Goal 1: Get a grip. Goal 2: keep that grip!

A lot of my days lately seem to be blurred by rain trickling down my window.

Mother of F I've been slackin' on my blog lately. I'd like to start off with the fact that my internet connection blows a fatty, and wireless desktop connections can go F themselves. I've been having trouble blogging, or doing anything online lately. I go to work, get home, turn on the computer, and the internet doesn't work for hours at a time, or will for a short while, then stop. I even bought a higher db or whatever antenna on ebay, but it didn't help at all. I think I'm supposed to use the antenna on the actual base station, but the gay Microsoft wireless base station doesn't have removable antennas, but almost EVERY other wireless base station does. Soon however I'll be moving into the basement at my parents house, and have wired cable, and these frustrations shall be a thing of the past. No, I do not care that you know I'm living back with mom and dad, because I know tons of friends of mine who would love to have the opportunity. This'll give me a nice chance to get a few grand saved up, and really focus on some internet money making opportunities I have been itching to work on. Sure, I'll be living the life of a 24 year old total nerd loser living at his parents for a few months, but if that's what it takes to get the money wad a-rollin' then so be it.

I'm so addicted to the internet, I've been kind of lost without it, trying to find useful things to fill my time. I'm planning a total overhaul of my finances among other "to-do's" and this is a goal I actually can see materializing week by week. I've been reading "how to achieve excellent credit" and other money savvy ebooks that I've had nestled away on my computer for times like these, when my internet connection is being a steamy pile of dogshit. Now that I have a job I can stand, income tax return on it's way, and 2 of my cars soon to be sold, my financial woes are quickly dissolving away. It's a wonderful relief, in times like now. I've also been busying myself with other non-internet essential tasks that I've been meaning to handle, such as uploading all my videos to my computer and editing them for later youtubing. I've kind of put my own internet marketing plans on the backburner as I help my friend Ian Delile market the living crap out of his musical abilities, as I've mentioned in previous blog entries. I've been filming him make some music, uploading the vids, editing them, making him a youtube, a myspace, a twitter, anything to help get him noticed. I have faith that he's going to go somewhere in life, and I figure this is a perfect opportunity to try out what marketing knowlege I do have.

Me on the other hand, well, that's kind of where I'm scratching my head. I'm not really sure what I want to do. My sketch of a future plan revolves around going back to college, learning a few new languages, then traveling the world, meeting people in tons of different countries aaaaaand then who knows. That's as far as I've ever gotten. Theres no specific field I know I want to get into yet, I just really like the idea of helping different people communicate. I think that's a pretty solid job in of itself, but it doesn't really have a finish line in it. I think that could be why I'm not pursuing it more actively. The most successful people I imagine can see the finish line, and that's why the push to reach it. I've just got to learn to visualize my finish line, I guess. It's sad that people (myself included) get so "worked" by life, that we eventually forget our most aspired goals, or eventually just become to "busy" to stay on track. Sometimes the only way we can achieve in life is if we believe we can in the first place. The belief alone lays the foundation for success, and the pieces fall into place on their own. I truely believe, that if you want to succeed in something, you need to believe that you can. So in other words, success can be measured in those of us who have perfected the ability to make believe...

If you try to take the remote from my dad while he's asleep, he says a random sentence = FUN!

I have no idea what just happened, Saturn must be making an awkward 90 degree angle with mars or the moon or some weird shit, because I just got seriously paid today, out of the blue. My first paycheck at my job came in the mail (THANK GOD) , then I went and sold some tool bits on craigslist for 40 bucks, then went and sold some copper wire I had also on craigslist, for 30 bucks. I felt like I was on such a role, I decided to pop a few things on ebay while I was at it. If this keeps up I'll be where I want to be financially in about 1 month! I haven't put anything up on ebay in like at least 2 months. (it's hard to find stuff to sell on ebay during the winter. There's no garage sales! And now I work at a storage unit place, Storage One, so that rules out storage unit auctions from any of their 50 wa state monthly auctions! Bummer. Anyone else know any good place to check out swap meets or garage sale type stuff during the winter? I don't bother buying things from thrift stores, unless I can easily tell they are worth reselling. Thrift stores are good however, for searching for college books (a buck a piece!) then poppin em on Amazon.com or ebay.

