Saturday.

The thing about this blog everyday for a month thing, is I'm not looking back at what I've wrote before, so you might get to read the same thing everyday, until it's solved.

Last night poker went well. I don't remember what exactly happened except that Charlie won. I think I'm still a little zoned from not sleeping well for a week. Perkins afterwards was fun as well.

Today, I woke up and goofed off for way too much longer than I should of, and it was time to go to the movie. Borat is the most I've ever laughed at a movie I think. Not for everyone though. So I hate saying how much I loved it, and I just know someone is going to go see it and just be appalled.

In crappy news, my DVD player to just decide to up and quit. I was watching episodes of "Da Ali G Show" and after an episode was done, I got up to do something, came back five minutes later and the disc had frozen. So I ejected it, put it back in, and it wouldn't read the disc. I've tried all sorts or movies and it never ever reads them. It's a bit of a annoyance, as now I have to watch movies and whatnot at the computer, and I sit at the computer with work and at home for way too much time than I'd like. So now I'm sitting at the computer to watch DVDs. *sigh*

Also, one thing about myself, that I see, is that with people, I can usually figure out what they are about. Something about them, like how far they can be pushed, or at least no their limits and know what is they are thinking. But there is one person, whenever I talk to them, it drives me nuts as I never get anything out of it. Anything that would help anyway. Something I want dealt with, and it never gets dealt with. Sorry. That was all a bit vague.

Until tomorrow. Peaces!

Doing this now!

Who knows when I'll have a chance to write this for today, so while I can, I shall.

Boring day at work. I think I talked most of the day instead of worked, but oh well. Nothing much gets done on Friday's I think.

Sitting around waiting to see if there will be poker.

DVD player was working, and then not. Not fun at all. Hope it isn't something major.

Um...yeah!

Until tomorrow.

Confessions of a 28 year old man.

So I was thinking, how I like to push peoples' buttons sometime. See how much it takes to get them going or whatever. I was thinking about this and thought of something from my childhood and this character trait has been in me for a long time.

When my youngest sister, Patty, was born, Mom had a troubled delivery so she was in hospital for quite sometime. Since dad was at work, and this was the summer, I was home from school. Joe and Jenny(my brother and sister for those that don't know) were too young for school. So we had to have a babysitter. I was seven at the time, Joe was three, Jenny two.

Her name was Mabel. 6000 pounds of pure terror. Now a days, she would of probably gotten in a lot of trouble for how she treated us. But remember this was 1985, and Mom and Dad really had no idea what to do babysitter-wise. Mom was a stay at home mom so they never really got us a babysitter. Things I remember her doing was dragging Jenny down the steps because she didn't want to come down, and throwing my meal away. She had no reason, except to be mean. She really liked my brother Joe, he never did wrong. So she made the meals and she said that mine was bad, but not Joe's. I suggested splitting Joe's and she said that wouldn't work.

So, another of her habits was in the afternoon she'd watch TV, and fall asleep. We never got to pick the program until at five o clock when Dad would come home, and she'd tell us that I had to tell Dad that I got to watch what I wanted all day. So, one day when she fell asleep, I rallied Joe and Jenny to help me with my project. My project? To take all the toys out of the toybox. Not just dump them out, mind you, but to spread them all out with landmine proximity. Each toy, each block, was about four inches from all the ones around it. I did this throughout the living room. When she woke up, she sees toys everywhere, but placed ever so carefully everywhere around the living room. She gets irrate. She starts yelling at us, why would Jenny and I do such a thing? I say that Joe helped, and she didn't believe that. She asks again why we did this. My response was "Maybe if you didn't fall asleep, we wouldn't of done something like this".

So, on one of her last days there, Dad came home from work early, to find her sleeping in the chair. He asks me if she does this all the time, and I said, yeah, she does. So he goes back outside and slams the door. Mabel immediatily wakes up and pretends that she'd been awake the whole time. Dad tells her that he caught her sleeping, and that I said she does it all the time. She said something about you can't believe kids, they like to make up stories.

The last few times she was suppose to babysit, she didn't show up. She sent her son one afternoon, his name was Joe(which explains the favourtism). The last few afternoons someone else took her place.

