The Jalapeno Challenge

Many of us have those things we did and regret at the time but now make for very amusing stories. Like the tale of the Jalapeno Challenge. The other one, myself and several members of the ACC, for those of you who don’t read regularly the ACC is Assorted Childhood Chums. We were all adults at this point but when you’ve known some one from the middle school days on they are always in the ACC, that and I like the acronym.

We had been skiing all day and by that I mean working too. Because we grew up in the shadow of a ski mountain, two actually many kids ski in the area. Just as many don’t which I never really understood. Many of the ACC also found themselves working as ski instructors, myself included.

Now you may be thinking teaching skiing isn’t real work. Certainly it isn’t bricks and mortar construction but it is out in the cold for hours in temperatures below freezing many days and it is a physical job.

So we finish work and head to the pub after work, we are young 20 somethings that is what you do.

Now I’m not sure who to blame for the brilliance that turned into the Jalapeno Challenge but we are having a few, playing darts and eating some nachos. Perfectly adequate after ski fun, the it is suggested that we kick the fun up a notch.

We each eat one slice of Jalapeno Pepper then add one each time we go around the table so then two then three and so on.

Who ever decided that they couldn’t continue would be a wimp and what ever other disreputable things we decided to call them for the evening.

Well we made it to 16 rounds of the Jalapeno Challenge and if are curious that is 136 slices of jalapeno peppers each. I’m not sure how many of us were in it at the end of the challenge but I think at least 5 of us.

We would have gone on longer but the bar manager decided that we had, had enough of the peppers. Usually you get cut off from the alcohol in a pub not the peppers.

Sure Jalapenos aren’t really the hottest peppers in the world , I’ll give you that but they aren’t bell peppers either.

Well none of us were any the worse for the experience or so we thought.

Well at 3:00 a.m. someone else was already awake and making a lot of painful noises.

I wasn’t awake until about a little after 4:00 p.m. and I knew what that pain was all about and I wish I didn’t know what the pain was about. Who knew fire could come out that end of things. Well I’m sure the bar manager may have had a clue but he could have cut us off before we were well over 100 slices of pepper each.

Well before 4:30 there were 5, 20 something year old men saying come on ice cream and drinking milk, and anything dairy in that apartment was gone before 5 a.m.

Now add to this because we were in the middle of no where ski town nothing is open at 5:00 a.m.

Our insides were saying you need to get this hot toxic sludge out of your body and pain centers were not accepting all the manual override commands and one of us would reluctantly give in to the horror.

The hour between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. was possibly one of the longest of our lives.

We decided that at about 5:40 a.m. standing outside in 20 degree cold would probably work to keep our bodies for trying to expel any more of the poison inside us until the store opened.

So we put on jackets and hats and gloves and huddled outside the door of the local gas and sip, which was right next door, thankfully.

The owner showed up promptly at 5:59 a.m. to Open at 6 and was surprised to see a crowd of butt clenching shivering guys outside his store. We bought ice cream and milk. I’m not sure which confused him more us being there before he opened or that we all bought dairy and left really promptly already drinking the milk before we got out of the store.

We don’t speak of this when we see each other


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WTF / WTH Wednesday #17

WTF Wednesday #17

So in the Spirit of the WTF issues this is the text speak issue

Now I’ve been thinking that some of you may be offended by the title WTF so if you prefer it can be WTH /WTF Wednesday.

Now I understand that with the whole limits of texts and tweets that a certain amount of universal short hand is going to exist ie text speak

Hopefully by now most of you know what a lot of this stuff means so if I write

IDK OMG WTF FML BTW U R l8 4 WRK or jk LOL or RFOL you know what all of that means.

If you don’t know what the above stuff means then you are not L33t

Not my problem is not with the text speak it is with the whole transference of text speak into real speech.

LOL being said as Loll like roll
RFOL being said as Rah Off El

OMG as OH EM GEE

WTF as Double U Tee Ef

Seriously people, this is not really language why, why, why?

It isn’t like you have some big secret slang going on here and if you are in a RL conversation f2f w ppl Y R U talking in Txt Spk

Oh and on a related note if you are in a domestic living structure and your parental units / significant other or some other person is in a floor above you or below you and your ability to travel to that person is not hindered by any reason, you should probably go to them rather than send them a text

In other news

The idiocracy of our political representative shouldn’t amaze me any more but it does. Like last night. The president gives his state of the union address.

Then the Republican guy says in his rebuttal, No, no, no, The president has it all wrong what we really need to do is exactly what he said to do but with a Republican in charge.

Seriously, not to over simplify his speech but that is what he ended up saying

Enough all you jack offs regardless of party there are real problems that need to be solved. No one cares how it happens as long as it happens. Because if you don’t have a job and some one gets you a job, you don’t care about their politics

My son has an assignment how is the US like Roman Empire and are we in decline or not. Right now I would say yes and BTW the barbarians are at the gate. WTF ppl.





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I think I should have made a left at...

Sometimes I wish I had taken a different path in life, tried something new when I didn’t said yes when I said no, said no when I said yes.

How much would it have really mattered in the grand scheme of things?

Can simply turning right instead of left make all the difference as Frost suggest in the path less taken.

