He Lives...kinda

Well I thought I'd check in and let everybody know that I was alive. We just had Jon up for 8 days and it was a total blast. Just basically hung out for a week and played the hell outta some Burnout 3. I order you to go get that game...NOW!!

In other news I've started up a little guild in World of Warcraft, but I imagine everybody who actually reads this either knows about it or is in it so I was just kinda saying to to get it out. So far so good. no mutiny yet so that's gotta be a good thing.

Anywho just wanted to say i was alive, or and hi to those I haven't talked to in months...

Mahalo

I would have to say that yesterday was total crap...

I think yesterday was the worst day of my life. This must have been my pre-emptive karma that I'm always talking of, which is to say that bad things happen to me before i do bad things, or something along those lines. I'm not going to go into the gory details as I've told the story so many times I'm pretty tired of it. so I'll present the major downfalls in a list form.

1. Had to shovel the driveway out 3 times because teh plow plowed me in just as I was about done

2. Spilled my coffee trying to roll down teh passenger side window. it spilled all over teh front of the truck

3. The oxygen regulator in my torch set died, leading to #4

4. Got into an accident when someone slide through a stop sign. (interesting side note, a) This was the first time I'd gone through Westbrook to get to Johnstone. b) Johnstone ended up not even having my regulator so I came out of it with $2800 in damages and no regulator. c) there was a place across the street from teh shop I could have bought one from but it would have been 3x as much as the one from johnstone.

5. Ended up having to do the legwork myself after my own accident, in the smashed up van.

I'm positive there was more, but I've probably blocked it from my memory so I won't be writing it down here. So that was my day....wanna trade places?

Mahalo

Was there no communication in this car?

I'm sure all of you have read, or been made aware of teh fact that Hunter S. Thompson is dead. I really didn't want to make any comments on the fact yesterday because everybody "in the know" would have been posting at great length, linking to articles, and coming up with obscure quotes, and those less "in the know" would have just been spouting Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas quotes.

But the truth of the matter is that we lost a great voice that represented us, even though the vast majority of his exploits took place in teh 60's and 70's, he wasn't afraid to speak up against the fascists. While juast about everybody has seen the movie, most of you haven't read the book, or the others that he wrote. He really was a voice of reason and logic and he had "been there" for a good deal of modern history in one state of mind or another. His "Gonzo Journalism" could probably be considered the founding basis on which the modern blogger "reporters" such as Atrios and Attaturk made their comparison. Much like Nicola Tesla was the father of modern telecommunications, Hunter S. Thompson was the founder of modern journalism. He will be sorely missed by me at least...

Mahalo

Can't sleep...dwarves will steal my ore...

I've become pretty well entrenched in World of Warcraft. Enough so to have officially had "hijinks" now. There's a long story behind that catchy title. My character's chosen profession was blacksmith. seemed economical. Class = Warrior, why not craft my own equipment. So following in the spirit of economy I decided to take mining as my gathering profession. And why not, if i'm gonna craft epic weaons and fantastic suits of armor, wouldn't it be best if i could supply my own materials as well? Well he dwarves have other ideas. For about a week or so now virtually every mineral vein that I find already comes equipped with a dwarf looting it. I'm not going crazy thinking this is the "Short Menace" or something...chad's seen this in action and had it happen to him on several occasions. It wouldn't be so bad if there were other races thrown in there, but it's always dwarves. So my Night Elf Warrior/Miner/Blacksmith/Nurse is now lvl 19, making his own shit and fighting with(against) the dwarf menace whenever I can

Huzzah!

Wow, has it been that long?

OK, so I have some confessions to make. Sorry if this saddens or angers anyone, but I'm still doing this My Life thing. Well first off, I killed 7 sea gulls with my van yesterday. THey were kinda huddled down in teh parking lot...the snow covered parking lot, and I didn't see them and they didn't move until i was right on top of them...literally. Sooooo that was my personal day of death. Also I've decided to give up City of Heroes, at least for a while. Reason: I've picked up World of Warcraft and it satisfies my gaming needs. As much as I love CoH and the people I play it with, World of Warcraft is much more enjoyable. So to those who I play CoH with, if you feel the need, come on over to WOrld of Warcraft, I promise you won't be disappointed.