A month or so later she wanted to come see Patty. When she came to visit, Joe and Jenny went and hid upstairs. Mom said she didn't think it was as bad as all that, and didn't realize until they went upstairs to hide from her. I didn't hide, I stayed down there, I figured if I stood there, and didn't hide, that showed I wasn't scared of her.

So yeah, anyway. I've liked to be annoying since I was seven. Probably other stories going back earlier of my behaviour as such. But this is the one I remember.

Almost messed it up on the first day.

Oh well.

Nothing much for today. Other than almost forgetting to post on the first day of the month.

I've not slept well for almost a week now, and it's starting to get to me. I feel so worn down right now and it's only nine o clock. Perhaps getting this worn down will be enough to make me sleep most of the night tonight and be back on track starting tomorrow.

Let's see. Lost tonight. A lot of people seem to think it's losing it's direction. I for one thought it was hopeless last season and everyone seemed to like it. I've liked this season and everyone seems to think that it's hopeless. I was never much on being with the "in" crowd.

Would of had more to write if it wasn't for being so tired.

Until tomorrow.

Look at me!

Starting a day early. Posting everyday the month of November, as I said in the last post.

Was "in charge" at work today. Which meant nothing at all. Ran around town taking care of things in the afternoon. Pretty boring day for Rob.

Funny thing said today, between me and someone at work...

Jen: Tomorrow is November.
Me: That means today is October.
Jen: Whoa...that's true.

Ok, see you tomorrow.

Like a Pavlovian Dog...

So, somewhere out there in the wide internet world, I found something that said November is National Post on your Blog month, or something like that. I'd find out what it is actually called but I've lost the link. But it sounds as if it's a lofty goal, so I'm going to try it. It should be fun. Fun in we'll see how long I can actually keep it up, and see how long it takes before it devolves into a post that says "I went poo today."

That's it for now really. I said I was going to clean today and it is 3:30 and nothing has been cleaned. Oops.

Until November probably.

Edit: I should actually say what the "post on your blog month" thing is. You are suppose to post on your blog everyday in the month of November. It's was devised under the guise that most people start a blog so that they will write more, so this will get you writing. Yeah.

Saturday at home.

An actual slow Saturday. Which I'm fine with. It's been nice to sit around the house and do nothing. I should clean and pick up, but...meh.

So a work story. This past Tuesday I was sick. Friday, Talitha asks me which day it was that I was sick. I tell her that it was Tuesday. She then asks if I was in on Sunday. I said, "No, I never come to work on Sunday". She then tells me that they are running a Websense report. Websense is a proxy that blocks websites that an employer can deem not worthy of employees looking. It also keeps track of all sites you go to.

Talitha then tells me that it must be broke or something is wrong with it because it says that I used the internet at work on Sunday and then on Tuesday. I was nowhere near the building on either day. Talitha then tells me that she's going to ask Dave about it, maybe something is wrong.

So, a bit later, Talitha tells my team that if they want to see the Websense reports, to see if we stay on task, we can. I decide I want to see mine. So I go over to her and say, "I want to see mine, especially I want to know what I was looking at on the days I wasn't here." She then says "I don't know what is going on with that, it's really weird, and Dave doesn't know either, all he could say is that we should check the security tapes and see if you came in on those days and aren't telling us."

So, at first, I didn't really think much about it. Then I got thinking about it and it kind of annoyed me what Dave said.(Dave by the way is the manager, the boss.) I told a few people. Then when I had lunch with Carmen, I told him about it. I came back from lunch and sat back down at my computer and then realized that I was really mad about it, that I didn't really appreciate that comment. Dave basically called me a liar, and said he trusted a really shitty program that we use, and have a lot of trouble with, over me. So I decided to tell Talitha that I wasn't too happy about that. I almost went directly to Dave, but then thought, well, he didn't say it directly to me, and I didn't want to get someone in trouble for maybe saying something they shouldn't.

Talitha then told me that she said I did have a reason to be upset, that it was uncalled for on Dave's part, and she said something to him about that. She apologized because she brought it up to Dave(I said she was just doing her job, she had no reason to apologize). She then said she'd say something to Dave about it again if I wanted her to. I decided that I was happy with someone knowing I was upset about it, and plus, in my opinion, Dave's a wanker. He seems like a nice enough guy, but doesn't seem to be someone that cares if he's upset the people under him. So instead of butting heads and me getting more and more frustrated, I decided to just let it drop at Talitha.

