Whether you think you can or can’t, you are right

"I don’t have any pity for people who think they cannot do something.

We are human and flawed but incredibly saturated with possibility. Each of us. Possibility does not satisfy us, instead we draw invisible lines that we dare not cross for fear of failure, ridicule, or disappointment. So, you hold tight to your dreams, keep them close and wait. What are you waiting for?

Those dreams are yours. Do not fear failure because failure is something you live with. It is not something you live for.

Whether you think you can or can’t, you are right."

This blog post is from here I liked it so much I'm borrowing it in it's entirety.

This plane is deffffff-i-nite-ly crashing!

God I love the Internet. It's usefulness never fails to amaze me. As most of my friends know, I stopped watching television years ago. Because of it, I've missed out on a lot of interesting news about the area and even the world. I just don't watch news, or anything for that matter, on television. Now days with the bachelor islands and the who wants to be a rock of loves it's hard to justify being lazy when television is this meaningless. Well that all changed since I found out how to use twitter. I can hear about all the interesting stuff again, without all the annoying commercials and retarded shows.
I fell asleep really early last night, like around 7PM and was awake, but still just lying in bed with my eyes closed at 5:15AM this morning because I heard my mom rustling around in her room getting ready for the day. I felt my bed shake a little bit. It definitely felt like an earthquake, but it was so quick and subtle I wasn't really sure. I got on my computer and checked my twitter and sure enough, theres already literally around 100 people in the Seattle area twittering about a 4.6 earthquake that just happened! It occurred at 5:25 AM originating from the Kingston area. See how powerful twitter can be? I read once how a man on a plane that was literally sliding down the runway on fire when it's landing gear failed, was twittering about it in real time as it happened! That's just incredible to me. With twitter, I hardly need the commercials, and stupid 20 minute long sets on how walmart is still rolling back prices, that regular news channels put me through in order to find out what is really news. Now days, strait and to the point is becoming more and more worth it's weight in gold in a world where advertisements are being stuffed inbetween every word. It is still at the point however where hardly any of my friends have twitter accounts. But that's not a huge deal, because tons of CEO's video game companies, breaking news sites from around the world, or pretty much any company that your interested in, has a twitter! I suggest anyone to get a twitter, if nothing else, to see what all the hype is about. I think you'll find it's actually an excellent tool! Don't forget to follow me! @Cashmoneysilk
Here's some of the cool twitterers I'm following, that might be interesting to follow:
@Twitscoop - Find out what's hot on twitter
@BarackObama - The prez!
@SteveJobs - Co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Apple.
@SnoopDogg - Rap Artizzle
@MCHammer - Musician
@PatricWilson - Drummer of the band Weezer

Here are a few good articles to read, if your thinking about making a twitter:
Seven Obvious Tips For First Time Twitters
50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business
Top Famous Twitterers

And if your really eager to dig in, here's some more intense information:
How to be a twitter power user!
Top 25 Twitterers and Twitter services

On another note, I had my first day on the new job today, and it went well. My boss told me she really hopes this works out for me because she's planning on me taking the other boss's spot, after she retires, which will be soon. I hope it works out for me too! Thank you god I'm no longer unemployed!

This is Bob barker reminding you to control the pet population.

I finally just finished Genesis of the bible last night. Man I've been working on that chapter for years. Hopefully now I can finally get to the good stuff. By good stuff I mean non-strict-documentary-like stuff. Half the chapter consisted of Jacob and his ridiculously large 70 person family, and literally every single person that had sex in order for him and his family to come to be. YOU try reading genesis and tell me it's not a hard read! They end it with the beginning of moses, and his burning bush story. It's actually becoming a pretty interesting read. Don't worry people, I'm not turning in to a super religious guy, I just believe every religion should get it's chance to show me whats up, so I've decided to read the entire bible.

In other equally left-field news, it turns out people have actually landed on my blog after searching for Eluda Masun. You all remember him don't you? Heh heh heh. If not go check out Day 18 ( 1-7-09) Yeah, turns out he's still out there trying to scam people with that plan of his. It's sad that I read it actually works a lot of the time. Hell it almost worked on me. Either way, he'll get what's coming to him, I'm sure. Just remember people, if someone on craigslist wants to send you money, or is from out of the country or state, tell em to go shove it. Unless they're willing to call you and talk to you on the phone first, so you can kinda feel them out and make sure they aren't sketch, but I'd still watch out on craiglist y'all.

