THIS WOULD NOT BE A GOOD TIME TO LOWER THE FED DISCOUNT RATE Today was a brutal day on Wall Street. This is the fourth straight monthly loss on the indexes and the Fed keeps trying to inject liquidity into this collapsi…
HEARING THIS GUY SPEAK IS EXCITING I'm not really that interested in the coming election - because the next president is going to walk into a complete bomb. I lost interest when Bush won the popular vote. When the coun…
NEIL YOUNG MEETS MAROON FIVE
THIS BLOG GOES WAY BACK TO 2003On the bottom left of this website there is a pull-down menu that allows you to go back in posts all the way to 2003. If you have some spare time, it makes interesting reading because way…
PREDATORY LENDING - MANY PEOPLE WERE LIED TOThe huge foreclosure problem got so out of hand because of predatory lending practices from mortgage companies. In short, many borrowers were lied to - or at best, misled. Th…
GOOD QUESTION! I didn't have that happen. One thing that will happen is your farts will be extra stinky - isn't that pleasant? You'll have a sulfur content to your boof gas. One thing for sure, the first week (detox w…
THE GIBSON LES PAUL THREE PICKUP PETER FRAMPTON MODELThis guitar is one of my favorites ever. I am really not that excited about electric guitars, because I like my nylon string acoustics for just pooping around. But I…
TIFFANY This is Tiffany Yoder, my director of sales but also our dear friend. Her grandfather is in frail health, and her birthday is tomorrow and I just wanted to put this up so we can reflect on how wonderful Tif is t…
THE EMERGING BLUE-RIBBON BOOK TEAMI just got off the phone with these two famous people who are so excited about the retail release for "Snaps". Today I got off my first strategy meeting with one of the most iconic publ…
WOW! WOW! WOW!So funny how in the last post I said, "Nothing really surprises me or knocks me off my axis". I'm surprised now!!!!I'm on the verge of something. I got the most exciting phone call about 10 minutes ago.…
LIFE IS SO RANDOM If you told me that there would be an adorable little piggy at my house a couple of years ago, I would have believed you. If you told me that I would get a book deal and write and produce a paperback b…
BIG GOOFY TEENAGERThis is me and my Friesian horse Rodan. He is so huge but he's sweet and goofy and under-confident. He's grown so fast but he just looks around like doo-da-doo. I have always been really amazed at hu…
SKIING AT BIG WHITEIt feels like spring skiing because of the warm weather, and that is our favorite time of the year for skiing. The snow isn't big chunks of foof and the visibility is really great with the bright sun,…
QUICK THOUGHT OF THE DAYWhen you wish the very best for others, it feels good.
DOES ANYBODY HERE SPEAK KOREAN?And if so, when someone yells out, "Ayyy Da ka ta!!" can you tell me what this means? Here is the nearly final cover art for "SNAPS"
HE SOLD FOUR SPOTS AT $895!!!! AND HE HAS 2 MORE SPOTS!AND IS FLOODED WITH REQUESTS!Those of you who follow this blog will remember Andreas. He shot that cool photo of the Porsche Cayman with a bunch of Lightspheres, an…
BACK COVER OF SNAPS! (Not Final Yet)I'm not sure if we are keeping the images in the back - probably not.
WE'RE GETTING ORDERS ON AMAZON.COM FOR SNAPS!!!But it won't be available through amazon for a little while. The manuscript is right now in NYC and Chicago in the hands of one of the most iconic, legendary book publisher…
WPPI WEIGHT LOSS FELLOWSHIP CLUB Since so many of you are going to WPPI in Las Vegas, wouldn't it be neat if we all shared a weight loss victory together? It's for many, the social event of the year, so think of it like…
BUSTED! HOW AND WHY I ADDED THE SEARCH TOOL There has been some unauthorized activity on our website with some attempted breaches. When I found out about it, I engaged a private investigator. Part of the surveillance …
WATCHING THE HORSE TRAINING (photo by Jesse)
ONE YEAR OF KEEPING THE BLUBBER OFF I can't believe I was ok having a blanket of lard bouncing around my body for over a decade. When I would walk, I would feel my chin bounce and jiggle like a water balloon. When I s…
GOOD QUESTION!My friend Robbie posted this photo on his blog with a survey question:Please submit a one-word comment for this photo. I look forward to your answers :)
HERE'S A TASTE OF "SNAPS" - ZEROETH HAND-SIGNED EDITIONThe manuscripts have been sent to the publisher today! So the copies that are going to be available at WPPI (signed) will be the first "zero-eth" edition. This wil…
YAY TIFFANY IS ENGAGED!!!! She's not doing the Tom Cruise jumping thing in this photo, she just does stuff like this because she's happy working for GFI! John and Tif are engaged! Tif is the sales coordinator at GFI in…
ON JANUARY 31ST, I TALKED ABOUT MY APPLE SLICERI WONDER WHY TRAFFIC SPIKED SO MUCH THAT DAY?
