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Enjoying my last few responsibility free years left.

Superman takes his Flintstones Vitamins?

I sort of wanted this post to immediately follow my weakness post but I made that blackberry post so this is going to have to do. I’m typing this up at 11pm after waking up at 7 and working a full day, followed by a track workout, and then another 3 hours of a meeting about a potential business proposition, so I’m not exactly in the mood to do this. However, considering 229 unique people have visited this site in the past month, only of which 20-30 I would think are loyal readers, I will work through what I believe is going to be a good post. Off topic real quick though. I didn’t have my phone so I didn’t set an alarm this morning and the most amazing thing happened, I woke up at 7:00 am on the dot which is when I set my alarm for. I was in disbelief. Strangely enough I awoke to a scene from Family Guy when Chris threw a javelin through Meg’s arm…

At the urging of JC, he wanted me to take this test that relates to finding out a person’s strengths and weaknesses. This was completely new to me so it was funny how it worked around my blog topics. Now I sort of want to take this paragraph and devote it to JC because I could pretty much write pages upon pages about him. JC, my dad for those who don’t know, is big on self improvement. He is always looking for ways of bettering oneself through secrets to successful thinking, healthy lifestyles, and new enhancements to try. JC is a salesperson’s dream. If you can get him to think that the product or service has any positive spin on living a better life, he’s all about it. He takes about 10 supplements each day and always has a new motto he’s preaching. The funny thing is, you’d think he would live the lifestyle of Jesus Christ with the amount of knowledge he has about living the right way. I don’t really need to go into detail but let me just say that he doesn’t always practice what he preaches. A lot of my wild side is taken directly from JC’s genes and I’m a mix of him and my mom’s prudence. So if you know how wild I can get, that’s watered down compared to him.

So he wanted me to take this test to identify my strengths. Hilariously enough, the book has a unique code in the back of it that you have to cut open to enter the code in the site. Well the reason he wanted me to take it was because he didn’t realize that you had to cut open the packet to get the code so he couldn’t figure out how to take it himself. He is really being brought into the internet age kicking and screaming. I could devote entry after entry to this but maybe later. So at his urging I spend 20 minutes taking the test answering questions about hard work, ethics, future thought, and mainly just about my value system and at the end it spits out 5 traits that they consider your strengths. I want to share each one, it’s short description, and then what I think about it. This is my blog, thus my self reflection and you can stop here if you have no interest. The 5 traits were responsibility, analytical, discipline, consistency, and individualization.

Responsibility – People with a responsibility theme take psychological ownership of what they say and do. They are committed to stable values such as honesty and loyalty. As much as you yearn to be #1, you might realize cheating is unacceptable. Your integrity demands that you say what you mean and mean what you say. Your compliments are hard-won and genuine. As a result, people really value them.
I found this to be along the lines of truth. As CK4 can attest we play the fairest rules of beer pong with no bouncing, no deathcup, no ball bounceback, which shows the respect for rules. I am always adverse to cheating and that’s why you’ll see me end up with some 11’s on my scorecard. My praise isn’t the easiest to earn which is why I tend to point blankly point out faults of others. I seem to find more fun in telling people how bad they did something opposed to how good. However, Jkash was questioning my praise on his entries to UrbanDictionary and I once again giving him a pat on the back for being recognized.

Analytical – Driven by your talents, you may have little difficulty finding the right words at the right time to express what you are thinking or feeling. Maybe you can present your concepts in a reasonable, orderly, or methodical way. As a result, some people might say you know how to get your ideas across to people. Because of your strengths, you may be sought out for advice by individuals who appreciate your methodical thinking style. To some extent, your approach prevents people from being distracted by their own or someone else’s emotions. Perhaps you help them concentrate on the facts more than on their feelings.
I sort of felt like this one was Psych 101. I really don’t have too many people who seek my advice for much so I can’t claim that all of that is true. I would like to think I give a realist viewpoint and won’t beat around the bush. I just paraphrase the analysis but it also mentions being good with numbers and I’ve learned that some people either are awful with numbers, or just choose to ignore them when making business decisions. From reading the journal each day, I think I have a better grasp on how much 1 million vs 100 million vs 1 billion is than probably 95% of the population, which my guess would have no idea how much things in that amounts of money are worth.

