July 25th, 2007 12:59 am
Waiting on Things, Don’t Feel Like Blogging…
A few things are in limbo right now, so I don’t have anything super important to blog about on this post.
In the past when I had no major news l would resort to posting a foreclosure-related email or something creative / random that comes to mind, though I usually found a way to keep it on the foreclosure topic one way or another. For this post I don’t feel like being creative for your guys. The blog is closing soon so I don’t need to work so hard. Maybe I’m getting lazy or trying to break a bad habit.
Some of you don’t realize how much pressure it is to keep 8,000+ daily visitors coming back. Well, I normally don’t think of it as pressure but rather something I just do (for the last 10 months). This is the first time in my life I have an “audience”. My life and the blog have integrated so much that I found myself in the past making certain choices with the perspective of how “blogable” it will be. Always thinking of a new angle!
I’ve poured too much of myself into this thing - both in time and the level of exposure. And I’m now paying the price. It’s quite steep. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had fun too. And received lots of amazing benefits. But is it worth the hurt and pain that I caused to people around me and to MYSELF?
And stop bugging me about stuff I promised I was gonna write about, spreadsheets, questions I didn’t answer, etc. And don’t tell me “But you promised!”. I’ve broken so many promises… it’s sad. The guilt. The consequences. I can choose to close my eyes but the effects are still there.
I need to start telling myself the truth. I’m great at deceiving myself (and others). Telling myself the truth includes admitting that, YES, indeed I left my wife. I’m not talking leaving physically necessarily. Of course bringing the blog back up and leaving to Australia for a month was definitely the last straw, even though I tried to deny it.
But I’m talking about attitude. I “left her” in the way I’ve been pursuing MY goals and MY business - leaving her to the side. All the “short cuts” and impulsive decisions didn’t help either. I left a long time ago. Years ago.
Perhaps everything that has been happening to me is one BIG slap in the face. A slap in the face to wake me up and open my eyes. I hope I can wake up quickly enough.
158 Comments
July 25th, 2007 at 1:03 am
You’ll have completely backtracked by this time tomorrow.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:08 am
I hope not… one of the things I’ve been doing lately is reconnecting with some good friends that have been giving me some hard-to-hear but honest feedback.
Some of these friends have watched this whole thing from afar, not wanting to get to involved with the blog and all the drama.
One friend told me that he kind of felt I needed to “run the course” or “self destruct” in a way, before I would listen. Perhaps that’s what is happening right now.
These true friends are still willing to accept me back knowing that we all have times like these and being critical and judgmental when the person is not ready for it is only doing more harm then good. It’s a blessing to have friends like that.
It’s too bad I had to go for this long.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:16 am
Not likely. Two posts ago you were still using the “Everyone does it,” excuse and blaming your brokers for pulling the wool over your eyes.
You haven’t had your road-to-Damascus moment yet.
ASW: letsdoit
July 25th, 2007 at 1:25 am
Casey,
Whever happens, best of luck.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:32 am
Hey, look at the bright side. Now that you’re reconnecting with your friends, maybe you can hit them up for loans? Or pitch them some sweet 24% returns on your investment schemes? After all, that’s what you tried doing to your friends before you got into this whole mess.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:34 am
Congratulations, Casey - that was (or at least appeared to be) a genuinely honest, heartfelt and contrite post.
Hopefully it’s the first stage of many - because there’s a lot of brutal honesty to get through before you stand a chance of climbing out of your hole. And I think the hardest bit won’t be admitting that you left your wife, but admitting that you just don’t have the knowledge, skills, experience and smarts to succeed in the business you’ve literally staked your reputation on.
I know it’s hard. I had to jump through a similar self-confessional hoop myself when I wasn’t much older than you. But when I abandoned my impossible dreams in favor of a career based on things that I was actually good at, my life improved beyond all recognition. For starters (and I suspect you’ll like this) bit, my income literally quadrupled over the next few years.
The other thing I did, as a by-product of admitting my naïveté and ignorance, was go back to school and get a good business degree. I really do seriously urge you to consider this, as it’s not remotely hatin’ to point out that your basic business skills are so pitiful as to be almost nonexistent - merely a statement of what’s obvious to everyone but yourself.
And without developing these skills you CANNOT succeed in business. It’s a literal impossibility.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:55 am
…so I don’t need to work so hard…
Please give us a date and time when you did.
If you close this blog on 3rd August, you will re-open it or start another by the 31st August.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:02 am
Casey- It sounds like you have flown the white flag. Ready to surrender and give up to your enemies. One thing I can say is if your friends are willing to accept you for who you are and take you as you are then you should ask why? If they can why is it so hard for the one you cry over to do the same?
Come later in life I think you will regret surrendering. It is the easy thing to do now, but in the end you may not think so. Only you will live with all your decision (good, bad, and otherwise).
After August 3rd you will have some time to reflect on who you are and what you want. Obviously trying to make fame and fortunes is not for you so I hope you find what it is in life that you truly desire.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:16 am
wow, could it be that casey is turning into a hater as well?
July 25th, 2007 at 2:16 am
Comment #1 is right.
No offense Casey, but you are prone to changing your mind every 24 hours. This post is very reminiscient of April 20th and November 9th.
Think carefully about this. You don’t feel like blogging. You aren’t going to discuss issues that people are interested in reading about. You are closing the blog in 9 days.
Why are you sticking around? Quit 9 days early and head forward with your life. You won’t, of course, because you are addicted to the publicity (even as you claim that it’s not a good thing).
I actually am rooting for you to turn your life around Casey. But I think you have a ways to go before hitting rock-bottom. And given you past, I’d say that rock-bottom is where you need to be before you can change. you need to reach a point where you can honestly say “I’ve been a fool and an idiot since I quit my job” before you can start picking up the pieces.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Sensible and straightforward.
Not a bad post I suppose…
But what’s done is done and all that is left is to face the consequences.
And the rest of the world will keep on turning. Haterz and Supporterz will continue and return to their life with other bigger and better things to focus on. Soon, all this will be a distant memory. (Oh yea, I seem to remeber there were some people on the net that did some stupid stuff during the 2005 RE bubble…?).
Hopefully, you won’t be sitting in jail for it by that time… but who knows? Maybe its better than sleeping in the streets.
This whole blog episode wasn’t a business venture…. At best, it was entertainment for yourself and for the rest of the world that cost you dearly.
As for all those “supporterz” that told you not to sell the blog… Well, that completely screwed you over didn’t it? It is really tough to keep income flowing on the web indefinitely… Maintaining stable cash flow for more than a few months is really difficult on an internet fad that alot of these supporterz don’t seem to realize.
The valuation of the blog based on a 1 month ad revenue income performance is just silly. It’s likesaying “Hey, I’ve been at this casino for an hour and I am up by $100… that means I DESERVE a $100/hour job.”
$20K would have been something nice to walk away with after all of this.
Oh well. 10 more days to go. You won’t have to stress about the blog for much longer.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:21 am
Casey, don’t let it go. Take it down for awhile if you need too. Get your personal life back together, and if taking IAFF down for awhile means that is what needs to happen, so be it. You have built up so much here. Yes you. Your internet persona will do nothing more than build from here on. Those important to you have to realize that. You have turned this around in a big way. How about if I buy you another beer, and lets discuss. You can balance it now, although you cant change the past mistakes. Fine. Move forward and keep what you have built up. Good things sometimes come from bad, and you’ve done it, and you know it. Fight those who want to take it away from you, even if it means going pro per. But yes, recapture your personal life. In the meantime, hold on to this. Everyone will wait….believe me.
Travelscapes
July 25th, 2007 at 2:32 am
You know, most people, when they don’t feel like blogging, **gasp** don’t blog. Methinks the boy doth protest too much.
Stop pretending that this is a real job, and enjoy the hateraderie that’s formed around your story! You have a rare talent– the talent to annoy and piss off thousands of people. Take your lumps in prison and re-emerge as the next Bill O’Reilly. You could turn irritainment into a household word!
“And stop bugging me about stuff I promised I was gonna write about, spreadsheets, questions I didn’t answer, etc. And don’t tell me “But you promised!”. I’ve broken so many promises… it’s sad. The guilt. The consequences. I can choose to close my eyes but the effects are still there.”
Yep, the pain of breaking promises must be eating you alive. How about actually fulfilling one for a change?
