But, yep, I’m still staying alive.

Even though my online moneymaking efforts have been a colossal failure, even though I’ll never find the girl of my dreams, even though I’m now typing this very post with my nose because my hands are still as numb as the feelings of a guy whose wife left him for another woman, I’m staying alive.

There’s just something about strutting that seems to make everything better.

…life going nowhere, somebody help me… somebody help me, yeaaaaaaah…. staying aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiii iiiiiiiiiiiive…

Well that’s assuming these whacko symptoms I’ve been experiencing lately is the result of having brain tumors. It would however explain my insanity too.

But let’s recap: It started off with my arm hurting like a son-of-a-female-dog (which I blame women for, and still do). Then my hands started feeling like they’ve been slathered with Novocaine. Then I get a neck sprain where I can’t turn all the way left without screaming for Mommy (and it’s been like this for almost two weeks now). Then my tongue gets numb on me. Seriously. The same kind of numb feeling I’ve been experiencing in my hands too.

So other than the brain tumors, it could also be: hypothyroidism, diabetes, multiple sclerosis, or some kind of neuropathic disease that would eventually result in my extremely violent and painful death. Total awesomeness, dude!

As you can imagine, this hasn’t really put me in the mood to blog lately. I’d go to a doctor, except for the fact that I hate, hate, HATE doctors. They subject you to a hundred tests that makes them a ton of money, and then when they still can’t figure out what’s wrong with you, they’ll give you some B.S. diagnosis like “chronic fatigue” just to keep you from warming up to their dirty secret that in spite of all their training, they’re still a bunch of clueless morons who don’t know a damned thing about the human body. The only time it seems they get a diagnosis right is when it happens to be for a fatal disease.

So, no doctors for me right now, thank you very much. Just in case though, I’ve been searching for Last Will and Testament templates I could use to make sure my parents quickly inherit all my belongings without any problems (including my stuffed animal collection and my Homer Simpson doll.) My laptop though I’m taking with me to my grave.

I should maybe be more concerned about this, but I guess I’m at peace now with the fact that my life has always been utterly meaningless, so it wouldn’t surprise me to see nature correct its mistake by soon putting me out of my misery.

Oy, I need to stop reading those novels by H.P. Lovecraft. It’s really making me morbid these days.

The question for the ages.

Actually I’ve been working behind the scenes trying to boost my traffic levels (with less than stellar success I might add), and also working to get another ad network going to fill my ad spaces. I’m actually amazed by the income ratio I’m seeing so far. If it continues to hold, my eCPM would be around $10, meaning for every 1000 pageviews this blog gets I would earn $10. It’s not earth shattering by any means, but considering the typical eCPM for those who use Google Adsense is around $1 to $2, it’s not bad either. My goal is to eventually net around $40 a day (or $1250 a month), so I’ll have to continue my efforts to boost my eCPM and bring more traffic in.

Speaking of which, there is one more thing I can try, sort of like a last ditch effort to bring in the level of traffic I want, but it’s EXPENSIVE, and it still requires a lot of work. The good news is I can use my previous blog earnings to pay for the first month (it’s done on a subscription basis), and if the results are effective, the higher ad revenues that result should be enough to front the costs and still net me a profit.

Maybe. If it fails, I’ll pretty much will have lost all the money I’ve ever made via blogging up to this point. Ah well, I’ll just have to believe that fortune will continue to favor the brave.

And the reckless.

I went down to Best Buy the other day and grabbed the two latest Nancy Drew mystery games off the shelves (marked down too!), then made my way to the cashier.

The guy must have noticed how happy I was because he remarked dryly, “You must really like these games.”

“Um, they’re for my sister. It’s her birthday.”

“Sure.”

“She’s twelve,” I insisted.

“Sure.”

“Well, have a nice day,” I continued cheerily, then muttered under my breath, “…little snotnosed ball of pus.”

Ah well, two new games and I am happy as a clam… err, for my sister that is.

You know the commercial. Always when I’m eating too, this stupid ad for Valtrex comes on where some ugly schmo confesses to the world that he has genital herpes, flanked by a gorgeous girl who looks on with lovey dovey eyes and then turns to the camera to inform us that she doesn’t.

“And together, we’re trying to keep it that way.” She then wraps her arms around him in a show of warmth and wubs.

I have a message for the girl: dump Herpo-man and dial me up. There’s no need to roll around in the hay with a disease-riddled dweeb when you can get some fresh, wholesome, whistle-clean loving from a guy like me. Really, why would you want to stick long-term with a bum who has now medically proven to us all what a promiscious man whore he is? This is somebody you want to spend the rest of your life with? What’s next, adopting a pet dog with rabies?

