Tru Dat

There was no curse, the Redsox just sucked for 86 years.

Watch out for the Invisible Neutralizer

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Your Superhero Name is The Beta Eye Your Superpower is Spiritual Your Weakness is Cotton Candy Your Weapon is Your Invisible Neutralizer Your Mode of Transportation is Jet

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3pm

Some people like to recognize 4:20, I, myself, like to recognize 3pm.

For about two years, 3pm drink runs were a norm. No matter what you were doing, you could stop, realize that there is something other than trying to force a square peg into a round hole (or perhaps 9 lines of text onto a card...although, why it was 9 lines in the first place remains to be seen).

Today was ... troublesome. I was feeling pretty down about a couple friends of mine and I looked up and it was 3pm. Well guess what, I busted out the car keys, told everyone I'd be back in 15 minutes. Drove down to the CircleK and got a drink. It was a Sobe Power (the cap said Chop Chop). I spent those 15 minutes thinking about all the friends I have made in the past couple years thanks to someone taking a chance on me.

Que the Ipod.

Bleh

Went to Urgent Care yesterday, they said it's acute bronchitis. I got some prednisone (which my mom took for her asthma) and some cough syrup with codeine.

They didn't make me sleep any better. I think I need to cut back on the 106 hours per pay period at mah job.

Save a penny, take forever

Marnie and I were at Walmart today. He got our usual cart full of ... well pretty much nothing healthy to eat. But we are going to try and eat at home rather than eat out all the time.

ANYWAY....

So the lady in front of us has a cart full of groceries as well. And she busts out with her pocket size notebook. Marnie is like "oh geez, she's probably got all the prices from the other stores and plans on getting the price match guarentee." And I say, "it's probably just her shopping list". Well it turns out Marnie was right. We waited while this woman went through about 40-50 items that she wanted a better price on. Marnie and I stood there for about 20-30 minutes while this lady save a buck or two here and there. Well, me being impatient like I am and well...passive aggressive, I just stood there and had a bad attitude about it.

Marnie goes to the people behind us, "dont' worry about us, we won't be doing that." The old guy responded with "why not? If it saves you money, why wouldn't you do that, heck we do." So...Marnie gets owned by this guy, 15 minutes later the lady gets finished with her price match and she totals about $89 or so. We roll up next, the checker looks relieved to be done with her and she rings up our stuff. We have a little less in our cart and ours comes to $150 or so. Now granted, we don't buy generic stuff, we buy a lot of premade dinners and the higher end ice cream.

The Moral of the story is ... it's good to be a yuppie.

Viva Futbol

My nephew is ready for the World Cup...are you?

Past Weekend

ugh, I pretty much did nothing. I was sick on Saturday, I was supposed to watch the draft with my dad but I felt like crap. He did make sure to call me and ask who the DB that the dolphins drafted was.

I made sure to send Joe a message to let him know that the Titans are screwed. I think the Broncos were one of the top three teams for the draft, along with the Cardinals. The "experts" are saying that the most successful QB will be Cutler followed by Leinhart because of the systems they are in.

I played a little bit of WoW, but it didn't really hold my interest.

I watched Steve Nash get royally robbed on Sunday. Luke Walton needs to give Steve his wallet back. And the Mets gave Jeff Francouer an early Mayday gift (not sure if Jeff is russian or not) and then lost.

I have some opinions about the whole immigrant thing, but alas, I'm trying to curve some of my political views because I have been labeled as a racist/bigot in the past.

Tonite is going to be good though. I get to see McGregor and he and I have sweet seats on the Diamond Level at the OldBob/NewChase Field. Hopefully I can make it there for the first pitch and he can see at least 4 innings before he has to catch his plane.

Bleh, I still feel like crap.

On 4/26, I celebrate 10 years of happiness

I remember 10 years ago when people would say "it won't last", "they are way too young, they have their whole lives ahead of them", and the ever popular "it's not to late to get an annulment." I knew that I loved this woman that I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her.

Here it is 10 years later and I love her just as much as I did 10 years ago (in fact, if it's possible, I love her more). We have many struggles in our lives over the past 10 years, whether it was wealth, health, or just conflicting views, but we always reconciled and even though each of us said hurtful things at times, nothing was ever taken to heart.

I have always done big things for our anniversary. Usually it consisted of roses to her work or something similar. One year I sent her a white rose for every year we were married with a single red rose in the bouquet. For our 5th year, I sent her 5 sets of flowers that were delivered at 5 different intervals during the day. This year I was thinking of just picking her up from work and going to Vegas for the night. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that I wanted some more memorable for the 10th anniversary.

Well, I know that I love Marnie Girard...and now everyone that I know/meet will know that I love her as well.


PS - this is my first tattoo

My Science Project

So I have traveled to Tucson from Phoenix and back all the time. Outside of Tucson on I-10 you can see the airplane graveyard from the highway. I've always wanted to see it up close. Well on the way back from Tucson on saturday, I thought I would take the exit and see if I could get a close up look. That blurry picture was taken from the parking lot of the guard shack. I rolled up in my new-ish hooptie and the guard (who was my size) is like, "can I help you?"

"I've always wanted to see this place up close," I said.

"It's not open to the public son," he said. Son? You are probably younger then me man.

"Oh, ok, I'll just pull a u-turn and get out of your hair," I said.

"no, you'll put it in reverse and back out that way," he said.

So I did. I pulled over into the parking lot and snapped the picture. This guard shack was pretty ghetto. It had just the single bar gate and some mini speed bumps and the security guys were wearing Evergreen Security patches.

I was disappointed so I called up my dad and see if he had some pull or something, maybe he could get me in. His first response was "you didn't!"