Discipline – You set up procedures and guidelines for completing your tasks. You use these approaches with regularity. You probably experience less success when circumstance or people prevent you from relying on the methods that work so well for you. It’s very likely you characteristically are unsentimental and realistic, especially when you must plan how to do something efficiently, reliably, or predictably time after time.
I personally think JC has instilled some of this discipline in me. The guy literally has 10 lists going at one time and writes down everything in his follow up book. I feel like he just likes making the list sometimes more than actually completing whats on there. But these are all good things for being organized and actually completing something. He’d tell you I do a pretty good job, but could still do a better job. He’s probably right.

Consistency – Perhaps you favor the company of those who avoid conflict or refrain from spreading rumors. Chances are good that you sometimes recognize that certain individuals appreciate your practical, straightforward, or realistic way of thinking. You understand that you cannot win every contest, and now and then you even prefer to share honors with certain people.
I thought this wasn’t a bad analysis. I liked the last line because even though I’d prefer winning over losing, I really could care less about the outcomes of most things (if my money isn’t on the line).

Individualization – You now and then delight in helping people. Perhaps you hope they find your companionship pleasant and choose to spend more time with you. It’s very likely that you may update certain individuals about current events. Chances are good that you may want to offer your assistance to people.
I almost felt like this paragraph was speaking about my blog. I never thought I was doing this to help people or update them about current events, but now that I think about it, why the hell else am I writing this at now 11:45 so that you can type in my web address and entertain yourself for 10 minutes. The individualism trait might also explain why I prefer the company of myself and dislike the rest of the population.

I know that was lengthy and if you got this far I’m shocked that you would read an in depth personality test about yours truly. As avid readers of this blog you are learning more about me than I probably know about myself. I also want to point out that everyone will be honored at the end of this test so I hope I didn’t come off like a douche saying how good I am.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-12T09:05:52-04:00August 10th, 2010|My Brain, My Life|3 Comments

Blackberry

So I received my “new” (refurbished) phone today and got everything set up with email and all the likes but I believe that I didn’t have my contacts saved to my sim card but rather to the phones hard drive? Meaning I swapped the sim card and it still isn’t picking up my contacts so I’m going to try to get the contacts off my old phone through my computer but most likely that will not work. Essentially I don’t have your number and if you ever want any contact from me, you should either call me or text me who it is. Over time I will accumulate numbers and it’s not like this is the end of the world. Also if you read this and know why I’m not able to pick up numbers from the sim card or how I have to transfer them over, any info is useful. I also lost you as a bbm contact. I should have a pretty lengthy post tonight and I always feel bad writing these essays without any breakups of pics or anything but stay tuned.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-10T15:32:24-04:00August 10th, 2010|My Life|0 Comments

Even Superman has his Kryptonite

So this is going to be one of the harder blog posts I’ve had to write. As the Shee would say, I’m good at “tooting my own horn” and this is not be taken the wrong way. Basically whenever I do something good, I pretty much let everyone know how good it was. I think this can be verified from the usual tone of my blog and my preaching of superiority and how I’m happy to share all my novel ideas that I always claim are going to make millions (yet not one has come to fruition…). I will use this entry to point out my weaknesses and things that I’m sad to say, I don’t do well.

I have issues with history. I know there are buffs out there who can tell you the year of Custards last stand, what years George Washington Carver served, or when Eli Whitney invented the famous drink “the cotton gin”. I even was in honors history which just shows how much of a joke high school was. It’s almost embarrassing sometimes but my memory just doesn’t get along with historical events. The thing is, I don’t really see any need to know about what happened in the past. The people who spend their time learning about the past are the people who have nothing better to do in the future.

I’ve been diminishing athletically as well and I believe it’s do to atrophy. I’m just not good at things and my motivation for getting good is effectively 0. Now, if you read this blog, you’d say that I’m contradicting myself with my post on how you should try to be your best. However, if there is no pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, it’s hard to care. So even though I’m probably close to my physical peak in strength right now, my abilities are waning. People can preach confidence all they want but I know where confidence comes from, it comes from practice. I actually do have plenty of time in my day to practice whatever I want but I just tend to sit here and play poker, watch TV, and write blog entries.

