Sasswot.com gets a face lift. I got tired of looking at all the crap in my directory that no longer made any sense to me, delete it all and then reloaded what I wanted. First step was to recreate an interface and get that functional. I'm MOSTLY happy with it and will more than likely tweak it a bit. I should just leave well enough alone, but it is a lesson I have never learned. I will make due with what knowledge I have of html and try to figure out the rest. So many new coding languages out there and I'm behind the ball.
You can see from the links on the left that I have some new goals for the site. I am mostly looking forward to the movie page, but I will have to figure out a few eluding coding in order to do what I want.
So check back once in awhile as I now have goals and want to achieve them.
01/02/09
HA! Sometimes I have to laugh at my efforts in keeping this up to date. I know, its sad. I have this grand notion to start a movie sub domain that hold my opinions on films that I own. God, bad, it doesn't matter. I just want to throw my opinion out there to people that may or may not care about it. I would also include the ability for guests to make a comment on the review if they so choose, I just need to make sure I don't end up with the spam that the Treads ended up with first.
So if I told you that I hoped to update this more this year than I did last, would you believe me? didn't think so... the only thing you can do is check back on this site and see if its true or not. Wish me luck.
08/17/08
So How many people thought I actually fell off the face of the earth? I know that there was at least one... Ok, I get it, by now you have given up hope in my updating this site. Well I'm here to try and cover some the more major things since last we chatted.
On August 4th, 2007 Sara and I got married at the festival grounds of the Minnesota Renaissance Festival in Shakopee, MN. It was a great time. Good times had by all and the such. I'm sure I will be working on a phone album that fits my liking and adding it to the site as well. We honeymooned in Jamaica for 4 or 5 days, which was a great rest after the crazy that comes with planning a wedding.
At the end of June, Jaret and I went to Chicago to a Gargoyles convention, in honor of the best cartoon ever created, not like a convention where we appreciated stone work all weekend, though that would be interesting to see. It was an exciting and memorable car ride there and back, just like I always figure it would be. there should almost be a warning sign that posts to other travelers that when the two of us are in a car together, watch out. Its not that we drive crazy, but the things that you don't think of come up... Oh well, you just had to be there. During the weekend we got to meet and talk with Keith David, Greg Weisman, and Thom Adcox. I was actually surprised to find out that the over all goal of the convention was not to line the pockets of those who helped create the television program, it was more like a labor of love to help generate more interest to buy some more time to tell more stories. All in all, it was a great weekend for Jaret and I to be together, and we both agree that Thom Adcox was the shining light of the weekend. If you get curious, check out Janet Jackson's Nasty Boys video... I wonder if Thom wishes he could forget the 80's... heh
Let me speak for a moment about the Dark Knight. DAMN! I cannot get over how wonderfully awesome this movie was. Heath Ledger is fantastic in this film. So much so that I tried watching and listening for bits of the actor to show through the character, and I could not. He's up there with Gary Oldman caliber performance. A total character transformation. And THANK YOU to Jonathan Nolan (he even spells his name right) for bringing a villain to the screen that is truly villainous. That was the best magic trick I have ever seen. thank you for not asking for any sympathy for the villain and believing in somebody as Heath turned out to be to portray him. These are the reasons I wanted to be an actor growing up. I would give anything to part of that adventure. I think I would wet myself the first time I saw myself on the big screen.
Would you believe me if I said that I wanted to vow to make posts more often? Would you check back to read them? Guess you'll have to if you want to see if I held up to my promise to write more... Until next time...
01/19/07
Driving to and from work gives me time to listen to talk radio... Yeah yeah yeah, I know my mom and step-dad are having a laugh since I use to hate it when they would listen to talk radio on car trips and it didn't interest me... Oh well. So today I heard about this assembly woman in California named Sally Lieber who wants to make spanking illegal for children 3 yrs old or younger. A crime that could get parents landed in prison for 1 year and up to $1000 in fines. This is stupid!
I was spanked as a small child, once in a great while, and you know what, I turned out just fine. It never turned into a beating, just enough to know that I had done wrong. there are laws in place for child abuse and if disciplining your children goes that far, by all means, you deserve to get locked up, but if my child is reaching for a hot burner on the stove and I slap their hand and tell them no to save them from burning themselves, I don't think I deserve 1 year in prison! I will agree that there is a fine line between physical discipline and child abuse, but parents should be able to handle their children with enough sense that they can teach them between right and wrong and good behavior and bad behavior. Its my opinion that spanking, used lightly and sparingly is acceptable as a form of physical discipline for parents to use. I can't say that I've reached a decision to spank my children when/if I have them, but I think making it illegal is asinine even to consider.
