Twitter

As promised, I now Twitter.

Yes, I'm a crappy blogger

I know, I don't need to hear it. But if I'm a shitty blogger, there's something I know I'll be even shittier at: Twitter.

I never got the whole Twitter thing, nor did I have a desire to get involved with it whatsoever. However, today while at the bar, Eric and I were professing our distaste for the concept and drew the ire of a few of our friends. Apparently people don't like it when you make fun of something that they do and you have no interest in. So Eric and I made a pact to at the bare minimum sign up and use Twitter for two weeks before being allowed to make fun of it.

Fair enough, so soon we will both be joining the Twitterati (is that even one of those gay-sounding terms they have for Twitter people? I don't even know - it's one of our fundimental problems with the service: how stupid all the terms sound) shortly. I will re-post with links when that happens. Til then, that's about it.

Starting up the garden

So if you look at the photos I posted last year of the process of building and planting a vegetable garden (www.franksandbeanz.com), two things should be clear:
1. It was a learning experience and a work-in-progress all spring and summer
2. It worked pretty damn well. I had more produce than I could handle

I'm doing it again this year, except obviously I won't have to build the garden since it already exists. I learned a lot thhrough the process, in terms of straight-up gardening and also some logistics. For instance, I'll be planning out the lattice for the tomatoes before I even plant them, rather than spend most of the summer fighting with them and rigging something after the fact. I'm also stepping up the actual seedling-starting phase with a better kit and better seed-starting technique.

I'll try to be more diligent in updating about it than I was last year; at least now I have a site that will work better to showcase my various photos and lengthy explanations. Stay tuned.