ASW: failforward right on your face.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:49 am
“I “left her” in the way I’ve been pursuing MY goals and MY business - leaving her to the side. All the “short cuts” and impulsive decisions didn’t help either. I left a long time ago. Years ago.”
Let’s be honest. It’s not like she had a whole lot going on anyway. After reading her emails on the other blog that Duane posted, it’s pretty easy to see why she’s spent six years at a junior college and still doesn’t have an associate degree. I mean, come on. She’s just not on your level. It’s best to let her go now, before she loses her looks, while she can still find a man to support her. She’ll never be able to support herself.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:52 am
Casey,
Today’s theme is contrition?
If you want to make things better, cause you can’t make them right, pull the plug on the blog now.
Every day you keep this circus going defines that what is most important to you is this, the circus, and not your personal relationships.
I’d pull the plug on any project if my wife said it was damaging our relationship. Blog or personal relationships, simple choice for a functioning brain.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:54 am
Hmm - That must mean this whole saga is our fault, right? Because without us to amuse, you wouldn’t have made anywhere near as many boneheaded, stupid, ridiculous, irrational decisions.
It’s all so clear, I hadn’t realized it ’til now: We’re your worst enemies! Bwaaaahahahaha!
ASW: juicy
July 25th, 2007 at 2:57 am
Hey man, I’m not going for the laughs here or anything. I’m dropping my whole haterz™ schtick for this one post. Don’t expect any pats on the back, though, k?
“The blog is closing soon so I don’t need to work so hard. Maybe I’m getting lazy or trying to break a bad habit.”
No offense intended, but not working hard and being lazy are two things a lot of people take issue with you about.
“Don’t get me wrong, I’ve had fun too. And received lots of amazing benefits. But is it worth the hurt and pain that I caused to people around me and to MYSELF?”
In a word, no. No, it isn’t.
“And stop bugging me about stuff I promised I was gonna write about, spreadsheets, questions I didn’t answer, etc.”
An answer! Now, not an answer most people will like (self included), but it beats the crap out of saying nothing, leading everyone on, and dragging it out. I predict most people will stop bugging you about these, now you’ve made your position clear. I will, since it serves no purpose anymore.
You’ve got to ask yourself the Hard Questions, and be brutally honest in your answers. Don’t sugar-coat any of it, and don’t dismiss it in the morning. You have to, to bounce back from this. It can be done. You got yourself in, you can get yourself out. Good luck, and don’t do dumb things.
I will now return to maximum snark mode and resume trying to be funny at your expense.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:02 am
You *hope* you can wake up quickly enough?
It’s too late Casey………………….you have been hitting the snooze button for almost a year.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:16 am
I don’t think you will backtrack for too long, if at all. The stuff is very seductive, and I’m not sure much anyone who criticizes you can understand that. Nevertheless, you did seem to be living in some cloud cuckoo-land for a while, and I think your friend may be right that it had to run its course; if he had tried to get you to see what was happening then, you probably would have rebuffed him.
Hanging out with people who know you as a person pre-blog is a very good idea. I think that when you are older, this experience will be totally processed and be very valuable to you, whatever you do in life.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:31 am
Close the blog down…
That’s what I’ve been telling you for the past… SINCE OCTOBER!
How much benefits has it really brought you?
Maybe if you’ve gotten a W-2 job from the start, forget about blogging,
you could’ve
1) been with your wife still now
2) be in a better position financially
3) able to negotiate with banks
4) maybe no FBI investigation
5) no further loans
6) saved wife’s credit
July 25th, 2007 at 3:51 am
Oh woe is me…
Save us the agony and turn the blog off now!!!
Julian Trailer Park Boy and Hater
ps. I bet it sucks being all alone…
July 25th, 2007 at 3:58 am
Casey - it sounds like reality is starting to hit and you are really angry about it. It sounds like your friends really let you have it.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:08 am
You still managed a blogpost after all!
July 25th, 2007 at 4:18 am
I bet my wife $10 that you will be blogging on August 4.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:20 am
Casey,
Perhaps you have reached the place where you can honestly answer these questions:
15 Questions
Most compulsive debtors will answer “yes” to at least eight of the following 15 questions.
1. Are your debts making your home life unhappy?
2. Does the pressure of your debts distract you from your daily work?
3. Are your debts affecting your reputation?
4. Do your debts cause you to think less of yourself?
5. Have you ever given false information in order to obtain credit?
6. Have you ever made unrealistic promises to your creditors?
7. Does the pressure of your debts make you careless of the welfare of your family?
8. Do you ever fear that your employer, family or friends will learn the extent of your total indebtedness?
9. When faced with a difficult financial situation, does the prospect of borrowing give you an inordinate feeling of relief?
10. Does the pressure of your debts cause you to have difficulty sleeping?
11. Has the pressure of your debts ever caused you to consider getting drunk?
12. Have you ever borrowed money without giving adequate consideration to the rate of interest you are required to pay?
13. Do you usually expect a negative response when you are subject to a credit investigation?
14. Have you ever developed a strict regimen for paying off your debts, only to break it under pressure?
15. Do you justify your debts by telling yourself that you are superior to the “other” people, and when you get your “break” you’ll be out of debt overnight?
How did you score? If you answered yes to eight or more of these questions, the chances are that you have a problem with compulsive debt, or are well on your way to having one. If this is the case, today can be a turning point in your life.
We have all arrived at this crossroad. One road, a soft road, lures you on to further despair, illness, ruin, and in some cases, mental institutions, prison, or suicide. The other road, a more challenging road, leads to self-respect, solvency, healing, and personal fulfillment. We urge you to take the first difficult step onto the more solid road now.
good luck and God bless
July 25th, 2007 at 4:30 am
Casey,
I’m not a rabid Star Wars fan, but when I read your blog entry above (I don’t buy your latent conciliatory attitude for a second by the way), I was reminded of a quote from the Return of the Jedi:
“YOUNG FOOL… ONLY NOW, AT THE END, DO YOU UNDERSTAND…”
No money, no respect, no wife, no future. These are the rewards you are reaping for attempting to bypass the “hard work” part of the American Dream. Congratulations.
Have you bought your copy of “You Are Going to Prison” yet? Time is running out.
Regards,
Charles.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:31 am
Casey,
You are addicted to blogging, you totally need help. You also seem pretty needy and self centered too, but that is also another symptom of addiction. At least that is what the professionals tell me.
If you are in the LA area soon, look me up. We could go out for a drink and talk. Do you still have a valid drivers license? I really need a driver. I can get this really good nose powder as a beni. Maybe you could work for me? I think my credit score thingies™ are pretty good. Maybe you could borrow some of mine till you get your massive action going? That would totally be cool.
Remember Casey, it’s all good!
Lindsay
July 25th, 2007 at 4:34 am
As a consequence of your past behavior very few people will believe the sincerity of this post. (Think Saddam Hussein in the South Park movie… “I can change, I can change!”). Unfortunately for you, most people have a time horizon longer than 2 weeks.
The best move you made blogging was taking the blog down. Why don’t you just go ahead with it right now?
July 25th, 2007 at 4:39 am
Ho-hum… same old tune.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:42 am
Casey,
Sounds like you’ve learned some difficult lessons. It’s unfortunate that you’ve had to learn them this way, but often times that is the only way that we as people can learn them.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:44 am
Casey,
After you close down the blog, what will be your main priority? I would say that your best bet is to make a list and stick to it. Get your marriage and finances back in order.
FT
July 25th, 2007 at 4:52 am
Go back to your roots: Take some time and Reread Kiyosaki’s “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” - it will give you the guidance you need to get back on the right track!
July 25th, 2007 at 4:56 am
Casey, it is easy to understand that you want to close down this blog. Most of the comments here are not worth anything at all. Why keep entertaining these air heads?
However, and this is serious: The name, Casey Serin, will not disappear from the Net. The blogs of the haterz will still be there. So if someone search for Casey Serin the haterz blogs will show up.
To try to neutralize this you should start another blog or web site with some different, positive content. If you choose to have comments on that new blog then do not approve any comments that refer to iamfacingforeclosure.com
Good luck to you, Casey.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:05 am
BEEN THERE! DONE THAT! GOT THE T-SHIRT! Nah, you won’t change. You’re just missing your family and want her back. I tried this myself, but just like you, I pissed her off to the point of no return. Move on, so you can go back to conning people and breaking contracts! Sorry for being so harsh, but unfortunately I have been here since the beginning.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:16 am
No book, no blog, no money, no job, no wife.
