6/27/07
Hello boys and girls, it's about that time for me to post a new blog entry. Actually that time was probably like 6 months ago, but nevertheless, I had to let the anticipation build and finally when you couldn't take a lack of Brent anymore (1), I rose from the ashes like a phoenix and sprung to life a new blog entry (2). And what better way to write a blog other than on the 27th (3).
So much to talk about, well not really. So I'll just start from a general point and work from there. My summer is going good. It's really weird though because I'm so used to working from like 7AM to like 2PM everyday and falling asleep in my chair sometime before Jon Stewart interviews his nightly guest, to this summer where I'm working from like 4PM to 10:15PM every night, and then not hitting the hay until the next day, usually around 12:27 to 1:00 in the morning. I used to have a lot of time after work to play video games, read comics, and watch movies and TV, that now I spread all of that time into two smaller chunks of time, a bit before work and a bit after. It's kind of nice but it kinda bites. So really, whatever, it doesn't matter so much as I have a pretty good job and it's paying the bills...barely. The worst part is I would average like 40 hours working d/f and have a lot more fun talking with my friends and now I'm working around 30 hours and talking with complete boneheaded customers that I kinda wish would go away. But hey, it could all be worse. (4)
The reason I work less and later is because for the first time in Geidel's Piggly Wiggly history they have their first male cashier, me. And I gotta admit, it's kinda weird, but at the same time, kinda fun too. Normally, I just work the lanes and stuff, but tonight actually was the first time I had to work in the office by myself, and it went really good. I actually really like checking there. But then again, I've pretty much enjoyed every job I've ever done there. That business is great and has treated me right for 7 long years. And while as a cashier, I've made tons of new friends (5), I barely get to see all the people that I used to see in the day time, but it's all good.
Speaking of which (6), I celebrated my birthday about a week and a half ago. And I have to say it was pretty good. Julie came up and visited which made it really really awesome. And she brought me presents which was even better, jk. She bought me Mario Party 8 and The Office Season 2, and also made me the most thoughtful gift I ever received entitled "27 Things I Love About My Brenty Boy" and it was a list of 27 things, well you can figure it out. It was really sweet and was definitely a very unexpected and awesome surprise. And it really made gift giving that much harder for her, because I really need to step up my game at least a little bit. The next day wasn't so great though because after sleeping on the floor(7) and for a while on a hanger(8), I woke up with an awful migraine headache. I laid down on the couch for a while after getting up, but within minutes ran to the bathroom to get rid of the night before's chili cheese dog. I vomited one other time that morning. But felt fine a couple of hours later and bid my wonderful girlfriend a fond farewell for a couple of weeks.
So what else has been happening, well not that much. I, of course, have been playing some Nintendo Wii. I've been playing the aforementioned Mario Party 8 scarcely, mostly because it's more fun to play with other people and I don't have anyone to play it with right now. But later, I will play through it some more and unlock some more goodies. I also got on a hardcore Zelda kick there for a while and made it about halfway through the third dungeon before turning that game off for a brief break. I'm really digging it though, and wish I had more time to play it. Mostly it's not being played because I bought Resident Evil 4 for the Wii and I have to say this game is rocking my socks off. I've run into a few things I don't like about it(9) but it's really a hoot. I have two other Resident Evil games for the PS2 and Gamecube and I suck at them, bad, but this one just feels right, and I'm actually able to shoot and move and play it pretty well.
The big reason my Wii has been a little wiiglected these past two weeks is I've taken up reading. And shockingly enough, I'm not just reading skinny 32 page picture books, but instead 870 page volumes of Harry Potter goodness. That's right I actually read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, my first Harry Potter reading adventure before seeing the movie. One of the reasons, was because I was really disappointed in the storytelling aspect of the 4th movie as I felt a lot of the details that make the Harry Potter universe so great were not explained in the movie. It was really my least favorite of the movies because I felt like it was like the sparknotes version of the books instead of the story brought to you on the big screen. So I'm going into this adventure fully prepared. I've also started reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which I should have finished by the beginning of next week due to my crazy work schedule the rest of this week. And then I will be completely ready to score on the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on July 21 (10), and hopefully get that book read before I see the spoilers for it, which knowing me and my curiosity level, will be extremely hard to avoid.
I haven't completely neglected comics though because I am getting a lot of comic book reading done at Piggly Wiggly, when I'm out working the registers on really boring nights. I started off this summer with over 100 books on my to read pile and have gotten it down to 70 at this point, but with the progress I'm making, by the end of summer I should be totally caught up.
