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This will be one of two posts on this subject, I will be finishing up my paperwork for the district 4 City Council position election this week and that will mean a couple things. The only other post that will talk about the election specifically or my efforts in it is going to be the reveal of my campaign page and after that this will just be my thoughts and my blog. It may deal with some topics like before but it will not talk about the campaign or my efforts on it.

Now, there are a lot of political questions. I am not going to answer them. What I will answer is something that people may ask who know me, and those who may have never heard of me be wondering.

Why do something like this?

Over the years it took me to learn how I work in the world and it is something where I can be loud but I am more of a get your work done and look towards the next goal. This is something that I will be putting myself in the spotlight to some degree due to the position involved. Honestly, it’s a big move for someone who six years ago was just getting off the street trying to make by with everything they got.

Six years have taken me from the state capitol to the nation’s capitol and from the federal court in Portland to the federal reserve and the bipartisan policy center. I have written books, and I have gotten in better shape despite still being built like Thwomp from Super Mario. We need people to listen and work on getting things done, and this week part of my work was using the time my building had lost its power to see the issues that someone disabled may have if they had to get out of a building quickly.

I banged my shins up hard doing that.

Why do something like this?

There is a way I do it, that makes me the best choice, in my very skewed opinion, and even more so I made a promise once and this may be how I intend to keep it. Also, you can tell I am nervous when I forget to schedule the posts and leave it just waiting for me to hit publish.

 [argle bargle]

If this is the worst mistake, forgetting to hit publish on a blog post during the start of a campaign then I think we can be happy with that.

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The Path We Traveled

I am going to be a little real. Sometimes doing so much it gets people wondering in day-to-day life asking about how I can do so much.

Economic competitions, leadership camps, writing books, repairing, analyzing data files and that’s just over the past two weeks. Not including the work when it comes to my classes and volunteer work. Not including projects I may not talk about as much, and while I am happy to do it, because I think it should be done and no one else is getting to it.

I sometimes give myself a rest. Call it pulling the armor off. Just relax and breath to see the lay of the land of where we had gotten.

Six years ago, I was on the streets. Before that I was using this for goofy t-shirt design and just being a loud voice on the internet that seemed to be full of them. Being goofy I will never say no to on its own. The first posts of this blog go back to 2013, and it has been an odd but entertaining cross section in my life. Definitely was learning involved in the time frame.

It was strange because I am still that angry person but back then I was the person that knew nothing but to rage because he had not been taught a thing else. Family was brutal and abusive, friends were few and unable to help, and it just felt like the world was against you, and it was true because it was. Since then, I have gotten to university, flown to the nations capital, worked with policy centers and presented to the federal reserve. I have written books, and done more than a hundred different recipes for different projects and over the time I had to learn how to be social in a way I was never used to.

Kevin Nash, who is sneaky smart had a line in a promo that I think fits.

“A funny thing happened on the way to getting here, as I got older, I got wiser.”

Anytime I can work a wrestling quote that makes sense I will. There is a difference but who I am then and who I am now have changed to some degree, I have become cagier and I have been the one to make more positive out of the negative.  I am still the angry person that wants to make things better and cannot stand stupidity without reason. Just sometimes it is important to take your helmet off and look back at the path once traveled

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Learning Something New at All

Learning something new is hard, I think that is something that we all understand to some degree. I think what we forget is you can learn more the none major thing.

I have written on her of people changing drastically their careers. Porn stars who became therapists and psychologists. Instagram models who became biologists. Football players who became farmers. There is a love of life and wish of growth that I really like seeing and sometimes those journeys are not the easiest.

Kim Kardashian, recently talked about not passing the bar, the noted exam for lawyers, and its rough. Sometimes when you try to make a change it is very difficult, it is something where you will fail a few times. I am not writing this as a laugh track or some insult even though I have had issues with how the Kardashian have done business in the past. If you cannot cheer for those you disagree with or dislike to become better versions of themselves, you are not human.

Now, I am so small a blog, Kim Kardashian and that level of fame will be magnetically opposed to these posts. To her though, and everyone else who are having difficulties in their transitions career wise, keep going. It will be tough, but if it ever gets really bad, you have one loud jackass in the Pacific North West cheering you on to be better because if we do not get better than the world is much darker than any of us can dream.

Just because you are older or you have done things before you can still pivot into something new and learning is something you do every day if you love life and if you try to make the most of it then keep trying and I hope if you read this, you keep going, because if you try hard enough eventually you will make it.

Good Luck

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Value of Talking with Pigeons

You ever wonder what you shouldn’t say online? It’s something I deal with because, well, no one generally wants to hear me anyway and I don’t like wasting time. I don’t get how people can post every day.

Then I took a deeper thought as too why, and its still a problem for me to grasp. You see I can technically put anything on this blog, and sometimes if I do something interesting or I thought would be worthwhile to someone to anyone I do.

