EVACUATE THE BUILDING! -no.

Over the past month, we have been keeping a log of guests/employees who smell natural gas at the hotel I work at. There isn't a consistent smell coming from any specific location, but every once in a while we do get the comment. I have smelled it myself on occasion. I have also reported this to the general manager, maintenance manager, maintenance worker, and assistant general manager. So far nobody has seemed too concerned. So tonight I decide to give the gas company a call and am directed to an automated system..
"To report a gas smell, press 1"
*beep*
"This is [blah] what is your emergency?"
Uhh... there isn't really an emergency, the phone system just kinda took me here.
*I explain the gas situation*
"Ok sir, I will have a tech there within an hour. In the meantime, you need to evacuate everyone in the building."

Yeah.... that's not happening. I walked all of the floors and didn't really smell anything.. and unless something is on fire, or unless the guy has viable proof that the place is about to explode, I'm not evacuating anyone. I've had to do it before for a fire alarm mishap, and it wasn't enjoyable. So rather than evacuating anyone, I am in the back office blogging about it.

I feel like hammered shit right now. This weekend I celebrated my birthday and drank a bit too much. My friends and I went down to San Antonio and rode go-karts, which was fucking fun. These things went 40mph, and I am sore as shit from steering and smashing my knees against the steering column. On lap 1 I pushed as hard as I could and wrecked pretty terribly. My kart was wedged under a barrier. I wiped out quite a few times thanks to my friend who kept blocking me off. I still won every lap, and was only 3 seconds off from the best lap time at that track.

We then proceeded down to the riverwalk and drank and drank until I dont remember much.

It was a good weekend, but I think we all spent more money than we wanted to. As long as everyone had fun. I did.

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Badass bday present and a breakdown

Let me start by saying Minecraft has been ruining my life.  I dont do anything but play that game when Im not at work..  and on the non-busy days... I've been sneaking in some Minecraft AT work.  I have quit smoking, and I have picked up Minecraft.  I havent done my homework that was due last sunday, and I am steadily losing points.  To be honest, I dont really care..  As I said in my last post, Ive been so stressed out that I am saying "fuck it" to a lot of things to prevent me from having a mental meltdown.
On a related note, my good friend Georgie got me an early bday present and it is FUCKING TIGHT!  She made it by hand and it had to have taken her a loooong time to do it.

A motherfucking minecraft pillow!  I told her she should find a way to streamline the production and sell these bitches.

My birthday isnt until the 30th, and I am hoping everything goes as planned.  My plans are to go to San Antonio and ride go-karts with my friends, then drink ourselves into oblivion on the riverwalk. 

And thank GOD I have some days off next week.. I have 4 days off in a row, and I was in dire need of it.  I am going to sit on my balls and do NOTHING the entire time.  I need some mental days.

Also, we are podcasting EARLY this week and will be on stickam LIVE at 10pm CST TONIGHT.  Come check us out at www.stickam.com/youruncleslap

Hopefully it will be a good show.  I need to do some show prep.

When life gets rough.. just get drunk!

Seriously, I had been stressing out about work and money and everything and felt like I was on the verge of a breakdown.. Then Saturday night I opted to say "fuck it" to everything that I NEEDED to do and I just got drunk with my friends.  It was good times, honestly, and I feel a lot better.  I cant say it was a great idea because my homework didnt get done, but at this point I need a little "do what I want" rather than "do what needs to get done."

shit.

I dont know if anyone ever played the RTS game "Axis & Allies" by Atari, but it was a pretty solid strategy game.  I recall building up a huge army of tanks and infantry, and invading an enemy controlled area with the confidence of a god.  Then suddenly the screen flashes and I see my army melt away in ball of fire and ash.  The enemy just dropped a nuke on me.

I recall my gut sinking and just an overwhelming feeling of defeat overcoming me.  I went from possible victory to definite loss.

I had a nuke dropped on me today.  And as much as I HATE for my blog to be all sad and shit, these are just the events of my life. 

For one, I found out that I may owe the government $930 since they fucked up with my college payments or something... I honestly am not even motivated to call them and find out what went wrong, or if it was just a mistake.

I did manage to pull the trigger on a project that I have been brewing for a while, and I started on the website.  I think the idea is solid, and this is step 1 to me being a multi millionaire with my idea.  And I sincerely believe that.
So upon finishing up the payment info to purchase the webspace, my card gets declined.  I check my bank online to find that I pretty much dont have any money.  WHY?  I havent bought shit in a long time.  I quit eating out, and I bought canned goods to hold me over and I STILL dont have fucking money.  The short answer is that I don't make enough..  I am a manager at a hotel, and I'm pretty sure I make the same amount of money as the other front desk agents.  In fact, I'm almost certain that some of my employees make more than I do.

I dont know if I have any grounds to ask for a raise since my performance hasn't had a huge positive impact.

I have to find another source of income or I'm just going to be fucked.

10pm CST we go live

Just a quick plug, for anyone with nothing better to do tonight, come check out our show LIVE @ www.stickam.com/youruncleslap

We will have the cam up a few minutes prior, but the show starts at 10pm central time.  Tell your friends!  We will also be announcing a contest tonight where you guys can participate to win some t-shirts or something.  We havent decided on the exact prize yet, but we WILL be giving away something for serious.

I have also updated my tape deck player on the right side of my blog page to redirect to our new player and our current RSS stream.  Give it a click if you happen to miss our show.

How do I fill this gap?

So my difficulties with marketing the podcast have taken yet another turn.  When we re-launched the podcast, we did so with a business mindset and with the intention of it making money.  That was my approach anyway.  So how does someone do this?  Do most people even know what podcasts are?  What makes someone want to listen to podcasts?

These are all questions that I have been using to find ways to share our show.  I am a pretty judgmental person, and I usually can tell when my own work is crap.  Our podcast is great, genuinely.  I like listening to it because I laugh, and it has been the trend that anyone who actually listens to it feels the same way- with our newer material anyway.

So if our show is great, then we should be making some headway, right?  We have been podcasting for over a year, and we have barely budged with our listeners.  We are on all of the social networking sites and we advertise everywhere we can.  We network with bands and other podcasts.  Something is still missing, because my blog gets more daily views than our website.

There are a thousand new podcasts each day, and the success ratio is like 2%.  There has got to be something better..

All of the popular podcasts have hosts who were already popular prior to their podcast show.  People get popular off youtube by being retarded and becoming a meme.  We are putting in hard work and we have a good show and we hardly get any recognition.

There is something missing that I need to find.