Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and….

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Wooooo!

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Vx Drunk and Out

This week was the LONGEST week of my life… Intro to the Year in review, eh

And although I didn’t ‘double of last year’s’ whatever (and I do hope
she elaborates upon it… I’m sure she doubled her last year’s income,
contacts/clients… those are my guesses), I could of, as Numfar put it, I did have a relatively good year. And of course not to slight the still ever amusing and witty 17A. I have still yet to go on said: Anti-date… eventually I will.

As you all know, and here is a year in review… a rough year in
retrospective-analysis filled with, charts, graphs and diarama’s… oh
yes, the diarama’s will be flowing. I might have time for a musical
introduction, and eventhough the cast only has a few members in it, I
shall make sure that 400 people are in the opening act.

Or I’ll just make a sandwich… who knows.

So. I have come to Blarg, Blarg, Honk about my year this year.

Dis Company or Dat Company? Forgetdaboutit

The drama that was Company #whatever pasted on in February, oh so long
ago, and I was hired by Company #5. Things are still well here, as the
year wound down, the work became less and less and the playing of WoW
became more and more to the point that I now have a Rogue, named Aikida
(and if someone could get me the translation of this name I am
curious… I’m thinking Daemon but I could be incorrect).

It got to the point that I have resumed my 40 – 60 hours a week of WoW
as when I first started playing it with no job… it’s kind of sad
really. But I degress.

Class Days, no class nights…

JJ class, I feel I have been missing out on the constant battles every
week, the comradery and the ability to push oneself to newer levels of
pain and success. This week on days, week on nights is a killer,
socially and physically. I have heard tales that there will be another
seminar in NS in February… but these have yet to be confirmed…
Although it would be kick-ass if I could see N again.

We have been chatting constantly since meeting her two years ago was
it? I mean it is rare that you can meet someone that you have never
meet and in the middle of being choked out, strike up a conversation on
music… Good times, indeed. I have been enjoying it all too much
She truly brightens my days and nights. Plus her humour is wickedly
evilish and always funny Oh, the world would be painted red if we
ever got to spend a few days together having a blast as I know we would.

ADHD and … what was I going on about?

You may think that I have ADHD and that I’m jumping all over the place,
but bare with me, I have many things that just pop into my head and as
my Algebra teacher used to say, “Not to go off on a tangent…” but,
it’s just the way I’ve always done things.

I haven’t seen that many movies this year as opposed to last year…
Kind of disappointing, but what can you do? There honestly haven’t been
that many great films this year.

Anime Fantabulous

Anime has always been a love of mine, from my first experiences with
Dragonball and Dragonball Z, thinking that it was just cartoons. I was
greatly mistaken when I started to look into it. Since then I have been
constantly grabbing and watching all the anime that I can.

This year alone, I have DL’d and seen: Full Metal Alchemist (51
Episodes), Rorouni Kenshin (95 episodes), Trinity Blood (24 Episodes…
Apparently this ran for 4 years…), Samurai Champloo (complete series)
and those are just for starters… Honestly I don’t know what draws me
too them… Probably the style of artistry, the action and the fact
that it isn’t like a typical Warner Bros. Cartoon. Mind you I grew up
with those as well.

DVD’s I think I’ve purchased more DVD’s this year than I have all other
years combined… But recently I have been cutting back alot, and alot
of DVD’s have remained in stores because of the old addage: “Do I need
this or Do I want this?”

Dad and his travels

My father is going away yet again for vacation… Lucky bugger. Two
years ago, it was New Zealand. Last year, it was Egypt. This year, it
is Austrailia. The pictures he has taken are hanging up around his
apartment and are rather nice. This year, I decided to buy him a
DVD/VHS combo player for Christmas. I’m sure he could get it for
himself, but this will be easier anyhow.