I tend to say stuff that comes in my head without giving it much thought. I have a couple of examples. One weekend I was talking to this random girl and she said something like “I have a 2 year old child” and my response was “do you like him?” Now I didn’t mean for it to come off so poorly but obviously she thought I was a douche after that. I just know that I wouldn’t want to have a 2 year old kid at this point of my life so my first reaction was something along those lines. Another case of this happened tonight and it happens more than just once. CK4 asked me who is leading the league in hitting in the NL. I think I said Evan Longoria who is ranked 25th and in the AL. Probably should have just kept my mouth shut on that one. I just don’t follow sports that closely and I will admit that I’m not a man’s man sports fan.

This isn’t necessarily something I suck at but gives me trouble from time to time. I want to go into a few things that I find wrong with other people. Funny how this post started with things I wasn’t good at and now has me off on a tangent on what I find wrong with other people. Just to rattle a few off:

I give people too much credit. Getting people to call you back, after giving them specific instructions should be an easy task yet people can’t handle business properly and therefore should be fired.

I perceive others people’s lives better then mine. For some reason there’s always this sense of the other guy doing it better than you.

People who pay with exact change. Now there are two different methods to this. If I’m at a drive thru and get the total and I can wrestle up the exact change from my bin, that’s fine. Now if I’m in line, with people behind me and I take out my satchel and start digging through because I don’t want to break a bill, not fine.

People who don’t carry around money and are the same people who swipe a card for a 2 dollar bill. Now I suspect that some people don’t mind a multitude of small charges on your credit card bill but, for me, I look at my statement on a weekly basis and pay it off week by week. Therefore I’m on top of what I charge and for how much in close to real time. If I’m making tons of charges I can much more easily get confused and mistakes can be made. Just use cash.

People who ask too many questions for simple things.

People who talk without a purpose. I’m aware this is my drunk talk to a t.

People who look at me when I drive past them. Honestly, go fuck yourselves. I’m the asshole in TL that just cut you off and you aren’t going to do anything about it. It also bothers me when people at lights look at me because I feel like they should mind their own business.

People who call just to chat. I don’t like wasting time on the phone.

People who say “good shot” when the ball leaves the club and ends up in the heather.

People who just take life too seriously. I had a phone call the other day and the guy would just give one word answers to these questions that were obviously questions that required more than “yes” or “no”.

It’s funny because I don’t really dislike any one group over another because I like the challenge of fitting in with anyone (except for history buffs who will expose me for the simpleton I am)

People who bike in Manayunk and they ride on the side of the road and I always want to see how close I can get my side view mirror to them just to let them know that roads are made for cars.

People who play with their phones at the dinner table. If your mom hasn’t taught you that it’s rude to be on your phone at the dinner table, she failed. It’s like saying, “I know you are right across the table from me but I’m a social tard and have to immerse myself in my phone because you are too boring.”

People, specifically girls, who are 5 ft tall and try to dance with a guy whose regular height and they start bending their knees and getting all small and I’m just thinking that my legs hardly bend and I can’t dance with you like that so I’m just going to stand here watching you.

People who blast their shitty rap tunes in speakers that are so not equipped to handle loud music. This is part of the reason why I just keep my windows up and listen to my own music at volume level 17.

People who can’t admit fault. If more people said they were sorry for misbehavior, people would be able to get along.

Companies that don’t have phone numbers to their customer service is what I’m going to end on because this is so bothersome to me. All I want to do is talk to a person. I don’t want your automated email responses. I just want some human being to handle my issues on their end and move on.

