Ok, so I've been slightly uninspired lately. But, recently a friend of mine Facebook chatted me and was all like "Dewd, wtf?! Where has your blogging skillz gone?" and I replied with something like "Getz off mah cases. Inspiration cannot be forced."
Well, I decided to just start writing and see where it took me.
Being the basketball nut that I am, I get a lot of questions like "how about them Knicks? eh eh? haha!" (there is always a good thigh slap in there too). Anyway, because I don't have cable, and because my NBA broadband blacks out local games, I haven't really watched a knicks game yet :-/. Talk about EM-BARE-ASSING.
I'm working tonight, then going to LA for two weeks on Monday morning. I've got my apartment listed on www.roomorama.com and www.airbnb.com to rent it out during the days when I'm not here. I've had some interest but nobody to "seal to deal" if you know.... what... I mean....
Friday, December 17, 2010
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Repayment
I was listening to Elliot Smith then realized that today, all of my student loans go into repayment. Coincidence?
Friday, November 19, 2010
Benefits
One of the awesome benefits of semi/under/sporadic/part-time employment is being able to see movies without lines/crowds/terribleness.
This afternoon I went with my friend Joey (also an unemployed lawyer) to see the new Harry Potter movie.
Life is good.
This afternoon I went with my friend Joey (also an unemployed lawyer) to see the new Harry Potter movie.
Life is good.
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Wowwwwie, our bad
Hey everyone.
So sorry about the lack of posting. I've been absurdly busy and Fletch has been out of town.
We have also been discussing some changes around here. And we've had a slight problem with the ads.
Hopefully we can clear things up in the next few days and start posting again.
So sorry about the lack of posting. I've been absurdly busy and Fletch has been out of town.
We have also been discussing some changes around here. And we've had a slight problem with the ads.
Hopefully we can clear things up in the next few days and start posting again.
Thursday, November 11, 2010
Tyler's Tree NYC
Dear residents of the Tri-State Area,
I want to bring to your attention a really cool service. Its called Tyler's Trees. It. Is. Awesome. And can be found at www.tylerstreesnyc.com.
It is a no-hassle Christmas Tree delivery service, and they deliver to anywhere in the tri-state area. They have different options for sizes and types of trees and all included in the price you pay you get: deliver, set-up, a tree stand, and tree-skirt. Check them out, they have various pricing options and are sure to have something to FIT YOUR NEEDS.
Its a serious no brainer for those living life at New York speeds.
(Full disclosure: We got NO MONEY for this post. We just think its an awesome site and service).
I want to bring to your attention a really cool service. Its called Tyler's Trees. It. Is. Awesome. And can be found at www.tylerstreesnyc.com.
It is a no-hassle Christmas Tree delivery service, and they deliver to anywhere in the tri-state area. They have different options for sizes and types of trees and all included in the price you pay you get: deliver, set-up, a tree stand, and tree-skirt. Check them out, they have various pricing options and are sure to have something to FIT YOUR NEEDS.
Its a serious no brainer for those living life at New York speeds.
(Full disclosure: We got NO MONEY for this post. We just think its an awesome site and service).
Housekeeping Too
Hey friends,
Here are some housekeeping issues:
1) Sorry about the lack of posting this week. There are some behind the scenes things we are dealing with. Hopefully sooner rather than later we will get this ball rolling again.
2) We really appreciate all the ad clicks. Its amazing to see the support.
3) As a follow-up to this classic post: Why I...Why I... Splurge on Expensive Coffee Beans I will be buying new 1lb bag of expensive beans. I really liked the Stumptown Holler Mountain beans I got last time, but I'm thinking I want to change it up. Maybe some Intelligensia beans this time? Or see if Abraco is selling their own beans? Oh joy!