Webcomics, who said no one ever reads online these days…

I read Fourty-One webcomics everyday or every other day depending on the comic schedule. That’s right 41… At least I can say that I give myself a break during the day.
The quicklist is on the left side of the website… But I’ve added a few more to that:

Ctrl+Alt+Delete Online (N loves this one we talk about it daily, goooo Zeke!)
Penny Arcade
PVPOnline
MegaTokyo
Falcon Twin
Reallife Comics
The noob
The Seraph Inn
Earthsong
Flipside Comics
Misfile
Aikida (yes its my Rogue and a webcomic, I’ll post a picture sometime)
Shaw Island
Dungeon Crawl
Sokora Refugees
The Wotch

These are just to name a few. If you have time or want to read them whenever, please be my guest

Misc. Topics of interest or of note or of spacefiller.
- In Sports, the Detroit Tigers sucked, the Lions are hopelessly inept,
the Pistons are crusing for another Championship, the Red Wings are
doing swell as usual.
- Red vs. Blue is almost done Season 4. If you still haven’t seen it, get to DL’ing it. It’s free, you can’t beat that.

Quote of the Day:
Been a long, long time for sure…

Sensei: “Vx. quit looking at the mirror, don’t take ten steps and get
it done in three.” – I was and always think too much and over analyze…

Sensei: “I want your knuckles of your thumbs to meet in the middle when striking.”
*strike, knee to groin, inner reap*
GreenBigBen: “Gasp…. That was a good one”

Vx: “Did you give that one to me?”
GreenBigBen: “That’s a stupid question, you should know by now I never ‘give’ anything.”
Vx: “smiles… Ok, just checking”

Not so much as a year in review as a massive rant methinks and says…

Although I did not get my green belt this week, since we just went over
sylibus or Sylibi, I didn’t expect to get it, this week on, week off is
really screwing with my training… but that just means I’ll have to
practice on my own.

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Oh and about my last day for this year? Watched Seasons 1 and 2 of Red
vs. Blue while my boss copied Robin Williams and a few other of my
DVD’s onto other DVD’s for ‘backup’ purposes….

Yes… they will never know now…. my plans are coming to fruition….

Vx Out… Gabe coined this phrase first, I just borrowed it…

not to be confused with Ryan Seacrest, Out of the Closet

DVD’s and deals galore, its a small world…

Have you ever been to Costco, or any of the other Gumugous chains out
there and realized that eventhough you are going there for one or two
items you end up with ten or fifteen for no apparent reason… Just
because it was there, the coupon was there and you figured, ok I
haven’t been here in a while and viola, it was fate, destiny, karma or
your wallet saying, I’m dusty empty me out…

Ok, talking wallets aside, I was in Costco a day or so ago, and I
decided, ok, get stuff because I was house sitting for the Grandparents
and I needed food.

Being the holidays, I parked, got out of my car (always a good thing to
do, or else you end up hitting your head against the glass) and looked
around. I spotted two people walking towards Costco… They were my
Uncle and Aunt… Go figure. Small world indeed. I wished them best
wishes, seasons greetings, gave them hugs, etc and asked about the
kids… They have four sons. They were all doing well. Everyone was
well. I may speak about them at another date.

Of course passing through Costco I always ran into them, etc.

Back to my purchasing of stuff…

There was a coupon for $25 off – Simpsons Season 1 through 3 OR Family
Guy Season 1 and 2…. It was a hard, hard choice.. but I finally
decided. I picked up the Simpsons DVD set. It was originally $94. But
with the Coupon it came to $69. Which came to $23 a Season…
All-in-all not too bad. I also grabbed Mr. and Mrs. Smith. What can I
say, I’m a DVD-Movie-enabler of sorts.

Picked up a dual package of Sun-dried Tomato Raviolli and Cheese (never
got to eatting it), Provallione Cheese, Eggs, 2 Loaves of Whole Wheat
Bread, and 18 pack of Burritos, a Barrel of Peanuts (maybe not a barrel
but a frickin’ huge one)… which they are still in my trunk… opps.

I ended up watching Eddie Izzard’s – Glorious
DVD, which is the prelude to Dressed to Kill. It was just as funny and
only made in 1997. I wish he made more recent stuff, I’ll have to look
at his webiste for more current information.

I can’t think of anything else… surprising eh

Vx Out

Funnies for a Server down Tuesday…
Warning, some language is inappropriate (but anyone under the age of 13
has already heard it… there is no swearing)

My guild has a warped sense of humour… No wonder I get along with them so well. Anyhow, for those who aren’t aware, that song is from a
brilliant musical about muppets called Avenue Q. I highly recommend
checking it out. That’s who made this song, and some WoWer’s made the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch.php?v=lr_HR-iIlYg

Check it out…

Early Presents and new views

My dad was down for the weekend. I’m sure I’ve mentioned him from time
to time. Anyhow, he was down, and we went to the Golf Centre to get my
new present. A Ping Sandwedge. So now every club in my bag, except for
my 3 wood and 5 wood are all Ping I still have my old set of custom
pings from back as my high school or college present from him. So I’ll
have to try it out this summer.