I forgot to write this last night but Jkash showed me a life changing technique last night. I was complaining how you couldn’t move fastforward on demand except for that 2x and he showed me the page up button moved it 5 minutes ahead. Pretty sweet.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-10T00:25:47-04:00August 10th, 2010|My Brain|1 Comment

Weekend

It cracks me up when Ck4 says things like “I can’t wait for your blog post about the weekend.” I’m thinking “dude you’ve been with me for virtually the entire weekend and there’s nothing that I did that you don’t already know about so I’m not sure what you expect to read that you don’t already know.” It was a pretty standard weekend with us playing golf twice and going out to the bars on both Friday and Saturday. We hung out in Northern Liberties on Friday and Manayunk on Saturday. There were some interesting stories but none that I really find blog worthy. I intended to write about one but decided to go with plan B. I pretty much just feel like Monday and I have a decision to make at the end of this week about the 10 miler in Sea Isle. I’m not in any good enough shape to make me feel confident that I can do the race with any degree of seriousness which makes me think that just bagging it for a fun weekend is the better choice. Doing it though would be in the best interest of my body because I would have to abstain from alcohol all the way up until Saturday evening. I’m still on the fence.

I also broke my phone by putting it in the same pocket at my golf tees and either a tee or my key went through the screen. I don’t even mind not having a phone on me at all times. Aside from not getting my emails, I don’t have to worry about picking it up or doing dumb things when I’m drunk. The insurance program is really good though and I’ll have a new “refurbished” phone on Tuesday. This means that I lose all my blackberry messenger contacts which is annoying but I don’t really use it that much anyhow.

I thought True Blood was pretty good aside from all the gayness. I feel like nothing really happened but they just keep building the suspense to all the story lines. Entourage wasn’t bad either but they are just killing me with Turtle. I still can’t understand how he has such a main storyline. Drama steals the show and I obviously find Ari entertaining. The Ocho show was pretty lame and I’m starting to grow disinterested each passing week. He’s too nice to the girls. He should be hooking up with all of them and creating major drama.

I wish I had more to write about but this is what happens when you aren’t that exciting.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-09T08:52:54-04:00August 9th, 2010|My Life|0 Comments

Thursday Mad River

Traffic to this blog has been up lately so I just want to thank people for viewing it. It was Chad’s idea to thank the readers but he added that he doesn’t like giving credit to anyone other than the creator which is fine. This is going to be a quick entry because I don’t have much going on but Big Steve and Ed came over to get a first hand look at Mad River Thursday’s. Much to my chagrin the crowd was pretty lame and the girls were slim pickens. We did do a few mind erasers and on my way back I got a hot sausage and cheese fries. The women who works there sees me wasted most weekend nights so she accommodated me with a free soda (wa-hoo). Not to much to go into detail with other than it was a pretty standard night. I woke up with a moderately bad feeling but I feel ok now. I just wanted to post something because the more you post, the more people visit.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-11T15:36:15-04:00August 6th, 2010|My Life|0 Comments

Perfect

To achieve perfection should be an impossibility. I don’t mean in any one event but to develop yourself into as perfect of a human being as you can be. I used to think the goal of life was to be happy but as the days wear on, I believe the art of perfection is what people should strive for. If everyone does, our country will have a chance to dig itself out of this awful state we are in. What irks me the most is that the people who put forth the effort and work hard, end up carrying the poor and the lazy.

What do I mean by perfection? First of all, everyone’s level of perfection is different because we all don’t have the same abilities. However, attempting to attain the goal of being the best you can be (my definition of perfection) should supersede anything else. For example, if you are fat it’s probably because you are lazy. So even though you are helping our economy by spending more on food, you drag us down by being less productive. If you smoke cigarettes not only are you a drag because you have no endurance but you are contributing to corporate greed because you are weak willed and succumb to addiction. Alcohol drinking specifically brings me down because it takes my cash and makes me do stupid things that cost me more cash and also turns me into an unproductive mess.

Another example I have to define my point will involve Ck4 and his driving. He’s fearful of driving because there is (life?) risk involved and therefore avoids it as much as possible. This is an awful attitude to have because it shows that he has no confidence in his own abilities and has pretty much given up on trying to do a better job. Just a quick story on his driving that I witnessed first hand. We were going to make a right into CVS and there was a biker to the right on the same path next to us. Ck4 gets this brilliant idea to cut him off and make the turn in front of him, so he guns the gas and he chickens out on the turn and slams on the breaks so that we now are stopped 5 feet past the entrance and the biker is wondering what the fuck is this clown doing. My point is that yes, he is an awful driver but rather than say “I’m going to get better at this,” CK4 just accepts the fact that he’ll never be a good driver. That is the problem and why my idea of perfection should be what everyone strives for. It’s not to be perfect, but rather to do your best at any and everything.

