Happy New Year.Indeed, today is the day Eventualizts celebrate the first day of their new year. The 15th of January (or The Ides Of Jan, as they are commonly referred to – not to be confused with The Tides of Jan, the failed solo album of surfer sing-alongist Jan of Jan & Dean fame), is the day that falls two weeks after the “regular” new year. This puts us at an advantage of having two less weeks to get stuff done; two less weeks to make a resolution (or start a Revolution, as I mentioned last year); two less weeks of winter. We also celebrate it a full nine days after Epiphany (or “Little Christmas” – known as the day to celebrate the yearly manufacturing of those tiny nativity baby Jesuses), we need at least that many days afterward to realize that the “epiphany” one has is really just gas from holiday gorging.
So revel in all of your 2009 glory and look back with eventual pride on the year 2008. The year gone by was a year of much eventuality…and spawned the birth many more eventualities that we will realize at some point. We’ll just have to wait.
Writing of waiting (since I am not actually speaking to you right now), you will have very little time left of that regarding the future of this site and the launch of a newer site. I have learned much in this year – which while rather short, was truly eventual in nature. I must admit, I don’t have much to learn in most things, and I do not take learning lightly. The fact that learning makes my brain heavier is proof of that. Yet I learned that I have to step up the fight against personal productivity, lifehacking and organization. I am outnumbered on this Internet of ours, being the only self-professed Eventual Productivity Expert out there. And yes, while I have my faithful Eventualizts waiting on my every word with baited breath (which can really fog up your monitor, so you should at least lean back a bit), I need to cast a wider net – a wider inter-net.
And so I shall. But not quite yet.
On February 2nd, 2009 I will “soft launch” the new website for those who wish to expand their knowledge on this crusade we undertake known as Eventualizm. Coincidentally, it will also be called Eventualizm, but it will have a “dot com” at the end of it because that is the only way it can exist on this platform (or so I am told.) The new site will feature my eventualistically regular writings, teaching you about the craft and delving deeper into the ideology I haphazardly put together while having a shower only a not-to-distant time ago. It was a beautiful moment; a wonder to behold. Eventualizm’s home base will also feature regular interviews and segments that I shove in your direction like brussell sprouts: you may not want to read them and their taste lingers, but you know they’re good for you in the long run.
But what of this site? What ever will happen to Effing The Dog? Fear not – it shall remain a beacon in the darkness that has been created by a subculture obsessed with being super-productive. And just like in space, no one will hear you scream. Let Effing The Dog be the sunshine of your semi-productive life. That’s why Ill always be around. Forever you’ll stay in my heart.
But it will eventually transform into a site where I review all productivity applications and software and compare them accordingly to the system that Eventualizm promotes – EffTD. And by eventually, I mean by February 2nd.
You know, I feel like this is the beginning. That being typed, I wonder what February 2nd will feel like?
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