I first met Dan back in the old A.L. Williams Company. He (Dan) was actually much more successful in it than I was. And we didn't actually hang out togather much. But I knew who he was and, as I recall, he was then (as now) always a cheerful kind of guy.
Dan had a family at the time and he made some wrong choices and got into some personal trouble that cost him his marriage. He then had some scrapes with the law that resulted in him spending some time in the Harris County 'clink'.
This was during the time I had my mobile windshield repair business there in Houston so I was in a position to help Dan out by giving him a job, even though it was commission only. Something nobody else was willing to do at the time..And a place to stay.
So Dan stayed with me for a year or two. During this time he sorta got a bit closer to The Lord (the kinds of experiences he had will do that to you).
Then he eventually got his head more-or-less back in order and started making his own connections and found a job in truck sales.
From there he went up to New York City where he spent 2 or 3 years. That's the time period Jessica mentions in this video.
For the last couple of years or so Dan has been back in Houston. Still in truck sales.
Far as I know he's doing OK. Everybody that I know who ever knew Dan always thought he was a cool guy. Sure, he had some personal problems in the past......but he was always essentially a nice person.
He usually send me jokes. Many of them very funny. This video was slightly different content but it's nice to see this kind of thing happening for Dan. He's certainly paid his dues.
This is a 'life bombing test for the keywords, "meeting Claire in Yangjae".
Claire's a pretty sharp gal, and cute too, and also a good salsa dancer. I think she'd be a good person to be in business with so I've been wanting to talk to her about opportunities to do Google oriented SEO and SEM work for Korean product and service providers wanting to get more 'Yankee' (i.e. English speaking) dollars.
I thought I'd see how long it would take Google to pick up this post and the long tail keyword phrase, "meeting Claire in Yangjae".
This'll be sorta like that other experiment I did using the made-up keyword (obviously not a really 'competitive' keyword)....it was something like 'striped Kangaroo underwear'. Or something like that.
Point is...it worked.
But here, I'm going to use thekeyword meeting Claire in Yangjae and see what happens.
Since most of my readers are in the US, I guess this item, from www.blueq.com, might come in useful. They've got loads of other cool stuff but you might especially like this. It probably would be a perfect gift for that intellectual man who has everything and likes to travel.
I've taken my Flickr badge down until I can figure out why I can't see it from where I am. The lady at Typepad said she could see it. But I can't. Is that what they call a 'rendering' problem?
Also today my desktop suddenly turned all white. I can still see the icons (of which there are many....almost the entire desktop). This kind of crap really bothers me. I don't for the life of me understand how people cope with these kinds of things. I mean, they're usually a total mystery to me and I assume they are to other people too.
Back to the pictures, I've uploaded seveal new 'batches' in the last few weeks...........a 'batch' being defined usually as one weekend's worth.
I'm doing a handful of videos and one picture right now which happen to be pictures I took a week or so ago when I went down to my new school in Suwon to actually sign the contract. It's really a nice school......i.e. the facility itself.
One of my most admired online marketing experts is a guy named Travis Sago, AKA: The Bum Marketer. Travis lives in Arkansas (Russellville) and is both very successful and a very nice guy. Travis has a product of his own called The Magic of Making Up (MMU).
He makes a lot of money with it. I'm an affiliate although I haven't really tried to promote it (it's just an organizatonal problem of my own). Point is, in observing him talk about the product and then taking that increased awareness (i.e. of the product niche) back into the internet media arena, I've become aware of what a big subject 'relationships' are.
One of the places where I noticed articles about relationships almost every day is on the home page of Yahoo. It's amazing to me not only how often I see relationship articles but also how often I see articles talking problems that girls have finding nice guys.
It always seems to me that any girl who's even halfway attractive and with any personality at all can meet all the nice guys she wants. What's the problem?
"Nice guys...."
Well, I guess that term could have a multitude of definitions but that's not my subject here. What amazes me is that it apparently is such a problem that girls have trouble meeting guys. I just find that hard to comprehend.
I've always been pretty good at meeting girls but I hardly ever seem to get too far beyond that phase. It always seemed that really pretty, nice girls don't 'stick' to me emotionally.
Once in a while I meet girls who I'm not only attracted to physically but who also I find fun and who I can relax with. But that's a very, very rare occasion. It doesn't happen very often. It always seemed to me that most girls (or should I say 'women'?) are so wrapped up in their lives and careers that they won't slow down long enough to develop any meaningful mind-to-mind relationship with me. And most of the conversations girls seem to like....to me, they're sorta shallow or silly.
But back to the point of this post......it's just an observation really. I'm amazed to see so much interest on the internet (based on the fact that people are writing articles about it) in girls meeting nice guys. I can't believe it's that hard.
I'm a nice guy! I'd love to meet a reasonably attractive nice girl. My email is right here!
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