Extra 20% Off adidas End of Season Sale

There is still time to take advantage of adidas’ End of Season Sale! With the sale running until Tuesday, June 30th, you will be able to knock off another 20% off already low sale prices with code: EXTRA20. This is the best time to shop for Men, Women, & Kids as this sale will not last long. I’ve gone ahead and ordered my daughter some items for school and just put them up until August. This will give me the best deal on adidas and save a little coin in the process. There’s nothing like ordering some new clothes, stashing them in a good hiding spot, and then coming back to that hiding spot a couple months later and finding your stash that you had forgotten all about. I did that after I was able to Save on Kids’ Products at adidas.com’s End of Season Sale.  I’ve attached some of my favorite adidas items below.

Funny story, the other day I showed up to my first game of kickball with some new adidas cleats I had bought the same day from adidas. It had been raining for 40 days and 40 nights here in Texas, so I thought I was being smart with metal cleats. I was running around the field like a crazy idiot trying to slip on my ass, but I wouldn’t fall. These metal cleats were the real deal. I was all feeling like I was the man and with these cleats, I would take down the other team. I’m not even sure if any one else was on the field, but this man and his metal cleats. Well, it turns out that metal cleats are illegal in the co-ed world of kickball. The ref was alerted of my style and approached me. He informed me that he could not let me play in these, but I could wear other shoes. Well all I had were my adidas slides, so I offered to play barefoot a la Shoeless Joe Jackson. The ref allowed and I played the rest of the game with no shoes and red dirt feet. We won.

 

Be a badass and get your adidas gear now while you can save 20%. Use code: EXTRA20.


Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole by Martha Wainwright

I ran across this song at the end of episode one season three of Orange is the New Black. This is one of my most favorite shows with one of my most favorite words in it, so I had to share it, right? Check it out with the lyrics here and turn it on in your Spotify playlist. I’ve already added it to mine. Duh.

 

Poetry is no place for a heart that’s a whore
And I’m young & I’m strong
But I feel old & tired
Overfired

And I’ve been poked & stoked
It’s all smoke, there’s no more fire
Only desire
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are

You say my time here has been some sort of joke
That I’ve been messing around
Some sort of incubating period
For when I really come around
I’m cracking up
And you have no idea

No idea how it feels to be on your own
In your own home
with the fucking phone
And the mother of gloom
In your bedroom
Standing over your head
With her hand in your head
With her hand in your head

I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I’m all right for you
When all I wanted was to be good
To do everything in truth
To do everything in truth

Oh I wish I wish I wish I was born a man
So I could learn how to stand up for myself
Like those guys with guitars
I’ve been watching in bars
Who’ve been stamping their feet to a different beat
To a different beat
To a different beat

I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I’m all right for you
When all I wanted was to be good
To do everything in truth
To do everything in truth

You bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody mother fucking asshole
Oh you bloody…

I will not pretend
I will not put on a smile
I will not say I’m all right for you
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are
For you, whoever you are


Real Men Wear Pink

I’ve always been in touch with my feminine side. Well, as far as I can remember. I mean I don’t think I’ve been overly feminine like with an extra chromosome or something. I just think I’ve been able to associate better with women. I get them. Well that’s a pretty fucking bold thing for me to say, right? I didn’t say that I knew the female organization like the back of my hand. I just said I get them more then I get a lot of the males I run across. I’ve been called gay plenty of times in my life that it doesn’t phase me at all. I don’t consider it a bad thing to be called, yet a lot of men do. I just like getting my nails done and looking pretty. Is that so bad? I remember getting women ask me how I get my hair to do whatever it was that it was doing that day. That was quite the compliment for me, I felt. At the same time, I had dudes poking fun at the “feminine” color of my shirt. That was back before pink was made in everything for men. I also like purple. In fact, I think I look better in purple. My mother will tell you I look the best in green. It makes my eyes pop. I thought it was the cash I had my eye on, but apparently it’s simply the color of shirt I had on for Mother’s Day.

With that little blurb being said, it makes sense that I would own (purchase) a company that was primarily pink, Polka Dot Design. I was the IT Manager for Polka Dot Design for a few years and the opportunity came up for me to purchase it. I took that leap and the net will appear, right? Kidding, I’m working on rebuilding the legacy that Julia & Aaron Brickman began. This was once a prominent cutting edge company and I intend on bringing it back. I’ve got to. I’ve got a mouth to feed. Take a look at the website. There is pink all over the place and I can dig that, like a garden. My current project is rebuilding the site to conform to Google’s rules for SEO and security. It’s tough to always be one step behind Google and ready to make an SEO or some sort of structural change when Google tells you to. To stay on top of the game, you’ve got to have a friend at Google (maybe Vince Vaughn is taking calls today) or buy into the mass amount of snake oil that any one of the “reputable” search engine optimization companies are trying to sell. Part of my job as an IT Manager has always been to sift through the bullshit the world is trying to sell you. You need a new phone system. That will increase your says they will tell you. You need a new T1 line and that will really bring the customers to you. Everyone is trying to sell something and I’ve got to act like I’m panning for gold and weed all of them out. Really though, I’m no different. I will try to sell you something too. What I’m trying to sell you though, is a ticket to happiness. That sounds like a line, doesn’t it? You buy some party invitations and you will be happy. I can tell you that much. Who is not happy at a party? Bring them to me and I will turn that frown upside down. How about a christian hug, Mrs. Sadface or a good ol’ game of grabass Mr. Down Dogger. See what I’m saying? So get those party invitations now and you’ll be glad you did. Feel free to invite me to said party. I’m booking up fast, so hurry up with the invites.

