I hate GG's

Some Things I Hate

2008-11-19T20:51:00.001-08:00

I am generally a pretty happy person. Despite the title of my blog, I tend to follow the principle of live and let live. However, there are a few things that irritate the ever-loving shit out of me.

1. People who name their children after a real word but spell it wrong. I can't tell you how many times I have seen the name Chasity and wanted to claw somebody's eyes out.

2. People who think that Joss Whedon is the single greatest television writer ever. Every vampire story is a rip-off of Buffy or Angel, even if they were made ten or more years before Buffy was created. Every story about people travelling around in a spaceship is derivative of Firefly, yes, even Star Trek. Look, he's good, the original Buffy movie is one of my all-time favorite films and there are some really good episodes of his TV shows. That's no reason to start a cult.

3. Reality show contestants who act like total bitches and later cry that they were edited bad. Honey, if the editors didn't have so many moments of you being an irredeemable whore, you wouldn't have been edited to look like one.

4. Sore losers, aka republicans posting on the internet. Please go back to jacking off to pictures of your goddess Ann Coulter. And also, please go back to school and learn what communism is, what socialism is, and how they apply to the real world.

5. World of Warcraft.

6. That godawful Beyonce song, "If I Were a Boy". It's a sexist piece of crap. If I were a boy, I'd change the channel on the radio every time this song came on… oh wait, I already do that. Then, if I were a boy I guess I would play with myself for a few days and then go hang out in the men's locker room.

7. Research papers. Why do I need to write research papers for programming classes? We don't use MLA format in C++.

8. Nerds who vlog on YouTube about any of the following topics for five minutes or more: Anime, other YouTube members, Insane Clown Posse, Asperger's and how it causes them to be unable to do anything remotely meaningful with their lives, sex (which they are obviously not having), race, conspiracy crap (all that 9/11 stuff, the Obama secret Muslim crap, tin foil hats, etc.). And on a related note…

9. People who post videos about their stupid fetishes. Look, there is nothing wrong with having a fetish, it's perfectly fine if you want to suck on a woman's toes or wear diapers or whatever. It is not okay to share this with the world at large. This is something that should be shared with a significant other or discussed with likeminded individuals. If you want to put yourself in a giant balloon and get your rocks off, ok, that's cool, just don't film it and put it up on YouTube. I mean really, it's just stupid.

Thank you SomethingAwful.com for finding this little gem of a video.

Keith Says it Better Than I Can

2008-11-11T18:28:00.000-08:00

Test Blog Post

2008-08-26T17:02:00.001-07:00

HA! You thought I was going to say something for real.

The Midterms Are Over

2006-11-08T10:58:00.000-08:00

It is with great relief that we put the midterm elections behind us. I'm thankful that I will no longer be subjected to "So and so is a dirty liberal and a tax dodger" and "So and so is an even bigger, dirtier liberal and he's the real tax dodger." The ads have been ugly and the issues heated.

In the good news, the democrats have taken a majority of the wins for senate and house races. In the bad news, 7 out of 8 states have banned gay marriage. Arizona was the sole dissenter, rejecting a proposed gay marriage bill 66% to 34%. The gap was narrowed in a few states so there are signs of progress, as long as you don't look at Tennessee.... let's look at Tennessee...

81% for the ban
19% against

South Carolina wasn't far behind their redneck cousins passing their bill with a 78% majority. The other offenders on the list with results are as follows:

State: For: Against:
Colorado 53% 47%
Idaho 63% 37%
South Dakota 52% 48%
Virginia 57% 43%
Wisconsin 59% 41%

Think you're safe if you're straight? The Virginia ban will also affect the rights of heterosexual couples who are unmarried, removing such things like the classification of domestic violence. Girlfriend beaters rejoice!

Well, I know where not to spend my vacation time now....

But in world shattering other news....

