The Cooler

For the last couple of years I have been putting 20 dollars in the lottery machine Once a week just for fun. I have justified my habit by actually winning $2000 almost 2 years ago and I, until recently, would mostly win a majority of my money back. For the last month and a half I have not been so lucky. Enough losses have occurred that I decided to give myself an ultimatum at the beginning of May. If I didn't at least win my money back (Which would be $20) on one of my weekly lottery binges by the end of May I would have to give it up. 5 weeks later and I have to tell you I have only won $5. The entire month of May and half of April. That's it. Only $5. You would think I would have won more than that. Somehow I have beat the odds of losing. It's no longer fun. I guess I'll just do it every once in a while if at all. It definitely won't be every week. With luck like this I probably should never go to Vegas. But that's alright. They got rid of the Star Trek themed Hotel anyway.

Card Revoked

It's happened. I can't say I am too surprised of the outcome either. My gamer card has to have been revoked by now or at least suspended. I couldn't tell you the last time I played a video game. It has to have been at least 6 months ago. Ok, I know that with today's technology I could easily look on my PS3 to see when I last played something, but the PS3 is way over there and I'm over here. I still use my PS3 everyday. I use it for Netflix, hulu, vudu, Amazon and I download things from the PlayStation Network. Which reminds me, I have all of season 3 of the Tester waiting for me on the hard drive. Before you start thinking "oh, he just outgrew them" I have to tell you I still love video games. I just have to have enough time to actually sit and play a game with enough time to do it right. Those kind of days and nights are very few and far between. I never beat Red Dead Redemption like I wanted to. I'm still on Metal Gear Solid 4. And I don't want to start another game until I finish this one. That is the one game I bought the PS3 for in the first place. The MGS series is probably my favorite video game series of all time. I also have 3 unopened games sitting on my shelf. One is a James Bond one that I've been wanting to play but I'm waiting until I finish MGS4. The other two were freebies that came with the system. I even have L.A. Noire on the hard drive that I bought in Dec during a sale that is still waiting for me to open it up and solve some murders. I just don't have as much time as I want to to play these games. I believe a few of the major culprits are work, facebook and going out to karaoke. Perhaps if I cut back on all of these things I can find time to spend with my beloved games. I may play some tomorrow if I can make the time.

3 years later. . . .

Welcome to what may very well be something I stop doing again for another three years. I've been meaning to get back to this blogging thing for some time now. A few months ago I was even toying with the idea of making this strictly a comic book movie review blog. Those plans obviously fell through. While looking back at previous blogs over the week I have become a bit more familiar with who I was 3 years ago. 3 years can change someone. I am still mostly the same person but I can tell there were a few changes that are hopefully for the better. Since I did not blog I can't map my progress or my non-progress. Anyway keep an eye on this blog for more posts. I may even post the blog I intended to post when I started writing this one.

Where the Weird Wild Dreams Are.

Man I don't know what I ate to make me have such a random dream but oh well. From what I remember I was on a trip in a city somewhere and I somehow got lost in the city and stopped in what I thought was a pub. While inside I sat down and realized it was a teacher lecturing and I looked around and saw the preppy kids in their school uniforms. I told them I had to go. I somehow later found myself driving around campus and somehow Jon and Drew of Beerland karaoke were in my car long enough to hear me say the words to some skater kids "I love your music but hate your lifestyle" or something to that effect. I was then in some sort of outdoor mall type place where I met up with my dad and my brother. I spotted a lady putting her one legged mother in the back seat of a car. After leaving the store I notice the same car driving up beside me on the road but it's separated into two parts that are held together by the passengers in the back seat. I find it odd so I turn around and find another broken apart car only to find my dad ride what was left of the wheels up and down the sidewalk like a bob sled. Then randomly saw Madeleine Zima of Californication fame run up the street while putting on a sweater before I talked to her and told her that even though I know her name I will always be tempted to call her Mia. And she answered 'I hope not'. So I came up with a compromise of calling her Mia Madeleine. She agreed and told me about her friends going to see some band tonight. At this point I forced myself to wake up so I could write the contents of this weird dream. It was right out of a Michel Gondry film.

Time

I recently came to the realization that I live in the past and the future at the same time. I never want much to do with the 'now'. I've been wanting to start exercising again for a while now but I haven't been making the time for it. It's the same problem I have with many of the things I want to do in life. I either put it off, or don't think about it until I can't do anything about it at that time, or I get a bit mad at myself for not already having it done. With me it's always either "I wish I did that earlier." or "I'll do it tomorrow." Perhaps it is time I Carped the Diem. I'll get around to it eventually. How does tomorrow sound?

12 Year Old Me is Gonna Be Pissed

Lately I've been thinking a lot about what I am doing with my life and where I thought I would be at this time. Maybe it's my lack of any present artistic endeavors, maybe it's because I've been watching too many episodes of How I Met Your Mother and Californication, or it could just be my allergies but sometimes I think the 12 year old me would be a bit displeased with himself. I'm not yet the scientist, police officer, lawyer or actor that I wanted to be when I grew up. But then again 12 year old me also still believed in Santa Claus. It seems that from a young age I was ear raped by the school system into thinking that continuing my education would reap nothing but monetary rewards. "Only the uneducated get stuck with the jobs no one wants to do." As I have gotten older I've noticed that is not always the case. Sometimes I'm glad that I didn't go down that path of higher education so that I would live out my days in retail paying back student loans I still couldn't afford while dusting off a degree that's not worth the paper it's printed on. Other times I think about what would be different about me if I did further my education by attending College. Would I have settled on a degree that would be useful and is actually hiring right now? Would I be dating some sexy co-ed I once met at a keg party? Would I be some kind of a douche? And how would this affect my interest rate? You know what I think it may just be the allergies.

How I Met How I Met Your Mother

My first experience with How I Met Your Mother (from now on HIMYM) came about by a Myspace post from my friend Andrea about 3 years ago. Other than gushing about Jason Segel she showed a clip about how the character Robin was once a pop singer in Canada. That scene alone should have been enough to make me take notice. Indeed I did but alas I always feel as if I have to start a show from the beginning in order to enjoy it so I let it go for the time being. Days, weeks, and months go by and I get Bobb X and my roommate Chelley try to convince me that I would enjoy the heck out of this show. I still do not watch for whatever reason. Finally in 2009 I willingly let my friend Kelly force me into watching the show. From one episode I wanted more. If you don't know, the show is about the future version of the main character Ted recounting the days when he was living in NYC and hanging out with all of his best friends and how he eventually will meet his wife. I found all of the episodes through different online means that I won't go through in this blog. I was able to start from the beginning about a month ago and I am now halfway through season 4 and loving it. It's refreshing that there is a sitcom filmed before a live studio audience that I can watch without cringing. So here's to Ted and the gang and here's hoping Neil Patrick Harris gets the Emmy he so deserves for season 4.