One more day...

...until my giant robot body is completed and I can begin to conquer the world! I'm coming for Tokyo first, so look out! Oh, wait, that wasn't what I was excited about. My ping pong rating should be posted tomorrow. Unfortunately, I think there is a rule that says "If one has a ping pong rating, then one must cease calling ping pong "ping pong" and being calling it "table tennis"". Boo.

6 weird things about me

1) I have an unhealthy obsession with attaining a robot body.
2) If I had a robot body, I would indubitably use it to attempt to conquer the world, and not for helping people.
3) I try too hard to fit the word "indubitably" into conversation.
4) I can't spell, license, necessary, or benefit, unless by sheer luck I randomly hit the correct letters(although to my surprise, that was the first time that I've ever typed indubitably, and I got it right on the first try).
5) I really like saying "indeed", as in "indeed it is" or "indeed I am", or "i am indeed", or sometimed just "indeed".
6) Only 2 things in life motivate me to do anything, chicks and money.

I wonder if the chinese people down at new china would be happy that the first thing I do when I get back into wilkes-barre is call them to order singapore mei fun? I would tell them, but I'm not sure they know how to say anything but "new china...I help you?", "how are you", and "7.95". At least that's all they say to me.

Oh yeah...

if you're at a casino with your girlfriend, and you feel the need to lean over and kiss her every 2 and a half seconds, fucking don't, and especially don't do "smoochy" kisses that make that "smoochy" sound. It really pisses off the guy next to you, trust me.

Story of my life.

I ended up at the casino on friday night. Figured it for something to do, and I had some money bugeted to spend on entertainment, so off I went. Sat down at a machine and put a 20 in. Bet "max bet" and realized that I was sitting at a .50/1$ machine, and I just bet 5 bucks. Great. Kicked the bet down to 50 cents cause I wanted to sit there and enjoy myself for a while. 3 hands into my 50 cent bets I hit a friggin royal flush. At 5 dollars, that's like a grand or 2 in winnings, at 50 cents, its a lowly 100 bucks. Anyway, the casino was feeling generous on friday, I won 240 bucks and had the discipline to cash out and leave while I was ahead.

I don't expect those kinds of winnings often, but its nice to have 240 bucks that can be spent in any way I want cause its not in my budget.

The thing about gambling is that it can be done as entertainment, it doesn't have to be a vice. A night at the movies is an easy 15 bucks, add in dinner and you're bound to spend at least 40 bucks. A night at the bar can be fairly costly as well. That same money when spent "wisely" in a casino can provide hours of entertainment. Its the people who are willing to blow their life's savings hoping to win big that get themselves in trouble, and fortunately, I don't need to hit big, as I'm fairly stable in my economic situation.

I had the stupidest date of my life last night. I hate dating, its idiotic, I could have taken the money I spent on dinner and won 200 more dollars at the casino, or I could have just lost the money and I would have been just as far ahead.

2 more speech classes, I can't wait until that class is over.

So here's me...

...always running 5 minutes late, never taking notes in class, not really paying attention to the teacher, staying up late, waking up late, coasting through life on cruise control because its just that damn easy. I still haven't written my speech for tomorrow's class. Come to think of it, I wrote my last 2 speeches at the last minute too. Sure, I have time to blog, but I don't feel like writing a stupid speech right now. What does it all mean? It means that I don't apply myself, I do the bare minimum to get by, BUT the bare minimum has me carrying an A in my speech class(or a b+, depending on what those grades actually mean). Imagine what I would have if I actually applied myself, paid attention, did my homework, and put more than a solid 17 minutes into tomorrow's speech. I would have a better A, like an A+ or something like that.

In other news, the mohegan sun casino at pocono downs has opened. It is Pennsylvanias first official casino, and its 15 mintues away from me. Those who knew me throughout my "video poker problem" probably know how much of a bad thing it is to have a casino 15 minutes away from me. Texas hold em is fine and dandy, you play a 20$ game, it lasts 5 hours, if you win, great! If you loose, you're only out 20$ and you need to find another game to loose any more money. That's why hold'em isn't a problem for me, I can't blow tons of money in mere minutes. Video poker however is a bad bad thing. You drop a 20, you loose a 20, you drop another 20 because you really want to get your first 20 back, and now your down 40, so you drop another 20, hoping to get your 40 back and before you know it you don't have money to pay your car insurance. I'm pretty sure I have more self control than I did back then, and if not, at least I know that its a problem, and that I need to avoid it at all costs.

