i put a video on you tube of the dog sleeping and snoring.  its lame but when im going crazy and wish i could sleep i like to find stuff on there that is more ambient, white noise type stuff.  id like to get a tripod set up and video the dog sleeping for a long time and have a really long video that i could put on and have the sounds of her breath.  is that creepy? i think if it was a person it would be, but puppy snoring is different.  still no views on my website with wordpress.  i just added yoast seo keyphrase or something yesterday.  actually, i have -2 views for some of the days, not sure how that works.  have 4 articles, 2 are ok, 2 are pretty hastily designed and dumpy.  the info is good, but i have a hard time making it seem commercialized and clicky.  i tend to write like i talk.  except when i make a pledge to not swear.   and also when i write i become all pompous and act like im smart and use big words like pompous...

ok i missed a bunch of days.  i feel bad, but not really.  website still has not traffic, and im barely on track with my 1 article a week goal, i have an idea for this week, so i'll work on it this weekend.  i dont understand how to use the plug ins for wordpress.com but i think i may have figured out how to get signed up for google analytics or something and supposedly that can help with seo traffic and other stuff i dont understand.  im taking the challenge from listenening to the guys at listen money matters podcast.  they said if you make a wordpress site and write 50 articles in a year, you should be able to make 1000 bux a month by the year end.  i really home so, and im ashamed to admit that the money is my motivation, but it is.  i wouldn't waste time doing it for free.  im realizing that i dont really have any niche talents or viewpoints.  i know a little about alot of subjects, but not a lot alot about any specialized thing.  s...

what do you call it when you dont feel guilty, but you feel like you should, so that feeling influences your actions?  poe ejemplo: say u dont care about choking whales to death with plastic, but you know its kind of a big deal to people.  so, you dont think twice about buying plastic bottles and throwing them overboard as you yacht around the globe as epstien's bunkmate.  however, you dont want the people at whole foods to know you dont care about plastic, so you feign guilt and buy the glass bottle water which is 3 times more expensive and put it in a reusable bag with the stiching that will fail when you swing your car door shut clutching it to get inside in a hurry to wipe your hard drive.  so.  that feeling.  not guilt, but the rational thought of "hey, a non-sociopath would feel guilty doing this, so i ought not to, otherwise i'll be such labeled."  maybe its just desire to fit in.  like, if the grocery store was 100% ran and employed by wha...

my mind is blank but i am pretending to be a writer so i am forcing myself to sit down and write. this weekend i wrote to articles for my other wordpress blog and they turned out ok.  i think they are helpful and informative, but i have no clue if or how anyone would ever find them.  i have an idea for another but it's more of a product review.  they dont look as good as i had hoped, but they do look good enough, and it's self helpy diy fix it stuff so i dont think the presentation matters quite as much as the content does.  i want it to be accurate, easy to understand and with no filler crap that goes on and on.  im trying to write articles about the type of stuff that youd google when your working around the house.  so you are either looking at your phone, or coming inside to a pc and wanting quick answers.  the problem is, as i have definetly looked stuff up as i get stuck on a project, i dont exacttly read the articles, i skim and get to what i nee...

so wordpress is hard.  or i am old, or dumb or something.  either way its frustrating as heck and i wanna quit but whatever.  gonna grind it out.  see what happens.  didnt put my name anywhere on the site and did private registration so itd take someone smarter than anyone i know to find out who's behind the latest fall flat on your face stupid blog website garbage fire.  so if you wanna out me as a failure, too late.  i just did. 

got wordpress 2 year plan yesterday, the premiium plan for 180 bux for 2 years.  im allready frustrated and taking a break right now from the set up of the page.  it looks like i dont know what im doing, which is pretty fair and accurate.  unbalanced, unbiased, fox news.  screw you this is the rambling of a crazy man.  sometimes when im super frustrated or trying to be funny i do the old "finger gun to the head" gesture.  like, when something is so ridiculously boring or annoying you suggest that blowing your own brains out might be better than listeneng to some co worker drone on and on about how he rode his bike to get ice cream last weekend. anyway, i did that through the glass at work to two of my supervisors as they were having a closed door meeting.  i hope they dont think im suicidal.  it was meant to be funny.  maybe itd be good if they think im suicidal.  they might give me a huge raise to try to raise me out of the funk they'd...

Hands free law went into affect in minnesota a week ago and so far there have been 140 less accidents per day, according to MNDOT safety engineer Sue Karson.  The new law, which carries a 65 dollar fine for the 1st offense, and 275 for each additional and is also considered a moving violation, prohibits drivers in minnesota from holding a mobile device while driving and from pressing more than one button to perform a task.  while most drivers have opted to use after market bluetooth headsets, or factory installed voice command interfaces, other drivers have made, and creative entrepenurs have chose a different approach. "GUBER" as it has been coined, the passenger sharing platform has launched in minneapolis and st paul, and will soon be available in markets across the state.  u may have guessed, but it is based on the extremely successful and often imitated "UBER" model, but instead of ride sharing, drivers are "sharing" extra passengers they may have in...