Possibly going tp prison, certainly going to have to live a modest life for years.
No wonder you don’t want to face reality.
Your first step needs to be turn off the blog.
You’ve burned out anyway.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:21 am
I’ve been a lurker forever, but today I will comment. I’ve hated you only for the way I’ve wasted my life (i.e. time) reading about how you are wasting yours. Today it seems like you are trying to make an honest start over. I wish you would leave on this note and bow out today (though I’m sure you won’t). I wish you the best of luck, Casey Serin, and hope that you never give up on yourself. That is one thing that I will say for yourself- you always believe 102% in whatever you are chasing.
Chase love this time. You’ve wasted too much chasing hate. I’m sure the emotional stirrings all the negative things people said made you feel alive when the mountains of debt and reality of life’s suckingness made you feel empty and dead inside. You made a mistake. You got caught up into a fictional Internet world, and bypassed the real flesh and blood life around you. Now it is almost gone. I pray that you have not pushed your wife, mother, brother, and other friends and family so far that they will not accept you again. Reconnecting with them and showing them that you honestly desire to change (and honestly desiring to change) should be your first priority from today on. What other resource do you have?
I understand what hell the W2 world is. I am a waitress right now while I am finishing up college, and every day I would so rather be lying on my couch dreaming up ways to collect “sweet passive income,” but there is a dull reality of this world called “paying dues.” I figure that you have about $2-3 million dues right now, so it’s going to take years of hard, gut-wrenching, sweat, blood, and tears kind of work. You know you have talents and gifts, so don’t be paralyzed by the months of people saying that you don’t have any job applicable skills. Humble yourself and make an honest effort. You probably aren’t going to find anything to make you rich for a while, but I know you can find something to take care of yourself with. There are 8,000 jobs posted at indeed.com in Sacramento today and probably 10-20 jobs to help you get some cash to get started if you get a haircut and start walking around the nearest development with your resume today.
Don’t stop writing. Just keep it private. Go pick up a journal today and write your heart out every single day on paper. You don’t need the people from this blog to tell you what they think you should do, you know, Casey… deep down inside, you know. Stop fighting what you know.
I know people will probably reply to this with negativity and say that you will never change, but I don’t believe that. The great and terrible thing and about life is that it changes. It can be great if we adapt with the changes to make the world a better place, or terrible if we decide to stay stagnant and resist the new gifts God has placed all around us. Learn from the things you’ve been given here and change.
“You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something? Go get it. Period.” Watch Pursuit of Happyness” and keep those words playing in your head.
May God guide, sustain, and keep you and make you the man you were meant to be.
I hope to never read your words again-
Casey
July 25th, 2007 at 5:24 am
“Telling myself the truth includes admitting that, YES, indeed I left my wife.”
So, she’s not taking you back, huh?
July 25th, 2007 at 5:33 am
“And stop bugging me about stuff I promised I was gonna write about, spreadsheets, questions I didn’t answer, etc.”
Fine, don’t write about them, but all of those things are another attempt by the realists (Haterz) to help you. Most of the questions that are still lingering are questions that you MUST answer at some point if you ever hope to come out of this mess alive. The Utah issue WILL come to a head if/when the wrapees ever sell the house. You ARE going to have to find a stable place to live, and a stable job to feed yourself.
As for the spreadsheet, that is the single most critical part of your situation right now. You cannot begin to pay lenders back, negotiate settlement plans, or even declare bankruptcy without knowing the full extent of your financial mess. The spreadsheet was a simple and concise way to lay out all of your debts and begin working on a solution. I agree that it was difficult to maintain since your debts were in constant flux earlier this year. But now, after the foreclosures, and since nobody would dare grant you more credit, your debts are static and traceable.
All of your latest “woe is me” posts ring hollow because you are still feeding us the “I need to work on xxxx”, “I need to get better at xxxx”, “I need to start xxxx”, “I need to look into xxxx”, etc., etc. If you were to actually start calling some lenders or working out repayment plans….if you were to start keeping some promises to ANYBODY (such as making the spreadsheet that would both help you immensely, and keep a promise to your blogosphere)…if you were to actually apply to some W-2 jobs instead of “looking into” getting one…MAYBE, just maybe, the Haterz would start to give you a little respect and believe your whole life turnaround is more than just another troll on your blog.
That being said, if you could handle calling your lenders to negotiate, making an accurate and complete spreadsheet, and finding/starting a W-2 job, you would have plenty of content for one more month of blogging. That would be another $2000+ in “passive income” to supplement your W-2 income (and get you started next month since W-2 jobs tend to take a few weeks to start the payment cycle). Plus, it would make this blog exactly 1 year old when you shut it down. You would have an entire year where you made some of the dumbest, followed by some of the smartest, moves of your life immortalized in words. Think of it as a very public diary.
Or, you could do what we all expect you to do, and do nothing. Just treat this whole post as another ignored piece of good advice from a realist. Hey, it’s not like we were right that you would lose your wife if you ignored our advice, were we?
July 25th, 2007 at 5:35 am
You mean, like, um, yesterday? “Norway would be a sweet place to visit”?
Those were the mythical days of yore for you? Yesterday?
Oh, I guess I’m mistaken. The “Norway” thing must have been breaking new ground for you.
No way, a driven man like you would never get lazy. In fact, you’re so non-lazy that you deserve a congratulatory prize. Maybe a power nap and some time off from opening your mail - like a few months or so.
If you’re sad that you break promises, why are you using the fact that you break promises as an excuse to tell people to stop “bugging” you about keeping your promises?
Shouldn’t you be striving to keep your promises, if breaking them makes you sad?
When are we going to see that updated spreadsheet?
This is actually moderately impressive, that you have finally come around to realizing and admitting this. I am not being snarky in this portion of the post.
But Casey, I’m telling you this as a Haterz who loves you:
Telling yourself the truth also includes admitting that, YES, indeed there’s a REASON you left her, “a long time ago”. I’m sure it hurts now, and it’s probably tempting and easy to look back on your marriage as some sort of happy, golden paradise that you should strive to get back to.
But that’s fantasy, brought about by strong emotion associated with sudden change.
The cold, hard fact is that there’s a REASON you left her. Your marriage was NOT a happy, golden paradise, and in fact it was so far from being one that you left it. “Long ago”.
I don’t know what that reason is. Maybe she was holding you back, maybe you discovered that your personalities didn’t mesh as well as you thought they did during the brief whirlwind courtship, maybe a lot of things.
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if YOU didn’t even know, specifically, what the reason is. And I’m not putting you down here - there are lots of situations where lots of people will just KNOW that SOMETHING is fundamentally wrong, without quite being able to express exactly what that thing is.
In any case, what I’m trying to tell you, Casey, as a Hater who loves you, is this:
There’s a reason why you left her so long ago. If you wind up getting back together with her, there will still be that same reason - and you will either leave again, or else live out the remainder of your life in joyless resentment of her.
It would be a mistake to try to get back together. Your marriage was not the golden, happy paradise that you might now be looking back on it as - and it never will be.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:42 am
Why is it that I don’t believe these tears of regret are genuine? Maybe it’s because I’ve been reading this blog for too many months, but I’ve heard versions of this before, and I don’t think you have hit bottom yet. I thought it came two months ago, and then you attempted to draw a corporate line of credit to keep going. You talk about getting a w-2 job, so when are you going to do it? Good meaning people have recommended you file BK, and yet there’s no sign that’s happened yet either. Okay, I’m a cynic, but too many times I’ve seen you seemingly hit by reality, but then veer off to take some course, go to Oz, or do something else really dumb.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:05 am
You make sometimes, one post a day. How hard can it possibly be to write one blog post a day, especially considering that you don’t have a _job_??
July 25th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Hey Casey,
Good things are coming remember.
I guess your going to be living with your folks again - its going to be sweet Casey. Just like when you were at school living with your folks.
My brother says the FBI are taking their sweet time, but he said its better if you call them and sort this out on your own. He did say they will be filing charges - they basically consider you a white collar criminal Casey,
Loads O Money
July 25th, 2007 at 6:12 am
Hey hey hey, AJ FacingPennies is the first link wh*re PULLING A NIGEL™ in this post.
Congrats AJ.
Where is OneYearBeggar and the 100K beggar?
July 25th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Casey,
Please post your updated spreadsheet.
