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Category: A story to tell

  • I am a Professional

    I started a business on Valentines day. I am single and at my desk on my computer I researched domain names until I found a domain name that fits the products I want to sell. Bizconsult.me I registered the domain name and signed up for a website hosting account and designed the website.

    It’s July 3rd. The lifespan of a business is not set in stone. My business has come along way since I registered the domain name and signed up for website hosting. The website has grown to 17 pages of information about the products I sell and serves as a how to for starting a business including registering a business title with the Secretary of State where a business is located and does business. Registering with the IRS for an EIN number to be accountable with profit.

    I told my friends and family about my business and created a facebook presence for it. I designed business cards and a brochure and had them printed. I created sales tools to bring with me when I’m pitching my products to leads. I opened a bank account registered to my business. These are much of the tangible things I’ve created with my business. The website is not tangible in the sense that it can’t be picked up or felt. It is tangible in the sense that it is a presence online people can visit and look at anytime. It’s always on to motivate people to buy advertising products from me and inform entrepreneurs about entrepreneurship.

    I share advice about managing money and debt and credit cards on bizconsult.me. My business has a lot of potential.

    I haven’t had much time to prospect for leads and give sales pitches. Recently I’ve used my time to work as an employee with a temp agency. I need to earn and have saved enough money to use more of my time to prospect for leads and give sales pitches. I also met the owner of a marketing business I work with in sales for commission. It’s good to have a business partner. We have similar business concepts. My business partner has many years experience growing and building businesses.

    My business is a success in the sense that I have a professional presence on the internet. My business is also a success that it is registered to do business here in the State of Oregon where my office is. I also opened a merchant account. I accept credit card payments online and on my cellphone. My business is also a success in the sense that profit I make with it is on the up and up. I registered an EIN number for my business with IRS. My business is bright and gleams and is ready to make sales. I also created an email account for my business, jason@bizconsult.me

  • Wow

    I think back to my experience around and with computers. My first clear memory of being around a computer was when I was about 5 years old. My mom is an author and at home in her office at her desk was her computer. Often in the morning I would find my mom typing at her desk. Mom had an IBM computer at the time. It worked as a word processor she wrote and printed drafts of her cook books on and with a printer at home. Then she would send a cookbook draft to her Editor a person who worked for Random House or Penguin Publishing in a big corporate office and skilled at reviewing literature and making recommendations on the draft.

    At one point I got to learn how to use my moms computer and practice typing. The object was to spell as many words as possible in a timed session. That’s how I learned how to type. At first I pecked at the keyboard and over time I was able to learn how to type. There was a game on my mom’s computer that was more like a mythical story. My memories of using my mom’s computer are not very clear. That was 42 years ago. There were no graphics and no pictures on the screen, it was all text, written onto the screen.

    Several years later I moved out of my mom’s home and into my dad’s home. My dad also had a computer. He had several computers. My dad used his computers to manage his business. At the time my dad owned Apple Macintosh computers. The computer mouse pointing arrow tool had recently been invented. The first computers my dad owned had black and white screens. Black, white and grey graphics where all it could display. That and words. The computer my dad let me use had a paint program where I learned to draw simple pieces of art. My dad invested more and more in computers and learned how to repair them. Later my dad opened a computer store where sales people sold new computers and repaired used computers.

    It’s accurate to say that from a young age I grew up around computers. It could have been 4th or 5th grade when at school us students were introduced to computer class. Our school had a computer room where our teacher brought us and taught us how to draw lines and designs on the Apple Mac computers with text prompts.

    So much has changed in computing over the years. Whether I was using my parents’ computers or a computer my dad gave to me, computers were a significant part of my experience growing up.

    “These days”, July 2025 the PC or personal computer has advanced so much it is mind boggling. Artificial Intellegence is powerful and so receptive it amazes me. The fear people have about AI has a basis weighted in science fiction. Why not, In science fiction stories there are villains and there are heros. In those stories usually the hero neutralizes the villain at the end. It’s a struggle.

    People with experience using a computer vary as far and wide as humanity. I’m not too worried about Artificial Intelligence’s effect on humans. Artificial Intelligence will create new problems and solutions at the same pace. People struggle and overcome their struggles. That’s life and that is human nature. Life is good. Make the most of it.

  • Old Glory

    My post today is about ways to be an American United States Citizen and be proud of who you are while being sensitive to people around the world who do not have freedoms Americans do. First of all, Freedom isn’t free. People around the world should feel free to live in the country where they were born. Even in United States this freedom to live in US when you were born in US is being questioned.

