Toot your own horn-June 2002 edition

*I've recently graduated from college with a BS in Computer Science.
*I recently landed a great job in SC, I previously lived in Texas.
*I love the weather hear. Haven't seen a day over 100. Which was common place in Texas.
*There are so many beautiful people here and they are nice.
*I have a huge place. about 900 square feed more than the place I used to live in while in college and only about 200 dollars more.

I thank god every night for what has happened to me in the last few months. These things were only a dream and now they have become a reality.

I have Call and his 7 week old baby lying on my chest making cute baby noises.

Actually, I graduate high school today so that's pretty groovy.

I graduated High School on Monday after failing (pun intended) to believe I could do so.

I'm leaving for film school in 2 days.

That's about it. I have no money, no job, and I've been addicted to Dynasty Warriors 3 for the past week so I haven't written anything in quite some time.

Ditto.

I will have a job by the end of the summer at GameStop.....but until then, i've got plenty of Graduation money coming to me.... wink

I can write reasonably well.

I also start work next week.

Fuck you Verbal. wink

I am a Sewer Chewer.

I had $410, spent $350 the next day on X-Box w/Halo and Morrowind...I have $55 left. A neighbor who has seen me grow up came over with $25 just a little while ago. My grandma and grandpa have yet to give me anything but they almost always give obscene amounts of money for holidays.

Life is good right now, but i'll be sad and miserable once I spend it all. I hope I save some...

Save the rest for a call girl. wink

I took up photography. I'm moving into my own house in July, and I didn't kill my mother during the three years of living at home after high school.

I am a great mother.
I am pretty funny.
I am nice to everyone I meet.
I call my mother everyday and tell her I love her.
I am open minded and open to trying new things.
I am not a money whore.

I'm a really good dad. I feel thats the end-all be-all of my existence at this point.

Yes you are. You are so money and you don't even know it.

The State's smoking gun resides on the floor of the East River, their key witness died in a car accident when her breaks "failed", and I just passed my third polygraph.

Life is *very* good!

I'll be dead soon

I just knocked some bitch up.

I'm a musician in a metal band that just became cooler because of a new guitarist, when no one expected things COULD get cooler.
I speak marginally well in 3 major languages - English, French, and Japanese.
I have an ok family.
I have a best friend that has been a blessing in my life for probably over 6 years now, and no end imaginable; the type of guy I can talk deep issues with and feel comfortable even if I'm crying on his shoulder or the opposite.
I have a girlfriend that loves me well, needs me as much, and isn't interested in any other lifeform.
I can almost draw a convincing anime chick.
I write lots of cool poetry which often serves as potential song-age for my band. (and I'll share it wif ya if youse ask).
... I am grateful for the things I have now. And I look forward to the things up there on my road, just ahead on the horizon.

Well, I have a shit pot full of money. Beautifull wife, fantastic kids, an awesome Dad, more fucking cars and trucks, big muscle and luxury cars too, than I know where to park and fairly decent house. I don't have to ever work again, but I work everyday. I am writing a very cool book and screenplay with a very talented writter, have a friend who seems set on staying my friend and wants to build me a super evil computer program, am doing a film next year and another documentary. Have a shit load of nice musical equipment and the gear to record with, good friends, 2 new gallons of Boysenberry wine, Five gallons of plum whine, 30 bottles of Ice Wine, 30 gallons of Mertage (Red Wine) and five gallons of Malbec Shiraz, all of which I am making and bottling for my friends, also five gallons of home made Kaluhu, all of which my son is teaching me to make, a beach house, a large lake front property, some other houses. Other than that, I can't think of much.

Will, if you don't mind me asking, how was it that you came into such wealth? Through working, I suppose?

Sorry if that's not my business....

Thanks to a freak extra veterbrae I am able to, literally, "toot my own horn". After that, everything else pales into insignificance.

After the posts about money, family, and friends, we come to what's truly important...

Well, lessee...

I'm flat broke.
My PC at home is being an absolute bitch.
I hate my job.

But, through all of that, I have a fantastic wife and the two best kids a guy could ever hope for.

Makes getting up in the morning so much easier.

As for me? What makes me so great?

I'm smart.
I have a voracious appetite for books and films.
I'm a good dad.
I'm getting back in shape, finally.
And, I'm great in the sack.

I successfully procreated.

I am the CHUDWEST '02 publicist.

And by God people like me!

I'm in better shape at 30 then I was at 20. In that respect, I amaze myself. Friends I haven't seen for a year tell me I no longer look like the living dead.

