So, Vacation was the worst time to start the 30…but I prevail.

Vacation, in wind terms, was terrible. Other then that, beautiful weather, relaxing, and an awesome break from the daily grind. I only got out kiteboarding one measly time (see parts 4 & 5)

Anyways, after getting back from Ocean City, I went right out again for the last hoorah with my friends before everyone packs up and heads off to school. What a fun night.

The next morning, I headed straight to the Philly Folk Fest, and what an experince. I was lucky enough to see Kimya Dawson play a kids show, while relaxing on a hammock in the woods. It was an amazing place, and I’m sad I didn’t get to see more of it…but next year, camping, maybe as part of the media, and I’ll have photos, interviews, recordings, the works, to entertain you all.

Anyways, now, I’m back at work, and its sad. Working, everyone leaving for college, and worst of all, school of my own starts in 2 weeks.

But, I’ve been working a bit more on Media Research Labs today. A post on Horror Labs, a post on Green Research, and a few posts on Media Research itself. Its starting to look offical.

I’ve experimented with eBay traffic before on HorrorLabs.com, and I wasn’t happy…but now that I take a look at its traffic results right now, I realize, its doing much better then my other sites, and I suspect that my eBay traffic may have helped. In an effort to be sure, I have bought another run for Green Research Labs. I’ll be sure to let you know how it goes.

So, I admit, I missed one. I can blame shoddy internet access, but it comes down to the beautiful weather here while I’m on vacation.

Yesterday I got out kitesurfing a bit. Launched the new 13m, flew like a charm, and dove it, and POP, start riding no issues…ride for about 5 minutes before the kite luffs, and drops out of the air, and rolls when I attempted to relaunch. I cracked out my self rescue techniques, and was rather embarrased. As I got packed up, and un tangled my lines, winds shifted, and the day was done. Great time either way though. plywood kiteboard is rocking AWESOME. I felt much better on the ply board then on Brian’s Spleen Rip, I felt it planned much easier, much faster. The nose dove a bit, and I think some rocker would help, but it was great anyways.

Brian Lee was crusing on his brand spanking new 10m Pshycho 4. I watched him riding, the kite was amazingly fast…insanely fast. The 10m was turning as fast as my 5m Pansh Blaze. Only real issue I spotted was the whole ‘tip tucking’ thing seemed to make the wing tips flap pretty well. But, regardless, amazing kite, just going to take some time to learn more about it.

Today was a lazy day, but the winds are picking up, the beaches are clearing, so I might break out the old foils and paddle out on the surfboard for fun.

Wish I could supply photos, but my camera is completely missing…so I’m going to be looking for somehing new to take some snapshots with to entertain you.

Tonight I’m also headed out to see Pineapple Express..I’ll let everyone know how it is in tomorrows update

Day number 2 in my conquest to creating a habit…

Last night I saw Rouge Wave and Jack Johnson, well meant to see Rouge Wave, but we managed to be an hour and a half late, and got there just in time for Jack Johnson. This was my first time going to the lawn section at the ‘Bank Center’ as it is now called. (Ex-Tweeter Center) It was a zoo. So many damn people, but fun none the less.

Driving home from Jack Johnson

Today I’m packing to go to Ocean City New Jersey with the family all week. I’m packing up all of my kites, the stack of 35 comics I need to read to get caught up with all the stories, and my laptop. Hopefully I’ll get some internet access, but if I don’t, I’ll find it. Worse comes to worse, I’ll be tweeting! Add me on Twitter: @ryanbarnes

I spent a good deal of time working with a new Media Research Labs design that is based off of Jason Schuller’s design. It is awesome with flash carousel, but I need to edit the design with a new color scheme and such to really make it my own.

Now that I’m working really hard on all of these blogs, I’m conflicted where I will post certain things. Sure, personal stuff, little projects go here, obviously, but if I review an album over at Media Research Labs, can I copy it here too? I think the plan is, anything I write that I like will be posted here as well. If you are reading this RSS, and my other sites RSS feeds, sorry..just ignore any repeats!

Tonight I’m going to check out the 080808 chip tune deal that Don Miller of No Carrier fame is putting on.

