1. What the hell do you do for a living?
Whatever I want. But I know what you're getting at. Do I have a job? Currently, no. I quit my job as senior producer at TIME.com (TIME magazine's website) — for whom I also did some writing — in February after nearly four years working for a that great company, albeit one that suffers the same struggles as so many in our depressed economy. I wasn't inspired anymore, and I don't blame anyone else for that. Part of it is my nature. I never stayed at any job longer than 2 1/2 years, and I left a couple of gigs after just several months. It's gonna be a big news year, with a close election, the summer Olympics and an ongoing war, but I already did that stuff. So I gave up a good salary, respected coworkers and a windowed office with a couch and cable TV to try something new — to see what I could do with a few self-imposed months off after surviving 8 1/2 years of online media production/writing with nary a layoff.

I'll probably look for a job beginning in June, and I'll most likely look to get back into online sports media. So keep your eyes and ears open, and feel free to pass my resumé around if you know someone who needs a kickass web producer with balls.

If you're wondering why I never mentioned my job before, it's a simple matter of not mixing work and play. I think most webmasters of personal sites are keen to that wise rule.

Do you have a girlfriend?
Nope. I did for a significant part of the life of this site, but not now. If you couldn't tell when that change occurred, then even better. It means I could feel as low as one could possibly get and not drag down this site with my personal problems.

The future Mrs. Katcher is out there somewhere. She doesn't know it yet, but we're gonna have a great life together. And when she arrives, you probably won't hear about it.

I wonder what she's doing right now. Checking out the MLB standings? Having a White Castle cheeseburger? Hopefully not involved in a gang bang.

How do you have so much time to work on this website? Do you have a social life?
The time — maybe an hour a post; five posts a week — comes from not doing things others might do. I don't watch TV, for the most part, though sports and news are almost always on in the background. Perhaps I require a little less sleep than most. If the answers to No. 1 and No. 2 change significantly at any point, you may see this site scaled down a bit — or even completely. It's just a hobby, one that I probably spend an equal amount of time on as playing guitar or participating in a few co-ed sports leagues (softball, football and pool) — other things I rarely mention, but not for any particular reason.

I used to get pissed when people assumed I don't have a social life, as if I never leave the computer. Now I see it as a compliment, as what you see probably looks harder to do than it really is. In the last 12 months, I've been to Puerto Vallarta, Chicago, New Orleans, Nashville, Key West and many parts of Europe. I'll be in Montreal in a few weeks, Hilton Head during the summer, and will almost certainly follow the Yanks to Baltimore in July — none of which I'll do alone. I bought into a Jersey Shore summer house with 20 other people, my apartment is decorated with photos I've taken while not sitting at a computer and, in a letter of recommendation to my co-op board when I purchased my apartment, one couple described me as the "social coordinator" for our circle of friends. But I'm no Hilton brother. Just a regular dude who's always up for a drink, a concert or a ballgame involving a certain distinguished team dressed in pinstripes.

(The accompanying picture was ordered from NakedText.com for $7. Couldn't really think of anything relevant to the mailbag this time around.)

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