Ninety-nine red balloons go by...

If you are expecting another profound piece of thinking, or perhaps a joyful bit of lyrical poetry to lighten your day in this blog post, I'm sorry to disappoint. The real reason for this post is so that I won't have two HNT posts creep up back to back.

So there a good starting point, HNT aka Half-Nekkid Thursday. I learned of the idea though Tish, and apparently it had been going on sometime in the real blog world (I don't really count myspace as a full fledge member of the blogsphere). A very cool thing, just take a photo of some skin you wouldn't have exposed normally. A breast or a big toe is equal on HNT. I was amazed to learn there wasn't a group for this on myspace, as many members love taking interesting photos for their profile. So, I started the group and with Tish's help we've attracted over 60 members, and gained notice by the founder of HTN.

In other news, I have begun work on one of my dreams - a home karaoke system. I have a modded xbox that does all sorts of cool tricks, like play movies over the network and tap into the music server, and now, act as a karaoke machine. I've binged on songs, and now have over 2,000 different tunes. Building my karaoke book of songs now is quite the chore, but will be worth it for the parties.

Last, I've decided to start a novel. If I get though an outline and a few chapters, I'll start posting it in my blog, for all to read.

For some reason, I keep thinking of Scott Jennings today.

Posted By Mike On Sunday, August 21, 2005
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Michael C. Neel, born 1976 in Houston, TX and now live in Knoxvile, TN. Software developer, currently .Net focused. Board member of ETNUG and organizes CodeStock, East Tennessee's annual developers conference. .Net speaker, a Microsoft ASP.NET MVP and ASPInsider. Co-Founder of FuncWorks, LLC and GameMarx.

Proud father of two amazing girls, Rachel and Hannah, and loving husband to Cicelie who inflates and pops his ego as necessary.

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