Now, my present to him was going to be an antique watch that I
purchased at an engraving shop (where I got my step dad’s knife and had
the phrase: You are a cut above the rest. On it, see last year
christmas time.) It’s a nice, silverish plated watch with an antique
picture on the front of it. On the back is engraved:

Fore a Dad,
That drives for the greens,
Shoots out of difficult lies with ease
And Putts like the Pro he is.

For those of you that don’t know, I write all my own material.
Something that I’ve had a gift for since I was very young. Maybe it was
my reading Cyrano du Bergerac that inspired me… Shakespeare never did
it for me. Stupid ol’ English. Modernize yourself man, it’s the 21st
century.

Movies: Double Feature, who knew…were you really surprised?

Saw two movies back to back, I haven’t done something like that since I
saw: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Askaban and Bourne Supermacy in
one day way back when.

So my Dad and I saw the intellectual movie, Syriana with George
Clooney, Matt Damon and Dr. Brasheer from Deep Space Nine (can’t think
of his name)… It dealt with the politics of the Iran people as well
as the US, etc etc… All in all it was rather boring personally…
That’s one thing I won’t discuss politics and religion. This movie was
a combination of both. It wasn’t bad at all, I assure you. If you are
into that sort of thing, be my guess go see it.

After that we saw, Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the
Wardrobe. I read this C.S. Lewis novel oh, so many years ago… and it
was incredible. I also saw the BBC version of this film oh so long ago
as well. This movie was extremely true to the novel it was like I was
reading it once again. The voice of the Lion: Liam Neilson and the
Voice of the Badger: Michael Caine were fitting that’s for sure. The
graphics were incredible, and the battle scene as my dad decribed it
was very ‘Lords of the Ring’-ish…

That one would be definitely worth seeing again.

Next Weekend… more films

This weekend we have the opening of King Kong… It’s a Peter Jackson
film so make sure you go to the washroom before hand and don’t bother
eatting or drinking anything for three hours, you’ll be glued to your
seats.

Fun with Dick and Jane, Jim Carey and Tea Leoni (David Duchovney’s
wife, that lucky bastard) looks like a good comedy for the holidays if
they have you depressed as well.

Belt testing in a week… Green, the colour of Christmas

JJ Class has been going extremely well. Belt testing next wednesday, I
shall take the time to practise at work, since you all know, between
WoW and 8 hours of boredom, I can actually use that to accomplish
something

Vx Out

Look who came to town and a new job? Who woulda thunk it…

Let’s see, just a ton of things that have happened to me over the last week.

For starters, looking for jobs while on a job (albeit not at
the job that you are currently at, because that’s just not kosher or
anyother kind of meat) is always tough.  Personally for me, it
gets depressing. My minset is that, if I’m at a job, why should I look
for a new one… I just got to where I am now and I’m happy. 
However, I see the other side of the coin as well. We never stop
changing and I know that it is always good to keep one’s options open.

Like with Company #1: It was a great job. About 2 months later, I had
to get out of it because the company didn’t want to get legal software
after my repeated asking and telling of the consequences. That and the
fact they wanted me to be a cold-caller with a script. It was at a Real
Estate company.

I was supposedly fired, but do to the fact that I had all documentation
stating my job description, the fact that it had the cold-caller script
that I was supposed to say on it and in my job description, I was more
than happy to turn that into the government agency that Company #1
hired me.

Company #2: It was a great job as well.Good people, work was fairly
steady. Boss was an old friend of mine from back in the grade school
days. Things were great for 6 months and then my boss realized that the
staff liked me more than him and started to make my life a living hell.
But I stuck with it. Call it stubborness or the fact that I wanted to
piss him off so much that I kept doing my job to the best of my
ability, without any confrontations violent or otherwise. But, I did
use the email and asked for clarification on issues that I wanted to
make sure that I did things the way he wanted them done. That way I
could say: “I did it the way you specified and reitterated to you
exactly what you said…”

I was let go because the last eight months or so, we had just been
butting heads, he would go to the owners at the time and I would keep
doing my job. Then one day I was told to come into his office, he said
that he was letting me go. When I asked for a reason, he said that he
didn’t have to give me one. He also wanted me to sign a piece of paper,
I just got him to photocopy it and I handed in my phone and was
escorted out of the building to the dismay of the staff, they didn’t
realize that I had been let go.

