Well Happy New Year to all!

Sorry I took a blogging sabatical but I am going to try to step my game back up in 2009. Because I stopped blogging consistently around August, I fell very short of my goal number of posts for 2008. That sucks.

As far as the rest of the goals I set for 2008...

I made some strides with my financial situation but not good enough ones. The bills never stop and I owe more that I make in a year. If suddenly I had to pay rent or had a car payment...well, I can't pay for either of those right now and my car has over 200,000 miles on it so it is a pretty scary proposition. The condo has renters at least, and they pay on time every month...but their rent doesn't cover my monthly payments for the place so the condo continues to be the biggest mistake I've ever made (sorry to my exes that were hoping they were my biggest mistake) and it continues to cost me $3000 a year. My car was also broken in to while on a date and I lost about $2000 worth of DJ equipment, plus the cost of a new window and I had to cancel a job the night that I got robbed. And in this economic environment, there are no raises, no bonuses and less dj jobs to go around. I just feel like I should be making more money as I turn 35 years old. If I could find someone to date me for any length of time, I can't afford to have a family, go on a vacation, live together...

I never started my guitar lessons....that was dependant on me doing better financially.

I stayed 10 pounds lighter than I started 2008, consistently for the majority of the year but I still need to get in better shape.

The last one was the hardest, try to do some work on the me inside...the one that isn't taking care of me and gets in dispicable relationships and stays in them for years. I haven't done any work in that department and that still draws on my self esteem and financially.

Anyway, it's good to be back and as I struggle with this stuff, I will continue to try to entertain you with it.

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Follow up to the cop story...

So, the long over due follow up to that big ordeal with the cop is that I ended up going to the station house and making a taped statement against the guy and so did my friend that he verbally attacked. The cops followed up with both of us pretty agressively to get us to do that...so apparently they really do not approve of his behavior. When I got there to make my statement, he already had typed and signed copies from the good cop, the bar manager, and one other witness.

Unfortunately I don't know what kind of trouble he got in, but it was satisfying that they really wanted to hear from me and that even the captain told me that he didn't think I did anything wrong and was treated in an unacceptable manner.

So, score one for the good guys!

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Sunday Secret

If I wasn't looking for girls...which is 99% of the time, looking for sex, I have almost no use for the internet.

I don't know how someone can spend hours on line if they aren't looking for chicks on craigslist.

Wishes

Wishes
Here I am
On my own
It gets hard sometimes
When I'm travelling this empty world all alone
And I get tired
And oh, I get oh so weak
And I need for someone to come rescue me

To help me along
To catch when I miss
To show me where I ought to be
So I can be strong
And face all of this
That my life tries to discourage me with

With a little luck will I find you
And if I do
Is it you who'll make my dreams come true
Just a little bit of happiness
Is all that I wish
And I hope that you can grant me this

When I look
At my life
Oh, and where I've been
And I wonder if this story has a happy ending
Like they always do
But if my wish comes true
I just hope and pray I always can depend on you

To help me along
To catch when I miss
To show me where I ought to be
So I can be strong
And face all of this
That my life tries to discourage me with

With a little luck will I find you
And if I do
Is it you who'll make my dreams come true
Just a little bit of happiness
Is all that I wish
And I hope that you can grant me this

With a little luck will I find you
And if I do
Is it you who'll make my dreams come true
Just a little bit of happiness
Is all that I wish
And I hope that you can grant me this

With a little luck will I find you
And if I do
Is it you who'll make my dreams come true
Just a little bit of happiness
Is all that I wish
And I hope that you can grant me this

Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Bar Competition

Yet another story of why I have issues with local small town cops. I went to DJ a TGIFriday's Bar Competition a couple weeks ago in Central New Jersey(I've been sitting on this post, cause I'm obviously busy). As always I parked in the fire lane out front to unload my equipment. I parked behind the police suv that was parked on duty for the event. I locked my truck up and went inside to unload. While I was unloading and setting up my equipment, the manager came and told me that I better move my truck. At that point I looked up and saw a second cop car parked behind me with his lights on, so I said "Fine."

When I went out, I walked past the 2 cops standing together and headed for my car. The older guy, stops me from going to my car and says "Is that your car?" So I said yes as I continued toward it. What I'm thinking is that they are going to tell me to move my car, so I was going to move my car. It made sense at the time.

So, he yells, "Hey, I'm talking to you!" And I turn around and say, "Yeah, I said Yeah..."

He immediately closes the space between us and gets pretty much nose to nose with me and starts complaining about how he didn't disrespect me, but me "saying yes over my shoulder was disrespectful to him...blah blah blah" So, I said "Sorry you took it that way"

So he goes into another tyraid about how my appology doesn't mean anything to him, so I say "I'm sorry you feel THAT way..." If you know me and how I feel about this type of bully (which would include pretty much every cop I've ever met) you would know that as I say these things, I'm looking him in the eye and more conveying a vibe of "YOU CAN GO FUCK YOURSELF" than "I'm sorry".

Right about then, my friend walks around the corner to move my car for me, not knowing what was happening and the guy starts screaming at him..."You have something to say? You're eyeballing me..." My friend didn't know what to do, he tried to explain himself and then just backed away and went back inside.

There is a whole crowd of people watching this asshole make a fool of himself.

So we go back and forth like that for a few minutes, with him trying to both verbally and physically intimidate me and me leaning back in to his space showing him that I'm not interested in his games. And then he finally lets me go move my car.

When I went back inside I passed him, the other cop and the manager of the bar talking.

I'm inside for a little while and the manager comes up to me and tells me that the other officer wants to talk to me.

So my immediate thought is "What now?"

But I go talk to him in a quiet part of the restaurant and he APOLOGIZES for the other jerk offs behavior and encourages me to lodge a formal complaint with the station.

To Be Continued...

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Sunday Secret

Every night when I lived with the ex, my routine before falling asleep was to kiss her, tell her I love her and go to sleep holding her hand and letting my foot brush up against hers. Because she went to sleep a minimum of 4 hours before I did, I don't think she ever knew, but I couldn't not do it.

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Sunday Secret

I have never and probably will never, admit that I do not believe that there is a Santa Claus.


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Back To School Time

It's BACK TO SCHOOL time!


I love this time of year. I don't know if I'm still on some kind of weird school schedule 15 years later or it is the beginning of football season but I feel more of a sense of a fresh beginning with Labor Day than I do on January 1st.

I have always felt like this, but my current job only enhances this notion. August is a cluster fuck in my business. Everyone else goes on vacation so my place becomes a zoo, because who else is going to watch the dogs of the world while the owners are away. On top of getting busier and busier as we approach Labor Day, I lose more and more of my summer staff on their way back to college. Most of them are little more than warm bodies and essentially useless, which we will touch on in another post, but still they are warm bodies that we are losing. This year was tougher than most, I was eyeing Labor Day like a finish line and I think I took off a total of 4 days from work the entire month of August.

So now we are in September, football is upon us and my year has just started. For me, putting away shorts and pulling out the big sweaters brings a sense of renewal. The changing colors on the leaves and the smell of fires crackling in the air as darkness decends on us earlier and earlier each night, are all refreshing changes to me.

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