Schlepo ta Weepo

The wife and I had a nice dinner last night at Buca di Beppo.

Normally this type of thing isn't news worthy, but it got me thinking about all the other times that I frequented this restaurant and a certain person was always very excited about going. Hopefully I'll get to go with you again sometime this con season Bojo.

She conceeded in the meatball eating race. So I'm 2-0.

You wanna run this ship?

Well...too bad, you can't.


So I watched the movie tonite. I was excited and the movie started out really really freaking awesome. It was fast paced and there was a lot of action. Reavers were kicking the crap out of a town (again, very little screen time) and then...

.....nothing....

it dropped off and there was a lot of talking. They shoehorned in the sheppard and bahr's dream girl. The beginning of Miranda was kinda blah until the origins of Reavers came along. They should have showed the Reaver eating the hologram lady, that would have rocked. Then Malc got all holy roller-ish. The Battle of Wolf 359 was pretty good. I heard a TIE fighter pewpewpew.

Then....BAM...he WAS a leaf on a wind.

Mike Bahr...why is she using a Bow and Arrow? Reavers kick ass btw. Malc being able to take a sword is kinda...ehh, but I can buy it, he's the hero. She should have beat the hell out of those alliance mopes. The main alliance guy wussing out is kind of a drag.

Overall, I liked it. I could have had more Reaver scenes, but I guess they didn't want to gore it up too much. I do like it, but George Lucas is still my master.

I have People Skillz!!!

So this is my 3rd week at my new job. And that guy at the right, yea that's me. I take the orders from the customers and pass them on to the engineers and then get the configs from the engineers and get those back to the customers. And then I enter the orders.

I'm sorry, that's what I would be doing if I wasn't missing software that I need in order to process quotes. But it was still a week of firsts.

- I got my first "hey I'm not going to put you high on the priority list" response from someone on the inside and then when the proverbial stuff hit the fan I got, from the same person "hey, I guess your job is important to you and I'd had to be responsible for you screwing up do to lack of information".

- I have a sticky note on my monitor that says "CLOCK IN"!!!! This is because, despite being no less than a half hour early to work everyday, I get busy and forget to clock in. Then I get the "did you get the memo" speech about clocking in,etc. See clocking in at an office job is much different than say at a fast food or retail job, but whatever

-I got the "hey, I'm not saying you are inept or new at this, but I want to make sure it's done correct so I'm going to do it". :( How am I going to be productive if all I do all day is look at cnn.com. It's not like I did it wrong, I was misinformed about what information was supposed to be provided in the first place and somehow that's my fault.

- I have received they "You are not supposed to be looking at this website" message. These include espn.com, worldofwarcraft.com (although the euro portal still comes up, back door eh...good idea), imdb.com just to name a few. This is vastly different than the 404 error "You are not AUTHORIZED to be viewing this" which one receives by trying to surf to a website with questionable content (certain vsocial sites have this, probably do to tags).

However, there have been some great features as well.

- They have a cafeteria, so I'm attempting to eat right. Every morning I have breakfast, usually either bacon/eggs or a yogurt parfait. Lunch today was a grilled cheese on sourdough with a cup of tomato basil bisque. They also have large macadamien nut cookies, but shhh, don't tell marnie, she'll kill me.

- They have cool software, especially one that is a terminal-esque type software where you have to memorize screens in order to get where you are going. Most of these look like word verification things. Examples are CUSSMM or PURPDE.

All in all it's a learning experience. The two full time job gig might be starting to wear on me, but I'm in talks with Marnie about her possibly quitting and being a stay at home wife to take care of stuff that I don't much feel like taking care of when I get home from my day job.

ATTK 4 2

I had a friend who was once going to get that on his license plate, now he has a tattoo of the blue mana symbol on his left arm.

I went prereleasing on saturday. The judge that we drew for my pod only gave us 20 minutes for deck construction so it was tough trying to digest all the new cards and making sure not to overlook power in other colors, etc. I ultimately decided on R/W/G because well, Timmy likes to play cratures and swing for 2. I got a Legionaire, the 1/2 doublestrike guy, a couple of Wildsizes (which I believe is an amazing cycle of cards), and a couple of phatties that will swing for 6+. I breezed through my first two opponents and ran into the mirror match in the 3rd match. He had more of an enchantment focus on the magemarks and the common guy that got +1/+1 while enchanted. He played me to a 1/2 loss and then I went on to smoke my 4th round opponent. The guy who beat me got first and I got 3rd so I got 5 packs for my effort.

Favorite card from the set is the card pictured. How could you not like that guy, draw a card ping for one. They could have probably knocked a R/U off his cost and removed the T: draw a card text, but I have noticed that recently magic has gone for more of the direct approach and would rather have a combo be included in 1 card rather than make the player search elsewhere for the trigger. Example - If Megrim came out for the first time in a recent set, it would probably have "Cost: Discard a card" added onto it.

