I just wanted to thank everyone for thei

.. ok that’s just not right

r
calls for my birthday and well wishes. My dad called from up north on
business and we got to talking as one usually does on the phone, Edison
made a good invention, that he did.

We started talking about the
Detroit Tigers, how well they were doing, etc. Then we got onto the
subject of Golf. Because we play it and I was taught it by him. Anyhow,
I was describing how while Tiger was at a Nike commercial shoot that he
shattered a camera while shooting… So this conversation happened:

Dad: You know who Bobby Jones is?

Me: Yup he’s the famous golfer that created Augusta National golf course

Dad: *surprised* yes, well back in the day….

Me: When you used to walk five miles…

Dad:
in the snow both ways, we used to goto the movie theatre because they
didn’t have this In-ter-net thing back then, before the war… And
Bobby Jones used to have fifteen minute lessons on the big screen,
which was in black and white colours back then, by the way.

But,
Jones was the last golfer to continue to use wooden shafted clubs. He
took a three iron, and they say only god himself can hit a three iron,
and shattered more than one camera in his day.

Then we got
talking about the best Sports Entertainment out there, Wrestling. heh,
and here you just thought all I did was play video games, golfed and
listened / watched Anime all my days….

Chatted about how Terry Funk must be really old.

Dad: Terry Funk must be at least 90. I myself am 43 now. Because as soon as I turned 50 I started to count backwards.
Me: So then at some point we’ll be the same age.
Dad: That’s the plan and I’m sticking too it.

Then
we got to talking about hockey. This is a true story not a before the
war bit like above, although the Bobby Jones bit is true.

Dad: A
friend of mine travels with the Edmonton Oilers. In fact he was around
before Gretzky came to the Oilers. He travelled with them when they
faced Detroit and he said that they were just gassed and had no energy
getting to the bench or on the ice because they over played themselves
in the year.

Me: Yzerman will retire this year… Well they just resigned Chris Chellios to another one year contract….

Dad:
Your kidding me… that’s it tell the owner of the Red Wings that I’ll
lace up the skates and play beside Chellios, in fact I think I’ll go
outside and skate all night. While your at it get those World Series
tickets as well.

So as you can see that’s just a glimpse of my
Dad and myself. Much like my journals, we too are all over the place in
our conversations be it on the web or in real life…
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What Kind of Geek are You?
Name: VertigoX
DOB : June 13, 1979
Favourite Color Black
Your IQ is very high
You are a computer geek
Your strength is you can see in the dark
Your weakness is caffine
You think normal people are strange
Normal people think that you are deranged

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Vx Out

Happy Birthday to me! Happy birthday to

Damn it! lol

Well
it is officially my birthday today! Woohoo! I’m 27 god dren years old
today and my day started off great… I woke up, took a shower, got out
of the shower, walked up the steps and BAM! nearly broke my big toenail
in half… Ouchies!!!

Then I went to the gym, did my 80 situps
and 35 minutes of Cardio all the while my big toe was throbbing… I
think I need some aloe vera rubbed on my neck. Doc! Where are you when
I need you, great scott!

When I went for my meal replacement
shake because I just didn’t fell like the rocks in my stomach
McDonald’s Egg Mc Muffins…I usually order Chocolate with Milk, Ice
and Apple Raspberry to drink… They discontinued my Apple Raspberry!
So I had to have Mango… Mango!? Come on! Let’s put it this way, I
could taste the milk and chocolate more than I could taste the Mango…

Drove
into work today and I was really seriously thinking of taking the day
off but what a better way to have a good day than to play WoW at
work… Then I forgot it’s Tuesday and the daily Maintenance… Dren it
all to frell!

So, I’m sitting here typing this all out and
listening to enmasse amounts of Anime OST’s while formatting a computer
for work. The OST’s I’m listening to are:

hack//SIGN
hack//Luminally
Someday’s Dreamers
Rurouni Kenshin OSTs
Cowboy Bebop OSTs
Full Metal Alchemist
Evanessence
Heroes of Might and Magic V (that’s Five in roman numerals )
Naruto
Warcraft III OST

It’s my birthday I’ll listen to what I want too. If I could get Elnea’s haunting Halo song to DL i’d add that one is as well.

I’d also like to really thank OboeCrazy and her beautiful rendition of Happy Birthday on her wonderful sounding Oboe!

Also, Nancy aka Maggs10 a beautiful and wonderful woman in NS which I went to two years ago sent me this today: http://rvb.roosterteeth.com/members/images/image.php?id=1186664 If you can’t view the picture, look in my Images section! she’s too special for words and is a really great person.

So, look her up and give her a big RvB welcome. Maybe not a Glomping, al la Gus, but a welcome nonetheless

Let’s see how the rest of my day goes!
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Wikipedia is perfect for information gathering because these important events happened on my birthday:
On this day…
June 13:

1898 – Yukon Territory was formed, with Dawson chosen as its capital.
1935
- In one of the biggest upsets in championship boxing, underdog James
J. Braddock defeated Max Baer to become the heavyweight champion of the
world.
1966 – The Miranda v. Arizona ruling established the Miranda warning.
1971 – Vietnam War: The New York Times began to publish the Pentagon Papers.
1983 – Pioneer 10 (pictured) became the first man-made object to pass the orbit of Pluto.

