Patrick Valdez

I am a freelance writer and graphic designer as well as a cycling fiend. When not sitting behind a computer you are sure to find me riding my singlespeed down the road.

Mar 202010

Yesterday, March 19, 2010 was failure.  Was it lack of discipline or laziness?  Was it due to stress at work?  Whatever the reason, I failed.  After 96 consecutive days of adding a new post each day I failed.  I knew that I had to post something and when I woke up this morning I was still logged into my WordPress dashboard.  Last evening I knew I had to make a post yet I fell asleep.  This does not make me feel very good.  I know that I could simply post something now and then change the date back to yesterday but that would be cheating and I cannot tolerate that kind of behavior.  Instead I am accepting my failure and moving on.  I will still continue to post every day going forward.  I’m not going to let a single failure derail my entire project.  So there it is.  Today is a new day.

Mar 182010

Day 96 of the post a day saga revisits the stupid.  And who or what is the stupid?  The stupid may be you or it may be someone you know.  The stupid does not limit itself to any particular race, creed or culture.  The stupid is all around us.  It is like a retarded version of The Force.  The stupid my friends, is something I encounter on a daily basis.  Monday through Friday between the hours of 9am and 6pm I am bombarded by the stupid.  It never fails to amaze me but just when I think I have spoken to the dumbest person on the planet, the next one calls in.  Now to be fair, not every encounter of the day results in the stupid.  I have had the pleasure of meeting and helping some of the nicest people in the world but that is about as rare as winning the lottery.  Please, I wasn’t born yesterday and I can assure you the problems you are experiencing are most likely caused by you and not by our systems.  Not to brag, but how is it that I have successfully set up dozens of my own emails accounts in Outlook and on various cell phones and have never once experienced failure but yet you complain that you have never gotten your email to work?  Fuck me, I apologize for being so cynical but I’m not buying your story.  The cause of the problem is this, You Are Stupid!  OMG, did I just say that?  Yes, you are a stupid motherfucker.

Okay, so now that I have that out of my system let me comment on another thing.  Building a website is not easy.  Or should I say that building even a remotely decent looking website is not easy.  I’m sorry if the pretty advertisement told you how easy it would be to design a great looking website in an hour.  You were lied to.  Maybe you should have thought about this, you have trouble tying your own shoes so what made you think you could build a website.  Our tools are not broken, you are.  Another thing is this, the reason why you can’t find yourself on the search engines is because your website is shit.  You can’t write a legible sentence much less a complete paragraph of relevant information and this is why Google has you sitting on page 5,295 of whatever keywords you typed in.  And this is my fault how?  Oh right, because you say it is.  Alrighty, I’ll take responsibility for your failures.  After all, I am the master of the universe.

Shut The Fuck Up

Hey, hope you enjoy it.  It is best served hot!

Mar 172010

St. Patrick’s Day
2010

Here I am, heading westbound on the MAX. The future is not looking so bright these days. You know that you’ve reached the end of the line at your job when just going to work is the cause of tremendous anxiety and before your first break you are already dead inside. Such is life.

Anyways, let me get back to Pandora. I’m only two stops away from the meat grinder. Kiss me, I’m Irish.

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