Sitting in an airport for about seven hours you observe many different types of people. For instance you have the cranky business man who is in such a rush that he just oozes rudeness. This guy barges up to the information booth and demands to know what restaurants are in his gate section while the information lady casually hands him a pamphlet containing a list of all the restaurants in all of the terminals and gates. Then you have the woman who walks around with their nose in the air thinking that they are the greatest thing in the world, yet if they paid any attention they would notice that they have a ketchup stain on their white pants. Of course I can’t forget the pair of guys I saw carrying a clipboard around. They sort of reminded me of Lennie and George from “Of Mice and Men” if the part of George were played by Joe Pesci. I also saw a few of the girls from the Tampa Roller derby team. Nothing like see a couple of hot women who could easily kick your ass.
Wow while looking around the internet I came upon the Wikipedia page of one of the best mother forking actors of our mother forking time He is known for such roles as Nick Fury, Mace Windu, and Jules Winnfield from Pulp Fiction. The guy that was tired of all these mother forking snakes on that mother forking plane, Samuel L. Jackson. So anyhow one of the interesting things I read about him was that in 2006 he lent his voice for an audio book. Now here is the funny part the role he played was God in “The New Testament”. That’s right Samuel L Jackson is God. I can just hear it now. “That mother forking Judas betrayed my mother forking son.” Another couple of cool things about him are that he goes to the theater to see all his movies with all of the paying customers, and he collects action figures of himself from movies he’s been in including Jules Winnfield, Shaft, Mace Windu, and Frozone. Sam Jackson is also a huge fan of comic books and anime. This would explain why he had no problem with Marvel Comics using his likeness for the Ultimate version of Nick Fury, and why he signed on to play Nick Fury in nine future movies.
Now for the fan favorite part of my blog the Random Bachelor Dare Card. Today’s card is:”Lick the Bar”
That is disgusting I would never accept that dare.
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
How I was so drunk I ran into the shed
After reading Zoe’s blog today I came up with an idea for my own. I will know explain to you one of my drinking stories. This is not a challenge! However if anyone wants to write about a favorite drinking story feel free to do so.
You see I grew up in my grandparents’ house. My grandparents were snowbirds at the time so my family had the house to ourselves most of the year. Well my grandfather had a closet that had all kinds of liquor in it including vodka. Well every so often I would sneak a shot of vodka. This happened for a while and at one point my grandparents decided to start limiting the time they spent up in Ohio.
Well half way through my senior year I went on a trip with the Concert Choir to Boston. While I was gone I got a call from my best friend telling me that he and my other buddy had helped my stepfather move out of the house in Cornersburg, OH to Akron so he could be closer to his job. This was the first step in the set-up.
After I got back my friends, my sister and I would just hang out in my back yard by a bonfire every night. My friends would help out around the house and in return my mom would buy them a case of beer. So many nights toward the end of my high school senior year were spent with my (at the time) two good friends drinking alcohol in my backyard in front of a bonfire.
Now for the good part. One night I completely raided the liquor closet; I took all the bottles out of there and brought them outside for some good drinking. Well my one friend thought it’d be a good idea to mix EVERYTHING we had to drink out there into one big Styrofoam cup and have me drink it all. He poured Vodka, Lime flavored Vodka, Sloe Gin, beer, Pepsi, wine coolers, and other stuff I can’t remember since it was about twelve years ago.
Well I drank most of It, what I didn’t drink was spit into the fire because it was “cool to watch the flames go whoosh”. After a while they had me get up to go get some more wood for the fire. The wood pile was on the other side of our shed, so after getting up, and probably being pretty damn buzzed, I walked over to get the wood. On the way to the pile I thought it’d be funny if I made it sound like I ran into the shed. So as I passed by the shed I hit the door with my hand, and proceeded to grab the firewood. When I got back to the fire they all started laughing at me thinking I did run into the shed. To this day there is still a debate as to who is right them or me.
So that is the story of how I was so drunk I ran into the shed.
Now for everyone’s favorite part of the blog, The Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Today’s card is: “Speaking in an obviously fake accent, explain to a hot girl that you’re a tourist from another country, and wonder how the locals kiss — can she show you?”
That would be an interesting one to get, and with enough alcohol in me and if the prize for winning was good enough I’d do that dare.
588 words. Not bad especially since the lower limit is 400.
You see I grew up in my grandparents’ house. My grandparents were snowbirds at the time so my family had the house to ourselves most of the year. Well my grandfather had a closet that had all kinds of liquor in it including vodka. Well every so often I would sneak a shot of vodka. This happened for a while and at one point my grandparents decided to start limiting the time they spent up in Ohio.
Well half way through my senior year I went on a trip with the Concert Choir to Boston. While I was gone I got a call from my best friend telling me that he and my other buddy had helped my stepfather move out of the house in Cornersburg, OH to Akron so he could be closer to his job. This was the first step in the set-up.
After I got back my friends, my sister and I would just hang out in my back yard by a bonfire every night. My friends would help out around the house and in return my mom would buy them a case of beer. So many nights toward the end of my high school senior year were spent with my (at the time) two good friends drinking alcohol in my backyard in front of a bonfire.
Now for the good part. One night I completely raided the liquor closet; I took all the bottles out of there and brought them outside for some good drinking. Well my one friend thought it’d be a good idea to mix EVERYTHING we had to drink out there into one big Styrofoam cup and have me drink it all. He poured Vodka, Lime flavored Vodka, Sloe Gin, beer, Pepsi, wine coolers, and other stuff I can’t remember since it was about twelve years ago.
Well I drank most of It, what I didn’t drink was spit into the fire because it was “cool to watch the flames go whoosh”. After a while they had me get up to go get some more wood for the fire. The wood pile was on the other side of our shed, so after getting up, and probably being pretty damn buzzed, I walked over to get the wood. On the way to the pile I thought it’d be funny if I made it sound like I ran into the shed. So as I passed by the shed I hit the door with my hand, and proceeded to grab the firewood. When I got back to the fire they all started laughing at me thinking I did run into the shed. To this day there is still a debate as to who is right them or me.
So that is the story of how I was so drunk I ran into the shed.
Now for everyone’s favorite part of the blog, The Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Today’s card is: “Speaking in an obviously fake accent, explain to a hot girl that you’re a tourist from another country, and wonder how the locals kiss — can she show you?”
That would be an interesting one to get, and with enough alcohol in me and if the prize for winning was good enough I’d do that dare.
588 words. Not bad especially since the lower limit is 400.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Pepsi
Today I was going back and forth trying to figure out what to blog about tonight, but it just now hit me. As some of you know I have a dog by the name of Pepsi. So you can have a better visual here is a picture of him.
Before I get into the story I should probably describe his personality. Pepsi is a lovable and loving dog that under normal circumstances wouldn’t hurt a fly. We have to other dog one of them being a puppy, when we first got the puppy he would play with her constantly by chasing her around and letting her chase him around. Now keep in mind this puppy is about a quarter to half his size. Well one day while chasing her he accidently stepped on her, after that he stopped playing with her for a while unless she really provoked him. In the past we’ve had a friend bring their baby over and he sniffed him but that was all and he was just so gentle towards him. He loves to give and mainly receive hugs. Sometimes, even though he weighs like close to fifty pounds, he’ll jump on my lap and sit there for me to give him attention and hugs, and at night he usually sleeps right outside my bedroom door to “protect me”. So all in all he is pretty much just like me.
Any how today I warmed up a quick easy prepackaged type meal. It was supposed to be chicken, gravy and mashed potatoes. I took one bite and could not eat anymore it tasted so bad. So I gave it to him and walked away. Well I noticed he was having troubles with it so I was going to take it and just put it in his bowl to make it easier for him. I walked up to him and he started to growl at me and bark like he was ready to attack me. So I smacked his butt and he grew louder. This made me even angrier so I backed away and yelled at him and told him to get which thankfully he listened I picked up the container and made him go out on the back porch for an hour or so. The thing that gets me is after doing this I felt sick, not sick ill but more like a punch in the stomach sick.
After about an hour of him being out there I let him back in and scolded him verbally. I could tell his was sorry and latter on he even jumped on my lap for hugs. So I did feel better after we made up, but it was just such a weird feeling I got from punishing him.
On a side note I just found two more things that some young people do that drive me crazy. The first one is when you drive by them and they have their car windows up and you have yours up but yet you can still clearly hear their music. The other thing I noticed today was when, and this mainly guys, they seem to grab and hold on to the middle region of their pants, if you get my family friendly way of saying it. Why in the world do they do that? What do they think they’re advertising or something?
Ok and now for the Random Bachelor Dare Card: “Regardless of what song is playing, invite a cutie to dance the Macarena.”
That could actually be fun. Oh crap now I have that song stuck in my head. “Hey Macarena!”
601 words. Not too bad for a blog about my dog.
Before I get into the story I should probably describe his personality. Pepsi is a lovable and loving dog that under normal circumstances wouldn’t hurt a fly. We have to other dog one of them being a puppy, when we first got the puppy he would play with her constantly by chasing her around and letting her chase him around. Now keep in mind this puppy is about a quarter to half his size. Well one day while chasing her he accidently stepped on her, after that he stopped playing with her for a while unless she really provoked him. In the past we’ve had a friend bring their baby over and he sniffed him but that was all and he was just so gentle towards him. He loves to give and mainly receive hugs. Sometimes, even though he weighs like close to fifty pounds, he’ll jump on my lap and sit there for me to give him attention and hugs, and at night he usually sleeps right outside my bedroom door to “protect me”. So all in all he is pretty much just like me.