Today was fairly productive day. I washed my cabriolet, and my explorer, then decided to wash my moms van, because they were so filthy from the snow n stuff. The cabriolet is looking good now, but it got dark fast, so I'll have to take pictures of it tomorrow, to repost it on craigslist. I'm really gonna miss that little car. I secretly really hope I end up keeping it until summertime, then just end up keeping it, because cruising around with the top down and the bass dropping all over the place is just rad like that.After washing cars I went to the gym. Oh man I had such a good workout I almost puked the whole way home. I've never actually gotten to that point before. I'm pretty sure I was really dehydrated there for a while! I need to be drinking a LOT more water. Men's fitness as well as other sources say to drink half your body weight in ounces of water a day. I once kissed a girl who drank that much water daily. Her lips where soft as clouds. I'm not sure if thats what makes me think she was one of the best kissers I've ever kissed or not, but I know it definitely might be, lol.

I've been thinking about starting a video game blog, and a movie blog. Scratch that, I AM starting a video game blog and a movie blog. I think if a movie or game is good enough (or bad enough) it deserves my oppinion to be broadcast. I have movie nights with Cassie, and she knows my movie preferences, and I like almost everything she picks out for me. I wish SHE had a movie blog. I know I'd read it! I really wish more of my friends would write. (ESPECIALLY DAN) I like to read what my friends have to say about different things. It creates conversations and helps me find similarities about them that I like. For instance, if I meet someone new, all I really have to find out more about them by is their myspace or maybe if they have a facebook. (oh yay! you like hello kitty.) It's nice when you meet someone new and they have a blog or something more than a myspace, that I can kind of learn about what they like and who they are, in my extra time instead of just basing everything I know about them off of their 18 pictures of a single drunk night or their corvette background with cool integrated racing gifs.

Abba Zabba... your my only friend.

I got a job! Mother effing about time too. Well still pending a background check, but I'm sure that's not going to be a problem. I've already signed the w2 and everything, so I'm pretty much in. It's not much, it's a storage unit job, but it should be fairly easy. I'll be working Sunday Monday Tuesday and Thursday, from 9-6. That's a pretty sweet ass schedule I think. It'll suck not having sat night to party, but i'm totally stoked about only working 4 days a week. Maybe I'll get a small second job? I haven't told my parents I got a job yet, because I don't want to jinx myself. I was getting really scared there for a little while, thinking I would never get another damn job and live at my parents house forever.

In other news, I've slowed down in the whole squidoo thing, but making more lenses is still on my to-do list. I'd like to make like 15-20 then chill for a little bit. I feel like I haven't really given it a fair chance until I make at least 20 decent quality lenses. I've also been learning about writing articles, and submitting them to E-Zine websites. This video (among many others) are great ways to learn about this stuff. I still haven't learned enough about this, but I'm interested. I logged onto Goozex today and found out I have 2 new referrals! That's awesome news, considering I've been putting a nice amount of advertising for that site and was getting discouraged about not getting anyone to join, even though it's free, and I'm not even making money on it.

I've been thinking about making an ebook, to sell. I've seen a lot of other people doing it, and it seems to make sense. You write an ebook about something you know a lot about, or enjoy talking about, then make a site about it, and sell it on the site, and just spread the word to other people who might be interested in it. I've seen my mother "accidentally" buy these books before, so that alone is proof it works. I've even been tempted to buy them from time to time. I even DID buy one once, like a year ago, about turning garage sailing into a part time ebay income. It had a lot of great info in it, and was actually easily worth the 10 dollars I spent on it, considering I made the 10 bucks back like ten fold with the tips I read.

Oooo nevermind. I've just learned an even easier way to do that, without all the work of writing any ebook, but just selling other peoples ebooks/stuff, with clickbank.comSince I recently remembered that everyone and their mother plays world of warcraft, I think it's only fitting to present you all with my first affiliate link! Zygor In-Game Alliance & Horde World Of Warcraft 1-80 Leveling Guides!

Given that is being sold at a ridiculously inflated price, I understand the benefits of how it all works. For every WoW nut I find to buy this program, I get $22.05 Thats not too shabby. Now say in 3 months, once I have 20 different affiliate links floating out there, a wide variety of things to buy, I could be making some very serious dough for hardly any work. I think the first order of business, is to start making those squidoo pages I was meaning to make, with all my new affiliate links, then start writing articles with squidoo links on the bottom. It'll be pretty rough at first and a lot of work, but once I get it up and running like a well-oiled machine, I predict some pretty nice money will be coming my way. I of course will keep everyone updated. I highly suggest you just peruse ebay on subjects like affiliate marketing or article writing, if this kind of thing is interesting to you!

