So my jackassletters.com site is pretty close to done. Oh, I have a lot more planned for it, but the base functionality is there. I’ve gotten around 15 responses, and I’ve been having a blast. I still need to enable commenting, need to make the gallery look a bit better, need to come up with a contact form, and need more logos, but at this point the bottleneck is typing in the responses I receive.

I don’t intend to have this site be as busy, complex, or cluttered as some of my previous projects. This will be an exercise in minimalism for me.

I’m not really sure what my long term goals are with the site. I guess to just have some fun, see how long before I end up in jail, and keep writing! How many people do you know who have written the President and Vice President, one of his Senators, his Governor, the Queen of England, the ATF, the FBI, the CIA, the NYT (New York Times), the NAACP, Rev. Wright, Casey’s, Budweiser, the American Kennel Club, Red Lobster, The Cheesecake Factory, Jehova’s Witnesses, the Church of Jesus Christ and the Later-Day Saints, Scientologists, Des Moines Art Center, Steve Jobs, Wal-Mart, and some 60 other people or companies in the last three weeks!

Ok, how many people you know who wrote even one letter that used the actual US Post Office for delivery?

Not that I ever failed to look forward to the workday ending, and getting my ass home, but now I have something to look forward to when I get there. I always check the mailbox as soon as I pull into the garage! I am still optimistic and keep thinking “I’ll have 5 or more tonight!” My record is 4, but that only happened once or twice.

Yesterday I only got one letter, it’s 15 minutes too early to see if I got one today, so it’s coffee time.

Well, check the site out if you like, let me know what you think, and check back often. A new letter goes up every morning, M-F, at 7 AM.