When I don’t it feels just off, like it’s taking space, and it still has to be drilled in my head that I don’t decide what is useful I can only put up stuff and hopefully someone does get some value out of it.  When you are raised to not waste time of others sometimes in an insulting way, it’s hard to unlearn that, and I will have to struggle about that as I grow.

Generally, people have not been interested in what interests me, the numbers, the styles, the just details of somethings. Here, though I need to remember that is not my decision, its yours. Just odd thoughts in something where it makes someone wonder how much they really knew about the world.

Granted I keep trying to learn but it seems there also has to be the moments the small little funny things that just keep you going. One of my personal favorites is trying to explain my thoughts with pigeons and name them after French chefs, or doing the same with ducks and Italian chefs.

You will look like a madman doing it, but for some reason they always stay long enough for me to explain a thought so long as they aren’t being in danger. The good thing is if it makes sense after talking to a bird you can most likely do it talking to a person.

Just a thought

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Personal Update (Not Falling in a Black Hole)

You know I have an absolutely atrocious sleep schedule, I do not think I have slept 8 hours straight since the Clinton administration. I have talked over problems of the city and what could be fixed in it this time I just want to talk.

In the next sixty days I will be in three separate competitions, now I won’t go in depth for what I am doing but being in three competitions, alone, is kind of a problem to me because for two of them I should be on teams. Now, is that going to stop me? No. I tried to get teams and no one wanted to try it thinking there were other things to do, they didn’t feel it aligned with their majors or just thought it was not a good idea.

Now, for some that could be the end of it but this is something that may help me later and so I am going to step in with schools with teams incredibly more qualified and like I normally do take my best shot at it and who knows. Sometimes dark horses run sometimes.

Outside of this there is a lot going on and sometimes everything just feels like it is getting away from me in a form or another. Sometimes I do not even know why I try to do so much, but I have learned the level generally I do this with and how the next couple months I am pushing myself past that point for the sake of stretching my capabilities.

My health has gotten better in places, now we are doing enough I am losing weight slowly but naturally and my muscle is more coming in. Blood pressure is low at times but I have something now to help me with that, and something in case it goes too far. It sounds weird for those who see me to think I have low blood pressure, but it is true.

A joke I heard from a friend was that I had to be part shark (like Great White or Hammerhead as those sharks are the kind that need to if memory serves.) because otherwise I would just die, and the need to try and do definitely feels like that. Generally, I try to do one piece of advice so y’all can learn from my stupidity.

Just take care of your neck, I injured mine many times and I pay for it so take care of yourself. Don’t want to take your health from the present and pay for it in the future.

I did make a few things for different foods spices, but I need some more products that people want so I am working on that, in the free moments.

Writing novels have been fun, I may try to get published in the old-fashioned way and see what comes of it. Who knows, I don’t.

Until next time

Stay Sharky

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Last Post of the Year

2021 is coming to an end, and like many times in the year, my jaw is quivering because of a spasm. Still, this year has a lot of highs and lows, and it seems more stuff is rolling, and we are now left here with an idea of what we had to go through in the last year and hopes for the future.

This will be the last message for me for the year, and I will write again for the blog in 2022, and hopefully, there will be much more stuff to go over. It will be difficult for some when we get into the new year, but I do hope that you will make as much progress and even more than me. Do the things you want to do and go for something you never thought possible.

My health will continue to be bad, and while that may take me out of action for a couple of days, it seems that if I can just keep going, there is something more. Some people over the year have claimed me to be one of the strongest they know, and honestly, I do not feel like it. Maybe, that is something that I can shake off in the next twelve months. Do enough that I can look in the mirror and chase off the shadows.

As an end-of-the-year post, let me tell you this.

I have been deemed depressed, or however, the tag works. It is just me against the darkness behind my eyes, and sometimes it gets hard to keep moving. If I keep moving, though, there is something of looking for something, doing more and more, breaking down doors, and going up floors, they will never dispel from the core. Still, maybe for a moment of glory in the next chapter of my story, the pieces I find can make me feel whole again.

Between all the issues in the world and my own problems, there is always a chance that I will never be content with what I have done. That is something I have already made my peace with. However, sometimes some people are never happy with everything, and if I keep my eyes on the next thing, then maybe I can get enough done to make progress. A constant need to test and grow can be bad in some cases, but at least I have enough challenges in front of me that I won’t go without something to do for a while.

Alright, that was about as much super personal stuff we got on this one. I will see you all next time, folks. Hopefully, your new year goes well and like all the other times.

Stay Strong.

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Learning the Rules of Business

I do not know how to do business.

I know how to make deals. Trading is within my wheelhouse just fine but I do not know how to take what I can do and start something new with it. Knowledge and skill just don’t fall in to the formula mentally for me to know that path.

