I’m writing this from the airport in Austin Texas, because I’m stuck here.  Stuck because it’s apparently raining ice sideways in the Midwest, stuck because all the flights are way overbooked, and stuck because some sort of higher power may possibly have it in for me this week.  I’ve been wearing the same clothes for well over 35 hours and I’ve heard a lot of promises in those hours.  I ended up at a hotel that wasn’t on the bedbug registry (are you guys checking your hotels on this site?  …

Time and Tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.
~Robert Frost

I’m turning 30 this week.  I have been composing this post in my head for about a month.  First it was going to be all about how fabulous it is to be 30 and how much better life is and all this really positive stuff about how age doesn’t matter and at least I have more money than when I turned 20.
But then I started thinking about how my mother told me …

It snowed so much in Wisconsin this year that I started planning trips to see clients in warmer climates.  Even though I work almost entirely online and don’t have to really meet in person very often.  Truth is, I was bouncing off the walls because it had been under 30 degrees for about 2 months.
Think about that.   Under 30 degrees.  2 months.  And that’s generous because most of the time it was actually under 15 degrees.  I have officially done every indoor thing that I care to.
So a client asked …

I’m not a huge football fan, but I AM a huge advertising fan.  So, when I went to watch the game I brought along some magazines to read at the same time.  I believe my sister said something to the effect of “oh, Caitlin brought her coloring books to play with at the kid’s table during the game”.  Nice.
So while I may have been the only dork at the party watching the ads so closely, the moment I hopped on Twitter I found hundreds of other nerds like me watching …

So there’s a site where you can Rent-A-Friend.
The idea is that you can go to this site and rent someone to hang out with you,  see a movie with, or shop for a car with you.  The friends on the site price themselves (something like $20 an hour) and you  pick someone out and presto!  Instant friend.  Or….  if you remember from Fight Club, Single Serving Friend.  It actually is a spinoff of the Japanese sites that are crazy popular where you can rent a friend, rent a family (seriously, …