The Island Contains a Cafe

     Hi there.  I'm at Muddy Waters Cafe, on Valencia near 16th, in San Francisco.  This is my main hang.  I like it a lot.  I like the people who come here, and I like the people who work here.  It is a relationship.  I'm the customer who minds his own business, and everybody else does their thing, so everybody is happy.
     Sometimes, people from the street will come in and make a make a fuss or a racket, but thankfully that does not occur that often.
     This area of the city is relatively quiet during the week, apart from the occasional ambulance siren, but that is normal for San Francisco.
     Anyway, I got my coffee, I got time, and it feels like an open road.

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     I brought a lot of toys with me today to make an animation.  Here is one I made yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDOG6rKiztQ
It is The Army Man and The Doll.

     Anyway, I like to do stop motion in the cafe.  It is nice to have a clean table, and a different environment than I could provide.  Also, the music keeps me going, as does the people in the cafe.
     It is a nice island here.

     So, the counter heading on this blog also keeps track of the times I visit it, but that's okay.  It is good to have as high a number as possible on your blog.  People get impressed by that, and numbers do not lie.

     They are playing some blues music today, so it is nice, and fits in with the theme of The Blue Wizard.  I got the blues, you know.  White people aren't supposed to have the blues, but I've felt my share of them.  I'm doing better now, that's all that matters.

     Anyway, if you are reading this blog, thanks for visiting the site.  Every hit counts, and I appreciate all the people that take the time to visit my content.  Some of my entries will be good, some bad, but that is how it goes in the world of text writing.
     I typed on a manual typewriter for twenty years.  I currently have it near my computer.  I guess I could put my keyboard there, as I don't really need my typewriter there anymore.
     I'm starting to find out that it is good to write out dialogues for videos instead of just doing the impromptu thing.  It really does sound like you are just making it up as you go, and it sounds terrible, unless you really get on a good roll with it.  But in writing a dialogue for a video today, I found that the words came easily, and then I read them for the video, and it was a lot smoother than it would be if I was just doing it on the fly.
     I'm also noticing that when I make a mistake in reading the text or in speech, that it is better to redo it, because otherwise you will have a mistake that will be there forever.  It is better to avoid mistakes, unless it turns out to be a charming one.
     You want to know where I got a typing upgrade.  There is a game on 'Clone Wars Adventures' called 'Star Typer', and if you play it enough you eventually have to rely on the natural memory of your hands and fingers to know where the keys are.  My typing speed increased because of that game.  I know where the keys are now without thinking about it now.  It is nice.  Then my thoughts can flow nicely from my brain onto this blog page.
     This cafe is named after the blues musician 'Muddy Waters'.  I think this cafe has been around for at least seventeen years.
     So on 'Clone Wars Adventures', I've just been earning credits playing Mine Buster on hard level, and working on my new palace.  I am laying in the white tiles, and that is very expensive to do.  Did you know that in that game 10,000 credits literally is equivalent to $10.00?  I wish you could earn credits and then you could turn them in for credits or SC.  That would be cool.  But it doesn't work that way, it never does.  Too bad.  I know what would happen if they did that.  People would exploit it.  That is what people do, especially video game people.  If they can get something for free, they will milk it for all it is worth.

     So, this blog is monetized.  That is really cool.  I am happy about that.  It was easy to do.  You know what happened, right?  I had my other blog, and I set it for 18 and over, and I thought I was fine.  It showed that I was making money on it, then after a year, they said it could not be monetized because it had adult content.  Okay, I did not know.  I still really like that blog, and will continue to work on it.  I can put anything I want there, and it seems to be no problem.  The only draw back is I won't get paid for it.  That's okay, I've done a lot of artwork and writing that I've never gotten paid for, so it will be no big deal.  But this blog I will get paid for eventually if I can get enough hits and clicks.  I will keep working on it until it does, and then I will keep going after that.

     I filmed my blog from yesterday, and recorded the voice in my studio.  That worked out pretty good.  I can't record in here because of the loud music.  It makes my spoken words muffled.  Even recording outside isn't very good, because the street sounds just get in the way.  It is funny that I am starting to care about all this stuff.

     Let's see, what is going on?  Some guy just cracked his knuckles repeatedly near me.  It's not really good for your knuckles, and it is an annoying series of sounds.
     At the table behind me, a transgender person is talking to a Chinese American girl.  They are having a bonding session.  I guess the question is, "When transgender people play online video games, do they choose male or female characters to play?"  I have no idea what they do, or what they would do in that situation.
    
     So when I first started youtube with my kirkindysolospock channel, which is still there by the way, I didn't know what was going on.  I had dial-up for god's sakes.  It was slow, and it would take a long time to even view one video.  That was the beginning of 'The Waiting Game', something we are all familiar with on computers now.  Anyway, I would watch videos that people would make.  It is good those people got on youtube early, in terms of the hits they have now.  I did finally get to see '2 Girls, 1 cup', which I see now as an 'art film'.  I'm not offended by it, but it is kind of gross, but also fascinating at the same time.  Of course you can't put stuff like that on youtube anymore.  People still put up booty shaking videos, though, which is fine as long as they have underwear on.  Guys love that stuff, and a lot of girls do, too, to be honest.  They like to watch other girls.  They are just as fascinated as the rest of us.

     The guy next to me has looked at my stuff three times now.  I guess he is curious.  Or maybe he is bored with what he is doing.  I spread out my Playstation 1 video games so he has something to look at the next time he is feeling nosy about what I am doing.
     I guess it is human to be nosy about other people's business.  A lot of women seem to do it, maybe they have nothing else better to do.  I would imagine being concerned about hair, make-up, nails, and clothes must get boring as sh*t after a while.
    
     'Airplane' ( 1980 ) was a PG movie, and it had a scene where 'the sh*t hits the fan', and then they show a bunch of sh*t hitting the fan, having been projected into the fan from offstage.  So if that scene is considered PG, then it is okay for me to use the word sh*t, and still have this be a Rated PG blog.  That movie also had a scene where a topless blond with huge breasts bounces topless in front of the camera.  It was fine for that movie, but if I show a picture of a woman without her top on this blog, then I run the risk of it not being able to be monetized.  Just how it is.  I don't like being edited, or being told what I can or can not do, but I want to get paid, so I will try to keep it clean.  Like Steve Martin said, "Comedy is not pretty."

     Anyway, I'm having a nice time.  It's a lucky day and age we live in.  All we had was one George Carlin tape on cassette, and I listened to that thing over and over again.  Now, you can watch him 24-7 on youtube.  Nice, huh?

     So, yeah, I play Clone Wars Adventures.  I was even on Free Realms for about twenty minutes last night.  In a way, it is a chance to be young again.  There always used to be talk about what would you do if you could go back and be young again.  Well, these two games makes it possible, except I get to use the experience ( xp ) that I've acquired over the years.  Instead of taking some sh*t from a smart alec kid, I can dish it right back to him tenfold.  They don't like that much.  They can dish it out, but they can't take it after a certain point.  Nobody can.  I just know more swear words then these kids, and I know how to use them.  That comes with age.  So if they try to play the dozens with me, I will pwn them, np.

     I still have to draw and paint up the map of 'David's Island'.  It takes time, but I will eventually do it.

     I'm having the time of my life making videos, and I'm glad I'm on a roll with a blog again.  I like text, and I like to write.  Finally, after all these years, I have a place where I can write, and make money off it.  I sure did write a lot of papers for school, and never got paid sh*t for it.

Here is a standard computer picture that most people are probably familiar with now.  But for me, it is the hills of my island, and lets me imagine that I am there.  And, somewhere there, it contains a cafe.