SOE can't censor everything

This guy was selling sacrifices to a necro to make soul stones for rezzes in EQ1 back in the day, and he gave me permission to drag his corpses.

divine intervention

Ok I was posting a blog but apparently God (in a never ending attept to cover my ass) felt that it would be bad if I posted it and made it go away. So now I will refer to it as "the blog post that never was."

Sometimes you gotta follow God's instructions, especially on raids. God's my Guild Leader.

the other half of the glass

You know, people with characteristics of A.D.D. REALLY shouldn't be left in offices by themselves, unsupervised for months at a time with minimal work loads, no contact with other employees and the option of locking their own door. ... Wait a minute... what am I saying? It freaking rocks.

Ok. Moving on to something cute...

To balance out my previous post I have created this one. To be honset, I was just going to upload 1 pic but could not decide between these 2 so I uploaded both. God this is cute.

How I will die.

Andy: At age 70, while playing Tekken 23, a burgler will break into your house. A fight will ensue and you will lose.

Ok, go to this website and get your death prediction. http://evil.berzerker.net/death_predictions.php

Fly you fools... to the theater to watch my new movie.

Magneto / Gandalf
Is 67 Today!
Ian McKellen

2 smothies and a smile

The medical records dept is tucked away in a little corner of the Hospital. Luckily, its right beside a conference room that is in use almost every week. Today, thay are using it to do recertification classes for nurses. Why is this important? It is important because most of the time, when the conference room is in use, there is food involved and I always sneak over there and get some. Nurse training = Smoothie King so I grabbed one this morning and I just grabbed one more to make it through that 2 hour stretch before I go home. I was fortunate and able to get my hands on one of the last grape flavored smoothies. Those are the best.

Disgraceland

This is a website about a failed theme park in China that includes some great comintary by the photographer. http://www.jlasso.com/disgraceland/index.html

Very observant...

Ok. I have a tree lamp. I've had this thing by my bed since I lived in an apartment many moons ago. Yesterday, Barry steps into my room and walks right up the the lamp that now looks different because I have a lighter bulb in it and he goes, "When did you get a tree lamp?"








On a side note, this looks absolutly disgusting...but tasted so good.


If you look closely, you can almost see its pain.

13.5 miles

Yesterday, Joe and I hopped on our bicycles and figured we would go down the road a little bit. After making it to our first check point with ease, we decided to go a little futher and then further until we ended up at his brother's house just under 7 miles away. We took a short break there and then turned around and headed back to Joe's house. I really hadn't expected to pedal that far but it is good to know that I can. Joe is still using his old bike which is a little rusted and the gears are a little stripped but that is because he is saving up for a new bike that is at Wal-mart. He was going to get the $200 bike this coming friday but yesterday, discovered that they still ahve the bike he was REALLY wanting that is $300 so he will be saving for one more pay period to get his dream bike. I don't even want to try the $300 bike. I'm happy enough with my $70 model and don't really want to know how much better my riding experience could be since I don't have the cash for it anyway.

sometimes

You know, sometimes you gotta do something just for the sake of doing it and sometimes you just gotta tell someone you know that they are an idiot and an asshole to keep them in check..because they really are an idoit and and asshole...well...sometimes you at least really want to but don't because you know better... but they're still an asshole.

The government has cloaking technology... like the Predator suits dude

They finally did it. It was released that for the low low price of $1,600 per suit, they can fully cloak a person. Several photos were released with the documentation showing the cloaking technology in use on a man and on a small track wheeled robot. The man held up part of the cloaking suit infront of him and it looked like there was a big hole through his chest. He then stepped behind a waist high portion of the suit and became a floating torso. He then wore the entire suit with just his arms exposed and it just looked like 2 floating arms. This stuff adapts to whatever the terrain is and becomes a duplicate of that terrain to include grass, trees, bushes, whatever. Currently it only works when viewed from a minimum of 20 feet away, but that is still very good for 100% invisibilty and you don't have to be stationary. You can move around and still be unseen, though obviously movement reduces the invisibility to about 85%. Some of you may think that even if you can't see them, you can still use IR or heat sensor radar to track them but this suit also makes the wearer "un-visible" to all forms of radar, camera, and human eye spectrums. I got to see pictures of the suit used in a field and in use next to a building in an industrial area. I also saw pictures of the robot going across some grass and next to some bushes. The technology is still pretty new and the suit is a little box-ish but there are adaptations for people, dogs, ground vehicles, and boats. I'm guessing there is a version for planes but they haven't said it yet.