So I'm slightly struggling back into the originally intended internet marketing scheme of things. I don't remember where, or how I stumbled onto the 30 day challenge, but it's basically a walk through guide on how to take a product, and make your first 10 dollars online with it. It's pretty much exactly what I've been looking for. I found out about it like the day before I got hired at my job, and neglected the whole thing until earlier today. I have a lot of catching up to do. Like, 14 days worth! From what I've seen so far, these videos are packed full of good internet marketing knowledge. A lot of things I had already heard about, but some are still new.
I'm thinking about opening a Zazzle. On Zazzle.com you can take any design or idea and sell it on t-shirts, shoes, mugs, mousepads, you know, the norm. I've thought up a few pretty sweet designs in my day though. Kind of along the lines of Katie Kutthroats etsy; Needles & Pins. Ever since I've seen her work, I've been interested in selling my own idea of awesome, plastered all over things...

Free??! I'll take 5.

I have come to realize that true "free" is the new $39.99. When you have something awesome, some useful nugget of knowledge or some bad-ass new product, it really does pay, to give it away for free. And by free I don't mean free, but you have to pay monthly, or free but you have to activate it. I'm not talking about free with purchase, or free after signing someone else up, or free garbage or free brochures or free bowflex dvd. I'm most definitely not talking about the useless or strings attached free, that has corrupted the very words meaning beyond it's original context. See, isn't it sad that your wondering what it is I'm about to try and sell you? No, I'm not selling anything... or giving anything away for free.(at the moment anyways) What I'm talking about is a truly free gift of worth. When was the last time someone honestly gave you something completely free that was actually worth taking? Or even better, when was the last time you gave someone something, or did something really nice, for free, that was appreciated? What about the last time you did something nice for someone, who had no idea you were going to do it, or no idea that you even did do it, without seeking any kind of gratification in return? This kind of thing has been creeping into my thoughts very often lately. I'm not exactly sure why I've been thinking about this stuff, but I like where my mind has been wondering.

Since it's almost valentines day, I'll tell you about an idea I've had floating around in my chamber of secrets for a few months now. Most of the ideas I've had consist of strictly giving things away for free. One of my favorites is about making a website, and on it would be videos of me doing overly romantic things to completely random strangers, and filming their facial expressions. Like leaving a dozen roses on someones car right before they get off of work, or walking up to someone sitting on a bench and handing them a hand written love letter, saying something like "somebody just asked me to hand this to you" then walking off. I want to capture that absolutely stunned "wow someone was thinking of/has a crush on me?" kind of look. I love that look, and I think theres a large audience of people out there who would love to find a place that has lots of videos of people having real romantic things happen to them. I think it's an awesome idea. Of course I would have to somehow find a way to make sure I'm not doing anything romantic for someone who is already in a great relationship. That could probably kinda backfire for the kind of free gift I'm trying to give. But yeah, thats just one of my many silly ideas. What kind of ideas do you have that would be doing a good thing? If you've never really done something nice for someone, and then didn't tell them what you did, you should try it, it feels pretty good, and it's gotta be at least like 1 and a half karma points.

Hey, I don't wanna sound like a queer or nothin', but I think unicorns are kick ass!

^Back in the race!^

My new job is a refreshing change of pace. It is good to be back on a schedule, and even better to be working on a paycheck again. I'm working at a storage unit facility. No, it's not the most glorious of jobs, but it's gonna plug that hole in my pocket for now. Since I start working by myself on Sunday, I decided to skip what would have been my days off, for extra days of training, so I've been working 9am to 6pm the last 6 days, in case anyone cares why I used to post daily and now I haven't posted for 5 days. Probably not.

I've been going through all of my old videos, and uploading them onto my computer. Brought back a lot of awesome memories of my fine past, so I decided to start uploading them onto youtube. It's a slow process, and I have a TON of video to upload, but it's gonna be sweet once I have them all up. Along with uploading my own videos, I've also been helping my friend Ian Delile set up an online identity. He's an independent musician friend of mine that I have a lot of faith in. He's definitely going somewhere, if he can get his music out there, so I decided to help him out since he's a little computer illiterate. Check out his blog here, or subscribe to his twitter here and be sure to see what he's all about on his youtube, here

P.S. if you know what movie the title of this blog post is from, you get a 3-pointer.