I feel like this post has a hitleresque theme to it by trying to create the perfect person but more just mean it to not sell yourself short and know that you can be a better person if you want with just some effort. Believe me, I’m far from perfect and could improve in so many areas that I don’t have enough time to list all my faults. Like JKash says “you’re not good at things.” Also understand that this is a blog and I can take stances that I might not exactly agree with but will anyhow for the sake of the theme.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-05T13:51:42-04:00August 5th, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments

Lifes tough questions – and my answers

Why do we pay more for brand name products? I think it’s fair to say that the generics and knockoffs are essentially exact duplicates of the originals. Will my pain be relieved less if I use a generic prescription from Teva instead of an overpriced pill from Pfizer or Merck? Are my clothes going to smell better if I use Tide instead of the Xtra Scentsations that costs $2.00 at CVS? Is my Polo shirt going to let me bang more chicks then if I were wearing a Izod? The answer is most likely no. Yet for some items I have no problem paying the extra money for something that makes me feel comfortable in using. Why would I chance some off-brand shampoo that could potentially make my hair fall out? Why use a knock off Driver when all I want to do is hit the ball straight and I’m putting my faith in quality names to do the required research. The extra money is spent for the comfort of knowing it’s right. Everyone is always looking for the best deal but the best deal isn’t always the cheapest. Unless it comes to drinking water when the cheapest is usually no different than the most expensive. I’d rather eat Goobers any day over chocolate flavored peanuts.

It amazes me the longevity of some pornstar’s careers. Jenna Jameson and Lisa Ann has been around for a decade now and it just completely boggles my mind. After a handful of scenes you’d think they would have covered most regular positions like missionary, doggy, 69, cowgirl, reverse cowgirl… So once that gets old then they move to anal scenes which probably pay more money and prove you are willing to try anything. Once they get their fill of anal scenes (nice word choice) then they move to some bukakke and group orgy’s. Now I believe that is fairly standard evolution of the pornstar career. I’m sure they mix it up with some lesbian stuff and different bros but I feel like this is a career of high turnover which makes me wonder how some of these girls have been around so long. I assume the goal of being a pornstar is to make as much money while you’re young and good looking so you don’t have to work when the boobs sag and the looks go. The real motivating factor of the pornstar is to make enough money so that you can begin to assemble a team of whores and start producing your own movies with new talent. I know I didn’t answer a question there but just wanted to point out how unbelievable it is the staying power of some of these starlets and how their audience never wavers.

Why is everything that is fun illegal or bad for you? I’ve never really been into a lot of drugs but it’s weird how things that can make you feel so good can be so bad for you. Chocolate tastes so good (I actually don’t prefer it but it’s part of the example) but it makes you fat and is unhealthy. Getting drunk is fun but it leads to a huge amount of calorie intake and makes you do stupid things plus leads to feeling awful in the morning. It would be cool to spend your life doing nothing but hanging out and traveling around but unless you have an ample supply of cash, this is not easily accomplished. Life makes it so you have to do things that you don’t like, ie. work, to pay for things that you do like, ie get drunk, so that you get stuck in a balancing act to survive properly. I guess it’s fair to say that if there were no consequences to all the fun things, then everyone would do them and we’d be a society of fucked up people who don’t get anything done. Funny the way things were created.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-04T23:59:28-04:00August 4th, 2010|My Brain|5 Comments

What I spend my money on

I find this to be an interesting topic because I don’t keep real close track of my funds. I pretty much just get whatever I want to and try not to splurge while trying to save as much as I can. I’ve been working full time for 5 years now so I’ve been able to save some cash but certainly not as much as I should have if it weren’t for the tendencies that I will describe below. I’m not going to bore you with my fixed expenses like rent, my car, and regular intake but give a look into my extra finances.

