i'm broke as a joke

So as wedding preps are being done, fathers day passing, birthdays coming up… I find myself officially broke. But I’m not sad in any way. I got to spend time with family eating an awesome king crab dinner at home for fathers day, spending lunch time with the new father in-law to be, and spending time with C doing prep work for our wedding in May. Time is definitely my greatest valued gift more than anything else.

Sidenote: when I think about fathers day, it reminds of fathers day 2 years ago when c, jade and I went to whole foods to pick up a cake for fathers day. And the cake decorating guy was going to write happy fathers day on the cake for us. He came back with the cake all excited to show his amazing skills in writing with icing. As I opened the box, and started to squint to make out the writing, and read out loud, “happy farters day?”. I said why does it say happy farters day? lol. Jade and c busted out laughing and I felt bad for the guy. We took the cake anyway and ended up laughing about it for the rest of the day.

So Happy Farters Day… =)

snowing? in houston?

So I check my dashboard on my mac and guess what I see…

Snowflakes on the weather widget!! Anyone else see snow?

goodbye roku

So I’ve finally gave in a bought an Xbox 360 after years of contemplating the purchase. Bought it for $299.99 with 4 games and a 60gb hdd. Not too bad. Since it has a netflix streaming capability, I’m now selling my beloved roku box.

This is used to stream netflix movies to your tv.

It uses your wifi to connect so no need to run extra ethernet cable to it. Works extremely well. Mint condition since it just sat on top of my tv. Just don’t use it as much so I want to sell it.

Go to the website http://www.roku.com/netflixplayer/ for more information. This box is really small. so it doesn’t take up much space at all.

Bought it for $99 + tax so I’m willing to let it go for $70 flat.

Hit me up on my email at suhshi AT gmail.com or give me a call.

i don't know what i got myself into

As some of you guys may know that I, John, am riding the ms150 this coming year in April. It’s a bike ride from Houston, to Austin. A total of 180 miles. I know this sounds nuts, but I’ve made this a great big challenge to myself to see if I could do it. I’ve been training about every weekend, and I’m up to about 55 miles as my longest distance so far. I hope to increase about 5% a week.

So why am I riding to Austin for? it’s to raise money for the MS Society. Read more about it here http://www.nationalmssociety.org/chapters/bp-ms-150/index.aspx.

So if you want to support the MS Society and watch me cry as I crawl to the finish line, donate under my name! My goal is for $1,000. So far I’ve got $230!

Go here to donate for me. http://main.nationalmssociety.org/goto/j5uh

i'm back and you know it

So I’ve been out of town for that past 5 days in the city that never sleeps (vegas). I had to go for work. It’s an expo for inventors that happens once a year and this year was the first. I have to admit, we did a pretty damn good job. I applaud everyone on the team for the hard work and pulling this tremendous task.

So first night I landed in Vegas, I decided to hit the casino. The shining lights were drawing me in like fly hypnotized by a bug zapper. I couldn’t resist the temptation of the vast of money I could possibly win. Craps table is where I landed after losing a quick 10 buck loss on a slot machine. After ten or so Goose and seven (vodka and 7up), I was up $340 profit. I felt like I just sucker punched Vegas in the face. For the first time, I’m actually walking away from a casino with money I won instead of losing my shirt off my back.

After the two day expo was over, I had to hit the casino once more. After a $150 meal on the company, a few more Goose and sevens, I was ready to face the Goliath (Vinetian hotel casino) like mother freaking David. One after another, everyone kept rolling sevens after their first roll. What the hell. I lost a $100 in a matter of minutes. I walked away pisst off.

So we decided to hit up New York Casino since that was our lucky casino where I banked $340 the first night. I lost another $100 before the drink I ordered was even brought to the table. I walked away pisst off and tired. Damn it. I’m only up $140 bucks. I gladly took my money and walked away knowing I took a piece of Vegas, and it felt damn good but not really. $340 sounds much nicer. But I’m back home and I’ve missed it so much. I missed C just nagging at me all the time, dogs shittin all over the place yappin my ears off, and most of all just sitting around watching tv with C.

Peace out Vegas, for another year.

need to get back into the groove

Once a year I go through a temporary nostalgic feeling from my camera. Even though I still shoot photos, I feel like I’m not shooting enough. Maybe it’s this stupid iPhone built in camera pushing out the use of my SLR.

I need to take more pictures…

dont sh*t where you eat

I’m pretty disappointed that a friend of mine screwed up a job I hooked him up with. I will never again help him out with another job again.

Has this ever happen to anyone?

update of my life

I’ve gotten so lazy that I only want to photoblog. I love technology. You can follow me on http://twitter.com/j5uh if you use them.

I’ve been pretty busy with my photography business and my new venture of One World United, inc. Right now we’re in the stages of finding a developer to build out a custom ecommerce system and a simple network. So if you would like to offer me some prices, hit me up on my email at jsuh@createadifference.org.

Other than that, I’d like to thank everyone who’s donated and received a One World United shirt. If you haven’t, go to http://createadifference.org/support.php and support us by donating a minimum of $10 and get a free t-shirt on us. These are really nice quality t-shirts, so $10 bucks for a shirt is a great deal.

seattle here i come

So tonight at 11pm I will be leaving for Seattle. I’m pretty stoked since I’ve never been there. I believe we will be in Vancouver for a night so that’ll be pretty cool too. I will be fotoblogging through my iphone so keep your RSS readers refreshed!

i love you roku box

What is a Roku Box ?

The Netflix Player makes it easy to instantly watch movies and TV episodes over the Internet on your living room TV, or anywhere you have a TV and an Internet connection. Compact and lightweight, inexpensive but powerful, simple to set up and use (it’s the perfect answer for people who just can’t get enough Netflix).

So basically I just ordered mine after a few days of contemplating. So basically if you buy this box for a $100 and you have a netflix account that’s at least the $8.99 a month, you can view all the movies through this box on your tv. Movies, tv shows, documentary’s, and more. Anything you find on the Netflix library, you can watch instantly on this Roku box streaming. It displays in HD, but I hear it’s still sub dvd quality. For about $120 a year to watch any dvd I’d like instantly, I call that a deal. Plus you get the 1 free mail in dvd deal with netflix.

I love you roku box.

Check it out here.