Well while thinking of a topic to write about today I realized that many of you have seen and called me by my other online name Romeo without a Juliet. In fact way back at the New Year’s party The Bruised Knight even introduced me as Romeo without a Juliet. So I figured I’d explain how I acquired that name. I’m going to warn you right now though it is a long but interesting story.
It all started way back ten years ago in the year 1999 I was working at McDonald’s and so was this girl named Stacy. Well before long after getting to know her I started developing a crush on her. Well I told a few of my coworkers and for some strange reason my boss Marie. Well on MLK Day that year she came into work and one of the people whom I told, Jeff, was having a conversation with her and Marie the whole time they kept looking back at me from the front counter in front of the bin. Well since I’m a paranoid guy when it comes to that kinda stuff I thought that they said something to her. So after talking it over with my friend Ben I decided that since she already knew I liked her then it wouldn't hurt to ask her out.
So about a week later as I was leaving for work I asked her if I could talk to her, and she asked me to come back later when she was on her break. Well I came back later nervous as hell and she was sitting down in the booth. So I sat down in the other side and stammered out something close to "You probably guessed this was coming since you know I like you so here it goes. Stacy would you like to go out with me?" This came as a big surprise to her since up until that point she did not know that I liked her. I found out this little bit of information from her response. She responded by saying, "Dave, I didn't know you liked me no one told me, but I'm in the middle of trying to get out of a bad relationship and I have to see where I'm going to go from there." Now I don’t know about all of you but to me that sounds like a big maybe. We even sat around and talked for a while after the 500 pound gorilla had left the room.
Well a few weeks later it was the week of Valentine’s Day and she received a carnation from this guy Paul. The next day I talked to Marie about it and she told me that Paul was trying to go out with her as well and that was his way of trying to get with her. Well I for some reason decided that I would play along with this game and decided that anything he could do I could do ten times better. He thought he’d be romantic and gave her a cheap carnation from school. Well I figured I can easily out romance him.
I checked the schedules to see what time she was working on Valentine’s Day and came into the store that day with a dozen red roses, a card with a poem entitled, “Why do I Love You?" in it that I copied by hand from a book, and a stuffed dog holding a heart that read, “ I Wuff You”. Unfortunately Paul was also working at the same time so he was doing everything he could to disrupt the moment including stacking up cups like a pyramid and knocking them down. Well after a while he had the nerve to come up to me and tell me to back off because he was trying to work on her as well and the tension was too much or something like that. Well I said my goodbyes and I left.
A few weeks later even after word had gotten around about what I had done she chose to go out with Paul. Well after hearing that one of my managers came out and said Stacy was stupid for choosing Paul over me, “a regular Romeo”. The funny thing is a week or so later Stacy dumped Paul because “he was a moron”. I must admit this part is true about him. This guy was a manager and when he left one day with the bank deposit he set it on top of his car and drove off leaving it for some little kids to find and thankfully turn in. Stacy and I remained friendly up until I moved away and down to Florida. I must admit though I still carry a torch for her, after all these years.
So anyhow that is how I came up with the nickname Romeo without a Juliet. I’m just a hopeless romantic who I know one day will find his Juliet, but for now I’m not actively looking I have too much going on in my life to worry about that.
Anyhow before I say something I end up regretting later (one of the perils of posting at 1 AM) I’ll present the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. Today’s Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day is: ”Find two ladies who will make you their ‘meat’ in their bump-n-grind ‘sandwich’ out on the dance floor”
That sounds like a lot of fun I could defiantly give that dare a try.
921 words. Sorry it’s so long but like I said an interesting story.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Friday, May 15, 2009
Fears (A Formal Warp Chalenge)
Well tonight I was sitting around trying to come up with a theme for today’s blog. I was going to just pick a random letter of the alphabet put it into a search engine and see what comes up and then just blog about that. Either that or if I had a dream I’d blog about that in the morning, however I was struck or should I say almost bitten by an inspiration. Tonight I was taking out the recycling bins and my dog noticed and proceeded to annoy a wolf spider. I quickly shooed my dog away before he was bitten and tried my best to kill it from behind our screen. Luckily my step father was up and he was brave enough to attack it with and empty bottle of laundry detergent. Anyhow this brings me to the idea I have come up with.
