Tuesday, August 19, 2008






Tip one: Forget looking in the "Help Wanted" section of your local paper, it's not gonna happen. Instead check the obituaries and police blotter.


Tip two: You can try walking in and asking, but chances are your gonna be talking to the owner who is there because he can't afford employees, or it's an employee will shoot you down right away fearing you are "out to get" his or her position.

Tip three: Write a creative resume and doodle on it, then forget it at home because no one will ask for one.

Tip four: Do not apply to the shop you buy comics at, in other words don't "Shit in your own backyard".  Chances are those folks at the shop you frequent, they have opinions of you. Good or bad it's better to start with a clean slate.

Tip five: Let's suppose you actually got an interview. DO NOT wear a comic themed t-shirt. Assuming that wearing what you want is the wrong approach, on the other hand show up in a tie and your gonna get made fun of, probably to your face and definitely when you leave.

Tip six: Be a girl

Tip seven: Avoid droning on about your favorite comics, even if asked DO NOT elaborate on how much of a "Buffy" fan you are or how you think that "Aqua-man" could take the hulk in a fair fight.

Tip eight: Avoid trying to connect with the interviewer, he or she doesn't want to hear about how much of a travesty Fox's cancelation of "Firefly" was or how bad "League of Extraordinary Gentleman" is.  Besides they already know.

Tip nine: Be good at something, and be reliable. Chances are if you have to count on your fingers and have trouble reading, your screwed. However even if you are a wiz with numbers and can tell the difference between "there", "their" and "they're" It not worth a lick of good if you can't get to work on time.

Tip ten: The most important tip for getting a job at a comic shop, the one and only, sure fire way. Open your own...


...and hire a girl.

~Lou

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

So I have come to the realization that I shouldn't be posting point values in my personal blog. So I won't be anymore. In a effort to get more exercise I now have a "Big kid's Bike"


This is a LOT less awkward then my BMX is.

Though to be honest its been over a year since I was on that one.

Monday, April 07, 2008

Morning
3/4 cup Egg Beaters
1/4 cup Spanish onion
1/4 cup tomato(es)
1 Tbsp Light buttery spread with flax
2 slices 100% Whole Wheat Bread
Midday
2 slices 100% Whole Wheat Bread
10 piece Chicken McNuggets, (yes from McDonalds)

1 Starvin' Lou's Mini-Meatloaf's
Evening
4 oz cooked shrimp
1 cup cooked carrots
1 cup cooked broccoli
1 tsp cornstarch
1 clove garlic clove(s)
Snacks
1 large mandarin orange
30 min cycling, moderate
35 min walking, leisure

Check off these important items daily:
Water
Milk & Milk Products
Fruit & Vegetables
Multivitamin
Oil
Activity


Notes
Blood Log AM
Blood Sugar - ???
Blood Pressure - ???
Heart Rate - ???

Blood Log 11:30 PM
Blood Sugar - 80
Blood Pressure - 137/90
Heart Rate - 82

Friday, April 4, 2008




POINTS® Tracker entries

Friday, April 04, 2008

Morning
2 cup cooked oatmeal 5.5
1/4 cup Sugar free syrup 1
Subtotal 6.5
Midday
1 Tbsp Light buttery spread with flax 1
2 slices 100% Whole Wheat Bread 1
2 Morningstar Becan Strip(s) 1
1/4 cup red onion(s) 0
1/2 cup Egg Beaters 1
Subtotal 4
Evening
1 Starvin' Lou's Mini-Meatloaf 5
Subtotal 5
Snacks
2 serving Hog Lumps - Hot 4
2 Pei Pien, Brown Rice Roll - Seaweed 1.5
3 item cooked chicken wing, with bone 7.5
Subtotal 13
Food POINTS values total used 28.5
Food POINTS values remaining 3.5
Activity
20 min cleaning 1
Activity POINTS values earned 1
Check off these important items daily:
Water
Milk & Milk Products
Fruit & Vegetables
Multivitamin
Oil
Activity


Notes
Blood Log 6:00 AM
Blood Sugar - 106
Blood Pressure - 118/75
Heart Rate - 61

Blood Log 11:20 PM
Blood Sugar - 94
Blood Pressure - 141/94
Heart Rate - 63