8 Years Ago Today...

... I married this beautiful young lady:

Heres to 8 wonderful years and many more... And here is to the people that said we wouldn't make it past 6 months

I love you hon ;)

Love, your 'P'

Quest Complete!

Like scrounging through a dungeon for that last bit of armor to complete the final set, I have done it... I have completed my 360 media experience by throwing out the old 20" CRT and getting a 19" widescreen LCD montior. If I knew just how much I was missing by playing on that old CRT I would have bitten the bullet alooooonnnngggg time ago and sank the clams to get the LCD.

RainbowSix is a whole 'nother experience now. I can read peoples names in the lobby and I thought the 'Ready' symbol was just a white ball but its really a R6 guy wearing shades... Shadowrun is awesome on it. I thought the sniper rifle just gave you a dot for the reticule, but its actually a small circle which would explain why I was missing so many headshots on the old CRT.

Its just amazing how much detail I was missing out on, I might as well been playing a N64 this whole time I had a 360... I haven't even tried GoW on it yet. Thats going to be awesome!

Best thing yet, I CAN READ ALL THE TINY LETTERING IN THE DASHBOARD ADS!!!

Clantacular! Or is it Overclan now??? :-/

Beta has been long gone, but it will hold a special place in all our hearts....

or whatever...

Anyways, fellow VF'er: x 77 x, took the time to download, cap, and edit the H3 Beta experience had by most members of Vexire Fortes that played the beta.

Its got a lot of everything: crazy kills, bloopers, comic relief. Its a little large (195MB) but worth it if you got the time

Link to recruiting... errr... 'clan-tage' vid!

Thanks!

Replacement Therapy

Uggg.... I just quit smoking for the 7th life time total two weeks ago yesterday. Cold turkey, which in and of itself is no big deal for me, however this time I want it to be the last attempt at staying smoke free. So I replaced nicotine with caffine. Uggg....

Now I can't stop drinking coffee. Guess what I was doing last night at 10:30? Drinking coffee. Guess what time I feel asleep? 2am. Guess what time I woke up to go to work? 4:30am. Guess who decided to take a sick day?

Now I need to replace caffine with something else in the meantime, just long enough to disconnect caffine and nicotine. I will never quit the caffine altogether. Coffee is the nectar of the gods. But what do I replace it with? Sex? Bwahahahahahahahahahahhaahahaha!!!! Thats not happening. Food? I eat all the time anyways. Gambling? Don't have the cash, but then again what hardcore gambling addict has cash (I like my fingers too much!)? Can't be XBOX, because I connect XBOX with coffee. Damn!

Guess I'm stuck with coffee. I'll catch up on sleep when I'm dead....

Oh and Shadowrun rocks!!!

Ummmm.... Freedom of Speech?

OK, I heard this news bit this morning before taking off for work and I thought it was absolutly absurd. Some 16 year-old girl was upset with the repeated scheduling 'snags' for some school event. She then did what most people this day and age do when something pisses them off and they feel the need to vent: she bloged her rage. With in that blog she calls an unnamed school official a "douche-bag" (ala Profanity nonetheless). So somehow the Principal sees the blog, bans her from running for class secretary next year (a position she has held for her entire time in High School), 'asks' her to tell her mom about the comment and to apologize to 'unnamed official'.

It's not stated wether or not she used the officials name in the blog, but thats not the point, (there's not much difference in 'Principal Skinner is a dick' and 'my Principal is a dick'. It just takes a little more work to figure out who the principal is) the point is that she has every right to say what ever she wants in her PERSONAL blog. It's not like this was an unmerrited attack either, the teen had reason to call 'unnamed official' a douche-bag.

Also, what I'm wondering is how school officials got wind of this blog. I know most of internet is public domain (barring password protected sites and yada yada) but either they got tipped off or some official is a little pervy and snooping on students.

So the girl buckles, appologizes, and takes down the blog post. She had this to say, "It was an unsavory term and I shouldn't have said it. It was a rude comment. It was written thinking that it would be private and it didn't occur to me that it's on the Internet, it's public..." Well no shit the internet is public! She also said, "I mean I've really learned my lesson. You can't present yourself in that way..."

Big mistake, never apologize for anything like that! If she would have stood up for her first amendment right and not admit fault or wrong doing, she might have a leg to stand on when I comes to running for secretary again. Since she took the bullet (probally thinking that if she did they would reconsider the punishment) she is screwed because for most officials there is no grey area in between right and wrong.

Seriously, grow some skin. Its a teen being upset over something petty, thats nothing new. Feel privledged that she only called you a douche-bag! There is a lot worse trash a teen can call some one!

Bah, maybe I'm looking too hard into this, but if it was my daughter I would tell her to keep it up and don't apologize because you have the right to speak your mind in your own blog even if the public can read it. Douche-bags!

Full Story at NBC 30 CT