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Talk about a pathetic blog….

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Let’s face it…my blog is boring and the only other losers paying any attention to it are the guys trying to get me to visit their blog site. I mean, really who is going to follow the exploits of me?

Uh, today, I got up brushed my teeth, ate some breakfast, had some coffee, etc. Oh yeah. Exciting. Be still my beating heart, this blog is just too amazing!

Anyway, for the two people following my blog (thanks Grandma and the prison inmate in Alabama), I finished the patio in the front of the house AND managed to take 1.09 tons of trash to the dump today. My little Ford Ranger Pick up was a low rider and we looked like the Clampetts mowing from one end of the valley to the other.

The front yard is coming together and at the end of June, I’ll be going after the deck repairs and enhancements.

1000 Ways to Die!

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Another total awesome show (at least for me) is the show titled “1000 ways to die”.  It is a writer’s dreams of how people have die in the most usual (and something very stupid ways).  Need some good usual deaths for a story?  Check out this show!

Now, a quick warning that some of the stories are a bit out there and disturbing.  Come on, it is a show about death.  If everyone died in their sleep, this show would be totally boring and lame.

Mermorial Day Weekend

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It’s the middle of Memorial Day weekend and I’ve started another crazy yard project.  When will I learn not to do this to myself?  Why can’t I just have a boring yard? My yard isn’t exciting in the least bit.  It is very mundane.

I also have a problem cutting a bush or tree down even if it is a “volunteer” tree.  I like have a lot of plants in my yard.  Yeah, I’m a treehugger in my own backyard.

As you can imagine, it is then hard to make changes in the yard since that would possible disrupt the balance of nature and make me actually have to work.

Today, we changed the front of the yard by removing the lovely railroad ties and they are heavy.  Now my driveway is askew with old rotten railroad ties however we have created a small rock wall, leveled the area, spread some sand, and laid some flagstone.  It’s coming together and I’ll be spending Monday finishing up this project.

Hayden was a huge help on this project and his design started this projects.

What other projects on my plate?  The back deck and a small landing off my office doors.  My deck project was going to be huge.  I had plans to tear it down, put up 6×6 or 8×8 posts, a huge steel beam, 4×6 cross beams, laid down one inch thick plywood, then put down cement board, following with some great looking slate tile.  Trim it around with a steel wire railing and this deck took on a mind of it’s own.  Plus it could all be done in a day!  Yeah right, maybe a week with numerous trips to McLendon Hardware and Home Depot.

I’m a fucking idiot and so are you!

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I enjoy those demotivational posters a little too much. It is because I’m a sarcastic bastard and I enjoy embracing those feelings. I am in tune with the negative and downer attitudes. The truth is that I am a positive person; I truly believe in all that feel good positive thinking crap! I love it. Yet, I enjoy the smart ass humor of the demotivational posters. They are so me…and at the same time like everyone else (see the “unique” poster). Check out despair.com

Work and why it feels so good!

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Work never really feels good. I consider relaxing and being on vacation much better than work because, frankly, I enjoy bumming my day away. Who doesn’t enjoy doing nothing? However, you really never do “nothing”. Some people sit by the pool, others like myself enjoy reading and now writing. So you could say that I really enjoy reading and writing about whatever comes to mind.

If I could find a job that entailed reading and writing, then I would be quite happy. However, I don’t want to be a book reviewer because I don’t want to read books and then write about what I just read. Again, that is work. I just want to read for myself.

What about blogging you ask? Blogging to me is journal writing and, in my case, no one will read except for a friend or two who have nothing better to do than waste more of their time on my thoughts. What thoughts could I contrive that would be of any interest to anyone?

First Blog Posting

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Yes, it is my first blog entry. I’m staying up late to begin another addictive habit that robs me of my life, my friends, my family. Just like how Facebook consumed my life for months before I went cold turkey, I hope that this won’t become an out of control habit.

However, I enjoy writing and one of my personal and business goals is to become a published writer. In fact, this evening I went to the Bellevue Library to attend a small presentation by Christina Kraz. Part of her discussion was to create a platform before you try to get your book published. Much of what she talked about was very good common business sense which a lot of writers might not know about.

Furthermore, it was a good wake up call about marketing myself in my photography business and preparing my career as a writer.  Of course, I’m not writing anything as of this moment besides this truly entertaining blog.

Another tip was to have a website (gee, add that to my list of other websites I already have) but my webdesigner Scott Weber will either be happy about it or give a loud groan when he learns of my desire to wanting yet another website.  It just means, I have to make sure I update and proofread my current websites before they become too out of date.  I did have the idea to merge everything into a umbrella website that merged my photography and writing into “Hellriegel Creative Services” or something easier to remember like “Kevin Creative Services” or just plain http://www.Kevin.com.  The person who owns Kevin.com is just wasting that website because it doesn’t go anywhere. I’ll have to brainstorm it a bit more to come up with something good…really good.

Hello world!

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