Your the dill, in my tunafish sandwich. :)

I am amazed how foggy it's been here lately. The fog didn't go away all day yesterday!! I've never seen that happen before, and I'm talking THICK fog. It looked like Mt. St. Helens ripped a big fart in Renton. Waking up sick as a dog at 7 am to stand outside and scrape the ice off of my windshield for 10 minutes is not my idea of a happy morning. I rank being sick right up there with split-pea soup, and Indian burns. I've been sitting here for two hours, trying to whistle "afternoon delight" out of my clogged left nostril, and it's coming along nicely. I just blew my nose so hard a freaking river-trout swam out. Some aspects of being sick however aren't that bad. It's the easiest way to lose 5 pounds, and at least I get to snuggle all day in my expensive Egyptian cotton sheets that I got. My friend Alex tells me Egyptian babes actually weave them out of their pubic hairs. Exotic! I get a little loony when I'm sick. I think I'm dehydrated from coughing up so many jello jigglers. My mom has no idea how it's possible I get into these silly, joke-riddled moods when I'm so miserable. I'm like this when I'm hungover too. Hanging over the toilet describing what I think I ate the night before to my mom in the other room. I tell her about how I used to tie a string around a G. I. Joe and flush them down the toilet, and see how far they can go before I can't reel them in anymore. I lost some of my favorite Joes during those underwater rescue missions. Talking smack and making jokes is kind of my way of making sure the world will be here when I'm all better. If I'm ever in an accident, and I can't squeak one little joke out, then it's time to be worried.
Today I worked down in Seattle for Disney, handing out balloons and promotional free passes for Disneyland/world. It was actually kinda fun. Met some cool people. I met the manager of the space needle, who offered to let me go up it for free after I told her I've never been up it. After work I went there, but she was on her lunch and just decided to go home, cuz I was feeling like garbage. Bummer dude. At least I got to come home and watch Anchorman. Will Farrell is the shit, and by shit, I mean golden, and by golden I mean cash money silk. Will Farrell movies always warm my heart and snuggle my soul. His comedy is like watching a cat chasing a laser pen for the first time.
I found a bunch of kick-ass brushes for photoshop, and have been doing some rad photo-humping. I've been trying to tap into my artistic side lately. I wonder if I could do that for money? I wonder if I could get paid just to be my awesome self? I wonder if I could get paid to teach people how to be awesome? Hmmm, I'm gonna think about that one.

Day 30

I've gone through a lot of interesting moods today. I've been thinking about how it's been a month since I started this blog, and how it's come a long way in the little time that I've had it. Even though I haven't made more than a few hundred dollars in the past 30 days, I wouldn't call it a total waste of a month, even though I'm STILL unemployed. This whole web game I'm playing takes longer than 30 days to wrangle, and I know that. I have easily learned probably about as much as a class in school would have taught me though, so for that I'm happy about how I've spent the last 30 days.
This morning I gave my dad a ride to the airport at 4AM, and it was so foggy, I couldn't see 20 feet in front of the car on the freeway. It was kinda scary, and I thought about how that's kinda how I'm living my life right now. I can only see about 20 feet in front of me, but as long as I keep going, I know I'm gonna get somewhere eventually. I just need to stay positive. I came home and fell back asleep, and since my phone was on silent, I didn't hear my mom calling me 30 times to tell me to come pick her up from the car detail shop. She ended up walking a mile to the Starbucks, before she found someone to give her a ride home. I completely forgot I was supposed to pick her up at 8. I felt horrible. Here I was thinking I was doing something nice, taking my dad to the airport, then I go and forget about picking up my mom. Sigh. Yesterday I gave my brother Kyle a ride back to his house in covington, and my brother Ryan a ride back to the bar to pick up his truck. Tomorrow morning I'm giving my sister a ride to the bus stop, and my mom to go pick up her car at the detail shop. I've suddenly become the family chauffeur it seems. That's alright. It makes me happy when I help out my family, since I don't really feel like I'm doing anything else worthy of making them proud.
Today my storage unit called me to tell me I owe them money. My cell phone bill was due today as well. I went onto craigslist and lowered the price of my cabriolet from 2000 to 1700. I've had 8 people email me about the cabriolet, and one test-drive. Hopefully it'll sell at 1700. It's definitely worth it at 119,000 miles, I know that.
Tomorrow I've got a temporary job for a day, paying 20/hour to hand out mickey mouse balloons in Seattle as some kind of celebration promotion for Disney. lol I can't keep living my life off of silly jobs and paid surveys. I need a big break. I need a job I can say I'm proud to have. It's coming, I can feel it. I do love the suspense of a one-day job, but I've been selling things on craigslist and ebay, doing little clever side jobs here and there for too long to have nothing to offer some employer somewhere. Hmm, or maybe it's just time to really get my brain in gear and come up with something epic, that nobody else has done yet. Be a trend-setter. A barrier breaker. Yeah, I think that sounds like me. It will soon anyway.