a dude i work with is real into baseball card collecting with his kid.  its cool.  thinking over my past collecting and talking about hunting and going to card shows with him, i realized card collecting is just gambling for kids.  adults too, but they can gamble anyway.  when i was a kid 15 cards or so in a pack cost 50 cents if i recall.  i got topps wax packs with a stick of gum.  i can taste the opening of a new pack in my throat right now.  inhaleing that chalky gum dust, and flipping the cards face up to see what gems you might find.  it was like the lotto.  so many hopes and fantasies of what rookie card, or rarity you might find.  i was never going to grow up!  retire young, rich, and off baseball cards.  it had all the hallmarks of degenerate gambling.  i would never take the first pack on the top of the box.  each box held 4 packs per layer.  i'd go at least to the second deepest layer, and sometimes to ...

had a wicked good 3 hour panic attack yesterday, so for the first time in i cant remember i cut my workout to 30 min in the afternoon and didnt write in here.  what can i say, im crazy, not the shooting up a school kind, but the "my shadow has been chasing me all day" kind. anyhoo listen money matters had a really good podcast this weekabout how to make money quick with a blog.  well explained, inspirational. also the cynic in me always gets depressed listening to that kind of stuff, like i already missed the boat, or i have nothing of value to offer the over crowded internet.  so theres that.  but my wife still is pumped on helping me come up with something so thats encouraging, she thinks im amazing, so, of course i think she must be just a touch crazier than i am, but in the "i cant tell when my husband is a dickhead" sorta way.  need to stop talking and start doing.  this is a great way to put off doing anything real productive and still feeling like ...

this is what i have whittled my diet down to, for both economic and health reasons.  a lot of people at work or church or wherever ask how i lost my weight.  spoiler alert, i excercised.  diet helped a ton, but equal dedication with food and DAILY exercise is what got me to shed pounds. anyway here it is. i feel like ive allready done this in a post, so if im repeating myself, i apologize in advance. work days. breakfast: quesadilla from holiday.  not healthy.  200 calories, most from processed bs and fat.  however, it tastes great, has few calories, and tides me over till lunch. lunch:  two mini sandwiches made with fried in olive oil tofu as bread, one slice cheese, and olive oil mayo.  on the high end this is 300 calories.  fry your tofu in advance for the week in a big batch.  i like mine a tad crispy, and seasoned with salt, pepper, and turmeric. dinner:  fried in olive oil mixed veggies.  i get frozen veggies and put...

2 public mass shootings in the last 24 hours leaving around 30 dead.  i remember when columbine happened i was glued to the tv for days.  i was nervous walking around my own high school.  i watched on newly minted live 24 hour news channels each and every detail, theory and revelation play out as we learned together.  i could not fathom it.  it was so intriguing as a story far beyond reality.  we learned of the victims, the kids who prayed, crawled out of the library window. of the hall monitors and parking lot attendants.  the police botched the response.  partially by the killers' own design, there were bombs placed across town as a diversion.  could we really blame the police?  they didnt sign up for this.  and really, they arent "preventors."  they are first responders.  cleaners.  the point is, i cared.  i thought that if we all investigated and understood, or at least were collectively baffled, we could ke...

the concept diminishing returns are on my mind almost each and every time im doing a cardio workout.  its one of the things in life i feel that you cant just throw hard work and extra effort at to get more results in less time.  for example, if i am doing 20 pushups, i can go super fast and check it off the list and be satisfied.  20 pushups could take 20 minutes, or 20 seconds, depending on the effort put forth.  the stupid elliptical machine on the other hand, requires  the time component in conjunction with the effort.  ive settled on 60 minutes or an american hour as my standard for what i need, based on no research whatsoever except a doctor once told me that anything less than 45 minutes would do absolutly nothing in terms of wight loss or heart and lung strength.  but my measure of an hour is tottaly arbitrary based on a unit of measurement humans made up long ago.  i suppose they based it off daylight and sun and mystical stars stuff, so ...

im a lazy, entitled, holier than though armchair activist, and i dont like a lot of things that go on around us, and like most fat white americans, i want to write a check and make it go away.  ill use the example of the war going on in yemen.  i dont even know what it really is, it sounds like a saudi invasion to me, this kid from yemen at my work gave a talk and tried to explain it, but from his talk and what ive read online, it sounds like a hostile invasion.  i think saudi arabia wants to kill anyone who would be able to oppose, then move in and take all their land and use their oceanfront property to control the persian gulf.  i think.  im sure there is some religious nonsence and ethnic cleansing sprinkled in there, but lets keep this simple.  also, as with most wars, they are cutting off trade and supplies and basic essentials to the people of yemen. so they are hungry, thristy,  and have no basic healthcare.  from what i gather the USA i...

id like a new phone because the one i have is constantly telling me i have not enough space left to download apps, or updates or crap like that.  its managable, but its just pesky.  i wish it was a thing i could get out of my routine.  here are the pros and cons of deciding on getting a new phone. pros.  it would have more storage, and hopefully eliminate the issues i have downloading apps, it would also reduce my cloud storage possibly?  if i could just keep more stuff on the phone.  better battery life, possibly better hands free capabilities.  interest free financing.   not as many as i thought, honestly. cons.  storage on my current phone.  new phone is expensive.  my phone is not broken, and i have accesories for it that id most likely have to replace.  the storage issue is an inconvenience, not a real problem.  i like the size of my current phone, new phones are huge.  money.   i think im j...