In which the author complains about his bowels

2010-02-28T19:47:00.004-05:00

Not that anyone particularly wants to know this, but I've been really gassy the last few nights ever since I essentially O.D.'ed on my Mom's hash browns last night. And it smells. Oh dear lord, the odor!

The only reason I'm posting this is because it makes me laugh. Seriously, what kind of self-respecting blog user would take the time to talk about how poorly their bowels are functioning?

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I ran into a former co-worker earlier today that I hadn't seen in several years. He was riding his bike home from work one night, and basically got rammed by a drunk driver who, if I remember correctly, was peeling out of the McDonald's up at the north end of town. His body got pretty screwed up; pretty much forced him to retire from his position. I won't go into specifics, though, as I don't want to post inaccurate information, not to mention the fact it would be rude of me to do so without his permission first. He wanted to give me his email address, but he couldn't remember what it was, and I was too much into my "Shut up world! I'm trying to work!" mentality to think about giving him mine until after he had disappeared inside the building. I kept an eye on the door to see if I would run into him again as he left, no luck though. Dunno why he was there, but it was cool to see him, anyway.

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I finally got motivated earlier this week and bought Seasons Two and Three of the Dragonball "Blue Brick" DVD sets that had been missing out of my collection. I had been hoping that Wal-Mart would get them in stock, as, up until last fall, they had been getting the DB/DBZ/DBGT brick sets in on a regular basis, and for dirt cheap: something like $30 per set. But I got sick of waiting for a day that seemed less and less likely to come with each passing week, so I caved and went to FYE up at the mall during my lunch break on Friday and bought them "on sale" for $40. More than I wanted to pay, but I sure as hell wasn't going to cough up the $45-50 Best Buy wanted.

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Much of my Internet activity during the last week was dedicated to resolving an issue in my online squadron. Our webmaster, and also one of our leadership members, let's call him Murray, blew a fuse after the head of a fan project he had been collaborating with got into an argument with him, and insulted Murray's wife. In a frustrated act of retaliation, Murray posted on our forums a demand that all members of our squad were to boycott the fan project or face expulsion from the squad. Only problem is, desipte the fact that, as the webmaster, he does have the capacity to ban whoever he likes from the site, or delete the thing entirely; he doesn't have the authority to apply bans without the consent of the leadership team as a whole. Any such decisions are supposed to be brought before the team and carefully examined and voted on.

I, the acting CO of our squad, was rather shocked and cheesed by his audacity and lack of self-control, so I shot some emails off to the rest of our leadership team, and we had a little pow-wow over the last week, examing the situation and deciding how best to proceed. We effectively decided to let him stay on, with the understanding that if he ever tried it again, we'd feed his carcass to our mascot. I wanted to enforce some kind of punishment or restriction, but one of the other leaders pointed out that our only real leverage against the maintainer of the website was to remove him from the squad. Given his past service record, we decided that it wasn't enough to warrant his removal, as during the inquiry process, he had apologized for his actions and removed the offending message board post.

I'm hoping he doesn't run his digital mouth off again, as I'd hate to have to inform the squad that we'd have to start building the website from scratch. Again. It's been hard enough getting it into the sorry state that it's currently in, after our first web guy went on hiatus.

Anyway, that's all for now.

Prrt!

2010-02-21T13:42:00.004-05:00

Well, I didn't exactly lie. It is after Easter! *chortle*

Not much to say today, other than welcome to those of you who were redirected from the old Bravenet hovel. For those that know me and would like to kill some time, I'm logged into Facebook whenever I'm online. Just make sure that I know who you are, first. I'm very selective about acknowledging friend requests.

And with that, I'm off to watch the NASCAR race, and likely take a nap, or play some Pokémon on the side. I've really got to try to wrap my business up in Platinum before HeartGold and SoulSilver hit the shelves on March 14th. So many legendaries to track down, sigh.

Later days.

Under Construction

2009-04-11T20:58:00.000-04:00

Watch this space for new material, coming after Easter!

The Naked Mole Rant

In which the author complains about his bowels

Prrt!

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