I formally am throwing out a challenge to my fellow competitors what are you fears. Now I’m not talking about small petty fears I’m talking about fears that alter the way you would normally proceed in a situation. I personally can tell you I have two major fears and one half fear.
The first fear and my most noticeable is ophiophobia or a fear of snakes. I’m not sure how this fear got started although where I grew up in Ohio I was surrounded on two side by about an acre or more of woods. In those woods lived a bunch of snakes that just loved coming into our back yard. Granted these were just garter snakes which are harmless however when you are four or five years old seeing one on your stoop as you go outside to play on your swing set can be quite frightening. This fear must have grown throughout the years and just knowing that in Florida there are many poisonous snakes I now run like hell at the mere mention of a snake being around. (Don’t go getting any ideas Bruised Knight.)
The second of these fears is the fear of what people think of me especially in social situations. While growing up I was constantly made fun of for just about everything and now it seems I am always second guessing myself in social situations especially around new people and around cute women. I believe this has been a huge hindrance in my ability to find a woman. My friends keep saying I need to find a Miss Right Now however I can’t even walk up to a cute girl because I’m always afraid I’m going to say something wrong and botch my chance with her, or in the case of FPG them, and this fear is what keeps me so shy. When I first met my now close group of friends I barely said a word to them. This was mainly because I didn’t want to say anything that could harm a potential friendship.
The other fear is more of a half fear than anything; it is a small hint of arachnophobia. My arachnophobia is only in proportion to the size of the spider and the color of the spider. In other words most spiders don’t bother me, however the bigger the spider the more frightened I get the same goes with color, the more colorful the spider the more afraid I am. This is just mainly due to the fact that in Florida there seems to be a lot of poisonous spiders and most of these spiders are big and colorful.
So there you have it my three biggest fears; snakes, what people think of me, and big colorful spiders. Now it’s your turn.
Now for the Random Bachelor Card of the Day: “Ask the bartender to give you gifts from the Three Wise Men: Jack, Jim, and Johnny (Daniels, Beam, and Walker).”
Now that’s a dare I can do easily plus it sounds tasty.
650 Words
I formally am throwing out a challenge to my fellow competitors what are you fears. Now I’m not talking about small petty fears I’m talking about fears that alter the way you would normally proceed in a situation. I personally can tell you I have two major fears and one half fear.
The first fear and my most noticeable is ophiophobia or a fear of snakes. I’m not sure how this fear got started although where I grew up in Ohio I was surrounded on two side by about an acre or more of woods. In those woods lived a bunch of snakes that just loved coming into our back yard. Granted these were just garter snakes which are harmless however when you are four or five years old seeing one on your stoop as you go outside to play on your swing set can be quite frightening. This fear must have grown throughout the years and just knowing that in Florida there are many poisonous snakes I now run like hell at the mere mention of a snake being around. (Don’t go getting any ideas Bruised Knight.)
The second of these fears is the fear of what people think of me especially in social situations. While growing up I was constantly made fun of for just about everything and now it seems I am always second guessing myself in social situations especially around new people and around cute women. I believe this has been a huge hindrance in my ability to find a woman. My friends keep saying I need to find a Miss Right Now however I can’t even walk up to a cute girl because I’m always afraid I’m going to say something wrong and botch my chance with her, or in the case of FPG them, and this fear is what keeps me so shy. When I first met my now close group of friends I barely said a word to them. This was mainly because I didn’t want to say anything that could harm a potential friendship.
The other fear is more of a half fear than anything; it is a small hint of arachnophobia. My arachnophobia is only in proportion to the size of the spider and the color of the spider. In other words most spiders don’t bother me, however the bigger the spider the more frightened I get the same goes with color, the more colorful the spider the more afraid I am. This is just mainly due to the fact that in Florida there seems to be a lot of poisonous spiders and most of these spiders are big and colorful.
So there you have it my three biggest fears; snakes, what people think of me, and big colorful spiders. Now it’s your turn.
Now for the Random Bachelor Card of the Day: “Ask the bartender to give you gifts from the Three Wise Men: Jack, Jim, and Johnny (Daniels, Beam, and Walker).”
Now that’s a dare I can do easily plus it sounds tasty.