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Also!
For those of you that play WoW and hate trying to find out what
enchanting items require what mats, etc and are constantly searching
through things.

My good friend, Mac, wrote a program that is easy to use, updatible and only 700k.
http://www.geocities.com/wow_index/

Check
it out. It has a tutorial file under the help section. Best of all, it
already has all of the Alchemy/Enchanting recipes already filled out.
Next is Engineering.

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PPPPPSSSSSS s:

OboeCrazy sent me this: Happy Birthday tooo ME!!! YAY!!!

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Kurt aka Vx the 27year old bday boy

Not dead, just uninspired…and my birth

damn it! I’ll never get used to that lack of space in the title…

Moshi, Moshi my fellow RvBers

To be honest, nothing of note has really happened to me… Except for the following:

I
went to my cousins graduation party today. While not a big occasion, it
got me out of the house and I saw family and a ton of S & N’s
friends that I hadn’t seen before and everyone seems to be either
married, engaged or soon to be married, which I guess would be
considered engaged….

Apparently one of S’s friends had a baby
and about 4 weeks later it unfortunately died. What was sad was she had
taken a ton of pictures and no one to really share it with. From what I
could recall … it was a genetic defect between the two adults
male/female that caused the lungs to collapse, it was really sad to
hear. She was making a scrapbook of that no-longer with us, deceased
child…

I know I couldn’t do that…

Let’s see what
else… Oh ya I DL’d Penn & Teller’s Bullshit Seasons 1 – 3. I have
to admit its insightful, informative and funny at times If you can
rent it I’d say go for it. I loved the episode about Feung Shui and
Bottled Water. FS isn’t a science. and Bottled water isn’t healthy for
you. Infact Dasani is Pepsi without the Syrup and Aquafina is Coke
without the Sryup. Also a majority of the ‘bottled’ water is municipal
tap water as well.

I formatted my computer recently. Then
realized that my D drive was failing so I backed up everything. That
took 6 DVD’s crammed full of stuff and pron.. and more stuff and more
pron… did I mention stuff?

My
Birthday is on Tuesday June 13. I’ll be 27 years old and because of car
insurance, paying off RRSP Loans, etc I’ll be broke… But, at least my
guildmate in WoW Deli, sent me freshly baked Smores Cookies… They
were all broken apart and sent 7 days before, but the thought was nice
and they tasted great, if not a little crumbly.

I finished a
website for my JJ class. It is a traditional Japanese Ju-Jutsu martial
art. Not like Elnea’s Tai Chi where knees apparently just fly all over
the place and in a multitude of directions But that’s like Haley’s
Comet, once every 2,000 years… Next 2,000 years it will be spleins!
heh

I saw a movie recently. Some may of heard of it. Apparently
it is had a cult following like A-Team, Dr. Who and Titus… it’s
called Battle Royale. Now, maybe I have become desensitized by violence
on TV, and in Anime/Movies. But, yes this was bloody. The acting wasn’t
that great, but I’ll be damned if it wasn’t the craziest solution to
“culling the heard” so to speak. We talk about over crowding in
schools. This would take place on a desserted island. 43 boys and 43
girls and they kill each other with various weapons that they get in a
bag. Until one survives….

Give the term: Honour Student. A whole new meaning

I’m twisted Iknow.

Ja Na.

I know it’s been a few days…maybe a we

It’s probably been a week. But to be honest, nothing’s happened to me.

I
mean I recently picked up Tiger tickets for the St. Louis Games on
Friday and Sunday next weekend… Got tickets for Oakland on the 22nd
of July.

Then on the sports news I heard that Alexander
Puljoisxyz pulled his bicep muscle and will be out 15 days DL but
probably be out for 6 weeks… craptastic! That was one of the players
that I wanted to see hit a homer or two…

I was helping clean
up my grandfathers house because he’s moving into a Condo… it took 6
hours of wrapping up antiques…. Friday on my day off mind you…

My
RRSPs aren’t doing well, or rather, the company is doing well but I’m
not making very much per year… So I’m dropping that RRSP company and
going somewhere else. To top it all off I just took out a lump sum to
pay off my loan for my Taxes, etc… So I nearly went under a specific
amount that I never go under… Needless to say, I will be tight on
cash for a bit…

My Co-Worker is leaving this week permenantly
because he’s moving up to TO to find a better job. So I’m stuck in this
job playing WoW and finding a better paying steady days job. I think
I’ll apply to the clerical pool again.

What else…

Well
I know there is more but I can’t think of anything right now… Also,
there is no way in hell I can keep pace with OC or Elnea :S too many
cooler journals than mine…

Must not get into the lull of complanxfr

Mushi, Mushi all:

I know, I know I’ve missed a few days….

