After wasting a good half hour trying to get my latest posts to feed out properly, I've come to the conclusion that: a) RSS/XML feeds suck. b) I could probably spend my time more productively, as I'm sure that nobody but I am reading my atom feed anyway. :: On a brighter note the Hello experiment seems to have worked. And it also answers my question of how they could pay for this: the Hello software really really really wants you to use Picasa, which, conveniently enough, you have to pay for. Otherwise, you can only post one picture at a time. But I don't mind, the days of me having to host my pictures on my own site look like they're nearly over thanks to Hello. No more resizing, uploading, and then hand coding in the hyperlinks. I'll probably still do it from time to time, as it's not easy to incorporate the Hello posted pictures into the narritive weave of daily posts. But it certainly means I'm one more step along my way to making this a hybrid photoblog. :: One of these days, probably a few years from now, I can fully go into what the hell it is that is sucking up so much of my life as to make me miserable. But sadly, for now, I'll have to be light on the details. What I can say is that I'm being overwhelmed by everything. My preformance at my Day Job (cog in the insurance/finance machine) is severly lacking. My Side Job has become this time consuming black hole of misery. And to top it all off, I'm not getting anything accomplished because it requires so much time as to hinder my day job preformance. My weekend job (tutoring) has been very lacking, and I'm certain it's only a matter of time before they fire me. Again, the need to spend overtime to keep Day Job and Side Job from falling completely apart (as opposed to just barely limping along like right now). And of course, this is all cutting into my whole personal life thing. And not just the pleasures (watching movies, talking to girls, etc. etc.), but the mundane things that matter most, like paying bills and deciding where to invest put some spare money I have lying around, or losing some of my winter weight gain. I think tomorrow at lunch, I'm just gonna pack up my bag, and catch a flight to Wyoming, and live in a cave for a month. And I'll finally be happy, for a change.