Book of Jamez

55 y/o malcontent, something of a writer

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Random thoughts, unsolicited opinions, personal stories, and the occasional rant. I’ve been around long enough to have a few things to say, and apparently nobody thought to stop me from putting them on the internet.

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  • 20 Years

    Its hard to believe it’s been 20 years since I graduated from High School, hell it’s hard to believe that I graduated period. This weekend I will meet about 6 of my friends from back then, most of whom I’ve actually seen in recent years. Its funny looking back at our fears and schemes, where we all are at now never entered my very vivid imagination. Some of us, sure, we did exactly what we…

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  • The Dark Knight

    I went in with my expectations high. All the hype leading up to this movie put a lot of pressure on the film makers to deliver. There was not one moment looking that I could see even a glimpse of Heath Ledger, all you had was a dark, twisted, sometimes funny mad man terrorizing Gotham City. His performance was chilling, creepy and consuming. It wasn’t just the Joker that made this film spectacular. The writing,…

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  • Gas Prices… Where It Really Hurts

    Gas prices should not affect me… I should, as a pedestrian/mass transit user, be completely immune – But I’m not. I finally recognized what it was last night. The tons of people that don’t know how to use the turnstiles at the metro, the people with oversize bags – looking like they could be mugged at any second, the people that don’t wait for people to come off the train before boarding… Yes, I’m talking…

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  • My Blood Will Be the End of You!!!

    … the title of this post comes from one of the bosses in WoW (www.worldofwarcraft.com) my video game… and well.. My cholesterol wont go down. I test the same for my cholesterol whether I’m doing spinning classes three times a week or sitting on my behind playing video games 24 hours a day… nothing makes it better. So… I’m going to take a pill for 4 months to see if that helps. Disclaimer: My cholesterol…

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  • Deception

    The other night I had a date at the theaters near Chinatown metro. I came straight from work and realized that I might want to buy a mint or something for my breath. Remembering that the CVS is being remodeled and therefore closed, I walked across to the Starbucks to buy a small tin of mints. When I walked up to the register to pay for them, the cashier looked at me and said: “You…

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  • Company Milestone

    At this point in time: 1. All personal investments (for the start up costs of the company) have been paid back2. All bills have been paid (even the cost of server/computers that we did with financing)3. All consultants have been paid for work they’ve done for us4. A raise has been implemented for both Jim and I5. And we have a money left over in the account to gain interest I’d say that’s pretty good…

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  • My First Trip to Nashville

    Note that I mention “first” as I plan to go back. We left from BWI bright and early on Southwest (my first time on Southwest also, was fine) and landed in Nashville around 8:25 or so. Lisa took us to breakfast at the Pancake Pantry (a must visit for breakfast lines around the block to get in and well worth it). We then walked around a park … not that I remember the name of…

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  • The Day From Hell

    Actually, I think it started last night with a serious headache that had me in bed asleep at 9:30… it only got worse from there. I went to the office like normal, and grabbed the mail to take directly to the Post Office, on my way I realized I needed cash from the Bank of America ATM which is on the OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET…. so I could go to my favorite barber in…

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  • Quitting a Church

    Obama, You’re quitting your church, that you’ve been attending for how many years due to some comments that keep coming out of it? This church hasn’t been touting the same nonsense for the previous years that you’ve been a member, just now… yeah right. You belonged to the church because you believed the fundamental message that the church was preaching. Now you’ve suddenly had a change of heart after how long? What opened you’re eyes?…

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  • Tell All Books

    The latest book about the Bush Presidency, from yet another insider is met again by cries of foul and disbelief. They actually continue to claim all the accusations are false…. each time one of these books comes out… how many books by how many different people will it take before they actually turn around, look at Monkey Boy and say… yep, he’s a lying tyrant that I’ve helped to wage a war that never had…

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