Boooo Monday. Had a rough weekend. Went to an all you can eat/drink sushi place friday night which was hilarious w/ everyone doing saki bombs all night, but then got into a fight w/ the fiancee which was not good. That was stupid, and I hadn't even wanted to go out friday!

Went to a costume party saturday night at a pretty cool bar in the village, I dressed like I had been beaten up since I was missing a tooth already- it was pretty funny when people asked me how I got my tooth to look so real...

Other than that not too much else- I tried to play this game 'Colossus' for PS2, but man was it lame. You are supposed to travel around this world and kill these giant monsters - but we played for over an hour and could not find a single one! There was nothing else in the game w/ you, just lots and lots of land to travel around

Is anyone else finding it hard to find classic horror movies on tv right now? I thought for sure HBO on demand would have Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc. - but no, they have stupid ass ones like Friday the 13th parts 5-8, etc.

btw- I am going to start a cooking blog today. Its basically going to be about cooking on a budget and just using whatever you find in your kitchen. Check it out if you get the chance, there should be some good hints/tips and some easy receipes to follow!

Hurray Friday! Not sure what I'm going to do tonight- don't really want to head out and spend a ton of money since we're going out tomorrow for Halloween. My fiancee is probably going to be a boxer and I'm going to be beat up- since I am missing my front tooth (had it removed a month ago due to infection).

Have you any idea how expensive it is to replace a front tooth??? My god. In total it is costing me about $12k. Since its my front tooth I didn't want a crown, so I am going all out with the posting and implant. Because I had a gap in my front teeth, which would have either stayed or I could have had the replacement tooth made wider- which would have looked stupid- I also just got invisialign braces yesterday. These things are pretty cool, you can't really tell I'm wearing anything at all.

Insurance sucks by the way- they won't even pay for my tooth removal. I am on my second protest right now. Because the infection had moved into my bone, the dentist had to remove parts of bone and do a bone graft. This apparently was deemed as unessasary by my insurance (Met Life)- I guess they don't feel as infected bone in your mouth is anything to worry about...

I wish I could post files here- i just got the best email ever- it has a bunch of games somehow written for excel. I can now play pacman and other sweet games at my leisure- screw you firewall!

I did another search site last night- www.totaladsearch.com . It goes out and searches thousands of classifieds ads online- so you don't have to waste time going to multiple places.

I am becomming obsessed with website building - I wish I gotten into this years ago. When I was in highschool I had my own homepage- why the hell wasn't I thinking of business ideas back then??? At least I'm getting into it now.

I read a pretty cool quote online- some guy was asking if it was worth trying to make money online now since there are so many people trying to do it and he thought he missed the window of opportunity. Another guy posted back and said "In twenty years there will still be people like you asking the same questions- and they will look back at now as the golden age and wish they had been able to 'get in' while it was easy!"

That inspired me since I was thinking the same thing.

Thursday! Almost the weekend. I seriously feel like my brain shuts down when I am here.

Can't really decide what I want to do for Halloween. I was going to head to this 'Toshi' party here in NYC - but didn't get tix fast enough and they are now going for $120+ on ebay.

Oh well- its not like I need to go out again, I spend too much money at bars. Plus, I'm engaged now- its not like I'm looking to pick up chicks anymore...well I haven't for 6 years now but thats besides the point...

Going to 5 weddings this year alone- I have a good core group of friends and it seems like we are all getting married to girls we've been dating for at least 3-7 years...hurray stability. I can't believe it since we were such a bunch of fuck ups in college...


Spent an hour last night making this website: www.totalauctionsearch.com , I should have been studying for the CFA since that's in a month, but I just can't look at that crap anymore. I have failed it twice already- and not because I don't understand it, its actually pretty easy to me- I just cannot memorize equations! I'm serious- give me a text book on physics and I'll be able to give you a good summary and have a working knowledge of the subject, but ask me to repeat just one equation in the last 5 pages I read and I can't remember shit.

What a pain in the ass- I would give all I have for a photographic memory, life would be so much easier. I think if you had one you could pretty much fake your way through life like an intelligent parrot and do much better than I am.

Anyway- the website is pretty cool, I was getting sick of just looking on ebay for items I want and realized there are hundreds of auction sites out there I never knew about. The items are also a lot cheaper since there aren't as many people who bid on them to drive up prices. Who posts on them? Who knows, though most of them are free so I guess thats a big consideration.
So if you want to buy something at an online auction- check out the site- so far I have about 150+ sites inputted, but should have more soon.

Well time to do some menial worthless tasks...be back soon.

Well. Here I am sitting at my desk at work. It is 9:47am and I am already ready to get the hell out of here. What a way to start every weekday- it seems all I do is live for my weekends and I can't imagine it being this way for too much longer.

I think I will go insane.

Since I have so much free time at work I thought I would start a blog detailing my struggle to make something of myself. I am hoping it will be inspirational. I am hoping I will be a shining example of how hard work will take you where you want to go. I am hoping that I am not going to be writing about this long from now because of those inspirational things I will be doing.

