Still Decent But...

Good Show tonight, had few local hip hop acts.  The headliners ended up canceling though, they had a head on collision on the way to the show.  Thankfully they were ok.  Still a decent show, decent turnout but never fun having a band unable to make it.

The weather wasn't terrible but visibility was very bad and it snowed most of the day.  I picked Becca up from the airport and while the roads weren't slippery it still wasn't pleasant driving to and from the airport.

Nothing quite says spring like a snow storm.  That's Colorado for you though, It always snows spring break week or around it.  I remember freshmen year coming back from spring break and having 3 days of school canceled because Fort Collins got hit with the worst snow storm in 75 years.  It was pretty cool we built a 13 foot all snow structure that I thought resembled some kind of rocket ship.  Some perverted RA thought it looked like something else and had us knock it down.  Some people...

Working at a bar is relatively easy and many times a hell of a lot of fun.  However the hours and stress can be very tough on both mind and body.  Staying healthy, getting good sleep, and managing stress are very difficult.  The lack of good sleep really makes the other two things much harder.  I find that my temper is shorter, I'm bit more emotional (although I think I do a good job of not showing it), more irritable, and very clumsy (which can be a sign of sleep deprivation).  I'm hoping if I can avoid eating and exercise before bed and do some light reading I'll sleep better.  I noticed when I quit drinking alcohol energy drinks, and soda for that week I slept a lot better too for a bit. 

Given my rather lofty goals I need to be functioning at peak efficiency.  I'll have to improve my sleep habits if I'm going to get anywhere.

Tomorrow is another day and sometimes thats a bit depressing. 

Sure I'll feel better after some sleep.

You can tell you're in Boulder when...

Oh dear God, The Power of Crystals Compels Us.  A story today from dailycamera.com reports that police were called to an apartment complex after a resident had a suspicious package delivered to him.  The resident not knowing what the hell it was threw it in the dumpster and called the cops.  After "disarming" the box with a water disruption charge the police discovered crystals with electronics embedded in them. The energy crystals as they're called are meant to energize the user, in this case the guy who lived one apartment over.

This just goes to show you what fake hippie posers live in Boulder.  Embedding man made electronics in crystals? Come on, anyone who knows anything about crystals know that the power of a naturally occurring crytal is infinitely more powerful than anything man made.  That's like putting a firecracker on a atomic bomb.  Did you hear a pop when it went off?  I think not.

The police spokesperson called the package "harmless".  No shit, a bunch of soiled crystals aren't only harmless, they're worthless.  I bet that misguided hippie who ordered them goes to CU, probably even graduated from one of their science programs and is going to grad school to get his masters in bullshit.

This ladies and Gentlemen, is why I live in Fort Collins.

I remain

Day after St. Patties I should be hung over right?

Had a good St. Patties day.  Buddy was able to score some free tickets to the Av's game in Denver.  Tickets got us parking and and food too, I got some nice friends.

The tickets were free, and I was able to grab a beer and hot dog for free too.  But I still broke a few of my rules.I bought some drinks, some whiskey and cokes so had soda.  I did not break my rule of diet soda and liquor though.  Pretty lame though, I came up with all this stuff I was going to do and then didn't follow through, got to start over.  Today and from now on I guess.

Too much to do, not enough time to do it...But I feel optimistic today. And for all the rules I broke last night, it was a damn good time. 

Today is another chance to get it right.

Just a Test

Just a test, playing with one of my side projects. Maybe I'll be able to do something with it.

The Amorous Adventures of Ashida Kim and my Super Sexy Adventure

I don't always know what to blog about.  It can't always be about how I'm going to save a little cash or mopping floors which makes it challenging to blog everyday.  Every once and awhile though something falls in your lap and you have to share it with the world.  A special thanks to Keith, how you found this I don't know but I could write about it for weeks.  Ladies and gentlemen I present to you

The Amorous Adventures of Ashida Kim

From to DojoPress.com: 

"The Amorous Adventures of Ashida Kim is the chronicle of his fifth trip to Africa in the service of Yudansha International as an intelligence operative. His "cover story" at that time was being a "bouncer in a brothel." These are the tales of the ladies he met and helped during that turbulent period, that provide a glimpse into how the "real" world works, behind the scenes, inside the secret meetings, and how real warriors behave, regardless of the venue of their employment. As a first person narrative, it also provides a certain degree of insight into the mind of martial arts master and soldier of fortune- Ashida Kim. Rumor had it at one time that this property would be the screenplay for a soon to be released motion picture. Those plans did not materialize because of political considerations. The script, however, is still available."

Yep, apparently this is a true story.  According to Phil Elmore who actually read the book and reviewed it here, the story involves Ashida Kim being sent by ninja masters to South Africa to work as a bouncer at a brothel and if he can save the day he'll be allow to go take care of some other Ninja who went to Africa and opened a whore house instead of a karate dojo.  The usual ninja thing, you know pupil breaks from clan and opens whore house so the ninja clan sends the closest thing to Patrick Swayze they have to a different whore house to kick some ass and make some sweet love to some misguided prostitutes with daddy issues.  It's such a shame that "political considerations" kept this from becoming a movie.  Who wouldn't want to watch suave Ashida and some lovely hooker "...wrapped in the throws of passion, driving, thrusting deeper and harder than before, reaping the complete joy of our union..."