Although the poem is metaphorical for choices we make and not following the crowd or what is popular and going with your heart or you mind.

However the crowd is so large now is there really a path less taken? I think certainly there is a less taken road. ‘He who dares, wins’, to borrow from the SAS, you won’t know if you’ll fail or win unless you try. You certainly don’t succeed at that thing if you don’t try and you end up somewhere else and perhaps that is also a win just a different sort of winning. No I’m not giving homage to Sheen there.

In your life what choices have you made that have put your life where it is now, when you said no, when you could have said yes. I don’t care when you said yes because that puts you where you are by choice saying no puts you where you are but you may have been in a different place.

For me certainly there have been choices that I ponder, I don’t regret them but wonder what might have been. However I know if I made those choices the two people I love the most would not exist. Doodle and Stunt boy are here because I said no, when I could have very easily said yes. My life would have been different and theirs would not be at all.

A simple choice I made while sitting in a chair hung over and not giving it much thought at all has made all the difference. Or because I didn’t allow that path to continue I ended up where I was supposed to be by a different route?

The latter would be fate or destiny but I pretty sure if I had said yes that things would have ended up much differently. The choice was to reenlist or not. I choose not. If I had chosen yes, I would have remained in Europe for as long as they would have allowed me. I probably would have been deployed into the first Gulf War as many of the people I was serving with did. Then what? See the timing there is critical. Would I have been still in the sand box or back in the US in time to meet the person who is their mother? It is possible? There would have been a brief window where that could have happened. She was where I could have met her. The me who did meet her was wearing a foot high Mohawk, the alternate me would have been very short hair and military, a very different me on the surface anyway.

Who knows? Maybe there is such a thing as fate and things work out the way they are supposed to work out, maybe it’s just dumb luck and we try to make since of it all with concepts like destiny and fate and others.

In other news.

I really don’t see how my cats can poop as much as they poop. The pee thing has me equally baffled. They don’t really drink and eat that much where they heck is it all coming from? Seriously If I took the weight of the food I give them and then weighed their poop. The poop would weigh more. Getting at the amount of liquid in and out is far too complicated because you have to pull it from the litter and then figure for loss in the clay that you can’t get back and it’s just too much work. I would like it if one day a week they just would not poop and only pee half as much. That would even things out of bit. Anyone know how to constipate a cat?

Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely

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The itsy, bitsy, spider...

I can’t decide if dead spiders are creepy or just sad. Really, they all die all eight in the air and it just looks tragic or they just fall and are dangling there in their own webs.

Still on the other hand they are spiders and they are ruthless killers, but that is their nature so it is not like they are doing something out of their wheelhouse.

I think spiders are really sort of cool but they aren’t really good on the close up.

You know the silhouette of a spider is cool, the close up of all their hundreds of eyes and fangs is more than a little unnerving.

Stunt boy says the only good spider is a dead spider they are just creepy. I however will let them crawl on me and will sometimes catch them by a strand of web and we have a good time of climbing and swinging.

This summer, I found a spider while standing in line while waiting to get into a store. Well the spider and I were playing up the web and down the web, which gave us plenty of elbow room while standing around and waiting on our turn in line.

It also involved us into a conversation with a kid who had goats. Goat girl told us all very interesting stories about her family and her goat farm. The other one and I told how we had a fight with machetes one time and showed her the scar in his head to prove it when she said not uh. See spiders can bring people closer together.

They also make people shriek like little bitty girls especially it you have one in your hand like a yo yo and you swing in their general direction. Seriously what is a little bitty spider on the end of some web going to do?

Well yeah I’m no entomologist so I don’t know which ones are poisonous so there is that little fact but really I’m as much risk as anyone else for messing with it in the first place.

They are ok to crawl around on your hands and stuff and long as you can see where they are on you once they get into those places you can’t seem them they certainly get a bit more creepy and crawly.

Oddly enough I just saw a spider app, spider swiper the game. Which wasn’t the inspiration for the blog it was a dead spider on the stairs are work all eight up
And swiper isn’t really a word or so says my spell checker.

So where do you stand on the whole spider thing, Fan or not?

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PS 3 Gamer Tag: invisible don

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See there is a deep end

Seems that some people will invent things to become upset about when there are not real things to be upset about. We are one of the most social of all societies and oddly enough one of the most anti-social as well.

A while back there was a thing I saw about the latest trend in relationships is emotional affairs. Now perhaps I should save this for a WTF issue but I won’t. Seriously though what is this about really?

The reality is that if you are concerned about an emotional affair you are really more concerned about control than you are being in a relationship. Control is one of the things that we all want or at least the illusion of control. Because really what do we really control?

We control very little when you think about it, we do not control anything in our lives including our one life.

However we try to control things in our lives and think about the times when you are the most frustrated is when no matter what you do you can not change they are beyond your control.

In a relationship you trust that your partner is open and honest with you but you don’t know if they are really being open and honest with you. You know what they want you to know … control. You tell them what you want them to know…control.

