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The Birthday Celibration - Why I Fired My Secretary...

Two weeks ago was my 45th birthday and I wasn't feeling too good that morning. I went to breakfast knowing my wife would be pleasant and say, "Happy Birthday!" and probably have a present for me. As it turned out, she didn't even say good morning, let alone any happy birthday. I thought, well, that's wives for you, the children will remember...The children came in to breakfast and didn't say a word. So when I left for the office, I was feeling pretty low and despondent ...As I walked into my office, my secretary Janet said, "Good morning Boss. Happy Birthday!" And I felt a little better that someone had remembered. I worked until noon, then Janet knocked on my door and said, "You know,it's such a beautiful day outside, and it's your birthday, let's go to lunch, just you and me." I said, "By George, that's the greatest thing I've heard all day. Let's go!" We went to lunch.

We didn't go where we normally go; instead we went out to a private little place. We had two martinis and enjoyed lunch tremendously.On the way back to the office, she said, "You know, it's such a beautiful day.We don't need to go back to the office, do we?" I said, "No, I guess not." She said, "Let's go to my apartment."

After arriving at her apartment she said, "Boss, if you don't mind, I think I'll go into the bedroom and slip into something more comfortable" She went into the bedroom and, in about six minutes, she came out carrying a huge birthday cake --- followed by my wife, children, and dozens of our friends, all singing Happy Birthday.

And I just sat there ---

On the couch ---

naked.......

The wonders of the world... Dramas that end!

WARNING!!!



This may get a little sappy, because the subject of this entry is TV Drama, and why it is so lame...

I don't mean just the "As the World Turns" standard stuff. I mean most of it. And why we are being left behind. I think.

As I desperatly try to keep a hold on what little Japanese I have learned, I come up with the following idea. I already watch anime, and i have taken lessons in Japanese. I should watch the anime with the Japanese audio and use the english subtitles to help teach myself the language bit by bit, until I can take another formal class!


The idea sounds like it has merit. And i remember what little Japanese I have learned, but another discovery came accross from an unexpected angle.



Their idea of a soap opera is way better than ours, cause they have ENDINGS!!!



Yes people, not just in the Far East, but apparently, most soap operas and TV Dramas of foreign soil actually stop after 1 or 2 seasons. They end it and start another one!!! This is bloody brilliant!!!



Think of it, no more endless backstabbing, returns from the dead, and full season dreams. No more overextending sorry plots just to get to the season finale and starting some other absurd idea. Just end the frikin show!!



As an arts major, i feel its my duty to say this. If we are pumping out such sorry directors, writers, and screenplaywrights that we have to keep our current stories going indefinately for fear we may actually have to depend on fresh ideas, ill give my freakin Arts degree back. If we can afford to pay 54 bucks for a new game every year like we do for most sports games, shouldn't our cable fees go towards more creative and fresh content?



How many times do we have to force the housewives and Mr. Moms of america to watch this crap before we realize that will spill over into our kids, then they will think thats what america wants, cause they were exposed to that nonsence so early in life when they were at home. Let that crazy bitch drive of the pier and stay dead. A month down the road, make a new show, and give that same woman another role! She gets another paycheck, we get something fresh, and the world is a better place.



It can be done, Ive seen my share of Japanese Drama now to know it could be done. Ive seen the same actor in 4 different dramas now. He does a good job. He can play more than one role. If he can do it, why cant our actors? Or are we going to outsource those jobs too?

AAh, crap, im done.

END OF LINE.

Be Wary, Nazis come in various forms... Some worse than others...

[RANT MODE="ANGER"]

Here's the situation... Its not serious, but HEY, those hos are in my way...

has disabled character transfers in World of Warcraft cause there is soo much traffic that i guess they are backordered on requests... They will turn it on when they feel like it, or whatever. A staff lawyer probably wrote it for em. Anyway, heres the serious part. Characters are only allowed to transfer to the servers that Blizzard tells you to. Period.

So if you are on a high population server, and you want to go to a low population, despite what choices you may have available to you, you go where they tell you to. And to tell you the truth, im not suprised.

This goes back some years, back to E3 2001.

