You have failed me for the last time....*force choke*

Long time no post. What's happened since the last one:

I got a wisdome tooth out last tuesday. The surgery went fine, no problems, but I had a bad reaction to the sedative they used. Long story short, I turned into this really frightening, crazy demon. I was "Extremely belligerent, mean, angry, and combative." Apparently there was some concearn that I'd deck the nurse and/or need to be restrained. I woke up from the sedative (technically anyway) at about 10:45 or so, but it seems that everything that I "remember" between then and about 3:30 when I woke up from a nap is a total and complete fiction that I made up in my head. The best one was when I was marching in place in the airport (we stopped so I could go to the bathroom and get a drink) and then started goose stepping back and forth, claiming that I was just pacing to try and clear my head. And I sent an e-mail or two and didn't know it untill I got a reply. And then the pain killesr...whoa...those do one hell of a number on me. The first couple of days I dont' remember a lot, but like the other day, I took one after school and then that evening I was talking to my best friend....good God, I'm never taking those again. Needless to say I apologized to her the very next day and swore up and down I'd never ever take those pills again. I also need to apologize to her mother the next time I see her...but let's not go there.

Anyway, school started up again. I hate my schedule. Passionately. I have B lunch, which means I'm starving to death by the time lunch rolls around. I have a 0 period that starts an hour before the rest of school which is really cool, but then I have the B lunch thing which really sucks things up. And even worse, I don't get to see hardly any of my friends during the day except in one class and then at lunch, and except for 7th period which is Debate/Theatre, I never get to see my best friend. I feel real bad for her because she's the only one in our group that has A lunch so she's all alone then. I tried to get A lunch and a few things changed in my schedule, but that completely fell through. And the school admins are totaly retarded. B lunch is already really crowded. One of them said that much on the anouncements that morning and said he was going to try and fix it. Then another one of them goes into some biology and other science classes that afternoon and says "Okay, instead of A lunch, all of you are in B lunch now." So they added MORE people to B lunch. How stupid can you get?

So yeah, I'm pretty ticked off with school this year. On a high note I did join Choir this year and I was nervous at first, but I think I'm really going to enjoy it.

Acts of Gord

Please note, I have a new link. The Acts of Gord. These are perhaps the funniest stories of sheer idiocy you will ever read. They are the stories of a game rental store owner in Canada and the sheer idiocy he dealt with on a near daily basis. Truly inspiring if you work in the retail business. There's 10 Books, but only 9 are listed on the main site. The 10th can be accessed only by viewing the 9th Chapter of the 9th Book and clicking on the link beneath the other Books that reads "The End..." Let me post what the creator of the site wrote, for they explain The Gord better than I ever could.

h Gord… Who is this Gord? Well, let me tell you about Gord.

took it upon myself to bring the slobbering masses into my embrace, and occasionally one aspiring demigod stood above the rest, and proved himself worthy of the name Owner. One of my most promising Keepers of the Retail Faith was The Gord. "Go," I said unto The Gord. "Go, and continue to give to the masses what they so richly deserve!" And he did.

ut the story was not yet over. For some time The Gord and I concurrently kept The Retail Faith. His Establishment maintained, surpassed and soon eclipsed mine in sheer Consumer Idiocy. Tales were told that begged disbelief. "No one," we thought, "Is really that stupid." But the stories continued, and the cries of the wretched grew louder and more plentiful. The stories were true: The Gord had become an Owner in Hell. Witness after Witness held forth tales of lunacy and mental vacuousness.

nd when I travelled from the hallowed halls of my Game Store and visited the Game Store of The Gord, the truth became apparent. I have no cause to disbelieve the veracity of the tales told here. The truth, it would certainly seem, is contained herein. Go now, and read of The Gord, and know that he has walked the path of the Game Store Owner, and that he has suffered for all of us.

knew him as Gord. These were his stories.

Video Games Cause Violence? BS!

The Economist - Games = Violence is Bunk

This great article from The Economist really sticks it to people who have this really confused notion that video games cause violence. It blames the stigma on old farts who don't understand or play games and creates several excellent analogies to explain that pattern of "Old is Good, New is Bunk." Very much worth a read.

Sanity Check

Right, okay, check my sanity on this. I wanna take over South America. As in rule it. My family thinks I'm nuts. Here's my plan:

I get a bunch of money and raise myself a small mercenary army. Then I pick out one country down in South America that has a barely functioning government but pretty good real-estate. I think use my Mercenaries to knock off the existing government and then install my own. I then spend several years fixing that country up and generally getting the people to be happy with the new government. Then I expand. Once built up, I offer smaller, less developed countries on the border 2 options: 1 - Swear fealty to me and be a subordinate State (getting plenty of advantages by doing so of course) or 2 - Be Taken Over by my nation by force.

Repeat the process over and over again and turn SA around over a period of 50 years or so. With advances in medical technology, I figure I'll have plenty of life span to mess around with it.

