17 of 30 - Losing My Sanity

   As evidenced by that previous entry, I'm clearly losing my sanity. In fact, I determined just how far from sanity I am. Here are the results

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   As you can see, not only am I relatively far from sanity (random ljs are usually four or five "hops" apart, as opposed to six in this case), but only incomple connects me to sanity.


Today - Return to Wild Rivers
   Today was an employee party at Wild Rivers, where after being employed for six years I am NOT currently an employee. I'll probably come back at some point though to make this my seventh season, after all with 93 rescues I just HAVE to try to break 100 now.
   My parents tried to convince me I should shave off the mohawk before I showed up there if I ever wanted to work there again, but thing is, I've been waiting to show up there with a mohawk for like four years.
   It was really nice to see everyone again. Nearly everyone who was a deep guard last year is a supervisor now. I've worked there four years longer than most of the current supervisors had when they were supervisored - wish I could've found my "unpromotable" shirt this evening.
   Supervisor forrest441 showed up wearign a $60 shirt and someone called him metrosexual. Also supervisor Hethr kept calling out "hand check!"s in the warming pool² every five minutes. It was a bit unnecessary considering that I don't think thats really gonna stop anyone - she seemed to just enjoy doing hand checks.


¹Source: http://www.petekrawczyk.com/lj_connect/
²Its a "warming pool" and not a "spa" because it only gets lukewarm, and not a "jacuzzi" because that's a brand name.


Related
   Pictures: of Wild Rivers - Featuring forrest441 himself, and pictures from the wild animal park before Wild Rivers was built on its ruins.
   Year Ago Today: Violations - getting violated by parking tickets twice in one day, and talking to Wild Rivers Operations Director Kevin Kopeny (which I did today as well)

18 of 30 - "Blogology IV" OR "How I Spend My Free Time"

   In order to finish on schedule with the 30 in 30 thing I will need to make a post every 9.5 hours. I don't know how I got so far behind.

   Anyway, continuing my scientific investigation of the blogosphere, I've done a study of 20 livejournals on my friends list¹, based on numbers of entries, comments and other quantifiable information. The results are as follows:


( The Study )

   Also determined that this journal is currently averaging 26.2 entries per month.
   Next I think I'll look at a number of randomly selected livejournals. These ones were selected to take livejournals I hypothesized were good examples of a megablog or underblog, and as such are far from a random sampling of livejournals.
   Also I didn't use anyone who didn't have "friends-of" displayed in their userinfo. This prevented me from using several livejournals I was interested in looking at.


Related
   Interesting Livejournal of the Day: giantlaser in Iraq


¹actually 10% of them aren't on my friends list
²Yes I am aware that proper ratios should not have numbers less than one. For simplicity's sake however I decided not to convert numbers like 0.3 and 0.6 to 3:1 and 5:3.