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January 2026 – New Year, New iPhone, More Work – Banned from TikTok – Kirby Brocoli Show Podcast
Weeks 51 and 52 of 2025 were spent in Houston. Mostly sleeping. I fell sick for the first few days and overslept my way through vacation. There is a homely feel when I visit my aunt. A sense of relaxation that, as a lazy mammal… I just want to sleep. And that’s what I did.…
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Week 49 (2025) – Bugonia and Back to the Movie Theater Review – NYC Tips – End the Year and Social Media Gig
I’m going to the movies for the first time in almost a decade. My girlfriend likes to go to the movie theater. I don’t. We’ve been dating for two plus years. And this is my first time going with her. The last movie I saw in the theaters was Deadpool. Or The Great Wall with…
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Week 47-48 (2025) – Family Visits Baja – Bucket List Life – 2026 Coming at Me Fast
This is post 700 in my blog. That’s some sort of an achievement. The rest of my life is about getting achievements. Finishing projects. Bucket list. I need to finish three books: Tijuana Adventure 2, The Best of my Work on the Reader, and the Tijuana photo print book. Excerpts of that are exclusively for…
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Week 46 (2025) – New Adult Bed – More Photography Gigs and a Dutch Tour – Cold Laundry Days
It was a busy week. Social media gig keeps me busy for a couple of days a week. It should be fewer hours. But I don’t complain. It’s okay money and I get to eat for free. And I’m back in the photography game. I need more photo gigs. The circle of photography. Do it…
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Week 44 (2025) – Halloween 2025 A Flash That Flashes – Low Season to End the Year – First Paycheck… and It’s Gone
First Monday of the month. I paid rent. It makes me sad. It should make me happy. I have shelter for another month… but it just gives me big sad. Money comes, money goes. I got my first paycheck from my new job managing social media for two restaurants… and it’s gone. Rent and the…
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Week 43 (2025) – One Month in New Gig – Busy Social Media Weeks – Halloween 2025 Thwarted Plans
I rarely write my blog at night. It’s usually on Monday mornings with my second cup of coffee after reading emails and social media notifications. I’ve been busy this week, and it’s only Tuesday. I wasn’t that busy last week. But today I was (still am, hence writing at night). And yesterday I was busy.…
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Week 42 (2025) – Back to Food Photography – No Tours, No Money – 12K Followers on Insta
Instagram, as a photo application, is dead. It’s mostly video now (it has been for a while). Photos don’t look high-def. There is a need for a new platform that showcases high-quality pictures. What will it be? Patreon? Subscribe to my Patreon! I’ve been uploading A TON of photos for free. Spooky Season is here,…
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Week 41 (2025) – Real Influencer Oxymoron – Diane Keaton Another RIP – Not Much 2025, Not Much Progress
My Instagram following inches towards 12k. I woke up to a lot of people adding me. It’s normal now. Same on TikTok. It’s inching towards my favorite number. 22.5k. Twenty-two and a half is my favorite number. I don’t think that number of followers is that amazing. But it is. And it’s only going to…
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Week 40 (2025) – New Gig: Social Media Strategist – Full Moon #25 – Two New TJ Bars
I had the interview for the gig. It went well. More than well. The gig is mine. It doesn’t pay much, but it also doesn’t require me to do much. I’ll be crossing the border once a week to take pictures and videos and to get a free meal. Then I get to edit and…
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Week 37 and 38 (2025) – New York City Part 1 – Content Galore – Back to TJ and Broke
We got back from New York City last week, and I’m still processing it. I am broke, but worth it. I loved New York… I didn’t think I would. But I did. Seattle is a city that seems to be for me. Nerdy and millennial. New York is a city built for anyone… including me.…
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Week 36 (2025) – ABC Australia Podcast and all Podcast – 25 Full Moons and Off to New York – TJ Deserto and Social Animals
What a rollercoaster. My girlfriend rarely calls me. If she does, it must be something important. I was in the middle of a game of DotA and saw the call. I had to take it in the middle of the game. We still won. But that’s besides the point (it’s been a good win streak).…
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Week 35 (2025) – Second Anniversary – The Critic – September is Here!