– Alcohol takes the cake as my #1 money waster. Whether it be a specialty case of Great Lakes or Guinness, 30 packs of Coors Light, a handle of Goose or just blowing cash at the bar, I spend a ton of money on alcohol for the year. I would probably estimate closer to two tons. I’m not the kind of person who is like “lets get a six pack and hang out.” It’s more like “let’s each get a case and see who can finish it first.” If I could somehow get back all the cash I’ve spent on booze throughout my drinking life, I honestly believe I’d have 25,000 more dollars in my wallet.

-Tips will equate to less than the booze but this is another money spender. I’ve wrote about this before but I find myself becoming more and more accustomed to tipping. Today not only did I tip the guy at Dunkin Doughnuts $0.46 cents but I gave the girl at this sandwich store a buck. WHY?!?!? I have no fucking idea, it just seems like the right thing to do and I hope the people who I’m tipping appreciate this small sum of money more than I will. In the grand scheme of things, I’m probably doing the economy a favor because the more money I keep, just goes to money waster #1 above. I guess I think that tipping will make the person who you are tipping look at you as a kind person because it shows that you are thinking of others. I also tip dealers at casinos, valets, cabbies, and people who carry my luggage and golf clubs. I’d guess over a K a year in tips.

-I overspend on food for Breakfast and Lunch. I eat both meals out everyday. Breakfast costs me 4.00 at Dunkin Doughnuts and 5.00 at the place I get a Bacon, Egg and Cheese. Lunch costs me about 10.00 for a sandwich or a burger, bag of chips or fries, and a drink. This amounts to about $75.00 dollars a week or $3,600 dollars a year.

-Clothes probably cost me about 1-2 thousand dollars a year. I will upgrade new Polo’s each year, new pairs of shorts, new socks, new boxers. I’ll also need new work shirts and get a new suit every couple of years. New shoes are about every 6 months and that is only the shoes I wear out. Running shoes are extra. A revolving wardrobe is essential so that the people you hang out with don’t always see you in the same attire. It’s not really a big deal but after people see you in the same thing and then realize they’ve seen you in the same thing, they must ask, “does he ever buy new clothes?”

-Gambling probably costs me about 2k each year. I probably win a bit in poker and lose a bit in sports betting, casinos and at the track. This is a rough estimate and probably varies year to year but I really don’t think that this sum is too outlandish considering the entertainment that is derived from it.

-The extras probably amount to another 1-2 k a year. These include strip clubs, rainbows, new electronics like headphones, mice, monitors, laptops. Vacations get thrown into this category.

So I’ve just gave a rough budget of how I live my life and what I spend my money on and that didn’t even include my rent, car and living which is probably somewhere around 15k. These extras added up to about 15k or so. That’s 30k it takes me each year to live the lifestyle that I’ve grown accustomed to. Meaning I have to make 45k just to maintain. How am I saving money? Another amazing fact is that my parents paid for my college, how on Earth would I be able to pay that back in a reasonable amount of time? If I came out of school with 100k of debt I honestly would insta-chapter 11.

I really don’t feel that I live that extravagantly. Of course there are areas that I could cut back on but then I miss out on this thing called “life” that I’m trying my best to enjoy. I work 5 days a week and I’m just spinning my wheels. I’m in the rat race with no end in sight. This is why people play the lottery, the stock market, or gamble. Most people aren’t ever going to make enough money to do everything they want. Sorry to say but that is the honest to god truth. I think our economy is in bad shape and I expect it to get worse in the future. I’m pulling out all my money and putting it into Sirius radio.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-04T17:00:32-04:00August 4th, 2010|My Life|0 Comments

Get Sirius!

