Bad Mofo Mace

The part of Sauron will now be played by Samuel L. Jackson....

GET ME MY MACE!
It's the one that says "Sauron's Bad muthafucka" on it...

[Orc hands mace to Sauron]

Yeah... now THAT is my bad muthafucka.

The Morgul Lord

My Christmas gifts to myself...
Saved up a lot for Sauron, and traded stuff in for him
Used my coupon for Eowyn,
and got a good deal on the Morgul Lord and also used a coupon for him too.

Actually, I'm blaming Beru for planting the seed of wanting one. But she said she'll gladly accept the responsibility. heh. Last item i'd prolly want is the Gandalf on Shadowfax.

:)

Frodo's Angels

heh heh heh

drive home

on the drive home, the sky was just really pretty. haven't taken any sky pics lately, so, here're a few from today.

Not a creature was stirring...

The Ringtrix

Did you know that the first Ring was designed for a perfect dark world? Where One Ring to rule them all, and One Ring to find them... One Ring to bring them all, and through the Ringtrix, bind them...
Where none suffered, where everyone would be under Sauron. It was a disaster. No one would accept the dark lord. Entire races were lost. Some believed humans lacked the subservient nature to follow Sauron, and others the control to fight greed and power of the Ring. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. Sauron ruling was a nightmare that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Ringtrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

It seems that you've been living two lives. One life, you're Strider, ranger, man of Gondor, who lived in the Wild protecting the peoples of Middle-earth . You have a sword, live alone, and you... try to forget you are Isildur's heir. The other life is elven prophesy, where you go by the elven alias "Elessar" and are to lead a fellowship of the Ring in hopes to destroy it by protecting a little hobbit. One of these lives has a future, and one of them does not. As you can see, we've had our eye on you for some time now, Mr. Aragorn...

You hear that Mr. Aragorn?... That is the sound of inevitability... It is the sound of your death... Goodbye, Mr. Aragorn...

My name... is Elessar...

1/6 LotR

Dear Diary,

Day 105
i was on the road to recovery as far as collecting figures went and then i saw one i liked. so i put myself on the waitlist. and then slowly, though i wanted out, they pulled me back in.

here i now sit, pondering to myself, i could quit at anytime... sure, the first one wasn't free, but i could quit at any time i wanted to...

but my dealer... my dealer won't let up. celebrities, fife and drum..., movie characters... and then horror movies and star wars... i told myself, enough, i was going to go clean. work my way back to the road to stop collecting...

but no... my dealer was smart, for i have now been branded by a black bracelet that says Collect for Life... in silence, i cry for i kiss away any money i have... my dealer has unleashed yet another for me that i know i am too weak to resist... 1/6 Lord of the Ring figures...

I can only wonder what the coming year will be like...

Hmm. Gandalf would be a cool one to start off with. As much as I'm sure the mainstays of Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli will sell out quickly... i dunno which one should be first... so i selected a lot of them... Hmm...just imagine if SSC only did 1/6 horses too... a second chance to get a ringwraith on a steed and not go broke in one shot. ha ha, I'm sure Beru and I can dream.

Under the mistletoe, an angel kissed my cheek

It's Christmas once again. Had a nice time of sleeping in late from last night, and then woke up this morning to help the 'rents wrap a few presents, and then helped prepare some food for tomorrow. Got a haircut... and then delivered some presents to some family friends. After that, got home, ate dinner and we started watching The 40-yr old Virgin (again for me). The rent's were laughing and all, but then we got ready to go to mass. This year, we went to a different church that started at 11pm. pretty cool, nice sermon, long, but still a nice and peaceful message that some of which hit close to home.

I got a text message from one of the most beautiful girls i know, and now... just chilling out waiting for sleep to kick in.

Yesterday was nice too. Worked... got some stuff done...or as much as can be done on what would be a lame-duck of a day. Did my errands during a late lunch, then brought food back to the office. I had sent a little package to the folks at Sideshow Collectibles who'd been so nice to me. Should arrive by Tuesday or so. At the same token, I sang my entry for one of their contests, and they were so pleased and wanted to reserve the right to put it online, that they gave me a 12" Friday the 13th Jason. It finally arrived in the mail today, and with it came extra goodies. What can I say? I can't say enough wonderful praises for them, as I proudly one of their Collect For Life rubber bracelets. I also got a cool Sideshow Collectibles keychain, their holiday card, a DVD#3, and a World of Froud pixie. And another Collect for Life bracelet.

Only one more thing in wait, and that's the Morgul Lord. When it comes in, i'll be sure to take pictures. Actually rearranged some stuff in preparation.

So... Christmas Eve. No snow this year, but it IS a nice 49+ 'F or so outside. I sat in church and just reflected on this past year, and how different it was from last year, not just the weather...and then reflected 10 years ago...and then back to the present. one thing i'd like to give thanks for is for my family. they've been supportive in all i've done and whenever i make plans. for my friends...not just old, but for the new ones. just when you thought you've met all the people you can welcome into your life, of course that's not true. they arrive every day, and while some stay only a little while, some are what we call keepers. It's these keepers that also make my world go 'round. Even though I'm single yet again this time of year, it's the friends i've got (mainly the female ones) that i feel an invisible peck on the cheek under the mistletoe.
:)

Merry Christmas to you and yours.

