October 2006

I picked up a copy of Click last night and it was the first time I had seen it, I gotta tell you, it wasn’t what I was expecting. Don’t get me wrong, it was funny, but it was one of those unexpected tearjerkers that kind of sneak up on you. Those kinds of movies put my manhood to the test, as some would say.

In other news I haven’t heard anything about the job in New York, if I don’t hear anything by the time I wake up, then I’m going to email them. I’m guessing I’ll be waking up kind of late, seeing how I’ll be up until my girlfriend calls me.

Does anyone else like those Mac Vs. PC commercials? I found this site today that makes fun of those commercials. Check them out, they’re pretty funny.

So in light of the new GTA game, comes my thoughts on more thoughts of violence in video games. I love how if something violent happens the video game industry immediately goes under fire. When Colombine happened, Doom was targeted as the reason and parents went after Doom. My question is what about the parents? Why are the parents able to walk away with no responsibility? Or how about the concept of blaming to those who did it, not finding a scapegoat.

I’ve driven down the street, I’ve had the urge to steal a cop car or to shoot the president. Are you to tell me that I could blame it on video games and then all the blame could be taken off me? It is a proven fact that between 1993 and 1996 the sale of violent video games were the highest in history, but the violence that occured in youth was actually down from previous years. How about we blame the images seen on the news and the fact that this world is going to hell due to the fact that people are using far too many scapegoats.

There is a video game holiday coming up in January known as Wintereenmas I encourage everyone who reads this to go out and play a game see if it alters the way you think, act and/or feel.

I took my girlfriend home a few days ago and it’s been strange ever since. I guess I got used to her being here and coming home and having her here and then going out with her at night. She might be back in a few weeks though, maybe after Thanksgiving.

My job interview went alright, I’m still waiting for them to call me up. In the meantime, I will be working at my old job every Wednesday and Saturday and I have a few other ventures up my sleeve to earn some money.

When I got home I discovered my desktop wasn’t working so a quick reformat and that’s fixed. Also months of not having wireless internet on my laptop is now over. It now connects to my wireless network. So I’m actually writing this in my living room talking to my mother who just got home from work, maybe I need to break the wireless again.

Today was my last day at work. This whole week they’ve been sending me home extremely early, today was no exception. I don’t mind though, because my girlfriend is down here this week and everyday I come home, she’s been there. She’s leaving on Monday and I have a job interview on Tuesday up by her. If I get the job then I will be able to move out of my house and have a full time job doing what I love to do, program.

I’ve been having strange dreams as of late. My high school programming teacher passed away a few months ago and I’ve been dreaming I’m sitting down and talking to him, and we talk, but everytime I wake up I can’t remember what he said. If anyone knows what this means, could you please enlighten me?

We were shorthanded on Saturday so guess who had to go on the truck and do deliveries? That’s right. I am happy to announce that I did not break anything, or damage any homes in the process of my deliveries. I just hope that I don’t need to do it again this Saturday because I am going to pick up my girlfriend and thats a long drive, so I’ll be napping on the way up there if I do deliveries, and that’s never a good thing to do when you’re driving.

In other news I am still looking to make some money off this site, not become rich or anything (if it happens, however, I won’t be ungrateful), just enough to break even. The way things are going so far, however, within a few weeks I should be able to do it.

I picked up a copy of X-Men 3 yesterday, mainly because of the emphasis they were putting on the deleted scenes and alternate endings. but they weren’t enough to save the movie. I also watched Fever Pitch and the first season of the Office. See what happens when my girlfriend is away for the day and I am off from work?

I’m really at a loss for words recently. I found out some bad news today, but not really wiling to share it with the world seeing as how it isn’t my bad news to share so I guess until next time this will do.