“I don’t just add lines and things. I’ll watch kids today at their computers – they’re putting things on it and i’ll say, ‘Well, what’s the idea?’ and they’ll say, ‘I don’t know, I’m just fooling around.’ And i’ll say ‘What the fuck are you working on the computer for? You don’t have an idea. You ought to go to the computer when you have an idea.’ ”
- George Lois
Truer words have never been spoken.
My birthday is this Saturday. No big deal really. 31 – who cares about me turning 31? Apparently, the crew down at American Icon does. Rog, Andy and Rob sent me a nice box of custom shirts today, and man, they are a thing of beauty. This gets filed under ’smart design’ for sure.
Never has one word said so much
Regardless of how often I dream about it, chances are, I’m never going to pull the Big Dirty (see Trailer Park Boys). For those of you who haven’t seen the movie, the Big Dirty is your one big heist or scam that’s going to leave you set for life.
So, I live for the lil dirty. Rome SDS is right next to a couple train tracks, one that’s old and shut down. So…. Take a quick walk, grab some spikes and put those spikes on Ebay. As you can see, 25 spikes for $6 are currently selling. People say “oh what about the shipping?!”, like they got me or something, on an aspect of the mini hustle I haven’t thought of, then I’m like “USPS flat rate shipping box, 10.50, in your damn face.”
When running a mini hustle, it’s good to think of your profits in terms of tangible goods, not just money. I like to think of it in terms of China Star lunches, right here in Waterbury VT. Like, right now I’m looking at, a Lo Mein lunch, with fried rice. But…. In you get on Ebay, and help boost this auction; I could be looking at some Shrimp Lo Mein, with delicious egg roll and chicken wing as seen in this photo.
People say if you can dream it, you can achieve it. One of my dreams has been to brew a pot of coffee using Redbull. Aiming low breeds successes. Since the people over at Redbull are cool enough to hook it up with free drinks, and the people across the railroad tracks hook it up with free Green Mountain coffee now and then, it’s pretty much a no brainer.
Red Bull into the pot.
I don’t think there’s ever been a coffee filter in the Rome building. Paper towels have always been the go to.
Mary from Redbull happened to swing by today so she and Anna tested it out with me.
I just drank a cup, and I’m pretty much twitching while I type this blog. This is my patented drink. I own this shit. Royalties as follows, if you make a pot, please send me 50 cents. If you plan on making lots of pots, email me and we can work out a discounted rate.