Let’s
see… For starters, I’ve finally posted a few new pictures. Sure, they
are all of my exploits in WoW and how cool a Mage in a pimped out Epic
dress can totally kick ass. But, I can totally justify myself in a
dress in two easy steps.

1) It’s a freaking Epic!
2) I have the legs for it.

Besides,
if you’ve been playing as long as I have its justified That and you
have spent a year almost two on another game that has totally
imursed… Emursed… consumed your being into the realm of fantasy,
lore and of course…. cute gnomes.

Because Gnomes are the snugglies … that and they are totally puntable! heh.and now a cut to todays sports highlights:

Welcome sports fans to the match between The Beast of Upper Blackrock Spire and the PUG of Ironforge players.

Well that concludes today’s sporting event. Thanks for watching and good fight, good night (guess that quote)
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Other
than that, I’ll be seeing a few ball games this year. With the Detroit
Tigers doing so well and a friend of mine has some tickets, we’ll be
seeing St. Lois Cardinals vs. Detroit Tigers on Friday (whenever they
play, I think next week) and Sunday.

Then in July, Oakland Athletics are in town and we’re seeing them on a Saturday.

Now,
I know I’m going to have a blast at these games, but it really cuts
into BWL and AQ40… Oh well I’ll manage and get out of the house more

Also, I have a day off today, and a Dentist appointment…
I’ve kinda put that off since February, but not because I have bad
teeth, I brush regularly and floss and all that but I just haven’t had
time that’s all

So off I go into the wild blue yonder (guess that one as well)

Ja Na!

Just saw X-Men III! wow… wow…

It is amazing that I have learned from various sources that the amazing
X-Men / Spiderman cartoon hour back in the early – mid 90′s is
completely different from the Comic book series…

TV can’t be wrong! Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

But
that is all that I have to go by. I also have better sources that the
Internet. Macgregor a friend of my and a guildmate and a comic book
junkie and another guildmate, Shiloh (who has been reading the
Spiderman comics and X-Men comics since 1979!

So when I went to see X-Men III I was expecting a mediocre performance… Boy, was I wrong.

I will NOT spoil it for those of you out there. It is well worth the price of admission to go pay the movie and see it.

I will tell you this… X-Men IV is completely wide open plot wise and storyline wise…

OMG it IS fiction!

Well, today is a day that will live out its life in infamy… Boy,
that’s one way to screw up a famous Winston Churchill quote. hehe.

Recently
I’ve seen only one movie and that was the Da Vinci Code. Now, for those
of you that are strict Catholics and believe every single word in the
Bible…. I have a sentence to say to you….. Good for you.

But,
this movie is based on a novel that clearly says on the back that it
is, get this, Fiction… I know what a strange concept. Something that
had real places and events that have happened and yet it has been
interwoven into a myriad of words and a tapestry of phrases that has
sparked such debate that one book has spawned about a hundred most to
discredit this one book.

The only one laughing at the
non-believer’s is not the Catholic church, but Dan Brown the author.
This controversy as you would have it has made this man a millionaire
five times over at least.

What did this controversy give him? Besides, probable death-threats and national media coverage? It gave him free publicity.

So. For those of you that liked the book (and I’m one of them) and for those of you that didn’t… Go see the movie anyhow.

You can’t go wrong with Tom Hanks, Ian McKellan (sp) and Jean Renu.

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Oh ya, there’s a wedding I have to goto today and X-Men III is out…. I think I may skip the reception and goto the movie

I expected it and yet I didn’t…

Times are changing.. Nate, my co-worker just handed in his two weeks
notification today… which means that I’ll be working alone with my
Boss now. For however long they deem that they need me.

Now
for those of you that know of my situation and think that it is great
that all I do is play video games, etc all day.. .Yes, it is fun. But,
it gets boring rather quickly to be honest with you. I actually
expected this to happen when my co-worker took Friday, Sat – Thursday
of this week off, I expected that he was looking for work…

Thing is, he is/was the programmer of the MIS department… I really don’t want to be programming…

So,
I have deceided to play games and get paid as well as looking for a new
job. I leave jobs on my own terms. Except for that one job where I was
escorted out of the office like a common criminal and no one knew that
I was being fired … but that was another time and place….

I have now just uninstalled all games off this computer, minus the essentials like WoW (of course… I’m not crazy )…

My Priorities are as follows then:

- 1) remove all distractions from this computer
- 2) do a good effort in looking for new work.
- 3) play a little bit of WoW here and there…

I
will be attending my best friends wedding ((See previous Journal: If
that isn’t a kick to the nuts, I don’t know what is…) for more
information.)) tomorrow. It’s at 1pm. I will be attending and then
heading home, spend a few hours looking up jobs and applying everywhere
I can and then I’m going to see X-Men 3!!!

He’s a good friend
and all but the last ten years or so, he hasn’t been that great of a
friend for me to miss a movie event such as this! I mean unless he
or she is setting me up on a date with someone there, but I highly
doubt it… but, that’s another story altogether.