I passed by a gas station today with a huge grand opening banner. Is there any business value in that? I can't imagine anyone choosing a gas station, because it's their grand opening.

I'm thrilled about Futurama being back.



For those of you with a sense of humour that has matured beyond the ripe age of 14, this is what you missed from last night's episode.

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I've been a member of facebook since its inception, when the domain was still thefacebook.com, when they had the crappy logo that looked like a younger version of Dave Grohl, when you could change text on the page by modifying the URL. It was a time when I much younger and my legs more limber, a time lost to history, to the ambitious dreams of young men who are now old boys. A wise man named Confucious once said, "Dinosaurs came before man, but because they only recorded their history in paper books without making digital backups in secure locations, when the meteor hit, all their legacy was lost in flames and decay; and now man now depicts dinosaurs as large, clumsy, destructive demons and not the angels they may or may not have been."

The point is a couple weeks ago I reached a personal milestone on facebook. After 5+ years, I finally changed my profile picture. Don't worry, though, my graduation pic that I have on nutang is still 5 years and counting.

My next milestone is to break into the double digit of friendships. You can be my 10th friend. Click the link below and add me as a friend.

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Four weeks ago, I alluded to doing something later that week that I should've done a long time ago. That Friday, I put in my 2 week resignation. Two weeks ago was 2 weeks from the day I put in that 2 week resignation.

Thus, I have been relinquished from the chains of my corporate job for 2 weeks now. For 2 weeks, I have been free.

I am now a free man. I am now a vagabond. I am now a free vagabond. I am now retired. I am now a free, retired man, AKA a vagabond.

You can call me Bond.

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This weekend, I put out a couple sites.

One is called Dave's Deals. It's a compilation of online promotions that I've gathered. Right now, it has 20 free gift card promotions. Here's a tasty selection:
- $50 subway gift card
- $500 target gift card
- $250 Ikea gift card
- $500 coach (the bag company) gift card

Don't forget to join the mailing list on the site. Also, I created a pps opportunity (up to 100 pps!) around helping market my new site: http://www.nutang.com/forums.php?thread=471.

The other is my ebook site (that I mentioned in my previous post). I'll release the URL a bit later. Right now, it's pretty much a landing page for me to gauge interest in the topic.

In other news, later this week, I will do something I should have done a long time ago.

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What I did has been done and what I done has been did. That is the mantra I have never operated my life under and it has gotten me no where.

This is the final week of my (fantasy) basketball season. It's make or break week for me. If I win this series, then I make it in the playoffs. Otherwise, I will clench my fists into balls of teeth.

Wow, and this (video below) is a creepy blast from my creepy past. Watch it and then erase it from your memories. That's an exercise on effective use of time.



Yesterday, after reading dis and das, I've decided to write an ebook. Today, I started. Tomorrow will be the day after the day I started and 2 days after the day I decided to write an ebook. The next day will be the day after tomorrow. Countless days later will bring us to 2012.

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Wow, it's almost been a full year since my last post. Since then...

Not much has happened.

But, despite the uneventfulness of 2009, now, in 2010, I am about to embark on a new chapter of life--one that I will capture in little to a lot of detail upon these pages. It will be first of several resolutions that I made for myself this year. In fact, 2010 has the first year I have ever made any New Year resolutions.

With that said, let recount the top 5 FML moments of 2010. The list may or may not be accurate due to lack of comprehensiveness of my memory compounded with the strategic repression of major FML moments.

Here we go...

5. my ipod broke -- For the longest time, too poor and frugal to procure a mp3 player (actually, I still don't technically have one--I the mp3 feature on my cell), I had to live my life without the companion of music during painfully boring times. One example would be running on the treadmill WITH NO MUSIC!!!!! FML!!!!!

4. ceiling leak -- I had a ceiling leak (due to some AC issue). However, I didn't realize until a couple days later, because the sound of the drip was drastically reduced DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE LEAK WAS COINCIDENTALLY OVER AN OPEN SUITCASE I HAD WITH CLOTHES INSIDE!!!!! FML!!!!!!

3. cheap ass company -- My company is French and my company is cheap. My company has had 2 straight years of raises freezes, WHEREBY RAISES ARE CONSTRAINED TO 0-3%!!!!! FML!!!!!! Inflation and the cost of living adjustment is greater than that. So, in effect, I'M GETTING PAID LESS EACH YEAR!!!!!! FML TO THE MAX!!!!!

2. in Europe with no clothes -- Screwed over by time and space and American Airlines, it took me well over 24 hours to arrive in Rome from Los Angeles. Tired, sticky, and FMLing to the max, I arrived in the crappy Rome airport only to find THAT MY LUGGAGE WAS LOST SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY!!!!! FML TO THE EXTREME!!!!!

1. stolen wallet -- My wallet was stolen in the metro (i.e. subways) of Madrid. DAMN SPANIARDS!!!!! This was on the last day of my vacation, thereby giving me NO OPPORTUNITY TO END ON A POSITIVE NOTE!!!!! FML TO THE HYPER-F!!!!!

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