We just have to trust that it’s enough, but what if you don’t and you begin to suspect that your partner is having an affair? Ok that is pretty bad and it can have varying degrees of bad. I can be with a friend, a coworker, a total stranger, well to you, you know because they aren’t really strangers to your partner. Yeah ouch

Now you may be thinking hey invisible dude why are you talking about relationships you aren’t even in one what the hell do you know. Well I’ll be the first to admit that there is obviously something lacking in my ability to remain in a relationship. But I have been in several relationships and can recognize that trust, control and communication are key to keeping things going and with that not trying to create problems when there aren’t any problems or at least no problems worth mentioning.

Emotional affairs though, really? I can understand it may be bothersome that your partner has an emotional tie with someone else that they don’t have with you. But don’t have kids if you don’t want to see that in action everyday in your house. Your kids will bond with each parent differently. And it is likely that that emotional relationship will be stronger than the one your partner has with you. Sorry.

Sure you can understand the kid thing, what about co workers, though. Maybe a bit tougher to handle, however that depends on the work. Like my job for instance, if you don’t do it you really can’t understand it completely no matter how much the person talks about it. So there will be a bond based on shared experience that doesn’t exist with anyone on the outside of that arena. Perhaps you can handle the co-workers, maybe.

What about friends? Is your partner going to have to abandon having friends, ever in the relationship with you? Lets hope not because they can be a buffer in potential issues within the relationship. Sure they get to hear some of your problems and quirks but we are social so we talk though our problems. And if you always try to solve your problems from a singular mind set you are not going to solve all your problems. Hell you probably won’t solve a lot of your problems.

So if your parent connects with someone else in friendship, work, hell even platonic love and they never stray physically from you where is the problem. We are social, one person isn’t going to be enough to satisfy our emotional needs. There doesn’t have to be a lot of people but just a few that help us through things.

Some people related better to the opposite gender and can share things easier than they can with members of their own gender. Face if you are a woman trying to share your worries and fears with them can be a kin to posting it on your status wall on facebook. And if you are a man, it’s like throwing a piece of meat into a pack of wolves.

Now this isn’t true of all men or woman some can be very good confidants to same gender persons. So if your partner has a person with whom they confide who is the opposite gender and they become good friends in the process you have to trust that it will remain a friendship. Sure they may have a strong emotional bond but aren’t all friendships emotional bonds. They will be bonds that you do not share with your partner. They will have inside jokes that develop over time that you won’t know. As we know people better we allow them into a personal space bubbles more and more and with good friends they will be very close in that physical space and from the outside it may appear to be something it is not.

It goes back to trust, control and communication. How much do you trust your partner, how much to do tell them and how much control are you will to live without and just let things be what they are going to be.

Emotional affairs are just a problem we make up to try to control our partners a little bit more. You can have friends but no friends that are not our friends. You do that, you kill the person you had in the relationship.

Relationships are hard but if you want trust you have to give it, if you want communication you have to talk without judgment and if you want control you have to give it up and even then things change and people will grow apart and often times it will be one person who grows away but they usually will just pretend things are all cool until they feel they can land on their feet. The thing is you can’t control it and the more you try the less control you’ll have.

I don’t know I see that emotional affairs are just a form of jealousy, but I can also understand that they can be precursors to an actual affair. Which ones will stay friendships with really strong emotional bonds and which ones will develop into more who the hell knows? If I did know, well I’d be the richest person in the world.


Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely

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PS 3 Gamer Tag: invisible don

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All aboard, not sure how it got there

Because I don’t always have time to write a blog or because I’m supposed to be doing other things, like work, when the idea comes to be I write them down on a piece of paper. As you’ve guess I have a lot of little bits of paper because my brain thinks up things all the time that I think would be good blogs.

Now because my brains don’t appear to work the same as other peoples brains some of these ideas are not such good ideas or they were in context of the conversation. So in an effort to rid my self of all the little bits of paper I’ve been writing them down again in one note book. See there is order and a method to the chaos. But there are still days when I sit here and what you get is what you get, I’m not even sure what is in my head half the time. Real life super hero guy asked me one time, “do you even listen to what you are saying?” I quickly replied “No”. I’ve had to develop a filter over time because the thought is in my head and out my mouth, it doesn’t always work. While it can be fun at times it can also be a tad insensitive at others. I did develop a cover for my lack of filter which I’m sure I borrowed from pop culture which is to say, “Was that out loud?” You know to suggest that my internal dialogue had slipped up but not necessarily in a Freudian manner.

Like when I was in the first grade I remember I wasn’t paying attention in class and the teacher called me out on it. Well I had just seen a movie, the Aristocats and it is all musical like because it’s Disney and that is what they like or they think kids like is musical stuff, which has seemed to be a pretty good formula for them as they make bank on their shit. Anywho… I was replaying the movie in my head and singing along to myself. The teacher unaware of the scene in my head asks a question.

I don’t know the answer I say

She says why not

I say, because some cat is playing records in my head. Which was actually what was happening in my thought and I think was going on in the movie too at some point. Those cats were singing and dancing fools.

Well after some thought about this for the teacher some cat spinning records in my head may have conjured an image of a beatnik party with people all in black and possibly doing things with questionable legality or morality but certainly with some AL -ITY to what ever was going on. And whether or not she should notify some one of this little incident.