Any how today I warmed up a quick easy prepackaged type meal. It was supposed to be chicken, gravy and mashed potatoes. I took one bite and could not eat anymore it tasted so bad. So I gave it to him and walked away. Well I noticed he was having troubles with it so I was going to take it and just put it in his bowl to make it easier for him. I walked up to him and he started to growl at me and bark like he was ready to attack me. So I smacked his butt and he grew louder. This made me even angrier so I backed away and yelled at him and told him to get which thankfully he listened I picked up the container and made him go out on the back porch for an hour or so. The thing that gets me is after doing this I felt sick, not sick ill but more like a punch in the stomach sick.
After about an hour of him being out there I let him back in and scolded him verbally. I could tell his was sorry and latter on he even jumped on my lap for hugs. So I did feel better after we made up, but it was just such a weird feeling I got from punishing him.
On a side note I just found two more things that some young people do that drive me crazy. The first one is when you drive by them and they have their car windows up and you have yours up but yet you can still clearly hear their music. The other thing I noticed today was when, and this mainly guys, they seem to grab and hold on to the middle region of their pants, if you get my family friendly way of saying it. Why in the world do they do that? What do they think they’re advertising or something?
Ok and now for the Random Bachelor Dare Card: “Regardless of what song is playing, invite a cutie to dance the Macarena.”
That could actually be fun. Oh crap now I have that song stuck in my head. “Hey Macarena!”
601 words. Not too bad for a blog about my dog.
My upcoming hectic week (Warning slight UN-family friendly part in the cards)
For my fellow WARP bloggers yes I know I skipped a day, but pretty much so have most if not all of you and some of you more than one day. Any way I just came to the conclusion that I am going to have one hell of a hectic week coming up.
On Sunday my younger sister comes home after going to Korea to teach English for about a year. I have got to admit when she first left I did not realize how much I will miss her. She and I have been pretty close in the past. Growing up we used to hang out once in a while and our friend circles usually intertwined in fact one of my friends dated both her and one of her friends, not at the same time of course. There were times when we were smaller that we would take a day and just disappear we would walk to the restaurant up the corner from our house and eat and just hangout to get away from the family. However after the rest of our family moved to Akron we kind drifted apart. She at first moved down to Tampa and my best friend and I lived in my grandparent’s house that didn’t last too long though, and I moved into my own apartment while she moved back in with my mom. On weekends I’d bring her down so she could see her friends and do things like spork people’s lawns and other crazy stuff. Then I moved back in with my parents and we would briefly see each other. Then I was forced to move down to Florida and she stayed up in Ohio. After a few years I moved back up to Ohio however I rarely went to see her. After I moved back to Florida she followed about a year or so later. Then she moved out and after a while moved back in and not long after moving back in she left for South Korea.
Then I have all of my finals that I have to cram in to two days on Monday and Tuesday, hopefully; I still have to ask my professor about taking my final early. The only reason I have to cram everything into two days is because I’m leaving on Tuesday night to go to a Festival known as FPG. I have heard many interesting and wonderful things about this festival. Then best part is I won’t be back until Sunday.
However with me being gone for so long I’m almost afraid of how the house will look when I get back. Mostly though I’m not looking forward to getting attacked by dog on Sunday because I know he’ll miss me a lot and when I get back he probably won’t leave me alone for at the very least an hour. I’ll miss him though too so I know I will cherish that hour immensely.
Alright enough with that now let’s get to my favorite part of the blogs, The Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Since I missed yesterday however I give you guys a treat. Two cards for the price of one.
The First card of the day is: “Tell a hottie you’d pay $5 to see her do a Blow Job. The drink, that is. (Don’t be cheap — buy her the drink and pay up after she downs it.”
Wow that was a little on the not family friendly side, but would probably be fun to do.
Now for the bonus card: “Moon a group of pretty young things for a full ten seconds.”
Ok that does not sound like a safe one to do; in fact if I got this card I would not do it.
This has been another collection of random thoughts by me, Spence. I hope you enjoyed.
652 words (not too bad but close enough to 400)
On Sunday my younger sister comes home after going to Korea to teach English for about a year. I have got to admit when she first left I did not realize how much I will miss her. She and I have been pretty close in the past. Growing up we used to hang out once in a while and our friend circles usually intertwined in fact one of my friends dated both her and one of her friends, not at the same time of course. There were times when we were smaller that we would take a day and just disappear we would walk to the restaurant up the corner from our house and eat and just hangout to get away from the family. However after the rest of our family moved to Akron we kind drifted apart. She at first moved down to Tampa and my best friend and I lived in my grandparent’s house that didn’t last too long though, and I moved into my own apartment while she moved back in with my mom. On weekends I’d bring her down so she could see her friends and do things like spork people’s lawns and other crazy stuff. Then I moved back in with my parents and we would briefly see each other. Then I was forced to move down to Florida and she stayed up in Ohio. After a few years I moved back up to Ohio however I rarely went to see her. After I moved back to Florida she followed about a year or so later. Then she moved out and after a while moved back in and not long after moving back in she left for South Korea.
Then I have all of my finals that I have to cram in to two days on Monday and Tuesday, hopefully; I still have to ask my professor about taking my final early. The only reason I have to cram everything into two days is because I’m leaving on Tuesday night to go to a Festival known as FPG. I have heard many interesting and wonderful things about this festival. Then best part is I won’t be back until Sunday.
However with me being gone for so long I’m almost afraid of how the house will look when I get back. Mostly though I’m not looking forward to getting attacked by dog on Sunday because I know he’ll miss me a lot and when I get back he probably won’t leave me alone for at the very least an hour. I’ll miss him though too so I know I will cherish that hour immensely.
Alright enough with that now let’s get to my favorite part of the blogs, The Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Since I missed yesterday however I give you guys a treat. Two cards for the price of one.
The First card of the day is: “Tell a hottie you’d pay $5 to see her do a Blow Job. The drink, that is. (Don’t be cheap — buy her the drink and pay up after she downs it.”
Wow that was a little on the not family friendly side, but would probably be fun to do.
Now for the bonus card: “Moon a group of pretty young things for a full ten seconds.”
Ok that does not sound like a safe one to do; in fact if I got this card I would not do it.
This has been another collection of random thoughts by me, Spence. I hope you enjoyed.
652 words (not too bad but close enough to 400)
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Ways to know you've been single for WAY too long
Well you guys are in for a treat because I’ve decided to go with my original plans for today’s blog thanks mainly to my dog Pepsi. I was pretty enraged thanks to my jackass step-father, but after giving my dog a nice big comforting hug my anger seemed to go away and I was able to put back my ugly side, but that’s a story for another day. Today’s blog is about being a single guy for WAY too long and the signs to let you know that you fall in to this category. By the way this is in many ways a jab at myself so don’t think I’m talking about anyone else.
The one thing that will happen is your one to ten scale goes through some changes. Now don’t get me wrong this can easily be a good thing because if you don’t alter it you will never lose your status of being single. Take for example myself: before it used to be a complete turn off if a girl smoked however that changed gradually and now it’s not an issue with me.
Another way to tell is when you see a woman from far away, like say going into a gas station while you are at a gas pump, and thinking to yourself that she looks hot. Then when you go into the gas station and get a close up look at her and realize she isn’t that great looking and continue on your way then after she passes you again you say to yourself she isn’t that bad looking. When that happens it’s a sure sign that you’ve been single for WAY too long.
If most of the women you see while walking around the school are eights or higher, it’s a good chance that you have been single for WAY too long. Heck if you go in to your first day of class and hope that there are some cute women in your class it’s a good chance that you have been single for WAY too long.
Now you may be asking yourself “What makes Spence such an authority on being single for WAY too long?” Well that’s an easy question. You see I’m 30 years old and in my entire life I’ve been in .5 relationships. Now I’m sure you are wondering “How can someone be in .5 relationships?” Wow I’m glad you asked. You see back in high school, I think it was my sophomore year in fact, I had a friend who was having a problem getting rid of his ex-girlfriend who was being a little clingy in his mind so I made the suggestion of setting me up with her. We went to lunch after that and when I came back my friends told me that I was officially going out with her. So after eating lunch I went over to talk to her for a little bit to get to know her and after lunch we went our separate ways. The next morning my friend gives me a break-up note from her. Now considering this relationship lasted oh say only a few hours not even twenty-four hours at that, I personally don’t count it. On the other hand she does count it, so since only half of us count it, it’s only half of a relationship.
Now keep some things in mind first of all every single one of these could go for women as well. Secondly please I beg of you do not take this as an invite to try to fix me up with anyone. Where I’m at right now in my life I’m not looking for a woman, if one should happen across my path then I would not turn a way but please do not put one in my path. Finally this was intended to be a light hearted blog as opposed to yesterday’s blog this was all meant to be a joke.
Now for what really does seem to be a fan favorite part of my blog the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day.