T-few days til Xmas

it's still the most wonderful time of the year...
i'm usually a mallrat, but shoppers become different around this time.
so, i'm not gonna bother going to the mall much til after the holidays.

reckon i'd been pretty good for the rest of the year... wondering if Santa will agree for 2006.

never know.

by the way, merry fuckin xmas

per despair.com

i've been doing what i do for a little over five years now. almost every year, there've been layoffs, or, as they call them, RIFs. Reduction In Force. quit giving shit different names. your asses are getting fired, not so much cuz ya suck, but cuz there ain't money in the pot.

now, granted, it's been almost once a year for the last 4-5 that this happens. it just...somehow does. what i cannot get over is that it usually takes place right around December. Right around the Christmas season. but oh, no, what happens is that you don't lose your job in December. No. you find out about it then, but then you have til January.

same boat again. but someone we work with got a notice 2 days before christmas. me? i'd just as well waited til next week at LEAST after christmas, or wait til new year... but not 2 days before Christmas. i think that's just wrong.

it's like saying, hi, please come in. we're sorry to inform you that in a few weeks, we cannot afford to hold onto you, so at that time, we must ask you to leave as your position will be terminated. by the way, merry fuckin' christmas.

tactless. almost as bad as asking to donate more money during the morning, getting told that jobs will be cut in a few months, and that the next day, there's a blood drive.

money. jobs. blood.
that's not really too much to ask. ha

natural selection

yes, bitches, i am talking about evolution.
oddly enough, when i'm through with this post, the first line will seem so ironic.

"I opened the firedoor to four lips, none of which were mine, kissing".

So yeah... i just got through doing a lil web hopping from friendster to myspace to...the blog.
but something usually compels me to blog, and for this particular entry, i blame Cindy.
basically, she had some new friends added to her myspace, and i'm like.... oOOoo,... this chic is really cute. so i click on her picture to get to her profile. Movies? same tastes. Music? yep, same tastes. Status? single. Fuck yeah. preference. lesbian.

fuck. well, apparently NONE for ME. but hey, cute lesbian chic had a few cute friends on her displayed friends list. just to give you an explanation for those unaccustomed to myspace, you have 8 friends showing, while countless of others, you have to click "more" or something like that, just to see them. anyways, one one of the 8, yep. another cute girl. didn't fel any vibes, so i clicked on her. cute? well, duh. single? yep. but... likes only girls.

and now, the tie to natural selection. some say attraction as far as same or opposite gender is learned. others say it's a predisposition or that's just how they were born. but damnit, this pre-disposition is taking away from my own natural selection of selectin' a cute chic who's into guys!
:) ah well. i've got several strictly-chicly chic friends, and some bi-chics too. but man, don't take them all!

how does this fit in with Evo's? 8 yrs ago... nov. 1997... i dunked my ring as part of Aggie tradition. afterwards, a few friends took me next door to another club or whatever called Evo's for short...or rather, Evolution. pretty cool and all, i reckon, and i'm like... whoa...*blink blink* did that chic just kiss....that other chic...and still kissing? ooOOoooo... i was definitely happy watching in my slightly drunken condition, but Starr, Ames, and KC said, ok, time to go back next door.

ha ha. memory is funny in how some things are remembered for so long.

natural selection. :)

let it snow

went and did some Christmas shopping today. well, ok, i finally picked up some of the napoleon dynamite figures i'd posted about earlier. almost all of the stores had sold out of them, so i lucked out. "frickin' sweet".

got my grandmother a pretty cool gift that i know she'll love. just have to finish giftwrapping it tomorrow. also got mom a gift that i know she'd like. typically cuz i'm the one who buys her perfume. it's her favorite, so, *shrug*

as for dad... dunno really.

the chief was really cool and got me some desk organizers. yep, that's why i took pics of the desk area. not SO clean, but a lil bit more organized. two straight days, left work and the desk was left cleaner than usual, or at least less cluttered.

the tiger is way cool. although, she...well, she knows what chocolates do to me, so,...if you hear a lot of the usual skipping down the hall, it's me. mmMMmm...chocolate goodness. have y'all seen the 5 lb. hershey's chocolate bar? it's a big mofo, and it's even more fun to eat. coworkers, 5 yrs ago, made a bet that i couldn't even finish a small part of it. and then they saw what i was capable of with regards to chocolate. that and the after effects of hyperness. always fun in an already hyper person, right? but yes, darling pink tiger got me some chocolate in a nice big ass and pretty nifty cup.

what else? you'd have thought i work for budweiser. all decked out in budweiser gear... and the best part of it? Hailz got me this reaaaaaaally cool budweiser belt buckle. i actually wear it more than the don't mess with texas one. go fig, but i rike it. i rike it a rot.

sara's back. she's been back. gonna have to catch up with her soon. i guess it is possible to have withdrawal symptoms with people. hmm. addiction to some people. is that a good thing? hi, my name is Bum, and I am a [chic's name here]-aholic.

the last few days at work been pretty cool as far as having stuff on my to do list and actually....GETTING TO THEM. yes. muhahaha. got some drawings done and approved, reviewed a good deal, etc etc. Anastacia was talking about a softball team for the coming year, and it seems like there is ample support and enthusiasm... i'm kinda hopin' we get a team together again. whether just to show up and yell for them or actually et out there, swing the bat, slide into second and take the second baseman out... always fun.