Come to think of it I did have an awful lot of parent teacher meetings, I didn’t pay attention to them because while they were talking about me they certainly didn’t want my two cents because I would offer and they would tell me to behave and that this was grown up business. NO, it’s me business and I may have gotten glasses sooner if I wasn’t tuned out all the time and perhaps better grades, less conferencing and few ass beatings for being intellectually challenges a PC term for stupid. Report card come in what are you stupid. Let me see, yup bad grades = stupid says so right there pointing to the card. Can’t you read a report card? Yeah that ended well for my butt. Turns out they could read. You son has potential that he is not work up to.

Hmm… maybe if you noticed that I squinted at the board and wrote words in letters and not whole words might have been a clue that I needed vision correction. I didn’t put it together because I didn’t know how they eyes worked then and I did figure it out before I finished school, yes it was me who figured it out, so I tell the units I need glasses and they say are you sure. I say pretty sure.

Now it wasn’t like I was blind and had to walk up to the board to see but I did have to squint to see what was there and not in every class because sometimes I was in the front but generally I was some where in the middle and far enough away from the board to not know what was up there and if I had an eraser happy teacher it just didn’t get into my notes.

Well that took a left turn that wasn’t part of the plan, actually it took two left turns then a right and a few more lefts and Tah- dah here were are. Not our intended destination but a destination none the less. Perhaps I’ll write about the other scrap of paper later.

In other news

My new glasses make me relevant so says former co-worker in the following conversation.

Hey Don, are those new glasses?

Why yes they are new I just got them a few days ago.

I like them they make you look so relevant.

Now I really believe she meant current and with the fashion trend and not that oh thank god you have some fashion that isn’t the 1890’s dude.

Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely

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PS 3 Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

Die Red Dots

So if you read yesterday you know I said am a gamer and I play FPSs. I like them because you get to kill people and it’s good stress relief. Well you know not really people but a digital version of the person in the game environment. It is fun …well if it’s not your thing then you probably don’t think so.

Being a gamer there are certain things that people say about games, being a waste of time and what not. Maybe that is true if you spend all your time doing just that one thing and there are enough people who do just that and it gives all gamers a bad name especially the ones that play a little or even an hour or so each day.

However, a person who plays video games and actually plays them to accomplish objects and goals within the game tend to be better decision makers than persons who don’t play video games.

The studies show that gamer is used to making choices and executing differing plans and paths routinely to accomplish goals during their free time and because this is behavior occurring during stimulated brain activity it transfers to times when quick choices have to be made and weighing out multiple variables while on the job. This isn’t likely going to get your boss to allow you to play games at work but it may help you problem solve if you play a moderate amount during your free time.

Gamers also tend to have better hand eye coordination than non gamers. Not always a useful skill set but it can help.

Usually I am playing with my clan, a group of gamers who add a clan tag to their gamer tag to show that these players routinely play matches together.

I belong to the DRD -- Die Red Dots clan. We are few in number but enjoy the games and are not to be trifled with. We have been playing FPSs for around three years. The tag has meant Deadly Red Dots in some versions. The name evolved from the fact that the enemy shows up on a PIP map as a red dot and friendly players are blue or green. You are always a red dot to the enemy so Die Red Dots because that is who we want to kill.

Most of us are adults with jobs and children and we enjoy playing the games for the sake of the games. We like to accomplish the missions and work well together as a team. We are not the top players on the game with the exception on one player who is a beast.

There are around 40 players who are DRD

There are a core group of about 7 who play with frequency. There are player in other countries and all other the US.

The core group of us are invisible don, Ronin, Smoke, Flee, Dope Delta, Kensai

Kensai plays in two clans

Delta is new and is Ronin’s neighbor I think
Ronin is a college guy in Tennessee and a beast
Dope is a construction guy in New England
Flee is also a construction guy in NYC
Smoke is too a construction guy in FLA
And yours truly

Smoke and I were in a match yesterday and were death from above I had a round of 19 and 2 meaning I killed 19 people and only died twice. It is the sort of match Ronin has all the time me I’m usually even or a little behind but I earn points for accomplishing goals. We were in a Viper helicopter and blowing shit up all over the town. And I’m sure I was being cussed and called all sorts of bad things especially as I earned a nemesis ribbon meaning that 10 of those kills were shared by two players at five a piece. I had no idea I was killing the same poor schmucks over and over again. The thing is we were effective because we were working together target spotting and keeping the heli repaired and talking to each other. If we weren’t working together we would have died a lot.

The FPS games are starting to reward teamwork more than individual run and gun game play style. COD is still a high reward for run and gun but most other FPSs do not give those type rewards.

We all work really well together and support each other and don’t freak out when someone isn’t playing like a lot of other clans will do in these games. Seriously they require a certain number of hours of play per week, a KDR at a certain level and other stats that the game provides should be at a level determined to be lethal by the clan.

The DRD doesn’t require any of that, just have fun.

We do group up with The Bangin’ Smurfs, and the Canadian Duo of Goblin Girl and Liquid Circuit

I don’t know any of these guys and girls out of the game environment and while we talk like good friends we wouldn’t know each other if we were silently standing next to one another.

