Eyes!

I'm going to get lasik eye surgery! So excited! I will actually be able to see! I hate glasses and contacts. I'm so excited to be able to see my girlfriend when we are together. To act without having to wear contacts. To worry about buying contacts. to worry about breaking or scratching my glasses. To have one less thing to worry about when making myself look good. To see my phone in the morning and at night. To not have little intents on my nose and ears. To stop adjusting my sliding glasses. To not have burning contacts. To never put my contacts in backwards again. This is in no means an exhaustive list either. I'm excited to never bump my glasses into my girlfriend's face. To not have to choose between sight and having rain fall on my face. To be able to see girls at the beach. To be able to see underwater. To be able to see during a fight or car accident. To have just another form of freedom.

New business

So I've started a new business!

http://www.jirehnow.com/

I'm selling EVERYTHING! Health products, cleaning products, household needs, everything! I even sell water! This is sounds cheesie but no in all seriousness I did just start this new business with millions in backing and a large support group.

I'm very proud to present http://www.jirehnow.com/ as part of my dream to achieve finiancial freedom. But don't just buy from me to help me out, you will also be buying quality products with high value from the comfort of your own home.

Now that I've done an awesome job selling you on my new store. You should go there and check it out for yourself and definately not take my poorly choosen words for it.

Age

No reason too. People judge you based on age, not on experience or ability once they know how old you are. That's why I hang out and work with people mostly in their thirties and only say how old I am if I'm asked. The only issues I ever have with people are the ones who think because I am young I don't have an opinion or any experience and wisdom. The only people who care about age are the ones too insecure in their own lives because of how badly they messed up.

I was going to write this to my brother's wall but decided it might be too heavy so I just copied it here and only wrote the first two sentences.

I tread the path less travelled...

I was jogging to work today like usual but what wasn't usual was that last night was a big snow dump. Ok, I live in Alberta that's pretty usual for any month of the year. but the point is the fresh snow was everywhere. At one point I looked down and saw all the footprints where either horizontal or vertical. Hundreds of footsteps from dozens or scores of people, maybe more, all along the same cross section. Except one set of footprints stood out, it was diagonal right through the middle of the crossing tracks. I followed the line of the footprints and saw that they were in fact mine.

Yeah I'm artsy and yeah I'm a cheesie romantic but I really felt the power of this image. I felt God's hand on me as I forge my own path, not conforming to the way society wants me to be. And I don't walk this path alone. Others help me and other will follow me but God has given me the courage to be the first to walk down it. And maybe I will evetually find the remains of one who walked it before me but that was so long along it has been covered by the snow and the dirt.

I have been given a mind that does not think within the peramiters of the masses. Or at least a heart that is couragous enough to stand up for what I think. I choose the path more direct, the path that is harder, the path less travelled.

Dragon Age II

First off BioWare has failed me for the first time by being one of the few stupid, selfish companies to lock their save games to one PS3. Meaning that if you get a new PS3 you have to replay the game. Not such a big deal for games I've already played through a couple times and will never touch again BUT it becomes a big deal when you take games where BioWare has been very smart and made each game effect the next game. Because now all of a sudden I have to replay that game I had completely finished. That is not a good thing when the game in question takes about 40 hours to play through. I don't have that kind of time to just redo a game.for no good reason. Dragon Age is a good game and I wanted to replay it but not because I have to, especially considering now I have to do the game once more where I do everything the way I did the first time through. Good job BioWare, epic fail.

So having played through most of the game now I am even more disapointed for a number of reasons. First off, the main character Hawke, sucks. He's lame. I would much rather play as (and I do as much as I can) Verric, the narrorator. I think that explains enough.

And holy crap could the maps get any more repetative? The first game was known for having diverse and detailed playing areas. In this game not only to you constantly go to the same places over and over, sometimes just to hand something to someone, but the side quests all take place in one of three dungeons that are all exactly the same! That was cool in the early 90s but we've moved on to every dungeon being different now BioWare. You haven't done this in any of your other RPGs why cop-out now?

My rant on how disapointing this game has been will continue as I get further along...

OH! Talk about messing up, they changed what one race looks like entirely! Instead of being giant humaniods, Sten's race is now giant troll-like creatures with horns and white skin... Sten was black!

And another thing. Now when a game relies as heavily on combat and tactics and advantages as both Dragon Age's do you expect there to be a certain level of strategy available in combat. You expect as an archer to be able to sit with a clear sight line on a safe higher level and shoot down on enemies. No. You must have a straight path to them, ON THE SAME LEVEL, as you. Apparently we are back to the days of PS1 when you couldn't aim up or down.