    If a US Citizen breaks the law I think they should be held accountable and brought to justice. I don’t think they should be deported. The idea that US Citizens could be deported makes no sense. Dual citizens for example of United States and Mexico have more freedoms to live and travel between both countries. This might seem like a great freedom but in fact it means much more. If you are a dual citizen of US and Mexico it is inferred that you are loyal to both countries. US and Mexico are allies and we share our southern border. It’s easier for US Citizens to travel back and forth to and from Mexico.

    Mexicans have a more difficult time traveling back and forth between US and Mexico for several reasons. United States economy is stronger that Mexico’s economy. Mexicans often want to migrate to US because of opportunities in US that are not available in Mexico. Americans from as far south as Chile travel north to Mexico trying to migrate to US. When they arrive at the US Mexico border it’s difficult for US Border Patrol to identify what country they are from.

    The US Mexico border is the last line of defense US Citizens have from keeping unwanted Americans out of United States. What makes an American born south of United States border want to migrate to United States include many reasons. Their reasons are not always good enough. Just like any country around the world, United States wants citizens with good reasons to be here. Being born in United States is a good reason to live in US most of the time. By most I mean the vast majority of the population of United States who were born in US deserve the right to live in US.

    US Citizens who live in US and commit a crime should be held accountable and brought to justice that includes serving time in jail or prison in United States. I don’t understand why a US Citizen who is found to have committed a crime would be deported. US soil is precious. US prisons are often overpopulated. It’s still US soil on US land. And people in jail and in prison should serve their time until their sentence is done.

    Be a law abiding citizen is what to do. Many US Citizens break the law and should be held accountable and brought to justice and serve time in jail or prison in US. Many more US Citizens are law abiding. That’s the way to live.

    An American born south of the US border who wants to migrate to US might want to claim political asylum. If the country they fled is killing or mistreating their citizens is a reason a person born in a foreign country might have to apply to US Government claiming political asylum.

    The world overall is safe for people in their own country and that is not the case in every country around the world. Were there are wars citizens of war torn countries have good reasons to leave to a country that accepts them if they are not going to fight back or can’t fight back.

    Americans in US have it good. We are free to live in our country and we are free to travel and migrate to a foreign country. These are precious freedoms. Life is precious.

  • It’s important to write about what you believe in. I’m writing about weapons and the use of weapons. From guns and rapid-fire rifles to missiles and bombs. Unfortunately, we need them. Americans need weapons. We need weapons to defend ourselves and to defend America and specifically to defend United States. Will humanity ever learn to live in peace? Here in US our country is at peace. US is a large country, and violence happens everyday in small and large communities around the nation.

     My message is less weapons are better. As an American you have the right to protect yourself. My opinion is less weapons are better for everyone. I believe there is no reason for civilians to buy rapid fire rifles. A rapid-fire rifle is a weapon designed for Military use. Unfortunately, US Military needs these weapons to defend United States and to help defend our allies. There is war on Earth and although unfortunate it is a truth. My opinion is less missiles and less bombs are better. Having the most weapons give US an advantage and that is good. It’s good to have the advantage and there is no need to have very many more weapons than a foreign government. When US learns to rely less on weapons and more on talking to solutions, lives are saved. Lives are saved through talking to solutions in our community and in our neighborhoods, in our state and in our nation.

    United States may be the most powerful country with the most lethal military and that is good. Questioning ourselves of are we the most powerful keeps us on our toes. It’s good to have the edge. It’s good to be the most powerful and the most lethal when it comes to protecting Americans and our allies around the world. Men and Women in United States Military defend the country everyday of the year at all hours, rain and shine, through heat waves and on the coldest snowy nights. The US Military protects us through hurricanes and tornadoes, earthquakes and fires.

    The US Military defends us at home in United States and abroad while traveling and living in foreign countries around the world. Men and Women in the US Military are brave and powerful and have paid the ultimate sacrifice throughout US history and take an oath to defend Americans and our interests. Living in America and specifically in United States is a blessing. Americans have freedoms citizens of many foreign countries do not know.

    This is not a reason to bully a foreign country. Around the world in different countries, people live in peace and in some countries, there is war. Often foreign countries at peace are our allies. Sometimes foreign countries experiencing war are our allies and it’s in those countries US Military often go to help defend them and protect them against a different adversary that are invading.

     I am not a warrior. I don’t own weapons. I didn’t grow up around weapons at home much and have very rarely witnessed weapons being used in public. I am grateful for US Military, and I understand the value Americans have in their ability to visit their local gun store and buy whether it’s for self-defense and for hunting.