I would say all of us would know one another’s voices thought.

The funniest thing that has happened in the DRD is one of the other beast college kid who is in the clan but doesn’t play a lot is Teal. He was talking about being at a small college in Virginia. I say really which one. He says oh you wouldn’t know it, it is this community college and he says the name. I say no way I teach there. He is like BS dude. So I tell him the street address what it near and all the high schools in the area. He is like whoa one of the college professors plays and FPS

Everyone else was like damn that is pretty amazing two people who randomly join a gamer clan and don’t know one another are actually in the same town doing things in the same place. I’m sure it happens a lot but it’s the only time it’s happened in the DRD. Small world

Recently we were playing against each other in a match designed to pit two squads of four against each other and I was kill by Ronin so many times with a knife to the chest I may develop post traumatic stress disorder from it. But it is a bit of pay back because I’ve gutted him a few times before in other matches but it was like he started in on killing me like it was his job in that one match.


Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely

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PS 3 Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

Adventures at the game stop

Adventures at the Game Stop

I am a gamer, and gamers go to game stores. There are a ton of them out there. The one that is probably clued in to the gamers, at least around here is one of the local game stops.

Gamer guys like games. The only thing gamer guys geek more for than games are gamer girls…well… it probably depends on the game and then the gamer girl is certainly a close second.

So one of the local game stops has four female employees, and they are gamers they know there stuff or they fake it well and we all know girls fake it well when necessary.

However, three of them really seem to know the games pretty well and have favorites. Only one of them likes FPSs. (First Person Shooters)

So this is smart on the part of game stop for several reasons

Gamers are predominately introverts. So if there is a place where there are girls who have some common ground with them they will flock there.

Then because we are men we aren’t very smart, add that with introvert and you have the prime recipe for up selling. Example.

Gamer guys goes in, walks to counter and says I’d the to pre order the new blah blah

Gamestop girl says, Would you like to get the Legendary Edition, while tilting her had sideways

Gamer guy goes yes before the thought enters his head you just paid for the game twice and all you get is a few more maps and a doll. The maps will be out in a few week on DLC for half what you just paid for them but the game will come in some cool package.

Then while the gamer boys are searching the store for their latest purchase, just making conversation.

So what games do you like asks the helpful sales girl

Ah, you know FPS and that sort of stuff, says gamer guy

Oh for sure I total kick ass at COD MW3

Really

Oh yeah, you know we have this or that thing that goes with it

Cool.

So now sales girl walks off while gamer guys has to stand facing the wall for a few minutes to keep it together. But rest assured he is buying the this or that and may even be brave enough to ask for the sales girls gamer tag after oh … five to ten trips into the store. Each time buying something, only to find out it’s is against store policy for us to tell you our gamer tags which they whisper so that others are not discourage from asking and it makes the gamer guy feel as though she would have given him the tag name and sure thing that there are at least 5 to 10 more trips to the game store in this kids future.

Sad little gamer boys they are so fun to watch.

However on one of my recent trips to the game store and watching the gamer boys melt at the whim of the gamer store girls I was aromatically assaulted with a malodorous punch in the nostrils

The source of the smell was a woman and man. They smelled of body odor and cat pee.

Both on there own are disgusting the combination of them is like a narc getting a beat down at a biker rally, like a frat boy taking an ass whooping at a punk rock show, like the wharf at low tide on a hot August day like … well you get the point it’s a bad, bad smell.

At first the stinkolas were keeping together so it was easy to avoid the toxicity of them by shopping in other areas of the store. Which was fine until they decided they could offend even more people if they split up, shudder it was awful. I think you could have puked right next to them and it wouldn’t have made it smell much worse.

I mean who wears something a cat has peed on with out washing it and if still smells that bad after a washing its garbage.

Then the bathing thing I know they could not have bathed in at least a month. The dudes fingers were …well… crusty with dirt and there appeared to be layers to the filth. Once you looked it was like you couldn’t look away but you didn’t want to make eye contact because they would talk to you and if your garments are cologne covered by your pet cat and you haven’t seen a bar of soap and water together in a while, I’m sure a tooth brush hasn’t made a commando raid in to your chopper area either.

Fortunately I didn’t get that punch to the old factory because I’m sure I would have screamed at my sneakers at that point

Excuse me, while I barf to improve the atmosphere.

The best was seeing the clerk catch the creeping death which was them assault her while she was ringing them out. She didn’t panic and was able to either hold her breath but got them out of the store quickly, no up selling for them.

I checked out soon after and she had that look, like dear god I want to tell another human being just how bad these people smelled but I might get fired and then weighing it is it worth it to tell this. Of course I used my jedi mind thing with her and said I know what you mean. To which she nodded and knew it was not just in her own head.

I can only do the Jedi thing in the game stop so don’t ask about it at other times.



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PS 3 Gamer Tag: invisible don

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WTF Wednesday #16

This is a WTF entry that I’ve been thinking about for a while, which I’m not really sure qualifies as a WTF but as it is my thing if I say it does it does.

It’s good to be the king


Every guy who has ever been in a relationship has done some thing their significant other has wanted

Well maybe not every guy, a lot of guys… ok a few guys… ok there was something moving in the bush.

