Saturday, November 12, 2005

Another Month Without A Post

It seems as if we have all completely lost interest in this blog. I know for a fact that TheELeet has had some interesting events that were worthy of posting, and yet, I see no posts. Mr. Space Ghosty must have had something interesting, funny, or cool happen in the past two months that he has been a member of this blog, and yet, I see no posts. Even I, B.i.d.e., have had some things of interest happen, and yet, I have not posted. For shame. SHAME, I say. In any case, I'd like to start posting on a regular basis, like I meant to when I started this blog. Even if it's boring, even if there really isn't anything to say, I'll post anyway.
So, what's been going on with me? Let's see...
  • I'm still studying for the Apple Exam, and I'm right where I planned to be in the course material.
  • My anime additiction has gotten worse, with Bleach as my new favorite and poor Naruto a distant second. Not to mention my collection of anime music...
  • I (finally) got my promotion to A+ Technician, effective November 6th.
  • I'm now getting into MMORPGs, playing Mu Online and Ferentus. I want to start playing WoW, but I think my computer isn't good enough for it.
  • My PGM is still under construction.
  • I am working on my own web site, with a lot of Flash.
I think that's about it. I have a mandatory yet completely useless store meeting in about three hours. I'm just going to stay up all night, if I go to sleep now I won't wake up until 9:00. Me and Space Ghosty were talking about going to breakfast after the meeting. He's probably going to flake though...
I can say that because: He never reads this blog!!
Ha ha.
[I'm tired...I hope this makes sense]

Later.

Saturday, October 08, 2005

Alright Already

Damn you TheELeeT! I know I've been neglecting this blog...I've been really busy lately even though it seems like I don't do anything. Work has been stressful, to say the least. Outside of work, I've been trying to do so many different things at once, I just haven't had time to keep the blog up to date. Honestly, I didn't think anybody was reading it anymore...
So, what have I been up to, you ask? (Didn't ask? Too bad!)
I've been working on my SuperMegaPGM for work (a compilation CD with all the tech programs we need to do our job). It's pretty well-developed now, but needs a few bugs worked out.
I have been studying for my Apple certification - I want to take the exams by the end of December. I've also been studying networking, and I want to take the CompTIA Network+ exam, someday. I don't know if that cert will actually do anything for me, but I want to know more about networking... I also want all the vendor certs. I can probably pass those without any studying. Hopefully I can get promoted to Certified Tech early in 2006.
I recently created a CD with every U.S. NES game on it. I'm working on one with all of the U.S. SNES games now. It's almost done...and it's awesome! Over 600 SNES games on 1 CD! I plan on making one for Sega 32x and Atari 2600...
I have, for now, completely abandoned my animated film that I was making, as well as the cell phone game that I was programming. Maybe I'll get back to them someday...
I am once again addicted to anime after 6 years without it. I may get my Internet service suspended, as I know I have downloaded well over 20GBs this month, and it's only the 7th. My favorite show? No question about it - NARUTO!!! Never heard of it? Then you suck. Go here, now. I also like Bleach, Battle Programmer Shirase (a show about a computer nerd, like me!), and Tsubasa Chronicle. I've only seen a couple of episodes of those other shows though, as I spend most of my free time trying to catch up to Space Ghosty on Naruto. He's on Episode 154, I'm on 126. I watch about 10 episodes at a time, and I've only been watching it for 3 weeks! That is a lot of anime...
I have also recently found a new favorite band. (Sidenote: I have also just recently realized that I am a band whore. I find favorite band, become fanatic for a few weeks, and then find a new band. In the past 6 months, my favorite band has changed from The Killers to The White Stripes to My Chemical Romance to The Bravery to The Paper Chase, and now it's...) Mindless Self Indulgence!!!
Finally, I have been working on the backblogs that I keep promising. By the way, I need those pics to post!
On a closing note, the most relevant reason for me not posting to this blog is this:
I have nothing to post! So let's go out, get smashed, and make complete asses of ourselves. Then I'll have something to write about here! Later!

