A stream of thoughtsciousness
My name is Donovan Watts. I am the Founder of Getting Sites Built, a web design agency.. we plan, design and build websites. Donovan's thoughtStream is my weblog. For kicks, I hoop. 
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All in a day's werke 
Some thoughts, I realize, are not completed in this journal. I'll say I'm going to recount something or other and then I do not. It was this thought that ran through my mind as I return to write. Fueled by dPod's latest five star track, You Spin Me Right Round by Dead or Alive, I am at once hurled back to the tennis courts at my high school, discussing the merits of this band's genius with a young woman that stood out from the crowd, a freak amidst the gaggle. I liked her but in my shy way just couldn't manage to invert the shell I lived in long enough to discover what might happen if I asked her out on a date. Another year would pass before that notion would materialize.
dPod seems to have put this track on endless loop so I'll continue hunting and pecking.
The team and I have decided to visit the Bay area starting this weekend. The time is right and as Dave says, Berkeley is beautiful this time of year. It's a bit too hot for me and the team in San Dimas and besides, we've got a few issues to tend to up North. Can you say garage sale?
Our June mission is an involved one, birthdays, Bloggercons, vans, Vanns, Santa Cruz, friends in performances, personal item shuffling, and a few other things I am sure I am leaving out. The moment I decide to hit the road, there is a buzz that begins to eminate from the team's innards. It's a quiet hum at first and then builds into an undeniable frenzy. We are like sharks who've discovered the faint scent of blood, let from the coral scratch on young boy surfer. Young boy surfer about to live out the rest of his beach bum life with one less appendage to shoulder. We are The Go! Team and a road trip is right around the bend. Ain't nothing or nobody gonna stop us now for the wheels are in motion. The humming gets steadily louder until we are essentially forced to leave, lest our neighbors think the anticipatory groaning hum escaping from Daisy's underbelly require ambulatory assistance.
The Go! Team refers to me as Blog, the County Hunter. Our team, a family really, seeks out different counties across the Pacific Northwest, capturing photos and writing stories in this journal. I am El Capitan of this crew. We are professional county hunters. Don't try this at home. Try it on the road!
Dave Winer is doing a new build of the OPML Editor app. To recount the teams antics, we enter our journal into the OPML Editor. The editor is an outliner which makes for a powerful writing environment. It's all about being able to move blocks of text around easily and then those entries automatically get pushed to the web site. Automated, easy publishing. It makes all other weblogging solutions seem like you are publishing to the web with a honey stick dipped in your words; slow and dripping with formality. The team doesn't operate like that. We like speed, efficiency and most of all, we like Dave's outliner for it's sheer simplicity and powerful back-end.
George is visiting the MotoSAT headquarters and taking lots of pictures. I hope to visit that factory as well someday to get my installer certification.
It's gotta happen. Between me and the other team members, the laundry it does pile up. It's done now and I've got to fold it before Tin Machine notices and tries to help. The last time Tin Machine helped fold the clothes, all hell broke loose and I lost a number of socks.
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