I hope I am not a disappointment to everyone...

This blog will, for the foreseeable future, be updated throughout the day whenever things cross my mind. I have a lot of cynical thoughts and I tend to have a dry and sometimes dark sense of humor. I also need some kind of escape from this place other than texting my friends- and as jumping out the window might solve my problems in the short run, I think it will conflict with my long term goals.

I will also try and outline any plans, schemes, and other diabolical activities I undertake while trying to make a name for myself. My ultimate goal is to work for myself- I have not had any luck in the corporate world so far (not from lack of trying I'll let you know) - and so I have decided that I need to make my own.

I get bored easily- my "weakness" I bring up in interviews when asked , which you need to parlay into a strength otherwise you obviously aren't worth shit, is that I tend to be incredibly interested in everything- and go out of my way to learn everything I can about something once it gets my attention. The problem is there are only so many hours in a day and I can't learn everything- so I end up being good at many things, but not great at anything. This is great because I am readily adaptable to many situations - but I probably will never be writing college text books on my areas of expertise.

Because of this my blog will ramble often.

But then again that is what its for - an outlet for my idle brain while trapped in my cubicle.

There will be many posts of inane and probably meaningless information.

There will also be a lot of links- as I tend to surf the web while at work and I will post up anything I find interesting and/or useful. I like to email myself the links I come across- my hotmail inbox has quite a few pages of emails I sent myself from work containing nothing but a few random links I came across. Since I don't have time to go through each link and sort it in my favorites folder they are kind of building up in there...and its not like I will ever look at 99% of them again - but I cannot delete them because someday I might need that link for the site which details building authentic Japanese koi ponds.

Someday I will have enough time in my day that I can sit down and sift through all the links I have gathered. I literally have thousands of only roughly sorted links.

I do have plans for them though- maybe I will post about it here soon.

I might complain about my job a lot. It's not because I like to whine, but I need to vent my frustration sometimes.

I will give a little more background about myself in some upcoming posts- give you all a better feel about who I am. Maybe I will help myself figure things out.

Either way I hope this blog will set some kind of example for everyone. Hopefully a good one, but if not at least I can say I tried, right?

Thats enough for now- I'm sure I will be back again today.

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Oh. Just got an email from a friend- looks like I am going to Vegas for another friends Bachelor party...

It will be a drunken mess as usual when we all get together - which I am looking forward to.

I am not looking forward to the $175/night room. And that is us being cheap. Ugh.

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11:25am

I need a break- I am doing a stupid data entry project. Some idiot here messed up an excel doc and now I need to update all the account numbers in the file.

One of my hobbies I am really into is Saltwater Reef keeping. Check out www.manhattanreefs.com if you are in the New York area, lots of great guys on there who can help you get started. I find this hobby extremely satisfying- there is an endless amount of information to learn, there is a fairly steep learning curve (which can be dampened by frequenting forums and aksing questions), and there are a ton of cool 'toys' that you get to buy to keep your tank running. The only problem is that it is expensive- though I would say you could start a nice little 10g nano tank for under $500 if you were to buy some used equipment and buy from vendors in your area so you don't pay for shipping. Always try to buy from local Hobbyists, you will save a ton of money since they aren't really in it for money...

You also get to play God a little- you are completely responsible for keeping the ecosystem going. You will be amazed at how many things you will find come on the rock you buy for the tank, it is literally full of life (hence the term 'Live Rock'). I've been at it for almost two years now and know quite a lot by now- if you are interested in finding out more also check out:

www.reefcentral.com
www.nano-reef.com

Larger, less personal forums than a local forum- but you will find tons of stuff to get you started!

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2:07 pm

well it looks like I can't figure out how to make the correct time zone- I did not post at 6am!

Just found a cool new thing Google is doing - http://www.google.com/coop/

You can make custom search engines and post them on your site! Ad some Adsense to them and bam- nice paying url...

Thats one thing I've been into lately- making content pages for Google Adsense ads. Amazing how much of a science it is, and how many people do it and make some big $$$! I'm up to 20 sites now- making a 4:1 payout ratio on my advertising/payout. Not like its big money, more like $10 a day...but watch out- my goal is over 500 sites by years end (might as well set my standards high). That would be a nice chunch of change each day and get me on the path of self-employment!

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Do you know in the bathroom stalls how you can see the person's foot next to you? Well you can sometimes tell who is next to you based on their shoe. There is this older man who works here- maybe in his 60s - who will take a dump, then when he's done pull up his pants, tuck his shirt in- and then urinate! Isn't that backwards? No I am not a gross voyeur, but you can tell if you listen. Why would you stand up to pee after you're all done?

I love to 'escape' into the bathroom for 10 mins or so a couple of times a day. My favorite game on my cell phone is Zuma at the moment. I am very close to beating it... I have to savor these little victories. I wish I were as good at something more impressive- maybe juggling or curling- than Zuma. Its not like I can show off my amazing Zuma skills to anyone.

I wish I could make money just by playing stupid games in my spare time when I am bored...