Ness is gone for several weeks, so the freaks will have to just have to find ways to pass the time without her. prolly should email her again just to say hi. again, withdrawal symptoms.

as far as the other freaks go, i being one of them, it's just cool how differen bckgrounds, and yet you have or start off with one shared/common bond, and then ya learn more about the folks and it's just....for lack of a better term, way cool. of course, some of the freaks would throw in "omg, lol, rotf, lmao, omg, wtf"...but that's why i think they're cool.

still waiting of a few things i'd gotten on ebay. i hate waiting. moreso when the seller waited a week to mail the darn thing. well, i reckon it'll be here by the week, for sure. i had to exchange the sean connery bond cuz the base of it wasn't really done right. but, SSC was always cool, as always, and gonna switch mine out. so, that'll prolly be done in 2-3 weeks. yay! i've got a few other items in, and once the rest arrive, i can rearrange around a bit to where looks 'right'.

what else... went to best buy today and got The Great Raid and Serenity. Serenity was just cool. period. did i say that while at the comic store for one of their sales, i got a Serenity movie poster as a door prize? yep, way cool. so, will hopefully see that movie again soon. tonight though, i watched The Great Raid. I'd wanted to see it in the theaters, but for some reason or another didn't make it. but today, while gettng Serenity, i saw the dvd sitting besdie it, so went ahead andt that one too. The Great Raid is based on a true story about the most successful rescue operation in the history of the US military where 500+ american force prisoners of war were rescued. this took place in 1944 in the Philippines. 500+ POWs rescued, a few casualties and only 1 KIA from the rescue team. the Rangers did it with the help of Filipino guerilla fighters... this is closer to home because it reminds me of what my grandparents went through. grandma lived through japanese-occupied Philippines, and she would tell me of when the Allied troops came back. My late grandfather Amado was also one of the guerilla soldiers... because of his support, he too became an American citizen. finally, it all goes with when i saw the black eyed peas' video for The APL Song... to me, it was moving.

december 21. time is just flying and 2006 is just right around the corner. wow... seems like only a few months ago, there was Jew night, hockey night...going out with KC and Kerry, getting pics at Mo's, and making some new year's resolutions. can't say i stayed true all throughout the year, but i did try.

what's 2006 got? i'm gonna ask myself every day til it gets here.

Kroenen and his boss

"A long time practicing occultist, Kroenen studied the black arts with noted wizards Aleister Crowley and George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff. Specializing in the 'left-handed' path of torture and pain, it was easy for him to devote his life to evil, particularly in its most arcane and superstitious form. After the defeat of the Nazis in WWII, Kroenen chose to give up his mortal life and soul and accept evil as his master."

This is just a depiction of what it may have been during the WWII period of Hellboy, before we see Kroenen in Scotland searching for some relics...before Hellboy...

Disclaimer: There are certain elements in this picture which may or may not offend whomever reads this. The purpose of this depiction is a fictional snapshot based on the characters in Hellboy. This is not intended to piss anyone off.

my desk area and horses

just give me the light

this week has been a pretty decent week.
workwise, been busy and it's always fun that way.
in a few hours, we're gonna have a branch 'seasonal' party.

i dunno what they're calling it. but, it's a get-together. can't really complain if at all.

so like i said, i saw 40-yr old virgin last night. i didn't get to watch it in the theaters, but from what i'd heard, it'd definitely be one of those movies to watch. so, the dvd came out this week, watched it last night, and it wasn't too shabby. as with what some movie reviewers would say, "i laughed, i cried, i cried from laughing, holy shit, this is my story". the born-again 29-yr old virgin. the ensemble cast was pretty good. at times, ya just have to go, no way..... but then ya also wanna say, yes way. the ending was ok, in the pass me another bottle sort of way. the whole singing bit was.... strange. but, it was cool all the same.

before that, two nights ago, i saw Valiant. it's an animation movie from Disney, messenger/carrier pigeons during WWII. I thought it was pretty funny and cool.

I found out earlier this week that i won a prize from sideshow collectibles. they had a pre-holiday contest where you take jingle bells and make a bit of a song parody and make the topic be based on friday the thirteenth's Jason. so, i posted mine. I didn't know who would win, and i figured mine was too long and rough to be considered a winner, but some friends said it was a contender. hmm. maybe they were just saying that.

those who know me at work know that as much as work sometimes gets, i try to have some levity through it all. in the past, i've left voicemail which was work related, and yet with enough humor. i.e. darth vader, godfather, or whatever else -themed voicemails. a coworker actually recorded the voicemail once cuz it was darth vader. ha ha. well, i figured i'd add some light-hearted humor so i 'sang' it for sideshow. they liked it and asked if they could use some of it, and i said, sure, why not. in a surprise return, they're extending a prize to me for a 12" friday the 13th figure. wow, unexpected, but very much appreciated.

today was the comic book store's collector sale. basically, if you were a regular or had a subscription with them, you were qualified to join in their special after hours sale. 25-50% on all items. well, i figured if there's gona be a friday the 13th fig, might as well get a freddy krueger while at it. so, a normally $40 fig was now $20. they also had a Roger Moore 'james bond' as in Moonraker. yep. astronaut themed. so, got that too. basically, two for the price of one. they also had doorprizes. i got a really cool movie poster and some keychains. not too shabby considering they're from the movie, Serenity. that comes out on dvd next week.... ooOOooo.

that's really been the week, for the most part. i took my last exam for the semester... no idea how i did...but i can only hope i did ok.

hailz said that michael was soon to be in the hizzouse...i'm sure she's excited over that. and finally,..this girl i have had a lil bit of a crush on at work said hi this week. eh, i know, doesn't mean shit or anything, but she said hi, and brought a smile to me.