Today’s card is: “Offer to buy a drink for the first girl who delivers her thong to you”
Wow I told you there was some interesting one’s in that deck. That one could be funny to watch and who knows maybe even could lead to something more.
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The one thing that will happen is your one to ten scale goes through some changes. Now don’t get me wrong this can easily be a good thing because if you don’t alter it you will never lose your status of being single. Take for example myself: before it used to be a complete turn off if a girl smoked however that changed gradually and now it’s not an issue with me.
Another way to tell is when you see a woman from far away, like say going into a gas station while you are at a gas pump, and thinking to yourself that she looks hot. Then when you go into the gas station and get a close up look at her and realize she isn’t that great looking and continue on your way then after she passes you again you say to yourself she isn’t that bad looking. When that happens it’s a sure sign that you’ve been single for WAY too long.
If most of the women you see while walking around the school are eights or higher, it’s a good chance that you have been single for WAY too long. Heck if you go in to your first day of class and hope that there are some cute women in your class it’s a good chance that you have been single for WAY too long.
Now you may be asking yourself “What makes Spence such an authority on being single for WAY too long?” Well that’s an easy question. You see I’m 30 years old and in my entire life I’ve been in .5 relationships. Now I’m sure you are wondering “How can someone be in .5 relationships?” Wow I’m glad you asked. You see back in high school, I think it was my sophomore year in fact, I had a friend who was having a problem getting rid of his ex-girlfriend who was being a little clingy in his mind so I made the suggestion of setting me up with her. We went to lunch after that and when I came back my friends told me that I was officially going out with her. So after eating lunch I went over to talk to her for a little bit to get to know her and after lunch we went our separate ways. The next morning my friend gives me a break-up note from her. Now considering this relationship lasted oh say only a few hours not even twenty-four hours at that, I personally don’t count it. On the other hand she does count it, so since only half of us count it, it’s only half of a relationship.
Now keep some things in mind first of all every single one of these could go for women as well. Secondly please I beg of you do not take this as an invite to try to fix me up with anyone. Where I’m at right now in my life I’m not looking for a woman, if one should happen across my path then I would not turn a way but please do not put one in my path. Finally this was intended to be a light hearted blog as opposed to yesterday’s blog this was all meant to be a joke.
Now for what really does seem to be a fan favorite part of my blog the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day.
Today’s card is: “Offer to buy a drink for the first girl who delivers her thong to you”
Wow I told you there was some interesting one’s in that deck. That one could be funny to watch and who knows maybe even could lead to something more.
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Ignorance and some other random stuff
Ok well this should be a real interesting blog because I will be covering many topics it was only going to be one but someone just had to ask a couple of questions. So for my first portion it comes with a warning to any young ones. You see some young people may get a tad upset about some of the things I may say but I can pretty much guarantee that most if not all adults will agree with me on some of these subjects however some kids who read this may agree but that’s just due to good parenting. Anyhow if you feel that you may be offended by my topic then just scroll down a few paragraphs where I will be talking about the other subjects, movies and teenage love.
So for those of you still with me I’m going to be talking about ignorance. Now when I say that I’m not talking intelligence I’m talking attitudes. I’ve been throwing this topic around in my head for a while now but then it was called something else. After yesterday and a little bit this morning it evolved. Yesterday my friends and I were cleaning up the park and had started to setup in the only shelter in the park. We had our banner proudly hung displaying our efforts to keep the park clean. We were putting our blood, sweat, and tears (or at least blood and sweat not sure about the tears part) in to cleaning it when a group of people came and without asking anyone in our group proceeded to take down our banner. When approached about it they proceeded to get ignorant about it saying that they had a reservation which would have been fine if they stopped there however from what I heard they proceeded to make threats of bodily injury to some of our members. Personally I think that may have been due to the fact of looking at those members and being frightened of them for various reasons. Well we finally settled things with them peacefully mainly because we were the better (read not ignorant) people. Well things were ok until in my mind the rest of the ignorant young people came. They proceeded to blast their stereos and their rap music walking around with their pants below their asses showing the world their underwear.
Well now here’s the part where I start to sound old. First off they call what they listen to music? That is not music. I have nothing against rap but most of the stuff they play nowadays is far from rap. When I was growing up we had the good stuff NWA, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, and even Run DMC. Most of the things they rapped about were smoking or sipping on Gin and Juice (laid back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind {oops sorry there I just couldn’t resist}) and the best part was they had a little something called a melody. Nowadays, from what I can understand, they talk about being thugs and pimps doing nothing but bragging about what they own. Which leads me to the other thing about today’s generation. Why the hell do they think we want to see their underwear? After all there is a reason it is called underwear that’s because you are supposed to wear it UNDER your pants. Now I don’t know if this is true or not but I heard somewhere that this was a fad that got started in jail, you see apparently in jail when you wear your pants like it meant you belonged to somebody, and when some rapper got out of jail they started wearing their pants like that and it caught on. Now don’t get me wrong I have no problems with that but I’m not so sure that they would be happy about it.
This leads me to another sign of ignorance now it wasn’t anything that happened yesterday but it still bugs me and that is prejudice. Now we all know that prejudice is not something that is limited to skin color. There are people out there that will condemn you for many reasons all due to one thing you are different than them or even different than the norm. One prime example of this is when people hear that we are pagans they immediately assume many things about us that are false. “Ooo you’re pagan you must be a devil worshiper.” Or even “You’re a witch huh? Well don’t go turning me into a frog or anything”. Of course there is my favorite “You are a witch? Well may God Bless you and prevent you from going to hell.” People do the world a favor and read and learn about us before making assumptions and discriminating us from doing things because of our religion.
Anyhow, now that the serious part is out kids you can start reading again. So the first question was do you think your teen would know if they were in love? Well I don’t have any kids but I do think that it’s possible for kids at a young age to find their true love. This is mainly due to the fact that I am a romantic person and sometimes even have a sort of radar for that kind of stuff. Too bad it doesn’t work for me but when do any cosmic things work for one self. Any how the second question asked was what movie do you hold above all other as your favorite? Well for me this was a simple choice, The Princess Bride. This movie has everything in it sword fights, pirates, comedy, action, and there was one more thing that made it great um let me think oh yeah true love.
Now for everybody’s favorite part the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Today’s card is: “Tell a gal a dirty joke. If she doesn’t laugh, keep telling dirty jokes till she does.”
Wow yet another lame one. I promise that these can and will get better but at least I’m weeding out the lame ones first.
Wow sorry people I guess I got a little too carried away with this 1028 words.
So for those of you still with me I’m going to be talking about ignorance. Now when I say that I’m not talking intelligence I’m talking attitudes. I’ve been throwing this topic around in my head for a while now but then it was called something else. After yesterday and a little bit this morning it evolved. Yesterday my friends and I were cleaning up the park and had started to setup in the only shelter in the park. We had our banner proudly hung displaying our efforts to keep the park clean. We were putting our blood, sweat, and tears (or at least blood and sweat not sure about the tears part) in to cleaning it when a group of people came and without asking anyone in our group proceeded to take down our banner. When approached about it they proceeded to get ignorant about it saying that they had a reservation which would have been fine if they stopped there however from what I heard they proceeded to make threats of bodily injury to some of our members. Personally I think that may have been due to the fact of looking at those members and being frightened of them for various reasons. Well we finally settled things with them peacefully mainly because we were the better (read not ignorant) people. Well things were ok until in my mind the rest of the ignorant young people came. They proceeded to blast their stereos and their rap music walking around with their pants below their asses showing the world their underwear.
Well now here’s the part where I start to sound old. First off they call what they listen to music? That is not music. I have nothing against rap but most of the stuff they play nowadays is far from rap. When I was growing up we had the good stuff NWA, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, LL Cool J, and even Run DMC. Most of the things they rapped about were smoking or sipping on Gin and Juice (laid back with my mind on my money and my money on my mind {oops sorry there I just couldn’t resist}) and the best part was they had a little something called a melody. Nowadays, from what I can understand, they talk about being thugs and pimps doing nothing but bragging about what they own. Which leads me to the other thing about today’s generation. Why the hell do they think we want to see their underwear? After all there is a reason it is called underwear that’s because you are supposed to wear it UNDER your pants. Now I don’t know if this is true or not but I heard somewhere that this was a fad that got started in jail, you see apparently in jail when you wear your pants like it meant you belonged to somebody, and when some rapper got out of jail they started wearing their pants like that and it caught on. Now don’t get me wrong I have no problems with that but I’m not so sure that they would be happy about it.
This leads me to another sign of ignorance now it wasn’t anything that happened yesterday but it still bugs me and that is prejudice. Now we all know that prejudice is not something that is limited to skin color. There are people out there that will condemn you for many reasons all due to one thing you are different than them or even different than the norm. One prime example of this is when people hear that we are pagans they immediately assume many things about us that are false. “Ooo you’re pagan you must be a devil worshiper.” Or even “You’re a witch huh? Well don’t go turning me into a frog or anything”. Of course there is my favorite “You are a witch? Well may God Bless you and prevent you from going to hell.” People do the world a favor and read and learn about us before making assumptions and discriminating us from doing things because of our religion.
