange Thing a Day. Yes, I did steal the name and idea from Dan Trachtenberg’s One Cool Thing a Day, but it was a great idea, and I would imagine (or hope, at least) that he would be ok, since I’m not stepping into his turf, per say, and the whole point is to share the strange. Now to go look for some strange stuff…