My friend, Charles, put this post on his site. He has turned off comments, so I’m forced to respond on my own site. How awful.

Charles, you’re not crazy. I do things in a specific order nowadays because I’ve found it just makes it easier to check if you’ve forgotten something. My order is wash hands, contacts, brush teeth. Yara has just informed me that I don’t have an order. She has further informed that I’m not as obsessive as Charles or herself. I apparently, “Don’t get freaked out when things are done out of order.” Okay, so I’m normal. Charles, don’t blame me. I tried to reach out to you as a fellow freak, but Yara has shown my true normal human colors. I can’t relate to you.

Esther, you are probably the only one I can relate to. We are stuck with obsessive compulsives. Well, nothing to do now, but disrupt their daily routines. You get “dog dirty” germs on his computer, I’ll go cut vegetables on the same board as I just cut raw meat on. Mmm…. food poisoning.

It’s already been 6 months since I set some goals for myself and posted them to the internet.

I set those goals before my trip to Phoenix in which I said I was an investor reborn. I thought then that I would catch up to my schedule. I recently went to another investor meeting in Orlando, where I was ranked in the beginner group of investors. I’ll discuss this in a later post, but it was a call to arms for me. I looked at this previous post today, because I was thinking I had put some goals up on the internet for all to see.

It was actually quite a reality check to see where I had progressed since setting these goals. It’s funny because in this post, I say that I need to take “MCA” and now that I’ve been doing it for the past couple weeks the results I expected are coming to fruition. I’ve helped a few families since starting this, but I haven’t completed any of the deals that I set out to. I’m behind on my schedule of doing 6 or more deals by June. I will control 2 deals by the first week of July.

There’s no sense in crying about the past. All I can do is acknowledge my mistakes, discover their cause, take means to prevent them, and continue on my journey. What were my mistakes? Mainly letting inaction and fear take hold of me. The cause was that I didn’t find out that being my own boss meant finding a new purpose in getting up every morning. Nowadays I get up in the morning because I am genuinely excited about what the next day will bring. There are deals and people to meet and money to be made. I am preventing from falling into the same inaction by discovering something learned by single cells many millennia ago. Teaming up makes sense. It’s easier for a multi-celled organism to survive than a single celled one. I’ve been teaming up with other investors lately. Some to bounce ideas off, some to partner on deals, and others just to support each other. It’s been amazing the power of a team. The Army talks all about “The army of one”, but that is malarky in my opinion. The real strength lies in the group. Now I am working everyday and looking for every way I can do things smarter and better. Things are looking up and up.

I may not be on schedule for my goals, but I will hit the final one of 12-20 deals. This is going to be easy with all of my partners. Thanks to all of them in advance.

Hopefully, everyone who reads this has heard of Halo, the Xbox game. What a great game!

Well some really talented players/artists have made a movie in the Halo game. It’s really impressive to see it. I’m just in awe of how skilled and ingenious it was to have done. There have been some videos before of people beating levels of Quake 3 and half-life, but this is the first that I actually watched and liked. As of this writing there are 9 episodes of Red Vs Blue, but with an estimated 22 episodes in total I’ve got something to look forward to for weeks to come.

Here’s their synopsis of the series:
In the time between the Covenant invasion of the outer planets ( Halo ) and the subsequent alien invasion of Earth ( Halo 2 ), there was a brief period of civil war among the human marines. Places like Sidewinder, Derelict and Chiron TL34 were the sites of fierce battles where red and blue warriors fought for control of mankind's future. The Blood Gulch Chronicles tell the story of the men stationed in a desolate outpost as they fight for control of the universe's most strategic dry creek bed in the middle of a box canyon.


So I got back from Cali about two weeks ago and I’ve finally gotten around to writing a bit about it. Let’s see here, I went for a wedding and to see my friend, Anit. He let me stay at his place a few nights and we hit San Francisco for all it’s best. He showed me to some of the touristy stuff. We went to Twin Peaks, Coit Tower, Lombard Street, Castro Street, and just wandered around some. We had some great eats. There are more Asian restaurants there than fast food chains! I ate something ethnic pretty much every day. Good stuff. During the day, I hit most of the other tourist attractions like Fisherman’s Wharf and Alcatraz. I wandered around in the Mission district.

I found out what the world would be like if Sony owned it. This was the Metreon theatre. A giant building that has a Sony Entertainment showcase where I even saw the Aibo dog and more plasma screens than Best Buy. Over at their PS2 store, I got a chance to play a lot of games, it made me realize E3 would be so cool. This store was great, imagine a million square feet like it! Wow. I need to go next year, somehow.

So, I found out what good Thai food tasted like and where real California style burritos come from (Mission district!). Also, the really good food there is pretty cheap. The best burrito shops could feed a pair of people for less than $10. A great Thai place we went to had the cheapest dishes I had ever seen. Plus, they had the best food! So amazing.

I also attended the best done wedding of the season. It was the last for this season (fingers crossed!!). Melanie and Yara run a tight ship and this one sailed into the sunset with no problems. The location at the Marin Gardens was perfect. The ceremony was short, but meaningful. Appetizers came out before I got too hungry. Dinner was excellent. The music was provided by a live swing band with vocalist who was really good. We danced our butts off to that music. By far, the most outstanding part of that wedding were the cakes. The bride’s and groom’s were both delicious with a frosting that just evaporated in your mouth. Truly superb.

Congratulations to Melanie and Jon Stone! Yay!