When I decided to rebuild the site, I employed a company that specializes in WordPress hosting, WP Engine. They even have a 40% off coupon code for WP Engine when you use: SSL40OFF. Hashtag you’re welcome. Anywho, the guys at WP Engine really know their stuff. The beauty is that all they do is hosting for WordPress, so that’s what they know. When you specialize in one thing, you can be really bad ass at that one thing. The guys at WPEngine are WordPress geniuses. So, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not as easy as it sounds, but it is achievable in the internet world. I ask myself often, “Can you really be fully optimized” in Google’s world? Odds are that Google will continue to evolve, so I will have to continue to evolve. Sitting still is not an option. Yoast makes an SEO plugin that helps out with a little do-it-yourself search engine optimization. Some may call it DIYSEO. We can all call it that if Google will let us, Actually though, all we need to do is start saying something a lot and Google will start saying it too. If you really think about it, we are the one’s that are programming Google with new terminology and trends. From hashtags to at-sign shoutouts, we actually giving content to Google. Google is all about solid content and user experience. It makes sense that someone is in charge of that. Otherwise, the world wide web (the white version) would be a goddamned mess and you wouldn’t be able to find anything without getting hacked a dozen times in the process.

SEO is quite the process. You’ve really got to be married to providing good content. A lot of businesses have to have an entire department committed to search engine optimization. Others outsource their SEO to expensive SEO companies. Should you choose to take the latter route, be careful who you employ. There’s a lot of SEO companies selling snake oil out there, so make sure to do your research before handing over the cash.

I’ve been writing content and optimizing sites for quite some time now. It’s a long and tedious process, for sure. If you want the traffic which leads to the money that leads to the freedom that you want, this is what you’ll do. Every one of the words that I write is searchable. Sure, there are so called “stop words” in content marketing and search engine optimization, but they’re words that we all have to use anyway. Stop words refer to the most common words used in any given language. There is not a real universal list to go off of though I’m sure you can find plenty of lists on the internets. A few examples of stop words would be a, and, the, be, at, then, there, were and plenty of other tiny filler words. If I were you, I would try to be less verbose while getting your point across with more important and less used words.

 


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Adidas

As spring rains turn to summer sun, adidas is heating up their End of Season Sale. Between 6/17 and 6/30, you’ll be able to save up to 50% off at adidas.com! 

I remember growing up listening to Run DMC and wanting to look as cool as they did. How do I get to be that cool? Could something as simple as a pair of Adidas shoes make the statement I needed and boost my local popularity? Probably not, but it never hurts to try. I mean we all wanted to fit in and be like the cool kids. I had me some Pro Wings tennis shoes. I believe they sold those bad boys at Payless Shoesource. Something like that. I can remember going to a dance at Young Junior High and wanting to look real good, so I had my father run me up to the Payless. Of course, like every other shopping experience these days, it was a bust. Why? Well because they didn’t have what I wanted and I was left, yet again, settling for some crap that I didn’t really even want. Maybe that’s why I hate Payless Shoesource now. My mother says that “hate” is a strong word. In fact, I say that same thing to my daughter. Like my daughter says, “it fits” in this instance.

Anyway, I can dig a good pair of Adidas. As a grown man, I’ve developed quite the fetish for shoes. Not so much feet. Just mainly shoes. I’m kind of a whore for shoes. I like keeping my old shoe boxes and popping the shoes back in them at the top of my closet. It looks way cooler than organizing with overpriced plastic from the Container Store.

When I saw that you can save on Stan Smith shoes, Supernova Climachill tees, Techfit Training tights, and much more, I went bananas and ordered myself some more shoes. Now you can Shop adidas’ End of Season Sale and get your workout on in style. Maybe you don’t workout or maybe when you do, you don’t workout in style. I’m not judging you. I really think it’s a toss up of which one is better for me. I cannot decide if working out or if being in style is better. What if I could only do one? Shoot, I think I’ve have to workout. I’m all about that nutrition and would rather see myself in those Pro-Wings from Payless than my gut overlapping my drawers. I’ll write some soon on nutrition just in case you want to know what I know about how to feel great in my clothes everyday.