Using the WriteRoom Application for the First Time

I'm trying WriteRoom for the first time to keep my mind-wandering to a minimum. WriteRoom is designed to aid writers, bloggers and freelancers by taking up the full screen of your computer. By using a retro " green text on black background," it's simplifying the design of the word processing and eliminating muli-tasking.

I definitely appreciate the motivation behind its' design, sometimes Word can get overloaded and clogged up with boxes and elements.

And success! I wrote this paragraph in under 5 minutes! Maybe WriteRoom does work.

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Sun is the Best Medicine--It's that Simple

I haven't been sick once since I've lived in Ojai, California. I mean, I've had a scare where I thought I was getting ill, but nothing ever came of it. I swear it's the dry climate--and my diet of fresh fruit and veggies straight from farm to table helps quite a bit.

As much as I love my homeland of Seattle, the wet weather was sucking me dry. Too many gloomy days for one sane person to live through. The Spring and Summer are when you have a better chance of scoring sunshine in the Northwest. And bel

ieve me, it is unparalleled in beauty when it is nice.

This pictures exemplifies my point on the beauty of California and it's good for the soul:

My Quest for a High Klout Score

Today marks day one of my experiment to see if I can improve my score on Klout. For those of you who don't know what exactly is Klout, here's a description ripped straight from the company itself.

"The Klout Score is the measurement of your overall online influence. The scores range from 0 to 100 with higher scores representing a wider and stronger sphere of influence. Klout uses over 25 variables to measure True Reach, Amplification Probability, and Network Score. The size of the sphere is calculated by measuring True Reach (engaged followers and friends vs. spam bots, dead accounts, etc.). Amplification Probability is the likelihood that messages will generate retweets or spark a conversation. If the user's engaged followers are highly influential, they'll have a high Network Score." (link)

On my Ry_Curran account, my Klout score is 7, which is casual and mostly inactive. Although I might disagree with this assessment, I'm curious if I'm truly engaging anyone in the Twitterverse.

I'll try to keep good on updating this blog with my progress. Give me a tongue-lashing if I don't.