Food

This is just a list of places I want to eat at very badly, kind of to remind myself so I don't have to look for them again and maybe forget the names:

Pampa

Tzin

La Ronde

Suede

And just for the heck of it I thought I'd include a couple places I really love:

Mongolian Grill

Sawmill

Cabin 12

King's Head

Killing time

Nothing is origanal hey? Not even the idea that nothing is origanal. Anything that is origanal is scary and dangerous.

I think all day about wanting time to write and now that I have a few minutes with absolutely nothing else to do I can't tihnk of anything to write.

Writing isn't about journally your experiences, it's about putting out an idea, making an idea clear to someone else and ideas are funny little things. They can't really be summed up in words but that's what we always try to do. Make the thing abstract was created to define into some form of transferable matter so we can give it to another person. Some ideas are simple, like this, and some are complex. Some are widely believed like money, and some are laughed at.

What am I but my ideas? A dream is even so just an idea of something more. An opinion is always based on an idea. Shatter my dreams, change my opinions and steal my ideas. That is how to truely destroy everything a man is. But give him a dream, nurture his opinions and give him ideas, this is how to make a boy into a man.

Making money?

So I'm looking into network business or reveral commerce or pro-sumerism or whatever you want to call it.
At first it looks like a bit of a pyramid scheme but then I looked a bit deeper and here are my thoughts.

What is the model used for a normal job? A triangle, with the boss on top, the managers below him and the employees filling out the bottom end where there is almost no money. Everyone scrambles to get just a little higher up the corporate "ladder" but no one wants to give up their spot because that means they would have to either go up or down and no body wants to go down. No body. So once the top rung is full they aren't planning on pulling anybody up to take their spot. What does a triangle look like? Oh yeah, a pyramid.

So I was reading and thinking and I swore that I am not going to have a normal job and I would work harder then everyone else if I never had to actually "work." And that's the trick of it isn't it? I'm a free spirit. Actually, not just talking about it but actually am and to do that requires money, a lot of it. So I need to find ways to make that money without putting in hours at a job. Not to mention a very important thing, when someone is losing at something do you ask them for advice? If someone has never won a rugby game but constantly talks about how good they are do you listen? No, of course not. The person obviously isn't doing what is needed to win. Maybe they aren't the worst, they aren't dead or in the hospital but they aren't winning and so they are a loser. There is no point in taking advice from losers. Shouldn't money be the same way? Doesn't it make sense to take advice from people who make $120,000+ a year without a normal job? And here's the big kicker, they want to teach me how to do it!

So this is why I'm thinking World Wide Group. It actually seems like they are genuine about wanting to help people succeed! And here's the thing about this program instead of a corporation, the better I do the better the person who got me in does. So they actually want me to succeed! If I make money, they make money, so it is in their best interest to help me do well. And that's why it's about people and what company is better than a company that is actually about people, and not only people but helping people achieve their dreams? Nothing! World Wide Group is Christian to boot, and not the standard Bible-thumpers or America is a Christian nation crap but the leaders are Christians who want to see other people achieve their goals and live fulfilling lives with their families. That's right, the companies number one goal is marriage and keeping families together.

Now the caution is it seems too good to be true. But I read something a while ago that will stay with me for the rest of my life. I used to be pretty bad with the ladies (or I thought I was. That's the funny thing about being the strong, silent, dark guy that all the girls like. You are strong, silent and dark because no one talks to you and your life is filled with pain. I have only just discovered I was the most popular and attractive guy in my high school.) However I am getting off topic. I used to be pretty bad so I went to a friend who always had girls on him and I asked him how he did it, if he could teach me, wing man for me, anything! All he said was if you want to learn how to pick up girls, google it and start reading. So I did and everything I read pointed to this one guy. Now he said lots of stuff I already knew and then he offered his book for $20. Why spend $20 on a book filled with things I already knew! Except he had said one thing that kept running around in my mind, he said, "If the information in this book gets you ONE date, will it have been worth it to you?" I answered "yes" to that question and I bought the book.

So I think about that now when looking at World Wide Group. I can always stop. I can always say I'm done, in fact I could always just use it for myself and the learning experience. But that's what it would be, an experience. Something I haven't done and why not take that chance? If it costs me a few hours work and a hundred bucks but I make one paycheck. I learn one thing about running a business. I make one new friend. Would it be worth it to me? My answer to that question is yes.

They say it will be hard but I can work hard. They say it's all about people, I love people. They say only true leader make the big dollars, I have always been a leader. I say I'm looking for a change and right when I started praying for guidance God put this in my lap. Is it too good to be true? I'll never know unless I try.


P.S.
The book actually did end up getting me one date.