- Black Isn't Dark Enough

Friday, September 09, 2005

It's Been A While

I haven't had the time (or energy) to blog anything lately. I added a new feature to this blog - RSS. If you are using Firefox you can subscribe to the feed as a live bookmark. You can also click the "Subscribe" link in the "Links" section for other subscription options. I don't plan on neglecting this blog forever, and I actually have plans for a lot of posts. There are about 4-5 "backblogs" I need to write up, and I also want to work on the overall design. The next few posts should include: "The Grunion Run" (yum), "Jesse's 21st B-Day" (featuring the ass-phone), and "All-Night Party + Morning Meeting" (= Penis on Forehead). I have (or will have) some great pics for each of those posts, including the above "penis on forehead". By the way, please excuse my lame writing - it's 5:00 A.M. and I'm just about to call it a night.
Later.

-Black Isn't Dark Enough

Tuesday, August 23, 2005

Post-Game Summary

"That Team" was defeated by "Team Ace" 11-8. A close game, but that wasn't much of a consolation as "Team Ace" consisted largely of guys who could have easily replaced Steve Carell in "The 40-Year Old Virgin". Our opponents were f*ing losers...that really burns! We have to win our next game...



It was actually my first game, and I played GK for about half of the first half. I sat out the rest of the game. Next time, I want to get some time on the field. As long as I know which direction the goal is, it won't matter that I can't see anything (I'm blind without my eyeglasses) because I'm not going to pass it anyways!
Alright, this post is pretty lame. Later.

- Black Isn't Dark Enough

Tuesday, August 09, 2005

Work: Monday, August 8, 2005

Monday's are usually either really good or really bad. This one was definitely not good. Before I even got to work, I was in a bad mood. It had nothing to do with the fact that I had only gotten a few hours sleep, nor was it that I was 15 minutes late for work, as both are regular occurences. My company just received our new uniform shirts, and they are hideous. They are "camp" style shirts, in a bright red rayon/polyester blend. If that is not bad enough, the shirt's proportions are completely unbalanced. The shirts are all short, and each size up increases the width by 4-6 inches, while the length increases by only 1/2 an inch or so. In short, the shirts are among the ugliest I have ever seen. The only thing that I think is okay about them is that they button up from top to bottom, opposed to the previous uniform's polo shirt. This allowed me to wear a nice T-shirt with a picture of Lucky the Leprechaun on it, and have it actually visible. As soon as I walked in to work, my manager said "Tuck in your green shirt, and button up the uniform shirt!". Needless to say, the immediate crushing of my already miniscule freedom of expression was not a good way to start my work day. I was then informed that green T-shirts were not acceptable, and that they had to be white, black, or gray. That sucks.
I got over it, and carried on with work. After about 2 hours, my manager starts asking us where TheELeet is, as he was scheduled to start 2 hours ago. She had some people call him to see where he was and if he was coming in. Another 2 hours later, Tommy was able to get him on the phone. It turns out that he thought he had the day off, as he normally doesn't work Mondays. He was at the DMV, and he wouldn't be able to make it in to work. Our manager went on to say that he should've checked his schedule. This wouldn't be abnormal, if it wasn't for the fact that none of us check our schedule, EVER, because it NEVER changes. Unless, of course, you don't expect it to.
After lunch, Tommy and I were discussing an episode of The Family Guy. The customer service manager walks in, and I say "Nevermind...", because the conversation could have been misconstrued as sexual harassment and the CSM is the one who deals with all of that. The CSM replies, "What? Is it because I remind you of Quagmire?", which is sort of a weird question, as Quagmire is a pervert with the bad habit of date-raping women. The CSM went on to talk about the episode - when Lois went to jail for shoplifting, and the break her out and hide out in Asiantown - and says "Yeah, that part where they are eating the food...". We all start laughing, because the comment was so generic. Ash replied with "Yeah, it's the one where they are using chopsticks.", and "Yeah, it's the episode that something happens...". We were all laughing our about it. In a strange coincidence, not much later the Store Manager came in to our department. He noticed that a file on the Desktop of one of our test PCs was named "gijoegay.mpg". The file was actually named that by it's creator, and you can watch the video clip here. It's not gay porn or anything...it's actually a spoof of G.I. Joe. Anyways, the Store Manager comments on the fact that there is the word "gay" on the computer, and told us to rename the file. He said that some people might be offended by it, and that we couldn't have anything like that on our computers.
After renaming the file and waiting for the Store Manager to leave, we started talking about the ridiculousness of the situation. We all came to the agreement that the word "gay", though referring to a sexual orientation, was not derogatory. It is a neutral word, and we couldn't imagine a situation in which somebody would be offended by the word in the context at which it was seen. Our rationalization was that if the file was named "GI Joe White" or "GI Joe Hetero" there wouldn't have been an issue, so why should there be with "GI Joe Gay"? It's pretty retarded. Ooops, can I say retarded? Is anyone going to be offended? If so, please go f--k yourself, because I don't care. What happened to motherf--king freedom of speech? Do the laws which govern our country not supersede those of corporate policy? Obviously not. To that I say: "That's gay".
Towards the end of the day, my manager's husband brought in a sign advertising our repair services. The sign was the type that a poor bastard stands on corner waving and twirling. When I asked my manager who was going to have to twirl the sign around outside, she told me that I would have to! I knew she was joking, but I still held some reservations, as it was within her power to actually have me outside waving that stupid sign around.
A sad ending to an already horrible day, I managed to destroy a component of a demo computer for the store. I had to send an email to my manager explaining what happened. And then I had to generate a productivity report for myself, and I managed to meet only 15% of my goal. Thankfully, the day is over. Later.