650 Words
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Energy
So anyhow it’s that time again, time for me to blog. Unfortunately since I am also having problems with my website I’m sort of doing two things at one time. Right now I figured since I’m sort of stuck until Dreamhost sends me my darn password I’ll start to write about what has been on my mind today.
Ever since coming back from FPG Beltaine I have noticed some things happening both in my life and in the community. First I will start with the good and what’s been happening in my home since I returned from FPG. Before I left I had gotten into a few verbal arguments with my stepfather. The energy in my house was so negative that I hardly wanted to come home. Then when I came back it was like the energy in the house did a complete 180. My stepfather, who just a few months ago said something like I’m going to prey for your soul so that it does not go to hell because you are pagan (Not his exact words but pretty much his meaning.), has been asking me intelligent questions about paganism and even went as far as having me talk to the air conditioner guy. You see the air conditioner guy was wearing a pentacle around his neck and apparently he mentioned to my stepdad that he had no idea where to go around here for pagan events. So my stepfather comes and gets me so that I can help the guy out and tell him about our wonderful community (or at least when it wants to be) and the various events and places to go. I proceeded to tell him about Java and Jam on Tuesday nights, I told him about our website (http://phoenixprojects.org) and told him about the wonderful list of events (that I need to update and add to) that are on the main page, I even pimped out our Midsummer event, and when he asked about a place where he could buy magickal supplies I directed him to Magickal Mayhem in New Port Richey. So needless to say it has been weird here in my home but a good weird.
Now I’ll talk about the bad. The other thing I have noticed since coming back from FPG is all of the negative energy that seems to be floating around the community and growing rapidly. This saddens me because at FPG the vibe and the energy there was mostly good. This is one of the things I am looking forward to at Midsummers, all the good energy. I am seriously hoping that all of the negative energy that has been floating around stops soon because after all the good energy is what makes this community so great. I will admit that I may have stirred up a small portion of it however when I realized this I backed away. I’ve been hearing about too many people having a problem with The Bruised Knight, whom I consider to be a close personal friend that I will stand by, but no one is approaching him about it instead they are running around and telling everyone else. This right here is a major cause of negative energy and I hope that it does stop soon.
Well after much consideration and demand I will bring back the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. However I do not plan on doing it on story days. Anyhow tonight’s card is: “Announce to the bar that your friend is getting married and would like to have one last fling, so you’ll buy a drink for the first woman who gives him a condom.”
Wow that was an interesting card and a fun one as well.
622 words.
Ever since coming back from FPG Beltaine I have noticed some things happening both in my life and in the community. First I will start with the good and what’s been happening in my home since I returned from FPG. Before I left I had gotten into a few verbal arguments with my stepfather. The energy in my house was so negative that I hardly wanted to come home. Then when I came back it was like the energy in the house did a complete 180. My stepfather, who just a few months ago said something like I’m going to prey for your soul so that it does not go to hell because you are pagan (Not his exact words but pretty much his meaning.), has been asking me intelligent questions about paganism and even went as far as having me talk to the air conditioner guy. You see the air conditioner guy was wearing a pentacle around his neck and apparently he mentioned to my stepdad that he had no idea where to go around here for pagan events. So my stepfather comes and gets me so that I can help the guy out and tell him about our wonderful community (or at least when it wants to be) and the various events and places to go. I proceeded to tell him about Java and Jam on Tuesday nights, I told him about our website (http://phoenixprojects.org) and told him about the wonderful list of events (that I need to update and add to) that are on the main page, I even pimped out our Midsummer event, and when he asked about a place where he could buy magickal supplies I directed him to Magickal Mayhem in New Port Richey. So needless to say it has been weird here in my home but a good weird.
Now I’ll talk about the bad. The other thing I have noticed since coming back from FPG is all of the negative energy that seems to be floating around the community and growing rapidly. This saddens me because at FPG the vibe and the energy there was mostly good. This is one of the things I am looking forward to at Midsummers, all the good energy. I am seriously hoping that all of the negative energy that has been floating around stops soon because after all the good energy is what makes this community so great. I will admit that I may have stirred up a small portion of it however when I realized this I backed away. I’ve been hearing about too many people having a problem with The Bruised Knight, whom I consider to be a close personal friend that I will stand by, but no one is approaching him about it instead they are running around and telling everyone else. This right here is a major cause of negative energy and I hope that it does stop soon.