It was recently released that Britney Spears is fililng for divorce from notorious rapper K-fed. How did the soon to be ex find out about the divorce? A text message from the oh so couth wife while he was in the middle of a television interview piece. Ah such class the wealthy display...

sorry Pete

Looking for Allah at Wal Mart

2006-09-19T19:32:00.000-07:00

I've been thinking about religion lately. I think it stems from the recent to do about the pope. If you don't follow the news, in some speech the pope was delivering, he quoted a historical text that criticizes Islam for spreading its faith by the sword. The Muslim world was outraged. "How dare the pope say we're a violent religion." The natural response was of course riots and the murder of an elderly nun. Yep, that's a peaceful religion for you.

Of course Christianity is no better in that respect *cough* inquisition *cough*. I have no particular fondness for the Catholic church. I feel it's a branch of the Christian family much in need of some updates and modernizing, much like their distant though equally intolerant cousins the Southern Baptists. On this particular occasion though, I think I have to side with the pope. While I'm generally considered a liberal on the political scale, I'm not going to become an apologist for religious fanatics. From the behavior of the adherents to Islam, I would think that medieval text citing them as violent is pretty accurate. Of course, I would still say the exact same thing about Christianity.

But, oh, Christianity preaches tolerance and love and forgiveness and puppies and rainbows.

I've read up on Christianity, belonged to both above mentioned branches of the church even so I have some familiarity with the beliefs. I'm not so familiar with Islam. As a pseudo-intellectual I felt pained at the obvious gap in my knowledge and immediately resolved to rectify it. Whenever I am faced with a crisis of knowledge I first turn to the internet, the most infallible source of information known to man. Knowing there was too much out there to filter through before I hit menopause I decided to go back to the ancient method of reading a book.

The best way to read about a religion is to read the text the religion is based on. For Islam, it is the Koran, or Quran or Qur'an. Like any red-blooded American, I went to that pinnacle of capitalism: Wal-Mart. Living in the south, I should have known what I would find there. Nestled snugly behind the cigarette aisle is the spiritual section of books. Bibles of every shape, size and color, Bible study guides and various chicken soup for the soul conceives and maybe the latest Left Behind novel lined the short shelves. There was no sign of the Koran, or for that matter any non-Christian religious book. Giving Wally World the benefit of the doubt I went to the main book area to continue the search. I found plenty of sudoku, teen angst, and romance novels, but no Koran. Saddened, I left the store with only cat food.

Outside, in the parking lot was a white van that had been painted over with various religious phrases, mostly invectives against the gays, the KKK, the sinners and for some reason the reverend T.D. Jakes who would all burn in hell. The van was covered with this on all sides. Standing around the van was a trio of children waiting for their parents (the van owners) to come out of the store. The children looked like they were between seven and twelve years old. The children were shouting at all passers-by. This is what they were shouting at strangers they had never met:

"God hates you!"

Over and over again, God hates you.

Tolerance, love, forgiveness, puppies and rainbows.

Gone Hollywood.....

2006-01-12T14:03:00.000-08:00

Yes, I know, no updates in a while. Pete has been spamming me with Britney Spears news as a reminder to post. I've been enjoying EQ II as well as The Movies game. I've been doing a lot of voice acting work and I'm also starting to make my own films. Hit the link over on the right that says Wicked Moon Films to see what I'm up to there.

Other than that, I'm busy plotting for Phred's birthday...more to come.

News Opinion Roundup

2005-08-28T10:15:00.000-07:00

Just wanted to comment on some recent news articles I've seen while perusing the news sites:

1. Steroids - If you are a professional athlete and you do not want to test positive for steroids, here's a helpful hint: Don't take health supplements. Did you make it? no. Do you know exactly what's in it? no. Can you be a good athlete without drugs? it's been done for a very long time before you came along buddy.

2. Cindy Sheehan - I respect that you are grieving for your son, but I have to ask two questions. Why did you not say all these things when Bush did meet with you? Where was your anti-war protest before your son died. This demonstrates all that is wrong with Americans today. I don't care until it affects me...mememememe. Let's all of us take a minute out of our busy lives and just think about somebody else. It does wonders for the soul.