Dear God what is wrong with this man?  This is beyond bad.  Not the enjoyable Showdown in Little Tokyo bad, I'm talking really, really, really bad.  Not even Dolph Lundgren could save this book.

There is hope though.  Despite stating that "I am forbidden by law and convention from engaging in personal combat, since my hands and feet are considered lethal weapons," Ashida Kim is more then willing to accept a challenge and "...embarrass you in front of all your friends."  You just need to front $10,000.  And play by his rules.  Oh and you can't win $10,000 from him although he'll let you have a cut of the door since you'll be fighting at some kind of event center and it'll cost money to watch the fight.  Maybe I should start trying to raise money to fight Ashida Kim.  I can write a book to raise money.  The cover will probably look something like this: 

It'll be Super Sexy

For the complete review of this book go here

If for whatever terrible reason you want to buy it go here

For some other opinions on Ashida Kim go here or for a less serious take go here.  The last link has a fun video of Ashida trying to levitate.  Seriously he lifts his legs up and has a guy with a hula hoop try to show that he indeed is floating. 

I'll start training tomorrow for my fight with Ashida Kim.  Or sleep in, who knows...

I remain,

Damon

Lonely Night

Dropped the woman off at the airport yesterday, wish she were still here.  Would rather fall asleep next to her then 4 dogs, one of whom (Tasha!) has terrible gas.  I swear she's got a stash of dead squirrels she nibbles on in the back yard and then comes and farts it all over me.

On a much more pleasant note, I deposited all my jar money in my bank account and transferred it to my PayPal money market account.  The interest rate right now is 5%.  Between the $420 from my 6 bags and $216 from my jar I deposited $636 in my PayPal account.

Still along ways to go.  I decided that I won't eat out or order food anymore except on Monday when Becca(The Woman) and I go out for .89 cent margaritas and chips and dip at Casa's.  Plenty of times at work I'll order a pizza or whatever instead of bringing in lunch or eating before I go to work.  I bet I can save on average $20 a week, so $80 a month, or $960 a year.  Tomorrow I'm going to cancel my Block Buster plan too.  It's $20 a month and I can sign up for Netflix, get 10 free days and pay $8.99 a month and watch an unlimited amount movies online and have one movie out a time which works because I'm usually too busy to watch more than a movie or two a week.  I'll save $10 a month so $120 a year.

So between the Netflix deal, and if I can stick to no eating out and no lotto tickets I should save around $1500 a year.  It's a start...

The dream jar (well dream paypal account) has $216 in it.  Only $9,999,784.00 left.

Dreams of fake I.D's and do little weiner dogs taste like hot dogs?

I slept in till 2 today, how terrible is that?  I think I'm getting sick though, so all that sleep was probably good for me.  Emo Steve show tonight, should be quick easy night.  I love Emo Steve, someday he'll be 21 and we can quit serving him shots of cranberry juice.  Mmmm...cranberry

I had a dream about pulling a fake I.D. this morning.  I put a uv light to it and also googled it to double check if it was real.  It wasn't.  How sad am I?

My girlfriend and her roommate left me their dogs for spring break.  I've got 4 of them running around the house.

Money saving tip #2, eat the dog that barks the most...jk I love Copper

I'll bet he taste like a little hot dog.

Diet Coke and Whiskey?

It's definitely spring break in Fort Collins.  The town was slow and Hodi's was no exception.  I sat behind the bar bored and trying to stay awake for most of the night.  For some reason there did seem to be a fair amount of larger girls walking around Old Town, as if half the people who decided to go out tonight were girls who didn't want to go anywhere for spring break where they'd risk being seen in swimsuits.

Maybe that was a bit mean.  I'm sure they all have wonderful personalities.

Some asshole tipped $4 on a $42 tab.  Most of those drinks were $3 well singles too, so I served him a fair amount of drinks, a lot of whiskey and diet cokes.  What self respecting man mixes diet soda with boozes?  Is he watching his figure?  It's almost as bad as guys who order cosmos or wear scarves (Disclaimer:  After much debate the Hodi's staff has decided that it's ok for guys to wear scarves so long as the temperature is under 0 degrees Fahrenheit).  Hope that douche bag had to walk home with a cold neck and wakes up tomorrow feeling fat.

So I mentioned in last post that I'd blog about what I was doing to save money.  After not winning the power ball I've decided that first thing I can do to start saving money is to quit buying $10 of lotto tickets a week.  It'd be nice to win but it's probably not gonna happen and I'd like to earn my fortune anyway.  At $10 a week thats $40 a month in saving and $480 a year.

More saving and plotting to come but it's late so I'll go with decision number one, no more lotto tickets.


The dream jar has $131.47  I've decided I should retire at 30 with $10,000,000.  Only $9,999,868.53 left to go.

Game on.