The Jeff R Project

Many people have written about the start of 2010 and what it means to them, so I figured I’d throw my hat in the ring too.

Last year got off to a bad start. I don’t remember why exactly. A lot of things went wrong but I didn’t whine about them on my blog hear so I have nothing to go on. I do remember talking to people about how I wanted to start over and that lasted for about 2 weeks. If you remember what I complained about, let me know.

2009 did get a lot better, things were good etc. And then it came to an end much the way it started. I had a headache and was generally “out of it” for a couple of days, including New Years Eve, leading to me being in bed between 10:30 and 11:00. Yep, hardcore party people in the house.

I was actually asleep by 11:10 and woke up not feeling too well again. But it passed.

And then we were in 2010. Corey Monteith of TV’s Glee ran a quick check on Twitter and said it’s officially ‘aught ten’ which I’m not going to pick up. The Olympic branding, which hasn’t taught me much, but has engrained Twenty Ten into my brain, so that’s what I’m going with. It may not stick either but I gotta start somewhere.

Vancouver is roughly 40 days from Olympic Chaos. I could complain about how much it’s going to mess up my commute, but it won’t be too bad (I hope). Considering Rumble and I will mostly be walking. I will have to change my bus route though. It won’t be too bad. I think the 50 False Creek will keep running from the Keefer Street side and end up on or near Granville where I need to get off.

I’m also hoping for nice weather for the Winter Olympics, not to be mean, but just because I don’t like winter.

Oh – and a rant.

Chris and I went to The Bay downtown and I wanted to buy us each a pair of the Red Mittens to wear during the Olympics as we wander around. Apparently the Olympic store in The Bay only accepts Visa and Cash.

Yep, no debit cards, no MasterCard, no American Express. Only Visa (the official card) and Cash (the official cash).

We left without mittens… For now. We’ll be back, oh yeah, we’ll be back.

Screw you 2010, I’m going to win.

Top Most Gifted books from Amazon.com

So I was noodling around Amazon.com today while looking for a new product to build a site around. I’ve created a few different affiliate sites that are getting traffic, but no sales yet, so I’m thinking “hey, this hasn’t worked yet, maybe I need MORE sites!”

Anyway, I’m wandering around the site looking for something cool to sell when I find the link for “Most Gifted” which is not the link for only the best and brightest books, but rather those “Gifted” to others most often, which makes a lot more sense, right?

Well, the top entry was The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown’s new book, no surprise.

Second place was Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days, also not a surprise as this is a huge kids book.

Next came Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are which also makes sense with the new movie just coming out.

And in fourth place, the wildly popular Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. Wait, huh? What? Seriously? The 4th most popular gift in Amazon’s book is a publication manual? Seriously, how many people are sending this? What are the stats on this, and how would YOU like to receive it?

I thought so.

After that, it follows with Ted Kennedy’s memoir so it makes sense again. Then it gets weird. Either people don’t use Amazon for gifting, or people don’t gift the way I think they do.