Tim D: “When are you going to write more blog posts?  There haven’t been any at all for December.”
James: “When I feel like it / get around to it.”

Yes, I know. In ‘05 if I hadn’t written a post in 3 days I would go back and write posts for previous days. I wrote some pure gold towards the end of that year. Well ya know what? There is just not enough time in the day anymore. For 3 weeks straight I was actually exercising every night for an hour or more! Yes, I have pretty much dropped that like a bad habit (even though it was a good habit) but my point is it took time. Then it takes time to update the movies on the site everyday. Some days I only spend a few minutes on it but often it takes me over an hour because I have so many links I have to check to see if they are broken and then maybe I find a ton of good ones to put up in their place.

I rather enjoy writing tutorials for A Smartass Education however I so rarely ever do it anymore. Ask-a-Smartass is way behind and I’m sure with all the worthless questions there were still a couple good ones to answer. You can’t really see them because whenever somebody tries to submit a script to it the “unanswered feed” gets fucked up and doesn’t show the questions because it can’t validate the feed anymore, so you probably can’t see how many zillion of those questions there are.

So here’s the thing. Despite me enjoying working on my own site and making new shit, there are too many projects on the site for me to choose which ones to do anymore. Unless I become self employed again, I just can’t get caught up on everything. So I am going to create a page called ‘Help The Smartass’ which is going to do several things all of which will help me get shit done.

1) It will have a donation button, however below it there will be a “to do list”. This list will cover all the things I want to do for the site but haven’t been able to choose or get done. Everything from making new WTF pages, to adding more full anime series to the site. Writing tutorials (feel free to request one upon donation) and answering questions. Automating my theater, rewriting my links page, making a massive page of every helpful form on the net, making a broken link reporter for games and movies etc.. etc…

Yes, I will eventually do the things on the list without a donation, however the list will always be expanding so the things that you want done quicker can get done quicker because you will be able to help me shift my focus.

2) I will not put banners on my main pages, nobody likes banners and it takes away from the design and if you are like me at this point you use firefox and have adblock turned on so you don’t seven see banners anymore. However I am not opposed to having affiliate links. So there will be links to Amazon | Newegg | etc… so the places that you ALREADY shop at you can simply click the links b4 purchasing stuff and I will get credit… There will also be links to products that I personally recommend and own like Absinthe / Swords etc..

I figure it’s not advertising at you, it’s just helping me if you choose to buy from there. ..

3) The merchandise store “good stuff” will be moved in there… they don’t sell much, but I see no reason to totally remove them.

Yes, this is the master plan. See if it’s possible that the site can make money purely on people wanting the site to continually expand. If the site can make money I will want to work on it more and this will also help to give me direction. So look for this new section soon and help out The Smartass.

So I went and passed the fuck out at 8:30pm last night.  I knew I would fall asleep right away because I had a chiropractic adjustment and then acupuncture… This alone would make me sleep well because a lot of blockages in my system would have gotten unblocked, releasing toxins and other shit into my blood stream.  Now a wiser man would have just drank water the rest of the night to help carry the toxins out of the body… I however felt I should add more toxins in…

In the history of me there has always been one thing that has totally relaxed me; and that is Absinthe.  Then there is another alcohol that has always made me kind of goofy… Brandy.  So I made up some Ethereals to get both effects.  It worked pretty damn well and I sat and watched a movie on my site called Art School Confidential, because it was made by the same guy who made Ghost World so I thought it might be interesting.  I guess it was interesting at the time, but it wouldn’t be a top pick when I have other movies like Fracture and Mr. Brooks online…

Have you ever had REALLY lucid dreams?  Ones so real you felt like you were using all 5 senses?  Man they are intense… Especially when they aren’t daydreams and you aren’t really trying to make anything happen.  So your subconscious is just trying to figure out / cope with / understand what happened to you during the day while you dream, and you aren’t supposed to see the process it uses for this.  Because the process doesn’t make sense consciously. 

Alright… Enough hype so now it’s done and I’m dreaming…

I was at a jungle gym with my friend Justin.  It was larger than your average jungle gym and looked like it was crafted just for tall people instead of kids.  We were talking about the universe and how if one could change the vibrational rate of another object then he would have the Midas Touch (turn whatever he wanted into gold).  As we were talking we seemed to really be getting a great understanding of this and as soon as we hit an ah ha moment a tank rolled in to try to shut us up.  It wasn’t just any tank, it was the tank from Beijing that the guy stood in front of in 1989 (Tienanmen Square Protests).

One would assume I wouldn’t want to just stand there like tank man did but I was suddenly not there anymore and was on the opposite side of a barrier talking to a pretty lady that I believe was a school teacher, but I have never seen her before in my life.  I do not recall any actual words from our conversation but it ended when I decided to show up at the airport. 

This was the weirdest airport I have ever been to and I thought that in the dream.  It was massive and had elevators that took you to other elevators and then signs pointing in 7 directions.  Yes, 7… So I choose the right path and ended up getting stopped by 2 rent a cops wearing bellhop uniforms.  They had another barrier up and would not let me or any of the other people pass.  i was at the head of the line and was protesting that they move and was considering bribing them with $100 and seeing if other people in the crowd could pony up some more money. 

Well before I had done this I was in Wisconsin, in a parking lot and there was a huge semi in this parking lot that said JVLNET on the side of the vehicle.  Well this intrigued me as I used to work there so I looked around.  There was a new store that somebody was moving into in the dark of the night that sold robots and mechanical lego sets.  Sure enough a minute later I saw Bob and then his son Joe.  They both looked very different as Bob had really long straight blond hair on his head and a long blond beard and was wearing a Jerry Garcia T-Shirt.  Joe however was just the opposite and came out with a well trimmed up hair and was wearing a tuxedo, which was really odd since they were moving stuff into a store in the middle of the night. 

Joe told me to look around and we would catch up in a minute.  So I did, however not in the store… Next to it.  Well next to it was all mud for about a mile and then there was a barn with cows in it.  This didn’t fit at all and I knew it and was very confused as to why such things would be in a location and the smell was awful so I went to walk back to the store to talk to my old friend when I was suddenly back at the odd airport trying to negotiate our way past the barrier. 

Before I could get the guy to move my friend Justin was there again and he tried to negotiate his way past the bellhops/rent a cops.  He had this big shit eating grin and pulled out a playing card from his pocket.  It was a red 6 of spades.  He told the bellhops that it was the death card (as if it was tarot) and one guard took the card and let him past the barrier.  My eyes were bugged out with amazement and I no longer wanted to pay my way past.  Well it was just their sense of humor because as soon as Justin had rounded the corner they let the rest of us past.

I was now in another elevator and I asked Justin where he got the death card and he shrugged with a half magic and half I don’t know look.  Thinking about it now I believe it was part of the secret of the universe that we were talking about and that he had really changed the vibrational rate of something to make it into something else. 

The elevator disappeared and I was back with the woman.  She smelled nice and I was loosing focus from the rest of the things around me.  For example, there had been a background, however it started to fade away.  I just had no interest to shift my focus to anything except this woman… and then I woke up, feeling fine… Kind of thirsty, but not ill in any way.