[wavy flashback lines here]

I went to their booth to ask them some techinical questions about Warcraft 3 before it was released. I had interest to see if they were actually going to change the design of their game to show some actual innovation. When i got there, i actually saw a game that drive the Real Time Stragety in the direction i was hoping to see it go. For once, you troops had actual value. Just throwing your forces at the enemy would be a harmful tatic in the longrun. Halleluiah and Holy Shit!!! INNOVATION!! FROM BLIZZARD, YES! The suits finally got of whoever was in the design team and let em actually change things!!! There is hope for them yet!! Never mind the fact that the sound engineer was upset that i didnt care for his sound effects... (bump that jerky, a kazoo in the right moment is all the sound I need... :-) )

But sometime later, once the suits saw the game, i guess they ate some chicken or whitefish or something, cause they YANKED on the reins of the company and make the entire frikin place CHOKE!!! They must have yelled, "Don's screw with the money you artistic bastards!!!" In the end, they just re-released warcraft 2 with a new graphics engine and balance for less troops on the screen. Oh, they added 2 new forces. Now,dont think im completely blowing off their efforts, the game is decent, but im not payin em a full 54 bucks for the game. That would suggest they made a new one. The just made an old one prettier and added a little code. Thats called an expansion pack. Just 20 bucks from my wallet there Blizzard...


Now to the campus of the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe, Arizona. Add about 1 1/2 years of time. A Blizzard headhunter comes to the campus to tell us of the wonders of Blizzard. Then he shows some teaser info about World of Warcraft. Yay, we havent seen that before. This is a gaming school, dont waste our time. WE know all about teaser info. (Put that many game associated hackers and coders, and hard core gamers in one building with ready and free access to the internet, you will get any info you want eventually... :-) )

Then he asks for questions... Now i know hes probably just a paid administrative puke, but i couldnt help myself to strike a blow at the self proclaimed god of gaming that is blizzard. So i grapped the nearest explosive device i could find, ran up to himm screaming, "Jihad against the oppressor!" and asked this question in front of the entire populous of the school, even the Blizzard Zealots in the audience...

The question block he asked for was oriented to Starcraft sequels...

My question was, "Are you guys just going to slap the Starcraft code in the Warcraft 3 engine, add an army or two, and call it a new game like you did with Warcraft 3?"

"Kneel before me Son of Jor-el, for I am ZOD!!"

The audience was silent. And i reveled in the sacrifice I offered to the Gods of Gaming. I left shortly after that, there was no point in me staying after the blow has been struck, that would just taunt him unnecessarily, andd wheres the fun in that.

Anyway, to get back to the main point...

So im not suprised by their totalitarian way of restricting what server you go to. Sure, they could just say its to increase performance, but they could allow to go to any server that is labeled low-population. So because fo there medelling, I cant reunite without sacrificing about 1 month in game/hours spent in WoW If i want to rejoin some buddies I have rediscovered.

DAMN YOU, SON OF JOR-EL!!! DAMN YOU TO HECK!!!!

[/RANT]


Aah, that feels much better. :-P

Finally, R. Talsorian proves they aren't sitting on their laurels!!!

This is fresh from the Mekton Zeta letter writing brigade..

Cyberpunk 2030X: 1-2 more months. It's VERY different from CP2020, not
just because it went Fuzion either. If CP 2020 was about life on the edge,
CP2030X is about life after you've fallen over and you're trying to pick up
the pieces. Liked the new character generation system. Fuzion was a good
answer to some of the crunchiness in CP2020.

New Mekton: It's not even on the schedule. Just an idea being floated
around at the moment. Mike Pondsmith appears to continue to want to use his
"ubiquitous mecha in an alternate earth timeline" idea as the setting for it
however.

Gundam Senki: It's a mess right now. Certain people have to contact
certain people to find out what the status of the project is in...Don't
expect a schedule for many moons.

Quicksilver Blues: Didn't get a chance to ask Mike Pondsmith about this
one, hopefully, he'll explain this one on the ML...

Finally, fresh material, for a fresh century. I approve. Take that Shadowrun!!

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The joys of home repair

***Haiku of the moment***
As I scrape on walls
Long lost art falls to the floor
I cough up a lung.
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Isn't home repair grand? Slaving away painting and scraping and nailing for hours and hours just to repair what mother nature is eventually going to knock down again anyway? I'm giving up on having a place of my own in a zone that is prone to natural disaster. Ill go somewhere safe, like Beruit.