Days 27, 28, 29

I'm just going to assume that the lack of more current updating is simply a result of a more busy lifestyle. Not that I'm really doing anything special different lately, but I guess I'm just trying to get out and be around more people.
On Friday I received the prize I won from Katie kutthroat's blog "Needles and Pins" and I must say, I absolutely LOVE IT!! Everyone who's come in my room since I got it has said something about it. My brother totally cracked up. It's a framed cross-stitch of a crab on the bottom and in brown cross-stitch letters it says "Oh, Snap" hahah It's rad! She has all kinds of crafts like this that she sells from her online store, you should go check em out at Needle's n Pins or katiekutthroat.etsy.com.
Later friday I went out and did some bar hopping with Paul and his aunts and cousins around renton. Awesomeness just runs in that family. lol They were all really cool in their own way. His aunt and I brushed up on our gin-rummy skills. She says she has trouble finding worthy opponants but that I am one. I wish we had more one-on-one gametime, because now I really just want to get down and play some cards. I haven't even played a game of poker in months, and that sucks. I totally got a crush on his cousin, and that makes sense, since she lives in another state, and is engaged already. It's a bummer because I'm really picky with my women, and I haven't really been attracted to a girl probably in a year. Thats life for ya. She even had to go and have the name "Angel" as if she could seem any more right for me. Anyways, after leaving the bar I went to nicks house and got down on a few wicked games of foos-ball, which I won 4 of 5. Cooollllddd blooodddeeeddd!
Saturday night was to consist of basically the same thing. My brother's band, 24 Hr Diesel played their first bar show at Jacks bar in renton, and brought along a crowd the likes of which no bar in renton has likely ever seen before. The place was easily past it's maximum persons limit, and quickly took the bar by surprise. The bar owner had to run down to his other bar, and pick up more pitchers and glasses. There was a 20 person line to the bar. Even though it was my brothers band, and I wanted to support him, me and the group I brought decided to skip waiting 30 minutes in line for beers, and just decided to go to plan B. Dino's Pub. My brother had plenty of support, and if anything, leaving probably made it easier for everyone else there to move and celebrate. Ya, that's my excuse.
Dino's was fun, a lot of my friends were able to meet up, some that I hadn't seen in a while, so that was cool. I didn't drink though, because I'm trying to cut some weight, and get healthy, and drinking is pretty much the opposite of that.
I really don't understand why people kept telling me all weekend I look thinner like I've lost weight, since I only just recently went bad to the gym, and have only been there like 4 times in the past 2 weeks. I don't feel like I look any thinner, and the scale doesn't read any different. I'm still fluctuating between 220-225. It's like theres an invisible barrier there. The last 25 pounds was fairly easy, but now I can't break 220. It's gonna feel great when I do though, since I haven't weighed less than 220 since I was a senior in high school. I will admit I am more muscle now than I've ever been though. I can feel it underneath. It's really weird. Weird in the best possible way of course. I awoke to a completely contradicting dream this morning. I dreamed I went to the Philippines, and some guy wanted to fight me, because I was overweight and he was so skinny, and in the dream for some reason, all of the Philippine people who were skinny were poor. I dunno, the dream was pretty retarded to me too.

