5th Period Productions

Time to start making use of this site that I pay money for by posting nonsense.  It’s like LiveJournal all over again, and not free!  Yay!

I’m waiting for the world to cash in on turning real, live social events/gatherings into ___ With Friends events/gatherings.  Zynga’s on to something.  Take a game you were already meant to play with other people, and force you to play it with other people.  Gasp!  But let’s take the banal, the dismissable, the eccentric and the useless and With-Friendatize them:

Fondu With Friends
Line Dancing With Friends
Movie Night With Friends
Board Games With Friends
Casual Drinking With Friends

The possibilities are endless.  ENDLESS!

Alternatively, I’ll accept With Enemies entries into the digital series.  When a friendly rivalry stops being fun, crank it up a notch or ten by receiving death threats from strangers because they’re so damn sure you’re cheating.  Hey, it’s not my fault the ENABLE dictionary contains some total bullshit entries.  Gosh!  Those rivalries need to be far more disconcerting.  I want to worry about making my next play. Don’t you?

And now time to think up meaningless tags to create clutter in my blog’s database.  Try it at home!

Still nothing done. I continue to procrastinate everything, breaking promises and plans left and right. Pieces of art sent to a friend and former co-worker? Nope. Web site redesign? Nah. Programming ANYTHING? Nada.

On the bright side, I love my daughter.

Yeah, yeah, I know… Site’s been in development for years now. Never really had any worthwhile content in the first place. I’m cooking something up that may ultimately have a takedown order against it since it’ll probably upset another company who no longer makes the product said “something” is tied to. That and I do want to develop my own content management system for the site (despite its blatant lack of content to be managed).

I owe a friend a drawing in the mail. I am such an ass for not sending it to him.

hmm…

I am the king of procrastination.

So, as usual I am spending a lot of time NOT re-doing this site. What a surprise…

I’ve been using MacPorts to try and spice up my laptop for some fake web hosting to emulate the environment where this site is currently hosted. It hasn’t been a fun journey to date. Then again, it is 4am…

post-upgrade testing

So while I endlessly procrastinate redesigning 5PP (amongst the many other things I am putting off), I am getting the hang of these category things.

For now I think I’ll stick to some main topics: computers, art, gaming, writing, friends/family/life, and the site itself. I’ll try to make sure they all have clever names. Well, clever to me. That’s not saying much!

5th Period Productions has been sitting, collecting dust for years. When the original site started on GeoCities as Armageddon Index, moved to Yahoo!’s hosting as 5thperiod.net, and then moved to here… Ultimately nothing got done.

Oh, sure, I added The Fortress Monastery and it saw a lot of updates, but even that has fallen by the wayside. And, after having a child I put up a photo gallery, which I failed to maintain with any sort of regularity.

This whole site has become a focal point for… nothing. I have plans, though. Many plans! I always do. That’s the problem. I’ll plan and brainstorm and dream, and ultimately I get nothing done. I’ve started an unknown number of projects in the last 10-13 years and have nothing to show for it. It’s kind of sad, really.

But the plans. They don’t stop. For 5th Period Productions I well and truly want to take it seriously. 5PP is a company – I want that to be clear. It’s just me and I provide no commercial products so it is not a true company with trademarks and a business license. In fact, even if I were to have products to offer – for charge or free – I don’t think I’d make 5PP a licensed company. If you know me, you know that I a) despise society and our species, and b) know very little about economic…

Wow, it totally deleted the next 800 words I wrote. Thank you, internet.

Now that I have totally lost any interest in re-writing what I was trying to talk about I’m going to relegate the remaining, now non-existent topics to future posts.