"What's the big deal?" I said.

"Yea, that's not only an airplane graveyard, but they also test Apache helicopters there and there is a big CIA presence there as well, think Area 51 type security," he said.

Personnally, I think he's pulling my leg, but you never know. I remember living in Montana and driving down the highway just to see a perfect 8 ft by 8ft square patch of grass with a fence and barbwire around it (missile silo). So I am keeping an open mind. Maybe one of my friends that works for that place that makes rockets knows something.

I wonder if she's glaad

I was playing in a freeroll. Went all in on J/K with A/J/K on the board. The turn came a 7 and of course the other guy that was all in with me had 77...whatever.

So I'm watching the Glaad media awards as well. Will and Grace won best comedy...who knew. Melissa Etheridge won the lifetime acheivement award...Clark will be happy. However, what I don't understand is that for every...single...pan and scan of the audience for their reaction showed Charlize Theron. I mean every single one. There were other people as they panned away, but she was always in one of the shots. Weird, maybe I'm not up on my "in style gay/lesbian supporters of Hollywood" or the ISGLSOH.

Let's Go Mets!

After a brief hiccup on Saturday, the Mets cleaned up and took the series from the Brew Crew on Sunday (sorry Tom, Sheets looked rusty).

They start against tougher teams on Monday with a series vs. the ever problematic ATL Braves. The Braves are having pitching problems, but they can still put it together and make it rough for the Mets.

The Mets are looking good and are looking like the team they have been the past couple years. The entire lineup is crushing the ball and with the exception of Jorge Julio, the pitchers are looking really good.

On a side note, I gotta go get a rubber chicken for tomorrow nights game, Me and the pops are gonna see the Giants and Dbacks at Chase Field.

for my buddy who needs to pass the Bahr

A high school senior goes into a counselor's office and says "I need to get going and apply for some colleges".

The counselor says," Well where do you want to go?"

The kid says, "Well, how about BYU?"

The counselor asks,"Well are you mormon?" The kid shakes his head and the counselor says,"Well that will be tough, is there another school?"

The kid says, "Well, how about Notre Dame?"

The counselor asks, "Well are you catholic?" The kid shakes his head and the counselor says, "Well that will be tough kid, real tough."

The kid mutters, "Son of a bitch"

The counselor pipes up and says, "If you can prove that, we can get you into the ASU School of Law!"

Livin' Life

So life is trucking along. My new job is starting to really take its toll. We recently lost a team member and the work load increased at the same time. Unfortunately we weren't able to replace that team member with someone of similar experience right away. Oh well, a lot of stuff is falling to me and maybe I'm just emo'ing about it too much.

The work at Decipher is going great. I'm working on putting the finishing touches on one game's set and starting the next set's pre-design on it. And I'm glad to be working with Brad again. That man is a genius and he and I are a great team. I only wish I could be in the office, things would be smoother. Decipher is definitely doing better. I scheduled the events for Gencon and Origins these past couple weeks and looking forward to having Continentals "mean a little bit more this year".

So whereas the roles of my jobs were kind of mismatched towards the beginning of the year, it is different now.

Also -
A friend contacted me this week. A friend I haven't seen since high school. She was the best friend of the tail that I was chasing the first half of my senior year. It's amazing how things change in 10 years. Speaking of which, not only is my 10 year reunion this year, but in 15 days I will be celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary. Yea...I'm old.

Birthday Cake

I forgot to post this on Wednesday. This is the "cake" that my loving wife got me for my b-day. It's an oreo pie with cool spongebob and patrick characters on the top. I like pie.

You know you live in AZ when...

it's raining outside and the sprinklers are on and the sun is shining.

bleh...

I'm 28 today.

My proudest accomplishment thus far in life is that in two weeks I will be celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary with my loving wife.

Then some other stuff falls in line like being an accomplished game designer, not dying to cancer, leveling to 60, knowing Brad Defruiter.

For my birthday, I'd like two things. 1) to turn the way back machine to around 3-4 years ago and B) not to have the state of virginia suck so much.

Updated the Links

I went ahead and did some housecleaning on some of the links to the right.

Anticipation then Disappointment

I like to read blogs. They allow me to to see into other peoples' lives. Most of the regular blogs that I read are people that I have met face to face. I don't fancy reading other peoples' blogs because they are famous for blogging and what not.

So here's the deal...

that means you are supposed to pay more attention to what I'm saying now.

When I go to certain peoples' blogs, I am anxious to see that today might be that day that they update their blogs and have a funny story about a situation they were in. And I would crack a smile because I would think to myself.."hey," I would tell myself,"I know these guys and that is a cool story that they are sharing with me."

But sadly, I have been disappointed by those folks for they have not updated their blogs in quite some time.

Not from the Midwest

Your Linguistic Profile:

70% General American English

20% Yankee

10% Dixie

0% Midwestern

0% Upper Midwestern

What Kind of American English Do You Speak?

I'm surprised they don't have stuff like "do you pronounce creek as crik"

Mah first Purp!!!

I'm on my way to being a barney.

I'm apping for Siege right now. They don't use DKP, they have a loot council. When something drops, you msg the leader with what the new piece would be replacing. They are all about gearing everybody up and it's a freaking fun guild to hang out with (we bg'ed all weekend, you have no idea how funny it is to watch idiot alliance try to take down a prot specc'ed warrior with 5 different insta health timers, running the flag). We downed Rags on the first attempt on friday, then went and downed Ony and then downed Ony on Saturday as well.

Anyway, here is my first Purple. It's great because my FR isn't what it is supposed to be for a warrior. This puts me at about 112 unbuffed.