This is the one where I’ve become the mayor of your face.

Are you using Foursquare?  You know, the location service-based social network game.  The gist is that you “check in” when you arrive anywhere and it lets your friends know where you’re at.  Imagine Google Latitude knocking up Twitter.

The fun part, for me anyway, is that you get points for checking in.  The points aren’t really good for anything (yet), but you can gain badges for different check in combinations.  For example I received a “BENDER” badge for going out four nights in a row.

And then there’s the mayorships.  All you have to do is be the person that has checked into a location more than anyone else and you’ll receive the crown of mayor.  So gratifying.

At the time of this writing I’m the mayor of five location:

• Dan’s House
• The North Tempe Multigenerational Center
• My Work
• My Work’s Admin Offices
• My paren’ts house

There are two badges that I’m really dying to get (oh my god I’m a nerd).

I need the Gym Rat badge.  Yes, I said “NEED.”  To get this badge you have to take ten trips to a location that is tagged “GYM” in a thirty day time span.  This is important to me because I’ve made a recent decision to regain control over my health.

I also need the Super Mayor badge.  To get this badge you need to hold down 10 mayorships at the same time.  And it can never be taken away from you!  I kind of suck at mayorships right now…I’ve only got five.  I just need to get better at checking in at the bizarre places I go where people don’t have smart phones.  For example, maybe it’s time to go visit my friends next door in the senior center.

I’ll keep you updated.  I’m not one of those super-annoying Twitter people that broadcast every god damn location they visit.  I only broadcast when I win a mayorship, or when I unlock a new badge.  So if you want to follow me on Twitter, go here.

I’m sorry if this is super-nerdy…I feel as obsessed as a World Of Warcraft gamer nerd – but at least with Foursquare you’re out in the real world.

This is the one that is annoying.

I had to change the look of my page again.  For some reason the photographs in the new theme were hindering my abilitiy to write here.  I kept thinking “I could blog that…but what picture would I use?”  And then I wouldn’t post anything at all.

And in that photo-heavy theme all of the images had to be HUGE to look good.  What if I wanted to post a little pizza icon?

So here it is.  Back to the old look.

In other news, Mr. D and I are taking a break.  We’ve both got some shit to figure out…and some space might make that easier to do.  It’s super-sad, and really hard to leave him and the dogs – but I think it’ll be for the better.

We had a nice week of figuring the seperation out.  We’ve been together three years…and that means our lives are all tangled up.  It’s been really friendly though, and no bridges were burned.  So in the future we’ll for sure have some sort of relationship.

This is the one with a new, fresh beginning.

If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, click on through and see what I’ve put together.  Go to the main page of WhatSomeWouldCallLies, and see how each post is represented by an image.  What do you think?

I’m still tinkering around a little bit…so you might see a few changes next time you click through.

What I like about this new theme is that it will kind of force me to take more photographs.  I even took a nice photo in the backyard today to go with this post, but I left my camera cord at the office, and Daniel took his card reader with him to Vancouver.  So instead I’m just posting this old photo I took at the Arizona State Fair a few years ago.

This is the one where I change it up.

This weekend I’m going to totally re-design WhatSomeWouldCallLies.com.  Are y’all reading in your RSS readers, or do you actually click through to the page?

If I can get the scanner to work, I’m thinking about hand drawing the new site design.  Sound dumb??

This is the one where I go through with it.

I wrote here that I was thinking about writing to the woman that murdered my nine-year old classmate.  Well, I did it.  And I’ll keep you posted on if she responds.

Sidenote: That last post wasn’t a desperate cry for attention – I didn’t want people to comment “PLEASE! Don’t stop blogging,” which kind of happened.  It was just an honest observation about how those I-should-blog-this moments have turned into I-should-Tweet-this.

This is the one with lessons learned.

2009 was a long year, and I went through quite a bit.  Here are ten things that have stuck with me.

10. Men don’t make passes at boys that wear glasses.

9. Anyone can be a Warhol.

8. I look better with hair.

7. Once you move away, it’s never the same.

6. Magicians never give away the trick.

5. I need to travel more.

4. Blackberries blow.

3. In Mike Lawson Ro-Sham-Bo, Paper beats Computer every time.

2. Don’t dream it.  Be it.

1.  No matter what anyone tells you, insulin is important.

This is the one with a lot of comments.

In the spirit of the end-of-the-year top ten lists, I’ve compiled a few top tens for WhatSomeWouldCallLies.com. Here’s the first.  The Top Ten Most Commented Blog Posts of 2009.

10. This is the one with my 12 of 12 from February 2009. (7 comments) – When I post 12 photos from the 12th day of the month, it seems to generate quite a few comments.

9. This is the one about Carl Karcher’s daughter. (7 comments) – A funny story about the time I met a fast-food mogul’s daughter on a plane.

8. This is the one about doctors. (8 comments) – Needed some friendly advice about choosing a doctor.

7. This is the one with my 12 of 12 from May 2009. (9 comments) – Another 12 of 12 post.

6. This is the one where I recover everything. (9 comments) – The resolution to some stupid hosting issues.

5. This is the one where I get a Zippo lighter. (10 comments) – I was so excited to get a free Zippo…but I have absolutely no use for it.

4. This is the one with a 12 of 12 for October 2009. (11 comments) – The 12 of 12 posts are pretty popular with the comments.

3. This is the one that you can steal. (11 comments) – I couldn’t figure out if I should tuck in my shirt or not, so I posted 2 pictures and asked for advice.  Wouldn’t that make an amazing new website?

2. This is the one where I start over. (12 comments) – This was an angry post when I thought that I lost my entire archive of blog posts.  I blogged about and tweeted about how much I hated my hosting company, and was contacted by a customer service person to resolve everything (and to shut up the negative google hits).

1. This is the one about possible Twitter avatars. (16 comments)  – When you ask for advice, they give it.  In this post I made a few new Twitter avatar options and asked for input.  The record should show that I no longer use the avatar that I made for this post, and reverted back to the old one.    P.S. Follow me on Twitter.

This is the one where I’m cheating on you.

I feel kind of ashamed to admit this, but I’ve been cheating on you.

You may remember that I’ve been teaching children how to blog, and I’ve set up a blog over there where I post stupid things.  Nothing personal.

It’s not you.  It’s me.

I’ve just been blogging at WhatSomeWouldCallLies.com for so long, and I needed to step out of that comfort zone and try something new.  I hope we can work this out…I still love you and hope that we can stay together.

This is the one where I’m the featured blogger.

Guess who the featured blogger of the week is over at The Diabetes OC website?  If you guessed Wilford Brimley, you’d be close…but not correct.

The featured blogger this week is me!

I put together a few posts.  My quick introduction with a anecdotal story about me in the 3rd grade is up right now.  I’ll also be writing about when I was diagnosed with diabetes, and living with an expensive chronic illness and being uninsured.

The “OC” in The Diabetes OC doesn’t stand for “Orange County” like I have been programmed to believe.  It actually stands for “Online Community” and the site was created by people that are living with diabetes and want to share their life with the world.

The website is currently ran by Gina Capone.

This is the one about blogs.

I personally manage a couple of websites. The list starts with, of course, this one. And I also do most of the technical stuff for SweetTalk.org.  And all of that got a little more complicated last week when I started a blogging club with children (ages 5-13).

Now I’ve got my hands on 20 blogs.  All running WordPress.  I’ll probably be posting a few links once some of the kids get good content posted.

I’m also looking for any Phoenix area bloggers to come speak to the group in March.  Pass this on to anyone you know in Phoenix.