3. Famous evangelists calling for the U.S. to assassinate other world leaders. Now that you've backpedaled and said you were taken out of context, just think about the New Testament. Would Jesus assassinate somebody?

4. Japan/China relations - There is increasing anti-Japan sentiment in China. Restaurants refusing to serve Japanese customers unless they apologize for atrocities commited in WWII, complaints about Japanese textbooks downplaying these atrocities. Yeah, China probably got it pretty bad, but you know what? Hiroshima and Nagasaki weren't in China so they can shut the hell up already. Before you start throwing stones at Japan for what they did 60 years ago, how about let's talk about your human rights policies.

5. Britney Spears talk of retirement once baby is born - Please please please, if only you'd thought of it sooner.

6. Evolution/Intelligent Design debate in Kansas - This debate has taken a strange and interesting turn, and I like it. For details and my opinion on the whole thing, you dear reader have a homework assignment. Open your favorite search engine and put in: Flying Spaghetti Monster. Trust me on this one.

Blog task from Phred

2005-08-28T10:07:00.000-07:00

Having been tagged by Phred for this one,

List 3 things that bug you - things that others may find trivial. Then tag 5 of your friends to do the same:

1. People who go to a public restroom, do their business and then go through the following ritual: a. Go to paper towel dispenser and feed out a length of paper towel, then leave it hanging. b. Wash hands. c. dry hands with the lenght they let out, then use the towel to turn off the water. Bonus irritation points for the people who then use the towel to open that oh so dirty bathroom door. Being germ conscious is one thing, but this borders on obsessive compulsive.

2. Coupon clippers in the quickie lines. One or two coupons is fine, we all like to save money, but when it takes more time to recalculate the coupons than it took to ring up the groceries, use another line for people who have the time to wait.

3. Bling It On. Thankfully, I have not seen this infomercial in some time and that's a good thing. To see a middle aged white woman gushing about her bling just makes my heart sad.

I don't have five bloggers who haven't already been tagged for this so if you are a stranger browsing, please feel free to perpetuate this madness :-).

Business Trip of Doom!

2005-05-25T19:53:00.000-07:00

I felt so professional! My suits were packed my spiffy ionic blowdryer was packed, and I was ready to be Ms. Business Professional. I was selected to spend a week in Huntsville helping a sister branch of our company launch our program. Having had my vacation postponed about six times in the last six months, I was ready for a getaway. Here's the story....

The rental car was awesome, it was comfortable, had great gas mileage and also had sattelite radio. I had a travelling partner, former boss now peer Gary. The drive was great except that I missed Desperate Housewives (thankfully not the season finale). It was upon our arrival at the hotel that the horror started...

We enter the lobby past the door with the "Pardon Our Progress" sign, that's when I knew there was going to be trouble. We enter the lobby where the bored desk attendant is playing on the computer. She comes to the counter to check us in and then proceeds to ask us for our credit card for payment. My jaw drops and I am struck speechless. Gary fortunately is a seasoned traveller and manages to stutter out...."payment?"

We stare blankly at the woman for a span of minutes when Gary gets up the gumption to speak again.

Gary: Our company is paying for the hotel, it's direct billed.

Clerk: It doesn't say that here.

Gary: There's a mistake, let me call the travel office...(Gary goes to phone)

Myshe: (whines) They only gave us $300!

Gary gets a hold of the travel office who call the hotel to confirm. I hear the clerk telling the people who have Gary on hold that no payment arrangements were made. Gary pays more attention to the conversation. I'm trying to plan how we're both going to sleep in the rental car (which was paid for by the company) and no one think anything funny went on. I debate an all night drive back home, when Gary pulls out his credit card.

Gary: (cautiously) You won't charge anything to this card until I can get this taken care of in the morning?