In other news I almost had to pistol whip an accountant last week. It's been notoriously cold the last few weeks with highs ranging from 6 to 16. well I go to do this accounting firms winter maintenance and find one of their units is in COOLING and has since turned into a huge block of ice seen only in nature shows. It was 6 degrees out. if You need cooling OPEN A FREAKIN WINDOW!!

Well that's about all I can think of to say in this post. So if anyone out there decides to swing over to World of Warcraft, feel free to shoot me an email and lemme know you're on and I'd be happy to travel with you.

that is all.

The Toothman Cometh...

Aside from all the other craziness that is happening I'm going to the dentist today to get my last "wisdom" tooth yanked out of my skull. Sounds like a good time doesn't it...well maybe about as fun as getting a tooth pul...shit I've got nothing to compare it to now. Couple of new purchases of late that have kept me from a lot of stuff. Vampire: Bloodlines, awesome game if a bit buggy. No multiplayer so that kinda sours it a bit. I feel I've ranted anough about the vampire: Redemption MP community so you understand why lack up multiplay here is a little disappointing. Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal hasn't been played yet ironically enough. I hear it's a phenomenal game, but just haven't had the time to crack into it much. And for the last one...Suikoden 4. It's definitely a different take on the series. While it has a lot of the same material, it takes place on a series of islands so there's a lot of sailing and buckles being swashed or something like that. It just came out yesterday so I'm not too sure about how it all comes together yet so i'll let you know I'm sure.

Recent movie purchases have been equally as entertaining. The most notable one was Shaun of the Dead. Two words for you guys. Holy. Shit. My god that movie was hilarious. A must see. Also picked up 21 Grams. I couldn't tell you if it was a good or a bad movie or not because I don't understand a freakin thing that happened in it. It's shot in the style of Pulp Fiction, where the story jumps around and tells itself from different places. Unfortunately instead of jumping around in clearly defined chapters and THEN seeing how it all comes together at the end, like Pulp Fiction, this movie jumps between the stories of 3 different and unrelated people. So one minute Sean Penn is dying of heart failure in his bedroom and the next he's being rushed to the hospital for a gunshot wound to the chest, and then it shows benicio Del Toro Preaching to this hood rat in some uber cultist type church and then he's in prison. it's so convoluted and hard to follow I obviously was in teh wrong state of mind to fully appreciate the movie. So to cleanse our pallets of that one we picked up Austin Powers. I don't think i need to run down that miovie for you guys.

Well I'm gonna play a little CoH before I go to meet the torturer.

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just a quick post...

yeah yeah yeah, i know it's been a while since i posted, but to tell the truth i've been a little busy. things get hectic ya know. Fopr instance i worked from 8am till 830pm yesterday. not to fun eh? i'll tell more about it when i get back tonight, because, suffice to say, i've gotta go into work early today. fun fun fun.

and I don't want to hear about being a slacker unless A) you have a child, or B) you're working 3 jobs.

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lots of information

well there's certainly been a lot of things going on. First and foremost is that I updated good ole HAL. He's now the proud recipient of a video card transplant. He also got a new sound card and a dvd rom. also i picked up one of those spiffy Saitek PC gaming keyboard...now I am uber :) There's a lot of things I need to say and clear up.

Let's start with the fact that I have received no email with the exception of an email from Leslie in about 2 weeks. While It doesn't bother me too much, it just lets me know how things are. Next I need to clarify something. The common question seems to be "You couldn't wait 10 minutes?" No, no I couldn't wait 10 minutes and here's why. For the last 3 months I've had MSN messenger up almost non-stop. And on the rare occasion that anyone is actually on they're either set to busy or away. no problem. everybody has to leave the keyboard from time to time. But hey, I leave a message saying hi. I figure that in the event that someone returns they'll see the message, since it has to pop up on the desktop, and possibly shoot one back. Even if it's to say "hey, i've gotta go to work. talk to you later", that would be better than what I get. What I invariably get is about 3 hours of silence followed by the person signing off. So after 3 months of this if i send a message to an away person and they don't respond within 5 minutes i'm gone to move on with my life. It's not just one person responsible for this, but just about everybody from down south. Like i said even if you're busy shoot a hi gotta go message back...or don't get snippy because I'm not waiting for you to respond when you come back 5 days later.

