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#BlogEveryDay – Self Promotion

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Always carry a business card.

Never miss an opportunity to promote yourself. Never.

I have a mustache.

Yesterday, someone told me I looked like his old friend, Salvador Dali. I spent a couple minutes talking to this nice old man, mostly because he knew Dali, but also because he appreciated my mustache in a public setting.

This happens a lot.  The girl at the register also complimented it and I in return complimented her many, many tattoos.

This morning at Quick Check, my morning trip in which I produce the day’s supply of Red Bull and beef jerky, the clerk at the counter paused to talk about how awesome my mustache was.  I half wanted to hurry out of that place, with it’s leaky roof and interesting crowd, but I took those precious seconds and let him know how much fun it is to be fancy.

And that’s whats important in life, being fancy. Promoting what you do.  Never miss an opportunity to make an impression on somehow, no matter how much of a rush you are in.

Mustaches make people smile and for recognizing that I have one, I thank you.

#BlogEveryDay – Luck

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I don’t know if people can be cursed, but I have strong evidence to support the following claim: bad luck exists.  My one friend never rolls a d20 well, he also can’t roll d6s with consistency.  Another friend can never get good Magic cards when he buys a box. My cousin? H can grab 20 dice and get 3 successes against ‘nids in 40k.

Random.org is quite possibly one of the best websites ever dreampt up. According to their schtick, they take a camera, point it at a dark space and analyze the static.  Static is random by nature.  Sure, we can probably guess at where static will appear, but to guess what form it will have would take more processing power than available to humans.

When I open a pack of MtG cards these days, I’m finding myself with better and better cards.  This is fine and dandy since I’m in sell mode, constantly trying to break even.  I fear there will come a day when I actually want to keep… I shouldn’t say that because I may keep these Ral Zareks I got in my booster box, Izzit seems like a fun guild to play.  I have 3 Pyrewilf Shamans that are tricky beasts, having something akin to flashback.  I also noticed, while sorting MtG cards that I have 2 Guttersnips, a neat little trick.

Either way, I must have rolled high Luck when I was born, and I love it.

#BlogEveryDuuuu-Duuu-Daaayyyyy: My brain hurts

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I, uh, suffer from the occasional migraine.  Often they’re fairly debilitating, but many times, they go away fairly quickly.  Not this one. This one hit me at 9AM, before I was due to go to breakfast.  So we went out to brunch at Cheesecake Factory. Now, while I have my gripes about their Sunday Brunch not being served on days other than Sunday… tangent: despite there being no delimiter to the contrary, other than time constraints of which I met, the brunch should be served all weekend or the header should be adjusted to state Sunday Brunch is explicitly served on Sunday… I have to say that I very much enjoy their dishes. Cheesecake’s plates are often oversized and their waitstaff is usually superb.  I think over the course of my life I encountered 1 poor performer at this location.

I’m going to count this as a “review” of the Cheesecake Factory located at Menlo Park Mall in Edison, NJ; they get 4 out of 5 mountains of excellence, losing 1 mountain because I can never get a table on a Friday night (but hey, that’s where I live, stupid 500,000 people going out to dinner at the same time). Oh, and they have too much garlic in their scampy.

#BlogEveryDay – Cats

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Cats are creative little shits.

For the past few days, my desktop computer has been on when I’ve gotten home.  I’ve literally thought nothing of it, attributing it to someone bumping the button, it’s really no big deal.  But this morning as I stumbled into the shower, I noticed one cat was sitting on the footrest to my Poang chair and thought it was awfully peculiar.  Had that cat not turned and looked at the other cat that was on top of my desktop computers, computers that have vented-tops. Needless to say, there are now cardboard boxes everywhere.

#BlogEveryDay – Famous People Never Learn

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Steve Weatherford, I’m looking at you.  I’ll be completely honest, #WeatherfordWednesday is hilarious and I love when Steve is on Boomer & Carton, he’s truly a stand-up guy, interesting dude, and hell of a punter.  If he were to go into radio after his time with the NY Giants, I would go out of my way to listen to him, because that’s just how awesome he is.  Super Bowl Rings? Booyah, you helped make all those years when I suffered as NY Giants fan worth it.  Thank you for everything you do.

But famous people never learn. If you are going to try to make something a thing, make sure you register the website for that thing.  If you don’t, someone like me is going to take your thing and try to benefit from it.  Example A: WeatherfordWednesday.com, a website dedicated to showing who’s tweeting the hashtag #WeatherfordWednesday.  Now this might not seem like much, but if anyone else searches for this hashtag, they might stumble upon this url and be like, “Woah, this is awesome!” and that’s where I come in, monetizing your, in all honesty, pretty awesome thing. Nothing malicious, just trying to promote myself for a measly $20.