Well after much consideration and demand I will bring back the Random Bachelor Dare Card of the Day. However I do not plan on doing it on story days. Anyhow tonight’s card is: “Announce to the bar that your friend is getting married and would like to have one last fling, so you’ll buy a drink for the first woman who gives him a condom.”
Wow that was an interesting card and a fun one as well.
622 words.
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
The Return of the Dragon Gods (Part 2)
Well I was sitting around trying to come up with a blog for today since I wanted to try to only tell the story one time per week. However the Gods would not have it and the great Apollo has decided to sick one of his muses on me. So for those of you that enjoyed my story you are in for a treat because part two is being told so sit back and enjoy part two of “The Return of the Dragon Gods.”
The evil half dragon wizard Zanroar walked up to the priests of Falzure.
“So do you have the rod?” he asked.
“Yes we do. However are you sure you can get the other rod, and what about this second magic user you need according to the prophecy.” The high priest said while carefully holding a rod made of pure onyx etched with runes and topped with a skull of a kobold, The Rod of Falzure.
“Of course, I have everything working out to perfections. Soon the true Gods will be upon us and we will be rewarded greatly for our loyalty.”Zanroar snapped. He swiped the rod from the priest almost scratching him with his claws in the process. “Now if you excuse me I have some business to take care of.” He continued.
Hours later Zanroar is in the sewers of Bailey’s Point discussing his plans to his minion explaining what is needed of him. After a few days of monsters escaping the sewers a team of adventurers come in and destroy the monsters and steal the Rod of Falzure. When Zanroar returned and learned of this great incompetence he killed his minion. Zanroar contacted a doppelganger to get the rod back.
The doppelganger stalked the party of adventurers for miles sizing them up. When the party reached the city of Firechester he mingled with the crowds that were enamored with the party’s newest member. After studying them for a few days he formulated a plan. He went to the upper class side of town and informed the owner of The Dirty Wish Inn of the great bard singing on the poor side of the city. When the adventurers came to the Dirty Wish Inn they each went to their rooms.
When the half-elf druid got to his room he was ambushed. The doppelganger attacked the druid with a dagger. The dagger hit the druid’s armor and missed. The druid unaware of the attack until it was too late drew his sword and attacked the doppelganger. The doppelganger dodged the attack with the sword and slashed the throat of the druid. Not wanting to make a scene by carrying out the corpse of the druid he threw it in the corner. Now the doppelganger was ready to infiltrate the party and take the Rod of Falzure and return it to Zanroar.
This is the end of part two. Hopefully I will be able to wait until next week before writing part three.
The evil half dragon wizard Zanroar walked up to the priests of Falzure.
“So do you have the rod?” he asked.
“Yes we do. However are you sure you can get the other rod, and what about this second magic user you need according to the prophecy.” The high priest said while carefully holding a rod made of pure onyx etched with runes and topped with a skull of a kobold, The Rod of Falzure.
“Of course, I have everything working out to perfections. Soon the true Gods will be upon us and we will be rewarded greatly for our loyalty.”Zanroar snapped. He swiped the rod from the priest almost scratching him with his claws in the process. “Now if you excuse me I have some business to take care of.” He continued.
Hours later Zanroar is in the sewers of Bailey’s Point discussing his plans to his minion explaining what is needed of him. After a few days of monsters escaping the sewers a team of adventurers come in and destroy the monsters and steal the Rod of Falzure. When Zanroar returned and learned of this great incompetence he killed his minion. Zanroar contacted a doppelganger to get the rod back.
The doppelganger stalked the party of adventurers for miles sizing them up. When the party reached the city of Firechester he mingled with the crowds that were enamored with the party’s newest member. After studying them for a few days he formulated a plan. He went to the upper class side of town and informed the owner of The Dirty Wish Inn of the great bard singing on the poor side of the city. When the adventurers came to the Dirty Wish Inn they each went to their rooms.