Other than that the week has been pretty decent. Heather got me started on Old Chicago's World Beer Tour thing. They do "mini-tours" occasionally. Her and I go on Wed. typically because it's buy 2, get 1 free. Well, this past Wed., our waitress either made a mistake or liked us a lot. She gave us a bunch more than she should of free, plus she let me cheat on the mini-tour, so I got the t-shirt at the end before I was suppose to. She was really slow though at taking the bill though. That made us a bit upset. Plus I was getting really tired, and it didn't help when Heather will dump beer she doesn't like or doesn't want anymore in my glass. That just makes me extra tired.

Oh, South Park with World of Warcraft in it. That was great. Haven't seen South Park in forever.

That's about it, really.

Oh, I got a postcard from my friend Amy who lives in Japan. It was from Singapore. The guy on the front should be an Arcadia character. I should show it to you Carmen.

The end.

Answers to a survey, answers dated Oct. 11, 2004

Ok, here is that survey. My answers today are on the post before this one. See what being sick does to me, I get so bored. Enjoy my answers from two years ago....Oct 11, 2004.

Note that I didn't read these before I filled them out in 2006, so anything that's the same answer is creepily funny.

1. last person you wrote a testimonial?

No one, I think

2. sport you would love to play

the one where I sit on the couch.

3. last movie you watched

Dogma, on Saturday

4. what do people first notice when they see you?

I really don't know, maybe people don't notice me.

5. do you like peanut-butter?

yes, but not the smell.

6. most memorable place

I don't know, I haven't really been much places.

7. do you read comics?

yes. I haven't lately, but I haven't really done anything I enjoy(hobbies) lately.

8. how pretty/handsome are you?

I plead the fifth on this one, I think I make enough self depreciating remarks as it is.

9. do you like earthquakes?

I never met one, I'll tell you later.

10. worst nightmare?

I don't know, I usually forget them after I have them. I remember though for about five years I would have the same nightmare when I would be sick. I would have it the night before I got sick, and while I was sick. I don't remember it very well though, I remember it had a mouse hole in the skirting in it. and a very nefarious mouse.

11. most beautiful place you've visited?

don't know.

12. wanna be a celebrity?
No, not at all. If I were, I'd probably be a recluse.

13. do you like surveys?

when I'm bored.

14. your high school close friends:

I had a lot of them. Nathan or Katie were probably the closest friends I had in high school, and both relationships ended badly.

15. your best physical asset

that self depreciation thing again.

16. your worst physical asset

You think this one would be easy, but I really don't pay that much attention to myself.

17. most people would describe me as...

nice

18. one thing you hate about yourself...

that when it comes to certain things, I don't have the confidence to do or say things.

19. vegetable you hate

what the fuck does these surveys have against vegetables.

20. you like to go out on a grocery?

I don't like shopping actually.

21. favorite person/s in the world?

I don't know if I have a FAVOURITE person...maybe I do...

22. can you dance?

depends, slow dance, yeah, anything else. no, a thousand times no.

23. favorite past time?

reading probably

24. are you happy?

despite a lot of things, yes I am.

25. do you believe in God?

no, but I respect people that do.

26. what is the worst rumor you've heard about
yourself?

I heard that Katie(the one from high school yes) was telling people that she got a restraining order against me because I wouldn't leave her alone. I was hanging out in front of her house because I loved her and didn't understand why she didn't love me. I have never had a restraining order on me. One day Katie just stopped talking to me. I tried a few times to find out what I did, but I never found out, so I stopped talking to her. The law was never involved. I heard the rumor from two or three different people. I told you it ended badly.

27. what is the most stupid thing you did for the
person you love?

I don't know, forgiven something I probably shouldn't of.

28. are you in love?

I don't think so...I have feelings for various people, but I don't think any of them is love.

29. do you miss him/ her?

depends...I hadn't thought about Katie for awhile. I shouldn't even remember her in all honesty, it's been almost ten years, but I remember... She is married with a kid now, but... I do miss her.

30. what is your greatest personality?

I don't have multiple, so I guess I would say my personality is the best.

31. what time is it?

11:02 AM on Monday morning...good god, I have a whole day left.