4) This is super duper uper important. We even posted about it earlier: Support Your Local Blogger. If you re going to purchase something through amazon (and we KNOW you will with the approaching Holiday Season), come to HireUsPlease.Com and access Amazon through the Amazon.com sidebar. We get a referral percentage of your purchase, and it simply adds one extra click to your process of getting there. It would really be incredible if you supported us in that manner.
Anyway, to my fellow NYers, lets enjoy this beautiful fall weather while we can, and to our readers outside LA, I hope your Autumn is turning out spendidly.
Here are some housekeeping issues:
1) Sorry about the lack of posting this week. There are some behind the scenes things we are dealing with. Hopefully sooner rather than later we will get this ball rolling again.
2) We really appreciate all the ad clicks. Its amazing to see the support.
3) As a follow-up to this classic post: Why I...Why I... Splurge on Expensive Coffee Beans I will be buying new 1lb bag of expensive beans. I really liked the Stumptown Holler Mountain beans I got last time, but I'm thinking I want to change it up. Maybe some Intelligensia beans this time? Or see if Abraco is selling their own beans? Oh joy!
4) This is super duper uper important. We even posted about it earlier: Support Your Local Blogger. If you re going to purchase something through amazon (and we KNOW you will with the approaching Holiday Season), come to HireUsPlease.Com and access Amazon through the Amazon.com sidebar. We get a referral percentage of your purchase, and it simply adds one extra click to your process of getting there. It would really be incredible if you supported us in that manner.
Anyway, to my fellow NYers, lets enjoy this beautiful fall weather while we can, and to our readers outside LA, I hope your Autumn is turning out spendidly.
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Well, maybe not an Italian Restaurant exactly, but I love Billy Joel, and that's one of his best songs. Really, these are scenes from my job working at a bar:
- I overheard two separate patrons make comments about me. The first "that is the skinniest bouncer I've ever seen." The second, "that is the best-dressed bouncer I've ever seen." So apparently, the jury is still out on me.
- At one point, a woman with an eastern European accent literally tried to stare me down and intimidate me into letting her in, despite the fact that there was really nothing I could do. It was kind of incredible. It was a straight up "Evil Eye", and comically so. All I could do was be polite back.
- Some people were nice and respectful, some people not so much. Who do you think I was more likely to go out of my way for?
- Having a job where 95% of it is interacting with customers is super refreshing after law school/the bar where 95% of it is spent alone in thought.
- There is a really cool camaraderie among the staff. It reminds me how much I miss being part of a team.
- I overheard two separate patrons make comments about me. The first "that is the skinniest bouncer I've ever seen." The second, "that is the best-dressed bouncer I've ever seen." So apparently, the jury is still out on me.
- At one point, a woman with an eastern European accent literally tried to stare me down and intimidate me into letting her in, despite the fact that there was really nothing I could do. It was kind of incredible. It was a straight up "Evil Eye", and comically so. All I could do was be polite back.
- Some people were nice and respectful, some people not so much. Who do you think I was more likely to go out of my way for?
- Having a job where 95% of it is interacting with customers is super refreshing after law school/the bar where 95% of it is spent alone in thought.
- There is a really cool camaraderie among the staff. It reminds me how much I miss being part of a team.
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Why I... renewed my subscription to NBA broadband
This is the next installment in a series called "Why I..." in which I explain why I do certain things that might seem irrational given my current lack of any real income.
In a former life, I was defined first and foremost as a basketball player. I mean that in the "college admissions" sense of "what are you?" It was my life, plain and simple. I was quite good too. I played on a high school team that won several regional championships out in California, and we were the California State Runners-up one season (yes, that means we lost in the State Championship. While I've yet to watch a video of the game (would you?), I'm positive we got jobbed by home-town refs). I was even co-captain along with a friend of mine who has played professionally the past few years in and around Europe.
So what happened you ask? Well, when it came time to decide what to do post high school, I decided to hang-up the sneakers competitively and go have a normal (non-athlete) college experience. Well, within four years of that, I had blown out my knee playing pickup games (torn ACL), had surgery on my knee, started playing again too soon after surgery, threw out my back, and had surgery on my back. This was all back when I still lived in LA.