Anyhow, now that the serious part is out kids you can start reading again. So the first question was do you think your teen would know if they were in love? Well I don’t have any kids but I do think that it’s possible for kids at a young age to find their true love. This is mainly due to the fact that I am a romantic person and sometimes even have a sort of radar for that kind of stuff. Too bad it doesn’t work for me but when do any cosmic things work for one self. Any how the second question asked was what movie do you hold above all other as your favorite? Well for me this was a simple choice, The Princess Bride. This movie has everything in it sword fights, pirates, comedy, action, and there was one more thing that made it great um let me think oh yeah true love.
Now for everybody’s favorite part the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Today’s card is: “Tell a gal a dirty joke. If she doesn’t laugh, keep telling dirty jokes till she does.”
Wow yet another lame one. I promise that these can and will get better but at least I’m weeding out the lame ones first.
Wow sorry people I guess I got a little too carried away with this 1028 words.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
How I got into Paganism
So apparently there was another challenge that put out there that I skipped over. Sorry my mistake. Anyhow this challenge was how you first became a pagan. Well I sorta had a lot of help from many people namely my younger sister. She was a part of the Phoenix Council long before I was. She would speak about paganism quite a bit and at the time I was just sort of not really caring about religion at all. Then one day she invited me over to play some Dungeons & Dragons. I figured what the hell I’ve always wanted to play so why not. Well that night I met four wonderful people (and one not so great but I won’t delve into that) who would change my life forever and become some of my closest friends. Anyhow I would listen to them as they talked about paganism and its various aspects.
Well then my sister told us that she was going to be leading a ritual and asked us to come and watch. Well I figured why not. This ritual she did was the 2007 Beltaine ritual. I sat outside and watched and started to think this is pretty cool. After that I stuck around to see some more rituals. I went to a Samhain ritual and barely met another future friend even though I barley remembered him being there however there was pictures so we at the very least were both there. After that I was invited to go to a Yule celebration, and I got to watch and enjoy that. However, even though I did nothing other than stick close to the only person I knew there, my name was put into some controversy and I wasn’t even a part of any groups which was funny. This whole time every so often my friend was dropping hints trying to get me to join the Phoenix Council. After that it wasn’t long before I made the decision to join.
After I joined I still watched from the outside trying to learn what I could for fear of looking bad and messing up, but when it came time for the 2008 Ostara ritual/ toga party send off for my sister who was leaving for South Korea I participated in my first circle. Then came Beltaine 2008 where not only did I participate but I for the first time I called a quarter.
As far as any myths or anything like that the only thing I didn’t know was the difference between a witch and a warlock. However I now know that a warlock is someone that is pretty much a cast out. A witch is a magick user. In a nutshell at least.
Now for everyone’s favorite part and mine the random Bachelor Dare Card. Today’s card is: “Go up to a cutie and say in your smoothest voice, ’I just love you {insert wrong color eyes here} eyes!’ When she corrects you, wink and say, ’Sorry I’m colorblind.’”
Ok seriously now that seems pretty lame don’t get me wrong I’d love to get that card but as you’ll see there are some dares that are pretty out there.
This has been another bunch of pure randomness produced by me Spence.
529 words.
Well then my sister told us that she was going to be leading a ritual and asked us to come and watch. Well I figured why not. This ritual she did was the 2007 Beltaine ritual. I sat outside and watched and started to think this is pretty cool. After that I stuck around to see some more rituals. I went to a Samhain ritual and barely met another future friend even though I barley remembered him being there however there was pictures so we at the very least were both there. After that I was invited to go to a Yule celebration, and I got to watch and enjoy that. However, even though I did nothing other than stick close to the only person I knew there, my name was put into some controversy and I wasn’t even a part of any groups which was funny. This whole time every so often my friend was dropping hints trying to get me to join the Phoenix Council. After that it wasn’t long before I made the decision to join.
After I joined I still watched from the outside trying to learn what I could for fear of looking bad and messing up, but when it came time for the 2008 Ostara ritual/ toga party send off for my sister who was leaving for South Korea I participated in my first circle. Then came Beltaine 2008 where not only did I participate but I for the first time I called a quarter.
As far as any myths or anything like that the only thing I didn’t know was the difference between a witch and a warlock. However I now know that a warlock is someone that is pretty much a cast out. A witch is a magick user. In a nutshell at least.
Now for everyone’s favorite part and mine the random Bachelor Dare Card. Today’s card is: “Go up to a cutie and say in your smoothest voice, ’I just love you {insert wrong color eyes here} eyes!’ When she corrects you, wink and say, ’Sorry I’m colorblind.’”
Ok seriously now that seems pretty lame don’t get me wrong I’d love to get that card but as you’ll see there are some dares that are pretty out there.
This has been another bunch of pure randomness produced by me Spence.
529 words.
Friday, April 17, 2009
Family
Ok so yesterday I answered the challenge of steelwitch and put a new theme challenge out for everyone. So since I made the challenge I’d say it’s pretty fair that I follow it. The theme I put out there was family and what does it mean to you. So let me just access the save file I made in my brain last night and explain what family means to me.
First of all to me family does not only include the people you are related to. Family really stands for those people that are closest to you. The people whom if they were to suddenly leave your life completely, forever, for whatever reasons it would leave a huge gaping hole in your heart. Personally I have many people in my life right now that would fall under that category. So I will go through them, trying to leave out names where I can.
Let me first start with the people I’m related to. First one that pops in my head is my mother. My mother is one of the best people you will ever know. I can honestly say that I’ve always had the cool mom, the mom that everyone loves. I think the best quality of my mom is that she is unjudging, meaning that she don’t care if you are white, black, green, Pagan, Christian, a follower of the big blue shoe, gay, straight, or whatever she will not judge you until she gets to know you on the inside; which I’m proud to say I think I’ve picked that quality up from her. Then we have my Grandma she is the world to me. She will do anything she can to help out her children and grandchildren. My father is another one I’m kinda close to and would feel pain if something happened to him, however I don’t know him as well as I would like to, but look forward to his visits. I also have two wonderful sisters who mean the world to me. We have my youngest sister, who well the best way to describe her is she is extremely headstrong. I’m hoping to get her going to school and possibly not being as lazy as she has been lately. Then we have my younger/ middle sister (I’m the oldest of three) who actually plays double duty because not only is she my sister but she is also my coven mate.
Speaking of my fellow coven mates I think I’ll start on the people I consider family that are not related to me. I’ll start off with someone who I would best describe as a big sister. She is a great and caring person and has three wonderful children that I also feel close to. Then we have the tech guy he is a brother to me and I look forward to learning many things both from him and beside him. The next one is someone I also consider a sister she has been there for me many times emotionally when I’ve needed her and is a true friend. I can’t forget her husband he is another like all the rest that I can turn to for guidance in many things and is also a fellow techie. Someone else whom I consider a good friend and brother would be my friend and fellow geek whom I’m learning many things from including Dreamweaver. Finally but far from least would be my best friend whom unfortunately lives in Ohio. I miss him very much and enjoyed tiny bit of time with him when I visited him for a few days this summer. He is truly a great friend and brother. We have been through many things over the years including his many bands that I had the pleasure of roadieing for. I just hope that someday soon he and his family can come down here to visit and meet all of my wonderful friends I have made in Florida.
Well that is what family is to me. The funniest thing is my inspiration for this theme is the latest episode of Heroes. Anyhow now for the fun part my Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day.
Today’s random card is: “Walk up to a chick drinking a beer and say, ’I bet I can chug my beer faster than you’”
Wow that one was kinda lame oh well hopefully tomorrow I’ll have a better one.
Well this has been another group of random thoughts from me, Spence
Word count 738. Eat that people almost double the required amount HaHaHa. lol
First of all to me family does not only include the people you are related to. Family really stands for those people that are closest to you. The people whom if they were to suddenly leave your life completely, forever, for whatever reasons it would leave a huge gaping hole in your heart. Personally I have many people in my life right now that would fall under that category. So I will go through them, trying to leave out names where I can.
Let me first start with the people I’m related to. First one that pops in my head is my mother. My mother is one of the best people you will ever know. I can honestly say that I’ve always had the cool mom, the mom that everyone loves. I think the best quality of my mom is that she is unjudging, meaning that she don’t care if you are white, black, green, Pagan, Christian, a follower of the big blue shoe, gay, straight, or whatever she will not judge you until she gets to know you on the inside; which I’m proud to say I think I’ve picked that quality up from her. Then we have my Grandma she is the world to me. She will do anything she can to help out her children and grandchildren. My father is another one I’m kinda close to and would feel pain if something happened to him, however I don’t know him as well as I would like to, but look forward to his visits. I also have two wonderful sisters who mean the world to me. We have my youngest sister, who well the best way to describe her is she is extremely headstrong. I’m hoping to get her going to school and possibly not being as lazy as she has been lately. Then we have my younger/ middle sister (I’m the oldest of three) who actually plays double duty because not only is she my sister but she is also my coven mate.