32. aside from answering this survey, what else
are you doing?

Um...listening to a cd, thinking about what I want to accomplish today...thinking about Katie.


33. first thing to do when you wake up tomorrow?
go to work.

34. where are you right now?

In my bedroom, that needs picked up something bad.

Wonderful!

Almost two years ago (on Oct. 11, 2004 to be precise, I took this survey...I thought I'd fill it out again, now, just for fun...(i didn't read my answers yet from two years ago, I thought it'd be fun to see if I say the same things or not. I saw glimpses of them as I deleted them, but didn't read them thoroughly).

Also, this was posted on an old blog I had, from two years ago...that blog was mainly started as a place to complain about Rebecca without her being snoopy. She would look at my chat logs,I used Trillian at that time, and it keeps logs of all conversations, she would read them and get mad at me for talking about her to other people, so I set up the blog so that a friend of mine could know what was going on. As I was home sick today, when I had the energy to sit up, I was reading these old blog entries and ran across this survey. I will post my answers from two years ago after this, so we can all laugh and compare. Ha Ha!

Anyway, here are my answers, right now

1. last person you wrote a testimonial?
Do people write testimonials?

2. sport you would love to play
Raquetball

3. last movie you watched
Well, if we count Mst3k then, "The Beatniks" if not...I think "Fight Club"
4. what do people first notice when they see you?
I'm guessing "Harry Potter" glasses, which wasn't my intent when I picked the frames...next year I think i might get new ones.

5. do you like peanut-butter?
yes, but the smell makes me sick...figure that one out.

6. most memorable place
hmm...what does that mean? I'll say..."a chair".

7. do you read comics?
Not as much as I used to. Apart from a very few, they seemed to be lame now a days.

8. how pretty/handsome are you?
Not really.

9. do you like earthquakes?
We've never met.

10. worst nightmare?
I had one a year or so ago, where some lady was filling up her car at the gas station, and she just started on fire, she walked towards me and these other people, the whole time screaming and her flesh melting off, while these three or four other people are taking pictures of it happening. It ended with her on the ground as the scream was dying, and her just a skeleton. Needless to say I woke up very startled and couldn't fall back asleep for awhile.

11. most beautiful place you've visited?
I have no idea.

12. wanna be a celebrity?
Not really.

13. do you like surveys?
Not really

14. your high school close friends:
I'd say Nathan or Katie. Though both friendships ended badly. the lesson I think is that you should be friends with me, it always ends badly.

15. your best physical asset
Ha!

16. your worst physical asset
Probably my teeth. Stupid family.

17. most people would describe me as...
fun to be around...maybe?

18. one thing you hate about yourself...
Only one? my teeth.

19. vegetable you hate
Most of them.

20. you like to go out on a grocery?
this isn't even a complete thought. Next!

21. favorite person/s in the world?
Well, if I picked just one, then the rest of the world would be jealous now wouldn't it?

22. can you dance?
Poorly

23. favorite past time?
Reading

24. are you happy?
Indeed I am.

25. do you believe in God?
It's not something that I really think about or concern myself with, but have utter respect for people that do believe in a superior being.

26. what is the worst rumor you've heard about
yourself?
I had heard from more than a few people that I was stalking Katie(the one from high school). she told people that she had to get a restraining order because I wouldn't leave her alone and would hang outside her house wanting to talk to her. I've never had a restraining order against me, and the most I think I ever did was ask people that knew her how she was doing, since she'd give me the cold shoulder the two or three times I ran into her after she decided not to talk to me anymore.

27. what is the most stupid thing you did for the
person you love?
Forgiven something that was unforgivable.

28. are you in love?
No, probably not.

29. do you miss him/ her?
Who? You have to be more specific. But really, I don't miss anyone.

30. what is your greatest personality?
Seeing as I only have the one, I'm picking that one.

31. what time is it?
Buy a watch! Ok, it's 6:04 pm

32. aside from answering this survey, what else
are you doing? Um..talking to Heather, coughing an awful lot, and listening to music.

33. first thing to do when you wake up tomorrow?
Probably sit on the computer and see if anyone messaged me while I was asleep, or if I have any email.

34. where are you right now? I am in my bedroom. at home.

My Crane Wife.