I moved to NY in the summer of '07 determined to get back on the court. And I did, for about a year. Well, eventually, I twisted my ankle up real bad and came to the realization that I just was not meant to play basketball anymore. Period. End of Paragraph. Devastating.
Getting back to the point of this post. At the heart of the "Why I..." series is ways I treat myself to certain things despite my relative cash poverty (see former post here: Cash Poor). While I'm tracking every dollar I spend, these are the things that the subjective value I derive from them so far outstrips the actual monetary value that despite my belt tightening (and there has been a ton), I'm just not about to give up.
So, NBA Broadband is a service provided by the NBA, wherein, all non-nationally televised games are viewable online. Mostly, I watch as many Laker games as I can. But, I also try to catch as many non-Laker games as I can too. Beyond being intellectually stimulating (which I find it), watching basketball reconnects me with the former life I wrote about above.
Normally, when I think about not being able to play ball anymore, I get pretty emotional. Its not something I'm happy about. At all. But watching the games, is different. I'm not thinking about the game and getting pissed off at the person who stepped on my foot causing my knee to pop and depriving me of one of my greatest joys in life, because that hasn't happened yet. When I watch I'm still 16, I still in good health, and I can still hoop.
Being able to reconnect like that without the disappointment is well worth the $100.
---- Add on by Fletch
I love baseball. Playing, watching, attending, heckling and the modern drunken softball version of the game we played when younger.
Bobby has a legacy of playing basketball that I can't pretend I have with baseball. Because of swimming and diving, I stopped playing baseball in high school, but never lost my adoration for the game. Is there anything better then having a catch? Honestly?
So I pay MLB.com every year for access to my beloved Philadelphia Phillies. And usually I buy the next year in December of the previous at a discount. Subjectively worth it, even if that means a few more ramen meals. Plus, I can watch on my iphone now or listen to the hometown radio call. Awesome.
Pretending I can hit a major league fastball or throw out a runner on second. Well worth the $120.00.
In a former life, I was defined first and foremost as a basketball player. I mean that in the "college admissions" sense of "what are you?" It was my life, plain and simple. I was quite good too. I played on a high school team that won several regional championships out in California, and we were the California State Runners-up one season (yes, that means we lost in the State Championship. While I've yet to watch a video of the game (would you?), I'm positive we got jobbed by home-town refs). I was even co-captain along with a friend of mine who has played professionally the past few years in and around Europe.
So what happened you ask? Well, when it came time to decide what to do post high school, I decided to hang-up the sneakers competitively and go have a normal (non-athlete) college experience. Well, within four years of that, I had blown out my knee playing pickup games (torn ACL), had surgery on my knee, started playing again too soon after surgery, threw out my back, and had surgery on my back. This was all back when I still lived in LA.
I moved to NY in the summer of '07 determined to get back on the court. And I did, for about a year. Well, eventually, I twisted my ankle up real bad and came to the realization that I just was not meant to play basketball anymore. Period. End of Paragraph. Devastating.
Getting back to the point of this post. At the heart of the "Why I..." series is ways I treat myself to certain things despite my relative cash poverty (see former post here: Cash Poor). While I'm tracking every dollar I spend, these are the things that the subjective value I derive from them so far outstrips the actual monetary value that despite my belt tightening (and there has been a ton), I'm just not about to give up.
So, NBA Broadband is a service provided by the NBA, wherein, all non-nationally televised games are viewable online. Mostly, I watch as many Laker games as I can. But, I also try to catch as many non-Laker games as I can too. Beyond being intellectually stimulating (which I find it), watching basketball reconnects me with the former life I wrote about above.
Normally, when I think about not being able to play ball anymore, I get pretty emotional. Its not something I'm happy about. At all. But watching the games, is different. I'm not thinking about the game and getting pissed off at the person who stepped on my foot causing my knee to pop and depriving me of one of my greatest joys in life, because that hasn't happened yet. When I watch I'm still 16, I still in good health, and I can still hoop.