Sunday, August 07, 2005

Another Night Out

Earlier this week, we had all planned on going out Saturday night to see the movie "Wedding Crashers". The movie is hilarious, and this would be the second time watching it for a few of us. After a lot of planning, everything was set. I ended up having to go in to work to finish up a few things, but that was fine because we were all going to meet at our store after closing anyways. After work, Tommy and Janine(?, I still don't know if that's how to spell it...) showed up. TheELeet and I needed booze, so we all strolled across the street to the liquor store. On the way there, I complained about having to go to a liquor store, as I think they are dirty and I always feel gross after going in to one. There is a 7-Eleven right next to it, so I don't know why we couldn't just go there, but TheELeet insisted that we could only get the rum we wanted from the liquor store. As I suspected, the store was indeed dirty, and strangely hot. It was a cool night, so walking in to the store, I immediately started sweating. I don't know why the son-of-a-bitch owner would keep the store at 90 degrees at 10:00 at night, but whatever. We bought a small bottle of Captain Morgan spiced rum, and then headed over to the 7-Eleven to pick up two pints of our favorite beer, Newcastle. While we were walking around, we called up some more friends and invited them to meet us at the movie. Jesse M. met us at the parking lot of our store, and we all headed over to the theater. By the way, the reason we chose the particular theater we went to, instead of the theater much closer to the store, is that we have free movie tickets for the theater. The only problem with that is that not a single one of us actually brought the tickets. Once we got to the theater, we ran into a small snag. We had to smuggle in two pints of beer, a bottle of rum, and a huge bag of snacks that I had brought from home. After some wardrobe adjustments, we were set. We headed to the theater, but we were still waiting on two of our friends to arrive. We stood around in the lobby for about 15 minutes, at which point the large bottle of beer in my front pocket was beginning to bother me. Jesse and I headed into the theater to save seats for everyone else. After a bit of musical chairs and some cussing, we were set to watch the movie. TheELeet, Jesse, and I began drinking. Just as TheELeet had predicted, the movie was much more enjoyable drunk. It wasn't as funny as the first time, but it was definitely better than watching it a second time sober. We all had a good time watching the movie, and nothing really notable happened. Well, maybe one thing. TheELeet seemed pretty smashed, and he leaned over and said loudly "I'm gonna go piss". I thanked him for the announcement, and he was off. A second later, Jesse leaned over and asked where TheELeet went. When I told him, he said "Oh, me too", and ran off to join him. That's sort of funny, but it gets better. TheELeet and Jesse come back and take their seats. TheELeet leans over and says "Hey, ask Tommy to send up some of those snacks". I had already asked Tommy for some stuff, so I thought it was only fair the TheELeet ask his damn self. He's like "Okay. But just you ask him.", and after a bit of arguing, I ask him why he refuses to do it. He starts laughing, and blurts out "Because I slapped Tommy!". I just looked at him, like "WTF? What the hell would you do that for?" and he's laughing uncontrollably, shrugging his shoulders, and saying "I don't know, I just did it." between giggles. I ended up asking for the snacks. After the movie, TheELeet went and apologized to Tommy, who was wondering what the f--k happened. Inspired by a scene in the movie where Vince Vaughn loads up a plate with delicious