Not a whole lot really. I should post about the two adventures to Minnisota. One adventure featured Bryan Bornmueller, and the most awesome pickle salesman our time has ever seen. The second adventure features two dogs that like to vomit. But I'll save those for later.

Other than that, it's been a pretty fast month this month. With a whole lot of nothing going on. Frank's new game started, I've been writing training documents at work, which is something different. Spending a lot of time with Heather which is...

Um, didn't know why I opened this. Nothing really to say. Oh well.

About the last post.

Written at a time of anger, and no one really to vent to. So why not the blog. What is a blog if it can't be all teen and angsty. But if it was teen the post would of looked like this...

Y doesn't she like me...OMG WTF?!?!?!?!?!??LOL?!?!?!?!

Or something like that, I don't get how that stuff works.

Poor poor English language, I weep for you.

Anyway, that's really about it. Thanks for watching.

anger and frustration.

Now, first and foremost I'm going to start this by saying that I understand that you can just not want a relationship with someone, or just don't see a person in "that way" and all that buisness.

But, it gets so old to hear someone bitch and moan at you how they can't find anyone decent and they get lonely and blah blah blah, especially when the spent almost ALL FUCKING WEEKEND with you. Don't look for sympathy from someone that wants to be with you. What the fuck is that?!?!

Ok, end of rant.

And with that I've used up my emotional/emo quota for this week...probably next.

Inconcievable!

For the first time in a few years, I did not attend a 24 hour game day.

It 's not that I didn't want to go, but I woke up Saturday morning and decided that I wanted to clean up the apartment. It's nowhere near done, but I did get a lot done. I also made plans with Heather for the night time, so by the time I was worn out on the cleaning, it was time to get ready and go to her place.

I've decided that her and I can't watch movies unless it's in the theatre. Everytime we've tried to watch one at her place or mine, we just end up talking through the whole damn thing. I was trying hard not to talk this time, as it was a Woody Allen movie I hadn't seen. It just didn't work though.

Then after that, it was mindless TV. The show "Next" on MTV. All friggin' night. If you've never seen this show, they take a man or woman, and then five potential dates for said contestant. The five potentials sit on a bus. I have guessed that they have a gas leak in said bus, because the people act so stupid while on the bus. So, one at a time the potentials come out of the bus, and do some sort of crazy thing with the contestant. At anytime the contestant can say "Next" for them to go away. For any reason. Usually, this leads to some witty banter between the two people. Such as "You're ugly anyway!" Now the potential gets a dollar for every minute they were on the date. If the contestant decides they like one of the potentials, they can give them an option. They say "We've been on this date for (insert amount of time) minutes. Now you can take the money equal to the amount of time, or you can go on a second date with me." Now here is the part that drives me insane. We've been watching this date, for the past ten minutes or even less. When the question is postulated, they give us a flashback of the date! I've been watching for the past five minutes, I don't need to be reminded. Is this how bad the memories of America has become.

But this show is like a train wreck of stupidity. It's so dumb, you can't help but watch. Plus, you can almost tell that the whole damn thing is scripted. I'm not sure on that, but I've got a hunch. Also everyone that is on the show is so damn arrogant. I want to be on the show so I can say "Honey, I'm slightly overweight, and not that attractive, plus I snore...oh, and I...um...drink...a lot."

Anyway, watched that for a good three hours or more. Yes, it sucks you in. Beware the show "Next".

No 24 hours of games for this kid though. Maybe next time.

A question asked, and a long winded answer.

First, I wish that Blogger had some sort of feature where when someone comments, you can respond to it, that way they know you responded to what you said, instead of always looking at the comments. LiveJournal has such a feature, but I like the Blogger interface much better.

But, this post is in response to what Jennifer had asked about music.

You shouldn't feel old. All those bands hardly hardly ever get air play. Stephin Merritt's bands especially. Public Radio seems to dig him. He doesn't perform under his own name(ok, he has two albums under his own name) and he has I think, five bands. But they are just him, with help from his friends. Anyway, I'm getting off topic.

How do I find out about these bands if they aren't on the radio you ask? I'll start by saying that music is an obsession for me.

