Party In The Hills I was invited to a party a few weeks ago. It was a party that was being held by a friend of a friend, perhaps a friend of a friend of a friend. I was assured it was going to be a fantastic party. The guy that told me about […]
Master Criminal Fish Story
Old Pier There is a pier that’s very old in my neighborhood. It has a restaurant at the end but it hasn’t been open for a long time and it’s almost condemned but I still see people occasionally on the pier fishing. There’s this one old guy that I’ve seen a while fishing. I’ve […]
Golden Rules of Persuasion
Old Job Selling Cars A long time ago I used to sell cars. It was the first sales job I’ve ever had. I learned quite a bit about persuasion and sales at this job. When I worked there you had to work there for at least a month to prove that you weren’t going to […]
Ancient Black Magicians
Movie About Financial Collapse A couple of weeks ago I saw a movie that was a very shallow metaphor about the financial crisis from 2008. There was a scene in the movie that is similar to many scenes in many movies where they have the expert looking at another character and explaining to this other […]
Making Money Selling Coffee
Dude Out Of Place There is a coffee shop that I go to regularly, a couple of times a month. There is one person that works there that doesn’t quite fit the type of person you would expect to be working at a coffee shop. You would expect to see people that are younger, […]
How He Found His Purpose
Live Performance I’ve a friend who has been making music for several years, about 10 or 15 years, as long as I’ve known him. He’s only recently started to perform live and I wondered why before he never before live. The music he made was really really good, but he seemed to be content just […]
Science and Metaphorical Resonance
Tale of Two Teachers When I was in junior high school had two science teachers. Both of them were completely different. The first guy is what you might expect a science teacher to be. A junior high school science teacher to be. He was kind of a typical doofus geek type of guy. He […]
Your Super Genius Brain
Unexpected Aquarium A couple of weeks ago I went to a very interesting aquarium that unexpectedly opened in my neighborhood. I’m not a particularly huge fan of aquariums. They’re nice to go to. I like to spend an hour or so walking around looking at the various types of fish, but they’re not something that […]
Interview King Maker
Horrifying Class I took this college class ones that sounded on paper like it would be a good idea but it turned out to be the most terrifying class I would ever take in my life. It was billed as a interview skills class where you would learn how to answer the most […]
Donut Shop Economics
College Job When I was in college the first job I got was that a donut shop. At first it seemed familiar because I had a job at a donut shop in high school except my job at the donut shop in high school was just showing up, working in the afternoon selling, donuts taking […]
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