Been listening to a few different podcasts and YouTube videos and he said a line that at least I think, taught me something important. Paul Heyman is, for those who do not know is a wrestling promoter and personality, that has done a fair amount in a lot of different places. Content, financing, and distribution are three things he deems the most important in reference to the business. He was on Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Ranch and it was just also a lesson in something else.

Until it happens, until the money is in your account, do not count on anyone honoring to their word, as he regaled those with how the pay-per-view company held more then two million dollars when they needed it and the company in charge of the ppv distribution thought it would be cheaper to handle it in court versus just paying them what had been earned from their contract.

Those three things if I can hammer out and make sure that I am not going from one paycheck to another should be a good set of things to start my future businesses. After that then the first things would be how to get money to invest into my business when for all intents and purposes I’m broke as a joke.

Always something to do. It seems no rest for the wicked, but I will stop here for now. Stay strong everyone.

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My Biggest Problem In Blogging

I thought I should start off with the problems that I know I have doing this blog for so many years and getting some things out to be read. I feel it could be a touch more successful. I do a very small amount of advertising on it. Over time it has always been my biggest problem because I would want to put it in places where people could enjoy it, but on the flipside I don’t want to endlessly advertise it to the point that people are just sick of it. Doing it has to be done with a balance between the two because although I do not have a more focused subject blog there are things that I have learned that can be useful to others.

Youtube is the same way I want to advertise because there I games I find that are really fun, yet free to play. I do some other videos about subjects, but I find that having it be just on one subject as a blog or a channel makes things somewhat boring. There will always need to be some variety to make them really come through.

It is something I actually spent many hours poring over different strategies, and how business works on both sides to get a better understanding of how some may look at it. Putting it all in my head there was nothing that really felt right until while I was in bed rolling around from the pain of a popped tendon that it struck me.

Keeping all those things in mind made me lose the point. Something so astonishingly simple that looking at everything made me want to just slap my head. It will be something that kinda gave me some information that was sorely needed. Looking back, yes some mistakes were made and some things could have been done better, but I do some good stuff. Since I do good stuff between this blog and the channel I need to find ways where I can just take a step back and have more fun with it without it being a soul crushing defeat like so many projects of people tend to turn into.

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October Blogging Challenge

 

A thirty one day blogging challenge has seemed interesting to me. It also sounds very hard to do. Despite everything right now I cannot think of how things would go for thirty days of blog posts. I am going to try though. It never hurts to challenge yourself, except you know when you challenge yourself and it does hurt. I am sure you people understand the point I am trying to make.

I will give myself some rules to work by to prevent cheesing. I want to put stuff up I can get behind whether it is an opinion piece, writing, excerpt, project update, or something else.

Three hundred words is the minimum of things per blog post, and the reason why that is the minimum amount. Going under that would seem to be a post that does not allow itself some substance. If suddenly a ten thousand words or even a couple thousand words post may get a little boring to slog through. If there are going to be longer posts it may be small stories or longer excerpts from some of the books.

I think this will be something good in the long run provided I can connect on the full month of October. The full month will have one post for every day making 31 posts total. This will get interesting just on the part that everything would be. For all of the posts I will try to have as many pictures to keep it interesting. Using pictures that I don’t make is something I have to work on because there are things that could definitely use a picture, but how I give credit for the pictures was something that always confused me. Outside of memes or little sarcastic thing or memes where as long as I am not selling or profiting directly from it.

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Risque Whiskey or Risky Whisky

So I recently wanted to get some more writing experience, help my efforts trying to network in that industry. Their was an open position for a website called The Whiskey Wash. They have not answered back after multiple attempts at contact which is fine open positions got to have a lot of people applying for it one would figure maybe I just don’t cut it. I hate to have it happen, but one can move on.

Except something caught my attention. I’m a fan of whiskey and on the web site itself their were two spellings of the word. One with the “E”and one without which I thought were strange. Normally that would dictate that someone would have majorly screwed up. It is rare though for something like a specialty site to do that so I did some research.

For anyone who reads this blog they will find I spell it w-h-i-s-k-e-y. This is the spelling found on many American and all Irish and since my whiskey experiences stem from the Jack Daniels and Jameson brands over my two and a half decades on this planet, and that would be why it seemed strange to me. W-h-i-s-k-y is the spelling used by Canada, Japan, and Scotland. If there are any other countries then I am sorry I just do not know which one you use, no insult meant.

Some people actually get legitimately angry about it like the inclusion of a single “E” can throw all their good memories they ever had with it in to the river. Going so far to insult those who use the spelling in reference to the wrong original country. Now with writing some people will only look at it and go..

“Huh, they got multiple spellings here, they can’t know about what they are writing about.”

Nope, there is a reason although it is slightly strange to see two different spellings on the same website over and again.

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