Read the article about this whole deal Here and then go to Sally Lieber's site and leave her some feedback Here
I wonder if her opinion would change if she actually had any children or had spent a month with some really hellacious children...
12/28/06
Surprise, I have not dropped off the face of the earth, though sometimes I wish I could. The holiday season is rarely a fun time for me, working retail and all. It seems to suck the joy out of the season every year. Aside from work though, everything is going really well. The wedding plans are coming along, and I'm sure this next 1/2 year will be filled with all sorts of crazy decisions and what not, but it will all be for the good of the actual wedding date of August 4th.
I have been reading a series of books by Orson Scott Card (genius) called Homecoming. Its based off the history that the people of earth eventually caused the destruction of the planet with war and weapons of great destruction. Then a few settlers found a new planet, made a new home, then constructed a giant computer system to prevent mankind from raising to the technology to where they would be capable of destroying themselves again. The computer didn't take away their free will, but it guided their minds away from thoughts that would lead to making weapons capable of leading to its destruction. The hope being that one day, when the earth they left 40 million years ago was ready for their return, mankind would go back to earth and be able to live at home peacefully. Its an interesting read.
Well, on the way home from work tonight, I was listening to talk radio, cuz that's what I do when I'm driving by myself, and Sean Hanity had a guest host on who was talking to a "senior alquida specialist" to find out why their side of the story was for their hatred for the United States and various other places throughout the world. It was though provoking and to be honest, scared me quite a bit that we could be looking at another Crusade. It makes me wonder about how far would people go to further their cause and what will be the response from the other side? Will somebody cross the line and launch a nuke? Will there be a nuclear response? Will it ultimately lead to the downfall of our humanity? Is there no common ground? why isn't there tolerance for others that, so long as they are not harming others, you let them be? Why should I be targeted to convert to Islam, or else I will die for being an infidel? I just can't fathom a deity that would want you to rid the world of all its unbelievers and yet still claim to support free will. This is why I read Sci-Fi/Fantasy. I have an easier time accepting the reality of something known not to exist than to accept the reality is which I currently live.
It probably doesn't help that we watched V for Vendetta the other night with Vashti, and THAT frightens me on how not too far off that could be from a reality.
If I got my own island and declared my own country, would the world's problems still find me?
In the meantime, I'll wait for an alien abduction and ask that Sara comes with me, provided they are nice aliens...
7/14/06
The big news: SHE SAID YES! I proposed to Sara, gave her something shiny to wear upon her finger and now we are betrothed!
This will not be the site where all the details of how it all came about will be listed and the such. We have started a new website to detail all those wonderful goings on for those that are interested in reading about them, not to mention, pictures of us as well. The new website will be http://www.betrothed.us so be sure to check it out every once and awhile. We are currently working on the site, so bear with us for a bit. One of Sara's friends from work will be helping us write the code for the site soon.
In other news, I have now been promoted. I will managing my own store once again and driving a bit to do it, but we like it in Ames, so the drive shouldn't be too bad. Its with mixed feelings that I go. I'd love to stay and work with the people that I've been with for over a year now, since we all work very well together, but on the other hand, I'd like to make more money and I miss the power a bit. We'll see how it goes. I'm sure it won't be as bad as the last time... Dear lord I hope not!
Ok, I know it was a short update, and that's kinda sad since its probably the biggest news that I've announced since this page's inception, but I want to get something up for the new page.
Sasswot link of the day: http://www.betrothed.us - Yeah, I want you to check that site... heh
6/13/06
Lesson learned from stupid people - "I'd rather be poor than smart."
So there are a few things that I'd like to add since I'm waiting for the servers for City of Heroes to become available and my girlfriend is currently working...
I heard on the radio the other day a news report, or maybe something like a talk show host talking about it, but apparently South Beach, FL is seeing a higher rate of STD being passed among the people living there. At first this didn't surprise me, after all, its Florida and that's where fraternity and sorority idiots go for spring break right? Not South Beach, they go to Miami Beach. South Beach is home to a very high number for retired folks getting away from the cold. So why is there a higher percentage of STDs going around South Beach compared to Miami Beach? VIAGRA! Apparently there are a lot of the retired folks that think since they can take a drug to get up for hours and there are women around who have already hit menopause that its ok to go around having unprotected sex, after all, there really isn't a chance for pregnancy. I can't fault them for having sex, I really can't, I just think its funny that they say our generation has lost touch with the ones previous, and now it looks like the retired generation is getting in touch with our generation. Probably not what they wanted, after all, who does, but I say welcome!