While I've been a reading machine, my movie count has really suffered bad. I'm only at 57 movies for the year. But it's a lot cheaper this way, and I don't really mind not seeing crap like Delta Farce and Norbit, so in reality I can't complain too much.
I also really haven't been watching that much TV, except for of course, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien every weeknight. I've been watching The Loop, it's a pretty decent sitcom, much better then every other sitcom on FOX post-Arrested Development. I watched The Sopranos season finale and I might as well chime in on all the controversy. I thought the ending was really disappointing at first because I at least wanted to see a gun or something go to Tony's head before it faded to black, but overall, I don't mind a semi-cliff hanger of an ending. The thing with shows like The Sopranos, Buffy, Angel, Veronica Mars, etc. is that they create such rich worlds, that the series can never truly end, because you'll always wonder what ends up happening to these characters you grow and love over several years. Every TV series ending is a cliffhanger, whether it's obvious or not. I thought the environment set up in that final few minutes of the Sopranos episode was great though. I was sitting on the edge of my seat and that was truly the most gripping onion ring eating action I've ever witnessed. As my eyes were glued to the screen, and the TV faded to black I immediately thought something went wrong with the signal on my cable or something only to find out that it was how the episode ended. I still really liked it though. And give David Chase credit, because he created an ending that people were talking about for week's later. That's something that is really hard to do. Everybody was talking about it. You don't see many people talking about the ending of Pirates 3 even. Like that kind of publicity is hard to find, especially for a cable TV show, so good for you.
And I don't think this blog would be complete without me talking for a couple of minutes about the Chris Benoit incident (11). Quite frankly, I am shocked an appalled at the events that took place. Being a wrestling fan, especially for the duration that I've enjoyed the sport, brings you a certain closeness with the personas you see on TV. You feel for these people when things happen to them outside of the ring. That's really something hard to find. Because like when baseball players die, there isn't a huge emotional reaction that baseball fans feel. But yet, when a wrestler dies, something that happens far too often, it really gets you from the bottom of your heart. It feels like a relative or someone based away. I don't know if seeing them in the ring on a weekly basis for 10, 15, 20 years does this to you or what. But I was heart broken when I found out Chris Benoit died, because quite frankly that sort of thing shouldn't happen to someone that I admired for his wrestling ability as much as him. But then when I found out that for some reason or another, he murdered his wife and child, it felt like I've been betrayed. I don't know why this happened, but I'm sure there's more then "roid rage" like the stupid f'n media wants you to think. I really wish the media would stay out of it because their speculative talk and antisemitism towards pro wresltling and it's fans is appalling. Granted, sometimes they are correct but mostly they discuss wrestling fans as being a lower breed of people and wrestlers as being non-athletic because wrestling is "fake." It's bullshit, wrestling is way more hardcore on an athlete's body then any of the "real" sports out there. And granted, I hardly watch wrestling anymore, but still keep up semi-regularly on the news, does that make me some kind of imbred idiot or something? Because that's what that dickhead on AM620 sounded like when he was discussing wrestling. And trust me, if/when the details come out, I'm sure it's going to be a lot more complicated then roid rage, like these idiots think it is. Whether it's anti-depressants, or some mixture of medications, or some other weird chemical reaction that occured. There's something not right about why this happened, and hopefully the truth comes out soon.
Of course, there's always more I could type, but I should stop. So yeah, hopefully you enjoyed and if you did post some comments or something because I'm more likely to post more shit if you leave some kind words.
Strassburg out.
Footnotes
(1) Or completely forgotten that he existed.
(2) At this point, it's already clearly too obvious I've read too much Harry Potter this past week.
(3) As you may or may not know, 27 is my favorite number as that being the fact, I always tried to make an extra special blog-a-palooza on the 27th of every month back when I was daily blog entries.
(4) I had to step away from the computer for 7 hours after this paragraph to change into my work clothes and work from 3:00 until 10 something.
(5) Ok, maybe just a couple, but still.
(6) Speaking of which? How is that a speaking of which? *2 bonus points for anyone who gets that* *Anthony excluded*
(7) Julie was sleeping in my extremely small bed.
(8) I still have no idea how I slept several hours on top of a plastic hanger and didn't notice.
(9) Mostly just the lack of ammunition because I wish I could kill more of those stupid ganados, but I spend too much time shooting them and eventually run out of bullets completely.