The saddest part is that when we went to look at the casino, it was filled with mostly old old people. You know, the kind of people that I don't ever want to be. They sit there and spend their entire social security checks hoping that they win big or whatever. These are the same poeple that can't afford the medication that they need to get by day to day. That is the negative effect of the casino. Sure, it will bring tons of money into the area, but at what cost? Wilkes-Barre is already a slum, so it can't get much worse....or can it?

I dunno, but I bet my property values are going to keep going up! Woohoo, can you say "double your money"?

Dammit, I've got to do that stupid speech now, or after I eat, and maybe play gears of war for a bit, and read the news, and maybe take a nap.

PS, gears of war is every bit as good as it looks. Terriffic, awesome game. Phenomenal. Loads of fun. Buy it.

Haven't had much to blog about,

so I'm going to blog about nothing. Work is back to normal, and I'm glad. I actually like my job again, and that's a good thing, cause I hated getting up in the morning and dreading going there. Now I like being there again, and I'm having fun. I've even been working long hours, just because I enjoy what I'm doing. I guess that's how the programming life works, its months of enjoyable existance, then a month or 2(or year in the most recent case) of pure hell, and then back to enjoyable. It pays good, so I can't complain about those bad times too much.

I got my grade back on my second speech today, A-/B+. Again lady? She seriously needs to be a little more decisive. I'm not digging the ambiguity. I skipped class last week because I pulled a muscle in my back and didn't feel like sitting in a crappy chair all night long. My next speech is thursday, and I'm doing an informative speech about nutrition.

I'm back to "reduced calorie intake". That's a quick way of saying "no more peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a while". I need to drop 10 lbs again, and then I can start eating PBJs for the rest of the winter. This weight loss stuff is easy these days, I'm gussing that I'll drop 5lbs this week, and probably 2 each of the next 2 weeks as long as I can avoid the dreaded quiznos and chinese food. Those are restricted to saturday again.

The main thing is to keep my lifts where they are throughout the weight loss, because its a lot easier to drop 10 lbs of body fat than it is to put 10 lbs of weight on your bench press.

Been saving this blog for a day when republicans weren't getting their asses kicked

On sunday, after I tuned up my car, went to the ping pong club, watched the steelers game, and ate dinner, I decided to do some work in the house. I left the TV on for background noise, and 60 minutes was on. I don't really know what they were talking about in 60 minutes, but it seemed like a mish mash of ship building, and child labor, and american companies loosing money. Of course, while cleaning grout off my tile, I had much time to think about the subject.

I'm a little irritated with america's shift towards babying every human being that is younger than 18 years old. This country was founded on child labor, and in fact, our school years are designed in such a way that our children could work on farms during the summer months. Now, we, as americans seem to condemn child labor, or anything else that might be considered cruel to children. WTF?

When I was a kid, I remember getting home from school, and being unsupervised at home for an hour or so until my mom got home from work. I don't know why she trusted me and shayna to not burn the house down, and I'm even a little more confused as to why I never tried. I was at a super market the other day where a kid was sitting in a child seat in a car outside and some lady wanted to call the police because the kid was alone. Seriously? That's stupid. If you can't leave a kid alone in a car these days, then who is going to do all the irritating unsupervised horn honking? I know, I know, new yorkers....

Furthermore, I had a paper route when I was old enough to carry a bag full of papers. I continued having a paper route for a long time. That paper route paid for a lot of things that I wouldn't have gotten otherwise. Like, my first portable CD player, and my cracker CD, my super nintendo, mortal kombat, etc.. On top of that, I used to deliver pizza outlet flyers for good ol' harry ablak. Harry paid cash, and gave me free pizza. There isn't much that I like more than pizza and money so it was a good arrangement. Of course, I blame my current spending patterns(impusive and excessive) on the fact that I always had the money to buy things I wanted.

My parents told me all about strangers, and looking both ways before you cross the street, and not to play with fire(a lesson that I only learned well enough to never cause any serious damage, I like fire), not to touch electric sockets(I still tried a couple times), not to stick forks in the microwave, or leave the oven on, and a myriad of other "we have to work and we don't want you to do stupid shit lessons", and for the most part, I only did stupid shit sometimes.

I played a lot of video games when I was a kid too, but video games were something that were saved for rainy days, or after it got dark. I was always outside playing in some mud puddle somewhere(probably lighting things on fire). Kids today sit on their computers and instant message their friends all day, they have zero responsibility, and their parents don't make them get jobs so they just get everything handed to them. This generation of kids is going to be worthless in about 10 years. I promise.