:)

a movie that passed the time

it's 2am,
i just saw 40-year old virgin.

i'm gonna comment more on it, but i'm gonna go to sleep.
so, prolly tomorrow. but it was a good, funny, movie.

heh heh

Got a minute?

this phrase has entered the same vocab/phrase list as ks.
while it makes me want to laugh out of insanity, it makes me want to cry for the crazy pills it makes me want to take.

so, in lieu of good crazy pills.....


HA HA HA HA HA

A moment

"Sometimes, I wonder if I have already met you...
Sometimes, I wonder if I have let you go."

I went to the comic book store today. My spree has pretty much finished itself this week. No... no XBOX 360 or iPod in my near future. No new XBOX games to really hunt down, as I'm finishing up Sniper Elite and will probably get back to Brothers in Arms 2 or Rainbox Six: Lockdown. Funny how these just come across as weird words strung together, and yet gamers would know exactly what they are.

I had a good deal of store credit at the local comic book store, and these guys are just awesome. Whether i'm there just to pass the time and say hi, or to check out what's new, they've always put up with me. Well, after gaining some store credit, each visit to the store would always make me wonder, well, i want quality, not quantity.

Before I go on, and this will give the story away, last Halloween, Sideshow had a really nice contest, and the prizes were a James Bond (Connery) Statue, a Green Goblin (Spiderman) Statue, and a Sauron (Lord of the Rings bad guy) statue. Each retailed for a good chunk of change. Me? No interest in the green goblin. It was a toss-up between Connery and the Sauron. Yeah, I picked the Connery, but it was basically a unanimous decision between all I asked between family, friends, and coworkers. Sauron was the second choice.

The day after I decided on Bond, I visited the comic book store, and as I walked on, i looked and saw a figure...well, big figure in the display case and was like...uh Guys, is THIS Sauron? they're like "you mean the heavy give-you-a-hernia, it's heavy Sauron?" and i'm like.... CRAP! i picked Bond! they gave me quizzical looks, so I explained to them. go figure. they picked the Bond, and then the Sauron. Back to the present. Store credit. So, I put the Sauron on layaway with them using the credit as store credit. Altough I intended to wait til after Christmas, like...January, to finish it off, i figured, no. for my own reasons, went ahead and got it today. Gonna try and put it together shortly.

As I was putting the box in the back of the truck, i thought to myself... I don't have a significant other. But I have my collectibles. I drive on to Best Buy to get two new movies, The 40-yr old virgin, and Valiant. As I walk in, I say to myself, ya know... i guess this is ok. so yeah, tomorrow, i'll prolly watch this movie that my friends and coworkers have mentioned to me. I wanted to see it while it was n the theater, but with school and all, just never got around to it.

so, i got the movies and went back to work. ya know, this is where i have to say things are happening for a reason, and for the last several years, i've started to learn to accept that i don't know what the future will bring, and that .... i'm not 'there' yet. but if i'm lucky, i'm gonna find a chic who'll be cool with me as a geek and these collectibles and stuff. until then, as i told Jess, this hobby is my girlfriend expensive, yes, but ah well.

Festive Catch-22

Dear Patsy is becoming the office watchdog as far as what is politically correct and what not in the office. Well, at least she's self-appointed. Oh no, she says. You can't say Merry Christmas anymore. Can't call it a Christmas Party or Christmas sale. You have to call it a holiday this or a holiday that.

But then, i asked dear Patsy, what about those who don't believe in 'holy-days'?

ah well, no santa claus for you.

so, in lieu of wishing EVERYONE a merry christmas, i wil now have to say,

Happy Merry Hannukwaanzabuddahwiccaislamaatheisticaspialigociousmas to all, and to all a good night. Man, Santa has it much easier.

Goodnight and Go

-by Imogen Heap

Skipping beats, blushing cheeks I am struggling
Daydreaming, bed scenes in the corner cafe
And then i'm left in bits recovering tectonic tremblings
You get me every time

Why d'ya have to be so cute?
It's impossible to ignore you
Must you make me laugh so much
It's bad enough we get along so well
Say goodnight and go

Follow you home, you've got your headphones on and you're dancing
Got lucky, beautiful shot you're taking everything off watch the curtains wide open
Then you fall in the same routine flicking through the TV relaxed and reclining
And you think you're alone...

One of these days, you'll miss your train and come stay with me
We'll have drinks and talk about things, any excuse to stay awake with you
You'll sleep here, i'll sleep there, but then the heating may be down again
at my convenience
we'd be good, we'd be great together.