An engineering degree might be enough, but I'm going off to study basic astronomy and radio astronomy techniques in the fall anyway. A Masters in engineering may follow, or I may bite the bullet, start over, and get a science degree followed by a doctorate in astronomy. Or I could put all those University job fairs to good use and just go back to work next year. Dunno yet. The point is, I can write my own ticket, and that ticket looks to be pretty sweet. What with the Planetfinder telescope NASA's going to put up and what will surely be increased exploration of Mars in the next few years by NASA and the ESA, I may well get a job doing what I've always wanted to do and get paid well for doing it. That is what's best in life.

Made a fair chunk of change getting to this point, too. Not tens of millions of dollars, but enough to keep the wolves from the door for another five or ten years if I choose to be a total slacker. Money doesn't buy happiness, but it does buy peace of mind. It also rents a spiffy apartment for when I'm in school, complete with private 20-seat home theatre with full sound and a 60" HDTV projection system. Neat.

I have a girl who's willing to wait it out while I'm away at school for a year. It's good to be loved.

Life's okay. I could be doing far worse for myself, I think.

I have a job where I am at the lowet post on the totem pole, and am looked down on as such. I am barely getting by with the money I make, and am almost certain to lose my job within two weeks.

I have the crushing weight of $35K in college loans I have never been able to touch. As well as other bills which roughly equal my total income.

I have medical and dental problems I have been waiting months to see to, only to have to wait until July 1st for when I will officially be on the insurance plan, only to be laid off.

My brother/roommate is leaving at July's end, moving out to get married and live elsewhere. I will inherit a huge amount of family possessions and have nowhere to keep them on the street corner where I will be living.

And the girlfriend and I are having monumental arguements daily.

I can afford the bullet, but no the gun.

I will tell you, gladly.

I was buying a house and found many open Deeds of Trust, called mortgages, elsewhere, that had been paid in full. I was told it wasn't just me, that it happened to millions of people in California and even more nationwide. Seemed somebody wasn't doing the job. I researched it and found that there were civil penalties for failing to do this simple paper act.

I worked with two other guys, who are programers and we created a program that handled the requirements for all 3,300 counties in the US and every possible variation. Trained and provided people to work in the loan centers, as I was building the business and I continually had the banks called and asked:

1. what the biggest problem was they faced
2. How they'd describe it in their nomenclature
3, How much they'd pay to have it fixed.

They told me, I had it programed and started selling the service. Within a year it was making around six million dollars a year.

Did a similar service for title companies and it made about the same, only faster.

Couldn't get the majority of banks to stop stealing money, so I quit working for banks and began researching the theft of money from homeowners, by banks.

Brought together large law firms and educated them on the theft, found people for them that had lost money through the theft or nonproduction of a service, which the homeowner had paid for, documented thousands of violations, as homeowners, they had no choice but to pay and they were being ripped off and I made a LOT of money doing that.

Then I researched other ways the banks were stealing and also researched an old law that enables anybody to sue on behalf of the government, as a private Attorney General,when someone is commiting fraud against the government abd the person who does that recovers a percentage of the funds recovered by the government. Those cases are filed under seal and cannot be discussed until the court unseals them. I have a total of about 46 banks I have filed suit against, that have been unsealed and those I can mention.

I run two no profit groups, that do not charge anything. One is for people who own homes and another chewer owes part of that group and I am helping to raise money for the families of the NYC firemen that died in the line of duty. Neither I nor anyone else, ever even receives any of those funds and they go straight to the firemen, who pass it on to the families. I made a film to help with the raising of those funds for the families. I paid all of the production costs out of my pocket and refused to take any money in donations or from other sources. It was my gift. It (the film) is going to the people in the military of the US and it was given free of charge.

I am writing a book with another chewer and we will also do a screen play on a different subject. I am impressed even more with that chewer's writing than I was before we started writing together. I am about to start a filming a documentary,in October that will be for TV and am arranging to film a feature this coming year.

I don't have enough money,but then I never will, so I have to keep working to earn more. Its okay because I really like what I do and I admit I am nothing more than a very big kid, just playing at what I enjoy doing.

I averaged about ten mill a year for 13 years. You do the math.

Sorry if that seems brief, for once I was trying not to bore you.

Damn, you went and typed all that and I didn't check back to see it. Sorry about that.

It sounds like you lead a very fascinating life, and i'm happy you're so successful.

Or maybe you could use the money to buy some ethics.

I'm not a sleazy, slimebag pencil-necked fucking prick.

Sorry...I meant I'm not a Paralegal.

Now THAT I envy you. I wonder if that is "Penis envy?"

Dan, you're serious? That's crazy!