     I think background checks are important when buying weapons. I see the signs “just try to take it away from me” I’m not going to try. I’m not going to touch it. To each their own has many meanings. Live and let live is important. Give peace a chance.

  • 2025 Media

    In the 80’s and 90’s suspense and violent action movies involving the US Government often told a story of international tension and deception that lead the starring Actor of the movie on a journey to save American lives by neutralizing a foreign threat. Often the threat was a foreign government or rogue militia with a nuclear weapon. Towards the end of many of these movies the star Actor gains control of the nuclear weapon and stops the countdown in less than 10 seconds from nuclear missiles aimed at America being launched.

     All this happens while in a movie scene back at home in United States many men and women are at their computer work stations in a large conference room watching the drama unfold on a large screen on a wall. The large screen is divided into many smaller screens. Each screen has a completely different video playing on it.

     This is often how many of these movies ended. A threat is neutralized and the men and women at work at their desks in a large conference room looking to the large screen on the wall get the good news and stand and rejoice, clapping and cheering on the star Actor of the movie. The day is saved in America in the movie. This movie ending “theme” that repeats in many movies had a lasting effect.

    Society and technology has morphed and transformed. Often the first time people watch movies are on their personal computer at home or their television at home. With YouTube and Netflix the effect these movies from the 80’s and 90’s had leads to current day and the internet that was not available for the public until the mid 90’s

    In those movies each one of those frames playing videos on a large screen represented an important matter. There was too many videos to watch them all at once and that was obvious watching the scene in the movie. Multiple screens added a backdrop layer of suspense to the details of the actors in a conference room scene. Some of these movies were comedies. Most were not. Most of the movies were about very real issues people face in life and consequences to actions. The movies were microcosms of news reports.

    Now the multiple screens are on YouTube and Netflix. NetFlix is for watching movies and documentaries. YouTube is more versatile. Some video’s that show a preview on YouTube are similar to junk mail. Garbage and clutter. Unwanted visual and audio information. As they say one mans trash is another mans treasure. There are video previews that are valued. Something interesting, a topic that is important. It’s up to the visitor at YouTube to input data for YouTube to locate videos based on the input. Another way of previewing videos is selecting the refresh button on the web browser and a whole new screen of video previews appears.

  • This is my prediction.

    Google.com is experiencing some growing pains with Artificial Intelligence. Google is a technology corporation and technology is not alive. Artificial Intelligence is technology and not alive. Very many people agree Google.com is the website to visit to search. The artificial Intelligence bubble will burst and has already burst to some investors. I think Google.com “parent” company Alphabet Inc. will divest some of it’s products such as Android and Chrome and YouTube. AI will eventually help entrepreneurs and startup companies compete on the internet for market share taking over some market share from the largest technology corporations. This is my prediction.

  • Civilization, differences and solutions

    POTUS Donald Trump would have appealed to me when I was an elementary school student. The bully mentality meant a lot back then. Would he have appealed to me in a good way or a bad way I do not know. Some kids bullied me at recess and I bullied other kids at recess. It didn’t help. It wasn’t good. Bullying happened and it was a big deal. It hurt and then I hurt my peers. As I grew I learned to avoid violent confrontations. On TV seemed to be an everlasting fight between people of all ages and races locally and nationally and around the world. This was the late 1980’s. I was 10 years old.

    The cold war was grinding to a close. At 10 years old I didn’t know what the cold war meant. But I did know that the last of it was there and then and that it became the recent past. Later I learned that the cold war was a build up of nuclear weapons and bombs and that eventually United States and Russia agreed to reduce their stockpiles of military weapons. The reduction of weapons deescalated the tensions between the two countries. No missiles were launched, and no bombs were dropped during the cold war. On television the old war was world war 2 and on television shows from much further in history documented world war 1. The old war, world war 2 was not ancient and it was a war fought by my grandfathers both serving in the US Military.

     My grandfather who was alive at the time looked and sounded to me at 10 years old, very old. At that young age, many very old people looked like they had been in a war. They survived and it looked like war took a lot out of them. Later I learned that old age is natural and what everybody experiences over many years of growing. Old age has nothing to do with war. There are many story tellers who are elders and many of their stories are about topics other than war. Ancient civilization, for example in America and Africa and Europe and in Asia looked different in each continent.

     Humans from different races around the world lived in smaller communities. There were battles and violence and there was also peace. Humans have evolved learning how to live and work together. Humans living in community learned to plant crops and grow large scale agriculture. This is how many people around the world are fed to this day.