Clerk: No, I'm just taking an impression to have on file in case you don't get it straightened out.

Gary: (nervously to Myshe) I can't afford two hotel rooms for a week.

Myshe: (whining) They only gave us $300!

We are given our keycards and instructed to go around to the back door to get to our rooms. We drive around back, pull out our bags and pop our newly issued keycards into the slot. The door resoundingly fails to open. We try this several times, getting more irritated by the minute. We go around to the side door and try it. We are met with the same lack of success. Gary goes back to the clerk and gets new keycards. Back door....nada. The side door works after a couple tries and we head on up to our rooms.

Unpacking, I decide to do what I had been waiting for throughout the planning stages of the trip and the drive up here....hit the hot tub. I needed a good stretch of the legs first so I navigated around the construction to the workout room and inserted my keycard. A pull on the door indicates that I'm not working out tonight. Defeated yet again, I go to the hot tub. It is not locked..yay! I turn the knob to start the whirlpool and read the notice that says to wait 2 minutes for the jets to start. Shrugging the notice off, I slide into the refreshingly hot water. I soak for a bit, keeping an eye on the clock for those two minutes and the magic jets of stress melting to start. After about 10 minutes of clock watching, I hear a noise. It's the sputter of one water jet starting. I slide to the happy jet and lean my back up against it to feel it's power. I push up a little closer to feel it and realize that my back is completely against both wall and jet and I still don't feel anything jetlike. I put my hand to the jet and feel a slight push of water.

After prodding at the one active jet for five minutes or so I hear another one start. I rush to that jet, ready for my lower back massage. Alas, it is not to be as this one is as bad as the other one. Defeated, yes....again. I return to my room and watch cartoons to make the pain go away.

The next day, I slip into my suit, ready to try again. Still no access to the workout room and an inner fear of losing my $300.00 to the desk clerk keeps me from asking what the deal is with the workout room. I settle on the hot tub when I am balked by a single sheet of paper hanging on the door. "Out of Order" Well damn, I could have told them that last night, but now, they can't even let me soak! Without jets!

It's as I slump back to my room, head down that I notice the source of all my hotel woes....there, in the design of the new carpet that is being laid throughout the hotel....uzumaki. That's when I knew this hotel was cursed.

Here is an update, now stop bugging me

2005-05-11T21:50:00.000-07:00

Your Geek Profile:

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Fashion Geekiness: Low

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How Geeky Are You?

2005-02-22T23:07:00.000-08:00

I wouldn't trade my friends for anything in the world.

Yes, I procrasitnate...

2004-10-12T18:29:00.000-07:00

Well, a lot has happened in the HALF A YEAR since my last post. I apologize, really. And just for that, this is not going to be a negative rant about GG's today. First I want to talk about life. I posted my To Do list and I thought an update would be in order so here goes:

1. As it has only been 6 MONTHS since I wrote this, I did get into Beta and am now happily playing the release of City of Heroes. It's a big reason I haven't been posting.

2. I've now trained another three Team Leads or so and they are now productively beating reps with clipboards! I will expound on the job thing when I get to my life update.

3. I have my car, now I just need to put speakers in and fix the leak.

4. Due to lack of time I have not been able to do any frivolous cooking, the supervisors will have to wait a little longer.

5. Not only have I not finished any of these games, but I have added UFO Aftermath to the list of must-finishes

6. OH MY GOD WOW!

7. Sewing also has had to wait, the machine gathers dust.

8. Did it. More details to follow in the life update.

9. Still working on it, I'm kicking some ideas around I want to play with tonight before bed, I predict it will be ready in about three Christmases.

10. Writing is also waiting patiently for time so the blog will have to do.

11. School....maybe later but I think I've settled on learning programming so I can make video games with my partners in crime Phred and Josh.

