Meaningless Nonsense : The Absence

So, many people have been getting on my back about not posting any normal, interesting things on this site. Well, I finally was able to get back on today. Now I know what you're thinking. Right now, you're probably sitting at home, at your desktop, thinking "Why the hell has he been out for so long? Was he busy? Has he lost interest in his writing side? Did he sustain an injury?". The answer as to why I haven't been able to "blog" in so long is simple - memory. Yes, that's right, memory has prevented me from blogging. Here is my sad story of this procedure. You may need a box of tissues.

One day, I decided it would be a good idea to create a gmail account on google. So I did that, and I linked that account to my blogspot here. I got more involved with college and didn't log on here for awhile. Naturally, I entered my old email address when things at Wilkes cooled down for me a bit. For some reason, I have about 50 different passwords I use (by accident mostly). Needless to say, I had some trouble logging in. Well it turns out, I was entering my yahoo email to log in during that time frame.

Then it hit me. I realized that I changed my email address. It was like a bright light had suddenly shone on me. While snickering and laughing at how silly of a mistake I made, I started entering my gmail address in. Then another problem hit me suddenly. I completely forgot my gmail username and password. A good reason why this happened is probably because I never used it. Whoops, my bad. For the past month or so, I would make an attempt to remember my username and password when trying to sign on here, and it would fail.

I tried everything to log into my blogger. I desired greatly to entertain people around the entire world with my uniqueness and stories. I had trouble sleeping at night knowing that some of my greatest fans would go to sleep without reading any posts by me since I could not log on.

I had to do something different about this. I tried a different approach. This time I got the 'genius' idea of creating a new gmail address. I kept it simple this time. Surely, I would remember the gmail address now. The result was very disappointing. I did actually remember the address and password for the new one. However, that email address was never linked to my blogspot account, and I simply had no way to do that without actually logging in with my old, forgotten username and password. I was beginning to think I was in a catch 22. I even tried to 'hack' into my own gmail account. However, this did not work. I had no idea what my new, unique username could be.

Today, I was inspired and determined to log onto my blogspot. I tried even more attempts for logging in. I was finally able to find the username that was valid for blogspot. However, I still did not know the password. So, I had to reset my account on here. Only problem with that was that I would ultimately need to log into my gmail account, which I did not know the password for. So I went to gmail.com and clicked to reset my password. Then, a little box came up and asked me the answer to the security question I made that fateful night. It read "What was your first phone number?". I chuckled at how easy the question was, and put in my original home phone number. However, there existed a problem. It would not work. Had I been unconscious when I made the new gmail account? I tried entering it with hypens, with and without the area code, with spaces and even parenthesises. No good. I had completely screwed myself on this one. Then I realized, I had two cell phone numbers which I may have used for the question. I entered every possible combination for them, but still had no luck logging in.

Finally, I realized that I had linked my yahoo email on gmail as a secondary email account. Then, I was finally able to send a reset password link to that email address. Then, I logged into yahoo, and clicked the link and reset my gmail password. After all that hard work, here I am now posting to you all about it. It is a indeed a little ironic, but still pretty funny too. I do not want to experience the effects of growing old! ;-)

Meaningless Nonsense: Bearded Tales

Nearly every guy has experimented with facial hair. Facial hair can make a unique statement about yourself. For example, full beards tend to give a more rugged look to a man. This sends a message of strength and power. I mean, Chuck Norris has a full beard, and no one ever questions his power or integrity. Chuck Norris once shot down a German plane by pointing his finger at it and yelling "BANG!" (Sorry, had to throw in a Chuck Norris joke there). More can be read about facial hair here.

I have experimented with many different beard styles in my life. I have tried to grow a full beard (didn't turn out too great), and even experimented with a mustache (also didn't turn out too great). Today, most guys that have facial hair, have either a goatee, mustache or both. I always wanted to be different than most guys and try to sort of make a unique statement about myself with something a little more creative. So, I thought to myself that you normally don't see too many guys with the "soul patch". This facial hair style is facial hair that's under the bottom lip. It is also known as the "flavor savor". I tried out this look, and I was instantly sold. It's easy to grow and trim, looks nice, and as silly as it sounds, it gives me confidence. It has a look that adds a little bit of boldness I think. People often tell me that I look like Tommy Lee from Motley Crue banging away at the drums in a concert surrounded by beautiful women when I'm wearing the soul patch (well not really ever, but I like to imagine that sometimes).

There's no doubt that different facial hair styles have different meanings. Let's review some different styles quickly.

The Full Beard: Adds a masculine, rugged look to the wearer. Conveys a statement of power and strength.
Famous users of the Full Beard - Chuck Norris, Geico Caveman
Characteristics portrayed - Strength, Power

The Goatee: This style often gives the wearer a different look with authority. It still presents a look of masculinity, but at times when it is trimmed very neat, it adds a look of maturity to the user. When you shave a goatee off anyone, normally they look a lot younger afterwards.
Famous users of the Goatee - Dog the Bounty Hunter, Mark McGwire
Characteristics portrayed - Authority, Maturity

The Mustache: This facial hair above the upper lip is generally the first facial hair that is grown by a male around his early teenage years. Usually it conveys a well-groomed manner to the user.
Famous users of the Mustache - Edgar Allan Poe, Super Mario
Characteristics portrayed - Neatness, Growth

The Soul Patch: The soul patch adds a some boldness to the user. It also gives the wearer a unique sense of style and comfort.
Famous users of the Soul Patch - Tommy Lee, Steve Vai
Characteristics portrayed - Boldness , Uniqueness

The Chin Curtain: This beard often gives the user an old fashioned style of look. It often gives the wearer a nice mild-mannered sense about him.
Famous users of the Chin Curtain - Abraham Lincoln, The Amish
Characteristics portrayed - Mild, Gentle

Here below are a few pics of me with different beard styles to show the different looks each one accompanies to give a few examples.



Notice below the difference with a clean shaved look as compared with the others. The clean shaved look gives a plain, clean and neat look to the user.



Clean