Tomorrow, winds are looking like 10-13mph, from the west. Pretty bad, but I might attempt to ride, probably good winds to use my new kite in. Hopefully I’ll have some pictures to share with you all.

In my undying effort to break my poor work ethic, I am starting with something small, and I’m going to attempt to put a daily blog post into my everyday routine. I’ve read that it takes about 28 times of repeating something to create a habit, so I’m going to dedicate myself to doing a blog post, everyday for 30 days, and instilling a simple habit, of posting. Sure, a worthless habit, but it proves I can create a habit…and hopefully help me break my shitty habits. but..if I make 30 habits, does that mean I’ll make a habit of making a habit? Well, we’ll see.

So, its day number one…what have I accomplished? Not to much. I’m working all day, and headed out to see Jack Johnson…however, I did manage to fix my sidebar, adding my networks, my websites,  and just cleaning it up.

Yesterday, I wrote up a little guide for an idea I had to run a game of ‘Assassin‘ and managing it with Twitter, and cell phones. Haven’t actually tested it, but I’m going to get a few friends together to see how it works, and I’ll update it as I figure out more. (The game is called ‘Last Man Standing’ to keep the school happy, they don’t much like ‘Assassin’

So, lets stick with this…I’ll see you tomorrow..and hopefully with something more interesting I’ve accomplished!

Something about the last couple days has been fantastic. My sites look good, I’ve enjoyed writing on them recently. I’ve been working on some posts that I am really happy with, some fun stuff. I have a friend of mine writing awesome content over on Champion Labs, and I’m almost done with Media Research.

I’ve had the pleasure of working on a custom theme for a friend for his Wordpress blog. I was given a design in html and CSS, and I’ve been working on turning it into one of the coolest themes I have seen. I even got to code some dynamic PHP to make header background colors change every post. It has inspired me to attempt to create new designs for all of my sites, but I just don’t have that kind of time. However, I think we can all agree, The Low Tech’s theme is a bit stale.

I’m becoming obsessed with journalism, just because of blogging. I look at every event as an opportunity for fresh content. While it might seem like I forget to enjoy said events to worry about writing, I feel I dissect the event, and take it in more then I would have other wise. I feel like if I don’t get home (or not) at night with out something worth while to blog about, I have wasted the day. Lame as that is, I think it helps me really carpe diem.

Needless to say, everything has been looking good. I have a good weekend coming up, and I can’t wait for the future.

Time management never meant much to me, but as I start working full time, and attempt to run a full blog network, I begin to realize I’m in over my head. Perhaps I’m not so much in over my head, as much as my obvious poor work ethic begins to get the best of me. But now, now is the time that I can crack this poor work ethic before I’m back to school.

Today I got to update HorrorLabs with a new short story I had read on Urbis. Using Wordpresses new system, I was able to post all 3 parts what will be posted weekly. Pretty cool stuff!

I really need to crack the whip and get working on Media Research Labs design, write some new posts for GRL, and get ChampionLabs up and running!

But now that I’m imobilized after getting my foot sliced open while kiteboarding, I’ve got the time, now I just need the drive. Its funny how I can realize my flaws, but still take no strides to change them…I think I need help!

Anyways, I’m realizing that I need to write more orginal content…my biggest flaw with past websites was me linking to other articles. While this is good when I’m stumped, I shouldn’t rely on it.  So lets get to it, and start re-writing some more new content…then I can worry about SEO…

Its been around a solid year since I focused on blogging, and I miss it. I’m having a lot of fun with my latest project HorrorLabs.com, experimenting with a bunch of advertising techniques, trying to boost page rank as soon as possible.

I have began working as ‘The Director Of Web Marketing’, and have fallen hard for the internet world yet again. I’ve realized my past mistakes with blogging, and I’m ready to start over and begin again.

I am starting a new blog network known as ‘Media Research Labs’ that will contain a few more of the ‘Lab’ themed blogs. I am really excited about the project, but I’m already feeling in over my head. But, we will see how everything goes.

I can’t wait to see this project work, and turn out great!