At first, I was much like a casual listener. Music was on at work, or on in the car when you went from place to place. Strangely enough, my first CD I bought was a country music CD. I got into country music for a few months. After a few months I found that there wasn't much different at all in country. I had outgrown it and wanted more. So I went to other radio stations. I started getting into Top 40 stuff. I grew out of that as well in a few months. But since I was so into music I was picking up magazines and voraciously reading what my favourite artists were saying. They'd mention these tiny independent bands that they were really digging. So I'd go out and get a CD of that band. Then it would just become reading reviews and if the reviews of said CD sounded very interesting, I'd get it. I remember my first blind purchase not hearing a single note from the band, but almost every music magazine out there was saying "this is THE album!". I bit and bought "OK Computer" from the band Radiohead. I was so paranoid that I'd thrown away money by buying a CD that was going to just be horrible. By the second track, "Paranoid Android", I was absolutly in love. THIS was the most amazing thing I'd ever heard. As I said, I was getting tired of what was "popular" on the radio and wanted something different. Here it was. Three guitars playing completely different things, yet sounding so great together. Thom Yorke's signiture british whine, which seemed so much more sincere than anything the pretty boys on the radio were singing, and if you'd ever seen Yorke, you'd know he's not one of those guys either. Horrid teeth, one of the biggest lazy eyes you've ever seen and he always looks like he just got out of bed. THIS was what I had been looking for.

I, of course, ran right out and bought anything that Radiohead had put out. Since then, this is how it's been for me. If someone in a band I liked, played guitar on some other bands CD for one song, I go get it. I've downloaded a ton of live shows off the interet, because I'll read that live a certain band played one of their songs different than it is on the album.

I've went to all sorts of genre's too. I've listened to them all. I've become disgusted with them all, just to come back to them. When I was in college I was really digging punk music, and then got tired of it, just to come back to it now. (and not the "punk" that seems to be on the radio now. Green Day is a hybrid of true punk and this punk crap that is labeled that now. Give me my NOFX, or Rancid...hell, go classic, Sex Pistols, Dead Kennedys...now that's punk!)

But that's my obsession. Ask anyone about theirs. I'm sure if you ask Bryan about board games, the story would be very simular to this. He played one, and had to try more, and then there was just one that blew it open for him. Same with Carmen, I bet there is some mini painting story where he said "Oh My God, this is just the greatest thing in the world!"

Heck, my obsession has went as far as I'm contemplating getting myself a guitar for Christmas. I'll probably be crap, but I want to mess around on a guitar.

Ok, that was fun.

Until later.

Oh, to clear something up.

On the Heather thing...

She didn't ask me to stop playing WoW. I stopped playing it because I was spending a lot of time with her. We'll see what she says when I start playing again here soon. It wasn't because of WoW or anything like that that made her come to her decision. I really have no idea what her decision was based on or anything like that.

I just know that before I went to Indy, we had discussed some things about her and I. Something happened that I thought threw that out the window, but came back home to find that it wasn't true. She was more adamant about the "just friends" thing.

The only thing that gets on my nerves is her telling me about how she can't find a nice guy that will date her. I don't know if she WANTS a reaction out of me or what. She's gotten it a few times. We'll see. If this friendship becomes more trouble than it's worth, than I shall have to end it.

Good day to you.

In which I talk about music.

I found a most wonderful artist, his name is Jonathan Coulton. You may of read about him in the Penny Arcade blog. The song I recommend most of all is this one right here.

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/lyrics/the-presidents

Click "Play song" at the top of the page to hear it, and the lyrics are on this page so you can sing along!.

Also on this page...

http://www.jonathancoulton.com/songs

are a ton of songs from him. I recommend "Skullcrusher Mountain", "Todd the T1000", "Millionaire Girlfriend" and "Re Your Brains". All the songs on there are great, so listen to them all.

Every other musician that Tycho had on the Penny Arcade blog I've been into for quite some time, but I recommend them as well...(for the record, Stephin Merritt, Colin Meloy from the Decemberists, and another I can't remember...)

In other news...

*crickets chirp*

That's right, nothing. Work could become more interesting, or more stressful, I'll have to wait and see. Perhaps if I have more to do, it won't be as dull. But I doubt it.

Couple of shows coming up at the M-Shop I'm looking forward to. That will be exciting and something different. I might go to some shows that I don't know the bands, just for a new thing to do.

That's it for today, have a good week.