Apparently he had been on my computer, went into my email and gathered
over 6 months worth of email and used that against me, etc…. Needless
to say I was glad to go, but I wanted to go on my own terms.  That
company now has gone through four IT Technicians and now they have my
ex boss and two others working for him… go figure.  Still a
great company. That was in the greenhouse industry.

Company #3 and #4 have been documented already on this xlog so I won’t
rehash the old siren bit and go into the details… you all know about
it…

Which brings us to Company #5… It is a great company. The people are
good. The work isn’t challenging. My boss is amazing as a person. He’s
funny. Loves to play video games. The other person I work with is a
cool guy. Love to play video games. They are all good people to work
with. No one is threatened by each other. Everyone works extremely well
together. It is the best work atmosphere that I have been in siince I
have started over seven or eight years ago…

So when I went for a written test, for a possible Company #6, 30
multiple choice questions. I was the first to complete them. I had to
deal with 5 other people there: two of them female, two of them male of
a visible minority and myself, male caucassion.

A few days ago I received a call on my answer machine they want a second interview…

I don’t know why but I have mixed feelings about it. Sure it is more
money. It is steady full time hours. The pension is great. But like all
jobs, is there security? Who knows…

As for who came to town, my dad did from the big city of the T.Dot. We
had dinner last night at a Steak House, and not just any steak house,
Ye Ol’ Steak House… been around for over 30 years. Excellent meal.

Then I drove him to his friends house who I’ve known for as long as
I’ve met them. Their daughter apparently played World of Warcraft…
and you know my ears immeidately perked up at that lol… So I went in,
showed her how to get a new interface through Curse-gaming.com and I
realized that it was MC night. She hadn’t been to MC, so I hoped on,
asked to be put on the list and got to show her Ragnaros… by fiber be
purged! She was so amazing at it

So amazing that she called her boyfriend and said non-stop that I was
an amazing player that had all epic pieces, trinkets coming out my ass
and soo many rings that I didn’t have enough fingers.  Then she
got to see the full fight of Ragnaros and I took many many screenshots.
We finished at 1am EST. Got to love the West coast servers.

I have to go back and hook up their wireless router to that computer so
she can take a full account of the game instead of the dialup she has
been used to.

I won’t be able to play Onyxia tonight… or maybe I will try But no BWL for me Oh well, what can you do.

Let me know what you think about the job situation, I am curious to hear your thoughts, that I am.

Vx Out

A-Eon of a party and then some..

As posted oh so long ago, I decided to go to Jenn and Dave’s party…
Before that I went with CoderMike to see Aeon Flux. Usually MTV shows
to Movies aren’t that good… This one was a surprise. It was well
done, not over the top and director/creator Peter Chung should start to
direct movies, he has vision.

Had dinner at Kelsey’s, of course, afterwards and chatted.

I arrived fashionably late, by about half hour and waited and
chit-chatted a bit, and waited and played poker… and waited…
finally around 11:30pm after waiting for three people I do believe…
We finally got to exchange presents…

If you recall, last year I gave my present of Happy Gilmour/Billy
Madison DVD combo and received…. an aluminum wine opener… that was
so filmsy and cheesy that I stuffed it away never to bring it out
again.  But then a though dawned on me… Regift…

Do you think I could find it? nope… So instead my gift was a $6.89 8
Horror movies on 2 DVD’s…. What do you think I received this year?

4 Coffee mugs with Christmas theme’s… rather nice actually and….

Wait for it…

Still waiting?… good…

Gingerbread Penis’s…. with blue testiculars and did I mention the
pearls?… charming… there must have been one really lonely housewife
that has more than a cooking fetish thats for sure…

Read it over a second time if it didn’t hit you the first time… yes,
that was my reaction too… what the f’ck…. Of course, I’m the only
single person there. Naturally. Jenn is sloashed off her butt. Dave is
playing host and I’m the laugh of the party… again…

Fun times… but I took it in stride. Laughed along with them.

This will be the last time I go…

… probably…

Vx Out