I used to live in Spokane, Washington. I hated it when I moved there. I thought it was a po dunk shit hole to be blunt. A meth house on every corner it seemed. I was with someone else at that point in my life, I didn’t even know B. The girl I was with had it rough because I was unhappy, continually putting down where I lived. It was her home town and she adored it. I was, in short, an asshole about it. No nice way to say it.

I was there for her, but I wasn’t happy about it. My own fault really.. but that’s another story.

As time went on, I started to get used to my surroundings. I started to actually like Spokane. I met some great friends, started into a little routine, kidnapping tourists and making skin coats and well, I wasn’t unhappy about where I lived anymore. I quite enjoyed it. Weird how life can be. It’s really as tough as you make it.

I haven’t lived in Washington state now for over six years. Time flies when you’re having fun hey? I do miss my friends in Spokompton at times, especially The Glen (even tho he no longer resides in the spokompt hood). If I hadn’t moved back to Canada when I did, my life would rolled in a different direction. I’d have never ended up meeting Bryci and I’d probably be a different person. In my opinion, she’s such a major part of my life, if it weren’t for her, without doubt I’d be a different man. I might even have three arms.

HEY. YOU DON’T KNOW FOR SURE. FUCK YOU.

I guess what I am saying here, is that sometimes… life will throw you a curve you didn’t see coming. Maybe you’ll end up moving somewhere like I did and you’ll be unhappy, as I was. In time you’ll see the unhappiness was all in your head, and as soon as you decided to stop being five, shit got better.  That’s what happened for me anyway, maybe you’ll be more fortunate and find your way to happiness even quicker than I did. For your sanity, I hope so.

I have had some curves thrown my way in life, who hasn’t? Sometimes you figure it just can’t get any worse… and then it does. Ha! I know dude, I know. We’ve all been there. It does get better though. Eat Shreddies, I’m just sayin… if those happy diamonds can’t make ya smile, pfffft, you’re pretty much set to be unhappy for life.

Shreddies are teh bomb!

Snap.

It is almost 4:22 am. OMGOMGOMGOMG I am so fackin facked

Jack (our little destroyer of worlds) will be awake at about 7:15am area to go pee. It will be at this time I will pull my sleepy ass from slumber and walk him to the patio door, telling him… GO PEE JACK. He will trot over to his green and let fluid fly. Upon such time I will bring him in and grab the blanket near the door that has been marked with jack’s scent. I will then clean his under-carriage so it’s not damp, you know male dogs, their generally get wet when they piss. I will then trot Sir Prissy Pants aka princess into the bedroom where Bryci lay dormant… safe in the knowledge I will wake her not, from her dreams.

I shall lift his majesty skyward to the bed so he can lick himself into a frenzy in style whilst I crash the fuck out.

Face it, if you could go to town on yer bidniz, you would too. You know you would. Don’t even lie.

Upon waking, you can color my ass sitting in this chair working on Katie’s new site. It’s sooo close.

If all goes well, we go live tonight.

I wonder which site I shall engage myself with next? hmmm…

damn I am tired. I was in bed too, almost asleep and then I remembered I had to submit something to ccbill for approval for co-launch with Katie’s site. One couldn’t take place without the other and nobody likes a slacker.

Well, I like slackers, they make me look goooood… but you get my what I’m saying.

One last thing…

I posted this pic in the randoms area. I said it was our bathroom. Some of you have been watching this regularly, hoping to see Bryci.

You.are.retards. There. I said it.

This is not our bathroom. This is an animated gif consisting of two frames. on and off. er… red dot on, red dot off.

If you are one of the many I snafu’d with this, go into your bathroom, lift the toilet seat up. Lay your head on the rim, use toilet paper as a safe clean barrier from da germs if you must.

Now, slam the seat downward unto your melon as fast as you can, repeatedly until blood pours from your ears.

Please. Thank you. I would if I could but you know… you’re there, I’m here… there’s that whole awkward thing about being in the same bathroom with a stranger… anywhoo…

STOP WATCHING DA GIF. Seriously.

We aren’t ever going to show up in this animated gif. Ever.

