Humanure

Good morning kids. I am up earlier than I need to be. But I feel a little under the weather. I am one of those people who can't sleep with a stuffed up nose. I feel to claustrophobic. On top of that, they are jack-hammering the underground garage outside. Put that all on top of the desire to listen to some tunes, and up I am. I am drinking Vanilla Hazelnut flavoured coffee this morning and it is amzing. I highly reccomend it. Coffee this good will get rid of the pestilence in the world. Tomorrow is Darkrave. I am pretty pumped about it. I love to see all the goths who go all out. The gothic sub-culture is so strongly based on purely fashion, and the fashion can be incredible. If you see a well decked out goth you know they put a fuck of a lot of work into how they look. More than I ever have in my life. I know tomorrow I am going to ask to be in pictures with some of them so I can have some hot goths on my phone. I don't care what all of you think. But goths are fucking sexy too. It seems I am constantly falling further behind in sleep as I get older. I often wonder if it is just me or whether most people aren't getting enough sleep.

I always knew extremely intelligent people hardly slept. Like Isaac Newton and Einstein. But I am not a genius by any means. I consider myself an intelligent person for sure. But not a genius. Kids you should check out the band "Neurosis". They are quite good. They are a little bit more thrashy than most metal I listen too. I very rarely listen to thrashy metal. I like controlled well thought out intricate patterns in my music. But they are quite good for a change. So check them out of you like. There must be a wealth of metal reccomendations on my blog now. if anyone wanted to start getting into it, this would be a good place to start. But I have no illusions of any of you actually checking out this music I reccomend. But I figure someone someday will come across this and really be intrigued by my love for it and get really into it. When that happens, I can die a happy man. My kitty is using my leg as a scratching post. Though I don't really mind as long as she doesn't break skin. My kitty loves me. You guys should meet her. She is a wonderful pet.

I feel like my summer is going by very quickly and me not doing as much with it as I like. Because I work so much I think. Two or three days off a month is very little. But I get my three day vacation for Summerfolk. I am going to feel so weird going back to work after having three days off. My boss left for Arizona today. She gets three weeks of vacation a year. So she is taking another ten day vacation. So I have to run things the next little while. Which will be fine. This time around will be less hectic. I don't have to prepare and order for a new promo. This promo is still in effect for another three weeks or so I think. So I am basically just doing what I normally would do. Placing the order. Making the schedule. I have to accept the order today. The load is coming in. It is another big one. Again I don't know how I am going to fit it all. But I will figure it out. Last night I had an insanely busy night at the store. But I was really fucking on top of my game. I could sell ice to eskimos last night. I raped these peoples wallets. they came in giving me fifteen twenty dollar budget limits, I would sell them fifty, sixty dollars worth of wine.

Very satisfying getting people to spend far more than they expected. I think I will be able to go quite far in this job. I really do. I was naturally good at it. I am constantly getting better. My average sale rate keeps going up. I am also beginning to move wine out of the store well that usually stays in it longer due to it being pricey. I am reading the product manual a lot and knowing how to really talk about the nose of a bottle of wine and the finish and the body and... well everything. When you can pretentiously spout off a bunch of bullshit about wine, people are impressed and think it sounds amazing and buy it. But it isn't only that. I have excellent taste in wine. So even though they may spend more than they planned. I have customers returning satisfied telling me that the wine I reccomended them was amazing. So if I sell expensive wine and they love it, I get repeat customers coming to buy that expensive wine again. If I get regulars like that, than I start to move this wine regularily. I love getting my customer base to regularily spend more money.

My boss tells me she has people come in asking for me by name and when I am not there they tell her I am very helpful and pleasant. Which is true. I am. And genuinely so. I don't have to fake being nice at my job because I actually do like it. Customers pick up on that. They can also pick up on you hating your job which can circulate negative energy making your job worse. But I generally always have positive energy around me so my customers are generally always awesome. My back bothers me a lot lately. I think I need to get one of those back braces I see on lots of people who are in charge of accepting stock in grocery stores. My boss said a while ago she would look into whether Vincor would pay for it. But I think she forgot as did I until now. So I should probably remind her. My cat is so full of energy right now. She is bounding off the tops of couches and chairs and shit and keeps scaring the crap out of me. I am afraid of her dumping my coffee in my lap. If anything makes me angry it is wasting this elixir of the gods.

Man the jazz break down at the end of this album is friggen orgasmic. I told you guys about "The Faceless" in my last blog post. There is an amazing jazz guitar section on the last song of the album. Jazz break downs can be incredible when placed right. As long as they aren't cheesy or boring. I am really itching to go to another amazing conert alrready. I would go to one every week if there was enough good music in the world for once a week to be good shit to come to Toronto. But alas, that is only a fantasy world. I was reading my other blog last night. Holy shit have I changed a lot in the last couple years. I am full of shit and am obviously preaching an agenda on it. i am so over the top emotional and dramatic and angry. I am very glad that isn't me anymore. I sent Laruen the link to it last night and even she was even surprised how different I am now. And ttrust me, it is a huge difference. If you want to know the link, ask me, I might give it to you. Depending on who you are. Actually, no matter who you are I will probably give it to you. Because I am not really too ashamed of it. I am pretty open about being a douche in the past. But to see it personified in my own writing is a little different. But whatever. I choose to immortalize things on the internet. I thought about deleting it. Then I realized it is a good thing for me to be able to look back and see this side of me. Haha. It is really bad. Anyways, I think I am going to wrap this up for the day. I love you kids. Cheers!