Say goodnight and go,
why's it always always
goodnight and go
Darling not again
Goodnight and go

Rest in Peace, Richard Pryor

1 December 1940 - 10 December 2005

"The groundbreaking comedian whose profanely personal insights into race relations and modern life made him one of Hollywood's biggest stars, died of a heart attack Saturday. He was 65.

Pryor died shortly before 8 a.m. after being taken to a hospital from his home in the San Fernando Valley, said his business manager, Karen Finch. He had been ill for years with multiple sclerosis, a degenerative disease of the nervous system."

-Associated Press

a motley crew

ya know, it's been less than two months, and it seems a lil bit longer since I first met the motley crew of Beru, Nessa, 0028, Creech, Pordey, Hyarion, TC, Achteel, Dave, and.... of course... BuffyBot.

*** BuffyBot has joined #SSF
*** BuffyBot has left #SSF

geez. even in here. ha ha.
i know i called it like Cheers. ya walk in, folks are already there...
hey!
hi!
wb!

it's an alternate reality that is still part of this one.
different names, same personalities.

one has a fetish for soap.
one just seems like she can whup up on my ass.
one is pretty cool and is halfway around the world.
one is. cute.

reminds me when i first hopped on a place called ISCA.
11 years ago now...hard to believe. now, i rarely even go there.
but i made lots of friends there, through the years.
difference is, with this new Cheers, i guess it's just different cuz there's a common link.

a motley crew indeed.

friday again

and it hits me around 12:50am....

what the fuck was i thinking?
Pink Tiger?
Hailz?
shit. maybe even Big Ern.

what the fuck was i thinking?

no, no budweiser talking here...though one right now might be an option.
it just hit. well, moreso than the previous times.

jesus h. christ, this is why i hate sometimes.

1am, fire and brimstone are running around a volcano of a mind, and all i can muster is what the fuck was i thinking?

on another note... :) i got to talk with my old friend Marley and wish her a happy birthday.
it's gonna be a cold night, dipping below freezing for several hours. sooooie. ha ha.

long day. had a nice lunch party at one of our manager's homes... got stuff done...
finished a mini project i promised Dusty... my 1/4 samaritan got delayed due to weather... but found out my PF connery will be replaced. Sidesow just kicks ass. what else...

went to church tonight. nice quick sermon....lost on some eBay auctions...argh... um...that's much about it. yep.

ps. dear pink tiger. remember when we named Bad megan... 'bad'? oh yeah. got one for ya.

Sideshow contest

Sideshow is always cool about putting out contests...
the lastest one involves making a parody of Jingle Bells behind a Friday the 13th motif...

Here's the one i posted... hopefully, it'll at least make the boards:

Slashing through the snow
Only one more left to slay
it started years ago
Over at Camp Crystal Lake

And then came part two
Mrs Vorhees was now dead
Alice sighed relief
cuz she chopped off her head

Jason’s dead, Jason’s back, why won’t Jason die? It all began when the lil boy drowned and somehow came back to life. ahhhh!

Armed with a sharp ice pick,
wearing a pillow case,
Jason goes and kills,
but you can’t see his face.
And now comes part four,
and Jason’s still alive…
Will this be the last?
no cuz there’s part five,

oh, Jason’s dead, Jason’s back, why won’t Jason die? It all began when the lil boy drowned and somehow came back to life. ahhhh!

A New Beginning starts
and Jason is out cold
a local man takes his place
but it’s same old, same old
And now comes part six,
good grief, when will it end?
Tommy goes to the grave
and Jason’s back to life again

geez, Jason’s dead, Jason’s back, why won’t Jason die? It all began when the lil boy drowned and somehow came back to life. ahhhh!

Part Seven’s for New Blood
Tina’s mind has got some skill
She brings jason back to life
and now Jason wants to kill
Jason goes to New York
on a ride aboard a boat
one by one he kills
slashing head and throat

ick! Jason’s dead, Jason’s back, why won’t Jason die? It all began when the lil boy drowned and somehow came back to life. ahhhh!

Now Jason goes to hell
in what is called Part Nine
The secret of Jason revealed
in the friday the 13th line
now we go to space,
for what is now part ten,
Jason goes and kills,
and this would be the end

until two tousand three
they’re both stuck in hell
freddy krueger sets him free
to go to the street called “elm”
hack and slash he goes
jason’s having a ball
a duel with freddy ensues
and abidee abidee abidee that’s all…

folks! Jason’s dead, Jason’s back,
in twelve inch and “Pee-Eff”
get him today from Sideshow and put… him… on… yoooooourrrr…. shelf!