(10) My second midnight wiilease ever, allthough I really doubt it will top the awesomeness of getting a Wii.
(11) If you don't know what happened Google it.
So much to talk about, well not really. So I'll just start from a general point and work from there. My summer is going good. It's really weird though because I'm so used to working from like 7AM to like 2PM everyday and falling asleep in my chair sometime before Jon Stewart interviews his nightly guest, to this summer where I'm working from like 4PM to 10:15PM every night, and then not hitting the hay until the next day, usually around 12:27 to 1:00 in the morning. I used to have a lot of time after work to play video games, read comics, and watch movies and TV, that now I spread all of that time into two smaller chunks of time, a bit before work and a bit after. It's kind of nice but it kinda bites. So really, whatever, it doesn't matter so much as I have a pretty good job and it's paying the bills...barely. The worst part is I would average like 40 hours working d/f and have a lot more fun talking with my friends and now I'm working around 30 hours and talking with complete boneheaded customers that I kinda wish would go away. But hey, it could all be worse. (4)
The reason I work less and later is because for the first time in Geidel's Piggly Wiggly history they have their first male cashier, me. And I gotta admit, it's kinda weird, but at the same time, kinda fun too. Normally, I just work the lanes and stuff, but tonight actually was the first time I had to work in the office by myself, and it went really good. I actually really like checking there. But then again, I've pretty much enjoyed every job I've ever done there. That business is great and has treated me right for 7 long years. And while as a cashier, I've made tons of new friends (5), I barely get to see all the people that I used to see in the day time, but it's all good.
Speaking of which (6), I celebrated my birthday about a week and a half ago. And I have to say it was pretty good. Julie came up and visited which made it really really awesome. And she brought me presents which was even better, jk. She bought me Mario Party 8 and The Office Season 2, and also made me the most thoughtful gift I ever received entitled "27 Things I Love About My Brenty Boy" and it was a list of 27 things, well you can figure it out. It was really sweet and was definitely a very unexpected and awesome surprise. And it really made gift giving that much harder for her, because I really need to step up my game at least a little bit. The next day wasn't so great though because after sleeping on the floor(7) and for a while on a hanger(8), I woke up with an awful migraine headache. I laid down on the couch for a while after getting up, but within minutes ran to the bathroom to get rid of the night before's chili cheese dog. I vomited one other time that morning. But felt fine a couple of hours later and bid my wonderful girlfriend a fond farewell for a couple of weeks.
So what else has been happening, well not that much. I, of course, have been playing some Nintendo Wii. I've been playing the aforementioned Mario Party 8 scarcely, mostly because it's more fun to play with other people and I don't have anyone to play it with right now. But later, I will play through it some more and unlock some more goodies. I also got on a hardcore Zelda kick there for a while and made it about halfway through the third dungeon before turning that game off for a brief break. I'm really digging it though, and wish I had more time to play it. Mostly it's not being played because I bought Resident Evil 4 for the Wii and I have to say this game is rocking my socks off. I've run into a few things I don't like about it(9) but it's really a hoot. I have two other Resident Evil games for the PS2 and Gamecube and I suck at them, bad, but this one just feels right, and I'm actually able to shoot and move and play it pretty well.
The big reason my Wii has been a little wiiglected these past two weeks is I've taken up reading. And shockingly enough, I'm not just reading skinny 32 page picture books, but instead 870 page volumes of Harry Potter goodness. That's right I actually read Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, my first Harry Potter reading adventure before seeing the movie. One of the reasons, was because I was really disappointed in the storytelling aspect of the 4th movie as I felt a lot of the details that make the Harry Potter universe so great were not explained in the movie. It was really my least favorite of the movies because I felt like it was like the sparknotes version of the books instead of the story brought to you on the big screen. So I'm going into this adventure fully prepared. I've also started reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, which I should have finished by the beginning of next week due to my crazy work schedule the rest of this week. And then I will be completely ready to score on the midnight release of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows on July 21 (10), and hopefully get that book read before I see the spoilers for it, which knowing me and my curiosity level, will be extremely hard to avoid.
I haven't completely neglected comics though because I am getting a lot of comic book reading done at Piggly Wiggly, when I'm out working the registers on really boring nights. I started off this summer with over 100 books on my to read pile and have gotten it down to 70 at this point, but with the progress I'm making, by the end of summer I should be totally caught up.