When the half-elf druid got to his room he was ambushed. The doppelganger attacked the druid with a dagger. The dagger hit the druid’s armor and missed. The druid unaware of the attack until it was too late drew his sword and attacked the doppelganger. The doppelganger dodged the attack with the sword and slashed the throat of the druid. Not wanting to make a scene by carrying out the corpse of the druid he threw it in the corner. Now the doppelganger was ready to infiltrate the party and take the Rod of Falzure and return it to Zanroar.
This is the end of part two. Hopefully I will be able to wait until next week before writing part three.
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
The Return of the Dragon Gods (Part 1)
Last night I mentioned that I was going to try to tell part of a story once a week that takes place in and is mostly a back story and a companion story almost to my Dungeons and Dragons campaign that I have been running for a while now. So without further ado I bring you “The Return of the Dragon Gods”
The story begins in the year 613. For many centuries the Gods of the humanoids and the Gods of the dragons coexisted on the same plane of existence. However the three evil dragon Gods; Falzure, Garyx, and Tiamat grew bored of the humanoids and believed they were better than the Gods followed by the squishy humanoids, and proceeded to teach the Humanoid Gods that the Dragon Gods were more powerful. On many occasions Falzure would take the slaughtered sacrifices to Erythnul and drain them of their energy making them undead before they were slaughtered. Garyx burned a forest with many temples to the Gods down to ash and sand creating a desert leaving only a temple to him made of onyx. Tiamat would have her green and blue dragons destroy any temples not belonging to a draconic deity.
After decades of these tortures the Gods made a unanimous decision to banish the Dragon Gods. The Gods combined their magic and sealed off each of the three Dragon Gods in their home planes all to be guarded by Bahamut. However the evil three became aware of this and instituted a backup plan of sorts.
On the eve of the 3000th Atheirdarastrix celebration in the city of fire during the dark of the moon, the seals can be broken. However this can only be accomplished by two magic users of great power, each holding one of the two rods made by the Gods themselves, one being the rod of Falzure a powerful rod that can turn the living into undead made with the skull of a kobold and pure onyx and the other rod so powerful it’s effects are random but wondrous and chaotic.
So far only one of the rods has been recorded to be found. This rod was place in the powerful trustworthy hands of the Moonshadow family. The rod of Falzure has not been found at the time of this writing but it has been rumored that it was given to a clan of creatures to be kept safe.
Well I hope that you have enjoyed this first part of the story. As with most stories it is best to begin with a legend. Next story you will meet some of our main characters, but you will just have to wait until next week for the next installment of “The Return of the Dragon Gods”.
The story begins in the year 613. For many centuries the Gods of the humanoids and the Gods of the dragons coexisted on the same plane of existence. However the three evil dragon Gods; Falzure, Garyx, and Tiamat grew bored of the humanoids and believed they were better than the Gods followed by the squishy humanoids, and proceeded to teach the Humanoid Gods that the Dragon Gods were more powerful. On many occasions Falzure would take the slaughtered sacrifices to Erythnul and drain them of their energy making them undead before they were slaughtered. Garyx burned a forest with many temples to the Gods down to ash and sand creating a desert leaving only a temple to him made of onyx. Tiamat would have her green and blue dragons destroy any temples not belonging to a draconic deity.
After decades of these tortures the Gods made a unanimous decision to banish the Dragon Gods. The Gods combined their magic and sealed off each of the three Dragon Gods in their home planes all to be guarded by Bahamut. However the evil three became aware of this and instituted a backup plan of sorts.
On the eve of the 3000th Atheirdarastrix celebration in the city of fire during the dark of the moon, the seals can be broken. However this can only be accomplished by two magic users of great power, each holding one of the two rods made by the Gods themselves, one being the rod of Falzure a powerful rod that can turn the living into undead made with the skull of a kobold and pure onyx and the other rod so powerful it’s effects are random but wondrous and chaotic.
So far only one of the rods has been recorded to be found. This rod was place in the powerful trustworthy hands of the Moonshadow family. The rod of Falzure has not been found at the time of this writing but it has been rumored that it was given to a clan of creatures to be kept safe.
Well I hope that you have enjoyed this first part of the story. As with most stories it is best to begin with a legend. Next story you will meet some of our main characters, but you will just have to wait until next week for the next installment of “The Return of the Dragon Gods”.
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