Days 24, 25 and 26

Well I somehow contracted whatever disease my dad has been battling the past month, so more or less all I've done the past 3 days has been sleeping, trying to eat right, and staying sore. I've also been trying to sell my cabriolet, and get my jetta ready to sell, though I'd like to just keep them both, I need money pretty bad, and the reason i bought them in the first place was to fix them up and sell them to make some money. I really really want to keep the cabriolet though. I love that little car. I've had some super awesome times in that car, and I haven't even had it for a summer yet! The thought of cruising around in that thing with the top down on my way to California or something just makes me cringe at the idea of selling it. I put it up on craigslist and 3 girls have already emailed me interested in it. It really is like the ultimate girl car. One girl came and test drove it today. She said she really likes it but has a 2 others she's going to go look at still. I hope she buys mine. I could really use the money.

I definitely need some kind of structure in my life. I've successfully devolved to waking up at 8 am to take my sister to the bus stop, then coming home, making tea, something to eat, then reading a book or SOMETHING; I have no idea where the time goes, then I get tired from waking up so early and decide to take a nap around 2 and end up sleeping until like 6-ish, and *poof* I wake up and it's dark and my mind considers my day finished and nothing else worth mentioning happens. Of course I'm sure my sickness has some part in this formula of nothingness and over-sleeping, but I still yearn for some social interaction. I've always hated winter time. I want to live where it never snows, and theres a sunset every night. I've come to accept that this winter is going to be "my time." Time for me to focus on the things I'd rather not bring up when I become more social I guess.

Oddly, I've been reading a lot lately, since laying in bed is far easier on my brain then sitting in front of my computer. I just finished ISHMAEL by Daniel Quinn. That is one hard to follow book, but definitely an interesting story. I finished it just in time, since SMASHED, the story of a drunken girlhood just arrived at my house today from Paperbackswap.com. If you sign up you can get a free book! I've really gotten into sites that give you things for free just for signing up lately, if you can't tell. If your interested in getting a free video game just for signing up at goozex, you can do that as well. I've been trading games there for a few months now, and I really like it.

Yesterday I went to safeway and found the rediculously awesome facewash I have been looking for. It's called NXT. Not only do I like this stuff because I heard about it from my friend john, who uses it and likes it rather then hearing about it on some commercial or magazine, but I like it because when john told me to try it out, it actually cleared my face up, visibly over night. Sadly, no other facewash, facescrub, or anything else has been able to work this good. I've been looking for a good facewash for soooo long, because sometimes for no apparent reason I break out along my cheek bone. or up by my sideburns. It's like I found a secret treasure chest. Whenever I find something that works that I like, the virgo in me makes me want to go buy a 3 years supply to make sure I never have to search for something to take it's place, heaven forbid the company goes out of business or something. I only bought the facewace and moisturizer, but after thinking about it, I've had minor acne for years now, actually since I started shaving, and I'm wondering if my Barbasol dollar should be spent elsewhere. Not only do I like that NXT works for me, as some sales gimmick, it lights up from the bottom of the bottle, a few times every few minutes. After buying it I put it in the center console of my cabriolet and turned my music on and the thing started lighting up to the rythem of the bass! Haha that's kinda cool! I wonder how that works?

I'm beginning to become afraid that something is really messing up my feng shui in the electronics department of my life. It seems everything I own that turns on is malfunctioning. Not only is my computer being a piece of shit, but every once in a while my phone will just turn on while it's in my pocket, and just tonight it turned off in my pocket, and now it won't even turn back on!!? I plugged it into the charger and everything and it isn't turning on! UGH electronics are making me sad!! What do I do when my computer and my cell phone stop working??! The world is going to be totally fucked if someone ever learns how to completely disable electronics. If we ever get into a world war 3 it is going to be the most fucked up war of all time. Probably one that will find a way to directly effect every single person in the world one way or another.
Hmmm, maybe I should slowly start to wheen myself off of electronics? Awe man that would be so hard. I/We're so fucked.

Day 23

Wow, go me! I totally did everything I said I wanted to do! Take that, procrastination! Took the jetta down for emissions, passed with flying colors. How come every time one of my vehicles passes emissions, (I've never had one fail, but still) it always feels like I just passed this huge exam, and I feel all happy, and want to celebrate? Anyways, thats how I felt, so I figured I'd go to a few places to see if I could put the good mojo into action. Got myself a job interview on Monday! It's nothing special AT ALL in fact I'm going to dread this job if I get it, but it will be worth it just to be back in the workforce again, instead of sitting on my ass, broke, scratching my balls all day.