Work always provides me with enough material to be either eternally pissed off, or have funny stories to tell. This last week or so was a Buy 2 Get 1 Free deal where the cheapest of the three is free. It had been a couple months since our last one and I remembered why I hated it so much. I don't hate the sale, hell, I love it, its the stupid people that show up in mass quantities and can't seem to grasp it. People think its Buy 1 Get 1 Free or Buy 2 $3 games and get a $45 for free. Seriously, what is so hard about this concept that you can't grasp it?! If you took 2 seconds to actually LISTEN to the words that we are saying when we greet you at the door, you'd have all the answers! And if you didn't listen, you deserve to get shot. I hate people that think they are better than retail workers, or the person at the gas station or the grocery store or that is bringing you your food at a restaurant. We're doing a job, much like the one you have, and lord knows we don't get paid enough to have to put up with your bitchiness and your uncontrolled children. Personally, I try and get people the best deal I can for the least amount of money. I don't get anything extra for selling 1 item more or less, so stop looking at me with that disgusted telemarketer-stare and thinking that I'm trying to swindle you out of a few more bucks. I'm REQUIRED to tell you about things that the company offers, so if you have no interest in it, kindly wait until I'm done, and decline. I can take No for an answer, I hear it every day, but I don't want your sarcastic remarks, your disgust and telling me to just hurry up and ring up the sale. I HATE WHEN YOU DO THAT! I wish death upon you under my breath. I wish that you run into a tree on your way home. I wish that your cat eats your family goldfish and then chokes on it so you can feel karma coming back to you. I'm doing my job, and I'm damn good at it, but there is no amount of money that I feel will ever be enough to have to put up with your attitudes and holier-than-thou bitchiness, and for god's sake, give your children to a family that will raise them with some sort of manners and discipline. They deserve better than you as their parent.
One more work related thing. Unemployment. I think unemployment is a great thing to have when you find yourself out of a job. The bills don't stop just because you're out of a job, and I know this. I hate the people that STAY on unemployment! I have had people come into my store, ask me if I'm hiring, I tell them no, then they ask me to sign a sheet saying that they were in asking about jobs. I don't sign it. If you don't turn in an application, I won't sign it. Then I get the applications... Dear Lord... Some have the last job worked ending 3 years ago. 3 YEARS! And when they write down their availability, they can work from 7 in the morning to 8 in the morning. Ok. the mall isn't even open during those hours, so you obviously are not seriously looking for a job, you just want the signature. You just want to sit at home and piss off your day and still collect a check. You're worthless. I believe that unemployment should go that if you can't find a job in 2 months, the government finds one for you, something horrible, like janitor in an adult theater, or cleaning public restrooms in city parks. And these are jobs that you have to show up for if you want the check any more, until you can find a better one on your own. Stop taking my taxes and pissing it away! That being said, I realize that there are people who have problems and they need that. I'm just tired of the bastards that are simply milking the system.
Sweet! City of Heroes is up and running again! I'm off to do that. Sorry for the rant, maybe it was funny, maybe it was just sad... whatever.
Sasswot link of the day: http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=irule - The fire truck still brings me to tears!
5/15/06
Alright, alright, I suck with the updates...
Let me preface this with a bit of insight into me... My bark is worse than my bite. People generally upset me and I think of many things to say and do that don't actually happen. When stupid people happen to me, I get upset, who wouldn't, but I take it up the ass like so many of the people I am friends with. Where we simply deal with it and get past it, but our inner voices are shouting do actually DO something. This being said. I HATE MOVIE TALKERS! Nothing pisses me off more than sitting in a movie theater and has some idiot in the row or 2 behind me talking or, god help them, talking on their cell phones. Anger boils over within me and I cannot enjoy whatever movie I am watching because of an annoying cinematic retard that doesn't have respect for those who actually want to watch the movie they paid for. I have sat through entire movies while saying nothing and being upset the entire time, I have turned and given deadly stares, I have left the theater to go to a different movie, and I have moved to the other side of the theater to get away from them, but, as true as I am to myself, I have never DONE anything about it. I take it up the ass so to speak. I have come up with many elaborate plans on how to confront and rid the theaters of these idiots, and I think I might have a way that suits my style of passive aggressive behavior. I call it, The Stand. If you have somebody talking in the row behind you, simply stand up. Stand there and block their view from the movie (obviously they are not listening to it). And when they yell at you to move, you can turn and say "I'm sorry, did you want to watch the movie? Because I really wanted to listen to it too, so maybe you should SHUT THE HELL UP!" I don't know if I will have the stones to utter the last part, but I feel that I can do the prior.