One of the things that guys will be asked to do is watch something or other that woman are into watching. We don’t want to watch them but we do because you ask us to do it and no matter how into it we seem to be, we would rather be watching grass grow most of the time.

The one and only exception to this is … no not Twilight… life time movies. Now we don’t want watch these at all but there is something about these that put you into a hypnotic trance and then two hours later you are like man what the hell was that but you didn’t move.

You have to move in that brief window of opportunity because Lifetime will PIP the credits down and start the next movie and if you don’t run when you can you are sucked in again.

It’s a horrible trap.

Now you may think, hey if I watch enough of these with my girlfriend, wife, whomever I’ll understand them better.

The answer to that idea is a solid No you won’t. You’ve just been the victim of some hypnotic beam that traps you one the sofa.

The thing is that you’ll be watching these and they all seem to have Valerie who used to be married to Eddie Van Halen, Cynthia Gibb and that one lady who was one that one show, no not that one the other one, yeah that one.

Thing is you feel the same way after every movie, what the hell just happened and it’s like two hours later. But there you are and you look over at your significant other and smile and she smiles back but you still are like WTF just happened.


In other news

There was other news but I don’t remember what it was so there is no other news today.


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The future now

So the other day Stunt boy is in the other room and he says Xbox do this thing.

Then he says Xbox do this other thing. I’m think why is he calling his mother what I call her. Oh did he just go there, yes folks I did and that is why I play on the PS3 because I already have an xbox. And at two point play, can he make the trifecta, I’m not going to push my luck but back to the point.

Stunt boy isn’t talking to his mother but to his actual Xbox gaming system and unlike his mother it is actually doing them for him.

I am amazified and stuff. This is like being freaking James T. Kirk and any other person in the future today. You talk to a machine and it does stuff for you. Granted the Xbox isn’t making sammiches, no she isn’t either. You know you thought it, but how far away are we from this. Transporter beams I suppose but here is a scenario.

Computer I want a salad.

What ingredients would you like?

You get the list and then from some farm or storage thing the food just beams into your kitchen…awesome.

There could be some draw backs with that because you know you’ll be drinking some time and then you wake up the next day and there are Chinese dumplings on the ceiling, hummus in the DVD drive and not sure what the sticky stuff is and your stomach isn’t in the mood for closer inspection without adding to the mess.

Yeah and we think drunk texting is bad, imagine what our grandkids are going to be messing with when they are five shots too far into a jager buzz

Why are there so many apples?


Hey, don’t doubt this Jules Verne wrote about this zany mad captain at the bottom of the sea in a sub before there were such things. Whiz bang and stuff there they are not even a 100 years later

1960s Capt James T. Kirk talks to blinking lights mounted on a sound stage prop and someone back stages pretends to be the computer and answers. 2011/2012 the Xbox does what you ask it to do. Well you know with in it’s prescribe parameters but still its doing them.

Real life super hero guy got to play a video game the other day what you work with your brain activity not any controller. How awesome is that... yeah I know so awesome, I’m totally jealous and I told him too. He promised to take me next time but there won’t be a next time I know it that is just my luck


One of the gaming companies is working on semi immersion technology where your motions control the game avatar but better than the Xbox kinect.

How far are we from full immersion where we are the in the game environment. Either holographic projection of the game or to the other side internal mental images.

Personally I like the idea of holograms over someone pumping information into my head. Because once the get stuff in they can get stuff out and it adds a whole new level to I got a virus because you know someone is going to hack your brain and have you kill their xbox for them and you take the fall and solve there problem.

In other news

Classes started again and I have a teeny tiny class room full of people. Looks like a promising start to the new semester.

In other other news

I took the last few days off from the blog because I was de holidaying my house, some much needed fixes to some household things, getting ready for the semester and fixing technology problems. So the last few days have been sort of busy but nothing really terribly blog inspiring … well not as much as scooping the litter box which I’m off to do now.

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Is this compass broken?

So I have a friend, I know shocking stuff … and this friend has a deficiency of sorts. It isn’t a medical condition or anything like so there isn’t really a need to send cards or prayer requests … well … no, none of that will really help much.

Well come to think of it a family member also has the same thing going on so who knows it might be genetic. But whether it is genetic or not isn’t the point.

This friend and I were talking recently and it came up well what do you, do for me because I had asked them to do something for me.

Now my request wasn’t really a huge deal just find out some information. E-zee P-zee stuff not even difficult at all.

Well I though what do I do for them, and my response was I make you feel better about your “bad” choices. Bad is in quotations because there badness is really relative to how you view the world. Now to some my friend may be morally depraved, I knew I couldn’t spell it, looking it up, hold on … ok it’s fixed but you know that already. So the depravity of my friend depends entirely where you stand on certain issues.

Now, just so we’re clear no one gets hurt in these things. So how depraved is it really. To some this friend is certainly going to burn in hell. Which isn’t something you hear people say too much these days but when they do say it, they mean it and there is no explaining yourself to that person. You just have to hang your head in shame and nod and accept that what they are saying is probably true, according to the world in their perspective.

