So I purchased a laptop through The Source. It was an old HP model but will be decent for whom i'm giving it to: My mom. My mom hasn't gotten a brand new computer in a long time. (i'm talking pre-pentium here) so I thought it would be nice if she got something that was all for her and brand new.

Not top of the line, just new. I think one of the reasons why i got a good deal on it is because it comes with vista home premium on it and has a page inside detailing how to upgrade to WIN7. But when I went to the website, that offer had expired. So no free upgrade for me.

The deal also offered the purchase of an acer netbook for $99. it was a pretty sweet deal so I coudn't overlook it. I took advantage of that too, and that is where i'm typing from. I must say that the tiny keyboard is tough to get accustomed to; i'm making typos left and right and I often miss the backspace due to its size.

But this little gadget is great for work. It's not as large as a laptop so the associates don't notice it and complain that I can do something that they can't. I can plug my external hd into it and play my tunes, and I can plug my phone into it and get the net.

I still have to get my mom's computer all ready; set her up with some games and the like, i hope to have that done for friday so she can fiddle with it over the weekend.

I wonder if anyone even reads this anymore.

Heyo! It has been a long time since I stopped using this service in liew of Livejournal.

And I've stopped using livejournal a LONG time ago opting for things like twitter and facebook.

Well, I both love and hate facebook...I DO hate writing notes on facebook....it's just so hard to find where to publish a note.

Anyways. I stumbled upon this old blog and thought, hey, why not post my thoughts here?

I don't always have too much to say, but when I do, i'll likely say it here.

So lately I've been toying with the idea of making some review videos of old nintendo games. Sorta like the angry video game nerd, or linkara's videos, just with me instead of them. And a lot less angry then the AGVN...his constant swearing gets tiresome after a while.

I doubt it'll ever be really popular(like just about anything I do) but it'll be fun. It's just to get started.

I have the game picked out, I even wrote some script for it.

I guess i'm just lazy.

They'll come in time, i'm sure. I think it's because there are so many reviewers already out there, I don't want to be thought of as a copycat.

Eh, we'll see.

to all my faithful readers.

you may visit my blog at it's new home...right here

I have less problems updating livejournal than blogger(in fact, i've had both accounts for about the same time, and only had 1 problem with Livejournal, but they quickly repaired it.)

So, please adjust your links appropriatly :)

"1,2,3,4,5. Everybody in the car so come on let's drive down to the liquor store around the corner" [Lou Bega, Mambo No.5]

Well, if you're a reader of Penny arcade, then you might already be aware of the problems they've had lately.
If not, let me fill you in.
Our story starts with American McGee. He's the guy(or she's the girl, i'm REALLY not sure) who made the dark and twisted adventures of Alice in wonderland. It was an interesting twist on things, but not much was changed other than the look of the characters, which were basically dark..and twisted.(although I LOVED the cheshire cat)
So, recently, American has decided to redo the Wizard of Oz.
This prompted Spawn creator Todd McFarlane to make some awsome looking toys to go along with the new story.
Now, the guys at penny arcade was prompted to poke a little fun, basically saying that they're not really impressed with the story, that it's nothing to take an old story and make it sexy and gory.
So, they put out a one pane comie featuring Strawberry shortcake sitting on Plum pudding(i think), who is knelt over, with a nice red ass, likley from the crop that Ms Shortcake has in her hand.
Very adult, but nothing in the way of graphic. Well, as it turns out, the people at American Greetings hold the copyright to the strawberry shortcake franschise and decides that it was in bad taste, and demanded to have the comic removed or legal action was to ensue.
So, being the smart guys they are, they took the comic down, not wanting to waste time or energy on something so stupid, then they put up a comic poking fun at American Greetings.
So, being the person I am, I decided to find out why the comic was taken down.
I emailed them directly, not in an offensive manner, just asking a simple question. What was the big deal? Comics have been poking fun at things and people for decades now, why change it?
Are they going to sue a standup comedian for making a similar comment? Unlike a picture, the spoken word cannot be taken back.
Well, needless to say, american greetings did not reply to my email. I guess they fear persecution from yours truely.