COVERGIRL! Our friend and hero Lindsay Kern was on the front page of the Kelowna Newspaper! Missy said that there was a newspaper photographer here, and we went out and he was doing photos of Lindsay with her horse "Hop…
LAUREN AND ADAM GOT ENGAGED!!!!!! IT'S ABOUT TIME! Poor Adam has been waiting and waiting for the right opportunity and it never came - until the night before last night!We are SO EXCITED, they are such an awesome coupl…
ILLUSTRATIONS WITHIN THE BOOK RATHER THAN A PHOTO SECTIONOne thing I wanted to do was have the photos right smack in the context of the book. So if I'm telling a funny story I want to have that funny photo right next to…
AWESOME IMAGES JESSE!Our friend Jesse is becoming quite the photographer. He does a really good job of blogging and showing photos of our lazy life at the ranch. CLICK HERE
EXCERPT FROM SNAPS Here's an excerpt from "Snaps" called, "The Virtual Masquerade Party". Many years ago, I designed a software program called "Montage", (it remains to this day the most successful piece of vertical-mar…
EVERYBODY LIKES "ONE" OF THEM AND HATES ANOTHERI'm getting absolutely no indication period of a trend on any of them. So of course, we're asking for more proposals but in the meantime, I'm leaning between 1 and 2. Now,…
NEED YOUR INPUTHere's some quick concepts from Erik at Reddoorla.com - which one do you lean to? This is going to be a pre-publication issue only before the publisher takes over. I'll explain more later but let me know…
THEY'RE IN LOVE, AND SHE'S DYING. Melisma2 just referred to a site on one of the comments that was so powerfully sad, and sweet, and trying, and loving that I couldn't go through it right now. Basically this site is fr…
TWIN CREEK RANCH FEATURED IN POOLS, SPAS & PATIOS MAGAZINE! It's awesome to have your house featured in a home magazine. I used to look at those fancy home magazines and wonder if real people actually lived in those…
ANOTHER SHOT WITH THE NIKON POINT AND SHOOTWhat's cool is that when you put it on "panorama assist" mode, it shows you a latent image of the last one you took, so you can overlap the "live" image with the one you just to…
THE NIKON COOLPIX P50 - FOR UNDER 200 BUCKS WOWI've wanted a point and shoot with a wide-angle lens, and didn't have a cumbersome travel kit for batteries, chargers, etc. I finally found a point and shoot that:1) zooms …
HOW COME NOBODY TOLD ME ABOUT PLAYSTATION?We just set up the Wii and PS3 in our theater. It is absolutely insane with the incredible sound system and the high definition projector. I have just started play with the Play…
INCREDIBLE REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES FOR A RECESSIONIF I WAS IN WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY - When I was a wedding photographer, I used to charge a thousand bucks for an assistant to come with me to a wedding. This would include a …
THE SILENCE IS DEAFENINGThese two lovable goofballs just left and it is SO quiet around here. They were here for a week and it flew by so fast. I guess I can go back to doing some work but it is so quiet. We miss them…
AUCTION EXTENDED!!!!PRIVATE MENTORING SESSION WITH ME, FOR CHARITYUPDATE: I got an email from the folks at the organization - the server crashed last night at the end of the auction and people couldn't bid. So the aucti…
CORRECTION: THE BOOK IS CALLED "SNAPS" I'm having the awesome guys at RedDoor Design do the cover for the upcoming book, but here's my communication to them: I want the word "Snaps!" to be huge and prominent, I want a…
WHAT I DID TODAY BESIDES SWAP HARD DRIVESJess and Lauren are here and since this is a working trip, the image on the center right shows what we've been doing all day, "social laptopping!" We all sit around and do our l…
SWEEEEEET! 320 GIG INTERNAL HARD DRIVE, $199 BUCKS!ABOUT 40 MINUTES OF SWAP TIME WITH INSTRUCTIONSI am so excited. My drive has just gone up from 200gigs to 320 gigs! I was constantly having to drag another small surr…
RANCH WEDDING PROMOTIONAL CLIP!!!! (this one loads faster)We've started booking weddings here at the ranch! We booked our first one and we're really excited! We are going to be in Europe a lot this year and we're just …
FIRST-EVER AUDIO BOOK, LIVE As part of this book publishing process, I have to do an audiobook master for distribution. Guess what?I'm planning on doing it LIVE. I mean, I was just thinking about audiobooks, and wouldn…
BIG WHITE SKI RESORT45 minutes away from our ranch is this world-class ski resort. Kelowna is a lot like Lake Tahoe, because there's this huge lake, and we have a little casino on that lake and then not far away is a be…
BACK COVER TEXT FOR THE BOOK!OK I did not write the following but it sure sounds cool. Andy wrote it after finishing the project:
NEW INFRARED PHOTOS FROM THE RANCH TODAYI have one of those Fuji specialty infrared cameras, and I took it around the ranch today for a few shots. These shots are kind of trippy.