Budweiser Talkin

i'd been ok for a while, really. two back to back deaths in the family, potential layoff notices from the company, final exams coming up, been holding up pretty well. so, i figured i'd just post about the day to day.

work's been ok. i've really gotten the hang of delegating and just doing supervisory stuff. well, i can't say i'm used to it still. in the back of my mind, it seems weird that a 20-something (yes guys, i'm STILL a 20-something until next october) is in charge of a few fresh-outs, an older lady, and a 40-something engineer. sometimes, i just hope i'm doing right, but at least i'm trying my best.

schoolwise, in retrospect, i've been in school on and off the last few years, and aside from two classes where I got B's, i'd actually gotten all A's in the rest of them. Why didn't I do this well back when I was getting my bachelor's degree? Hrm, prolly cuz I was the kid in class and just needed to grow up a lil. But yeah... actually doing well in classes, so i'm happy.

as far as lovin', goes... ha ha ha. fuck that shit. 0 for whatever as far as work goes. outside, there was Cath. but Cath is engaged now, and i'm happy for her. KC is also engaged too. fuck, i'm just waiting for Erica and Kerry to just get engaged and get it over with...well... not engaged with each other, mind you, but still. The funniest thing that an old coworker told me was that I had it going for me... i just tell the chic, Hi, I work at NASA (as a project engineer). Yeah, that WOULD work... except... not on a NASA chic. Why? watch...

Me: Hi, I work at NASA
Her: So do I, dumbass.

ha ha ha. really. but, never stopped me though. there's Lisa. I've always had a crush on Lisa. she's cute, really wicked smart, and she's just got that girl-next-door look to her that...









yeah. Lisa. but, she's way up there and i dunno. there was bad megan. ha ha ha. Big Ern and Pink Tiger were fun during that time. there was Christy, but, heh, wouldn't ya know it, she already had a flip of her own... and honestly, -he- could kick my ass. i could run, ha ha, but dude... he'd kick my ass. there was one friend of a friend who we'd see every now and then. actually saw her on a picture thingie online and asked our mutual friend, yo, that her? yep. well, i clicked 'hi'. no bites. eh. ha ha. some others were too young, one was too bitchy in the long run, and then there was waggoner, who keith had tried to introduce me to at one of their houseparties. i did try, but she was more into her coworker. and i'm not Cindy's type. and there's the chic who sits with the flight surgeons that i have YET to say hi to. heh. so that leaves me to today. you, dear reader, just did a frickin time warp through 5 of the last years.

today, after work, went to the comic store to put some more payment on an item i had put aside, and then went to the mall to catch up with Hailz and just run errands there. after awhile, Hailz had to go her own way, and so I went and visited a friend I'd made at Suncoast. While I was there... Lisa was there. aside from yeah, it IS a local world... you just can't miss out on Lisa. she's just really cute.

in this line of thought, it'd be nice if you could just tell a girl she's really pretty and all, have no ulterior sexual motive, but just say, hey, you're attractive or something... and there'd be no bad side-effects. like, you know... sometimes, Nice shoes just MEANS nice shoes, granted they're REALLY nice shoes.

so yeah. Lisa...

as it is. i have my xbox, my figures, my collectibles, and whatever else. it's the budweiser talkin', but i never have to wonder what they think of me.

My December

Hrm... i had just typed a pretty long assed post for this, and for some ungodly reason, it all got deleted before i could post it. hrm. so..let's try this again...

The last few have been ok. Can't really say exciting or eventful, but the days have been passing by all the same. Don't get me wrong, not complaining one bit. One one hand, i've been doing a lil bit of self-holiday shopping... picked up several new collectibles. currently paying for a sauron, picked up a 1/4 sauron helm and a 1/6 sauron mace,...got the PF Brosnan and the 1/4 Hellboy hand of doom... which... well... when i first got the package, i was like..dude, this thing is light. so i got the actual package from the box and was like, dude, the thing is small... and then i get to removing it from the package... and i'm like... Dude, the thing only has four fingers... but then again, it's only supposed to have four fingers, so...ha ha ha. Also ordered a matching 1/4 Samaritan to go with the hand of doom... ordered the 1/6 Duncan and Connor Macleods... only two i'm currently considering are a Scully (non-autopsy) and a Kroenen. I've given up hope for a nazi Kroenen as those things are just pricier than what i would pay for the particular figure, so i'm gonna try kitbashing and just have fun treating it as a project.

All this collectible talk... i'd made new chat pals at the collectibles place. I guess it's got that Cheers effect, where you go where everyone knows your name... it's just cool to know that there are folks out there with the same interest of collecting as I do. Some are older, some are much younger, and it's even surprising to find out some are some really cute chics. Yep, way cool. Ah, I want a cool girl next door cute chick who is also every now and then or so into collecting. heh. i can dream.

work-wise, been ok, more of quiet on the lay-off front. it's been fulfilling outside of the meetings, especially today when you realize you've shown someone something new that as a skill learned, makes them a much better and more skilled person. Always a great thing. Had a meeting...or two, i think... training for tomorrow, but that'll hopefully be al fun.

school... yeah, i studied a god deal on sunday and decided to go ahead and take the final.. which was 3 full parts and a 4th part being a bonus section. did pretty well throughout the semester, but got enough to not worry too bad... got a 97 for the class, so i am so glad i am dne with Statistics. Still have a class to go, but no class tomorrow.

That's really been about it, other than still laughin my ass off when i read the chuck norris stuff.
ok, 2:30, gonna go ahead and sleep. ninight.

An Aggie Girl

OU girls are pretty, Northwestern girls are smart,
but it takes an AGGIE girl to win a fella's heart.
Miami girls are tan, SMU girls got dough,
but when you want the hottest girls, A&M is where to go!
Arizona girls are wild, t.u girls are (sorta) fun,
but when a girl's an Aggie Girl, you'll know she's Number 1.
Search each and every college, North, East, South or West.
You'll find those A&M girls will ALWAYS be the best!
So for any guy who reads this and truly wants to know;
Get yourself an Aggie Girl and never let her go!