While I've been a reading machine, my movie count has really suffered bad. I'm only at 57 movies for the year. But it's a lot cheaper this way, and I don't really mind not seeing crap like Delta Farce and Norbit, so in reality I can't complain too much.
I also really haven't been watching that much TV, except for of course, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Late Night with Conan O'Brien every weeknight. I've been watching The Loop, it's a pretty decent sitcom, much better then every other sitcom on FOX post-Arrested Development. I watched The Sopranos season finale and I might as well chime in on all the controversy. I thought the ending was really disappointing at first because I at least wanted to see a gun or something go to Tony's head before it faded to black, but overall, I don't mind a semi-cliff hanger of an ending. The thing with shows like The Sopranos, Buffy, Angel, Veronica Mars, etc. is that they create such rich worlds, that the series can never truly end, because you'll always wonder what ends up happening to these characters you grow and love over several years. Every TV series ending is a cliffhanger, whether it's obvious or not. I thought the environment set up in that final few minutes of the Sopranos episode was great though. I was sitting on the edge of my seat and that was truly the most gripping onion ring eating action I've ever witnessed. As my eyes were glued to the screen, and the TV faded to black I immediately thought something went wrong with the signal on my cable or something only to find out that it was how the episode ended. I still really liked it though. And give David Chase credit, because he created an ending that people were talking about for week's later. That's something that is really hard to do. Everybody was talking about it. You don't see many people talking about the ending of Pirates 3 even. Like that kind of publicity is hard to find, especially for a cable TV show, so good for you.
And I don't think this blog would be complete without me talking for a couple of minutes about the Chris Benoit incident (11). Quite frankly, I am shocked an appalled at the events that took place. Being a wrestling fan, especially for the duration that I've enjoyed the sport, brings you a certain closeness with the personas you see on TV. You feel for these people when things happen to them outside of the ring. That's really something hard to find. Because like when baseball players die, there isn't a huge emotional reaction that baseball fans feel. But yet, when a wrestler dies, something that happens far too often, it really gets you from the bottom of your heart. It feels like a relative or someone based away. I don't know if seeing them in the ring on a weekly basis for 10, 15, 20 years does this to you or what. But I was heart broken when I found out Chris Benoit died, because quite frankly that sort of thing shouldn't happen to someone that I admired for his wrestling ability as much as him. But then when I found out that for some reason or another, he murdered his wife and child, it felt like I've been betrayed. I don't know why this happened, but I'm sure there's more then "roid rage" like the stupid f'n media wants you to think. I really wish the media would stay out of it because their speculative talk and antisemitism towards pro wresltling and it's fans is appalling. Granted, sometimes they are correct but mostly they discuss wrestling fans as being a lower breed of people and wrestlers as being non-athletic because wrestling is "fake." It's bullshit, wrestling is way more hardcore on an athlete's body then any of the "real" sports out there. And granted, I hardly watch wrestling anymore, but still keep up semi-regularly on the news, does that make me some kind of imbred idiot or something? Because that's what that dickhead on AM620 sounded like when he was discussing wrestling. And trust me, if/when the details come out, I'm sure it's going to be a lot more complicated then roid rage, like these idiots think it is. Whether it's anti-depressants, or some mixture of medications, or some other weird chemical reaction that occured. There's something not right about why this happened, and hopefully the truth comes out soon.
Of course, there's always more I could type, but I should stop. So yeah, hopefully you enjoyed and if you did post some comments or something because I'm more likely to post more shit if you leave some kind words.
Strassburg out.
Footnotes
(1) Or completely forgotten that he existed.
(2) At this point, it's already clearly too obvious I've read too much Harry Potter this past week.
(3) As you may or may not know, 27 is my favorite number as that being the fact, I always tried to make an extra special blog-a-palooza on the 27th of every month back when I was daily blog entries.
(4) I had to step away from the computer for 7 hours after this paragraph to change into my work clothes and work from 3:00 until 10 something.
(5) Ok, maybe just a couple, but still.
(6) Speaking of which? How is that a speaking of which? *2 bonus points for anyone who gets that* *Anthony excluded*
(7) Julie was sleeping in my extremely small bed.
(8) I still have no idea how I slept several hours on top of a plastic hanger and didn't notice.
(9) Mostly just the lack of ammunition because I wish I could kill more of those stupid ganados, but I spend too much time shooting them and eventually run out of bullets completely.
(10) My second midnight wiilease ever, allthough I really doubt it will top the awesomeness of getting a Wii.
(11) If you don't know what happened Google it.