Thirdly there's been a situation in Pensacola involving some good friends that i've stayed out of. And I'm going to continue to stay out of it. No one wants to know what I've got to say and no one would listen even if I told them. I personally haven't been aprised of any changes in the situation and don't personally care anymore. Time to grow up all around. Don't send me mail or comment here asking what the fuck I mean, because I'm not going to address them.

So I've been playing the hell out of some half-life 2 and HL2 Deathmatch. It's just too much fun and now must find new maps for Deathmatch.

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I have Plumbed and I have been Plumbed...

Those who don't know what the hell i'm talking about haven't played Half-Life 2 Deathmatch. I downloaded it yesterday morning, but never got around to play it until a little bit ago. While repeatedly getting hit from behid with a toilet may be irritating, there's just something about hurling one at someone else with the gravity gun that's just so sweet. The only problem that I find with it is that I do not believe that it should be a one hit kill. I mean yeah, if I get beaned in the skull with a 70 pound piece of porcelain it's gonna hurt...no doubt about it, but what I've witnessed is the decline of civilisation as we know it. They spawn camp, hell they camp period, all with toilets and whatever foreign matter they care to find in anticipation of me joining the land of the fragging. All in all it's far too much fun to pass up...speaking of which..when's anybody from P'cola gonna get on this shit?

Resistance is Futile...Give me your Cheese Fries 

Just a quick question...

Why is my bag of disposable razors resealable? I didn't know that freshness was an attribute they graded razors on now.

Anyway back to the weekly drudgery

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Half-Life 2 Pwnz my S0uL

I picked up Half-Life 2 SIlver from Steam friday. I did this mainly for a few reasons. 1) i couldn't play HL online because it was always bitching about how it wasn't up to date and teh HL2 Silver came with HL: Source and Counterstrike:Source. so I'm up to dat eon my half life goodness. Now back to the title of this little entry. The game is friggin incredible. I knew it was gonna be something special to look at, but i had no idea it was gonna be this detailed with a fairly deep story for a FPS. That and I've kinda loved Gordon Freeman since the original. He seems like such the unlikely hero. and it was kinda nice to see my HEV after so many years. and damn did it look smooth :) For you FPS lovers out there I highly recommend it. and now if i can just get a hold of clayson...

Well that was anti-climactic...

I'm sure you guys have noticed that I haven't posted anything on my non-smoking diaries...but you know what...it's not s interesting as I thought it would be. Yeah the first 3 or so days were a little rough, but after that it's been a non-issue. No critical craving, no homicidal mood swings, no nothing. It wasn't the Descent Into Madness(TM) that I thought/heard it was going to be. Oh well here's the short form anyway. I've not been smoking for the last 8 days, nor do I feel the inclination to have a cigarette. almost a bummer...

On an interesting sidenote I have seen horrors that no human mind should ever bear witness to. I think I am officially sterile and lo be thankful that you are only getting the words and not the live-action picture that I got. I got the meet "Kelly" today. As many of you don't know, i've been doing the maintenance on the Catholic Charities Maine building which essentially translates to an out-patient mental ward. It was here that I got to meet "Kelly" and boy was that a shock to the system at 8am/7am Central. Check Local Listings. "Kelly" was of the "Weirdo Transvestite" category. Not really what I would call "Executive Transvestite" by any stretch of the imagination. There was no doubting "Kelly" was a man. In fact I think "Kelly" really needed a girls night out to help with the makeup and the fugliness, erm I mean manishness, erm I'll just shut up now.

Now I have no problems with Tranvestites, Gay people any of those groups. But I was not prepared for "Kelly" I mean we've maintained this building before. "Kelly" isn't new...someone could have given me a heads up. I mean When you hear a guy ask if you want some coffee while you're waiting for Teresa and you look up and there's a 6 foot 3 inch man in heels, a nice blouse, socks or something oddly lumpy stuck in a bra, a pretty slapdash job with some makeup and a wig on it kinda makes you shiver for a second...and not in a good way. Anywho I'm off to bed. more updates as they become interesting...

