This is the last time I’m going to write it but google doesn’t care about personal posts and they will drive 0 traffic to your website. More proof is that now traffic is finding my blog by searching for Tatyana Ali. I made one post months ago about Tatyana Ali, have one picture and a minor description, and now google sends people to my blog because of it. In one sense I feel slighted because that Ashley Banks shouldn’t be the driver of my traffic but on the other hand I suppose to purpose of a blog is to get as many people to read it. That being said I’ve continued to spike traffic and hit new daily highs almost daily. This is why I write I create Charlie Sheen posts because that’s what people type into google and if I make outrageous claims like he’s on drugs (I think he is despite any test data) maybe google will reward me. I’m pretty much at the mercy of google and what I’ve considered it hiring someone who knows how to run a successful AdSense campaign and see if I can turn this into supplemental income. With all that going on with the blog, I’m going to spend some time and actually write about a few things that are transpiring in my life (that google doesn’t care about).

Work is finally picking up a bit with March arriving and the weather getting nicer. Usually the winter months aren’t our best so the time of relaxation and thinking moves to getting out on the road, hitting the phone, and making sales. With this coming up on my 6th year with the family business, I’ve grown into the role pretty well and understand our entire line enough to sell it with purpose instead of a kid out of college who doesn’t know jack. It’s difficult to be good at something if you don’t have a passion for it and even though I don’t necessarily have a passion, I understand it enough to make sales which in turn is a passion, making money.

I read my brother “vent” post about online poker and I have a few thoughts regarding a cold spell. Skip this section if you have no interest. I know it feels like a few bad beats in a couple of games makes the game “cheat” but it’s really too small of a sample size to make any claims like cash out curse or letting the bad players win. You really have to focus on are you being the best poker player possible? To have routine answers to questions like is KJ strong enough to push from UTG at a 5 person table with 7 bb’s left or is this call a good call considering ICM calculations? If you don’t know what ICM calculations are or don’t use a HUD, I strongly doubt you are going to be a long term winner. The competition out there is too good now a days to be able to beat the rake because you have a basic idea of how to play. Don’t forget this is coming from a player who has terrible bankroll mgmt, loses focus and goes on tilt just as much as you do which prevents me from ever really breaking through. I get frustrated the same way you do but a serious evaluation of your game is needed before any real strides are made. You need to study the game, put in tons of hours of playing, and then decide whether the game is cheating you.

I sponsored Brian Lockard’s half marathon which donates to the Boomer Esiason foundation and it is one of the first times I’ve given more then a dollar to anything of “charity.” It was only 20 bucks but after taking Bake’s advice of giving back, hopefully this is a step in the right direction and will bring some good karma. I’m going to do a 5k that is sponsored by Kildares sometime in April and might even do an out an back with my Mom and Jeff. I did 3 miles on the treadmill today at 17:43 which I think will correlate to a 18:00 minute real 3 mile time. I’m in good shape but far away from Broadstreet shape where I hope to go under 60 minutes. I’ve failed the past two years but I think I know what it takes this year and with it being a full two months away and the weather getting nicer, I think I’ve build a good foundation from winter training to go after it with some longer runs.

I’m going to give credit to CK4 for thinking of something that usually skips over me. When you have an 8% abv beer in a pint glass, you are generally drinking it at the same pace as a normal Coors light draft. Meaning that you are consuming the same amount of alcohol but getting drunk at twice the speed. Obviously I know I”m drinking an 8 percenter but realizing that you are getting drunker that much quicker is the point to understand. So I’m just saying I got pretty wasted last night, went to sleep at 10 and woke up feeling like pooh. When considering the enjoyment of today with the enjoyment experienced drinking, I’d prefer to have just stayed in and done nothing but feel good today. As is, and something that isn’t a rarity, I spend my day tired and not 100%. However you make the best of it and move on. Kristen and the Noise is playing at Mad River tonight so that’s probably something that I’m going to see. Another week of the same old same old.

Everybody has their own weird things that they do which makes them unique. Sometimes these unique things make no sense at all and the normal people look at you funny. Who’s to say whats normal?

When people don’t like to finish the end of something. There will be one glass of soda left in a liter (of cola) and no one wants to be the person who finishes it because it makes you look greedy. The other thing could be that if it never gets finished, you never have to throw it out. These two things combined make lingering items. Personally, if I want something and I know it’s not mine but most likely no one would care if I had it, I go for it, no regrets.

When people are lurking around the parking lot looking for good spots up close. You can tell they just keep circling around like a pool of sharks waiting to be fed. Once I confirm that there are no spots available, I choose the best available and make do. When you do this, it also makes getting that A1 spot all the better. People are really this lazy.

I drink whole mile directly from the gallon. People have problems even understanding how other people like whole milk. 1 and 2% are just so watered down that it just has such a bland taste. I just chug it straight and I think it tastes great. Perfect for cereal because it blends the whole milk taste with whatever sugary byproduct is being released.

Evan (you have this coming by the way from the past comment) when you put dishes in the sink, you have to clean them off initially after you use them, then they go from the sink to the dishwasher. If you use the silverware and dishes, have them all dirty and grimy, let them sit for days, it makes it much harder to clear the muck from them. Plus you can’t put them directly into the dishwasher when they have hard muck on them because the dishwasher doesn’t clean them properly. This isn’t so much weird but if no one ever alerts you…

When people at the gym rest on the machine. I just really don’t understand the resting part of being on the machine. Ok you just did a set, now you have 5 minutes before you next set, get off the fucking machine. People just sit there, they stare, they sit, they wait. Naturally it’s always a machine I want to use so I just watch them and can’t confront them because I’d lose it and it would just turn nasty because I would have no kind way to approach them other then “dude you’ve been on the machine forever, shit or get off the pot.”

When people feel the need for exact change. If I have change in my pocket, I’ll try to make some simple math and get the least amount of change back. If I have enough time, I might try to get them exact change. If I’m in line, I’m not searching through my wallet to give them the amount to the penny. First off, I don’t carry change in my wallet. What is the point? I personally find change to be a burden. If it was up to me, eliminate pennies let’s round off everything to the five.

I get annoyed at people who wear head phones constantly. “I can’t be distracted by anyone and I love listening to my music so much that I’m going to isolate myself from the world and anyone who wants to talk to me is inconveniencing me by making me take off my headphones. Long rides, fine. Running, I don’t but it’s an individual thing. Ignoring the world, just take them off.

Something else that is really weird. If you have numbers in your password and then they appear on a license plate or in a phone number. I always feel like it’s some sort of a sign that I fate is bringing me to this position. Or it’s just a sick way of telling me I’m getting hacked.

I get this one sometimes at work. The person who doesn’t take no for an answer. When you tell them no, they just ask another question. When you tell them again they try more persuasion and then when you tell them goodbye they just keep talking until the phone hangs up. I guess I admire the persistence but honestly, when I tell you I have no need for what your selling, just let it be. You aren’t going to sell me if I don’t want it. I’m not weak willed and feel bad for you and buy (I did this once and it was the biggest mistake of my life).

For a quick change of subject about my life real quick. I ran 4 miles in 23:32 on a treadmill and felt pretty good. The 5 miler should be interesting because it’s going to be cold and when I was outside today, I would have dreaded running 5 miles as fast as I could in the cold. I also final tabled the 12 dollar 180 man twice in the past two days with an 8th place finish and a 4th. I haven’t been running all that well though and am sort of treading water and not getting anywhere. I finished the Soprano’s Season 1 and enjoyed it but was disappointed I don’t have any more episodes to watch. I also found the finale to be less then thrilling. Other than that I’m healthy and feel good about things.