All I can say is that its about time they came out with the cool stuff.

Almost complete

Its been a long and tough battle but I am alomst finished with cleaning my room. I just need to hang up the rest of my clothes and finish up the bathroom and I will finally have a clean room AND and clean closet which has been my biggest problem since moving into this house. I would clean my room but always ended up just throwing stuff in the closet at the last second , then after a few days, I would need something that I threw in the closet and have to pull everything back out onto the floor. So, with a clean (as I am drawn to the sound of my little rain machine fountain overflowing all over the top of my chester drawer) closet I will begin anew and use the motivation from this victory to give wind to my bicycling and after I get better at that I will move on to dieting. I'l post some pics soon.

My butt is so sore.

I finally bought a bicycle yesterday. I also discovered that bike companies make them with really crappy parts so that you fork over the extra $$$ for the ever so convinient upgrades that are hanging on the wall right beside them. I bought one of those big Gel seats that are disigned for people that actually have an ass, unlike that 2 inch wide strip of uncomfortable plastic that they call a seat that comes standard. That thing is so small, one bad speed bump and a proctologist would have to remove it for me. Because I bought it at the Wal-Mart across from Joe's house, Joe and I just rode our bikes around the parking lot to get used to riding again... which does takes getting used to. After properly inflating the tires and adjusting the seat and handlebar height and getting the feel for the 18 different gears, the chain snaps and part of the gear shifter on the back wheel falls off in pieces. Luckily, we were still in the Wal-mart parking lot so I just wheeled it around and exchanged it for another one, AFTER putting all the original parts on the bike and keeping my accessories for the new one. All in all, it was about 3 hours of bike riding and then after the short break to exchange bikes, I hopped on that new bike with original seat and OMG the pain...the pain! My ass was already sore from not having done so much work on its own lately, but that crappy little seat just magnified the pain and I had to ride the bike standing up because it was so unbearable. I switched the seats out and pedaled in pain back to Joe's house where I parked it in his shed and began to discover just how sore I was and knew I was going to be today. My arms are still twitching a little. Soon enough though, I will be used to riding again and it will start being more fun. Joe will be getting a new bike on Friday but until then he was using his old bike which has old gears that are a little stripped. It was funny to watch him miss a gear every now and then going up a hill. Whoever designed those standard seats was probably praised by the company for stimulating extra sales but I swear he should have one of those seats... well lets just say bad things should be done to him... involving those seats.

It was a good run

Well this weekend had plenty of momentum for cleaning and organinzing. Enough so that I will continue with it this afternoon in hopes of finishing the project once and for all. Along the way, by random stacking of different things into my 3 piles of Keep/Trash/Wash, I discovered a creative new way to frame pictures. I had some left over pictures of friends of mine that I had cut and shaped for a collage. Not wanting to throw them away, placed them on top of my "Keep" pile. The top item up to that point was one of my empty mini-CD cases. The cut-out picture was small enough to fit inside of it so I put it in to see what it would look like and "bam" instant frame. I plan on putting them up but haven't decided of the method of attaching them to the wall yet. Right now it is between little velco stickers and spray on adhesive. The spray on will the frame to be flush with the wall and, as long as I use a lite coat, should be able to be removed with little trouble. The velcro will allow me to remove the frames and change the order of placement but the frames will stick out from the wall a little, and there will be the chance of accidentaly pulling both peices of velcro off of the wall at the same time.

I will be buying a bicycle soon. Nothing fancy, just a cheap bike from Wally world. Joe and I will start riding around so we can have a fitness routine again. The trips to KSU to play soccer and frisbee are fun but not as physicaly demanding as it could be. I'm sure that the bicycles will help us both get back in shape.

Happy Mother's Day

Happy Mother's Day to those of you out there.

This weekend was very productive I worked on my room and helped my neighbor do so yard work. Yesterday, I was out with Darsey, a friend of Barry's for a couple of hours so we flew kites and played some frisbee. Its a fun way to stay active.