My darling brother has reawakened the sleeping addiction to City of Heroes/Villains to me a couple of weeks ago. The bastard let me make a Toon and play for a bit while I was visiting him. If only he knew how addicted I get to games. It also made me realize why I should not fight my pack-rat mentality. I tossed my install discs awhile ago when I thought I was done with it, and now I have bought it again, just so I can get back into it. *sigh*
Sasswot link of the day: http://startrek.perpetual.com/index.html - Perhaps one day it will happen, and I will be there to try it out, yes, the Star Trek MMORPG... Red Alert!
3/25/06
So a few things have happened... First of all, my Great Grandmother passed away a few weeks ago. the funeral was nice and it was great to see family again and it reminded me of how much fun my brother and I have together. I know, it sounds bad. Fun and funeral, but this is what happens with my family. My brother and I couldn't help laughing at the program of the funeral when my uncle Mike was listed as "Milke". It just struck us as funny, not to mention that the "business card" of the funeral home was printed on nail filing boards... Hmmm... Heard of doing it on pens, but not something to file my nails down with.
That night, I also found out what my 9 and 12 year old cousins were teaching my grandmother a few weeks ago. My Grandmother, bless her soul, introduces us to all sorts of games. (She might be the reason I have a great fondness of them now) She has taught me games like Bridge, Rummy, Joker, Sequence, Rummykube (sp?) and the like. Games that she plays with her friends, or when they would go south for the winter in the retirement community that they ran from the cold from. And from time to time, she would, in good faith, try and learn one of our games since she gets us to play hers so often. Now, a normal person (yes I'm putting myself in this category for the moment) would really only try to bring her into games that she is already familiar with, mind you, she is 74. So while she is visiting my cousins and aunt and uncle in Cali, my cousins decide that a good game to teach my lovely card-playing 74 year old grandmother is Warhammer. No joke! I mean really, can you imagine asking her to set aside the hearts, clubs, spade and diamonds for hundreds of little figurines and a tape measure? I have shied away from this game (mostly because it looks like a money vacuum) but there she was, heart of gold, trying to learn how to play Warhammer... Maybe next time I see her I will ask to see if she wants to go Paintballing... heh.
Moving along... I have had this childhood dream from... well, I can't remember when, that I am the only person on this earth that matters. I'm not saying that everybody else means nothing, its just that I believed that I was the only REAL person and everybody else had human bodies and the heads of bulls, and yet when I was around, they would don their human masks so I wouldn't know that they were really studying me. I still cannot disprove this theory. I mean, you're all working together in perpetuating the lie that I am NOT alone, but I know the truth. When I come around, you all put on your human masks, and pretend to have other lives, but for all I know, the second I walk out the room, life stops and then restarts when I enter again. Now when I tell people about this theory, they laugh, tell me I'm crazy, but I know that you're all just lying to me. That is what you are required to say! Its almost like being trapped in the Truman Show (brilliant, go see it) or even the end of A.I. and I'm the little robot boy... Don't try and tell me I'm crazy, I know you'll just lie to me more... I have no way of proving that I'm right or wrong. So I'm just sticking to my beliefs.
