It's another overcast day in New London. Carl and I had a freaking fabulous time with Markus Egger on .NET Rocks yesterday (the show will be available for download on Monday). I like a man who talks tablets. I'm feeling pretty good.

However, in spite of my early morning Saturday joy, I have to get real here for just a second.

Running neopoleon.com is becoming an expensive affair. My monthly hosting bills have been running as high as $9.95, and I don't know how long I can keep this up. When I started this site, it was just to give me something to do for when I woke up in the middle of the night and couldn't fall back asleep. I had no idea that it would turn into an international publishing powerhouse that generated no income.

So, in an effort to offset the high cost of running the site, I'm doing something gross: I'm using my blog to ask for work.

Yeah.

Specifically, I want to write theme songs for people and then charge them a lot of money. I also want you to hire me to apply tanning lotion to the backs of beautiful women in the tropics while drinking large colorful froofy drinks made of pineapple, coconut, and rum.

That's why I'm going to let you hire me to come to the tropics and charge you a lot of money for doing absolutely nothing.

Glancing at my calendar, it looks like I'm available to work immediately. Tough as it may be, I'm willing to let you fly me out, all expenses paid, to any of the following locations:

- Hawaii - Specifically Kauai or Oahu - I do not want to go hang out on the "leper island"

- Any of the US or UK Virgin islands

- Tahiti

- The French Riviera

- Pretty much anyplace where the water is warm and blue, and the people are tan, drunk, and naked

If you know anybody who wants to hire someone who will get seriously plowed and write theme songs while massaging supermodels on white sand beaches, then I'd appreciate it if you could drop my name. It's the least you could do for a friend.

Thanks.