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just hanging spelled out his name spelled out FPO but he's covering the F he spelled xylophone spelled his name again and now he's reading a novel

I recently got a couple new tattoos...I'll post about them later...but somehow while searching for tattoo stuff I happened upon Fuck Yeah Tattoos  and I found this one. From Fuck Yeah Tattoos...not mine. The words comes from a Mark Twain quote: Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. It's so true...so do everything you want to do...take risks....have fun....and don't take life too seriously. Have fun.

September 17-23

Sure it sounds to good to be true, but it is in fact true...and I'll get to that soon. This post was originally going to be an open letter but I decided to push that back a week to offer one lucky person fame beyond their wildest dreams. You see I saw this thing called Twitchange ...it's basically a tweet auction to help the folks in Haiti. You can bid on a retweet or a mention from a bunch of celebs, like Zach Levy, Jessica Alba, Demi Moore and more (hah). What's cool about it is the money is going to a good cause. And I guess if you want some exposure to a bunch of folks on twitter it's a good way to get that. So I wondered how I could get in on this action. Then I recall something I said to Jamie, The Baby Guy , whom I met last week. I said that I was going to make my first million from my fake retweets.  What's a fake retweet you ask? I'd say go to Urban Dictionary to find out but they rejected it. Seriously, they rejected it...have you seen that thing?...

There is a bit of a theme going on with some of these...a bit of rebellion. I don't mean it to be like that...I just want Miloh to grow up, be his own person. Wisdom for Miloh: dress the job you want I was told that a few times and on the surface it seems like a really obvious statement. I mean you should always think of your next career move, or next 2, and preparing for that early is a good idea. So yeah...dressing the job you want makes sense. BUT...there's actually a lot more to that comment then there seems. First time I was told to do that I ignored it. I think people should be judged on what they do not how they look. Obviously there are exceptions for people who come to work dressed like shit, but in my case I was wearing dress shirts, ties and a sport coat to work...I was told to wear more suits...blech. Second time I was told to dress the job I want I ignored it again... The third time the comment was said it hit me. I did want to advance my career, be...

September 10-16 FYI A lot of the times I pick my colors from a nature photo. This one came from a this pic of a coral reef.

Generally I like to add the "anti" into "social media" and so I haven't done any of those blog work shop things...but Becky from Mommy Wants Vodka had a great idea she's calling a John C Mayer . If you're too lazy to click the link it's basically about getting a blog post ranked high in searches of a celeb. So I'm going to Vanilla Ice , or should I say  Robbie Van Winkle , the hell out of this post. Why did I choose Vanilla Ice , Ice "Robbie" Van Winkle, Vanilla Ice Winkle or plain old Rob Van Winkle? Not really sure. I was never a fan of Vanilla Ice (or Robbie Van Winkle) at all. When Ice Ice Baby , written by Robbie Van Winkle himself at the tender age of 16, came out I was listening to punk stuff...so I never bought one of Robbie Van Winkle's albums. But I find the guy a bit intriguing...he was on that VH1 show Surreal Life in which he was pissed that people still called him Vanilla Ice instead of Robbie Van Winkle. Real...