Moving even further... (should have updated while this was on my mind before, but alas) I think I have finally realized why thinking of Ellen (ex-girlfriend that I was a plane ride away from marrying) makes me hurt so much. A couple weeks/months ago there was a sign in Claire's that looked a lot like her and she stuck in my mind. I would go places and swear I saw her hair twirl to turn away from me. I thought I heard her walking down the mall... She had found a way back into my head. I started walking on the other side of the mall, just so I wouldn't look at the poster in Claire's and think about her again... It all hurt TOO much still to think about her. we weren't together for really all that long, maybe 1/2 a year all said and told. And our total time ACTUALLY in each other's company never ran more than 4 days and didn't total more than 2 weeks and yet, this was the break up that troubles me still and hurts the most. I kept asking myself why. why does it hurt this much compared to those that I spent like 1 and 1/2 years with and still got dumped? Why this one? Then it hit me the other night. She was the last thing I was holding onto when I got sent to Kuwait for a year of desolation. No friends, no family, not home, and no hope of returning soon and not even for something that seemingly had a purpose. When she left me for another guy I felt the worst I have ever felt in my life. I didn't have my friends and family to turn to for comfort. No hugs, nothing. The most I was touched that year was a handshake. She was the last bit of sanity that I clung to there. I don't think she knew how much I depended on her for hope of better tomorrows, or maybe she did and that was what drove her away, that I needed her so badly then. And then she was gone... It wasn't until recently that I got a new cell phone that I erased her telephone number. I never called her. I just sent a text on New Years wishing her a better year than the previous one and perhaps sometimes on her birthday. No phone calls, just text msgs. She was the last to leave me when I needed people the most, and that's why I can't shake of feeling of ache when I think of her, but perhaps now that I know why I ache, it will start getting better. Besides, I don't think of her every day, I have a beautiful girlfriend that I want to share the rest of my life with and I am hers completely. She doesn't erase the past, but she shows me a future that greatly outshines anything else.
Moving back around to... Ummmm.... something.... Look at the site! adjust the width of your window! See how the page adjusts! I finally figured it out, and low and behold, it was something incredibly lame that shouldn't have been that hard to figure out in the first place. But that is half the battle, next I tackle the vertical issue that I think I have and it won't be clear until I've done it and you can see for yourself. I've also been toying around with the idea of animated large pictures that one could use for an assigned homepage set as a background using active desktop. we'll see how it goes and how artistic I feel... It might be something lame to start with, but who knows, it sounds like fun to me and that's what this site is all about right?! Whatever I want! heh
GO SEE "V FOR VENDETTA"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sasswot link of the day: Fruity Oaty Bar commercial from Serenity - Thank you again Sara for getting it stuck in my head... now I have to download it!
2/23/06
Sorry about the pseudo face lift to the site... Been up all night trying to get the window to be friendly for different sized screens, but alas, I know FrontPage is just messing with me. Pesto~ I need you!!!
I will be adding in the greeting card section later, once I learn how to made acrobat files for easy transfer, so if you have any good greeting card ideas, send them my way and I'll post them... just to clarify, I'm not looking for cards you can buy in a store that are all lovey-dovey and the such... I'm looking for the cards you can never find but say what you want in that attention grabbing mood...
I have to think about work soon, and that sucks because I have not slept this night. oh well, I'm sure there are others this night with far better reasons than me to lose sleep.
Sasswot link of the day: http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/llama.php - Dunno... Sara's roommate found it...
2/16/06
A couple of things... I really hate Valentines Day. Seriously. I find the idea retarded that on this one day of the year, you have to tell your S.O. that you love them and they're the one for you. I'm sorry, but if you need one day a year to remind yourself that you need to convey your feelings for another, your relationship needs some serious help. You should be doing these things every day. I'm not saying that you need to be out there doing huge romantic things all the time, but small ones work well through the year and once in awhile, do something larger, and better yet, DO IT ON A DAY THAT ISN'T TO BE EXPECTED!
I really wanted to tell a male customer (with his girlfriend in the store) that he should leave her behind and find a girl worth a damn when she started complaining about the price of a game and told him that he "better have enough money to get me me my roses on Valentines Day". Ok. Flower shops jack up the prices this time of year, that's no secret, and it was a point he made in response. She didn't care, she wanted her roses. Really, what do you do with the roses after they get delivered? Set them in a glass vase and watch the die in a few days and then you throw them away. (I'm not saying flowers are not pretty and should not be given, but seriously, she was putting TOO much emphasis on them and that if he didn't get them for her, then he didn't really love her...) *sigh* This is why I spend V-Day wearing black...
UO update - Got my Glorious Lord title with my Archer, lost it, got it back, lost it again, got it, lost it, got it, lost it and died a couple more times to add insult to injury and then finally got it back again. Also had a mild heart attack when I thought I lost everything on my vendor when I didn't pay rent on time (UO time Vs IRL time error) Then I found it tucked safely in my moving crate, got another house with my second account and my Mule is almost finished with building skills. I have a character named Hobo Joe and he's a beggar. When I tried to go get a horse form the stable, I ran into 2 female characters chatting away and they said my name. Hobo Joe is my Role Playing character, mostly for when I get bored, and so I asked these ladies if they had a Hobo-Slaying knife (no SUCH object in the game, but I credit Horsley for coming up with it). They laughed and I ended up singing "I'm a little teapot" for them and then promptly running away... I love UO.