Now for the life update:

A lot has happened, well duh it's been 2 QUARTERS OF A YEAR since my last post. Gaming is all CoH now. I dropped Star Wars Galaxies due to lack of interest and I dropped Everquest because of guild crap. I was reluctant to get involved in guilds in the first place after several bad experiences on AOL. ( yes I know, it was AOL for god's sake what should I have expected) But of course all my friends were joining it (peer pressure peer pressure) so I figured I may as well. I don't regret it, I met some really nice people along the way and had some good times, but for the most part I'm glad to be done with it. Organized gaming is almost as bad as organized religion. I hate feeling pressured to do something I enjoy, it's one thing when my friends and I plan something special and I'll set aside the time for it to the exclusion of things like sleep and laundry, but I can't do it on a nightly basis. Sometimes when I feel too much pressure I take a whole night off so I don't have to deal with the..leaving so early?'s

Work is good. Work is very good actually. I still find it odd that I work in a call center when I hate telephones so much. I was starting to get a major case of burnout doing what I was. Being that first point of contact for the floor reps can be trying. Especially when they are spoiled like our agents are. We work for a line group that's touted as being the most "prestigous" line groups in the building because we have slightly higher hiring standards. Sometimes I think it goes to these people's heads. They'd get pissy if they didn't earn an incentive for some thing or other because they missed a few days of work. Why would we give you an incentive for attendance when you don't attend??? Well, needless to say, I was getting easily irritated with people at work and finding more and more excuses to take on special projects that involved me and a computer and no people. I was getting stressed and frustrated to the point where I was tempted to ask if I could go back to the cable customer service line group. That's when I knew I was going over the deep end. Luckily, I didn't go over. We had an opening for a Reports Specialist in my line group. Someone to sit and put together spreadsheets and reports for the manager and the client. It sounded like heaven. My manager strongly encouraged me to apply and after a little confusion about pay, I got it. I was ecstatic. I've been at the new position for a week now and I absolutely love it!

Work leads to the date thing. It's a bit of a sour subject for me but not like I'm heartbroken, just a little peeved. There's a guy in the cable line group that I have known and had friendly conversation with for some time. I always thought there was some interest there, but I wasn't sure. I decided to find out by being all girly and making myself available. I'd find excuses to go over to his area and say hi and strike up conversations and the like. It worked like a charm (well, in a monkey's paw kinda way) and he asked me out. We had a couple of nice dates, and I thought things were going nicely. Casual, no clingy commitments just me and him having a good time. Well after the third date he suddenly had excuses for not being able to go out. My friends were getting curious about the guy by now and wanted to meet him but I was thwarted. After a couple weeks of excuses, the phone stopped ringing completely (HELLO we work with phones, you'd think we knew how to use them!) I hadn't been given his number and I thought it unethical to use the one I got off the caller ID to find out why he wasn't calling. I found more excuses to be over on the cable side of the building, going to the far copier, asking other Team Leads questions, borrowing paper, but the most I got was a quick wave or a hi. So, needless to say I'm fed up with the dating thing. Maybe I'll try again in another few years or so. I get pissed off at myself sometimes because I know there have been times when I've had a good thing and I just blew it off and relegated it to "just friends" land when it could have been something really special. Well, it's my own damn fault.

I didn't have time to stew over the date thing for long because while I was lingering in the "why hasn't he called?" nature was brewing up something of a distratcion, a distraction named Ivan. In case I hadn't mentioned before where I am, I live in Pensacola FL aka Ivan's strike zone. Phred details some of our travails in his Blog which I shall link once I remember how. We decided to evacuate Tuesday night. My office closed that afternoon so I didn't have to worry about lost work. In fact, we were planning a trip to Seattle to visit our friend Rita and I got to evacuate on my vacation time. We fled to Tennessee to stay with Heather and her family. It was a long tiring trip and between the road and the worry over our house, we were very cranky and tired. We did get to spend some quality time with Heather as we anxiously watched the weather channel show the same street getting pummeled over and over again. Once the storm had passed we stocked up on extra canned goods and made the trek home.

