#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.

#BlogEveryDay – eBay

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eBay is great. Fees? Not so much, but all of the largest platforms have fees. I think I lose around 9% of a sale on eBay to miscellaneous fees. This isn’t so bad on items where I’m making large profits, such as Warhammer Bits (I would love to provide a link, but due to recent policy changes, most bit sellers have shut down), but on things where profits are slim, it sucks. I was in the black on warhammer bits, it was wonderful. Then Games Workshop… well, shut everyone down. They shut down the websites. They shutdown the stores. They shutdown the bloggers, forum posters and forum hosts. As I sit here looking at 23,000+ auctions for “warhammer 40k” auctions, eBay is the last holy ground for these sales.

eBay is great for selling things at a higher value than you’d get on specialty sites. Take Magic the Gathering cards, they sell for 40-50% more on eBay than on a website like tcgplayer. Honestly, I’m glad people buy things on eBay, I ain’t complaining. Hopefully, I’ll start a store on eBay and link it back to brtw2.com, but that won’t be for a little while.

#BlogEveryDay – The New York Rangers

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I was born to love the New York Rangers. No really, I swear, my mother and father conceived me just so they could raise a NY Rangers fan. And this is where it becomes akward, because my father is an Islanders fan and my mother is NJ Devils fan. When I was 1 year old, my family moved out of the small, squat, 900 sq. ft. house (yes, house) that my father put $1 down on and moved into a 19th century victorian, a house with a NAME. Thank you von Schoder, for having such wonderful taste in two-layer crown moulding, marble fireplaces, and large brick ovens.

My room was adorned with a NYR sticker in 1988 that still survives to this day. That sticker was a reminder to the young version of myself that I was to watch MSG (Madison Square Garden’s television network) every night because that’s just what I had to do.

It’s 2013 and the New York Rangers finished as the 6th seed, an amazing feat in which they ended the season 10-3-1, with Lunqvist (G) having a 0.922 save average, amongst the highest in the league. Playoffs start up this Thursday and I’m ready to see my team make it out of the first round!