Speaking of my fellow coven mates I think I’ll start on the people I consider family that are not related to me. I’ll start off with someone who I would best describe as a big sister. She is a great and caring person and has three wonderful children that I also feel close to. Then we have the tech guy he is a brother to me and I look forward to learning many things both from him and beside him. The next one is someone I also consider a sister she has been there for me many times emotionally when I’ve needed her and is a true friend. I can’t forget her husband he is another like all the rest that I can turn to for guidance in many things and is also a fellow techie. Someone else whom I consider a good friend and brother would be my friend and fellow geek whom I’m learning many things from including Dreamweaver. Finally but far from least would be my best friend whom unfortunately lives in Ohio. I miss him very much and enjoyed tiny bit of time with him when I visited him for a few days this summer. He is truly a great friend and brother. We have been through many things over the years including his many bands that I had the pleasure of roadieing for. I just hope that someday soon he and his family can come down here to visit and meet all of my wonderful friends I have made in Florida.
Well that is what family is to me. The funniest thing is my inspiration for this theme is the latest episode of Heroes. Anyhow now for the fun part my Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day.
Today’s random card is: “Walk up to a chick drinking a beer and say, ’I bet I can chug my beer faster than you’”
Wow that one was kinda lame oh well hopefully tomorrow I’ll have a better one.
Well this has been another group of random thoughts from me, Spence
Word count 738. Eat that people almost double the required amount HaHaHa. lol
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Apollo
I was reading the blog of one of my competitors today and he came up with a great idea and challenged each of us to tell about our God and or Goddess. Well I have no problem with that. I’ll just have to make a save file in my brain for the topic I planned on doing today and suggest it for the next theme, but I’ll throw that out there later in the blog. Now then since I’m still a little new in my following I don’t know too much about my god but I’ll do what I can.
Apollo is the Greek God of the Sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts, animal welfare, and so on. He is the son of Zeus (boy did HE get around) and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis (who it seems is not too fond of men). One of his messengers, as I have recently found out, is the hawk. Yeah nothing like driving down your street and looking up to see a hawk staring down at you from the telephone wire he’s sitting on or standing around outside cleaning your BBQ grill and not only seeing a hawk fly overhead but hearing it call out to me. This is actually how I kinda sorta figured out that I should be worshiping Apollo. Although after I thought about it, it made sense. I love music, the arts, and pretty much all entertainment; I love animals; and I must admit I’m pretty fond of the sun. Some other animals that are sacred to Apollo are wolves, dolphins, swans, cicadas, ravens, crows, snakes, and mice.
Now for a story about him, this is difficult since there are so many good ones. Let’s see here, well this story involves Hermes and Zeus as well but it is pretty good and deals with the inventing of one of Apollo’s most famous symbols, the lyre.
Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. His mother, Maia, had been secretly impregnated by Zeus. Maia wrapped the infant in blankets but Hermes escaped while she was asleep. Hermes ran to Thessaly, where Apollo was grazing his cattle. The infant Hermes stole a number of his cows and took them to a cave in the woods near Pylos, covering their tracks. In the cave, he found a tortoise and killed it, then removed the insides. He used one of the cow's intestines and the tortoise shell and made the first lyre. Apollo complained to Maia that her son had stolen his cattle, but Hermes had already replaced himself in the blankets she had wrapped him in, so Maia refused to believe Apollo's claim. Zeus intervened and, claiming to have seen the events, sided with Apollo. Hermes then began to play music on the lyre he had invented. Apollo, a god of music, fell in love with the instrument and offered to allow exchange of the cattle for the lyre. Hence, Apollo became a master of the lyre.
Not a bad story I’m sure I could find more but that’ll due for now. So now then since, as far as I know, I’m the first to answer this theme challenge I guess I’ll choose the next theme. Since a lot of us are as close as a family and many of us are close to our own blood-related families my theme is family and what does it mean to you.
Now for the fun part of the blog the random bachelor dare card, if you don’t know what I’m talking about read my previous blog.
Tonight’s random card is (drum roll) … “Convince the oldest guy in the bar to do a Liquid Viagra (Red Bull and Jägermeister).” Wow that’s an interesting one, good luck in trying to figure out the oldest guy in the bar and convincing him to do a shot by that name.
This has been another set of random thoughts from me Spence.
Oh and steelwitch 674 words here.
Apollo is the Greek God of the Sun; truth and prophecy; archery; medicine and healing; music, poetry, and the arts, animal welfare, and so on. He is the son of Zeus (boy did HE get around) and Leto, and the twin brother of Artemis (who it seems is not too fond of men). One of his messengers, as I have recently found out, is the hawk. Yeah nothing like driving down your street and looking up to see a hawk staring down at you from the telephone wire he’s sitting on or standing around outside cleaning your BBQ grill and not only seeing a hawk fly overhead but hearing it call out to me. This is actually how I kinda sorta figured out that I should be worshiping Apollo. Although after I thought about it, it made sense. I love music, the arts, and pretty much all entertainment; I love animals; and I must admit I’m pretty fond of the sun. Some other animals that are sacred to Apollo are wolves, dolphins, swans, cicadas, ravens, crows, snakes, and mice.
Now for a story about him, this is difficult since there are so many good ones. Let’s see here, well this story involves Hermes and Zeus as well but it is pretty good and deals with the inventing of one of Apollo’s most famous symbols, the lyre.
Hermes was born on Mount Cyllene in Arcadia. The story is told in the Homeric Hymn to Hermes. His mother, Maia, had been secretly impregnated by Zeus. Maia wrapped the infant in blankets but Hermes escaped while she was asleep. Hermes ran to Thessaly, where Apollo was grazing his cattle. The infant Hermes stole a number of his cows and took them to a cave in the woods near Pylos, covering their tracks. In the cave, he found a tortoise and killed it, then removed the insides. He used one of the cow's intestines and the tortoise shell and made the first lyre. Apollo complained to Maia that her son had stolen his cattle, but Hermes had already replaced himself in the blankets she had wrapped him in, so Maia refused to believe Apollo's claim. Zeus intervened and, claiming to have seen the events, sided with Apollo. Hermes then began to play music on the lyre he had invented. Apollo, a god of music, fell in love with the instrument and offered to allow exchange of the cattle for the lyre. Hence, Apollo became a master of the lyre.
Not a bad story I’m sure I could find more but that’ll due for now. So now then since, as far as I know, I’m the first to answer this theme challenge I guess I’ll choose the next theme. Since a lot of us are as close as a family and many of us are close to our own blood-related families my theme is family and what does it mean to you.
Now for the fun part of the blog the random bachelor dare card, if you don’t know what I’m talking about read my previous blog.
Tonight’s random card is (drum roll) … “Convince the oldest guy in the bar to do a Liquid Viagra (Red Bull and Jägermeister).” Wow that’s an interesting one, good luck in trying to figure out the oldest guy in the bar and convincing him to do a shot by that name.
This has been another set of random thoughts from me Spence.
Oh and steelwitch 674 words here.
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
A Public Service To Any Best Men Out There
Now for something today that was completely random. I was cleaning out one of my junk drawers today and came across two very interesting things, my speech for my best friend’s wedding and a deck of cards with dares on them made for bachelor parties or just a random night of fun with the guys at a bar or club. So I figured as a service to any best men out there, since it is coming upon wedding season, I would share my speech with all of you and as a bonus I will pick one random card every blog post and share what the card says to do. So without further ado I give you my best man speech in its entirety. (Clears throat)
“Good Evening.
Ladies and gentlemen, for those of you who don’t know me my name is Dave Wouldyoulikeadrink. Please feel free to say hello and call me by my full name later on.
Let me start out by saying that Mandy and I don’t know each other very well. However, in the time that I have spent with her I quickly understand why Eric has asked her to be his wife. Along with Mandy’s beautiful looks comes a truly genuine person with a big heart, gentle soul, and a great sense of humor, and I know that everyone here will agree when I say that Mandy, you look very beautiful today.
Now what can I say about Eric? Well he is witty, funny, handsome, strong, and … and … uh … (look at Eric the groom) Eric, what’s this word say? Sorry man I can’t read your writing!
I know the duties of the best man are not to be taken lightly, and I’m sure you’ll all agree that my first duty getting Eric to the church, sober on time and eventually married was a complete success.
On a serious note, not only is he my best friend, but I love Eric Lazlo-Jacque Szijj as if he were my brother. Eric has been my closest friend for years now. Level- headed, bright, and with a genuine love for life, Eric is truly an inspiration. From his contagious laugh to his drunk-looking smirk he gets when something amuses him, he is always uplifting.
Since that faithful day when Eric met Mandy, we have all seen some changes in him. Eric seems to be the happiest I’ve seen him and I know that the only thing that could make him happier is to have a lifelong marriage to his new bride, celebrating the triumphs and tribulations with someone he holds so dear in his heart.
I just want to say that Eric, you really are the best man here today and I want to tell you that you have always been like a brother to me. You truly are one of the best friends a man could have.
Now I may not be the oldest, and I’m defiantly not the wisest here, but I have learned this: friends this good are truly hard to come by and I could ask for nothing more than Eric willingly provides
Would everyone please raise your glasses?
Here’s to love. To those who seek it, may they find it. To those who’ve found it, may it be everlasting.
Cheers!”
Touching ain’t it. So to all you best men out there trying to figure out a speech feel free to borrow that one and use it however you want.