Ok kids, enough of the funnies. I’m giggling at my own dumb jokes and oh look, it’s 4:38am.

Jack’s bladder is on count down mode at this point. fuck. I wonder if I taped a balloon to his wiener, if that’d work.

will get back to you on this.

What did you look like when you were a kid? Have you blossomed into your own or are you still in that awkward phase? I had glasses growing up, still have them actually… but I wear contacts most of the time. I got teased of course in school by some kids. You know how it goes, the kids that are different got shit on, I figure we all got it to some degree didn’t we?

I often look back and wonder how different people turned out, if they are still assholes or still quiet reserved people. If they still bully those around them or if they still cower in the corner, afraid to speak when spoken to.

Many years have passed since then, but the principal remains the same. There are still assholes, There are still reserved people. The people that were ignored or once deemed to be ugly seemed to have come into their looks and are now considered attractive, where as many of the ‘cute kids’ from back then are just average now. Karma perhaps?

It sucks that we’re a society that bases who is important and who is disposable on our outward appearance, but that’s pretty much it, isn’t it? That’s somewhat of a blanket statement I suppose.. but yes, looks matter. The pretty girl gets hired over the normal girl usually, the good looking guy gets hired over the normal guy. Just the way it is. We all want to talk to the pretty person, it makes us feel like we fit it, like we’re part of the cool crowd or something.

I like it when I see a photo of someone from the past, like a celebrity for example. Seeing what they looked like as a child and then knowing who they are what they look like now. Makes me wonder about the kids that picked on them growing up. How the road from being the nerd to being accepted must have been a welcome one, and one that they look back on and smile about. Knowing just how kick ass their life is now, while those that discounted them as a turd burglar while growing up, probably now have a boring lame ass existence.

Ah yes, Karma works in amazing ways.

Case in point…

You have got to know Ryan Seacrest (pictured above) had his share of bullshit growing up. Look where he is now though. One might say he’s paid his dues and then some on the grand scale of life.

Yes, I love how the universe rights itself. Maybe it has fuck all to do with the universe and it’s just us fighting back against the cards we were dealt. Who knows. =)

I was beside myself the other day. I was in the bank, doing some stuff and the guy at the teller beside me wasn’t getting his way. He was pissed cause the teller wouldn’t cash his check for him or something. So he asks for the guy’s number and tells him that he will phone him when he gets authorization to clear the check.

The guy freaks out and says, you’re not going to cash this right now?

The teller says no.

The guy tells the teller to shove the authorization up his ass, and then calls him a racist slur. I am not going to repeat the term because well, it doesn’t need repeating.

I was stunned though. I mean, to hear someone flat out call someone else this to their face, with no regard for anything… wow. Unreal. Is this 1960 Alabama?

What the hell do I know? I’m white and have always been white. I don’t know of the difficulties that people of other nationalities feel on a day to day basis. I don’t know how many people look at them differently, or are rude to them for whatever reason.

The guy in the bank needed his teeth kicked in is what he needed. Arian prick. Violence doesn’t solve things, I know, but holy shit fingers, this guy was a fucking clown. The teller was polite, nice, doing his job. This guy has to feel like a man because he didn’t get his way so he throws a racist term on the table? Really? Where the fuck do we live, the deep south? I wasn’t aware the KKK was alive and thriving in my little corner of Canada.

What a fucktard. I was looking right at him in disbelief, and it’s probably a good thing Chuckles didn’t look at me because he’d have probably asked me what the fuck my problem is… and well, I don’t really keep my nose in my own business usually. I have this bad habit of trying to stand up for my fellow man. I was raised rather old fashioned I think.

People often wish the world was a better place… yet they do fuck all to help out. Be the change people, one small thing DOES make a difference.

