Dave Nicholson

I did used to adore my Commodore 64. I got it in the 1980's and kept using it for a long time. This is a photo of it when I first got it. I honestly don't remember when I got rid of it but it was in the early 2000 range I think. I learned 65802 assembly code and wrote my own educational games with it. They where distributed among schools in a region for free. There was also the popular "Demo" programs that would show off the capability of the machine. It was a must to know assembly code for this as basic was not nearly fast enough to do most of the fancy tricks. A little history on the machine. They came out in 1982 as a home computer and where actually kind of expensive in the day for what you got, but it had 16 colors on it's display and that made it popular. That's right 16. They sold somewhere between 22 million and 30 million according to the man who invented it. It is to this day the most popular personal computer in history. It is est...

Me 2 years old playing with Corkie. The dog had razor blade teeth. My Brother and I played a bit rough with her and would end up bleeding. We did not care, but Mom would be mad at the dog and she would not know why Mom was upset. She was also not that smart. Her days ended one sad afternoon when she got out of the yard and ran for it. Twice before she had been clipped by a car when escaping, but this time she was hit full on and that was it. On a more funny note, Dad was getting ready for work one day (he was a cop) and she wanted out. So he let her out and then when she ran back in she bumped the door and it closed, clocking Dad out of the house as he did not have his keys. As well, dad did not have his jacket, gloves or hat. It was the middle of winter and he could not wake any of us up for some reason so he started to walk to work. Well it was -20F at the time, so this was a silly move. But fortunately one of his co-workers saw him and picked him up. Before her, w...

OK here is the deal, this is 49.8 years (and 23 hours). So I was like 4 when I posted the freaking video then was I? Not to mention the internet did not exist in it's modern form yet, let alone freaking YouTube. Than again YouTube is not very good at math it seems. I fire up my Studio app and it will say 1142 Subscribers - the next tome (same day) 1138 - 20 minutes later 1143 - the entire time the YouTube app my channel say 1137. I go to my page in the browser and it say 1141. Ya know... I'm kind of sure people are not subbing and unsubbing that fast. Ever notice gaps in statistics? Yeah, I don't really go them - but there are spots missing from the timeline now and then - normally a 2 days span where it just stops recording things I guess. For all the people that work for them and all the fancy code, you would expect a simple thing like a counter to work. But then again if like me, you have thousands of videos - good luck seeing them all in your list in the ...

I'm actually amazed at how badly I reacted to this stuff. It's supposed to NOT cause allergies after all. Yeah it's all rather natural for the most part, but DANG - I thought I was going to die or something. My skin was covered in red dots from head to toe. It burned like a sunburn (feeling). My eyes where itchy and hurt. My breathing was hampered slightly. When I took it out of the wash I got a reaction so I washed them all again. I figured I was safe as there was no reaction when I took it out the 2nd time. The next day after a shower I put on the clean clothing and WHAM I got hit with it. I had to wash it 2 more times and even then there was a very slight itch. I'm kind of astonished at this as literally all the other reviews where positive. But this gave me the worst reaction of my life for laundry soap. Gain was a close second but not as bad. Tide just made me slightly red and itchy. Seem the Co-op stuff is all I can use. I also have very lit...

Lost 2.4 lbs and I'm down to 373.2 lbs. Still up 21.2 lbs on the year with 8 weeks to do. Down 124.8 lbs from my heaviest weight. Was mildly good this week, but could have done way better with sticking to the diet.

  So on Halloween I got into it. I had 4 China White shooters (they where not worth the $9.99 I payed for them - they sucked) and about half a 26 of Wiser's Special Blend. I then watched a 3 old movies with Vincent Price in them - ignore the modern one in the middle.   The movies where all after 9PM as I was watching the security camera feed on my TV to see the kids come trick or treat. It was very fun. One was dressed as Franks Mustard. One of the old ladies was dressed as death in her wheelchair. I went down briefly, just in time to end up holding a baby for a moment - well just about everyone did - the 2 Moms took all of our photos with the child. Ya know - I have no idea if it was a boy or girl, not one clue.

So Fibromyalgia flair time. My head hurts like hell, my joints hurt, my muscles ache and my skin is super sensitive to the touch. That last one does not happen for me that often, but here it is. As well my testicles are in pain. That one is common for men who have Fibromyalgia. I think it was triggered by my exposure to the laundry soap I mentioned in my previous blog. It started about 30 minutes after I started washing out the clothing again to get the soup out of them all the way. To top it off I'm having a lot of pain in my bowels right now - this is another thing that happens to me from time to time. Then there is the kidney that had a cyst on it - yup it hurts. It's not a great day to be me. The skin thing is like when you get smacked and there is that sting - like that. It's not the burning sensation that came with the soap. It's bad enough that having clothing on bothers it and it's painful. Unfortunately, I can't stand up all day -...

So I get this hypoallergenic laundry soap from Amazon and do the wash. Well I am pulling it out to put in the dryer and it starts to burn my arms and hands. So much for hypoallergenic. There where no bad reviews and no one saying they had a reaction but it was obvious that it's giving me one as it burned where I touched the clothing. So I toss it in the washer again and give it 2 more goes with no soap at all. I figure this is fine and I bring it home. Well today after my shower I put on clean clothing and do my daily Vlog. Well a but later my skin starts to burn where I have the clothing on. So I give it a sniff and still smell the soap. I had to go back down and give it 2 more washes to get the soap out. This is just not good at all. Now I have maybe 1 more wash of the old soap left and I'll have to get more, but I don't have money for it. I'm almost $30 in the hole for next month as it is after I pay bills. To top it off it may have triggered a...

I went to a school that was known in my city to be a bit rough. Not like anyone was getting stabbed or shot, but there where a lot of bullies in it. At the time they ignored the hell out of it and publicly said there was nothing going on. They just covered it up. The best thing is, if you kicked the ass of the kick trying to pick on you, you got in trouble for it and not them. This happened time and time again to people I know. There was this one fellow however who to this day claims he was picked on by literally everyone including the teachers. He spent his time not talking to interacting with anyone and no one paid any attention to him including the bullies, so I doubt his story. However I know for a fact many people where picked on as I saw it happening. Friends of mine where bullied day after day. To this day the school still has a reputation of bullies running free. To the public they claim zero tolerance but the reality is no one listens or does anything when ...

Well you have to be dumb as a potato to fall for this one. Honestly, I think Netflix Canada is going to know how to form a sentence for example. Not to mention that URL. Seriously look at it. Not too many companies spell "Support" with a zero, not to mention all them random numbers and letters. I'm kind of sure someone thought the text they got in the middle of the night was real and clicked it and filled in the blanks and gave them credit card information just to make sure they don't lost their Netflix - you know, instead of firing up the app and seeing if a movie starts to play to check if they are locked out. That being said, this is so obvious you don't need to check. Sigh. I also got an email yesterday about a "logon attempt" for a site I am literally not a member of. Not to mention again, the URL is some random generated garbage ending with .cz. Did actually get one recently that "someone logged in with your password" and a si...