Being able to reconnect like that without the disappointment is well worth the $100.
---- Add on by Fletch
I love baseball. Playing, watching, attending, heckling and the modern drunken softball version of the game we played when younger.
Bobby has a legacy of playing basketball that I can't pretend I have with baseball. Because of swimming and diving, I stopped playing baseball in high school, but never lost my adoration for the game. Is there anything better then having a catch? Honestly?
So I pay MLB.com every year for access to my beloved Philadelphia Phillies. And usually I buy the next year in December of the previous at a discount. Subjectively worth it, even if that means a few more ramen meals. Plus, I can watch on my iphone now or listen to the hometown radio call. Awesome.
Pretending I can hit a major league fastball or throw out a runner on second. Well worth the $120.00.
Support Your Local Bloggers
(Despite being posted from Bobby's account, the authorship of this post should be attributed to both Fletch and Bobby)
Hello readers!! How are you doing out there!?!?!? We Can't heeeaaaarrrr yoouuuuuuu!! We SAID, How are you doing out there!?!?
Well, sorry for the lack of posting over the past 24ish hours. We've been feverishly trying to figure out a new way for us to make $$$ off this blog.
If you look on the sidebar, there is a new Amazon.com gadget. If you access Amazon.com through that widget and make a purchase, we here at HireUsPlease.com get a small percentage of your purchase. Especially with the approaching Holidays, purchasing your gifts through amazon can be one of the most convenient ways to buy all those wonderful gifts for your loved ones.
Wait, what? Does this hurt me in any way?
No dear hypothetical reader, it does not. You're purchase price is completely unaffected by accessing Amazon through our site. Also, once you're on the Amazon site, your experience there will be completely unaffected.
Ok. So what do I do?
Its simple. Verrrrrrry simple. Instead of accessing www.Amazon.com directly, you simply come to www.hireusplease.com first. From here, you click on the Amazon widget, which will link you over to Amazon. That's it. Seriously, that's it. Its one simple click of your mouse.
So, Support Your Local Bloggers shop on Amazon through our noble site. And just for fun, we've added a link to the complete series of The Wire, and a picture of Jimmy McNulty.
Thanks!
Hello readers!! How are you doing out there!?!?!? We Can't heeeaaaarrrr yoouuuuuuu!! We SAID, How are you doing out there!?!?
Well, sorry for the lack of posting over the past 24ish hours. We've been feverishly trying to figure out a new way for us to make $$$ off this blog.
If you look on the sidebar, there is a new Amazon.com gadget. If you access Amazon.com through that widget and make a purchase, we here at HireUsPlease.com get a small percentage of your purchase. Especially with the approaching Holidays, purchasing your gifts through amazon can be one of the most convenient ways to buy all those wonderful gifts for your loved ones.
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| McNulty: Because, why not right? |
Wait, what? Does this hurt me in any way?
No dear hypothetical reader, it does not. You're purchase price is completely unaffected by accessing Amazon through our site. Also, once you're on the Amazon site, your experience there will be completely unaffected.
Ok. So what do I do?
Its simple. Verrrrrrry simple. Instead of accessing www.Amazon.com directly, you simply come to www.hireusplease.com first. From here, you click on the Amazon widget, which will link you over to Amazon. That's it. Seriously, that's it. Its one simple click of your mouse.
So, Support Your Local Bloggers shop on Amazon through our noble site. And just for fun, we've added a link to the complete series of The Wire, and a picture of Jimmy McNulty.
Thanks!
Monday, November 8, 2010
Lo Siento Amigos
Sorry for the lack of posting today. Both of the esteemed bloggers of this site have been pretty busy today.
Anyone care to submit a contribution? We'd love to hear/publish your story.
Anyone care to submit a contribution? We'd love to hear/publish your story.
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