Blipped.

I recognize I have several addictions. This Blog is like a confessional... But one of my newest addictions is Blip.FM. Blip.FM is Twitter for music.

If you are a Tweeter you can connect it to your Twitter account and your musical Blips will be posted in your feed. It's like the coolest live streaming radio station 24 hours a day where everyone can be a DJ. You get listeners and you become other DJ's listeners. I listen to Blip DJs everywhere (Ireland, Switzerland, Brazil etc.).

Today, while on the public feed I heard a new fave and ReBlipped it. You can get and give props for Blips (Your musical Tweets). So far I have 86 listeners. I think that makes me pretty cool, but most others have hundreds or thousands so, as usual, I'm not as cool as I think I am.

I don't even mind all the glitches the site has. There is nothing else like it. Blip has definitely expanded my musical horizons. It keeps me entertained while working on my computer all day and all night and it's given me Twitter material when there was nothing in my head (much to the dismay of my Father - one of my Twitter followers).

So, I recommend it. Some addictions are good to have. Addictions that make you cool.

...realized I was obsessed with my Nike+ Challenge.

It makes sense that two of the world's greatest companies would come up with a perfect pairing - Nike + Apple makes running an obsession for me. More true - it makes competition an obsession for me.

A friend of mine recently challenged me to see who could run the most miles by July 20th. I can't stand to lose. So this morning, I had a million things to get done, but after getting Meagan off to the various social activities she had planned, my most important to do item was to get in a run. A good run. No piddly one would keep me ahead. My challenger is too good.

So, this Nike+ stuff is brilliant. I highly recommend it, but make sure you have people to challenge. Even better. Nothing gets me working out more. If you buy the Nike+ kit for a Nike+ shoe and you have the latest iPhone or a Nano, you can join in. Improvements in the Nike+ functionality could be made, but it's pretty great as is. Not only does it track every run you do, but it tells you have fast you ran on average, how many calories you've burned, encourages and congratulations you for beating your PRs, but it gives you a little mini avatar to use on your Facebook and other sites. It also encourages you to trash talk your challenger.

So, tomorrow morning when I wake up, I'll get my running shoes on and give in to my obsession again.

...felt pretty guilty

A friend asked me a month ago why I quit updating my blog. How embarrassing. I actually have the blog address listed in my Twitter bio. Who knows how many times the link has been clicked on. Not too impressive, I know.

There are no excuses good, enough, but I have to confess that I had started to forget about my blog the more addicted I became to Twitter and worse yet – Tweetdeck. It's like Twitter on crack. Updating a micro blog is a billion times easier than updating a real one. However, spending as much time as I do on Twitter I have come full circle and believe there is value in also having a blog that let's me post more than 140 characters and more than one picture.

In a quest to do everything better in my life, I am pledging to update this blog a couple times a week. It's likely to remain pretty random because that's the way my mind works.