Karma. Do the Right Thing.

When i met the girl from LAB Media i just knew i was on my way with the designs, tech assistance, biz development and friendship we needed to get the buzz going. She let me believe that i could trust her company, her skills and her words. It all started well and then i discovered that i trusted too much, once again. I paid her the $500 before i received any artwork. She, like Juan, talked a good talk and failed to deliver. How can they tempt karma like that? If you are working with a company that wants to help the less fortunate and then disappear before any work is finished, you are a thief of good faith promises and deserve to be punished by the guards of the caring. My mistake for trusting? Sure. Should i have paid in full? No. Will i go forward and succeed? Damn right!

Flake Alert. Speed Friending.

Since i can't figure out how to maintain friendships anymore, i have signed up for a www.meetup.com group called SPEED FRIENDING and we meet for the first time on the 30th. We have 3 minutes to ask some questions and make headway towards something like friendship. I makes sense to me. All i need is to meet people who have a desire to meet people and develop beneficial relationships. It sucks that my crew in Sacramento shunned me out. We had a great chance at making a real impact on the planet. Exodus>Genesis.
The new plan is to get a $1,200 4 bedroom 3bath place with a RV pad, 2car garage, big backyard, and more. I can get two roomies that work for me to pay $700 for two of the rooms and help with the running of the bigness. $700 odd is all i need to have the full office, shipping dept, RV guest house and storage space and slave quarters.
Paypal is set up and i have paid the E-commerce site but am having difficulties upgrading to official status. Business cards arrive on Monday. I decided not to put my ph# on the cards because i am driving and don't want tourists calling me for a ride while i have just drifted off the island with a bevy of  beautiful broads bound for Mauritius. We catch enough fish to trade for booze and songs and commence to fixin the tri-maran. Mango Wahoo!
After these 250 cards i may just reconsider that decision so that i can have contact info on both sides of the card.

I now have 300+ followers on Twitter and this is without any contact info or web presence. 200 tweets, 1980 following and 300 trailing. Not bad for 6 weeks.

Twee twits.

My latest tweet @snacton/twitter.com SNACTON=GOOD.Rep. our goods and tell all that you have a taste for caring.Soft launch 8+days if all goes right.Givadam!

Snagdon the wall. Smogn fogn.

I need a bulldog to bully these lazy designers to at least do what they agree to do. It seems that if no whip is cracked the work won't get done and worse yet, contact gets broken. Word is there are not enough jobs, foreigners are taking the work, work is getting exported and the work available is menial and beneath the average plebe. Bullogna! Young american workers are a lazy lot looking to rest on the laurels of the generations before them. This isn't gonna work! Since many of our society don't like to communicate, there will be a gap that widens every time a kid gets fired for not hustling to get the job completed in a timely and effective manner. The scrub will become further and further disenfranchised from the establishmentaryan system of doing things and thus become disconnected from the work force, no longer employable.
Truth is, my standards are just higher than others and i need to calm down and just accept that i need to build a team of unexpendables that know what it is i want and just do it. AR@*RG^%GH#!!
Tried to get the StarkRaft smogged and they said NO! $377 so far. If i spend $450 they might give me a waiver for a year. SUX!
Jill Franklin came to town and i'm still recovering from that.

Hung all over.

So Jill gets into town yesterday and, being the hoster with the coaster, i buy hella rum, beer and cheese balls. We drank like it was an Olympic event. Ouch$. Drinkin sux. Good catching up though.

140 characters.Tweetalk. No call, no show, NO PROBLEM!

Nowadays i tweet several times on the daily. After only a month of this i see a new sign for what is becoming the dumbing down of America. Twitter is changing the way we spell and thus think. Not only will we no longer need to develop relationships in the interpersonal manner, talking, meeting and being a true friend, we are going to speak in Tweetalk so we can get back to our HHDs quicker. Hand Held Devices are great for getting the anti-social networking done efficiently, but in order to live our daily lives we need two hands. Whats next? Sunglass computer phones with danger sensors, GPS, eye controlled keyboards and sippy straws. We can count on that to be a reality once 20 people die in one week from walking off the edges of cliffs while keeping it real with the world @lrg. When a few trail blazers go crossXeyed from staying on the eye controlled keyboards for too long, it's going to voice recognition technology in a hurry. Progress!)
I should have gone in to work today as it would have been a lucrative Monday, but gnaw, i wanted to Tweet. Blog. swim. pamper the StarkRaft, have a beer and Tweet. Plus i have to get some biz cards made so that i don't waste any more golden opportunities. Paypal is a go and so the photos for the products will be placed on the Snacton.com site within the week? Liftoff! Jill and her co-worker will be arriving on Wednesday for the Rio's Garden Stuff Show and so I would like to hand them something to take with.
I have both laptops out st the library so that i can blog and tweet at the same time. TWEET!

Brown ink on light colored shirts. Snacton Ass.

We did the shirt selection, part 1, today and will get to printing when the shirts arrive. The first run will be on a variety of products and i have some thrift store tees that we'll try and do. Fun stuff! Also the sticker guy, who totally flaked on me 3 months ago, will get another chance to put out some Snactons. I don't know if we are ready to put out the shorts/sweats with SNACTON ASS. on the seat butt we agree that the concept is HOT!

When Pigs grow Butterfly Wings? They Already Do!