Hey, it could happen!

Ok, you're right. Anyway.

Now, tonight I decided to treat myself to Burger King...ok not so much a treat rather than i'm effin sick of Subs from SubCity and wanted something different for lunch. =D
I walk in, and the place it packed, at 3am, on a wednesday, in a town that sleeps longer than is awake.
I wait around for 20 minutes and the line hasn't changed at all. So, angrily, I leave, and end up having a few HotPockets(tm)[Dont wanna get sued by schnider's] for lunch. A tasty treat, but it's not poutine...or a burger.
It's all those damn drunks. You figure that these people would be sleeping, or at home studying...
No, out at the bars, and after the bars it's time for food!! The cops were there too, it looked like there was a fight prior to my arrival. I was laughing at a few kids who didn't want to leave cause they were drunk out of their minds and didn't want to risk driving.
Pretty sad that the only reason they didn't want to risk driving was because 3 cruisers sat outside the place.

A calm breeze dances playfully through a bed of wheat and grain that expands over an entire plain. The mighty sun shines its brilliant rays, illuminating then entire scene for us to behold.
Grasshoppers jump from stem to stem not knowing what awaits them at thier next destination.
In mid jump, while one grasshopper soars through the air, contrasted by the brilliant blue sky, a loud thunderclap resounds through the air. The blue sky quickly transforms to a murky grey, dull and drab. The gentle breeze changes to violent winds. The grasshoppers jump no more, lest be carried off by the powerful forces at work.
Droplets of rain fall from the sky, and slowly begin to cover all of the foliage, making them wet. Grasshoppers seek shelter from the rain, which has increased exponetially in size and volume. A torrential downpour has begun. Will it ever end?

We try to wrap our minds around a reality that we can only perceive with our five sense, that of sight, smell, sound, taste and touch.
But there is so much more to reality that we cannot see, or hear. Perceptions need to be changed in order to sense the true nature of our universe.
Some have the ability to do this already,but are often dismissed as crackpots or jokers. But what if there was more to what they said? What if the reality we see is only an interpretation of what really goes on in the world?
Reality is only what we make of it...and maybe we could make so much more.
This is poetry in motion without movement of any kind
This is a sight to see with no one to witness
These are the sounds of pure joy, silent and forboding.
Reality is what we make of it...are you ready to make yours?

"How far to go? I cannot say. How many more will journy this way?" [Enya, Storms in Africa]

You know, if I made money on writing stuff, i'd so be sufferning from writer's block.
I've had ideas for poems for the past little while now, but I'm not around a pen or piece of paper..by the time I get to some, the idea has flitted away from my forever churning mind.

Then, when I sit my ass down to write, I get nothing. Nada, zip.
I spoke to a few people, and they tell me that EVERY writer goes through this in one form or another.
I'm thinking that's why my blog has been suffering as well. Nothing really to talk about....

Well, that's not entirely true.
This weekend was pretty hellish!

Oh yeah, take a seat, put your feet up, grab some popcorn, cause this is entertaining.

So, after work on friday, 8am, I promised to help my friend, we'll call him Boap, move into my appartment.
Long story short, he and his girlfriend broke up and he needed to get out quick...since he just bought a car he needed a cheap place to stay.
Hence, I let him stay with me, dirt cheap.
So, 8am I go home and he's there, waiting for me. We head to the truck rental place, and get the truck. A big truck...but old...old OLD!
It's an old disel truck, with standard transmission. Some genius at the rental place decided it would be a good idea to place a sticker over the gear shift, so you can't see the gear positions...you sort of have to guess. Oddly enough, reverse was all the way to the left and up, when it's normally all the way to the right, and down.

