New mouse!

And… we lose even harder in DotA. Four games. Four losses. That’s the new mouse record.

But… it’s SOOOO much better. This mouse is huge. And the right click works. And it has extra buttons because it’s a gaming mouse. I like it. Worth the $25 I paid for it.

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It’s Monday and I’m feeling lethargic. It’s cold outside for May. And in eleven days I’m going to be 39. I get depressed during my birthday. The past few years it’s gotten better, but this year…

My girlfriend will be gone and I have a tour the day after. I shall be fine.

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The tour on Saturday went great! It was a birthday party celebration. It started with two shots of mezcal (or tequila) and beer for everyone. It escalated to way more shots.

I got paid. I had fun. I was going to play with my new mouse that night, but when I got home, I passed out. Woke up at midnight and couldn’t sleep. Watched TikTok for hours.

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It was my nephew’s birthday. They went bowling. My favorite. I shall take him bowling again. I couldn’t go because I was doing the tour. So I visited him yesterday. Kid is getting good at video games but I still destroyed him. I shall hang out with him more. In just a few years, he will be 18.

That’s fucking wild man.

Life is fucking wild.

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There’s not much this week. I have a tour on Sunday. And another one next week. I need to get more tours. I need to do more work. I’m going on fucking TikTok live again. I’m tired and feeling lethargic, but it makes me feel productive so I’m going to do it for a while so I can say I did some work today.

Then I see my girlfriend. And figure out the rest of May.

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All of the above was written on Monday. I wanted to write more. Hoping for shit to happen. To take pictures. To get something done. I did not. I only went on TikTok live and played DotA.

No gigs. No tours. Barely even worked on my future books.

And the week went by. I have a tour on Sunday. I have to be a babysitter late tonight.

And tomorrow.

Tomorrow is Mother’s Day.

I would have gone to dinner with my mom and bought her a bottle of wine and perhaps another of tequila (and flowers). Most likely Riochia 7. I haven’t been back in a while. My mom liked that place.

I miss my mom.

Instead… Carnita asada at my mother in law’s place.

Life.

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One thing I did was transform my extra room in my two bedroom apartment into my office. It was a glorified warehouse / guest room. But I never had guests. So it was just… an extra room. With a bed that we piled shit on.

No more.

Now my desk is here. It feels like an office. It looks like an office! It’s an upgrade.

And my room doesn’t look like my room. It looks like our room.

Perhaps that’s what the relationship needed for us to live together. Better spaces.

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Another random fucking thing happened. This blog doesn’t want to embed Instagram videos anymore, so you have to click on it.

But this random shit happened!

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Or apparently… Embedment worked^

It might be gone later.

But that shit happened. I was waiting for my girlfriend sitting on a bench on Revu when I heard a loud noise to my left. Then I saw the feet dangling. And my paparazzi instinct… record.

Record it all.

At some point I thought, go help! Do something. But nah. A lot of people were helping. All I would have done was hinder the help. One more man for a job that really involved someone going for a fucking ladder. Or when there were more than six, the dude could have just let go.

But no. Wild shit. The cops came to help. Somehow. And there was no ladder.

Random shit that happens to me.

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I did more videos. For my business. But the algorithm is not favoring me anymore. It’s still getting 10k+ views. But not enough. And I’m not getting much business.

Video of Alice* not Alicia, with her husband and the kids. They were awesome people. I always get fantastic clients.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJSez-WhH-y

See!!!

Now the embedding doesn’t want to work. Follow me over at Tijuana Adventure.

The May 3rd tour… Jared’s birthday. Soooo many drinks. I don’t know how I handle it. I drink too much. Turning 39 soon… I should stop drinking. Not that many years left in my life. Perhaps 20. But not that many more.

Crazy to think I have less life than what I have lived. Hopefully my 40s will be different. I don’t want to say better, cuz life has been alright. Different. In a good way. But different.

Here’s the video of Jared’s birthday tour. Awesome people again:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DJVEe7SSJMU

It didn’t want to embed either.

Weird.

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That my iMac is still working great makes me happy. I can find my archives in my hard drive easily. And for the next picture book… I thought I would have to go through millions of pictures. But my hard drive already has folders called “best of paparazzi.” It’s not even the best of the best. And it has over 1,000 pictures.

I can only choose like 100 or less. I should ask Ben how many pics are in his book.

Some text.

And paparazzi picture book will be completed. The people on TikTok live say they will buy it. And I get an average of 50 people on my TikTok lives now. I have some regulars as well.

And I find things in my hard drive that I didn’t even think I had. I still can’t believe I found the lost pics. And all the stuff I had in my 2008 Macbook!

I’m crazy for how I keep all my files. And I want to make a living out of it. Out of the mountain of shit I have. So many pictures. So many videos.

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Too much blogging about nothing.

Happy Mother’s Day to the moms out there and to the people who are lucky enough to still have their mothers with them. If it was a good mother. Some mothers can be shitty.

I had a great mom. I miss her so fucking much. Life is so different. It was always meaningless. But now extra meaningless. And that’s sort of freeing.

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This blog needs a picture. I was going to use an old picture, but hey… I have something I can use.

I’m making 24 of these shirts in black:

That’s the back. Just like that. The front has the Tijuana Adventure logo.

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By now… I should have an online store working. And I have not worked on it. I have to work on the Tijuana Adventure website. And do some blogging over there for SEO reasons.

New office… Get to work Matingas!

It’s so dumb how just moving a bit of space makes my brain work a little bit more. Office hours! Work work until TikTok live then more office hours. You got shit to do because you don’t really want a real job.

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