Day 10: Meet Jonas Day (Not)

Today we are supposed to "meet" Jonas Jansson, some random guy from Sweden who the author(s) of the book picked to be their guinea pig for the book. It gave a mini-bio of him (nothing special) and then it just said "Go to www.thisbookwillchangeyourlife.com to check up on Jonas and compare his progress with the book to yours!" So I went there, and it's just the main site of "Benrik," the author of the book. No Jonas anywhere. I'm pretty sure this task was just a ploy to lure everyone to the website. Just some free advertising. On the site you're supposed to sign up for a blog if you're committed to the book, and do exactly what Brittany and I are doing with this blog and write about your tasks everyday, but we decided to do our own thing here on blogger.

One thing I did find through all of this was another person using blogger who committed to the book. Here's the website: http://365daysofhystericalliving.blogspot.com/ It's kind of cool reading from the beginning and seeing what he did for tasks that we have already completed. I don't think he really got into it as much as we have though. But, if you notice, he stopped on day 233. Here is his last post about it:

"If you ever read this with any regularity, you knew this was coming. Really, most of you probably didn't think I would even bother to sign off. This blog became something like an old neighbor: you don't see them out in the yard for a while, so you assume something must have happened. Then one day, you hear that your neighbor is dead, and it's not really a surprise. "Oh, I guess that makes sense," you might say to yourself, or, if you're me, you would say something like, "Oh, he's dead now."

So anyway, those of you who are bitter, don't blame my new job for the end of this blog. If anything, I have more time in front of a computer than I did at my old job. I just don't feel like doing this "thing" anymore. It got to the point where it was more of a chore than fun. "Oh, I've got to go find the book and read the task and then make something up ridiculous to pretend that I did because I'm not stupid/ballsy enough to actually do most of the things I said I did," I can recall thinking on several occasions.

But, it was pretty fun. We had some laughs, didn't we? Anyway, since it is 10 pm on a Saturday night and the extent of my social life is watching the Little League Regional Finals--not even the World Series--and I still get the itch to spread my opinion to the masses, I may go back to my old blog and get that going again. So if you were a reader here, and helped me reach almost 15,000 hits in under a year, which is pretty good for a nobody amateur blogger who doesn't go out of his way to read and/or comment on other blogs, at least I think it's pretty good, stay tuned for a notice to go read about what I think somewhere else. Adios for now..."

I really hope we don't get like that!! That is so sad. I can see where he's coming from though about how it became more of a chore. I just really hope that doesn't happen to us...we'll have to see where we are on day 233...