looking breakfast foods, we decided to head to Denny's. We all met up outside and headed in. We were seated in the corner, and sat there goofing off, unintentionally annoying our waitress. She said "Excuse me, I will not be ignored!", which at first I took as being rude, but as it was 2:00 in the morning and we were actually ignoring her, I didn't get insulted. Fortunately, she was actually a very sweet lady, and an excellent server. Shortly after arriving, another group of six was seated behind us. The group was from Boomer's, a family fun park. Most of them were wearing their uniforms still. They were pretty rude, and we started getting angry at how they were treating the server, Micki. We thought that she was really nice, and did not deserve their rude attitudes. During the course of the meal, we all talked about various things, but were also listening to what the Boomer's jerks were plotting. They were planning on not tipping! Evil bastards. This really pissed us off. After our meal, we went outside and hung out in front. I don't know if we were planning on saying something or doing something, but we managed to wait long enough for the Boomer's people to come out. They didn't leave immediately after coming out. They just hung around in the parking lot and talked. There was definitely some tension between them and us. After about 20 minutes, they sent their fattest guy in to complain about their food (or service) and get a refund. They all ended up going back in, and when they came out it was obvious they did not get their refund. It was a silent victory for us, as they sucked and didn't deserve a refund. We could then go home happy. We are now planning on going to Boomer's, and acting like total dicks to them. We just have to make sure not to wear our uniforms like they did. If we ever actually go, I will definitely write a post about it, and we'll get some pictures too. Hopefully, it'll be sometime next weekend.
So that's about it. After Denny's we all went home. Overall, it was a great night. Later.

Thursday, August 04, 2005

A Long Time Coming

I started this blog about a month and a half ago, and this is it's first post. I originally created this blog to be a regular journal for me and my friends. A lot of funny stuff seems to happen to us on a fairly regular basis, but usually there's at least one of us who misses out on it. So, the story of the hilarious event must be retold to every person that missed it.
The ritual of writing it all down for those who missed out began back in May, immediately following E3 2005. I was unfortunate enough to have passed on going, and Tommy, Jesse (W.), and Jesse (M.) all went. When they came back, I was excited to hear about how the trip went. When I asked Jesse (W.) about it, he said something like "it's a long story, and I don't feel like telling it again. I'm just going to write it all down, and I'll email a copy of it to you and everybody else", minus the dick-ish attitude that somehow manifested itself within the paraphrased sentence. The next day or so, I received the email recounting the events that transpired during their E3 trip. Reading the email, I was impressed by how thorough the retelling of it all was, and that it was almost like I was actually there. Shortly after the E3 trip, we all discovered MySpace.com. Jesse and I started blogging, and he has been hooked ever since. As a matter of fact, you can actually read the email that started it all on his blog, AmericanRefills. It's called "Los Angeles Trip", check it out sometime.
In any case, I am going to make sure that I post to this blog regularly, and I am going to revise and transplant posts from the blogs on MySpace.
Sorry for the lame intro...I'll fix this later but I just wanted to have at least one post up. Later.