The Micro Mosquito

I’ve been captivated by these little RC helicopters on the market, specifically the Micro Mosquito. Our parent company has another website www.greatdeals.ca and they bought loads of these little helicopters to sell over Christmas and they’re cheap, only $50!! For me, I have been in heaven since this feeds my desire for hovering that I developed when I was a kid.

Let me give you a bit of back story. When I was 12 I wanted a buy an RC helicopter. After months of drooling over catalogues and nagging my parents I got my chance. On a cold Sunday in January he took me to a hobby shop and let me look around, we wrote down all the parts that I needed and then totaled them up. $1500. A lot of money for a 12 year old and back in that day, a lot of money for a dad too!

I asked my dad if I could have it, and said “of course, you can buy anything you want” I got all excited because there were many things I wanted in addition to the RC Helicopter! And then followed up with “but you’ll have to earn the money and buy it yourself”. That was a bit of a shattering comment. Because as many kids, I wanted it now!!

Being an enterprising fella, my dad had a plan, that night we sat down and worked out how I’d be earning money by working at his store stocking shelves and doing chores etc. If I earned $750 he’d put in the rest and I’d get my helicopter. Mind you, I slacked off at work, didn’t really like stocking shelves and called in sick a few times. What else can you expect a 12 year old to do? Anyway long story short, it was a year before I earned that money, and when the time came to spend my hard earned money I sure as shit wasn’t going to spend it on such an expensive toy!!

Fast forward to December 2006 when I find out that there are these tiny little helicopters for fifty bucks that you can fly indoors. They come assembled and ready to fly, no need to spend weeks assembling it and no need to practice for months in order to take off (like the big ones). As you can imagine, I’m in heaven.

I plan on taking one out in my backyard when the wind dies down. I want to see how the squirrels react to a giant mosquito!

BUY IT HERE: www.greatdeals.ca

The Funniest Comment of the Year!

I heard the funniest thing a few days ago.

It was a comment made by a girl walking behind me. She was shocked that it was snowing. Her exact comment was “I can’t believe it’s snowing! This is just crazy!! Wow!”

Well, I’d like to say that I agreed with her, but truth is, it’s the middle of January in Ontario. I was more shocked when I was putting steaks on the BBQ last week than anything else.

I bet when she goes to a beach she'll be amazed that there is sand there.

It takes all types. I'm also working on replying to all your messages. I didn't think I'd get over 500 of them!

The eBay Mystery

An old friend came to visit me the other day, I haven’t seen him for a few years so it was good to catch up. We ate a serious amount of steak, so much that I can't even stand to look at the 2lbs left over in the fridge! We partied, we ate and we partied some more and sometime during we decided we wanted to smoke cigars. So we got some tarps and made a tent of sorts, it really became more of a mess than anything else but it served the purpose. We smoked cigars and then realized that there was a heated patio downtown. So off we went and smoked more cigars there. That's where this picture was taken.

Over the course of the weekend eBay came up in a conversation. Apparently there are Mystery Auctions where people bid on boxes that could have nothing in them at all. I couldn’t believe that people actually bid on this stuff, and I thought we could do something better.

So we sat and figured out how to put together a Mystery Auction that wouldn’t leave people feeling ripped off and that’s when Gareth (my buddy) mentioned all the junk we’ve got around the office. It’s actually not junk, but brand new stuff that we’ve received, tested, re-boxed and put away.

And here we have it, a mystery auction for RICH GUY Magazine. Can you guess what it is? Do you want to take a shot at bidding? I’m curious to see how high the bidding gets because aside from what’s in the box, the winner get a great mention in the Editor’s Blog !

RICH GUY MYSTERY AUCTION - CLICK HERE

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Stuff we're doing in 2007

Boy have I been lazy. With all the holiday fun I’ve just not been motivated one bit to write about the blog and through it all I’ve had to field many emails and phone calls from people. Yes, phone calls!! I didn’t realize people looked forward to my notes, so I’m quite flattered.

Jimmy and I had a fun time gambling at Casino Niagara and Fallsview. We made a bit of money and decided to leave early. I also had an enjoyable new years. Nothing has quite motivated me to write a huge journalistic entry here but I can tell you a few things that we’ve got planned for 2007.

We’re looking for new RICH GUY GAL models. We need 48 gals for 2007 so if you know anyone that looks good and isn’t shy in front of the camera then make sure you get them to send a picture to casting@richguy.com.

There’s also rumours flying about the office that a new magazine with a slight tilt towards women will be launching, no, it won’t be called RICH GIRL but it will be targeted to a wider and more affluent Canadian audience than RICH GUY.

If you’ve ever wanted to own a part of a magazine, RICH GUY will be offering pre-ipo shares to certain qualified investors. Email me if you want more information, I’ll put you on a list to get updates as we progress closer to the date.

Send me your questions, I want to know what you want to know about me. I’ll answer almost anything, so let it fly!