-From a cool Aggie girl on myspace

Lord of the Rings Ad

Hey y'all.
If anyone is into Lord of the Rings, and you're a collector, check this out...

http://cgi.ebay.com/New-Sideshow-Weta-LOTR-Boromir-Son-of-Denethor-Statue_W0QQitemZ6585361704QQcategoryZ86935QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

or as a tinyurl...

http://tinyurl.com/95k7c

It's a Sideshow/WETA Boromir statue that's being sold by a cool collector, and has 100% feedback. If you want a collectible that's sure to be an investment, and also help out the seller raise some funds to help pay for books, etc.

So, there ya go.

Space Pirates

Just as cool as Ninja Pirates are Space Pirates.
No, I cannot take credit for this pic as it was found on some Australian blog, but it so totally fits. Posted it at my desk, and it's also the background for my work PDA.

Freak-in-A!

Awesome.
Not sure if it originated in Australia or not, but damn, I love that place.

One Final Done

Ok...so i just took and finished taking my 4-part Final for a class.
It's now 3am. I started studying this afternoon, on and off...
in-between naps and ebay, snacks and dinner, email and the Pope movie, and also the collectibles chat...

and.
i can happily say,

Got an A on the Final.

Hopefully, grades will be posted soon, but as it is, i should get a 97 for the semester.

freakin A, i'm happy. tired, sleepy, but excited. That, and yeah, the final wasn't due til Tuesday... but i really wanted to be free to do stuff with some friends and coworkers. so... ha ha, fuckers! I'm done with one class! YES!

Chuck Norris (i laughed my ass off)

Chuck Norris appeared in the "Street Fighter II" video game, but was removed by Beta Testers because every button caused him to do a roundhouse kick. When asked bout this "glitch," Norris replied, "That's no glitch."

Since 1940, the year Chuck Norris was born, roundhouse kick related deaths have increased 13,000 percent.

Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did.

Chuck Norris is not hung like a horse... horses are hung like Chuck Norris

Chuck Norris doesn't read books. He stares them down until he gets the information he wants.

There are no disabled people. Only people who have met Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris uses ribbed condoms inside out, so he gets the pleasure.

There is no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard. There is only another fist.

Chuck Norris once lined up to kick the winning field goal of a high school football game. When the football went flat, he persuaded the referees to let him kick the field goal with a 3 month old child. Chuck roundhoused kicked the baby 60 yards through the uprights and then proceeded to bang every girl in the stadium.

The original theme song to the Transformers was actually "Chuck Norris--more than meets the eye, Chuck Norris--robot in disguise," and starred Chuck Norris as a Texas Ranger who defended the earth from drug-dealing Decepticons and could turn into a pick-up. This was far too much awesome for a single show, however, so it was divided.

It was once believed that Chuck Norris actually lost a fight to a pirate,but that is a lie, created by Chuck Norris himself to lure more pirates tohim. Pirates never were very smart.

If you ask Chuck Norris what time it is, he always says, "Two seconds till." After you ask, "Two seconds to what?" he roundhouse kicks you in the face.

Chuck Norris only masturbates to pictures of Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris' tears cure cancer. Too bad he has never cried.

When Chuck Norris has sex with a man, it is not because he is gay, but because he has run out of women.

Macgyver can build an airplane out of gum and paper clips, but Chuck Norris can kill him and take it.

Chuck Norris once roundhouse kicked someone so hard that his foot broke the speed of light, went back in time, and killed Amelia Earhart while she was flying over the Pacific Ocean.

Rather than being birthed like a normal child, Chuck Norris instead decided to punch his way out of his mother's womb. Shortly thereafter he grew a beard.

Chuck Norris' girlfriend once asked him how much wood a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood. He then shouted, "HOW DARE YOU RHYME IN THE PRESENCE OF CHUCK NORRIS!" and ripped out her throat. Holding his girlfriend's bloody throat in his hand he bellowed, "Don't hug with Chuck!" Two years and five months later he realized the irony of this statement and laughed so hard that anyone within a hundred mile radius of the blast went deaf.

Chuck Norris does not have AIDS but he gives it to people anyway.

Chuck Norris sold his soul to the devil for his rugged good looks and unparalleled martial arts ability. Shortly after the transaction was finalized, Chuck roundhouse kicked the devil in the face and took his soul back. The devil, who appreciates irony, couldn't stay mad and admitted he should have seen it coming. They now play poker every second Wednesday of the month.

Chuck Norris built a time machine and went back in time to stop the JFK assassination. As Oswald shot, Chuck met all three bullets with his beard, deflecting them. JFK's head exploded out of sheer amazement.

When Chuck Norris plays Oregon Trail his family does not die from cholera or dysentery, but rather roundhouse kicks to the face. He also requires no wagon, since he carries the oxen, axles, and buffalo meat on his back. He always makes it to Oregon before you.

Chuck Norris recently had the idea to sell his urine as a canned beverage.
We know this beverage as Red Bull.