Sara and I went apartment hunting the other day. We found some good ones that might work out and enable us to have a cat if we so choose some day. Hope it goes well, I would really like to stop moving around year after year, but alas, it is not to be so.
To those who were with me in Japan a couple years ago (not that any of them read this) I THINK I HAVE FOUND THE CRACK WE DISCOVERED! the greatest snack food ever created. Plain Peanuts and Rice Crackers! They taste great with beer and even on their own. I have yet to test it, but I found the rice crackers packaged by themselves and now it is simply a quest to find the right peanuts to bring out that wonderful crack-like addictive snack food property!
Sasswot link for the day: http://www.bitterfilms.com/ Some of the greatest animated videos about love... heh
1/31/06
Alright. I'm a junkie... I know it, I know... Ultima Online is like Crack! Thanks to the ability to advance a character and be able to get jewelry to enhance the skills you want, you're able to jump into the heat of things a lot sooner than you use to be able to. No more worrying about getting picked off by Mongbats when you have a Lord of the Abyss staring at where you're invis'ed. I've decided to be a rares collector. Mostly, I'm getting the artifacts now, but when I have the money and the price is right, I'm picking up on some of the things that you can't get anywhere else. It will be awhile, I'm sure, before I have a really respectable collection, but it is still my goal. Oh yes, and to gain my Glorious Lord title once again.
I went to see Mirrormask tonight with Sara. BRILLIANT film! I would recommend for all to see it. There is something to be said for the human imagination and the ability to translate it to film is a spectacle indeed!
Sasswot link for the day: http://www.bigad.com.au/ one of the largest scale advertisements that I have seen, and quite a sight!
1/24/06
Wow. I made it a month without updating my site, unlike my previous declaration of updating at much smaller intervals... *sigh* I blame my job. I blame retail, and I blame stupid people. (and a small bit of guilt of laziness, but mostly the other stuff... heh)
I found out the other day that O.K. is actually a shortened version of Oll Korrect, in some other language, translating to All correct. Probably the easiest translation I have ever come across since I learned No in Spanish is still No. If only the other 3 years I "studied" that language was as easy.
Movie talkers - I hate them. I believe that they are the scum of the earth and I wish I didn't have this, I don't know, sense of responsibility to NOT stand up, verbally berate them, break their cell phones in two and then bloody my fists with their face. I want to know what idiot gene is responsible for them to believe that it is Oll Korrect to disturb the cinematic fantasy that is the movie going experience. I just don't get it. I really don't. This is why my best friend and I will have our own movie theater. Members Only. You will have to take a test on movie going etiquette and then you will be upheld to those standards at all times. Cheaper food and snacks to those who know how to watch a movie in peace and quite too! I hate stupid people.
Sasswot link for the day: Become a Lord or Lady Seriously, somebody should buy me the 1sq ft of land in Scotland so i can be a Lord!
12/21/05
So Pesto shared his discovery of a GREAT movie made by fans of World of Warcraft and the musical Avenue Q (well, at least one of the songs from it) and I downloaded the .avi so you all could see it too. Be warned, the song is "the Internet Is For Porn" so its not for the little children. But I laughed a lot. I would recommend getting the soundtrack to the Musical Avenue Q, since it is quite brilliant! Well, you can download or watch the video here
12/08/05
Its official, I just completed my 8 year contract with the military! It actually doesn't seem that long ago I was sitting in the MEPS station, signing my soul away, and now I have most of it back!
I have been re-reading Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card and I love them as much as I read them the first time. I want to thank a dear friend who got me into these books in the first place. Drew Hodges. You will forever be remembered as a wonderful man, something that your battle with cancer could never strip away. You taught us all how to live with odds stacked against us. You never gave up and you take with you our love and support to the rest you have found. Thank you Drew.
In reading Speaker for the Dead again, I kind of want to have a "Speaking" at my death. Its at that time I want to be truly known to all. Will people say nice things about me? It makes me wonder. To know somebody is to love them. How I wish the world was that understanding. We see people pass by us every day. Strange faces that mean nothing to us, people we will never speak to or know. It is folly to know all 9 billion people here, but to those around us, what impression will we leave them with? I hope people can look upon me as fondly as Drew was looked upon. I just ask that they remember and smile...