THEY SHOOT, THEY DON'T SCORE!Tonight we went to a Kelowna Rockets hockey game at Prospera Place here in Kelowna. It was the first time Jess Strickland and Lauren Chapman had ever been to a WHL hockey game, so they weren…
HERE'S YOUR SNEAK PEAK AT THE BARCODEFOR MY MEMOIRS BOOK, "SNAPS" If any of you have plans on creating a paperback book for the major booksellers, you have to get what is called an ISBN number for your publication. That…
FERGUSON THE PIGGY! Jesse took this photos of the piggy and kitty cuddling. Everybody loves Fergs, and he is starting to get used to being surrounded by humans and other animals instead of his littermates. He's a littl…
BET YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS ABOUT ME
I JUST WROTE THIS EMAIL TO A LADY THAT HELPED ME 25 YEARS AGO
WATCH OUR BUDDY ADAM ON "THE HOUR" WITH GEORGE STROUMBOULOPOULOS!Lauren's boyfriend Adam has executive produced this remarkable documentary that exposes the secrets of the B.C. Marijuana industry. It's winning so many f…
COLLAGE OF THE DAYJess Strickland and Lauren Chapman flew up to our apartment in Seattle to spend the night with us there, then they came with us to the ranch. The top photos show some new changes we did the the Seattle…
JOKE OF THE DAY A man is dying of thirst in the arid desert. Miracle upon miracles, he finds a busy saloon appear out of nowhere. Thankful that he is saved from a gruesome death, he crawls up to the bar and asks the ba…
RILEY MEETS FERGUSON!!!I can't believe when we met Lauren, Riley was only 3 months old. She's now 17 months old and at the stage where she's talking like a jabberbox, but you can't really make the words out yet. She ca…
THE BOOK IS IN FINAL TYPESETTING AND COVER DESIGN273 pages of what has become a really funny book. While it is memoirs, the stories are colorful and hilarious. I can't believe so much got done in about a month or less.…
320 GIG HARD DRIVE SWAP FOR MACBOOK PROI'm so excited. I'm constantly running out of disk space on my Macbook Pro because I download movies and stuff from iTunes. Right now I have a 200 gig drive in it, and it's hooke…
PIGGY'S NAME IS "FERGUSON"!!!!Lindsay came up with the perfect name for the little piggy, "Ferguson". It's a great name!We met Ferg today and he is SOOOOO CUTE. He grunts, he squeals, he walks around like he's wearing…
HEADING TO THE RANCH WITH JESS AND LAUREN!Sorry for the foggy image, but I got some kind of film on the camera of my iPhone and no matter how I clean it, it just doesn't clean up. Maybe it's hairspray lol you'll have to…
OMG!!!!! SOOOOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!I was just on Jesse's blog, and they had photos of the new Twin Creek Ranch Mascot! A POT BELLIED PIG! Oh wow SO CUTE! We head back to the ranch on Wednesday with Jessica Strickla…
SUPER SNEAK PREVIEW PAGE 25 OF SNAP!(c) 2008 Gary Fong
PUBLISHING INSURANCE This publishing thing is so interesting. I am learning so much with really great teachers helping me along the way. One of the big things I've been made aware of is to make sure that I publish 1) t…
CHILLY IN SEATTLE!
UNREAL WEDDING VIDEOJulie from Elysium Productions sent us a link to the 30 minute video of our wedding. It is so freaking awesome. You can watch it if you want... come on in!
WOW I AM AN AUTHOR OF A PAPERBACK BOOK We are now in packaging and polishing, and as it's happening and unfolding, I am learning so much. I'm so stoked to have a best-selling ghostwriter to help me through the process. …
HOW TO WRITE A BOOK SO FASTI was asked how I was able to write a book so fast, within weeks. OK here's what I did, step by step:1) I signed up on guru.com and put in a bid for a transcriptionist. I chose Melissa Peters…
THE BOOK IS IN FINAL DRAFT!!! I can't believe it, but the book just wrapped last night. Me and Andy were trying to figure out the overall structure, and we just thought, let's go ahead and put in all of the stories on t…
THIS BABY ALMOST SUNK! Pictured below is my beautifully loved and cared for yacht, the HMS Kelowna. We just found out that it had a leak, and that the leak was spreading slowly but steadily. So came the decision to fix…
MY PERSONAL BUCKET LIST1) Be a great dad2) Learn to be a skilled cook3) Learn to knit4) Communicate better with my horse (as in show him who's boss)5) Start an herb gardenI have never really had a 'do-list' in life. My …
I BAWLED YOU GOTTA PROBLEM WITH THAT?I don't know what it is with me these days. Either these movies are really emotional or I've become estrogenic. 27 Dresses I cried during the wedding scene, but just because I was …
APPLE SLICER (Images taken on a Fuji S5) with a "Puffer" diffuser I get so excited about the most mundane stuff. Like this apple slicer.I think what really changed my eating habits was learning how to cook. Because I c…
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