It was a good 120 degrees in the Rizide today and this makes me think that saving $500 a month ain't worth the sweat. When i see the stacks of money in the banks, i rethink the discomfort. If it weren't for the sacrifice, i would have no real chance at getting the Snacton up in the air. It's not easy saving up these days, especially in Vegas. Crunk n swaggoo be spensive yo! If i don't save any dough, i can't save anyone. It's totally possible to get this going.

Ball droppers. Amani means PEACE in Swahili.

Nearly a done design. I hope the screen printing part of it goes smoothly. The original had some cool Japanese sun rays but for some reason Naj took them out. I think this may be the last design she does for a while.  Only because the money is going to have to go towards fast designs, web presence and printing. Went in to see Justin at 702 Graphics and he hadn't even started on the easiest of the designs. He ain't done shit!! When i asked him when he would get started he said Maybe Monday. MONDAY!! That would be two weeks. I called them and canceled the work. The girl that answered (she never called back yesterday) didn't even try to keep the account open. She just said "OK" and hung up. After702 i went in to see Trev and Bill. Trevor never opened up the file all week either! But we sat down and finished the second design "Bacon Brothers" and will be choosing textiles to print on today. They aren't getting enough business to stay open and Billy, the guy running everything, is looking to get out. I spoke to Trev about working with us and he will have to consider it. An inside tech dude would be most useful. I told him that scoring some market share would be the first step and that his pay would come out of that. I was thinking that if their shop were to close, Snacton could maybe take over the equipment and space and do business as usual and then just phase out all other work and do our thing. I have to do the numbers but when the site goes up i'll share everything with the people.

MLK's flute. Trending friending (pending).

I now have over 210 followers on twitster and yet no real messages to speak of. Many of the messages i receive state that "P. Diddy has sent you a personal message" but thats got to be impossible, right? Dude has like 80 million followers. Must look into that, the @Diddy and the whole #Gaga world. There is also some RT action that people seem to use when begging for tweatention and donations. I'm knocking on the door of something and don't really know whats on the other side. I almost asked for everyone on twitter to make an order but realized that i don't yet have a website or any product to sell on ersatz site. I do know that i need more CA$H.
I took some Awessies to the airport. They were on their way to an Aerosmith concert at the Hollywood Bowl. One of the blokes showed me the flute that Ghandi gave to MLK when they got together in the Punjab. I told him that the Flute Faire was at the Mandalay Bay next week. Dude forced his flute on me and made me take it!! Noice Mate!! I have one week to learn how to use it.
I have a new design line i'm doing on Photoshop. Their Snacton sayings done in the brazier shape or the fish shape. Later is the spectacle shape. I haven't heard from 702 graphics or Sugar since Tuesday and today is Monday next. Designers!(

Olympian zeal.

I was a cross country runner in my youth. Oh how i ran. I have a great running style and a faulty breathing routine. I also have a van so running ain't called for. I'm watching the women's marathon and it's at 2:10 into it. 2 miles to go. What persistence it takes to become a long distance runner. Even more to train for marathons and more yet to run one. To be the fastest long distance runner eight years running is Herculean in it's scale.

Clothing company foundations. The Brothers Snacton.

O'neill, Quicksilver, Gordon and Smith, Stussy, Maui and Sons and Lightning Bolt are just a few of the surf street lines that catered to the beach chic lifestyle of the 60's on up. Volcom, Zoo York, Hollister and more continue to rake in mega bucks selling wears to the same markets that i plan on entering. I grew up on many of these brands and am still drawn to beach wear, skate punk looks and street urchin styles. These niches will never go out of style. The other factor of my dream will also live within us all and that is the human desire to help others. I came up with an interesting and effective system for only printing out the items that people want and if i can only get the supporters to buy before i print a short run, we will once again be an industry trailblazer.
Juan, the original e-site designer has contacted me after 3+ weeks of ill communication and tells me that his shop caught on fire. He will call me later??
Snacton has 200+ followers on twitter which only means that the biz model, the idea or the philanthropic direction we have is destined to fill a void in the world.

Comforting to know.

In this time of trying to re-start the need to help others while finding an income for myself, i need to find self assurance and reassurance in order to fight on. This is not difficult for me it's just that it's nicer when help is forthcoming. All my life I remain an outsider and thus have no sounder from which to hear platitudinous encouragement.
It's comforting to know that my ideas are good enough to hold audience with 90% of my audience.
It's comforting to know that people in my past are losing out on my presence and not benefiting from my absence.
It's comforting to know that I am still attractive to objects of the opposite sex and that when i try i can get some.
It's comforting to know that i still have some givadamn left and that i care enough to refine my philanthropic parameters rather than give up on giving it up. 
It's comforting to know that i can potentially raise 100 million$ + yearly and leave behind a perpetual salve producing machine that will be responsible for a great deal of the necessary healing that needs to happen globalocally.
It's comforting to know that everything will be alright even though i will never be comfortable because of the shingle pain and the fear that everything isn't alright.
It's comforting to know that i don't know everything but that i know most everything that i need to know. I know!
It's comforting to know that within a month there will be no more excuses between me and the exposure of me to the advantage of those that care and those that want to care.
It's comforting to know that i have 130 designs on paper and another 450 designs at the ready.
It's comforting to know that no is not an answer that i have to accept.