Ha ha, we win, you loose...

Today is a great day in a america. Sure, all we've really done is gotten rid of some corrupt, take take take, don't give no crap bout you politicians and installed some other politicians that are equally as bad as the original politicians, BUT most importantly, we've restored the foundation of our government. Checks and Balances. It will be a lot harder to do stuff that hurts this country now, asthe two parties will once again actually have to discuss the issues and come to a common agreement. Hoorah for checks and balances.

Now, I didn't get many votes...actually, I didn't get any at all. I think I have a good platform, but my delivery needs work. I'm telling people "Hey, vote for me, and I'll make myself rich and give myself an army!". Needless to say, folks aren't very receptive to that. I think I need to kiss some babies or something. I'll be back in 2010, don't you worry.

The sad part is, that there is actually a chance that I could be a senator at some point. I mean, hell, some dead lady won by a vote of 100 to 64. If I were in that election, I would have only needed to convince 65 people to vote for me to beat the looser who couldn't beat a dead lady. I could easily get 65 people to like me well enough, and I'd only have to kiss one or 2 babies along the way.

So, here's to me, a future senator....or congressman....or whatever is easiest to win. I have a bright bright future in politics, as soon as I figure out how to soften my platform message.

3 things

Wow, november 6th already. The longawaited eve of change. What better a day to hang a story about Saddam Hussein's death penalty all over the american media. Bad news guys, its too late. Nobody gives a crap if you kill Saddam, cause ya done fucked up everything else.

Second. Vote. It doesn't matter who you vote for, just vote. Its your right, and yes, its even your right to pencil in John Elway for every entry. If you think John Elway is the best available man for the job, then pencil him in, its your right.

Third. I've taken some heat for not giving a crap that the steelers are licking the underside of the raider's boots for the league's worst team. I thouroughly enjoyed the game yesterday, even the fact that they lost. Who gives a damn? Really. They're not going to with the SB every year, so just sit back and enjoy watching the game. Trust me, your throat feel a lot better the next day when you chuckle at Santonio "the bum" Holmes rather than screaming "What the muther effin sam hell crap ass shizzzznit is that crap you lousy effin bum? What's so effin hard about 3 stinking points of pressure on the freaking ball? WHAT'S SO HARD ABOUT THAT YOU BUM!?" *sigh, I feel better now.

Sing it with me now: Here we goooo Saints, here we go!

I need to get me a reggie bush jersey.

Battlestar Galactica tonight, set your TIVOs and get the popcorn!

I don't do quizes, they're girly, but I'm trying to get in the zone for the big old ping pong tourney tomorrow. Super Death Lizard is going to kick some ass. Beware a man in balance, expecially when he holds a ping pong paddle!

In my desperate attempt to make everything funny, even if its not, I've written some notes below!

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Your Existing Situation
Willing and adaptable. Only at peace when closely attached to a person, group, or organization on a which reliance can be placed.

bullshit, I hate people. Its not like I run around joining ping pong clubs, taking classes and volunteering for stuff all...er nevermind

Your Stress Sources
Wants to overcome a feeling of emptiness and to bridge the gap which he feels separates himself from others. Anxious to experience life in all its aspects, to explore all its possibilities, and to live it to the fullest. He therefore resents any restriction or limitation being imposed on him and insists on being free and unhampered.

A full bowl has lost its usefullness, for a bowl is only useful when it is empty. I like my emptiness just fine

Your Restrained Characteristics
Feels that he is receiving less than his share and that there is no one on whom he can rely for sympathy and understanding. Pent-up emotions and a certain egocentricity make him quick to take offense, but he realizes that he has to make the best of things as they are.

What?! Man, that's effing offensive! I guess I have to accept it though, I mean, I got it from COLOR QUIZ!


Your Desired Objective
Shelves his ambitions and forgoes his desire for prestige as he prefers to take things easily and indulge his longing for comfort and security.

don't forget immortality and a group of soldiers willing to do my bidding, I desire that stuff too.

Your Actual Problem
Fights against restriction or limitation, and insists on developing freely as a result of his own efforts.

That's pretty much true, and better than having herpes I guess

Your Actual Problem #2
The fear that he might be prevented from achieving the things he wants leads him to play his part with an urgent and hectic intensity.

see, I'm soooo freaking confusing, that even color quiz can't figure me out, and had to give me a supplimental problem to go with my original problem.