Now as promised here is tonight’s random Bachelor Dare card: “Take a shot from a pretty mama’s cleavage. (Be sure to ask first)”
Wow that’s an interesting one I hope it’s not too R-Rated I am hoping to go for a little more PG-13 but if anyone doesn’t like it let me know and I’ll stop, but if everyone is ok with it I’ll go on until I finish the deck, which will be much more fun.
“Good Evening.
Ladies and gentlemen, for those of you who don’t know me my name is Dave Wouldyoulikeadrink. Please feel free to say hello and call me by my full name later on.
Let me start out by saying that Mandy and I don’t know each other very well. However, in the time that I have spent with her I quickly understand why Eric has asked her to be his wife. Along with Mandy’s beautiful looks comes a truly genuine person with a big heart, gentle soul, and a great sense of humor, and I know that everyone here will agree when I say that Mandy, you look very beautiful today.
Now what can I say about Eric? Well he is witty, funny, handsome, strong, and … and … uh … (look at Eric the groom) Eric, what’s this word say? Sorry man I can’t read your writing!
I know the duties of the best man are not to be taken lightly, and I’m sure you’ll all agree that my first duty getting Eric to the church, sober on time and eventually married was a complete success.
On a serious note, not only is he my best friend, but I love Eric Lazlo-Jacque Szijj as if he were my brother. Eric has been my closest friend for years now. Level- headed, bright, and with a genuine love for life, Eric is truly an inspiration. From his contagious laugh to his drunk-looking smirk he gets when something amuses him, he is always uplifting.
Since that faithful day when Eric met Mandy, we have all seen some changes in him. Eric seems to be the happiest I’ve seen him and I know that the only thing that could make him happier is to have a lifelong marriage to his new bride, celebrating the triumphs and tribulations with someone he holds so dear in his heart.
I just want to say that Eric, you really are the best man here today and I want to tell you that you have always been like a brother to me. You truly are one of the best friends a man could have.
Now I may not be the oldest, and I’m defiantly not the wisest here, but I have learned this: friends this good are truly hard to come by and I could ask for nothing more than Eric willingly provides
Would everyone please raise your glasses?
Here’s to love. To those who seek it, may they find it. To those who’ve found it, may it be everlasting.
Cheers!”
Touching ain’t it. So to all you best men out there trying to figure out a speech feel free to borrow that one and use it however you want.
Now as promised here is tonight’s random Bachelor Dare card: “Take a shot from a pretty mama’s cleavage. (Be sure to ask first)”
Wow that’s an interesting one I hope it’s not too R-Rated I am hoping to go for a little more PG-13 but if anyone doesn’t like it let me know and I’ll stop, but if everyone is ok with it I’ll go on until I finish the deck, which will be much more fun.
The craptastic school network/ about me
So I was at school today and had some extra time so I figured what the heck I’ll go online. That didn’t work out so well. Once I get past the home page I went to Yahoo and saw a cool news story, so I figured I’d click on it and read it. Guess again! I click on the link and it says Access Denied by the Network Administrator. So let me get this straight I can’t access a news story because it takes me the dreaded Yahoo Games? What the fork man! Then as I’m reading my e-mail instead of advertisements about different Yahoo services I see says Access Denied by the Network Administrator all along the sides and top of the page. What the hell is the purpose of this? Oh and in the past I’ve noticed that I can’t access My Space but I can access Facebook. Why the hell would they deny access to My Space?
Although the one website that I was denied access to that really ticked me off was when I tried to access the Wizards of the Coast site while on my own personal laptop. Now I could understand if this was just on computers in the classroom or in the library that are owned by the school, but the computers in the lunch room? These are computers that are there for fun. Is it really that hard for people whose job it is to run the school’s network to only restrict certain computers access to sites? All’s they would have to do is tell the network to deny access to whatever sites they wanted for only those MAC addresses of the computers in the classrooms, library, and labs.
Anyhow now that I’ve gotten that off my chest I thought about it and well sure some of the people reading my blog may know me but there could be some of you who may not so I’ll tell a little about myself. I am thirty years old and a college student learning to be a web designer, so that one day I could go anywhere I wanted to and not have to worry about my job because I’d take my job with me. I’m originally from North-Eastern Ohio. I grew up in a small suburb of Youngstown called Austintown. Then after not doing so well on my own I moved in with my family in Stow, Ohio at the age of twenty-two. After living there for a year my mother and stepfather decided to move down to Florida. Unfortunately I had no real choice in the matter and had to go with them. So at age 24 I was picking up everything and moving to Florida leaving behind all my friends. When I got down to Florida after waiting almost a year for our new house to be built I got a job at old reliable, McDonald’s, I worked there for a good couple of years until I saved enough money to move back to Ohio. I lived with my best friend and his fiancé for a few months until a saved enough money to get my own apartment. However my time in Ohio was shorter than I planned. After about eight months of trying to make it on my own I decided I couldn’t do it so I moved back to Florida and now here I am today. I’ve made many friends down here in Florida and try to keep in contact with my friends in Ohio as well.
Oh well I could go into more detail I’ve bored you all enough for now. Maybe in the future I’ll talk about my time being a roadie for my best friend’s band One Breath or my time as a convenience store clerk, let’s just say Kevin Smith wasn’t far off with the movie clerks.
Well anyway this has been another set of random thoughts from me, Spence.
Although the one website that I was denied access to that really ticked me off was when I tried to access the Wizards of the Coast site while on my own personal laptop. Now I could understand if this was just on computers in the classroom or in the library that are owned by the school, but the computers in the lunch room? These are computers that are there for fun. Is it really that hard for people whose job it is to run the school’s network to only restrict certain computers access to sites? All’s they would have to do is tell the network to deny access to whatever sites they wanted for only those MAC addresses of the computers in the classrooms, library, and labs.
Anyhow now that I’ve gotten that off my chest I thought about it and well sure some of the people reading my blog may know me but there could be some of you who may not so I’ll tell a little about myself. I am thirty years old and a college student learning to be a web designer, so that one day I could go anywhere I wanted to and not have to worry about my job because I’d take my job with me. I’m originally from North-Eastern Ohio. I grew up in a small suburb of Youngstown called Austintown. Then after not doing so well on my own I moved in with my family in Stow, Ohio at the age of twenty-two. After living there for a year my mother and stepfather decided to move down to Florida. Unfortunately I had no real choice in the matter and had to go with them. So at age 24 I was picking up everything and moving to Florida leaving behind all my friends. When I got down to Florida after waiting almost a year for our new house to be built I got a job at old reliable, McDonald’s, I worked there for a good couple of years until I saved enough money to move back to Ohio. I lived with my best friend and his fiancé for a few months until a saved enough money to get my own apartment. However my time in Ohio was shorter than I planned. After about eight months of trying to make it on my own I decided I couldn’t do it so I moved back to Florida and now here I am today. I’ve made many friends down here in Florida and try to keep in contact with my friends in Ohio as well.
Oh well I could go into more detail I’ve bored you all enough for now. Maybe in the future I’ll talk about my time being a roadie for my best friend’s band One Breath or my time as a convenience store clerk, let’s just say Kevin Smith wasn’t far off with the movie clerks.
Well anyway this has been another set of random thoughts from me, Spence.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
For The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived
After thinking about my grandfather yesterday and reading my friend Lady Gwendlyn’s blog about her mother I have been inspired to do something I thought I would not do but it somehow seems appropriate. About a year ago my grandfather passed away and to help get my feelings out I posted a blog on My Space, well I’m going to repost the blog here now as a loving tribute to The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived, Mario Terrigno. Without him and his influence and teachings I doubt I’d be the man I am today. So here it is my blog from last year in its entirety:
At 3 PM today, May 11 2008, the world lost a great man, my grandfather Mario Terrigno. He was a great man with a huge heart, if you were in need of anything he would not only give you the shirt off his back but give you his last $10 that he could not afford just to see that you were no longer in need. Even if he was sick he'd make an effort to help you out. Even though he was sick and in pain he never let anyone know, even in his last days. When he was healthy he would run around being Mr. Fixit for everyone. He built an entire upstairs of a house from just the frame work, he even added on an entire room to his house at one point. Up until this past year he was very active in everything and he was in his 80's too if I’m not mistaken. He is the one true father figure I've always had in my life. It's because of him that I am the man I am today a loving caring guy who will almost always turn the other cheek. He was also a loving husband to my grandmother for 60+ years. Not only was he a great grandfather and husband but also a great father to both his son (my uncle) and his daughter (my mom) and would help them out with anything no matter what. So I write this a part of my grieving to a beloved husband of my grandma, to a wonderful father of my mom and uncle, to a outstanding grandfather of six grandchildren who will all miss him deeply, but most of all to a great wonderful saintly man who I am proud to say to I will always love.
Rest in Peace
Grandpa Mario Terrigno
I know my blogs have been on the joking side, sort of, but today I felt I had to do this. Tomorrow I’m sure it’ll be back to normal.