Admitting you broke so many promises is no reason to break another. You still have the ability to keep this promise (or at least to rectify the breach).
July 25th, 2007 at 6:16 am
Oh, drama-boy. Playing Hamlet is definitely NOT going to illicit ay amount of sympathy.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Everything is a lie. The only truth is the fraud you knowingly comitted.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:31 am
Maybe now it’s a good time to change your anti spam words and cut down on taunting your readers ?
July 25th, 2007 at 6:37 am
This blog has made me some serious money.
When I read about Countrywide’s unsecured promissory note to avoid foreclosing on a cash-back, inflated-appraisal, no-doc loan to an unemployed 24-year-old, I knew I had a great short.
I’ve traded CFC many times since, always to the short side and always profitably. Yesterday was the coup de grace as CFC absolutely cratered.
Thank you, Casey!
July 25th, 2007 at 6:42 am
You owe your wife her husband, you owe your parents their son and finally you owe your siblings their brother. That’s it in the grand scheme of things. Whether you wake up in time is irrelevant, what will haunt you for the rest of your life are the regrets you will inevitably have at how things could have been. Those regrets are no different than anyone who screws up royally. What you may be facing in the near future is prison or if you’re lucky a lifetime of crushing debt.
Strangely, I have been in your position. Because I did what I did I lost the true love of a good woman and was humiliated in a lot of ways. I hope you’ve turned a corner or had a “road to Damascus” moment. The jury is still out on that. As a “hater” let me offer you specific advice. Close the blog down now. Do not wait until August 3rd and if you do close then don’t even say goodbye. I have found the morbid curiosity of my fellow haters to be disgusting lately. Ultimately though you are to blame for that because you started this blog and craved the attention which attracted these freaks to begin with. Cut them out they are not your friends and they themselves will chase a new blue ball soon enough.
I have a mix of pity and contemptuos disdain for you myself but unlike them I see in you a deeply flawed child of God who like myself just might change. I am neither friend nor enemy Casey just a trainwreck watcher. I’d never trust you with money but even evil people have virtues. If what the haters allege is true then you do deserve prison for some reprehensible crimes. But since the FBI is involved I’ll let them sort it out.
Goodbye Casey and hopefully God will bless you
July 25th, 2007 at 6:49 am
GETTING lazy? You are GETTING lazy?
Oh, the delusion.
@10 The Landlord
“Why are you sticking around? Quit 9 days early and head forward with your life. ”
Because for some reason, Casey has decided that THIS - the promise to keep the blog up until August 3rd - is the one promise he is going to keep. Way to go, Casey! I’m glad you’ve finally realized what is really important.
Hey, all: Don’t you realize, this is all part of Casey’s cycling moods? He’s crashing now. In a few days (if not sooner) he’ll be back up, flying high, with more plans to turn it all around (perhaps by going to Norway on a supporter-provided plane ticket?) and believing that he’s going to get his “family member” back. (Actually, I think he still thinks that is possible).
July 25th, 2007 at 6:52 am
“don’t need to work so hard.”
You consider writing a blog hard work? Casey, thousands of people write blogs every day just for fun. You consider something other people do all the time as a leisure activity to be hard work!
” Maybe I’m getting lazy”
Getting lazy! Theres no “getting about it”. You ARE lazy.
“Some of you don’t realize how much pressure it is to keep 8,000+ daily visitors coming back. ”
Any pressure you feel is self-imposed. You can quit any time and numerous people (strangers, your friends, your relatives) have all told you time and time again to do exactly that.
“I’ve broken so many promises… it’s sad”
Can’t argue with that.
“I need to start telling myself the truth.”
You sure do.
“I’m great at deceiving myself ”
Yes you are. Of course admitting this here and now is pretty pointless because you said exactly the same thing a few weeks ago - July 11: “I’m very good at rationalizing my actions (and deceiving myself in the process).” - and you continued to rationalize in subsequent posts anyway.
“pursuing MY goals and MY business”
Casey, you don’t have, and have never had, “a business”. Commiting serial mortgage fraud does not consititue a “business”.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:19 am
Casey isn’t particularly needy or delusional, at least by his generational standards. He’s just the crown prince of Generation Y, a legendarily self-centered group of people who make Baby Boomers look like the Founding Fathers. No need to work hard, I’ll get a trophy just for sitting here and “being special”. And it only gets worse if a Gen-Yer was raised in California - a few years there and they start to resemble the proverbial Eloi with their slight, effeminate builds, golden hair, and assumption that everything will just be provided for them and nothing bad could possibly happen. Sound familiar?
We need a good Depression to thin their ranks a bit - one likely brought on by their own idiotic activities. Who knows, Serin, maybe your actions helped precipitate the current choppy economy and housing collapse - making you even more special in your own, magical way!
“You’re what’s wrong with America, Serin! …if this was any other country you’d have starved to death years ago.” - Frank “Grimey” Grimes
July 25th, 2007 at 7:23 am
Tomorrow will be a trip to Katmandu on a magic carpet.
This is what you should have been doing for the past year: http://www.debtkid.com/
You have consistently received thoughtful and accurate advice (not advise) and predictions (including, since at least October, that you would lose your wife) from your core commentators. You ignored anything you didn’t want to hear.
There is no intent here for humor or sarcasm. Listen to this:
You are mentally ill. Seek help.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:28 am
Mornin’ kid;
“I’m great at deceiving myself (and others).”
No, hobbit, you’re no good at all at deceiving others. You aren’t even very good at deceiving yourself.
Like with this post, f’rinstance. I’m not fooled.
“I left a long time ago. Years ago.”
Little fiddles playin’…you’re just horny, little puppet. You’ll forget all about her again when the next “shiny” comes along.
(Casey say: “Shiny? Where?!!?…G***** WHO?”.).
“Some of these friends have watched this whole thing from afar, not wanting to get to involved with the blog and all the drama.”
Did any of this great feedback these friends are now giving you come during your Fraudathon?
Face it, Murse-bearer, I’VE been a better friend to you than any of these “friends” who kept silent while you raced off the cliff…and I’m a s***** who doesn’t give a tinker’s dam about your miserable life.
Not a very good commentary on your “friendz”, huh?
By next week you’ll have your little nugget packed full of dung by your ego and the Dildoz again and be off begging for money while you try some other disaster in the making.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:29 am
Is this the first step . . . one can hope. Good job.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:39 am
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July 25th, 2007 at 7:42 am
I think serenading a certain special someone with this Lou Reed classic might do the trick:
I know you’re disappointed
in the way I handled things
You’re thinking I misread the times
and acted cowardly
And since what I do affects us both
and you feel that I let you down
You’re paying a price when
there is no price to pay
lovers trust, No Money Down
You’re paying a price when
there is no price to pay
lovers trust, No Money Down
(Hey! lover)
(Hey! lover)
(lover)
They say there’s someone for everyone
and for everyone a someone
And some tattoo roses across their chests
with a heart that says Rollo
And some work without a Public Relations man
and do their best work, baby, out of sight
You’re paying a price when
there is no price to pay
lovers trust, No Money Down
You’re paying a price when
there is no price to pay
lovers trust, No Money Down
(Hey! lover)
(Hey! lover)
Now I have known a hero or two
and they all learn to swim through mud
And they all got boots caked with dirty soles
that they get from Squashing bugs
So when push comes to shove get
the Harley revved up
the moon can eclipse even the sun
You’re paying a price when
there is no price to pay
lovers trust, No Money Down
You’re paying a price when
there is no price to pay
lovers trust, No Money Down
July 25th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Sounds lik eyou are in marriage counseling, which is a good thing. I hope its a tough counselor, one that you can’t wiggle out of any agreements you make.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:10 am
A winner…this is from oneyeargoal.com…I think that all of the “I’m begging for money” blogs are run by AJ the retard
just received the following death threat in my comment moderation queue:
DIE
Jul 23, 9:48 AM
Obviously I’m a bit concerned. This is my first major blog, and I’m wondering: is this normal when a blog hits a certain size, or should I call the police? The same person left a comment that I deleted as spam a few minutes before saying “go f*** yourself”. They were kind enough to leave a (wrong) email at my domain as the contact info, but fortunately they left their IP address which police can use to track them.
Comment by Brad
2007-07-23 11:13:32
Um, I hate to break it to you, but that’s really not a death threat. That’s somebody who thinks you should die for spamming your url in your digg comments. A death threat is something like “I know where you live and I’m going to kill you.” “Die” is simply not a death threat, quit the over dramatization.