I just got back from the gym about an hour ago. Brought my ipod for the first time and holy hell it made a difference! I just kept running and running and running, for 42 minutes, before I decided I should probably lift some weights before I get too tired. Had a great sweat goin there for awhile.... could be because a total freakin FOX got onto the elliptical next to me. I always love it when some babe is near me when I work out, even IF I look like my absolute worst at the gym. It helps me play my little psychological game. I tell myself, if I keep running for 15 more minutes (past what I originally planned) then I promise myself I'll be rich and famous someday. lol I have like at least 1300+ I-OWE-U's I've made myself, to try and keep me goin longer to get that last little tasty drop of Welches grape juice.

Hahah this post makes me look like a total tool. Oh well.





























Speaking of tools, Mike Myers in his movie The Love Guru, was probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen, sadly, because I loved Austin Powers.

Day 22

Well, another lazy Sunday here and gone. I accomplished next to nothing. The muscle pain has become managable, so tomorrow morning I'm going back to the gym for another 3 hour workout I'm thinking. I should also go take my jetta in for emissions, so I can sell it. It's gotten to the nitty bitty gritty, with money these last few days, and it's about time I get my duckets in a row. How do I get myself into these unemployment RUTS anyways? I'll have a job for a year, then start itching really bad for a vacation, end up quitting or getting fired, whichever is easier, take an extended extended vacation, and before I know it, I'm living with mom and dad for another 6 months. I don't really have much in the way of debt, but cell phone and insurance bills are on their way to my door, and I'm not really sure how I'm gonna take care of it yet. I suppose tomorrow I autta go get myself a shitty job. And by shitty I mean anything I can get. I should be at least working on some kind of paycheck. It's just so easy because I have everything I need here. I have plenty of food, a cozy room. I can come and go as I please, and don't pay rent. In reality however, I'm so far from where I want to be, in every sense of the meaning. Living at mom and dads is no respectable way to live by any means lol. I'm not as healthy as I'd like to be, I don't even have money to buy some new threads. I've had the same wardrobe for like, almost a year. That doesn't really bother me much, but I gotta get my own pad (with stripper poles).


















My dream spot, would be a huge loft in downtown seattle, just like the one on the movie BIG. Ah man ever since I saw that movie I've wanted to live in a loft... thats like damn near 20 years. The day I'm finally living in seattle in a loft, I will know that I'm finally happy. Just gotta keep my goals where I can see em, so I can keep checkin em off the list on my way up! God I hope I can someday live in a loft. I would be willing to pretty much give up anything in order to.

Day 20 & 21

Ahhhh, it feels so good to have my computer back up and running! Friday morning I turned my computer on only to find that it didn't beep, or POST at all. I was so sore from working out Thursday with toby, that I felt like an 85 year old man. Toby noticed how rediculously flexable I was, and told me about how he once saw me put my legs behind my head. Forgetting I even ever showed anyone that, I tried it, and to me and toby's suprise, I could STILL DO IT! That's pretty fuckin impressive, being a 225 lb 24 year old guy, especially considering I've never done yoga or anything like that. I wonder how I got so flexible?! Crazy, I'm still suprised I could do it. My body isn't very happy about it though. I will say, it does feel wonderful to be sore again. After all, pain is just weakness leaving the body.

Friday was like christmas, since I got James Bond 007: NightFire, Super Monkey Ball 2, Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life, and Gun for the Gamecube all on the same day from Goozex.com. That was pretty sweet considering my computer stopped working for no apparent reason, and I was too sore to even care about figureing out why. So basically all friday was spent staying comfortable, drinking tea (my currently favorite thing to do for some reason), listening to music, and playing gamecube games, until my mom asks me if I wanted to go to the keg for my dads birthday. Hells yeah, I'm down for some steak! My dad had been drinking since 3 PM, and probably shouldn't drive, so I was to drive him from the bar he was at by his work, to the keg. Ho-man I don't think I've seen my dad that drunk, ever hahaha. We got to the keg and it was packed, understandable for a friday night. We decided to all sit in the bar seating and get some appetizers. The waiter asks us all for our ID's and my dad pulls out his Cosco membership card and hands it to her hahahaha. The rest of the night consisted of eating bomb.com/awesome food and keeping my dad in check. Afterwards we went to the muckleshoot casino to lose some money, where I rolled the living hog-shit out of my left ankle trying to hop over a curb. I'm planning on going bowling tonight for Makalas birthday, but we'll see howI feel. My body is so angry at me right now lol.