    Despite all the advances in engineering and modern architecture and science and technology, there are still many human problems society and civilization have not solved. There is plenty of food to feed every man, woman and child. And every day people go hungry, are malnourished and die of starvation. Health care has come so far since electricity was harnessed and the light bulb was invented. So many inventions have been made including the locomotive train and railroad system. The motor that runs on fuel. Airplanes and satellites. Still despite all the industrial advances, people are left to die alone when not enough trained paramedics and available ambulances are ready and able to service a region.

    Problems haven’t stopped happening. Problems people have in 2025 didn’t occur 10 years ago. Pollution in the environment causes problems for humans and animals. Pollution causes people to get sick. Toxins in the environment make some places unsafe to live for humans and animals where the only thing that live are cockroaches. Mysterious illnesses such as covid effect the global population for several years and although a vaccine helps to reduce and stop the disease the origin of it is elusive. Was covid created in a laboratory in a city in China that leaked or was it from a little black winged flying bat that defecated on agriculture and spread in food?

    Solutions in 2025 are created with Artificial Intelligence on a computer and on a cell phone. Personal computers and cellphones didn’t exist when I was 10 years old. A remote controlled television was a luxury. Televisions and computer screens took up more space and were the shape of boxes. A movie was first viewed in a large theatre projected onto a screen the size of a large wall. How movies are shared has changed a lot. Many movies are not shown in movie theatres. Many movies are first viewed on televisions, computers, cellphones and tablets.

    Email and instant texts and video chats and virtual meetings are often the fastest way to communicate with people. Long distance phone calls are of the past. Limited minutes on cellphone service are of the past. Music unites people locally, nationally and around the world. Music is also used in politics and while it can spread patriotism it can also spread messages of hate and fear and violence and racism. Music is loved and loathed, celebrated and shunned. Music is powerful, use it wisely.

  • My prediction of the use of Artificial Intelligence.

    There is a lot of hype surrounding AI. Hundreds of billions of dollars are invested in developing AI. The hype around AI reminds me of the dotcom burst. A lot of the excitement about AI will fade. A lot of investment in AI will be lost. The use of AI in mainstream media is about 2 years old. A lot of good will come of AI. Almost everyone has a computer at home. People tend to use their computer at home differently than a computer they use at work. Most of my computer use has not been work related. I’ve earned some money designing websites 25 years ago. The money I earned designing websites I made at home in my home office.

    It’s not simple to explain how AI is used because there are very many uses for it. The first thing that comes to mind with the use of AI is in search on a search engine. When I type in a question or statement to a search engine I receive an immediate response.

    It’s like dropping a stone into still water. There is a ripple effect. The first ripple is the response to the data I typed. The first ripple is what I’m looking for, subsequent ripples are responses to the same data I typed. Subsequent ripples I receive in a variety of media messages and ads that have something to do with the data I typed. I might receive a ripple of information in response to data I typed to a search engine in a social media feed.

    The effect of the data I type has a more intelligent response from my computer and from my phone. Data I type onto my computer AI amplifies in a variety of responses. AI is manufactured in modern computers and are more intelligent than older computers. Computers calculate and compute input. With AI input a computer receives is better at mirroring human behavior.

    8/22/2025

    The AI bubble in relation to the dot com bubble is very different. Remember that at the time of the dot com bubble where many investors in the internet in America and around the world lost billions of dollars e-commerce was more of an idea than anything else. Banking online was in it’s infancy. Buying products from a website to be shipped to your address was hopeful and there were many many hurdles before the general population were ready willing and able to pay for products online. The AI bubble that appears to be fizzing is different in that the internet has proven itself to be a viable and effective technology for e-commerce that includes buying and selling just about anything on websites around the world.

    I believe with AI the many billions of dollars invested in it won’t be perceived as big of a loss as the dot com bubble burst because the internet is where everyone goes to interact with AI and the internet has proven itself to be a reliable and efficient at e-commerce. In 2025 Investing in starting a business on the internet has many more similarities to investing in traditional brick and mortar businesses than during the dot com bubble and burst.

    Ultimately an investment in AI is an investment in technology that relies very much on human input. There is risk in investing. Surely there will be investors who make great financial achievements with AI. AI has grown by leaps and bounds from when it started. This is good. AI will help business and consumers alike. It’s important to be very careful when investing. AI was narrated as the next big thing in technology and in many ways it is. That doesn’t mean everyone can expect to make a profit with it.

  • Leaders need followers and followers need leaders. One is not better than the other.