At 3 PM today, May 11 2008, the world lost a great man, my grandfather Mario Terrigno. He was a great man with a huge heart, if you were in need of anything he would not only give you the shirt off his back but give you his last $10 that he could not afford just to see that you were no longer in need. Even if he was sick he'd make an effort to help you out. Even though he was sick and in pain he never let anyone know, even in his last days. When he was healthy he would run around being Mr. Fixit for everyone. He built an entire upstairs of a house from just the frame work, he even added on an entire room to his house at one point. Up until this past year he was very active in everything and he was in his 80's too if I’m not mistaken. He is the one true father figure I've always had in my life. It's because of him that I am the man I am today a loving caring guy who will almost always turn the other cheek. He was also a loving husband to my grandmother for 60+ years. Not only was he a great grandfather and husband but also a great father to both his son (my uncle) and his daughter (my mom) and would help them out with anything no matter what. So I write this a part of my grieving to a beloved husband of my grandma, to a wonderful father of my mom and uncle, to a outstanding grandfather of six grandchildren who will all miss him deeply, but most of all to a great wonderful saintly man who I am proud to say to I will always love.
Rest in Peace
Grandpa Mario Terrigno
I know my blogs have been on the joking side, sort of, but today I felt I had to do this. Tomorrow I’m sure it’ll be back to normal.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Road Rage is a Killer
Well I guess Apollo was looking out for me today because I almost died many times today. I’m exaggerating of course but still I’ve never been so scared before in my life. What could bring on this terror? It’s a simple formula. My youngest sister plus road rage times PMS equals sheer terror. Today we were on our way to my grandmother’s house for Easter and as we were driving down US 19 cars would pull in front of her and go slow, the nerve. Well she proceeded to ride their @$$ and violently yell at them until she could get into the next lane. This went on most of the drive down to my grandmother’s house, all the way from Spring Hill to Tarpon Springs. Meanwhile I’m forced to also listen to my step-sister attempt to sing. I just wish I had the heart to tell her she’s tone deaf.
While at my grandmother’s house I had a good time even though most of it I was in the kitchen cooking the ham, while sitting at the table doing homework and trying to get my grandma’s computer to run so I could go online and get some tax forms for my mom. Her computer made me even more appreciative of my laptop in sheer speed alone. The best part was after I finally got the Internet working and downloaded the tax forms I found out that my grandma didn’t have Adobe Reader on her computer. So I spent about another hour or so downloading Adobe. Dinner was fantastic. However in the corner of my mind I had my Grandpa on my mind since last Easter was the last Holiday we got to celebrate with him. We all miss him tremendously. He was the best man I will ever know and I can only hope of being half the man he was.
Anyhow the drive home was about as bad as the drive there except for one thing. My mom and I made the mistake of trying to tell my sister not to ride people @$$es and to stop whipping in and out of lanes. Let’s just say my mom and I are both lucky to still have our heads in tact after getting them bit off by my sister. So apparently even though we’ve been driving longer than her we can’t tell her to be careful and safe. I’ll try to remember that next time.
Sitting here writing this brings to mind a time last year when I was driving to my grandparent’s house and had my other sister in the backseat trying to be a backseat driver. Wow it’s funny how it all comes full circle. Sorry Dustie.
Well this has been another set of random thoughts from me, Spence (the future WARP 2009 champion)
On a completely different and unrelated note: MMMMMMMMMMM Peeps Bunnies. I just love biting their heads off
While at my grandmother’s house I had a good time even though most of it I was in the kitchen cooking the ham, while sitting at the table doing homework and trying to get my grandma’s computer to run so I could go online and get some tax forms for my mom. Her computer made me even more appreciative of my laptop in sheer speed alone. The best part was after I finally got the Internet working and downloaded the tax forms I found out that my grandma didn’t have Adobe Reader on her computer. So I spent about another hour or so downloading Adobe. Dinner was fantastic. However in the corner of my mind I had my Grandpa on my mind since last Easter was the last Holiday we got to celebrate with him. We all miss him tremendously. He was the best man I will ever know and I can only hope of being half the man he was.
Anyhow the drive home was about as bad as the drive there except for one thing. My mom and I made the mistake of trying to tell my sister not to ride people @$$es and to stop whipping in and out of lanes. Let’s just say my mom and I are both lucky to still have our heads in tact after getting them bit off by my sister. So apparently even though we’ve been driving longer than her we can’t tell her to be careful and safe. I’ll try to remember that next time.
Sitting here writing this brings to mind a time last year when I was driving to my grandparent’s house and had my other sister in the backseat trying to be a backseat driver. Wow it’s funny how it all comes full circle. Sorry Dustie.
Well this has been another set of random thoughts from me, Spence (the future WARP 2009 champion)
On a completely different and unrelated note: MMMMMMMMMMM Peeps Bunnies. I just love biting their heads off
Sunday, April 12, 2009
Paging Officer Jack@$$
Disclaimer: I know that most police officers are great people and they are not all like the ones that I am about to describe. I mean no disrespect towards police officers in any way shape or form. This is just a rant about a single type of police officer.
Well last night I came across one of my biggest peeves, a jack@$$ police officer. I’m driving down US 19 on my way home from dropping off some friends after doing a full moon ritual, and a New Port Richey police officer turns into my lane. Well as soon as I see him I turn on my cruise control and set it to 40 since the speed limit is 45 just to be safe. He decides to follow me for about five miles and then goes to pass me. Ok no problem let him pass me right? Well guess what after he passes me he slows down. Well since I never turned off my cruise control I end up passing him. I know you never pass a cop but I figure I’m not speeding so there should be no harm in it. Well as soon as I pass him he pulls behind me turns on his lights. So I pull over and give him my license thinking, “What the hell did I do?” After he goes through the whole spiel asking me if I’ve dunk anything and all that ship he tells me his reason for pulling me over. His reason? My license plate was dirty. Yes you read that right I was pulled over because I had a dirty license plate. What the hell is wrong with this guy? I did nothing wrong, which is more than likely why he didn’t give me a ticket, but he just pulls me over because he felt like it? It’s three o’clock in the morning I’m sure there are plenty of drunk drivers out there, but he pulls me over. What a JACK@$$!!!
On a side note somehow yesterday’s blog was successful in making progress at home. Today my jack@$$ of a step-father went out and rented a rug doctor. I spent most of the day today cleaning up around the house WITH help. Yes that’s right he cleaned the house today. He was doing the carpets today, we put up boxes in the attic, and he even did the bathroom and kitchen floors. There must have been some magick in that blog because a miracle happened today.
Well I hope you enjoyed another set of my random thoughts.
Well last night I came across one of my biggest peeves, a jack@$$ police officer. I’m driving down US 19 on my way home from dropping off some friends after doing a full moon ritual, and a New Port Richey police officer turns into my lane. Well as soon as I see him I turn on my cruise control and set it to 40 since the speed limit is 45 just to be safe. He decides to follow me for about five miles and then goes to pass me. Ok no problem let him pass me right? Well guess what after he passes me he slows down. Well since I never turned off my cruise control I end up passing him. I know you never pass a cop but I figure I’m not speeding so there should be no harm in it. Well as soon as I pass him he pulls behind me turns on his lights. So I pull over and give him my license thinking, “What the hell did I do?” After he goes through the whole spiel asking me if I’ve dunk anything and all that ship he tells me his reason for pulling me over. His reason? My license plate was dirty. Yes you read that right I was pulled over because I had a dirty license plate. What the hell is wrong with this guy? I did nothing wrong, which is more than likely why he didn’t give me a ticket, but he just pulls me over because he felt like it? It’s three o’clock in the morning I’m sure there are plenty of drunk drivers out there, but he pulls me over. What a JACK@$$!!!
On a side note somehow yesterday’s blog was successful in making progress at home. Today my jack@$$ of a step-father went out and rented a rug doctor. I spent most of the day today cleaning up around the house WITH help. Yes that’s right he cleaned the house today. He was doing the carpets today, we put up boxes in the attic, and he even did the bathroom and kitchen floors. There must have been some magick in that blog because a miracle happened today.
Well I hope you enjoyed another set of my random thoughts.
Friday, April 10, 2009
I'm not a housekeeper!!!!!
Well I’m glad of one thing. This blogging competition hasn’t started yet. For those of you who are happening upon my blog and know nothing about this competition, in a few weeks there will be a blogging competition that I am partaking in one of the rules is that posts must be 24 hours apart and by the time this is posted it will be long past my last post. Anyhow now for my blog
Well just recently I came upon some sad news. For a while now I was under the impression that I was living in a house with four adults and a teenager. Well I just found out that I was wrong I live in a house with two adults and three babies. That’s what it feels like anyhow. My mom and I are the only ones around the house that does any house work and I must say it’s getting old quick. It seems like the big excuse for everyone is that I can do it since I don’t have a job. Ok let me see here I go to school twice a week, am very active in my local community including running a website (http://phoenixprojects.org) , and still have to find time to do homework. So how do I have the time to do everything around the house?
Then we have my mom she works every night overnight and then has to come home and do things like clean-up dog poop and sometimes urine, clean the dishes and even sometimes vacuum the floors instead of going to bed .I know that I should and usually do, do these chores however my mother and I should not be the only ones! We have three other capable people living in our house and when my jack@$$ of a step-father and my step-sister moved back in they brought an entire apartment full of junk with them. This means we have boxes and boxes of stuff piled in our living room and in front of our front door making it difficult to open it.