I still have no idea why my computer was acting like a douche bag, but I pulled a stick of ram out of it, turned it on and it worked fine. I put the ram back in it and still works fine. I think it had something to do with how I overclocked it like crazy. Oh well, I can deal with it running at 2.8Ghz for a while I guess. I'm not really into any computer games at the moment, since I just beat fallout 3. That was a pretty cool game, but I wish it wasn't so similar to Oblivion. The ambient music being really similar, and the fact that you couldn't kill children really pissed me off. Games just aren't ever going to be the same as the olden days. I remember playing games like Out Of This World and Flashback, for days at a time. My dad used to let me rent one game each weekend, and thats all I did all week was try to beat it. I have some really fond memories growing up playing sega genesis and snes. Video games made up a great part of my life.

Day 19

Well, apparently, either he has no idea he has a virus now, or the virus didn't work how I wanted it to. Oh well. I give him points for his persistence however, he's called me from 8 blocked numbers for the last half-hour, hahaha. Poor old Eleda Masun @ eledami800@yahoo.com just wasted the $44.83(according to http://www.fedex.com) on Express Urgent overnight shipping from... oh? California huh? Thats kinda fishy, ain't it! Mmmm, I wonder if this has anything to do with the dream I had 2 nights ago where a snake was chasing me through a park, and I grabbed it's neck and snapped it? he-he.

So, if this guy is in California, and not the UK, it might be worth reporting after all. I called Renton Police, but got a busy signal, eh, I'll call later maybe...

In other less interesting, but equally important news, I finally got back into the gym last night, and had and awesome 3-hour workout. It was packed! I like working out when the gym is packed. It helps me stay motivated. Great bodies everywhere, pretty women, and I usually run into an old friend or two almost every time I go. I ran into Robby Morrow and his brother, as well as an old pal keilen, and my causin's ex boy-friend Carmen. I'm always looking for extra workout partners, so if you have an LA-Fitness membership be sure to drop me a line! I'm planning on going hopefully every night at around 7PM. (The landing in renton)

I also found out that the traffic exchange sites I was checking out are apparently a violation of Google ad sense terms of agreement. Well that's a bit of a bummer, but I guess it makes sense. I'll just have to go make a splash-page or something.

Day 18

I've had a pretty interesting day today! I woke up to the fed-ex man dropping off an urgent over-night delivery package to me. I posted my resume on craigslist.com a few weeks ago, and I've gotten all kinds of interesting job offers, but among them was one interesting request from a man in the UK. Apparently he's story was that he's flying from London to Seattle to meet his wife who lives in Ohio. My job would be to drive them to and from their hotel room, and their business meetings, being available 3 hours a day for 5 days a week, for the month of January. His emails reeked of misspelled words and gaps of vital information like, WHY they are meeting in Ohio, or what flight they are taking, or even what airliner they are flying. I just went along with it because I honestly didn't believe the guy when he said he would send me a payment up front. Of course I open the fed-ex package and what other, than a fairly legitimate looking check for 2949.99 cents. He told me to deposit it right away, and keep "whatever I deemed appropriate as payment for the job, including gas expenses, but then to send the rest to an address in London, so he could book his WIFE's flight? Wait, I thought you said your wife was in Ohio? lol. Someone needs to learn how to scam a little better, hahaha. This isn't the first time on craigslist I've gotten offers like this. They are a persistent bunch, I tell ya. I googled craigslist scam and found this site explaining my situation. The guy even had the audacity to call my cell phone and ask me how things were going. I assured him I would be sending the payment as soon as I cash the check, and ended the call, hoping not to give away that I knew he was an asshole from the start.

Then, I did what I usually do with stuff like this, and found myself an nice lil email loop virus, and sent it right along to him. :)

In other, less interesting or more interesting news, depending on who you are, I learned for the first time about Traffic Exchange. OOOooo what's that? Basically, it's a whole gaggle of websites, that you sign up for, and manually click through websites, in return for people like you clicking through your website. A very interesting concept, but since all of the other clickers are just like you, your visitors only stay for 5-10 seconds before moving along. It's like if a room full of multi-level-marketers, and SEO's had an orgy, Traffic Exchange would likely be their bastard love-children.