This last week went by fast. And I don’t even remember what I did. I didn’t have a tour. I wasn’t that busy… but it went fast. I wrote this blog. I wrote my newsletter over at TijuanaAdventure.com, posted a couple of videos, went bowling, hung out with my friend’s dad, who is also a…
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Week 34 (2025) – End of Bad August and Bizarre Dreams – Fantasy Football Season Draft – Forastero and New Revu
I had the craziest of dreams. Too bizarre to even process. It had LAX, but they were apartments, and also a weird intergalactic brothel where you could switch bodies with other beings. And like always in my dreams. Very large bathrooms with a ton of showers. A lot of rooms with showers. It’s always in…
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Week 32 (2025) – Big Apple, 3 AM – Matingas Now on Substack – Bad Burger, Great Beer, and New Bar
New York in exactly a month. I’m excited. We’re excited. My girlfriend sends me dozens of TikToks about New York almost daily. I watch MOST of them. But there are too many. Many influencers have a whispery voice that I find annoying. I want to create my own content, not consume others. I have friends.…
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Week 30 (2025) – TJ News Food and Drink Review (Innato and Club Ocampo)- Toros de Tijuana Tours – Store Fantasy, Books, and Bookings
I don’t have any upcoming tours. A few emails requesting September or October… but nothing for August. Although I don’t have tours, I still have a lot of work to do. The Tijuana Newsletter is a self-proclaimed success. I enjoy writing it. It gives me an outlet to voice my opinion the way I want.…
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Week 29 (2025) – Ozzy Gone, Lens Sold – Viral Video Work, Sushi, and Tours – New Yorkjuana Plane Tickets Bought
Two tours in a row last weekend. And what a week I had. What a week for 2025. What a week for Trump. All the Epstein shit! Millenials! The world seems to end again. And I’m here doing tours and having fun times in Tijuana and getting paid to do it. July ends more than…
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Bills, Taxes, Adulting – More Shoots, More Covers – Pop-up Store, Showroom, Photo Sessions (at Nett Nett)
Holy fuck… I’m exhausted. And I haven’t even had breakfast. I just filed my 2020 taxes. And fuck. Taxes are scary. Especially when you are not sure what you are doing and you have to file freelance taxes from three different sources. And I paid for my car insurance. And I paid for some more…
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Shooting from the Air, Shooting from the Ground – Moody Monday – Babe + Sunset + Studio Lights
Dark have been my dreams of late. Not really dark. Weird. Weird dreams. Weird days. This last dream involved my friend Mora and Pablo. Not sure why those two were there. But they were. And in that dream, we were trekking a snowy mountainside that had ocean waves crashing on the side. A mix of…
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March 2021: Haircute and a Busted Lip – Bars Reopened in TJ – Future Photo Showroom
AHH!! I skipped my blog last week. And today… I was thinking of skipping today as well. There are too many things in my mind. Work things. Many work things. I think I just book a wedding. A paid wedding. A nicely priced wedding (at a discount because she’s a friend). And trying to do…
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Saraby and Abril – Prints and Sexy Shoots – Tijuana Beer Tours 2021
My therapist says that I am doing better. I guess I only told her all the good shit that has been happening and skipped all the horrible shit. Horrible shit. I’ve spent two days sober this whole year. And not completely sober. I mean just no alcohol. Those nights, I couldn’t sleep and had suicidal…
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Super Bowl Shit – Steady Cover Photo Life – Prints Are Expensive As F
Well… That Super Bowl game was shit. I wanted the Bills to win it since I got Diggs as my wide receiver and I was loving what I saw from the team. I never really liked the Bills or their fans, but I was digging this team. And my cousin Dennis is a huge fan…
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February 2021: María’s Cover Story – Patreon is Activated – Prints for Sale
I don’t have hot water, so fuck showering today. It’s cold and cloudy out anyway. I just came back from a long walk. It was fruitless. Yesterday I walked for a long ass time as well. It was good. I did some drone photography and printed my most popular picture as of yet, the Tormenta…
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No Niche Photography – Drone, Journalism, Nalgas, Food & Drinks, Landscapes, Fantasies, Etc. – Best Thing I’ve Ever Written
I don’t know what to do with my day. I don’t know what to do with my life. I say that a lot. This girl that I like and she likes me back always says the same “start writing.” I don’t know what to write anymore. I’m not a writer. I just have stories to…
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2 Years of Afterlife – Where Am I Headed? – All Sorts of Photoshoots
I don’t know where I’m headed, but I’m going straight there. It’s my niece’s birthday tomorrow. It’s been exactly two years since my mom died. It feels like it was forever ago. Maybe it was because of the non-existent 2020. The eternal bond of mother and child broke. My mom and I had a strong…
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Paparazzi Podcast with StillVinSane – Portrait Portfolio and Discounted Photoshoots – Am I Balding?!
Hey! Look at me! I woke up to a message that someone is interested in my drone photography! An architect working on a new project in Tijuana! The only issue… this is for several months from now. Hey! Look at me! I appeared in a podcast yesterday with my brother’s college friend Vinson aka StillVinSane!…
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