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Rawrb.com is officially part of the Pluh.network. Amazing!
So one of my best friends is having a really hard time with a very common annoyance (he's doing better today), and I think all of us can relate to it.
Remember summer vacation? 3 months or so of pure fun and relaxation. Obviously the parentals will have you do chores, but most of the time (at least for me) it wasn't such a huge deal. Then you get to play until as late as you want, do whatever you wanted to do (that wasn't something "bad"), etc. Then it would all end and you would have to go to school.
Then you finish school and you never get a real summer vacation again. You always have to support yourself (or others) by maintaining income of SOME kind, and every now and then you get some time off. But never a full, really long summer vacation ONCE A YEAR. Hell no! Now you're thrown into this never ending loop of work. Work, work, work. Get organize, put together a "to-do" list. WORK WORK WORK!
There is work that can be fun, of course. After a while through, it seems that it transitions into normal bland work rather than fun work. Then what?
The struggle is here: How do you get your summer vacations back? The answer: Financial freedom.
The only "down side" is that you have to create your freedom through something that usually involves a lot of work. This something can quite possibly be work you do NOT enjoy.
And this something rarely makes you rich overnight; often times you have to endure several years of this work to attain your financial freedom. So what's the point? Why bother? If it's work, it'll definately suck, right?
The piece that is missing here is that there is an end to it. I'm not talking about retirement. I'm talking about the END OF BAD WORK. Bad work is work you do not enjoy. Do the bad work, make tons of money, and walk away rich. Then you can take all the summer vacations you want.
But does it always have to be Bad Work that makes you rich? Of course not. Work will always be there in some form or fashion, and it's important to accept this. Ideally we all never want to WORK on something. It's very easy to think that there is a world where you never have to work; maybe for those who are born rich and are pampered all their lives (even they have to work sometimes, believe it or not).
I personally believe that the focus should not be ON the work, but ON the results you create. CREATE that financial freedom, don't CREATE work. Then you can go on vacation and have hot supermodels make you breakfast and give you happy finishes or whatever. Sounds nice to me!
It's hard for some to accept the reality of work (like my friend). Once you accept it, AND you change your focus towards the results and not the work, you are guarunteed success. Right?
Right.
Anyway, things are crazy as usual. I picked up another DeAngelo course. This particular subject I've tried before, but it always failed for some reason. It wasn't so much how *I* was as a person, but how I would present myself. Most of his stuff I understand very well, but this one ought to open a few more doors for me. Looking forward to it.
AND, for those who read my rants, I got both of my computers working. The server is awesome; it's so small and quiet you can't even tell it's on. The big bad machine is great. Quake 4 runs silky smooth and I started drawing some comics last night with that digital sketchpad. It's harder than I thought it would be. I might just use Flash for that since I like how it renders vectors (Illustrator is kind of frustrating). We'll see.
I also have huge plans for Collective Underground, which has been a bit of a wounded puppy sort of thing. Lots of patching up I need to do, and new features I want to pop in there. That will be sweet. Once I have the whole system programmed, I'll have a staff of folks that will maintain the constantly updated content. So many plans! ARRRGH!
Every Thug Needs a Lady.
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Computers sometimes suck.
Working on a setup here. Before I had two computers, one a laptop and one a regular PC. The video card on the PC is on it's last legs, so I got the idea of making that one a server! It worked, I had a nice php/mysql thing going with that. Anyway, turns out we need a badass media editing machine for some reason for DVD for some band I deal with vocally. :p
So I goes, "Okay, need a new video card, RAM, and some serious storage." Boom, got a new vid card (a NICE one), 2 gigs of RAM, and 2 360 gig drives.
On top of that, I decide to tranfer older hardware to a barebones ASUS machine. CHEAP! Got it all in the other day, and I was very happy.
Worked on them all evening, got NEITHER of them working. Had PC guts all over the place and a sour attitude exploding from my face. Nice lyrical nonsense, yes?
Anyway, after some more troubleshooting I got the little barebones system here working now (it's formatting the drive). The big bad PC is my next one. That guy just isn't booting, and I can't figure out why. Oh well, this is what I do. This is what makes me one of those guys.
What, you were expecting me to get philosophical or some shit? Well I will. Hang on.
So much going on that I can't think straight. I bought even MORE domain names. Now I'm at 16, and I think I'll stop for a while. Gonna get crazy with them too.
Speaking of business, here's a tidbit for you that is VITAL to keep in mind when you want to create success.
Just the other day I was having a chat with my boss about this and that, and the topic of myspace came up. So then I say:
"Myspace has everything I want in a business. Business, exposure, tons of profit. Drives me crazy. I HATE that guy who owns it. HATE HATE HATE!"
My boss, being Mr. Successful Entrepreneur guy, stops me.
"Woa, stop that. Don't hate that guy because he's successful. Be that guy. He accomplished something great, and you can to. But you can't do that if you hate him."
Basically, whenever you bash someone that is successful, you are saying that "They should be as miserable as me!" What kind of fucked up logic is that? Well it's true. Think about it. Then, in a way, you prevent yourself from becoming successful because you certainly don't wanna be that guy who people say, "I hate that guy!" Right? Right.
I also must vent about one more little thing that I've vented to my friends already.
Why must every party I go to SUCK? This isn't something I intentionally walk into either, nor is this a result of negativity (I'm generally very positive). But FUCK! Every party I've gone to for the past 5 years (with the exception of my birthday party from 2004) have been rather boring. Some are funner than others, but 90% of them are lame. Why?
- Nobody really shows up.
- The girl to guy ratio is horrendous.
For example. One party I went to recently was about 10 - 15 people. Out of those 15, 2 were chicks. These 2 chicks were both married or engaged to select guys at the party. Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely love hanging out with my friends and shootin' the shit, but it's ALSO be nice to have a female population where I could, I dunno... "expand my horizons!" Where the fuck are the good parties? Or better yet, GATHERING SPOTS? I hang out with my friends all the time already, so let's add some spice to the stew, ya know?
GRRAQAWAERAWRWRR!
It's just annoying, but I love my friends and wouldn't trade any of them for the hottest chick to ever exist.
Tonight, some of my friends went to this chick's birthday party. I know her (she's married to a really cool feller), and she's pretty cool, but not only did I want to get this computer stuff working, I knew that it was going to be boring. No offense to her, of course. It was that I knew I would go up there, have a couple beers, get really bored, and feel like I'm doing nothing for no reason. I know that sounds mean, but I really am tired of that feeling and don't want it anymore. I'd rather take a risk and go to a party where I don't know anyone than go to one I KNOW I'll be bored at. Does that make sense? Yes.
Har har, 98% done formatting this drive. I go now.
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