Nic-Free Diaries Day 3 & 4 Morning...

"And Someone was giving boose to these god damn reptiles"

Yesterday was the stress test. Had a virtual nobody in management decide to give me shit for his mistake...He almost died. and I don't mean metaphorically. I was ready to reach my hands around his throat and choke him until he expired. My body realised we were running on empty yesterday. body no likee. Kinda had a medecine body feeling. Dunno if that was connected to the lack of nicotine or not, but you know that feeling when you take a few actifed and you feel kinda detached...yeah that feeling. This morning hasn't been bad, but I felt like i needed to report for yesterday and might as well throw this morning in as well. We got SNOW bitches... :) just a dusting but a little :)

The Nic-Free Diaries - Day Two

"The vibes had turned ugly. But Why? Was there no communication in this car?"

Today wasn't as bad as I had expected it to be. I craved a cigarette far less than I would have expected...though communication was not my strong point today. I probably said less than four or five words in a row to a person at any one time. Even when I did speak I couldn't vocalise thoughts and ideas as normal so it was kind of embarassing. I think the most aggravating part of today is that all the smokers and reformed smokers alike have some sort of war story to tell you from when they tred to quit. I've come to the realisation that the only thing more self-righteous than a born again christian is a born again non-smoker.

Fear and Loathing in Southern Maine...

Statement: I have decided to quit smoking. And for the next 2 weeks at the least, everybody will know about it. For I am using this blog, amongst other things, to chronicle the decent into insanity that I'm sure will ensue. Why do I do this? Do I do this because hate you? NO...well at least 49% of you I don't. I do this maybe to keep me honest. Since I know that most of the people around that read that will and can call bullshit to the stuff I'm typing. And I'll title the progression in the only way that would fit this most "Gonzo" of stories...In Hunter S. Thompson quotes. SO without further ado:

The Nic-Free Diaries - Day One: "So oppressive; This feeling of Fear and Loathing"

I almost strangled someone today. The first day has to be the worst. None of those junkie signs like the shakes or dry mouth or anything...just an insufferable need to smoke a cigarette. The body hasn't yet figured out that it's not getting anymore. No doubt the revolt is sure to come. To be honest it's almost a mental breakdown and rebuild. Nerves and reflexes that are normally sharp seem shakey ad a bit slow. I slammed my hands in so many doors and other objects today it just made me even angrier. Though note for anybody else who feels the need to quit smoking...never use Peppermint Altoids as a substitute on your first day. I went through a tin of them while fighting the urge to pull over at the store and buy a pack of cigarettes. If you eat that many altoids you will get acid reflux, the likes of which you have never seen nor could possibly imagine. I have downed 4 Tums E-X and I can still feel it rumbling around down there. Hopefully day two and beyond will prove a little easier...

I Pwn...

Which OS are You?


But on a more serious note I think I'm done mourning the lost election. I mean there's only so long I can bitch...wait...no there isn't. I've got more in me i'm sure. But I've decided to do a little blame shifting. I can't necessarily blame bush, or the republicans, or the conservative democrats. I'm full out blaming the american people...or at least 51% of them. Yes Bush pulls some of the most screwball antics the world has ever seen for is and his cohorts personal gain. But how did he get there? What act of god put him in power? Wasn't himself...it was the american people. So when things go helter skelter I'm not writing my congressman...I'm writing you...those who voted for the man-chimp...and I can be very angry...

You all may fear me now...

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You Know You're From Portland, ME When...

You're at Dunkin Donuts, drunk, at midnight on friday and saturday nights You attend EVERY porltand-deering sporting event...regardless of what it is. You know that there is a football game on Thanksgiving morning between the two rival schools. It takes at least 12 inches of snow for school to be cancelled. You drink in parking lots all winter long You know what Bill's Pizza is You think that Univ. of Maine - Orono is another 4 years of high school. You know what the Old Port is You understand the theory behind Dimillo's floating restaurant. You've skipped school or work to start drinking early Vacation means a trip to Montreal You know what an Italian Sandwich is You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Portland, ME.

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