centralize:

Do you know what I love about CrossFit? I love that you consistently see people of the body type in the first picture outperforming people of the body type in the second picture. If you can’t do a pull-up or run a reasonable distance, having large muscles is no more useful than having big breasts.

Wow, so anyone familiar with my shops facebook page is familiar with the tales of Crazy CIA Lady. Well today she sent me a delightful email; here it is for your viewing pleasure as well as the picture she attached.

»Yo Shawn, I decided not to give you the pretty painting I’m still working on. You aren’t into pretty things. You appear to be into Bio-Chemistry avant guard trash where the pretty painting I didn’t finish doesn’t come close into Bio Chem., you dig dude. I’ll not tell u what I’ll do with my painting; I just did its for me. That was an ugly thing you did to me u Fg Loser making my new nose post all stretched out into a never ending mesh of stairways, that was uncalled for Sean the fkg Jerk. You did a Bobwire gate to my post. You make me sick; you put me at risk where I get snot balls & bugars that begin slimy fun to pull out instead they get stuck in the post u hatefully destroyed out of your ugly hatred. My Bugars harden where they come close to getting in my sinus u ugly fkr. Your’e gross. I said ur the man, thats B.Sht loser. You aint the man; ur the loser jerk. U destroyed my nose

 jewel. _=_+()))))___o__——-{}[]0%%%”You dig the 2nd art I did 4 u? Its at ur level, AVANT GUARD BIO CHE«

Rather than be myself, I tried to respond professionally, here is what i came up with:

»Well thank you for that rambling of misspelled nonsense, profanity and
insults, it is truly appreciated. Since your first visit to Comes A
Time I have treated you with the utmost of respect. While others
avoided you like the plague, I always made the time to help you and to
look at your “piercing problems” which never once turned out to
actually be anything more than the paranoid delusions of a woman of
questionable sanity. Nonetheless, I helped you and tried to make you
feel better about them.  The last time you were in you locked yourself
in our bathroom for over 45 minutes while other customers needed to
use the facilities. You constantly irritate other customers and
employees and you have more than outwore your welcome at Comes A Time.

So please take this as your official “you are not welcome” notice. If
you do come back to Comes A Time, we will call the authorities and
issue a trespassing warning, subsequent visits will result in you
being arrested for trespassing.

Sincerely,
the loser jerk, Sean Philips«

Whenever a new social networking site pops up, I sign up claim my username and usually forget about it until it catches on a bit more. Well it seems tumblr, has reached that point, so what better time to start using it then the first day of the new year?

A few years ago my new years resolution was to not make any more new years resolutions, so rather than make resolutions that are likely to fail, here’s a list of reasonable goals and task for 2011.

-Watch more football. I am sure that sounds stupid, but to me it’s not. As a kid my family never watched football, so I never really understood it. When  grew up and my friends loved it, I didn’t ever enjoy it because I had only minimal understanding of the game. The last few years I have followed the Redskins religiously and enjoyed it (even if they continuously disappoint). So why not broaden my horizons and follow my college favorite Clemson, and just watch more football regardless of teams? It’s nice for a freak like me to have common ground with the normal male (aside from just beer and boobies of course), and football is a good source of that.

-Eat better. Now by saying this I don’t necessarily mean low fat or even healthier, just better. Less fast food, less frozen meals, less corporate chain restaurants and more home cooked, locally grown, or food from independent restaurants. In effect, I will inevitably eat healthier if I do this, but it will also be more enjoyable as well.  I also, would like to cook more and to upgrade my kitchen supplies and my culinary skills. 

-Create more. I want to spend more time exploring creative outlets, blogging, podcasting working on my truck, welding maybe even dabble in wood working. I constantly complain of having a lack of time, but perhaps this year I should manage my time a bit better to make the most of it. Also, as Sylas gets a bit older and less needy of my undivided attention, more time should free up.

-Be a better dad. Don’t get me wrong, I am a goddamn good father, but there is still room for improvement and my boy deserves the best I can possibly offer him. 

-Shoot more. I haven’t been shooting in years. It’s good stress relief and it’s nice to be in practice enough to know that should the need arise I could pluck off some asshole that broke into my house without worrying about accidentally hitting my kid, my wife or even my tv for that matter.

-Do my fucking podcast. Once a month. No matter how shitty and unrefined it seems, I just need to make it a point of putting it out on a regular basis and work on improving it as it goes on rather than putting off episode one forever in hopes of getting the perfect content.

-Improve my piercing business. More jewelry, so much in fact, that I would be making more in retail sales then in piercings. It worked for Ryan, perhaps it will work for me. I also want to incorporate myself and look into expanding my operations.

Wow, I could keep going for hours, but to try and minimize my chances of total failure, I’ll have to cap this shit right now!