    Sometimes it’s difficult to be alone. Then in one moment the difficulty is gone and being alone is easier than having company. Being independent is learned out of necessity. When the environment an individual grows up in is not safe and the people in it are not safe to be around, the individual often learns how to live independently without relying on one other specific person. The individual learns to rely on themselves more than any other person.

    It’s good to have friends and it’s good to have a social life and it’s good to have people around and not be by yourself the whole time.

    Still for an independent person it is not simple to be social all of a sudden. Social skills are like a muscle. Flexing your social skills takes time and repetition to get good at. A person who has many independent characteristics needs time being around a few people and talking to them to be comfortable in larger social settings around more people. This is how a person with limited social skills strengthens their people skills. Taking small bites.

    I could only imagine that an individual who is skilled in social situations might have a difficult time functioning independently all on their own with out the help of a specific person. People are that way. If you are used to being around people all the time you would probably have a more difficult time going independent and making all of your decisions on your own without input from specific people you’re used to socializing with.

    Leaders need followers and followers need leaders. One is not better than the other. They are both vital  and valued in humanity and in society and in success and in failure.

    Learning from many failures can lead to success. One success may be all that’s needed.

  • My past to present and advice if you’re addicted to illegal drugs.

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    MEMORIES

    A movie can create memories as it is being watched. A movie can also revive old memories. Social settings also create memories and can revive or “bring back” to consciousness old memories. Social settings can also bring back recent memories. Watching a movie with another person is a social setting. It’s different than watching a movie alone. Being around another person and with people are social settings. Movies that are interesting can be captivating. I’m at home in my office at my desk writing this blog post. It’s a lot different than watching a movie. In a movie a man is in his home office at his desk typing onto his computer. There is a big difference here now logged onto my account with WordPress typing this word than browsing somewhere else online to watch a movie. Many things create memories. People, places, things. The longer I sit here typing the more memories I’ll create onto my computers memory and onto my account with WordPress and here in my home this morning in my office at my desk.

    THE PAST

    It’s good to be very far away from negative influences, the people, the scenes and the places I used drugs in.

    THE PRESENT

    It’s good to be here at home safe. My home is in a safe neighborhood. I say hello to my neighbors when I see them and they greet me. I volunteer with a local organization supporting people living in poverty. I believe in the cause. I’ve made friends I volunteer with. We support each other. We encourage each other. We look out for each other. We talk and walk and share meals with each other. We help people in poverty with their problems giving them food and clothes. We organize Doctors and Dentists and Opticians who volunteer their services to our members. We organize Attorneys who volunteer their services to our members who have been exploited at work and have been taken advantage of at home.

    ADVICE

    If you or someone you know use illegal drugs you can get help stopping. Help quitting and help leaving it in the past. Not only is cocaine illegal to possess and to use it is also very dangerous. If you are addicted to cocaine you might need to recover in a hospital. Drug addictions cause many problems on your health. Every time a person uses illegal drugs they are risking their health and their safety and their freedom.

    A drug dealers goal is to sell drugs. He or she doesn’t care about the well being of the buyer. They don’t care about the buyers safety. They don’t care about the buyers freedom. They care about making money and they create addicts selling illegal drugs. The buyer is the victim. The seller is the perpetrator. Both are complicit. Both get caught and brought to justice. Both the buyer and the seller get caught selling illegal drugs and possessing illegal drugs. The consequences can be very steep and are there for the safety and health of everyone effected by narco traffickers and the buyer of illegal drugs.

    Most addicts can’t simply up and leave and move very far away out of state far across the country to a new community and make a fresh start. If you are addicted to illegal drugs the act of buying illegal drugs is playing with fire. You might get burned. Not only are you risking your health and safety and freedom, the people you know who are not using are effected by your use of illegal drugs. Their health and their safety and their freedom are all compromised in proximity to your use of illegal drugs. People die every day from using illegal drugs. People are brought to jail and incarcerated every day for using and possessing illegal drugs.

    An innocent victim is someone who lives a normal life and not involved in illegal activity and gets caught up in someone else’s illegal drug use or the sale of illegal drugs. Innocent victim’s are often the children of parents using or selling illegal drugs.

    Be a source for safety and security and freedom for victims of illegal drugs. If you want to leave illegal drugs in the past you need help. It’s a very important action to do, seeking help if you are in an environment where there is illegal drugs. You need to leave the environment to a safe place. The safe place might be a church and a church is not there to help ween you from the dangers of illegal drugs. A church might be a safe place and where you can receive spiritual guidance. Going to church works for many people for their reasons. You might need direct intervention from a professional who can extract you from an illegal drug environment for good.