For me it is entertaining because I’m not a part of any of the choices and there really isn’t any impact for me and I don’t really see that the things this friend is doing are wrong. They are just things people do. I also know that once this friend has things in their life going in a direction that is clearer and more clearly defined by the other involved in the direction then I really believe that this friend will adjust and be more conformist to “acceptable social norms” whatever those are, the quotes again are really relative to how you want to live your life.

So I make them feel good about their moral depravity, that’s a good thing to be right? I don’t think I’ll get the information I want but I’ll still try to make that person feel good about there bad choices when I know about them.

I don’t get to make bad choices anymore. Well I suppose I could but I don’t have the money or the right tools anymore. SOFUCT.

In other news.

A different friend of mine, Real Life Super Hero Guy and I were taking the other day. Well he is going to be a dad soon. Like really soon-ish… well not any minute soon that still weeks away but soon. Anyway he was looking at things to buy for his kid. Things that the kids won’t be using anytime soon but it’s good to be prepared.

One such thing that made the hey lets have a look at this was a sit and spin. Oh yeah, I think these are manufactured in the vicinity of hell. Not because they are evil but because you can’t resist them. As a kid it is just fun to spin as fast as you can and then lay there an watch the world slowly spin back into focus… and you giggle for hours. Now I’m sure you are thinking what does this have to do with hell it sounds like fun. Well it is, for kids but that same can’t resist them doesn’t go away with age and you’ll see one as an adult and you’ll sit on one and spin your stupid ass around and then you feel it …oh… I’m standing too close to hell feeling and then you lay there on the ground wishing the world wasn’t spinning and it doesn’t appear to be coming to a stop any time soon and then when it does finally stop and you decide to sit up it starts again and then the wave of nausea hits you and you may get to see what you’ve even for the last few meals again in a less appealing visual and aromatic presentation.

Now you know you’ve done this once, and that will keep you from ever doing it again but every time you see a sit and spin you still want to sit on it and spin. You may even on closer inspection see that they are made in the vicinity of hell.

In other, other news.

Well… I was going to say something about CPG being a pain in the ass but I’m just tired of it. I may rant about it in a later edition of WTF Wednesday but for now I’ll just going to let it go, she’s makes Kyle’s mom from South Park seem like a nice lady.



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PS 3 Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

WTF Wednesday #15

WTF Wednesday #15

So why the hell does Donald Trump think that anyone wants him to run for president?

Seriously does he honestly think that anyone in the world wants to see this happen? I’m sure even North Korea and the terrorist cells around the world even say man if he gets elected it is surely a sign of the end of days.

Perhaps the Mayans saw these things happening now and figure if he does get elected the world would blow up with in two month.

The bigger WTF in all of this isn’t that Trump wants to be president or pretends to want to be president it is that the new media whores actually give him the time to pander to his own ego.

It is on both sides the conservative based media whore out to him, the liberal media whore out to him and no one says shut the front door Donald no one cares what you have to say.

Of course the Donald has a bunch of money but that doesn’t mean you should be president. If that were the case then Oprah and Bill Gates would always be President. Personally I would prefer Oprah to just about anyone who is running for President. But I don’t think she wants to take the pay cut or have her free time so utterly messed up.

If anyone says, “But he has a really interesting TV show”, I will scream. If you think his TV show is worth watching you should go to a store buy a two by four and then try to sell it to anyone on the street. That would be better entertainment than his show. It has been turned in to Celebrity Apprentice because no one seriously looking for a job that has an iota of self respect is going to submit to that sort of degrading treatment and seriously expect anyone to take them seriously for the rest of their lives. These “celebrities” just want the fame and a reason to have the SAG cards renewed for another year without really having to do a lot for it and they get paid on top of that when it is becoming increasing more difficult for them to find jobs. Yeah that is excellent programming.

In short Donald Trump, go back to your board room stand in front of a mirror and repeat your catch phrase until you understand no one wants to see you, or hear you in public ever again.

In other news

I saw a hammer drop in one of the most diplomatic ways I’ve even seen it drop. And that is all I have to say about that.


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Doodle goes to college

Well seems that Cat-E Perry has finally broken free from what ever mind control drugs or voodoo that Russell had her under and they are calling it quits.

Today being the second day of the new year the above news seems to indicate that things will certainly be better in twenty twelve.

Rock Lobster by the B-52’s is an amazing song not for its lyrics, and not really for the vastness of musical chords but something about it is just really stimulating for me. Perhaps it is because it is from a time when life was far less complicated for me although at the time I didn’t think it was all that uncomplicated.

The B-52’s and other punk music I was listening to at the time was different then what other people were listening to and that was how I felt, different. So the music had an appeal that main stream music didn’t.

In other news

My dog, Wondermutt, whose name isn’t Wondermutt but I don’t have a creative nickname for her yet was much better than I expected. A friend, who also doesn’t have a creative nickname yet, came over and brought her dog, who also has no nick name. Well Wondermutt hasn’t really been around other dogs because she is so freaking hyper all the freaking time, I just didn’t trust to let her around other dogs. She has nipped a few people so there is a reason for the lack of confidence in her social skills.

