I’ve been working (writing articles) so much that the outside world feels shocking and new to me again. The air is crisper, the car engines are throatier, and the roaming gangs of turkeys in my neighborhood? Well, they’re warblier than ever.

I’ve been mostly writing for Demand Studios lately, which I really enjoy as it gives me the chance to make a decent living while indulging in my favorite pastime: being wickedly obsessive over things for a short burst of time, learning everything possible about it, then filing it away in the back of my brain. Then, later, topics bubble back up to the surface of my brain and come right out of my mouth with very little realization on my part. Like the time when I explained to the bag-girl at the local grocery store about how to bore-sight a bolt-action rifle. In retrospect, I don’t think she was very interested.

I’ve also been working on a multi-part article for EmailServiceGuide.com on Email Marketing. My latest post (Part 2) is a review of MailChimp, ConstantContact, EmailBrain, and LetterPop and a few reasons why it’s better to go with a third-party email marketing website than just trying to do mass-email blasts yourself.

The holidays are done and gone, and yet the most important days of the year for me are still to come. The wife was born on Valentine’s Day, which makes that date particularly important for us. We’ll be going out to Dim Sum and possibly minigolfing for that occasion. Because what else says “Happy Birthday” and “Let’s Get It On” like minigolfing, right? And, in addition to that, our five year wedding anniversary is on Feb. 11th! I keep telling the wife that five years is the “wood anniversary” but she’s just not having it. We’ll probably be doing dinner and a movie that night, nothing huge, just some quiet time to enjoy each other’s company. And then we’ll probably just come home and pwn some noobs on Halo 3 until the wee hours of the morning.

On the blog-front, I’ll be moving my little Geek Sauce webcomic over to its own domain in the next few weeks (www.geek-sauce.com), so it’ll have a new home. Check back next Friday for the third episode.

Tootle, pip.