Chuck Norris was the fourth Wiseman. He brought baby Jesus the gift of "beard". Jesus wore it proudly to his dying day. The other Wisemen, jealous of Jesus' obvious gift favoritism, used their combined influence to have Chuck omitted from the Bible. Shortly after all three died of roundhouse kick related deaths.

To prove it isn't that big of a deal to beat cancer, Chuck Norris smoked 15 cartons of cigarettes a day for 2 years and acquired 7 different kinds of cancer only to rid them from his body by flexing for 30 minutes. Beat that, Lance Armstrong.

Chuck Norris does not sleep. He waits.

A man once asked Chuck Norris if his real name is "Charles". Chuck Norris did not respond, he simply stared at him until the man exploded.

Chuck Norris once shot a German plane down with his finger, by yelling, "Bang!"

The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.

Chuck Norris has yet to get a Jeopardy question wrong. Jesus has missed two.

Chuck Norris can make a woman climax by simply pointing at her and saying "booya".

If you can see Chuck Norris, he can see you.
If you can't see Chuck Norris you may be only seconds away from death.

Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.

After much debate, President Truman decided to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima rather than the alternative of sending Chuck Norris. His reasoning? It was more "humane".

Chuck Norris found out about Conan O'Brien's lever that shows clips from "Walker: Texas Ranger" and is working on a way to make it show clips of Norris having sex with Conan's wife.

When Chuck Norris' wife burned the turkey one Thanksgiving, Chuck said, "Don't worry about it honey," and went into his backyard. He came back five minutes later with a live turkey, ate it whole, and when he threw it up a few seconds later it was fully cooked and came with cranberry sauce. When his wife asked him how he had done it, he gave her a roundhouse kick to the face and said, "Never question Chuck Norris.

Chuck Norris doesn't understand why you should consult your doctor if your erection lasts for more than 4 hours. His erections have been known to last for up to 15 days

Chuck Norris punched a woman in the vagina when she didn't give him exact change.

Hellen Keller's favorite color is Chuck Norris.

Those aren't credits that roll after Walker Texas Ranger, it is actually a list of people that Chuck Norris round house kicked in the face that day.

Chuck Norris ruins the endings of Harry Potter books for children who just bought one for the hell of it. When they start crying Chuck Norris calmly says, "I'll give you something to cry about," and roundhouse kicks them in the face.

one more for the road

few of us went to willy shoo's and hung out. watched them play a few rounds of Star Wars Battlefront II before joining in. it's similar to the PSP version, but it's so much different on a regular XBOX. as expected. played that for a couple of hours, and beer didn't seem to affect that. basically, after willy shoo called it a night, three of us still kept playing til we got to a point where it was, eh... ok, can call it quits soon. but i mentioned the pirate game. so, we tried one round,..three ships against each other. quick learning curve, after the 1st/2nd game, the reaction was .... THIS IS IT? THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THIS GAME?

well... yeah. it's not the 1-player version where ya can sword fight as well. This was strictly pirate ships. an hour later... and several rematches, as well... we called it a night. but for such a simple game, it was really entertaining. not running aground was as much a challenge as remembering left from right when trying to fire the cannons.

familiar places

last year, around this time, we waited to find out who won the new contract. last year, around this time, we found out. last year, around this time, we wondered about our jobs. last year, around this time, we didn't know.

this year, right now, they mentioned reduction in force. RIF, if you will. always fun. change the F to P, and that could also describe your job. But, i guess, the humor in it, if you can call it that, is how it occurred.

Money / 0933
In the morning, an email goes out saying that we should give more money to the United Way. Ok, fair enough. A little over 18k was raised. great! out of 42 contributors... average of $432 per person. but 42 is about...oh...4% of the total population. so... upper management was 'asked' to give more. And, sure enough, some did. alil over half of them put together a lil over 12K of the 18k total raised. That's a good $800 per person average, so that means the as a whole, only 2% actually did anything. So, on average, those folks gave about $800 or so per person? Hmm. Upper management has that much to just give out? That's applaudable. That's a shitload of collectibles, or food on the table, or whatever you choose to do with $800. Me? That's a good part of my own paycheck. I've got relatives that could use that money for their families. That's -my- "United Way". besides, i'm not upper management.

Jobs / 4 hrs later
By the way...while we're asking you to give a bit more, we also want to let you know we don't have as much money, so we're gonna probably have to reduce the workforce. We don't know by how much... but uh... it's gonna hurt. Not exact words, but it'd be nice to be a wallfly, right? They said it'll prolly be just one swipe... one shot, one kill, instead of the slow and agonizing who's next? I doubted that... you'd have to do it slowly, group by group. But first,...ask for volunteers... sure enough, they sent out a notice today asking if anyone wanted to volunteer to quit and just take nice parting gifts. well, i guess with the risk of reduction in force... can't exactly give to the United Way, huh?

Blood / relentless
So... the next day, yes, a new day... another mass mailer goes out. Blood drive. across the street. No thanks. I'd rather sell my plasma instead for money, just in case.

Point being, first they wanted our money, then they wanted our jobs, and now they're asking for our blood. I think tomorrow, they'll want our souls. Slight attempt at humor, but, then again, it's near the holiday season. my joke isn't funny, and unfortunately, neither is theirs.

last year, we damn well had a nice happy hour one day...