We have my youngest sister living there she is 19 years old and sometimes acts like she is 60 years old. She comes home from work at McDonald’s and is too tired to do anything around the house however she is not too tired to go and hangout with her friends and go to the movies with her sister, my step sister. She sometimes will go out and not let us know if she is taking her puppy with her. How are we supposed to puppysit when we don’t know the puppy is home?
Then we have my step sister. She does nothing all day she’s home except stay in her room. However she seems to enjoy making big messes and not cleaning them up. I’m at the point where I hate going into my bathroom which used to be my place of zen where I could come up with ideas but now it’s a wreck with hair all over the place and Proactive stains on the counter. Not to mention the fact that most if not all the dog poop is from her dog. Since when did I become a house keeper for a 15 year old?
Finally we have my step father. During the week he has an excuse he is at work from early morning until about 7 or 8 at night. However, on the weekends does he do any work around the house? NO! He stays in his room all weekend and sleeps so not a forking thing gets done. We recently had a deep freezer that was accidently unplugged by him and who ends up emptying the literally stinking thing? My mom and me. When he isn’t sleeping around the house he’s working on his motorcycle. What the heck!
Well I think I’d better stop my rant before it gets too long. Oh and Marisa if you ever read this I’m sorry ahead of time.
Well just recently I came upon some sad news. For a while now I was under the impression that I was living in a house with four adults and a teenager. Well I just found out that I was wrong I live in a house with two adults and three babies. That’s what it feels like anyhow. My mom and I are the only ones around the house that does any house work and I must say it’s getting old quick. It seems like the big excuse for everyone is that I can do it since I don’t have a job. Ok let me see here I go to school twice a week, am very active in my local community including running a website (http://phoenixprojects.org) , and still have to find time to do homework. So how do I have the time to do everything around the house?
Then we have my mom she works every night overnight and then has to come home and do things like clean-up dog poop and sometimes urine, clean the dishes and even sometimes vacuum the floors instead of going to bed .I know that I should and usually do, do these chores however my mother and I should not be the only ones! We have three other capable people living in our house and when my jack@$$ of a step-father and my step-sister moved back in they brought an entire apartment full of junk with them. This means we have boxes and boxes of stuff piled in our living room and in front of our front door making it difficult to open it.
We have my youngest sister living there she is 19 years old and sometimes acts like she is 60 years old. She comes home from work at McDonald’s and is too tired to do anything around the house however she is not too tired to go and hangout with her friends and go to the movies with her sister, my step sister. She sometimes will go out and not let us know if she is taking her puppy with her. How are we supposed to puppysit when we don’t know the puppy is home?
Then we have my step sister. She does nothing all day she’s home except stay in her room. However she seems to enjoy making big messes and not cleaning them up. I’m at the point where I hate going into my bathroom which used to be my place of zen where I could come up with ideas but now it’s a wreck with hair all over the place and Proactive stains on the counter. Not to mention the fact that most if not all the dog poop is from her dog. Since when did I become a house keeper for a 15 year old?
Finally we have my step father. During the week he has an excuse he is at work from early morning until about 7 or 8 at night. However, on the weekends does he do any work around the house? NO! He stays in his room all weekend and sleeps so not a forking thing gets done. We recently had a deep freezer that was accidently unplugged by him and who ends up emptying the literally stinking thing? My mom and me. When he isn’t sleeping around the house he’s working on his motorcycle. What the heck!
Well I think I’d better stop my rant before it gets too long. Oh and Marisa if you ever read this I’m sorry ahead of time.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
College Morons
Ok so I’m in my Intro to Astronomy class today and we were “trying to” do a review for our test on Tuesday. Yeah that worked out well. It started out fine until this one girl kept on asking question after question after question. Normally I wouldn’t mind however she started going off topic and kept going off topic. What I don’t understand is how the hell the beautiful blonde girl that sits next to me and usually leaves half way through the class knows the material but the girl who’s there every class has to ask all kinds of questions for every single question on the review sheet. Why? Because she is a moron that’s why. She’d rather talk to the guy and girl behind her about her upcoming wedding.
Then we got the guy in the back row who I’d like to call a hypocritic person. You may be wondering, what a hypocritic person is. Well I’m glad you asked. A hypocritic person is someone who bitches, moans, and or complains about someone or something while at the same time are doing the exact same thing. For instance take this jack@$$ in my class. A few times during the review some girls were talking to each other. So what does he do? He burst out in the middle of class yelling about how we all paid money to be there and they are disturbing the class during the review. The funny thing is they were so quiet that we couldn’t hear them on our side of the room of the teacher giving the review. This guy was having a hard time paying attention to the professor because a few girls were “interrupting the class” and what does he do? He makes a big scene by yelling at the two girls for interrupting the class effectively interrupting the class himself. Hey hypocritical guy guess what? You’re a moron.
Finally we have the lady who has to second guess everything the professor says about sci-fi stuff. He says wormholes are hypothetical, or in other words don’t exist. He says there is no such thing as alternate universes. All of these things are just made up by science fiction writers and have become existent only in science fiction; however this lady would love to have you think otherwise.
Once we lost almost an entire class period due to her debating back and forth with the professor. Ok let’s see here lady you are a student learning astronomy. He is your professor. What makes you think you can debate with him about what is in the universe? He went through school already he knows everything there is to know about the stuff otherwise he would not be a professor. So guess what lady if you think you can debate about what is in space and what isn’t with a college professor and win. You are a moron.
So many of you may be wondering what I do during class while all this is going on well that’s easy. I pay attention to the professor, take my notes/ do PowerPoint flash cards for the test, listen to the beautiful blonde girl next to me bitch about question girl, and sit back and watch the show.
This has been another set of random thoughts from Spence. I hope you enjoyed.
Then we got the guy in the back row who I’d like to call a hypocritic person. You may be wondering, what a hypocritic person is. Well I’m glad you asked. A hypocritic person is someone who bitches, moans, and or complains about someone or something while at the same time are doing the exact same thing. For instance take this jack@$$ in my class. A few times during the review some girls were talking to each other. So what does he do? He burst out in the middle of class yelling about how we all paid money to be there and they are disturbing the class during the review. The funny thing is they were so quiet that we couldn’t hear them on our side of the room of the teacher giving the review. This guy was having a hard time paying attention to the professor because a few girls were “interrupting the class” and what does he do? He makes a big scene by yelling at the two girls for interrupting the class effectively interrupting the class himself. Hey hypocritical guy guess what? You’re a moron.
Finally we have the lady who has to second guess everything the professor says about sci-fi stuff. He says wormholes are hypothetical, or in other words don’t exist. He says there is no such thing as alternate universes. All of these things are just made up by science fiction writers and have become existent only in science fiction; however this lady would love to have you think otherwise.
Once we lost almost an entire class period due to her debating back and forth with the professor. Ok let’s see here lady you are a student learning astronomy. He is your professor. What makes you think you can debate with him about what is in the universe? He went through school already he knows everything there is to know about the stuff otherwise he would not be a professor. So guess what lady if you think you can debate about what is in space and what isn’t with a college professor and win. You are a moron.
So many of you may be wondering what I do during class while all this is going on well that’s easy. I pay attention to the professor, take my notes/ do PowerPoint flash cards for the test, listen to the beautiful blonde girl next to me bitch about question girl, and sit back and watch the show.
This has been another set of random thoughts from Spence. I hope you enjoyed.
Wednesday, April 8, 2009
My First Blog (WCG Ultimate Gamer)
Ok so this is my first attempt at a blog so here it goes. I’ve been watching this new reality show on the Sci-Fi Channel and it’s pretty interesting. It’s called WCG Ultimate Gamer. It has twelve of the best gamers from all the country competing for the title of the Ultimate gamer, along with $100,00.00, a huge Samsung gamers package, and the opportunity to be the face of the World Championship Series the ultimate in video gaming competitions. The cool thing is each week they have a real life competition where the contestants do something that relates to the game of the week. For instance the first week the game was Rock Band2 so they were divided into three or four different bands and had to learn to play guitar, drums, and learn the vocals of the song “New kid in School” by The Donnas. The best part was the fact that they were going to be judged on how well they did the song by The Donnas. Anyhow after the challenge they go into the isolation chamber which just a white room with a TV and the game in it. After this the worst player in the rankings which are combined between the reel life and the isolation chamber has to go to the elimination round in “Samsung Stadium” and the best player gets to choose who faces them. The looser of the elimination round goes home. Well up until now there was a big rivalry between two of the guys in the house, Jamal and Dante. It all sort of started with Jamal doing some serious trash talking and just escalated from there to the point where Jamal would not stop talking bad about Dante and one week he was put into the elimination round and usually when this happens the some of the people in the loft that they all live in, which is co-ed with five girls and seven guys starting out, actually help out both people but this one time everyone helped out the girl he was competing against. Sadly he won and went on to play another day. Well this week it was Dante in the bottom spot and the person in the top spot chose Jamal to face off against him, since they were all tired of the constant bickering back and forth. Well unfortunately, in my opinion, Jamal won and Dante was eliminated. It just irks me that the biggest jack@$$ of the show is still on the show. Oh well at least the, once again in my opinion, best looking girl on the show, Ciji, is still on the show. I think that it’s starting to be clear to me that the Sci-Fi channel has some of the best reality shows and original shows but that’s for another blog maybe tomorrows maybe not.
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