The kid is already a haterz magnet
July 25th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Casey,
As someone with 420-range credit on all three reports and since I was out of work for 14 months when my creditors decided I was bad for being out of work and jacked up my interest rates to 30% plus, I say f*** them. I have $50,000+ in debt and I have not paid a dime in 13 months toward it. I cannot file bankruptcy, I make too much money!
I have gotten quite used to living a cash existence and yeah, I’ll never own a home or retire, but then again, who wants to buy a house three times over. Equity is like religion, you have to believe in it. I do not see you going to jail, at least Bush has not setup debtor prisons as of yet.
I think Americans have been duped into believing that money makes right and being rich is the most important thing in the world. It is not. Screw the rich, I am happier now than ever before.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:12 am
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July 25th, 2007 at 8:12 am
I ran a site that got 20,000 viewers a day back when the Internet was a much smaller place than it is today.
It’s not hard if you have what the traffic wants — good content.
If you’re not willing or able to produce that content anymore, then yes, you should shut down the blog, and don’t wait for your mythical deadline. Let it go and move on.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Casey, how’s the deal going with the Circus Circus casino sale?
July 25th, 2007 at 8:24 am
You left your wife long before you ever met her.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Just the usual shtick that I have been pushing for the last 6-8 months:
Get a job
Budget your money
Spend less than you make
July 25th, 2007 at 8:28 am
aaack!!
Casey, you really gotta get out of the house and meet some new hot chicks.
thpppttt!!!
S_t_C
July 25th, 2007 at 8:39 am
Light at the end of the tunnel?
Best of luck to you.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:44 am
But you promised to post your spreadsheets.
You need to come up with a Un-promise list so that we can stay tune.
While you are at it, tell us why you choose to sell IAFF at $20k when you had multiple offers of over $100k on the able for IAFF?
July 25th, 2007 at 8:54 am
@59
Sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not related to the One Man or One Year sites. A quick whois check would have easily revealed that.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:56 am
These domains are now for sale. Maybe Casey will buy them with his corporate credit thingy.
Iamfacinglawsuits.com
Iamfacingchapter7.com
Iamfacingchapter11.com
Iamfacingchapter13.com
July 25th, 2007 at 9:19 am
Nice bunch of sadists, those haterz. Especially the pervert who posted #61. Yeah, stab a guy you don’t like and then twist the knife, that’s classy.
Seriously, I wonder how some of you can stand to look into the mirror every morning.
July 25th, 2007 at 9:19 am
I used to be a hater. Now, I am a hater of haterz. Those haterz include Duane and Mark, who were haterz in disguise all along.
Casey, you are finally making some sense in this post.
ASW: deals
July 25th, 2007 at 9:22 am
you’ve let ignorance and distorted self-perception ruin your marriage. it must suck to realize that. nobody believes you’re going to change much, though. changing would take a lot of hard work. and acceptance of things you don’t want to consider.
running a blog lets you pick and choose which messages you want to listen to. so i don’t really try hard to communicate here. i know you think i’m just a haterz. i earn $54/hr at a cush job and reside in an exceptional home. i own a small business that continues to earn profit. i’ve earned $160 in “unrealized profits” before leaving the house this morning. stability and planning… the real sweet deal.
new scheme tomorrow, right!? cuz u know and we don’t!
July 25th, 2007 at 9:25 am
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July 25th, 2007 at 9:31 am
Which court is hearing the divorce petition?
July 25th, 2007 at 9:42 am
I 100% agree with Dan in #38:
Don’t do the spreadsheet for us; hell, don’t even post it publicly if you don’t want to. But do it for yourself.
Responsible adults, and real businesspeople, know what their assets, liabilities, income, and expenses are. Do you?
July 25th, 2007 at 9:54 am
You lied about who you were. You lied about what you wanted to be. You are lying about where you are going. All you wanted was a servant who would not get too uppity. She had no choice but to get away from you. It’s what you really want anyway. The right thing to do is get it over with.
Call her lawyer and tell him that you will settle. You will take any deal they offer, sign it and get rid of her. Don’t think about it just do it.
Think about it this way. If she was your sister what would you tell her to if she had a husband like you? You have lied and wronged this woman for to long. Do the right thing now and give her what ever she wants.
July 25th, 2007 at 9:56 am
Casey-
I think you’ve just burned out on the blog thing. I’m doubtful that your words above mean you’ve hit bottom or found a new path. Recognition is pain and I don’t sense the pain yet.
But, I do hope you will find a new path soon. Maybe that’s a W-2 job. You will find something you enjoy pursuing if you go out there and do it. Not blog about it, but do it.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:18 am
#71. Metacritic said: “Nice bunch of sadists, those haterz. Especially the pervert who posted #61. Yeah, stab a guy you don’t like and then twist the knife, that’s classy.
Seriously, I wonder how some of you can stand to look into the mirror every morning.”
They are all posting from a mental hospital in Wyoming. Some nurse there gave them the link to this blog. Now they give vent to their anger and despair here on Casey’s blog instead of attacking the staff.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:23 am
This is lame. The last few posts have been all haterz bait and no meat. The people want their meat! Shut this thing down already if you’re just gonna bait like this.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:33 am
“The people want their meat!”
Oo la la!
July 25th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Casey,
I read a lot but never, ever comment. But now I must - you my friend are crazy for shutting this down. You know how hard it is to create this kind of buzz? And all you have to do is put up a few tidbits about how you live and some (poor) decisions you’ve made?
Come on, dude? You’ve made a few hundreds from monetizing this blog - when you should have made (and could make) thousands. You are not promoting the right products. I mean - you don’t want this to turn in to a commerical, but let’s be real - everyone knows you are in this to share your experience and pick up a few pennies - make it a few dimes, my friend.
Lastly, why don’t you take the crux of some of this content you put up and turn it into a content website - that is commerical based - then you can rant on here - while making money there. Trust me, people are willing to pay much more than you think for links and ads on this blog.
Closing it down is nutz. I know you are having trouble in your marriage - and the assumption is that your are closing down the blog to please your wife. She took vows - for better or for worse - you’ve hit bottom in the “worse” area - now tell her to get on board while you make things better.
Somehow you have a talent for words and for attracting people - or maybe people are just standing and watching the train wreck that is your life. Turn this train wreck in to a positive - like a musuem to your train wreck - hell, they memorialize and monitize every other horrible event in history - why shoudn’t you?
If you want some concrete advice - contact me - you have the email address.
Brian
July 25th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Casey,
Your post is among the most insightful you’ve produced in recent memory.. Still a bit deluisional, but you’ve sort of at least rationalized your marriage and why it did not work…
But since you have nothing else, why not keep blogging? Unless you have job, in which case, stop immediately..
July 25th, 2007 at 10:37 am
80. C. Paddington said: “This is lame. The last few posts have been all haterz bait and no meat. The people want their meat! Shut this thing down already if you’re just gonna bait like this.”
I disagree. I suggest Casey use the last
09 Days, 04 Hours, 21 Minutes, 36 before this blog closes to irritate, annoy, piss-off as many of the haters as he can.
Do it Casey, we supporterz will do all we can to help you!
July 25th, 2007 at 10:39 am
They are all posting from a mental hospital in Wyoming. Some nurse there gave them the link to this blog. Now they give vent to their anger and despair here on Casey’s blog instead of attacking the staff.
So which is easier to believe?
1) Everyone apart from Stas is posting from a mental hospital in Wyoming;
2) Stas is the one posting from a mental hospital in Wyoming.
Shall we have a vote?
July 25th, 2007 at 10:41 am
It is over, just get a job at McDonalds and kill the BLOG…
July 25th, 2007 at 10:49 am
But you still feel like approving your posts!
July 25th, 2007 at 10:51 am
I agree with #6! I had similar slaps of reality in the face, and am thankful now for them. I continue to learn that way, and the best way to learn is to be open to the possibility that you may be wrong and you definitely don’t know as much as you think you do. And like #6, if you learn from this, you’ll see a huge increase in your income. Just be patient this time.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:59 am
$20 bucks says this pidar will find a reason of why this freak show should keep on going after the deadline. just watch. he is beyond predictable.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:59 am
Why don’t you just stop now? Why the dramatic countdown? What are you getting out of spinning this out for another 10 days?
