Yes, I joined Facebook. An old friend, who broke the straw on my Facebook/MySpace back, has accurately called it Crackbook. Another friend, whom I talked into joining, has rightfully called me her "face dealer".

How does this tie into the goal of this blog? Well, I joined with the hopes, actually more of an expectation, that I'll now get better at networking and learn the give-and-take of being part of a community. The pressure's on for real, because the people I've tracked down in Facebook are all people I care about, and it matters to me what my influence, or lack thereof, in and around that community will be. In fact, this brings me to my thing for today. I dig all these people so much, that I'm realizing again for the first time in awhile, that these are the people I want to hang out with, even if it's mostly in virtual form, most of the time.

I don't think I want to ever hang out with the "commercially successful" crowd, for the most part. They're all great people, and I'll love networking with them, too, and HAVE enjoyed networking with them, but that type of crowd lacks any real connections. In other words, the people are all awesome, but they're too busy to stop and talk about anything of substance, again, for the most part. There are always exceptions, and I can think of a few right away. I guess I've just been missing that lately. I've been working too hard, maybe. Easy enough to fix with Facebook!

Anyway, feel free to picture me drunk, and slurring, I love you guys!

I've got a group of sites going, but none of them are really finished, so if you want to hear a couple of my tunes, go to http://www.myspace.com/darrylerickson, or search for a couple of my older tunes on download.com. www.eyeofthemonkey.com will be in better shape, as soon as I figure out friggin' Flash. It's hard.

Also, the world is free to comment on http://www.eyeofthemonkey.com/phpBBtest/ It ain't prettied up yet, but it works fine. You just have to register, and create whatever topic you want.