12/02/05
I thought it was funny. Sara sent it to me... My favorite question... "You and your exploring party round a corner to come face to face with a hundred goblins, twenty orcs, five Ogres and a rust monster. What do you do?" My answer: Strip down to underwear, grab the rust monster by the tail, and beat the others to death with it.
12/01/05
Ok. The white stuff is here. This is the time of year that I start screaming a lot in my car while I run around town and the such... People, PLEASE learn how to drive before you get behind the wheel! Just because you have to scrape your windows before you go anywhere doesn't mean that you can or should throw the rules of driving out the window! There is still such a thing as right of way, and when I have it, you better damn give it to me, and don't honk at me thinking its my fault that I'm in your way when you're trying to turn left while I go straight... Fools... every one of them... This is why I believe that I should have a force field on my car that clears out anybody from driving within 1/2 a mile of me. I don't like stupid people, and I really don't like stupid people behind the wheel while I'm trying to drive. *sigh*
I'm feeling graphically impotent right now, that's why I have not added the disclaimer to the bottom of my site, nor put the "finishing touches" on.... Who am I kidding, I need to complete the thing, so it looks complete and revamp the other sections, come up with new and interesting things to say and show... Blah!
Is nothing sacred?! I just heard a car drive by after its wash and the "song" coming from the stereo was a R&B mix of a Phil Collins song... I mean come now! Seriously. Its a known fact that I hate most Rap and R&B (50 Cent being #1 on my list of people I hate, mostly due to his new craptacular game being out) and while I worked at the Goody, I learned to hate a lot more of it. Its not even music to me. They take well established songs and bastardize them into some hip hop crap that just proves yet again that they can't write their own stuff. (here is where I'm hypocritical because I do enjoy the occasional cover song or group like Me First and the Gimmie Gimmies, or Weird Al's polka medleys, but to me, that's more of paying tribute to the original song writers) Next thing you know, there will be a remix of Jesus Loves Me and it will be all about bitches and hoes, who's got their freak on with all sorts of bling and that cracked out wanna be gangsta that "grew up da streets" with his hommies and always got dis'ed by the Man... *sigh* I said it before and I'll say it again, I give it 5 more years and the amount of original music will decline and the next generation will think that all the remixes being put out are all originals. One of the saddest moments was when my best friend's little sister was listening to Jessica Simspon's "I think I'm in love" and she thought it was a totally original song while my best friend and I looked at each other and both said that we liked it better as "Jack and Diane" by JCM.
11/25/05
Thanksgiving at my dad's place was good. It was the first time in a very long time that everybody was back home together. I'm one step closer to building my PC. My father and step-mother got me the G15 Gaming Keyboard that I had asked for, so I won't have to worry about picking that one up, plus I can use it in the meantime... Backlit buttons, 53 programmable buttons for macros, an LCD screen that can display instant messages as well as in game stats and a plethora of other things, provided I know the C+ coding to make it happen, which I'm more than willing to try and learn. Goo!
Sara survived intact and she got several thumbs up from the family, which is always a good feeling, though its not like I need approval, but it just reconfirmed that I gots me a good one!
Its Black Friday. Those who are doing shopping today, do so calmly and have a little courtesy for those behind the counter...
More updates will follow when I have the time, I just wanted to prove to myself that I could do an update post without 7 months passing...
11/23/05
That's it... I'm starting fresh. It has been far too long (about 7 months) since I updated this page, and I am making a new vow to not let that much time pass before updating it again! As you can tell, if this isn't your first time here, I gave the site a face lift, well, perhaps just this side of it. the Threads have stayed with the same format, though I will seek to change things there as I find the time.
The next mission is to build myself a PC, which I'm thinking won't be as daunting as I once thought it would have been now that I'm finally reading up on the subject. I found the right case, and with a couple pieces of flare, it can be my very own JINX box... It has almost got me giddy.
Things are good life right now, well mostly (considering it is near Black Friday and I work retail). Have a decent place, with a roommate that I see eye to eye on (not saying that previous ones didn't), the most perfect woman for me, a job that I enjoy and a great gift of loving and supportive family. Things are good!
Here's to hoping that I can continue to update this as often as I'd like, and to those you thought I never would... HA!