Obviously we all want closure. But you don’t owe us anything. You could walk away from the public gaze right now.
I’m choosing to take your comments as heartfelt, rather than baitin’, because two of them ring very true:
My life and the blog have integrated so much
Yes. You are unhealthily enmeshed with the blog: your “mistress”, your “baby”. You play to the audience, to the sweet exposure, rather than addressing your very real problems. You obsess over telling the story, and spinning it to put yourself into the correct light, while things crumble around you.
I’m great at deceiving myself
Oh hell yes. You convinced yourself that you could be a successful investor; and nothing, not advice, not criticism, not failure, could sway you from that.
And you convinced yourself that dogged self-belief is the only entrepreneurial attribute that matters. You let it rule over your weaknesses: your lack of focus, your blind trust in others, your lack of critical thinking, your inability to accept advice and criticism that does not validate your thinking. And it’s led you into a deep, dark hole.
You only now seem to be accepting your weaknesses. What a very expensive lesson it’s been.
I really hope you are finally, now, being honest with yourself. I really hope you’re not playing us all again. I really hope you can change. I fear you cannot; but I hope you can.
Good luck.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:08 am
Casey,
Don’t be too quick to dismiss the last 10 months as some experiment gone bad. You sought God throughout the process, and have several grounded posts talking about your relationship with your wife and your struggles. You are not the only person (christian or not) that had to put in long hours to reach their goal. Part of your partner’s role is to support you, as YOU are the spiritual leader of the relationship. You didn’t cheat or leave, you were serving God’s calling. (Unless, of course you had sex with someone!)
God wants us to use our hands, to work hard and multiply what we have. There is no formula (i.e. I spend 3 hours on the blog therefore I should spend 3 hours with my wife) - it doesn’t work that way. By honoring God and your work, you honor your wife. In return, she supports your dreams and goals and acts as a spiritual support - thwarting attacks of satan outside the marriage.
Don’t get down and write off the last 10 months as a failure. You were in God’s word, and I am sure in prayer. However, you are the male and the spiritual leader. Your roleis to lead the marriage in the direction you feel God is leading you. Do you think the people that left their homes to witness in China or abroad and set up large ministries felt like they were abandoning their family for a time?
Take little steps. Look for ways to include G in your dreams/goals. Set a vision with your blog/life and move forward. God didn’t put you where you are right now to pull the plug. God is not going to reveal his final plans until he sees you are worthy and will use it for his kingdom.
You can continue to love G throughout it. Look at Hosea. No where in the Bible does it say “Love unconditionally, however if you don’t get it back then get angry or tired or lose hope.”. Love like Christ loved the church, pray for direction and God’s will and keep moving forward.
Where you are right now is a combination of little steps God laid out. To shut it down is undoing months of his voice telling you to go in a certain direction.
Follow God, love unconditionally - blessings will follow. There is nothing inherantly wrong with concentating on your work for a season or two. Make sure it is with someone who trusts your direction and leadership (as G should…)
July 25th, 2007 at 11:13 am
Don’t listen to Casey…He keeps all his promises. Every single one of them. So make sure you keep feeding me. Remember that guy he borrowed $3K from 8 months ago. Well guess what…He only owes him $2200 now….Hahahahahaha…Suckers
July 25th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Casey … of course your not going to post answers to all those things you promised … why should we expect you to … you wont even live up to the promises you made your wife. Seriously dude … shut down this blog and go home …. and I mean HOME HOME … America has enough crap to deal with … I personally dont want to feed your a$$ for the next 10 years in jail. Its just another free ride for an imigrant and frankly im tired of it.
Many gave you great advice here and you ignored all of it … so why wait .. shut it down today …. call it a life .. and get it over with … go on to something else … You have failed miserably at most things you tried .. unfortunately they led to the one thing you were successful at .. this blog ….
Did you notice when you were telling everyone about your life and what WAS happening that you had a bigger audience. You missed the boat kid .. you blew it AGAIN …
So go home … NOW.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:16 am
Casey,
Can’t wait for your new blog to start up. Do you have a name for it yet?
Also, where are you living now? Out of Vdubs?
July 25th, 2007 at 11:17 am
There’s one thing I can tell you, Casey. You never cease to amaze me.
Yesterday (figuratively speaking), everything was the fault of everyone else.
Today, you open your eyes and finally figure out it’s you the one to blame.
You are bipolar, dude. I should know - I am, too. Stop deluding yourself. Get help. These moments of lucid thinking are what you need to pull yourself out of the deep hole you are in.
Try and get better, and then, but only then, try and make things better with G.
But don’t delude yourself. You’ll only think clearly for one or two days. Get help. NOW.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Can one Blog about not wanting to Blog?
Deep thoughts By Jack Handy
July 25th, 2007 at 11:48 am
#85. Svetogorsk, said:
“So which is easier to believe?
1) Everyone apart from Stas is posting from a mental hospital in Wyoming;
2) Stas is the one posting from a mental hospital in Wyoming.
Shall we have a vote?”
——————————-
Svetogorsk, behave, or I will give you a double dose of medicine tonight!
July 25th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Why in the world would you make another blog post about your wife when you know that speaking about her and your marriage on the blog upsets her more than anything? What’s wrong with you?
July 25th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I know you blame the haterz for a lot of the situation you now find yourself in. I think you think we helped turn your wife against you, messed up your business deals, and so on…
But, if you think about it, you did a pretty good job screwing those things up on your own, even without an often hostile force of people scrutinizing your every move.
So don’t be blaming the haterz for what will transpire. Even if, let’s say, hater complaints led to an investigation that put you in prison. I’m not suggesting this is the case - I’m using it as an example.
Why is this still mostly your fault? Because, as you told Declan, you deliberately trolled people in the most obnoxious way, intentionally trying to piss them off. Not once, but over and over again.
You ignored all advice, did everything in a way that publicly flouted every value that the majority holds dear, and then rubbed people’s noses in what you were doing as often as you could, while pretending that you didn’t know why everyone was so upset.
You chummed the waters that you now swim in, and maybe you don’t like losing control of what happens next. Hopefully, this sad story will serve as an instructive example to the next sad sack who thinks that notoriety is utterly without consequence.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
I feel kinda sorry for the poor saps who think you’re sincere and who have taken valuable time to share heartfelt advice. They certainly mean well. You, on the other hand, are a fraud and a troll who will say anything to get a particular response.
July 25th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
Why Speak about That which we cannot Speak Of?
- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy
July 25th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Wake up people! Can’t you see this website was created for the sole purpose for Casey to generate income? Advertisers are paying him big bucks to be on his site. Much of what Casey says on his site is bs. He will say anything to get people to come back over and over again. This site is a big sham!
July 25th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Hey Kid:
You TRULY are BLESSED!
I give you #84…Stas:
“Do it Casey, we supporterz will do all we can to help you!”
In addition to being confined in a Wyoming booby hatch ,(for MPD, perhaps?), Stas will do all we can to help you.
Unless it means:
Providing room and board to your liking, and:
Spending money in adequate amounts to your needs, and:
Sexual and emotional support when you need it, and:
Doing your prison time for you, and:
Paying off your “dirty pennies”.
As long as none of the above are required, Stas is right THERE for ya!
(Sidenote to Toby: Hey…why is “s***** ” asterisked when I write it, but not when others write it?).
July 25th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
re: “One friend told me that he kind of felt I needed to “run the course” or “self destruct” in a way, before I would listen.”
You know where this comes from, don’t you? AA. Families and friends of alcoholics and addicts are often advised to NOT help the subject in any way, because the sooner he hits bottom, the sooner he can begin to recover… IF he can begin to recover. That’s what makes it so sad. If assistance is given, it just delays the inevitable and brings down those who are are trying to help too.
You’re a little different in that you aren’t an alcoholic or a drug addict. If I had to label you, I think it would be as a ‘compulsive gambler,’ though of course it isn’t casino games (so far as I know) that fascinate you.
Something to think about.
It’s just unfortunate that your problem had to manifest itself at a time when so many lenders were willing to play along, at a time when housing was finally beginning to pull back in a major way. If you’d been hooked on poker or slots, you probably wouldn’t have gotten in so far. Hooked on houses as you were, their collateral put lenders at ease. This, obviously, was a mistake of gargantuan proportions on their part, as they didn’t just make it with you, but with tens of thousands of others too.