SO, we head to his place, and he doesn't have everything packed yet. We start to move and pack and rest and move and pack.
Oh, did I mention it was only the two of us? Yeah, just the two of us...w00t.
12 hours later. We're done. Weeee!
But, there were headaches in between. It seems the suspension of the truck( called "air ride suspension") didn't work quite as well as we hoped, and two pieces of furniture got destroyed. Fortunatly, one of them seems to be salvagable with some glue and many large spikes.
At about 4, we realized the storage place closed at 7, so we had to hurry up. We got there around 6:45, and managed to unpack everything by 7:30, which is when the guy was going to kick us out. Oh, he was going to be there all night, but i guess opening the gate was a real problem for him after 7:00pm. Must be MS or some serious disease.
Oh yeah, when I hopped into the truck, I was flabberghasted to discover that the seatbelts were only the lap straps...no shoulder straps at all. I thought that was illegal at this point. Just goes to show the age of this vehicle.
So, when all was said and done, we go to raise the ramp to leave my appartment, and return the truck.
The ramp won't raise. It keeps getting stuck on something unseen from our vanatage point.
After 10 minutes of slamming the damn thing around, the neighbours decide to investigate. 2 of them came out to see what was going on, and decided to help us in our plight.
so I end up climbing underneath and discovering the problem...these two hooks were in the way. Apparently part of the track wasn't working right, which was supposed to guide the ramp over these hooks. So Boap climbs underneath as well, and pushes up with his legs as we slide the ramp in.
Sucess. Man I was looking for a way to rip the ramp off the hinges at that point...luckily, my neighbours are good people. I shook their hands and thanked them.
So, by the time all was said and done, we got some food, i took a bath for my aching muscles, I had been up for 32 hours straight. I went to bed, and crashed before touching the bed.
That was a wierd feeling since I normally toss and turn for a few hours before falling asleep.

Saturday and sundays were normal days, and, i think thanks to the bath, I feel no muscle pain. yipeee!!

Ok, so I lied, I did have a lot to talk about. Funny how thoughts creep up on you.
Next installment...the Odd couple...like with Boap....=D

"Peace, joy. To be loved, to have hope. This is a list of things, my future will bring. [Damhait Doyle, List of things]

'Everything you want.
Instantly'

A slogan from an AOL broadband thing.

I want everything, and I want it know.
*waits*
I don't have it.
Hmm, i wonder if they mean just stuff on the internet.
That means I can get stuff on ebay for free! Cause it's stuff I want...instantly!!
If it worked like that, then i WOULD jump onto the AOL bandwagon, despite it being a cwappy ISP.

Do you laugh at porn?
I used to. when I watched it. I really don't see how watching two or more people having sex gets a couple horney.
Guys, I can see, cause guys like porn...they are the main investors of the market...but women?
Does anyone honestly know a woman that puts in an old porn tape and start to masturbate with a passionate fever?
That's what I thought.

"She's singing sailor sailor, out on the ocean. Bring your ship in and carry me away." [Gaye Delorme, Sailor Sailor]

You know, undertime really drives me nuts.
I work at a call centre, and right now we're overstaffed. So, to try and alleviate that problem, we allow undertime during a shift, and now, people can call in and request undertime before their shift starts.
Pretty cool huh? I think so too..but the SAME people call every day! I mean, I wonder how the hell they make ends meet? They call in every day and take the day off.
These are the same people that have like 45 sick days in a work year.
Never mind the fact that somone called in at 3am, for undertime at 7:00am. I was tempted to say "no, better get some sleep in before your shift", mainly cause the person was a bit holier than thou attitude. Basically she was under the impression that I HAD to give her undertime.
Well, anyways, that's enough of that. Got that of my chest. Rockin.

I bought some RP books from a friend of mine's sister. I was pleased with what I payed and what I ended up with. My friend DJ just *had* to come with me. He was worried that I would have more books than him.
You see, this started a while back. We both play AD&D, and there are quite a number of boxed sets available. So one day we were going through mine and he noticed that I had more then he did.
This prompted him to buy a few more, to exceed my sets. I, in turn, bought some more, mainly cause I wanted them.
Jokingly, it became a competition, to see who would have the most boxed sets.
For some reason, the competition now includes books, as the first thing he said when I picked him up was "I can't let you have more books than me."

It's silly, but it makes me laugh! So I picked up a few books that I wanted. There were more, but I didn't have the cash to warrent such a big buy.