At least anything that happends there is usually man-made. Mother Nature leaves you alone and in peace. Since i'm dark, I dont have to worry about getting sunburned anyway! Bonus!

After the four tornado storm in Oklahoma, the Hurricanes in Florida, running from the aggressing OpFor in Montana, and my normal family life, im ready for Beruit. That will be child's play. I'll have to live in a bunker, but at least i won't be rebuilding any drywall.

I knew all those sessions of Resident Evil was good training.

Armed and Dangerous Congratulations! You scored 86%!

You made it out, alive and well supplied. You probably even kept most of your party alive too. You know what to look for, what to take, and when to just run. You even feel a strange inkling to go back. If you did, you'd probably do just fine.

My test tracked 1 variable How you compared to other people your age and gender: You scored higher than 90% on survivalpoints

Link: The Zombie Scenario Survivor Test written by ci8db4uok on Ok Cupid

Now were cookin with gas! Bring 'em on. I'm ready.

The one is dead, Long live the machines...

Well, finally done with the hype. The Matrix Online for me is dead. It was an interesting time, but not for me. After a point, the image fades, like with all games. All im left with is another empty game. Sure, the plot will change from here and there, but the game itself willnot improve. I guess the games focal point is too based on reality for me, I get more exitement watching REAL TV now. Since the games mechanics were so simple, just playing the game for a while will make you better, no real skill is involved... Its all chance. Where's the fun in that? Maybe that's why I dont like gambling either.

So I guess its back to World of Warcraft for me. Even though is solo heavy, at least i can do thing without relying on others.... :-)

Epic Games needs to release some information!!!

Ive been trying to get vehicles to spawn in this game for days now, and no one has bothered to share how to get this trick to work.


Eh, not much of a rant today i guess... Must have writer's block.

Oh, the wonderous pain of wireless networks!!!

I tell ya what, I never seem to have any luck with the wireless thing. If its not one thing, its another. First I cant connect to it, then when i do connect, it only stays that way for about 20 minutes before going out again. Then, you have to reinstall the drivers just to get a positive responce. Then it goes out again.

Give me "ye olde insulated wire." On WiFi tech, i do not care, just give me my twisted pair!

Anyway, got things to do, people to dodge.

Deep Cover Report from King Ganja

Here are all the sit reps to bring you up to date.

I finished my Bachelor's of Arts - Multimedia in March of 2004. But
the effort to finish college drained the remainder of my funds and
almost made me homeless. the Eclipse was repossessed. But what are
you going to do when you are starving college student. Literally...

Anyway, after the introduction to reality, (again), I was forced to
fall back to MAJCOM headquarters in Vero Beach, Florida. Once again
im stuck in small town America, surrounded by the white devil. The
nearest place that is worthwhile drinking at just happens to be a
saloon. Believe it or not.

Since April 2004, I have been working with an old childhood friend and
schoolmate in High School, Jurgen Schwanitz. Him and his father have
been running a successful computer repair shop for over 10 years.
Jurgen bailed me out and gave me a job. It was not a complete
handout, but since my degree is in a indirectly related field, he gave
me the nod anyway.

Since then im working with old fart's computers every day. It would
not be so bad, except for they are all cheap bastards with at least a
few million in the account. "Don't format this", "Don't loose my AOL
that..." Its frikin annoying, but whacha gonna do, im in the service
industry.

Well, thats about it. I'm still womanless, not that there is that
much to pick from down here... And the urge to leave the nest is
stronger than ever. I thought things were bad here when i was 19.
Its worse when you are 28. Lady Luck truly loves giving me both
barrels up the arse when it comes to good luck....

Anyway, take care guys, more to come later.

My man Hermanns in Japan?!?!

How the heck did that happen? Here I am stressing about how im ever going to go to Japan. And Mike Hermanns shows up already over there. He's been there for three years even!!! WTF? Serves me right for leavin the military.

And hes about to sew on Technical Sargeant!!! That's it, thats why the pope is ailing as well, cause hell has done frozen over!!!