Which doesn’t lessen your culpability in the slightest, but it DOES mean that at almost any other time, almost any other type of gambling, you couldn’t have gone so far into debt and would have emerged better off. A confluence of events. A perfect storm.
You had some mighty bad luck, Casey… but it was luck none the less. That’s why ‘compulsive gambler’ is probably the label that fits.
Now deal with it.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:05 pm
Hah! Sharky is envious! He knows that if Casey visits us in Wyoming Casey will come to my room and not his!
July 25th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Aside to Sharky: because Casey’s filters catch s***** singular but not sadists plural. Details guy, etc etc.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
asw: silver
Casey,
Okay. Let’s recap. RE and working isn’t as fun as…… blogging! Yes, blogging and you are good at it. It is fairly difficult to create a popular blog like you have. Your blog is based in markets that are profitable and interesting.
Monetize this blog - today. Get affliliates and find more advertisers. Sell SEO links, etc…
You _are_ making money doing this. You aren’t making money doing anything else.
Positives to continue blogging:
People would not have known that Duane LeGate, Rob Cote (exurbannation), and dude, and the lawyer wannabee, Mark V have no life and their own conduct has proved they should be avoided in business. They have all wasted a lot of time on you - why? If they were professional and successful then they wouldn’t have become so intimately involved.
Income - you need it. Don’t be a fool.
Divorce - yes divorce. It was going south anyway when the foreclosures started. It’s over. Get over it. G was lazy. Don’t forget she didn’t mind taking naps in spring 2006 instead of working (source: Earth Blog). Women want stability - make money and find another.
Survival - blog, make money, create drama, make more money, etc… It’s fun and lazy work. You need to get back on your feet.
Spotlight - you have the personality to keep the drama going and keep people visiting. This is worth $$$.
Think about tonight:
Haters are everywhere - so what. Make money on their energy and laugh at their time wasted.
Supporters are everywhere. Take their offers of help.
You life will never go back to the way it was. Think future.
Do something to generate traffic everyday.
A W-2 will not generate as much income as this blog.
Launch another web site this week to run in parallel.
Duane felt this blog could make 5 figures every month? What are _you_ waiting for?
Get your head out of the sand. Money = No Problems. Get an agent and get clear.
Do it.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
#82. Brian:
“I know you are having trouble in your marriage - and the assumption is that your are closing down the blog to please your wife. She took vows - for better or for worse - you’ve hit bottom in the “worse” area - now tell her to get on board while you make things better.”
Uh, yeah, how dare she want to leave him after he constantly lied to her, deceived her, ruined her credit, and threw her by the wayside?
She should just shut up and get back in the kitchen, right? Ugh.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:48 pm
Buy me, Casey, buy me. I can be your new blog as you regale us with tales of your lawsuit adventures. Tap that corporate credit thingy.
Sedo.com.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Well Casey,
The only advice I can give at this point is in the form of a quote.
“We as people are only products of the lives we’ve lived, and the decisions we’ve made”.
Good luck Casey
You’ll be in my prayers
July 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
I’m guessing your W2 job starts on August 4th…?
asw: jetta
July 25th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
I would have expected the slap in the face to have come a couple weeks ago when you were locked out of the house.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:17 pm
What is this nonsense about shutting down the blog? You are just getting started. Forget about the haterz and concentrate on the sweet deals for sure coming your way. Just look at all the foreclosures in Sacramento! Now is the time to make your move Casey!
July 25th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
You’ve been dishonest since high school, engaging in any cheap trick to make a a buck quick.
Maybe this will humble you, probably not.
Ultimately, your wife deserves a better man… who is not you.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Did you hear that? That was the sound of the world’s tiniest violin, going off as Casey shares his tale of woe.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I know you can succeed with your life, Casey. It’s been crazy months, but you will come out much stronger. After living through this you’re able to do anything.
Go and save your marriage and get your life back together. Have you sent your wife flowers yet? Do it, every day. Send her poems. Do what ever it takes. But don’t promise her anything. Just say that you’ve been a fool. Say that the time for words is over and that you will show promises by action, not words. Tell her about good things that has happen, not about things that will happen.
You can do it. Good luck!
July 25th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
I can’t think of another white guy in so much trouble as you are. Forget about the wife — you did something that violated the unwritten rules about men not running away from women. First couple of years is testing grounds for making sure the man is around when the family comes. (trust me, she wants kids, even though she says she doesn’t). The Oz trip and whatever led up to it shows you can’t be relied on, and this is the deal-breaker for women.
You also failed as a provider. Men can be forgiven the alligator position on the couch and the preoccupation with sports as long as they bring in the long green. You brought nothing but deepening red instead, and worse, you destroyed the credit ratings of others.
You are much too preoccupied with yourself to give any woman much confidence — my business, my investments, my life, my blog. (Read today’s entry again, critically, and you will see what I mean).
Until you stop being a crud and criminal, there is honestly not much hope for you.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Casey-
I thought of one way you could ‘leverage’ the distributed efforts of the haterz to monetize the blog and get sweet, passive income-
Web cam. Not what you’re thinking. You video-blog, and if we donate money via PayPal, we get to slap you remotely. Think of it as a Web 2.0 dunking booth.
Not only do you get all the attention you can stand, you can get income from passively sitting there.
leverage the hate!
July 25th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
To the readers of IAFF, I am deeply sorry for any disruption that STAS has caused in the comment section. Once again, the orderlies left the door to the office with the computer open, and STAS wandered in.
STAS is not his name however, his name is Billy Bibbit and STAS is simply the acronym for his condition.
Severe
Tight
A**
Syndrome
Billy grew up with a rather oprressive mother who instilled in him ideas that sex was wrong, women were dirty, and he could only be safe in his mothers care. Due to his fear of sex, and equal fear of masturbation, poor Billy has quite a large semen buildup. This buildup has caused an enlargement of the prostate, causing incredible pressure, resulting in Severe Tight A** Syndrome.
One of our more unruly patients, Mr. McMurphy, has been overheard telling Billy that he knows a fine woman by the name of Pinklips that will be able to do more in five minutes for Billy, than what 4 years of group therapy has done to cure him of his Severe Tight A** Syndrome. I will be speaking with Dr Mocha this evening to find out her opinion of the pinklips treatment for Billy.
Again, on behalf of all the staff here at the Oregon State Hospital, I apologize for any inconvienence or disruption.
-Nurse Ratched
July 25th, 2007 at 3:43 pm
I feel it. I feel it stronger than ever you wanting to give up on your dreams.
You need to focus, focus on your dreams Casey. IAFF is going to make you rich and will provide for sweet passive income in good time.
Why abandone sweet passive income Casey? Don’t let go of your dreams. Guliana never really worked, she took 6 years Casey, 6 years doing “school” work. She will come back to you when she see’s the $money$ rolling in - I can feel it.
July 25th, 2007 at 3:51 pm
Casey - not hater, nor supporter.
I’m about to go BK. May avoid it. Think though I shouldn’t.
Feel responsible.
Trust the close people that you knew before and have come back.
Ian
July 25th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
If and that’s a BIG IF, you truely have changed from your criminal ways, good luck for the future and don’t do any more illegal things.
If you walk the rightious path, you will suceed in life.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
-
Dear Casey -
Always remember - “A man is never poor as long as he has friends.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErrzjGCi3gY
Good luck -
GG
July 25th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
So what’s happening, she’s not coming back? Separation filed? Divorce?
I hate to say I told you so, but folks were bringing this exact scenario up on the blog back in November.
I’ve been through this sort of thing myself. Heads up bud, it’s going to get a lot uglier. Especially when the blame game starts. Best of luck.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Who dares to try and outmeaningless comment me to post the link to their blog?
Well Casey,
The only advice I can give at this point is in the form of a quote.
“We as people are only products of the lives we’ve lived, and the decisions we’ve made”.
Good luck Casey
You’ll be in my prayers
Trolls
July 25th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Was this a good-bye post? Who is the new owner?
July 25th, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Does the Publisher know about the sale of the domain?
July 25th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Ridiculous. You can’t shut the blog down your biggest asset.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:49 pm
New Owner = Aaron K***** . Wow, before August 3rd and everything……
July 25th, 2007 at 5:02 pm
In difficult times such as these, we often find ourselves turning to the wisdom of the ages for inspiration. To wit:
“it is better to be impetuous than cautious, because fortune is a woman; and it is necessary, if one wants to hold her down, to beat her and strike her down.” — Machiavelli, The Prince (1513).