Later on Saturday I got kicked out of Hounds of Rexxar. It was high school drama all over again. I posted on a different guilds website asking if they were recruiting protection spec'ed warriors because I had heard through the grapevine that they were. Now this guild requires a lot of committment and I wasn't sure if I wanted to put in that much effort and it wasn't that I had actually applied for this new guild. But the powers that be in HoR saw the post and they took it as an application and as soon as I logged on, i was /gkick'ed. I tried to speak with the guy that kicked me to see if it could be resolved or at least give him my side of the story, but he put me on ignore. So I'm guildless once again. I think I will see if I can tag along with the new guild unless HoR accepts my petition. I truly want to be in HoR and wouldn't have applied if I didn't. Oh well.

It's a good thing I didn't bet on football this weekend, I would have gotten SEA right, but I probably would have bet on DEN and lost. I feel bad for Brad, they were doing so well.

Not much else is going on, we didn't get to game yesterday because of some miscommunication (evidently nobody told steph that we were gaming later rather and canceling all together). We really need to figure out a way to down that mage. I have to get with the mages to see if there is a spell that will prevent the evil mage from seeing me coming. Element of surprise and all that.

Sustaining

That's about it right now. I started the new job and it's got me going 8-5 (plus a little extra). Trying to catch up and get on a regular schedule with my contract obligations as well as not falling behind my WoW responsibilities (go Hounds).

the wife and I watched the golden globes last night. The Steve Carrell and House acceptance speeches were funny. Surprised about the best actress in a comedy. If I were a script writer, the next movie would clearly be a gay pirate movie. Could you imagine how much money that would bring in?

....

Oh wait, Pirates 2 is coming out this year, never mind.

Not much else is going on, the DnD campaign is going along great, I actually contributed to unmasking a major plot point (which I don't usually do, I usually let those that like to talk go ahead and do so). Zero poker for the past 2 weeks (except for last saturday at my dads, but that reallly isn't poker).

On that topic, how do you respond to a very close relative that says to you "Please figure out what you want of mine, I need to complete my will by next week." I'm lucky I didn't have a nervous breakdown right there. That man has aged about 20-30 years in the past 3 weeks. It's tough, hopefully we'll be able to see a baseball game together in the spring. If I believed in God, that's what I would ask for.

The Blue Glove Group

First lemme say, the blue wandy thing >>> the flashy thing from MIB.

So I'm into to disk three and watching Ariel. The blue gloved guys appear to be awesome. This episode is pretty sweet. I'm a fan of Jayne. That's probably why the episode I liked the best off disk two was Jaynestown. A close second was the Mrs. Robertson episode. Out of Gas was kinda bleh. Not really a fan of the Sheppard.

It's moving up the list and I'm chain smoking them like I did with DS9 when I first got it.

btw - how old is Kaylee? I thought that she might be younger but that thought was soiled by out of gas. :(

Changin' it up

So I am starting a new job on Monday. I am leaving C1 Media (vSocial), today is my last day. They are a great startup company, unforunately I've had my fill of the entrepreneur type job. Each of these jobs have soo much more potential, however, it takes a lot more effort getting there and unfortunately I was on the remedial end of it. I wish them the best and will continue to support their effort and hope that they succeed, they have a great product.

I start at Avnet on Monday. I will be a Customer Support Rep. This means that I will work with a team to assist the Sales Team so that they can be as prepared as possible for interacting with potential clients. I will also be responsible for current customers and keeping them happy. It's a corporate job, with what I perceive as better job security, although those that like to argue with me will do so in that regard. They have paid time off and benefits. They have "month end" type busy times, but it won't be like the previous two jobs that I worked at where I am expected to work outside of the normal work hours. Don't get me wrong, I am all for putting forth 110%, it's just that now it may be time for some corporate office type situation. On the downside, I now have to dress business casual....ehh whatever.

Also, I reupped my contract with for the Game Design company. I really do enjoy the work that I do there and the people that I work with (especially a certain supervisor and a certain brand manager), they keep it interesting and make sure that all the behind the scenes stuff is taken care of so there is a game for me to design. Sometimes I get discouraged by some of the feedback from our customers. I have let it get me down in the past and have even been given the advice that I should stay away from the publics' eye. I can't do that, it's not that I care more about the game than the person that gave me that advice, I just feel it's my duty to put my thoughts and beliefs out there for the customers to know and hopefully help them understand where I'm coming from.

It's all good...

Hockey on New Years

This is the new football stadium being built next to the hockey rink. It looks rather big and the shopping area around looks like it's going to rock when it's done. They had a little model in the rink building, it looks like University City from Universal Studios in CA.

No...not the badass Cobra guy

So I'm sitting down to watch Bushwacked. I got the first disk from Netflix and have watched Serenity and the Train Job. So far, I'm still watching. I'm not chain smoking them like I did with DS9 or TNG, but it's intriguing nontheless. So far here is where I'm at -

Star Wars
The Next Generation
DS9
Firefly
Seaquest:DSV
Voyager

Not too bad. The first couple episodes were interesting, not sure how I feel about them giving back the shipment in the Train Job, but I guess some humanity is in store, we have to believe that they will do good in the end even though they are outlaws. I've enjoyed the dialogue, especially the line "How's business?" "None of yours." Well, they just boarded the derelict ship and this looks like it's going to end up as the token ghost episode. That might being the opinion down abit.

And Bahr...that chick is pretty hot. No matter what scene she's in, she is always well groomed and looks very nice.