So really, drop this silliness and come cuddle up with me. I’ve had my shots, a clean bill of health, and all the love you will ever need.

To the visitor who found my blog using the search term:

“my girlfriend stays out till 4am”

Newsflash: Your girlfriend dumped you. You just don’t know it yet, and apparently your mind must be so hazy that you’ve had to resort to doing a Google search just to figure out why a girl might want to stay out till the wee hours of the morning rather than stay in with her honey snuggles.

But if you still need some convincing, here’s a couple of solid reasons why you’re hugging the air instead of a warm body at 3AM in the morning:

Your one true love has another boyfriend(s). Yep, after spending the entire evening telling you just how much she yearns for you in your absence and how you complete her, she then casually leaves you as you snore away to go see her other true loves, Bob, Mike and Omar, so she can tell them all how much she yearns for them in her absence and how they complete her too.

Or… your girl is a strip dancer at the local hoinkie boinkie bar. While you dream of gingerbread men dancing on your head, your darling sugar pie is shaking her gimmy-gam gum-gums in front of a horde of drunk, strange men, one of whom she takes back home with her for a witching hour special.

But perhaps I’m being too unreasonable here. Maybe your girl is simply just a light sleeper, and sometimes likes to take 5 hour long walks in the park so she can clear her mind and think about how truly blessed she is to have you in her life. That’s gotta be it right?

You know that saying where young girls are “sugar and spice and everything nice?”

Complete load of crap.

Of course I’ve known this to be true ever since my 12 year old bootingtocks would get chased home by a gang of cheerleaders each and every day after school. Let me tell you something, there’s a reason some girls like to grow their fingernails long, and it has nothing whatsoever to do with cosmetics.

Though I have to admit, I’ve never gone up against the kind of ferocity such as what happened there in Florida (it’s always Florida too.) It wasn’t just watching this poor girl getting beat down by a mob of flip-flop wearing teens that I found so disturbing (along with the painful memories it brought back), but just how coldly calculated it all was. They basically kidnapped her, brought her to the house, then had a throwdown while look-outs were stationed outside to make sure no one interrupted the beating.

If you ask me, that seems to be an appropriate rite of passage a teenage girl might take if she wanted to be a divorce attorney someday, except that the morons here videotaped the whole thing and were actually planning to upload the vid to YouTube. No wonder people refer to the state as Floriduuuuuuh.

All because somebody supposedly dissed somebody else on a MySpace page (of course.)

Oh, by the way, if you’re reading this and you happen to have a MySpace page, you suck and I hate you. I don’t care if I don’t know anything else about you, I hate you, hate you, hate you, even if you gave me a million dollars I’d still hate you (I’d keep the money though.)

A visitor to my blog sent this email:

Name: kunki

Message: I want to learn how to make money. Thank you

My response:

Dear kunki,

Get a job.

Warmest regards,
Lincoln

P.S. That advice didn’t come free. Please send me $10 payment via Paypal or I will send green monkeys after you.

I am a square peg trying to fit into the circle that is life.

At least that’s been my feeling lately. I’ve always had an eclectic personality that precluded me from being able to fit in anywhere, whether it was a church, a social club, or any kind of informal group that shared a common interest. While it made me unique, I do think there is such a thing as being TOO unique, ya know?

Not that I minded being a loner too much, but I hated the fact that my life (with all its eccentricities) all but guaranteed that I’d never find anyone who could really understand who I was as a person. Sure, they might be able relate to one aspect, but then find another aspect of me so totally foreign to them that it scares them off. And trust me, I can be a very scary person, indeed.

There have been times when I tried to simply fake my way into a community’s good graces, but it never seems to last long. Whether it’s trying to cheer for a sports team just so I could relate to their fans (Let’s go Mets!! LET’S GOOO METS!!! LET’S GOOOOO… ah they suck), or whether it’s trying to relate to the Deaf community (where I’d be shunned simply because I’m not deaf enough), or whether it’s feigning “getting slain in the spirit” at a holy roller church so as not to draw suspicion from the congregation, there just seems to be no place on earth where I could truly feel at home.

I’m either too conservative or too liberal, too Christian or too atheist, too normal or too weird, too smothering or too distant, too emotional or too cold. Whatever it is that separates me from the rest of humanity, I either have too much of it, or not enough.

Is it ever going to be possible for me to meet a girl who could understand me through and through, or at least enough of me so that I don’t completely freak her out? Or am I really destined to walk this earth alone until death finally puts me out of my misery?

I believe I can survive without a large support group of any sort, but I don’t think I could carry on without the love of a good woman who could be both my lover and best friend. It seems sappy, but of all the agony and suffering I’ve endured in this life, this one always hurts me the most.

Oh well… there’s always castration.