5
Feb/12

Goals for 2012 – One Month Late Edition

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Another day, another dollar. Sitting here at work has a funny way of making me think about things that I would like to accomplish in both my personal and professional life.

And no, this is not a ‘New Years Resolution’ post. I missed that bus about a month ago.

Anyway, here is a quick look at some of my goals for 2012.

Professional Goals

1. Make more money. This sounds like a no-brainer, right? Currently I’m working two jobs (so I don’t get a day off unless there is a holiday or I just decide that I can’t make it in for some reason), so it would be nice to not have that as a requirement. I have plenty of knowledge as far as making money online, and I plan to apply that.

2. Consult at least one blogger. Yep, that’s it. I know enough to help people make money blogging, it’s just finding the time and the person that actually wants to put some effort into it.

3. Focus more on excelling at work. I could probably be a better employee.

 Personal Goals

My personal goals read like a laundry list of resolutions. So to save time (and to facilitate plausible deniability), I’m going to list some of the big ones.

1. Start investing in stocks. Hey, this is an easy one. In fact, I’ve just transferred money into my so far unused brokerage account…I have a plan, I just want to play with this and see if it works.

2. Draw more pictures…for this site. What? I like my cartoon self!

3. Overhaul my guitar rig. Now that my band is actually playing shows, it’s good to have quality musical gear. My amp isn’t quite enough, so I’m using a spare amp that my guitarist had lying around. It’s awesome, but I really do want my own half-stack…

4. Something else. I’ll think about this for a while, add something here, and then do it.

5. Start saving for a new car. It’s about time. And frankly, who wants to drive a 1994 Toyota Corolla forever?

 


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31
Jan/12

Getting Home

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This guest post is from Mickey Garza.

My favorite part of the day is when I get home from work, brew a strong cup of tea and sit down with my direct tv livermore to watch Border Wars. Have you guys ever seen that show? It’s just the most fascinating look at what happens down at the Mexican border and I find that it’s a really interesting social commentary, too. They follow a lot of border officials around as they try to police the country line but as you would imagine that’s hard to do and there are many times when they find illegal immigrants have crossed over. I love when they pull up next to a big truck and open the back and there are like 50 people crammed in there – how do they possibly ride like that for so long? I haven’t made my mind up yet about the issue politically but it sure makes for interesting TV at the end of the day. You know, I think it’s somehow better than watching trashy reality shows instead!

 


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16
Jan/12

The view from the coffee shop window…

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I decided that I needed a day just to forget that I had anything to do. Mostly because of the lack of sleep that I got this past weekend after finding out that the vital organs of a friend of mine decided they were tired of working all of the time, so they decided to take some time off. And as we all know, life is a cruel boss, so the world told him and his organs to GTFO. And so, the world lost a good man. We just didn’t find out for two weeks. And when we did…it was just weird.

The crazy part is that he was only a couple of years older than I am. I’m only 33. That scares the living crap out of me. And so, here I am, exhausted from a lack of decent sleep, sitting at Sweet Eugene’s with a Chai latte and a piece of the most amazing New York style cheesecake you could ask for. In a way, I’m hiding from everything, sitting here using their wifi praying for a good rain to come and wash away all the things.

I feel like I can just sit here and not think. Although I do feel a little out of place with all of the college students and hipsters in this place. They are checking email, working on spreadsheets, and doing research. I’m downloading music and writing this blog post.

So, today my stress level is a bit higher than I’d like to admit. Once again, life has decided to keep me on my toes by saying “Hey, Wess, I’m a financial thing! I’m here to screw up all the things, now that you’ve got them almost in order! Woohoo!!!”. Yeah, kinda like that.

I need a freaking vacation. I really don’t know what I would do or where I would go, but for some strange reason I just want to go spend the winter months in Ruidoso or Albuquerque. Random, I know, since I’m kind of partial to my Texas. But I just want to feel free for a while. Just a little while.

But I’ll just take the rain…if it would just rain…

 


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3
Jan/12

First rant of 2011!

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So, it’s time for a rant.

Yeah, I’ve got nothing.

I’m sitting at Sweet Eugene’s trying to come up with good ideas, but I’ve got absolutely nothing. I’m trying to drown out the crappy coffee shop music and foreign conversation with Joe Jackson and Anita Baker, but it’s not really helping that much. I kind of just want to close my eyes and sleep.

No. No I don’t want to sleep right now. There’s nothing in me that actually wants to get rest…I just want to not be terminally bored. Easier said than done, I know. But I’m sure I’ll think of something sooner or later.

*** Fifteen Seconds Later ***

Yeah. Still nothing. Meh.

 


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29
Dec/11

How to Have Fun at Work

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I love getting off work two hours early. I had a few vacation hours accrued that I had to burn off before the end of the year and it was a “use them or lose them” situation. But what made the work day even better was that it was slow.

And by slow I mean dead. And by dead I mean that it was more dead than Kim Jong-Il. Thank you, SwagBucks, for helping me spell that name correctly. Like it matters. I’m sure he won’t get upset because…well, because he’s dead.

So instead of spending the whole day digging through open cases, desperately trying to find something to call people about, I spent a lot of time reading Hyperbole and a Half and spamming my co-workers with links and waiting impatiently to hear the impending laughing fits that were muffled by the cubicle walls.

And then I started thinking…what should I do with the rest of my day? I mean, I was going to clock out two hours earlier than normal. That’s a lot of time to kill in my world. There was only one solution: the coffee shop!

And that’s where I am right now. Sitting at Sweet Eugene’s, pirating some Frank Sinatra (and probably some kind of punk rock as well) and typing this blog post.

But sometimes the cozy atmosphere and amazing Chai lattes just are not enough to make me chill out. I figured that I should fire up paint and try to do my own self-portrait…more or less.

Anyway, this is what I came up with.

Wess Stewart

OK, I don't have green hair. And I'm not that skinny. But whatever.

It was so much freaking fun that I will do this again. And the hair matches my iPod. Win.

What does your cartoon self look like?

 


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