Day #42 – Friend 2.0 and a challenge.

Apparently doing a blog five days a week, because of a stupid bet, isn’t enough for Jackson. (I truly think he didn’t expect me to make it past a week.) So, knowing that I have this weird genetic weakness against being able to turn down a challenge, Jackson decided to challenge me to a challenge that he thought would be challenging. Now, nothing is riding on this, other than pride (which makes it all that much stupider). No sodas. Nothing. But I have accepted, nonetheless.

He saw that I was somehow miraculously able to fill up a blog, using just things from daily events. (“Heartwarming, breathtaking, simply masterful.” – raves the New York Times.) So, Jackson claimed that anyone could do that, and therefore the only thing that would impress him would be if I could write an entire post on one simple small thing. I stupidly boasted that that would be no problem—figuring I would be picking the small thing. (I know an inordinate amount of information about hay. Don’t get me started.) But what my pride blinded me from, was the possibility—nay, the probability—that he would pick something. Which he did.

I won’t even ask you to guess what he chose, because it was “lint”. Seriously. How in the world do you write an entire blog post about lint? Well, that’s his point. And so, due to my bottomless pit of prideful stupidity,  I am forced to write about lint today, which would normally require a bit more alcohol, and a bit less coherence, to compose.

But then, as if some strange drunken stars aligned, a gift appeared on the internet yesterday. I will need to step away from lint for a moment (forgive me) to explain this. A friend of mine named TS Hendrik has his own really funny blog called “The Non-Review”. Okay, hold on—quick side note: When I say ‘friend’ I mean the new version of ‘friend’ that the web has created. Friend 2.0 if you will. I have no clue what he looks like, I don’t know anything about him, and we’ve never actually talked. (Yeah, we’re tight.) But we drop by each other’s sites now and then, and according to the Friend 2.0 instruction manual, that’s enough. And technically we didn’t stop there, because I have written a couple of guest posts on his blog, as well. (His blog is here, and my posts are here, here, and here.)

Anyway (watch out here comes another “here”), he wrote a post on his blog, just yesterday, about lint. I’m not kidding. (It’s here. See? Told you.) Now, his is the only blog that I have guest-posted on so far, so this was just bizarre. (Drunken stars.) But what it accomplished, besides a major freak-out, was it gave me something to write about that concerned lint. And now I don’t have to gross any of you out with details about the stuff, because I’ve reached the end of this post. Ha, Jackson! Did it.

Reputation@Stake

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