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Tales of the Opiated Sherpa has gone up to $0.91 a share on Blogshares and it has a new investor. Excellent. I've gotta really grow this site so the value increases, now that I have investors to worry about, business has to start picking up!

I can't really say that my portfolio on Blogshares is any good. I have tried to get in on the ground floor for Rick Mercer's Blog. Everyone in Canada who finds him amusing will probably link their Blog to his, so there's a good chance for growth there. He's already surpassed the Top 100 Incoming Links and I think I've fallen off... crap!

I was able to sleep fairly well last night. There were a couple times this morning where I had to adjust myself, but my skin ceased up and the immense pain of twisting and turning was excrutiating. Yet, although there was terrible pain, I was still twisting and turning in ways that my skin was screaming at me not to. The haze of sleep didn't stop the pain, but it also didn't stop me from creating pain. Terrible.

Last night, I had an excellent MSN chat with my friend Justin. Funny, that last post I have of him has an MSN chat... well, they are good. Well, we hit all sorts of points in our discussion last night. He calls me entertaining, but I find him to be one of the funnier guys I know.

Oh no!! My conversation with him last night wasn't saved. I knew I should have copied and pasted some of our genius right away. Now, I'm gonna have to wait until he gets on and see if he's saved it.

Anyways, we were going on about the people we knew back in high school, Rutland Senior Secondary in Kelowna, BC. We had both agreed that our class was a "cookie cutter group of stereotypes" and it was no real surprise that we don't talk with anyone in our class any more, except for maybe a select few. There was more to it than that, but we ended up just laughing at the group as a whole and made some sort of self-righteous ramblings about ourselves and such. It was all humourous and in jest, 'cuz well... we don't relaly have much of a leg to stand on.

You know, it's a real shame that the conversation was lost. I've actually lost a few articles of good writing between the two of us. He says he isn't much of a writer, but I tend to disagree. Of course, the one example I have is only on my laptop. Grrrr... wait, I think I might be able to pull that off. One minute.

Ah ha!!

From: J D [cleanser@hotmail.com]
Sent: December 2, 2001 10:04 PM
To: opiated-sherpa@shaw.ca
Subject: Re: Art vs. Commerce

Dear Mr Corley,

Upon reviewing your letter, we here at "Ass Crustico" (AC from here on) would like to thank your for your valuable input. It's customers like you who make our company the virile market competitor it is today. We feel that our fine line of de-crustifiers are just what the market ordered in the highly competitive market of de-crustification.

In response to your comments about Adolf Hitler we would just like to say that we here at "AC" are in complete and total compliance with the Geneva Convention and have put a halt to all holacost projects. We would now like to take the time to apologise to all Jewish people and we will certainly pick the right side when the Glorious IV Reich rises again.

In response to your comments:

Commercial Advertising imitation on a corporate level of an art form.....

We have some highly trained people looking into the implication's that you may or may not have made. You can expect the first brief of our class action suit titled: "People with opinions our are enemies!" any day now. We hope you have learned that expressing oneself is evil and should be shunned at all costs.

Enclosed in this package are some shoddily made bit's of corporate merchandise. You will find that they work as long as you use them to the specified directions... for oh lets say about 20 seconds or so. Please feel free to send them back with a letter of complaint and we shall placate your ass with more corporate gifts and reams of bullshit.

In closing we would like to say that your letter is most appreciated and we look forward to anymore responses you may have. Our fine form letter producing computer has hopefully not gone to waste.

Yours in Ass Crusty Removal Always:

Faceless Corporate Entity.

Ass Crustico A fine Division of HyperGlobalMultiMeganet. If we don't stock your nuclear weapon, we'll custom make it for free!

Okay, it might look a tad obscure at the moment... okay, well, it'll be obscure for a long time. I lost the letter that I had actually sent him. I think i was going off on my comparison between advertising and art or something to that effect. It probably was a really good rant of sorts, but the response that I got from Justin was just priceless. And he tells me he's not a good writer. I may have to have him guest-write on the Tales, unless he gets off his ass and starts his own.

Did you notice the date on that e-mail? December 2, 2001. Man... I still have e-mails that are almost 4 years old. And now for today's picture. I just thought about this, hence why it's so late in the Blog. This one is for dear ol' Justin... it'll probably put a smile back on his weary, sad little face.


Remember that shirt, Justin? I still have it. HA! Oh, the memories.