So, is my basic idea somewhat logical or am I just totaly insane?




On another note, Feck. I had a big long thing typed up about my first lesson back at Tae-Kwan-Do but the internet ate it spit the pieces out to God only knows where. Long story short, it went well, I enjoyed it, and I surprised the hell out of everyone.


I shall instead post this: GOLDFINGER ROCKS! 99 Red Balloons!

You and I in a little toy shop
buy a bag of balloons with the money we've got
Set them free at the break of dawn
'Til one by one, they were gone
Back at base, bugs in the software
Flash the message, "Something's out there"
Floating in the summer sky
99 red balloons go by.

99 red balloons floating in the summer sky
Panic bells, it's red alert
There's something here from somewhere else
The war machine, it springs to life
Opens up one eager eye
Focusing it on the sky
As 99 red balloons go by.

99 Decision Street, 99 ministers meet
To worry, worry, super-scurry
Call out the troops now in a hurry
This is what we've waited for
This is it boys, this is war
The president is on the line
As 99 red balloons go by.

99 Kriegsminister
Streichholz und Benzinkanister
Hielten sich fuer schlaue Leute
Witterten schon fette Beute
Riefen: Krieg und wollten Macht
Mann, wer haette das gedacht
Dass es einmal soweit kommt
Wegen 99 Luftballons

99 dreams I have had
In every one a red balloon
It's all over and I'm standin' pretty
In the dust that was a city
If I could find a souvenier
Just to prove the world was here...
And here it is, a red balloon
I think of you and let it go.

*frowns*

My best friend finally got around to checking her mail and sending me her schedule and I'm not pleased. She's making one schedule change and after she does that, we won't have a single class together unless that change causes another class to shift periods, putting us together. With any luck at all, we'll have the same lunch, but if we don't, I'm going to be highly...irritated. Perhaps so irritated I'll need to...correct the situation. The school has always bent to my Will before. It may find itself needing to do so again. As O'Malley from RvB (points to link column) would say "The Universe will be MINE!!! Bwahahaha!"

Fin

There...everything's fully customized. Got myself a nice counter so I can see if anyone actually reads this (thus indicating how paranoid I must be :P), got my links squared away for now, and the template's just how I like it. In other words, perfect.

Anyway, for high school, I need a PE credit. Since I'm constitutionally incapable of putting up with an organized sport at the school I go to (damn fanatics), and a regular PE class is simply an unacceptable waste of my time, not to mention embarrasing as hell to take and deal with, I'm taking Tae-Kwan-Do again. I took it like 10 years ago at my parents insistance, since my bro does it, and I really didn't like it, but that was mostly because it wasn't my idea to do and I just wanted to be at odds with my parents. Anyway, I'm joining up again, apparently at my old rank, yellow belt with 1 green stripe (IE: Pretty low on the totem pole) and my first class is tonight. I'm not in the best shape, but I do try to work out a bit, lifting weights and stuff, so I figure I can handle this. It'll be good for me. It's going to take some getting used to though...for one, my gi is pretty uncomforatable, it's really hard and stiff, but after wearing it a bit and getting a few runs through the washing machine, I figure it'll get better. The classes are 6:30-8:30 Monday and Wednesday nights and that combined with the fact that I'm taking 8 classes for school this year, instead of the normal 7, means I'm gonna have an insanely busy year. Fortuantly, none of the classes are hard, and since the TKD nights are actually 2 classes, I figure I can just sit there and do homework during one class if I absolutely have to. Gonna have some long nights this year though...

Speaking of school, those never-to-be-sufficiently-damned English teachers screw things up again....summer reading projects. Bleh. Dumb idea. I have two projects this summer, 1 on Cry, the Beloved Country and 1 on The Awakening....the books themselves weren't bad. CTBC was actually fairly decent. And the project on it was certainly easy. I got it done in short order....the project on The Awakening though.....*makes cross with fingers* Begone Devil, thou are not wanted here! GAH! That project SUCKS. It's a full blown research paper and I have until Tuesday to do it, even though school doesn't start till Thursday. I'm getting one of my Wisdom teeth out Tuesday and I seriously doubt I'll be in a mood to do any work on it after that.

Whoo!

I took me a bit, but I got my webcam working again and managed to post a pic of myself without any major foul ups. Didn't mean to make a post of it like that, but I got what I wanted in the end. AND I even managed to go and fiddle with HTML code of the place and put my links in there. Anyone who knows me well can now die of shock that I played with the coding and you're still reading this.

So yeah...

So, blogging's all the rage now eh? I'm a forum man myself....king of the VB's, ezboard's blow chunks, you know the drill. But I was readin the blog of some guy who used to do my forum's and to reply to him, I had to register and create my own blog so I thought I'd give it a try....eh, maybe I"ll go like put in a profile or somethin now.


EDIT: Here's the link to his Blog: http://writersurge.blogspot.com/