I signed up for about 7 of em with a new email address I made, and spent about 4 hours clicking through them, to see what kind of traffic I would get in return.
My handy-dandy site meter tells me I've gotten 73 unique page views so far. NOT BAD! Even though their average visit time is less than a minute, meh, it's still some kind of progress, I think I'll try it tomorrow too. I set it to randomly rotate this blog, and my beer box lens on squidoo. It however had only gotten 7 visitors. Hmmm. Oh well. Today's fallen nuts are tomorrows swaying mighty oak trees I say. :)

Day 17

Ah yes, feeling MUCH more productive today! :) Been messing around with Last.FM a lot because I'm finding awesome music I love daily, that I've never heard before. It's like a total musical liberation for me. I can't say enough good things about last.fm.

Last night I did some blog-walking and found some pretty cool blogs. I subscribed to a few of em, and got a few goodies in the process. I now have a nifty bar on the right that tells me what country my visitors are in, and below that, a widget that shows from what link they used to get here! Now thats rad! Knowing where most of my traffic is coming from can help me pin-point whats working, and what isn't. It's pretty cool, blog-walking. At least 60% of the blogs I walk onto are in other languages, which is lame, but it's cool to see what people in other countries are writing about, based upon the pictures in their blog. It's also cool to get blog widget and design ideas. Very helpful, I think I'll do it more often.

I hope to get back into Ebay, Half.com, and craigslist now that this snow has chilled out, since after all, I've basically been living off them for the past few months.

Checked on my lenses today, and came up with a good lens idea.
1st lens:
Overall LensRank: #3807
Topic LensRank: #255 in Video Games
2nd lens:
Overall LensRank: #19410
Topic LensRank: #101 in Pop Culture & Celebs
3rd lens:
Overall LensRank: #28,035
Topic LensRank: #2410 in Health & Medicine

Facebook: 155 Friends, and I've just about found everyone I know I think. Still waiting on a few friends to confirm. It's nice catching up!

Twitter:
246 Following
65 Followers

I've also been somehow getting a decent amount of computer repair requests from friends. There must be some crazy new Christmas virus out or something. Either way, I've been thinking about getting back into the free-lance computer repair. You'd be surprised how much relieved house-moms pay to see their computer running fast again. Can't say I blame them though, theres nothing more annoying that a slow computer, and half the time, you don't even need to buy anything, you computer just needs to be cleaned up. If your thinking about buying a new computer, think twice, because theres a VERY good chance that your computer just needs a quick clean, to get it back to how it was when you first bought it. So who wants a new computer when the one you have can be new again for a very small fraction of the cost of a new one. If theres any of you out there with computer problems, or your thinking about buying a new computer, I highly suggest you email me first!! Cambiojoe[at]Gmail.com

Day 15 & 16

Went to visit my buddy John up in Lynnwood and it snowed so hard I was stuck there for two days! :( At least we had fun playing all those gamecube games I now have lol.

I've been getting more into design since a kid on justin.tv asked me to make him a banner for his page.

Still kind of in a funk as of late though. Hopefully things will get better tomorrow.

Sweet clock. (I have no idea.)

Day 13 & 14

So clearly I'm a complete wastrel for days after drinking. Note to self: quit drinking if I ever want to be rich, OR get paid to drink. Alright so now that I got that out of the way, lets see...

I've been on justin.tv for a while, and just started messing with it again lately, though there is a ridiculous amount of underage kids who use it. Meh. I used to have a webcam, but it was such a total piece of garbage I threw it away and haven't got one since, though I do kind of miss mysteriously having people watch me. I'm such a social person, I like being around people all day. I would rather live in a place with like 5 roommates then live by myself. A lot of people don't understand this, but thats ok. I started to revamp my page, and plan on getting another webcam eventually.

Update: I just wasted like 4 hours watching some of the funniest video the internet has ever graced me with. I was just messing around on twitter, adding friends I thought seemed cool, when I ran across a twitter user who had a link to http://www.24hours24artists.com It just happened to be on Wreck and Salvage, and I couldn't stop watching it after the first few minutes, until it was over 2 hours later. It was PURE AWESOME. I feel compelled to tell everyone I know about it for some reason, though I'm sure they won't enjoy it as much as me. I found their vimeo.com account, where I have continued to completely waste my day doing nothing else at all.

Day 11 & 12

That is all. I think I'm done drinking for at least a month. I think my resolution will be to get as healthy as possible in the next few months. Ugh this hangover is no joke, haha.