... and not a moment too soon.

Soccer anyone?

Uunngg. One too many " Tipsy Smurfs" at the bar last night

Some of my art

Pfffft

I will be uploading some of my artwork from current and past projects over a period of days.

Lets try this again.

Ok, for anyone following, I have been on-again, off-again with my diet, and now I am going to try to get back on it. I think the key to staying on it will be juicing but I won't be juicing yet. Hopefully I can hold out for a week or so before I start juicing.

This weekend was pretty fun. I watched the extended version of the LOTR trilogy... wow thats an all day (and night) event. I wasn't strong enough for the bonus material. I watched about an hour and a half of it before I just had to stop it and walk away. Half way through the trilogy, I had to do SOMETHING active so I walked up Kennesaw Mountain then walked back down, hopped in my car, got back, took a shower and continued with the movie.

I was flipping through the channels (as usual when I watch TV which is why I don't watch much TV) and stopped for a minute on QVC. They were selling remote control planes. I was watching with Joe and now Joe is captivated by these reasonably priced RC planes/helicopters and spent to next hour or so researching them online.

I try to get with my friends and watch movies from time to time. Since its a bunch of guys, and I end up picking the movie due to no input from anyone else, I pick certain movies that I consider a staple of "Manly" movies. Movies that I feel every man must watch with friends at least once after the age of 21. Movies like "The Godfather" trilogy and "Scarface" I also recommend "Dune" (both versions). Though it isn't as manly, it still has certain values that must be taught. My next pick for movie night is "Ronan." It has one of the best car chases ever and Robert Deniro to boot.

I say these are movies that must be watched by men and among guy friends because they help to open up a part of yourself that needs to be opened atleast once or twice. Most of these movies are pure testosterone and can not be fully appreciated or even understood at a younger age and on some levels when veiwed alone. You must be a man, you must have had the time to expeirience the pain and hardships of life and love and and aggression. These movies put that gun in your hand. These movies put you behind the steering wheel of that high speed chase. These movies let you flaunt an arrogance of MAN that can only be appreciated by you and your friends as you all cheer and laugh and seek a just revenge to years of betrayal by a newly discovered enemy that was until just recently called "friend". You get to live out those great moments and be everything that a stereotypical man should be and is defined to be... and then, shortly after the credits roll, you get up, take a deep breath, and go back to your life. You turn back into who you were before the movie started only now with a little box of treasure, tucked away in the back of your mind that you sneak away and peak into every now and then in a secret opportunity to remember that beyond the politcal correctness, and the public view, beyond the family and wife and kids, beyond the day to day grind of a sluggishly boring job that you hate, beyond the rush hour traffic, and the news and the fear of actually doing ANYTHING that may make people look unkindly upon you, even if you never live out a single fantasy that is your own, you get to live out something that almost shouldn't even exist anymore yet is so fundamentaly required... and you didn't even have to offend anyone to do it...unless your wife found out that you were going to leave her out of movie night, but then again, just think of what Scarface would do if his wife wanted in on movie night with the guys. Just think it though. Don't say it. Don't mention it. Don't even suggest it. Don't even hint at it. Just think it, hold back a smile and do what you gotta do. Some would say that these movies are horrible, and they represent everything that a man shouldn't be, but that is the point. That is why they must be viewed. Its like learning from others mistakes. Going out in a blaze of glory, choosing a massive gunfight that you know you can't win over a slow drawn out death, or dieing as an old man, all alone having looked back and hated what he had become. Its fundamental. It shows us what we could become so that we don't have to be that way... but its still fun to imagine... and you get the the one liners.

You WILL give in...

Thanks to Joe for this one.

Don't ask. I don't know.

Dude I don't know why. It just came out.

When there is something strange

Just mail it...its practically faster.

New policy and proceedure

Sometimes its better off NOT explained as a hyperbole.







I give full credit of the artwork to the folks at www.penny-arcade.com.

The Eagle Cam!

http://www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/

There is this live web cam w/ sound of this eagles nest w/ 2 eagles that had 3 eggs. Up to now, 2 eggs have hatched the they are still sitting with the 3rd. Its just a bird in a nest, but... wel.. it just addicting..stupid stupid addicting. Watch it