July 25th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
Let’s hear about the sale!
July 25th, 2007 at 5:28 pm
You will shut down the blog, but either reopen the blog under the same domain name or open a new blog under a different domain name in a few weeks. We know you can’t stay away from blogging.
As for being lazy and making sweet massive passive income, you might want to try Freedom Rocks forex trading software. My buddy’s been making a killing on it, but I keep waffling. Eventually I’ll get it myself. You can also peddle it yourself and get a check every 6 months for each person you sign up. Oh yeah, it’s one of those sweet MLM’s that you like so much, so you get a $40 check every 6 months from every person in your downline that uses the software. My buddy has 42 people in his downline — do the math. And he’s doubling his money in the forex trading every 6 months. You can automate the whole thing. Sweet massive passive income dude. You know you wanna.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
Casey,
For some men ambitions come first. Everything else, including marriage and family, follows on their list of priorities.
The problem with this is that men have been socialized into wanting to be nice guys, nice husbands, and nice dads. So they feel guilty about wanting to go all out to pursue their own dreams. They then suppress their main drive with disastrous consequences.
If you are an ambitious goal-driven man it’s going to put pressure on your marriage. Guaranteed.
Most marriages today end over financial problems. Frequently the husband isn’t bringing in enough money and the wife decides to end it. (Something like 90% of all divorces are initiated by women.)
Conversely, the guys who are driven and earn high incomes also see their marriages end because they spent too much time at the office and didn’t pay enough attention to the wife.
I have seen both happen too many times to count.
Bottom line is that you, Casey, need to get really honest with yourself and admit that your ambitions far outweigh everything else in your life. The other stuff is nice to have but not critical to your happiness. (As a middle-aged guy I don’t know too many married men who don’t confess to a deep and lingering unhappiness with their marriages after a couple of beers.)
The good news is that once you are honest with yourself and the women you date about being an ambitious SOB, you will have a far better chance of filtering out all the wrong ones and finding the right one.
Life is short, each decade passes by faster and faster, go after your dreams and the right people will appear. Don’t waste it as a beast of burden trying to please people who can’t be pleased.
Best of luck to you, Casey.
PS I hope you reconsider and continue with this blog.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:48 pm
It feels odd saying good-bye. You made me examine my core beliefs, sanctimonious urges and what I want from the future. Most of all you made me think and for that I thank you.
Best wishes, Casey.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Casey,
Could you please elaborate on the “cold-fusion type of battery-thingy that basically never runs out of energy”? Yesterday’s peak oil comment was worthy of a post of its own. It might be worth fleshing out a bit.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
How goes it Caey? Any serious interest in the blog yet?
July 25th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
How goes it Casey? Any serious interest in the blog yet? Or domain name?
July 25th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
If this is really good-bye than I do hope you can turn your life around. If not, we will see you soon with another blog.
Family first.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Aaron K***** is the operator of ml.implode.com - a great website! I am looking forward to see what he does with IAFF.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:09 pm
@125 AJ-Give Me The Pennies
I still think you are mistaking me for someone else. At this time, there are no donation buttons, request for money, links for sale or anything of that nature on my site.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Do you have any sweet deals cooking?
July 25th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
C’mon Casey, it’s ml-implode.com (with a hyphen, not a dot) . You don’t have to change the URL. Anyone can go to godaddy.com to find out who is the new owner of IAFF.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:43 pm
What happened last Friday at your 6:15PM meeting that wasn’t good news and you had to go for a bike ride?
July 25th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
S**t, I scrolled through the whole line of comments and not one bit from Timeline Guy. This is depressing.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
There are some good posts here - I hope you read them and take them to heart. I won’t speak to your family relationships, but you are going to need to start 2 things, whether you do them this week, or put them off to next year.
1.) Update your spreadsheet of income vs debts. You cannot go ANYWHERE unless you first know where you are at. You don’t need to post it if you don’t want to.
2.) You are going to very soon need to find out what your tax situation is going to be. This will tie in the item above.
Do not procrastinate any more with this stuff. This stuff will get uglier as the weeks go by.
You also need to continue looking for the “dreaded” W2 job. You don’t have to keep the job for the rest of your life - USE IT as you need, and dump it when you are self sustaining financially. It won’t be quick.
If you sell the blog, then good luck - I hope you get enough out of it to atleast put a dent in your debt. I would think there’s nothing wrong with keeping it as a nite job/hobby if it is generating $$. Get some W2 action going, then use your creativity on your off hours to get back on track.
Good luck. Start NOW.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
I (just for a moment) actually respected you when you shut down the blog before. I had thought you kept your promise to your wife to shut down the blog and get a job.
GET A JOB.
GO BACK TO YOUR WIFE.
PLAY THE MAN, Casey.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
I don’t buy it.
July 25th, 2007 at 9:05 pm
Lawnmower Man said:
“…you convinced yourself that dogged self-belief is the only entrepreneurial attribute that matters…”
Only too true. Casey, you really should develop yourself as an entrepreneur in the public eye with a spin-off blog. Go around the country (and world) talking with entrepreneurs and trying to pick up things. Develop some critical thinking skills-build out your personality. Blog about it.
It’s fully possible you could have a top entreprenurail blog- you could still keep the foreclosure blog and make sweet cash. If you develop this stuff, rather than blogging about Norway, you could actually develop a business and have a nice income stream.
July 25th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
Well, I’ll say it all over again…
I feel sorry for the haters that are so obsessed and passionate about Casey that it is all they think about. They have nothing better to do than complain how Casey wastes their time while they on the other hand are spending their money creating websites dedicated to their obsession.
So very very pathetic
Whatever will happen to their websites that they’ve put so much love, thought, and creativity (that’s an oxymoron actually - there’s no creativity. Simply copy and paste what Casey blogs isn’t all that difficult) into so that they could create a virtual ’shrine’ to their obsession.
I laugh.
July 25th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Sorry about thr lack of postings. I fully intended too™, but I napped all day yesterday and slept all day twoday™ tooday™. I’m really tired so unles™ things chaing™, I’ll sleap™ threw™ twomarrow™ to™.
–TLG™
July 25th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Why are you closing this blog? It generates money, right? You enjoy blogging and are good at it. If blog-generated income is not enought to live on, why not supplement it with a regular job?
July 25th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
There are so many good people that need help.
Yet, so much time, wisdom, and money are spent
and wasted with this one character.
Why?
July 25th, 2007 at 10:49 pm
Now who is in charge of deleting messages, what good is it if you are going to censor people, this site will be dead in a month.
Censorship is the worse thing you could do, I know you pulled my support for cassey down.
Kinda pee’s me off, but not suprised, it’s not Cassey’s Site anymore, right?
Bye Bye, should have taken the 100 grand for this dead site Cassey, another bad decision.
JP Bishop Real Estate Broker
July 25th, 2007 at 11:34 pm
Looks like KC transferred IAFF to Aaron K***** of K***** Concepts. This is the guy behind mortgage implode o meter.
July 25th, 2007 at 11:44 pm
@133 Smart Startup
That’s the most sound advice for a “current” situation I’ve read lately.
When I was about nine years old, my dad made a point of explaining to my brother and I just what the “family priorities” were. He told us that God came first, his business came second, mom came third, and we came last on the totem pole. “Wow!”, I think to myself today. “That’s so hilariously wrong!”
And that’s sounds hilariously wrong to most people, but it provoked harmony in our family. Everybody knew where they stood in relationship to God, each other and the business. No confusion. We just worked around that model and the family functioned well.
I’m not recommending these priorities, but I do absolutely recommend making the hierarchy of priorities clear to everyone in the family.
Establishing priorities creates an uncommonly secure family structure regardless of the priorities set forth.
Good luck Casey, and I wish you the very best as you move forward in life!
July 26th, 2007 at 6:15 pm
@133 thats some pretty good advice.
Too many guys ruin thier own lives/happiness/success to please a woman who ends up dumping them anyway for xyz reasons.
Same here with The Casey Show.
July 26th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
KC - Just answer this one - are you going to pay off all of your wife’s debt witht the money from the blog? The debt you created and screwed her with?
ASW: G’s
July 27th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Casey,
I am looking forward to your talkcast tonight. Please be objective, and don’t feel like people are attacking you or hating you. I think you were too mute-heavy at the last talkcast.
Good luck!