The drugs don't work, they just make you worse.

For those wanting to know, Heather expressed that she has no interest in dating me. Though we are remaining friends. Friends that talk...all the damn time!

It sucks going from spending almost everyday together, to barely seeing her at all now. Though She's usually the first person I talk to in the morning, and always the last person I talk to at night.

Probably something I shouldn't share, but she had a date. Said date stood her up to play World of Warcraft. To which I told her, "I haven't played in about two months." Which she responded with a resounding "Good for you!". I replied with "I stopped playing about the time I met you, I'm just saying." Her response was "oh." and then a sad face.

So the lesson here. Don't ever even kinda sorta date me. I'm an asshole.

The Virtues of Being Too Nice.

So I thought I'd post, as I hadn't in awhile. I've got nothing I really want to say though.

I got reviewed at work. They said that I was one of two people that know how to do every process that the company has. So that was nice I suppose. But of course, I thought to myself, "Damn it, I didn't want to be here THAT long." But I suppose it isn't that bad of a thing.

Can't remember if I wrote about GenCon or not. It was pretty fun. The crap thing is, both times I've went, I've had some personal issues going on, so I'm thinking more about that than enjoying myself at the convention. I think that since it's the status quo for me, I think the slogan for the 40th GenCon should be "GenCon: A Sure Fire Way to Mess Things Up For Rob and Any Woman He's Interested In." But I tease GenCon.

Cutting my hair wasn't as bad as I thought it was. I thought for sure I'd instantly feel regret for having gotten rid of it. But the opposite was true. I thought, "I should of done this awhile ago." Oh well, no big deal, it's done now.

Ok, that's it for now I guess. I'm dull and boring. But you knew that already.

A long delayed entry.

So, Gencon was fun. When I first got there, I didn't know if I wanted to go back. But at the end of it all, I decided I ultimately had fun and shall return.

One thing needs to change when I go to Gencon. I've been to the convention twice. Both times, I had something going on where I just wanted to get away from Ames and certain people that lived in Ames. Hopefully next year I got no drama going on and can actually just focus on the convention, and not be thinking about what's going on back at home.

Tomorrow is back to work time. I don't really want to. I'm not sure how I feel about work really. I think I need something new and different in my life or something. I've felt very bored lately. Perhaps running across the highway during rush hour will get me the excitement I crave.

Ok, I really got nothing else to write about. Sorry to be so boring.

Thoughts and Gripes.

First off, comics have become way more expensive than they are worth in my opinion. There are only a few titles out there right now that I think are worth the money. Sadly, trades are worth the money in my opinion. You get the whole story at once, and they actually work out to be a bit cheaper than the individual issues. As much as I hate to say it, I think that's where the industry is going to be heading. Actually, in my opinion, is pretty much there. There aren't many individual stories anymore. There are always these huge arcs. Why? That way it can go into a trade. I really think they are going for the bookstore market. A trade is going to sell much better in Borders than an individual issue.

(can you tell I bought comics yesterday, and paid way more than I wanted to, and that was AFTER weeding out the crap!)

I'm just really slow at getting things done. The second series of Doctor Who has been done for almost a month now. 13 episodes total. I think I have watched six of these episodes. You'd think that they are broadcast once a week on Saturday nights, I could find the 45 minutes to watch it at some point in the week, and stay relativily up to date with it, but alas, I can't do that. Venture Brothers is the same way, I've only seen the first episode of this season. It's not that these shows bore me, they are some of the best there is out there right now. But, I just always put it off to do something else.

Heather went home to visit her parents this week. Whilst there, she got shingles. She is on her way back to Ames as I write this, deathly afraid of me thinking she will look "not cute" with Shingles. She can be kind of paranoid sometimes, but that can be for the best I suppose. She also has reason to be, which I won't get into.

Um...Kinda sorta looking forward to Gencon. I always feel just, "meh" to leaving and not sleeping at home. Plus I think I want a vacation where I'm not doing ANYTHING. I've never had one of those. I guess when I worked at the radio station, I'd take a week off and just play video games the whole time. They would tell me I wasted my vacation at the station. I said I wasn't there and didn't have to see people, so I was happy. I'm sure when I get there though, I'll have a ton of fun.

All right, started this post hours ago, so I think I'll just end it now. Bye.