She didn’t freak out on the dog or my friend. So now I think that she doesn’t like smokers or people who touch her hind quarters. Stunt boy is really the only one she lets brush her tail or back legs.

In other, other news

Doodle has left the ‘Noke for go away college. This is the first time she will be moving out of a place that hasn’t been the home of a relative. Big step in her life, while it’s just college it is a break from home that hasn’t happened before. Of course she always has a home as long as I have a home. I am a mess of emotions right now, proud, missing her, worried, excited for her, concerned and hopeful and a thousand others all at once. I know she will do well at school as she starts out on this new adventure in her life.


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PS 3 Gamer Tag: invisible don

PO Box 4425 Roanoke VA 24015

Wow, this certainly was not intentional

Day one of the new year has had a familiar start for me as it has for the past few years. I’m not sure why it has become a couples holiday or event. Because the year changes over just the same for all of us single people too.

Yet, every party or event is couples only or it’s a family event and if you aren’t with your family that particular day there you are alone in a sea of people. That is a strange feeling.

My intention was not to write something blah, but I just sat down and this is what flowed from the stream. I’m also not sure why it is that the auto correct is telling me that the new and year together need to be capitalized. It is correct the way it is without the capital letters. Yeah we need to do more things by computer. They are only as smart as we want them to be and they are only as efficient as the programmers.

One of the programs we use at work requires 8 different page openings before you can do anything that is of course after you go through the 6 step process to get to that page. It goes down a lot too, not as much as oh lets say trashy girls but a lot.

While we are on the subject of trashy girls, I’m not sure what it is about them that is so darn appealing. Le sigh. I also know to stay away from them too. One because they will steal your stuff, two they usually have an ex who is currently incarcerated and soon to be released or has just recently been released from incarceration. Three, in addition to the property crimes things, they do tend to be a wee bit violent, with that they prefer knives. Think a gun helps a person with a knife can close a 30 foot distance before you can draw a pistol. Where in your house will you be more than 30 feet from this person when they snap in to deranged mode. Four, related to the latter snap is the high percentage for mental health issues. Five, related to mental health issue is usually some form of substance abuse in an attempt to self medicate.

But when you see them walking around in the tattered jeans and the wife beater… well everyone has their Achilles heel, it’s better to know than not know so you can avoid the pit falls of this sort of thing. Think this is not a good look, ladies pop in the movie The Town or just ask your man what he thought of Blake Lively in that movie and you will know if your man is attracted to trashy girls or not. While her part isn’t very big in that movie she nailed that role.

In other news

I know you are so glad that the ode to the trashy girl is over. We have a new captain for the ship and the hammer is about to fall. Not sure what exactly is going to happen but things will happen. Anytime, there is a change of captains there are always new orders or a new priority on how things get done. The private sector doesn’t like change and I’m as guilty of disliking change as much as the next person but I grumble when I can but do it the new way. Not because it’s easier it’s just the way I was trained.

The military does that to you or for you. Change can happen very quickly in the military and you’ll be taking orders from a new somebody in the blink of an eye which is why they change your commanders frequently enough so you get used to change but not so frequently as to make thing chaotic. If they can’t change the commanders they change the mission and if they can’t change the mission they exercise you. Change happens, change is necessary to remain productive, viable and effective. In the military you change and if you don’t like it bitch about it on your own time. Which technically is when your enlistment is over but there is off duty time when you are free to gripe bitch and or complain in a respectful fashion. You just don’t blindly follow orders, if the orders are wrong you don’t follow them and the UCMJ allows you to do this without repercussion. The private sector doesn’t really prepare people to same way. The new captain hasn’t done anything for several months but lay low and see what is going on. Which is worse in some cases than the person who comes in and on day one has a new game plan and says this is what I want and you will conform.

So we have a meeting and the general pulse of things is that heads will roll. Happy New Year, see computer it is appropriate here you dumb firetrucking machine. I probably won’t be letting you all know the content of said meeting because the trend lately here I the good ol’ US of A is to squash your free speech and fire anyone who says disparaging things about their place of employment and in an economy which has taken up residency at the south pole it’s not a good idea to rock the boat or fly above radar.

In other, other news.

The USAS automatic shotgun RAWKS … hells yeah and stuff. However, freaking kill count whores who want to rush through the co-op missions are fucking annoying the crap out of me. The job of a sniper is to be silent and accurate … one shot one muther fucking kill you stupid noob… Sorry it is just very frustrating to me that these people are the very definition of insanity … doing the same thing the same way and expecting a different result over and over and over again. If it didn’t work the way you did it, it means the programming doesn’t like your solution…ie you fail. Be smarter than the firetrucking machine.


Oh and if you are new what starts with F and ends in UCK, that’s right Firetruck.

Happy New Year, hope you don’t have a hang over and if you do well probably best to avoid the sun for a bit, drink lots of water and take some meds you’ll live, you may not wish you had right now but you’ll be happy about it later, unless you hooked up with a trashy girl in which case you may be missing some thing and or suffering from some injuries. In which case, sorry I’m your year will get better because starting off on such a low point where else is there to go but up. See the silver lining but don’t say that to the trashy girl because she’ll beat you for the silver.

Well, that’s all for now, other stuff tomorrow most likely

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