Ya know what’s a real bummer?

When online friends just disappear.

Ok boys and girls if you want an easy chance to score some free goodies listen up!

Michael over at Slightly Mordant is running a great little contest with four bitchin’ prizes

His prizes aren’t crap either…we’re talking some seriously nice stuff…seriously.

Entering is simple, any fool who knows their way around Hemingway (or the internets) should have no problem-o getting the anwser right

Go check it out and see if you can’t get yerself something nice (and tell him Bug sent ya)!

For the amount of “fucks” running around here I was a tad shocked to come away with such a low rating:

What is your blog rated?

Coming Up This Week @ AIS
- Blogathon
- Weekend Recap w/ Pics
- Site Updates
- New Contests (Win It! is back)
- The Bug Hour on KMRL

This morning I logged in to show y’all something nifty and was surprised to find that I have a buncha new incoming links here at AIS! The reason for all those incoming links is much nifty-er than what I was planning on writing about so I’ma tell you all about it instead

Don’tcha just love where the writing process can take you?

Anyway, this morning I found myself (or rather a 50×60 icon of me) smack dab in the middle of the latest project by Tino Buntic of The Blogger Links Benefactor! He is currently showcasing 2000 bloggers with small pictures of each blogger and a link to their site. I must have somehow signed myself up for this and don’t remember because it was a nice surprise to wake up to (some days being blonde and forgetful has it’s perks)!

Can you see me now? Good.

Anyone who has a blog and has an honest-to-pete picture of themselves on their blog can go join the fun. Just head on over his site and post in the comments with a link to your site and he’ll getcha added to the pretty damn big pile-o-bloggers he has going

I hope everyone is having a spiffy weekend!

In true Buggie fashion I’m damn near four days late for National De-Lurking Week 2007! G’head, point and laugh if you feel you must. I gotta say though, it’s quite a bit of an improvement from 2006 when I missed the whole damn thing completely. But better late than never right? So here we go!

If you are a person who comes here, reads this blog, and doesn’t leave comments (and my traffic logs show there are asstons of you) the time has come for you to saddle up and say hullo for fuck sakes! Don’t worry I’ll only ask you to do this shit once a year and honestly you only have to say hi and then you can crawl back into the corner from whence you came. But seriously, I’d love to visit your blogs since you’re so cool to come hang out at mine

C’mon people, I’ve gotta make up for lost time!! I see you reading this shit — get to commenting wouldja?!??!

So around midnight tonight I heard a rumor that it’s going to be like, 2007 or some crazy shit. I’m preparing for a great party and doing some life adjustments when the clock strikes 12. Some of y’all have already made your New Years resolutions and some of ya’s might be of the “resolutions are just pointless crap and no one keeps them anyhow” camp. But I’ll be giving a few things a helluva shot this year to try and make life a little better for myself and my family.

I’ve got my personal resolutions all lined up in a nice tidy row ready for takeoff but I’ve also decided to make some “online resolutions” after reading a post made by Brian Clark. He did a list of 5 blogging resolutions so I’ve sat down and thought long and hard about the direction of my entire “online life” and where I want to go in the coming year.

1. I will get off my ass and get my blog skins/eBay store layout/Myspace layout site running. I’ve been bloody well been putting this off for 3 years now, it’s time to shit or get off the pot. I choose to shit.

2. I will stop feeling guilty about “not doing well enough” with my readership numbers here at AIS. If people read me, awesome. If not, no sweat off my balls. I can lead horses to water and hand them the damn straw but I can’t make them….aw hell you know the rest.

3. I will get off my ass (again) and go buy the digital scale I need to start running eBay auctions. I’ve been letting stuff pile up in the “eBay” box but have yet to get any of it up.

4. I will make a serious effort to massively improve and promote my radio show. I will get the necessary work done that I’ve been putting off because I’m too damn worried it won’t work out and I’m unorganized to boot.

5. I will keep up with the much needed maintenance around here. Pages have gone to the wayside and need updating/re-vamping. Not to mention I have a list of features and items I’d like to incorporate here. It’s time to get organized and pay some attention to this poor site.

So there we go, I think I’ll print these out and stick them to my wall to remind myself not to be a sally and just get this shit done.

If you have a spare moment and are up for it maybe you could post your 5 online resolutions If ya do lemme know so I can go take a peek!

What the hell? It’s Thursday already? I didn’t get the memo on this “it’s Thursday” crap. I need like 2 more days in this week damnit! Anywhoot, kitty is a girl, kitty’s name is Loki, kitty can be found on Catster by clicking here (if you’re on Catster add Loki plz, she’s a friend-whore.)

I’m up to my neck in a new niche-market blog project…it’s boring…it’s made for marketing and advertising. I figured instead of flooding you guys with advertising crap to help pay my bills I’d just open a few other blogs and do it with…well…somebody else*chuckle* I’m still on the first one out of 5 that I need to create for this to all work…what I thought was going to take about an hour each to set up is now going over the two day mark for just one *grrr* Doesn’t really help that I’m an uber perfectionist and every little detail is being done right and purdy. Ah well, this is my work…I love my job…I love my job…I lov-oh fuckit.

The boogery-thing I had going has now turned into a cough-thing with a bit of boogies here and there to keep it interesting. If someone would like to trade bodies with me that’d be great! Our neighbors are in full swing with their damn Christmas lights making us look like total scrooges but I dare not enter Wal-Mart nor any other “mart” due to the fact that people are shooting each other over the last {insert douchebag overpriced must-have toy here} in those places. Maybe I can tear some leaves off the tree out back and glue them to a plate, hang it on the door and call it a wreath? That’s gotta win me some points, sheesh!

So that’s it for me, tomorrow we have to wake up at the ass-crack of dawn and drive 2 hours for a stupid fucking appraisal. I’d better get my booty to bed but before I go:

How the hell are you guys doin’?