Josh Einstein

I haven’t really been very good at keeping a blog and pretty much nobody that I’ve invited into my Windows Live network uses the cool new social networking features because they’re all grownups and social networking is for teenagers and nerdy dorks who didn’t have real friends in school. So that’s a long way of saying probably nobody is reading this and if you are, I just pissed you off.

But anyway I’m super pumped because I’m finally all moved into my new house. I think we got a great deal on it. It’s about 2 years old and the previous owners lived here about a year before losing the house to foreclosure. Fortunately they didn’t trash the place because it’s in brand new condition and we got a great deal on it.

While I hate to see anybody lose their house, it was pretty clear to me a few years ago that the prices of homes were way out of control and despite enormous pressure from friends and relatives and a screaming 2 year old, I held my ground and we lived in our little condo in Deptford until I was pretty sure of 2 things:

1. I was in a stable work environment that didn’t depend on sales of TEO or the next potential consulting gig.
2. The housing market had bottomed out and I was going to get a really good deal on someone else’s miscalculation.

In fact, I was even offered a job at Microsoft about 2 years ago that I would have loved to accept, but the prices of homes out there were, (and to an extent still are) ridiculous. The house I am living in now for under $300,000 would have easily cost me $700,000 or more out there.

Right now I’m holed up underground in an undisclosed location that I have claimed as my "command center". I will post some more pictures up soon but this basement freakin rocks. There is a divided space that is about the size of my living room and a half which I am reserving for my office. And since Office Depot is closing their doors, I got some nice new furniture and office supplies on the cheap.

Now the trick is staying employed. I’ve been working my ass off at the job, but if money tightens up, none of that matters. So hopefully they find ways to prosper in the shrinking economy and hopefully our fearless leader will find ways to work across the aisle in Washington so that we can pull out of this slump soon.

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I’m "thrilled" (pun intended) that MJ (Whacko Jacko, whatever you wanna call him) was found not guilty on all of the charges. To be honest, I thought they’d at least get him with the minor charges but ever since the beginning of this whole mess I maintained he was innocent.

Why? Cause the guy is just too naive. He really thinks he’s a kid. He’s done so many great things for charities and kids with terminal illness and it makes me sick to my stomach to think that most of the country would turn on him just because some fat ass lying bitch who has a track record of screwing people over for money made some allegations that she knew would be easy to convince people were true.

The only child abuse going on is the way that woman is corrupting her son. I’m glad the jury looked at this case from a technical perspective and did not let their emotions or the sweeping waves of popular opinion taint their verdict.

And don’t write me saying "Oh I guess you think OJ is innocent too." I am sick of people comparing this case to the OJ Simpson trial. They have nothing to do with each other. There was tons of evidence pointing to OJ and the jury in that case was affected by fears of how the public would react (cough… Rodney King… cough…) but in this case there was no evidence except the inconsistent testimony of the accuser’s family who has a history of lying and cheating, and the testimony of a bunch of former employees that tried to sue MJ before and lost the counter suit.

Okay I’m glad I got all that off my chest. Though I wish he would have moon walked out of the courtroom. That would have been such an awesome finish.

once upon a time there was a goldfish who lived happily in an aquarium
he had everything he needed in the aquarium, food, warmth, plenty of space
but every day he would stare out through the glass
a seemingly endless world existed outside of his glass walls and he wanted to experience it

so one day, the goldfish foolishly decided to make his move
he swam with all his might to the surface and flew out of the water and over the edge

for about 2 seconds he felt as free as a bird and the world was his

but then the goldfish realized that he had made a foolish mistake
he realized he could not survive outside of the aquarium he had left behind
and he wanted badly to go back, but he couldn’t

as he lay there on the carpet, gasping for breath, flapping around helplessly,
he looked back up inside the glass walls and knew he could never go back