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I'M BACK
Still trying to figure if this import/export thing is really going to keep us alive, so I have recently been thinking about my other bread winning options.

After watching a program about career counseling and "Life Coaching", I decided I would follow the motivational speaker's advice and begin my "inner brainstorming session"....

The idea is to write down things you like, are skilled in, interested in, or things you may excel at, their pros and cons, the said undertaking's -profitability as far as income, and a "happiness factor."

Career counselors are into this stuff, they are akin to "life coaches", but with less training...

My notes from my own personal session with myself were these:


Life Coach: High Happiness Factor, but I have bad experience, and haven't excelled at it so far.
scratch

Spegetti Sauce Maker: Paul Newman did it, so why couldn't I?
I like S- Sauce, I like making it, but apparently (after some research) I realized there is a lot that goes into S-Sauce, and I don't own a farm, have never grown anything.... scratch that.... the grow part - just scratch the PN idea

Dairy Farmer - Specifically BUTTER MAKER:
Like Butter, Like Cows, Hate cow poop, don't have farm or cows, don't know that Indian chick from the land of lakes ads, and I bet she really doesn't know the least bit about making butter anyway.

So anyway have to scratch that off also.

Musician: This had a very high happiness factor, but after listening to my own music, I realized I would fall short in the profitability/income area.
scratch

Writer: Since losing my job I thought I need to take a new direction a chance on something else (Now writing, that would have a "high happiness factor".) This will be referred to from now on as (HHF)

I love to write, but I can't find any books on "making money off your boring blog" or even a "Writing for Dummies" books - I'm big on titles and google didn't provide any results with it's oddly condescending "I'm feeling lucky" button.
scratch

Computer Systems Analyst:
The job I had and quit.
Pros: get to use sticky notes.
Cons: get fat
hate your job
stifled creative thought
suffocating
drowning
feeling
may lose my mind....
Gets a "0" HHF rating
Doesn't pay that well anymore
3 hour commute

F-that

Lobster fisherman: I thought this one was gonna be it, I like lobsters, like boats, and I like the state of Maine... But, once again after some research it was quite clear that the (HHF) was a sliding scale.... much to my chagrin.... The water is cold, I get seasick, and I just don't like the yellow suit that the fish stick guy has to wear every day.... FUCK

Result= Snakes on a plane=scratch


(Grizzly Man -Rent the DVD) It's about a crazy (delusional) wannabe biologist who moved to alaska to study GB's and record a documentary, and then got eaten by one, that kind of karma must be predestined or something.. Great movie - trust me - you have to pick this up when you're feeling bad about your life. Terrible, but true.

He died doing what he loved, just probably sank his (HHF) when he realized he was being eaten. Some people will do anything for art....

So, I guess what I learned from this exercise is THIS business HAS to work.

OTHER NEWS
I had a vasectomy yesterday, (hurts) Also, kinda weird that the having kids part of my life is over... As insane as it sounds, it strikes me I just entered a new phase in life...
Anyway, I'm there and there's a nurse, I'm more uncomfortable that she's "hot" and telling me to take off my clothes in front of her, but my nurse fantasy is effectively obliterated at that point when she hands Doc Johnson the scalpel... (It always took a different turn in my head... the nurse fantasy that is...) It's very odd talking to a guy about random stuff while he cuts you down there....The word odd or strange doesn't even begin to describe it - I actually asked him during the procedure - (I was all Valiumed up)

I said "So.... I figure you went to medical school, (He's my age) - He replies "Naturally" So I took it a step further right... "Why did you decide that THIS was what you wanted to do?" What was actually going through my head was.. "What made you want to cut scrotums for a living?" He replies... Well, I knew I wanted to do surgery, but I wanted to be able to do it in the office." But "Scrotums" I say...

Snakes on a plane....

Been waiting for this forever right, I am "reptile guy"... And this is just so uncool, two of my very close friends, UMPWESDSLMF and Lbow, call like an hour before the movie, day before scrot surge and ask me to go... I said: I couldn't AND they went anyway..... uncool you two...

But I couldn't go because of chitlins, WIF, and a remodel that WIF and I hired some people to do to our house. AND I gather there ARE snakes on a plane, and I'm going to make them go again with me anyway.

Oh, my sister BTW had a SOAP t-shirt made for me for my b-day. Traci, you rock old school punk style - Thanks I love you.

CREDITS
Ben Folds said recently in an iTunes interview:

"Everyone of every age has the hardest thing they have ever done right on the horizen."

And it will always be....