Sirius came out with their earnings this morning and they have continued to add subscribers and actually had a net income of 15 million compared with a loss of 159 million last year for the quarter. The stock was up 5% pre market. I’ve been touting this stock on my blog for a while now and I think it’s finally starting to see some light at the end of the tunnel. It’s not to late to buy the stock and obviously not to late to get away from that horrific AM/FM that the zombies of the nation listen to. It’s funny because I hear my mom and her reasons for not switching over and they include “I like the radio and I listen to CD’s and my Ipod”. AM/FM is a complete joke filled with the same music and commercials out the ass. CD’s are a thing of the past. An Ipod only plays the music you’ve downloaded so it’s never anything you haven’t heard before. Get Sirius! I’m not sure if this is the slogan they use but they certainly should. Once again more proof that I can make it in marketing.

Sam and I were reviewing his traffic to his blog last night and amazingly almost half of his traffic is derived from people coming from my website. Talk about helping a brother out. That’s a funny line by the way. Good to know that the loyal viewers of my blog keep it in the family. Adam always tells me that Sam’s blog is better, but until his traffic numbers surpass mine, I’m crowning myself. Sam and I get along pretty well and our blogs can feed off of each others. We said we’d look for more referring sites but it’s hard because I don’t want to just throw links up there to trash pages. I’m not really sure how but eventually something will come of this website.

I’m also starting to get this feeling of depression that Summer is coming to its end and people are getting ready for school again. When you don’t have school any longer there’s never a shocking shift to another type of lifestyle so I have to feel it through others. I really enjoy Summer weather and I dread the thought of the cold months that lie ahead so I think that has some bearing on me as well. I don’t miss treadmill running one bit but I’m not as strong in the Summer because of the lack of weight lifting I do in the Winter.

Last night I went home and was complaining to my mom how the customers at work were bothering me, people weren’t returning my phone calls, my feet hurt, and I had nothing in the pipeline. She starts singing…

I’m thinking, jesus, add nagging and baggage and we’re all set. She’s just looking for some effort on my part to find a mate (caveman terminology) and I just don’t feel the rush. Some people are so gung ho about getting married and having kids that it scares me to want to add responsibilities to my life. I like not having to wake up on the weekends until 1. I like the freedom of Rainbow Spa if I choose. I like money not flowing out of my wallet to feed extra mouths. Now, I can change any of these thoughts at a moments notice but I’m not going to pretend to like someone just to have the feeling of having someone by my side. I legitimately get along and like most people, however, there’s a difference between liking and getting along with them than really liking them. Plus I can be timid, goofy, awkward, and miss obvious signs, so that doesn’t help. I just figure, when it’s right, you know.

I close with a good song.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-04T08:41:00-04:00August 4th, 2010|Music, My Brain, My Life|1 Comment

I like

I like the Vanilla flavored air freshener for my car.
I like running on the hottest days because the sweat pours off.
I like ball point instead of gel pens.
I like to wear headphones when at my computer.
I like butter and Parmesan cheese on my spaghetti instead of sauce.
I like fresh haircuts.
I like low cut socks.
I like firefox as my browser.
I like shots of Jameson.
I like t-shirts with alcohol & band logos.
I like passing someone who is driving real slow and then cutting into their lane immediately when I pass them to prove the point.
I like using the number pad to the right of the keyboard to input digits.
I like hanging up on people soliciting my business.
I like Mayo on sandwiches on Ketchup on cheese steaks.

Just to go off on a tangent real quick. I’m really amazed at how Hyundai turned their brand name around. I remember years ago that this was such a shitty car that would retail to the low end market for 10k or so and just had a reputation for being bad. Now they put out nice looking cars like this:

Personally I still wouldn’t drive a Hyundai just because of its negative connotation with it’s past models, but I’m impressed with it’s effort. A company that is completely oblivious to good marketing is Hanes. A video below is showing MJ with this Hitler style mustache. Now this is old news and has been on a while but how can anyone in Hanes marketing dept look at him and say, “This is fine, let’s go with this look.” I don’t give a flying fuck that it’s MJ, someone has to step up and say that this looks incredibly stupid and may rub people the wrong way. Even if it deters a few people from it’s brand, why on Earth would you chance it? I for one will never wear Hanes or any of it’s products, not because of the mustache, but because of the idiots inside the company who make mindless decisions.

By Tom Stortz|2010-08-03T13:05:15-04:00August 3rd, 2010|My Brain|0 Comments