Less than 24 hours after first announcing my participation in Team in Training, I’m already more than 10% closer to my fundraising goal. Thanks so very much to those who have donated so far. Everyone else, the widget on the right shows my progress. Please consider donating to support the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and my first half-marathon.

(If the widget doesn’t load or you’re mobile, my Team in Training page has donation links too.)

It’s way too late to back out now. I’ve already sent the first fundraising email (some of you may have received it, and some may even have already donated – thanks!) and I’m fully committed.

Committed to what? To running my first half-marathon – the Avenue of the Giants on May 6 – as part of Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Team in Training program. Team in Training helps me train for my race and in return I am fundraising for LLS.

I hope to have as many of you as possible virtually cheering me on, and I’m asking you to help by making a donation to my fundraising campaign.

Please visit my Team in Training page to donate online quickly and securely plus learn more about my progress. You will receive a confirmation of your donation by email and I will be notified as soon as you make your donation. You can also see my progress in the handy widget on the right side of this page.

Each donation helps accelerate finding a cure for leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. Nearly 958,000 Americans are battling these blood cancers. I am hoping that my participation in Team In Training will help bring them hope and support.

On behalf of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, thank you very much for your support. I greatly appreciate your generosity.

I’ll post updates here as my training and fundraising progress and as I get closer to the actual race. And of course, I’ll post race-day photos.

Thanks again.

Me either.

(with thanks to Ana Marie Cox for the post title)

I suppose the first question to be answered is, which “me” are you following? There are at least four.

Yes, I know. Sigh.

@smartwatermelon is my first, original Twitter account. It’s public, so anyone in the world can read my Tweets and follow me if they so desire. Nowadays @smartwatermelon is the account most closely associated with my job at HP/Palm–many of my recent followers are (directly or indirectly) a result of this Tweet from Lisa Brewster (@adora) of Palm’s Developer Relations:  

That, on my first day at HP/Palm, gained me around 100 followers almost immediately and since I’ve been active in the webOS Twitter community I’ve picked up a few hundred more.

@smartwatermelon is also (sort of, a little bit, in some circles) known for being name-checked on The Rachel Maddow Show as a result of this Tweet, retweeted by Rachel herself and actually displayed on the show. I’m still gobsmacked over that one. 

Finally, as my primary public account, it’s the one to which I have various social-network services tied. You’ll see Tweets from Foursquare, GetGlue, Twitpic and Untappd. Quite a lot from Untappd, actually. It’s also the account which is shown in the Twitter widget in the right column of these pages.

So: techy stuff with an emphasis on mobile devices, Macs and general geekitude; politics, especially the liberal/progressive kind and especially the ridiculous aspects of such; social-network checkins; and beer.

The name? Oh, the name comes from a watermelon-flavored soft drink made by the Coca-Cola company that’s only sold in China but can be tasted at Club Cool at Epcot in Walt Disney World and also at the Coke Museum in Las Vegas. Well, you asked.

Interested? Intrigued? Inchoate?

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@swm_photos is a special account I use for live photoblog updates using my EyeFi card. When I take my camera, phone (for tethered Internet access) and EyeFi card on a photowalk, the resulting pictures are uploaded in nearly realtime and tweeted to @swm_photos. This is mostly so I don’t overwhelm @smartwatermelon followers with quick-succession tweets. I’ll tweet from @smartwatermelon when photos are forthcoming to @swm_photos.

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You’ve come here from a link from MousePlanet–one of my (infrequent) articles, the Twitter widget on the MousePlanet home page or perhaps you met me at at Disney park? You want @MPAndrew, my public account for MousePlanet, Disney and related Tweets.

I’m far less active on @MPAndrew than on @smartwatermelon (which might be a good thing) but if you want to know what I’m doing in the Disney-related Web arena then @MPAndrew is the account for you. It gets busiest around the time of our semi-annual MouseAdventure events and whenever I’m at or near one of the parks. I also occasionally tweet about some of the “backstage” or behind-the-scenes technical aspects of my work on MousePlanet.com.

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Not enough? You want to know the real me? Then @andrewmrich is the account for you. This one, however, is a private account. That means Tweets from this account aren’t visible to anyone I haven’t allowed to follow me.

My use of @andrewmrich is much more of a long-term, very high-latency conversation among friends who already know each other. If you already know me in real life (and it’s not from work or from a Disney connection) then feel free to put in a follow request.

I keep the followers down to a minimum on @andrewmrich, though, to keep the conversation at a comfortable pace, so don’t be offended if I don’t approve it. Just scroll up to the top of this post and re-read the clever and witty descriptions of my other three accounts again.

And thanks for reading.

Coffee. Like there was any doubt.

Tim Hortons Coffee

Mornings require coffee. Mornings in Canada require Tim Hortons.