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http://onemansworld.us

My real name is Parnell, I'm currently in my early 30's. I’m married and trying to survive this confusing existence known as life. If all the site badges I have displayed on my home page are not enough evidence. I'll come right out and admit it. I'm a computer using, Sci-Fi watching, comic collecting, pc/console gaming geek and I’m proud of it!

After moving around the New England area quite a bit in my youth, my wife and I have settled down and a bought our first home in southeastern Massachusetts. If you’re able to afford living here and paying all the extremely high taxes it’s really not a bad place to live. The summers are hot and the winters are very cold, you really have to live here to understand what people mean when they say “That’s New England weather”.

I’ve been thought of by most of my friends as being “the boy scout” or “the goodie two shoes” While I can’t say I’ve ever been a boy scout, this view of me was created because of my nature of having what seemed to be a higher then normal sense of morality. It really reminds me of the whole super hero mythos that I admire and strive to live by. I just lack the super-powers and outrageous costumes.

What I don’t have in superpowers is made up by my ability to be overly honest and opinionated. I tend to openly, freely and at most times boldly speak my mind on a multitude of subjects. While I would never try to force my opinions on anyone like many people do. I just enjoy talking with people and trying to learn how and why other people think the way they do. It is this ability to think, learn and share my thoughts that has made me the “go to guy” whenever my friends have needed advice or a person to talk to because they know I would give a smart, sincere and most importantly an honest response. However my boldness and honesty isn’t always accepted by people who don’t yet know me. Most often people misunderstand my intentions and they feel I come across as being an asshole. While I am human and I have my asshole moments, if people took the time to get to know me they would realize I am one of the good guys!

I enjoy my work. I work for a very large world wide military contract company named Lockheed Martin. This organization is builds everything from small pieces of military equipment to large items such as aircrafts, navel ships, and even building NASA’s space shuttle. My facility up here in New England doesn’t build anything quite that grand. But they do build many interesting things. I work as a “Quality Control Technician Sr” on a production line the builds communication equipment for the naval submarines.

It’s a rough job, not because of the work itself, but more the dealing with the people can be hard at times. Not everyone enjoys being told they have to strip down and rebuild something they just spent hours building because they forgot some small detail like using lock washers, or having soldered a diode in backwards, or even cross-wiring a cable harness. But it’s my job to find those little errors and make sure they are repaired before the equipment is shipped. It’s a great job and I feel a sense of accomplishment when ever I find faults that need to be repaired. I feel finding these faults and helping to raising the quality level of our products means I’ve done my part in helping our troops do their job of keeping the world safe.

So there you have it, I’m a middle-aged married man who lives his life mimicking the morality of super heroes, collects comics books, is fascinated by stories of fantasy and sci-fi, I plays video games, and care deeply for my friends and family and I try to be there for them. I’m a person who works to improve the quality of our world. I strive to understand why other people think and act as they do. I really do have a unique perspective and view of the world around me and I only want to share it. That is the real point of this website. It is here for those who want to take the time to know me. To those that don’t, they can just close their web browsers or move on to something else; I don’t shove my opinions on anyone. I just expect to be able to freely share my though and hear other peoples without useless criticisms.

All super heroes have a motto or creed by which they are known. Superman has his “Liberty, Justice & American way” speech. Spider-man is known for “Power and its Responsibility” If I myself were to have an expression I want shared with the world it would be this: “Intelligence and understanding is rare and should be used to improve our world not destroy it”

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Look Out World.. I'm on another mood Swing!

There are many expressions that stereo type guys and there love of gadgets!

Here are a few,

Boy and their toys!

He who has the most toys wins,

Etc etc…

I typically never saw myself this way till just this week!

I was playing my Xbox 360 on my 40 inch LCD TV when I had a brief moment of clarity. I looked around my house at all that I have and I was amazed! I’m a 33 year old spoiled adult! I have Multiple Desktops, Multiple Laptops, PSP, Play Station 2s, and Multiple MP3 Players, an Ipod, several models of surround sound systems, GPS devices, many movies and games of all types, and those are just the material items. then there are all the nieces and nephews! Oh my god what awesome kids they are! What about my two loving cats and very loyal dog!

Oh, have I mentioned my wife? Not only does she let me buy whatever gadget I want (Can Afford Bills Accounted)… But when I’m interested in something & hesitate to buy it… She buys it for me just to see happy! BTW love you don’t have to do that!

I know you guys have had to read several posts I’ve placed on these blogs by me complaining about this, that, or my difficult childhood, Trust me nothing can take away from the hell I dealt with growing up…I may even post another segment soon, However this is something different, because I just realized that as an adult, In the life I have created with my wife and friends. I am a very lucky and fortunate man!

I have all the toys and gadgets a guy could ask for, a loving wife, a decent job that pays the mortgage on my own home!

I don’t know why it never dawned on me before. I don’t know why I’ve spent the last few years moping around always depressed! Well ok I do, my mother and brothers back to back deaths may be a factor there. But that aside I don’t know why all of a sudden I’ve realized that even with all the tragedies I’ve been threw, I am still truly lucky for all the good things I still have, (see above ie.. Wife, kids, Pets, Home)

There is only one last thing that I need to be truly happy! A child of my own!

And the wife and I are working hard at making that happen before I’m 35

Here’s hoping that 2007 brings each and everyone a fantastic new year with lots love, happiness and let’s not forget more toys and gadgets!

How many other of you relies how lucky we are just to be alive!

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Poker Game A Bomb!

So As i posted in a previous blog. this past saterday I had planned a big poker game..   I invited 5 friends.

2 guys who work at the same place i do who i get along with and joke with daily,

2 guys I met and know from gaming and Lan parties

1 Guy i've know personaly for year.

Weeks pass and i ask the occational "hey guys we all set for saterday" Everything seemed a go till the weekend before.  2 of the co-workers bailed for personal; reasons one had a long distance to drive and didnt want to drink and drive that far...  ok understandable,   The second relised it was his brother birthday and his brother was being taken out to dinner that night by tha fam and he had to go.   ok again understandable

That still leave 4 of us,  we can still play poker with 4..  the fridaynight before  I called people to confirm again..   everyone was a go still.   till 5pm the night of the game..  The game was scheduled for 6pm and at 5p i got several phone calls,  One caller said his mom fell down stairs and neede to go to the hospital went to the hospital. then the guys i've known for years call explaining he was stuck in boston and decided he wasnt going to make and go home instead.     Finaly on guy did show up. but regretably there was no poker game!  

We spent a few hours playing video game on my 360 before he left early because no one else showed up.

just one more reason for me to say... People suck and even when i try and be possitive and make friends it doenst seem to work. Yeah Yeah you happy shinny people will have somthing to say and you can keep your comments..  I realise i should be happy and glad the one guy did show... which i am but that dont change the dissapointment i feel for the other 4 blowing me off..       and even if i wasnt just blown off and people did get hurt stuck in trafic or have other commitments they forgot... its doent change the fact it was disapointing to have a poker night and only 1 guys show up...

 

 

 

 

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My Dog!

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My Fat Cat!

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