Anyway… I am not good at keeping out of things. I probably should keep to myself more. In the past… I’ve straight armed a shoplifter that was running from in store security and was coming straight for me. I wasn’t trying to be a hero, reality is it was stupid of me to step in given the circumstances. Dude was coming right at me and started to throw a punch to go through me since he was running and I was between him and the door (I was entering the store at the time). Martial arts training kicked in and I reacted without thinking. I can still remember going home to Bryci and telling her about it because my adrenaline was pumping and I was so proud of myself for taking this guy down and helping out. I can also recall the look she gave me… like I was dumb as a bag of hammers for getting in this dude’s path. he could have pulled a knife, a gun, who knows. She is right of course.

The fucktard at the bank though… yeah, I could totally have seen myself getting into it with him. It’s funny because I am such a passive guy, friendly and chill. That is until I’m pushed, and then I’m…well… not that guy. I think we all have the other side of us that comes out sometimes, right?

Pisses me off though, the guy needed a throat kick for sure. What would you have done in my shoes? I was hungry as fuck at the time, I’d been driving a long time that day prior… so it’s definitely good that I didn’t get into something. Energy is needed sometimes and well, I had next to none.

It’s 5:38am and I am awake. I have a big day ahead of me, so I had to wake early.

Today I am getting married.

I’m getting a sex change today.

Today, I announce my candidacy for President of the United States of JamesDot

Today, is the first day of the rest of your life.

Today, I try Diet Coke, with Bacon.

Ok, ok, today is just another day. It’ll be busy though, no rest for the wicked, ya know?

Today I am not getting married, I am not getting a sex change, I am for damn sure the President of these parts though. Wut.

Maybe McDonalds is open for some of that deadly stuff they call Breakfast. Hmmm….

Morning world.

So tomorrow is the big day.

Apple will once again change the game as we know it. The changed the way we listen to music when they brought us the iPod. No, they weren’t the first portable music player, but they were/are the best and it’s what the industry considers to be the standard to which all other portable music players are measured against.

They then brought us the iPhone and in 3 years, completely changed the cell phone world. If you’ve ever played with an iPhone for any length of time… hate it as you’d like to, you secretly end up wanting one for yourself. Yes, they are that cool.

 
Is this really the iTab?

Tomorrow, January 27th, Apple will introduce the iTablet or iTab for short. There have been many names connected with this new product, iSlate, iMactab, and others.. but I’m predicting the simplest, will prevail. iTab, short of iTablet. Hey, it’s a guess. We’ll know tomorrow right?

So what’s the big deal about this tablet thingy anyway? Why will it become a game changer? Simple… because of what it represents.

Digital print.

Amazon brought out the Kindle and it quickly became the fastest and best selling eReader available. Does it do video, games, all sorts of cool shit and also have apps? Nope.

Think of the coolness of the iPhone… in a larger format. Now think of all the trees not being destroyed because there is a viable option for digital print to the masses. Make the iTab internet friendly and it surfs websites, reads newspapers, browses catalogs.

This is what an Ikea catalog might look like for example. How cool is this?

Apple could save the print industry in a lot of ways by having them relocate digitally. That way they can still have their advertisers, people can subscribe digitally like they used to with magazines, newspapers etc. No more waiting for the newest copy to show up, no more month delay for news to be fresh. This can tie in with the company’s websites, rss feeds, you name it.

Starting to see how this is going to be a game changer, once again?

I’m sure I sound like an Apple fanboy and truth is, I do own a Mac Pro, an iPod, iPhone and soon… most likely, an iTab as well. I also own a windows 7 machine that I spend most my time on… so I am not completely in Apple’s grasp. I just like things that work, and so far, Apple is kicking everyone’s ass, badly.

I had high hopes for Droid and Google’s Android system but I think it will always fall just a little shy… hell, right now as it is Droid users are scrambling to sell their phones because of the 3G woes. I’m sure those will be fixed and you can’t have new technology without bumps.. so Android will improve.

An example of Wired magazine, or how it could work on the iTab.

Print magazines, books, newspapers… all available because you and I both know there will be hundreds of knock offs of the iTab within years of it coming out, just as there were with the iPod and iPhone. Now imagine the trees not getting shredded.

Sure, it’s not a perfect outcome, many trees will still be destroyed for other paper usage but still.. this is a step in the right direction isn’t it?

Apple keeps on getting richer. If you have money to buy stocks, invest as in, now.