Our house was still standing, and for that I will be forever grateful. I know so many people that just lost everything that it breaks my heart. The days we spend without power didn't seem as bad as they did when we had Opal come through, it was kind of like forced camping. The MREs were surprisingly tasty. We had some damage to the house and we're still waiting on an adjuster to find out how much everything is going to cost to get fixed. It's depressing driving around town and seeing streets that used to be familiar to me. Some of them look totally different with whole buildings demolished, landmark signs gone and downed trees everywhere. The power crews and the television crews were all diligent and we didn't have long to wait before electricity and the ever important internet were restored. I'm sure the phone folks were hard at work, but we don't have a phone so I really can't accurately comment. Phred mentions his tree in his blog and it being gone. I had a similar experience myself. The road leading up to my job has a median with a row of trees. The trees are absolutely beautiful and they show real seasons, unlike most trees in Florida. Green leaves in spring, white flowers in summer, red leaves in fall, bare in the winter. The storm tore out at least half of the trees on the row and the surviving ones have large branches torn off. They've also been knocked off kilter by the deluge and are now in spring mode. I really hope the caretakers replant the same type of tree.

This is a long post, but I guess after THREE AND A HALF DOG YEAR'S worth of life it needed to be. I'm sure I left out a lot, but hopefully you friends of mine that read the blog that were waiting for a call from me or an email from me after the hurricane will see this and know I'm ok since I'm too lazy to call or email.

To Do

2004-03-31T20:12:00.000-08:00

My boss writes a to do list for himself every morning when he gets to work and meticulously completes each item by the end of the day. I on the other hand go in each morning and pray I don't forget any of the million things I've told myself needed to get done the day before. I guess that's part of why we make such a good team. He's the technical one, the one who knows the rules so well that they bend for him, he's a perfectionist that can at times be impatient but I can always count on him to make sure everything is done and that it's done right. I'm the innovator and the sympathiser, I've spent whole days playing with and making spreadsheets that I'll probably never use, but that's ok, cause Gary (above mentioned boss) will use them. I'm the one that comes to the team members with the gentle reminders of things they shouldn't be doing,or should be doing better..."Now Jack, (name changed to protect the...well, I don't know if they're innocent or not, I've never asked) you can't put your headset down and walk away while you have someone on the phone, I know you're stressed out but we pay you to talk to them." All said with a reassuring but totally non-sexual harrasing pat on the arm.

So, with all that in mind I thought I might try a to do list of my own so here goes:

1. Get into City of Heroes Beta- I am so jazzed about this superhero roleplaying game, I check my email constantly to see if my Beta invitation is there.

2. Finish training my new Team Lead- She's doing a good job so far, just have to make sure she's ready for her first night alone on the floor this Saturday

3. Get my car back- Said car is currently in the transmission shop. It's fixed mind you, but I have to give them another 300 before I can have my car back. At least they haven't sold it.

4. Do something nice for the supervisors- Every time the supervisors in other groups at my office have food, they invite me. I need to make something like a cake for them, probably Orange Crush cake.

5. Finish: Final Fantasy X,Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy IX (yes, it's a lower priority than 10 even though it's been out longer) Dark Cloud, Grand Theft Auto, Freelancer, Neverwinter Nights- Ok so I'm a little behind on my non-continual games.

6. Go see Prince- Biloxi, May, Floor tickets...life is good

7. Sew- I made a dress. I enjoyed it. It was actually cheaper to sew the dress than it would have been to buy it at a store. This is a nice way for me to perk up my wardrobe a bit and make it a little more girly then, maybe I can.....

8. Get a date- I work in an office of around a thousand employees, none of them dating material. Well, the ones that are are taken. I need to go shopping in revealing tops more often.

9. Finish Phred's and my top secret Christmas project- Not allowed to say any more on that one, sorry.

10. Write- other than my sporadic ravings here, I haven't written anything in years and I'm afraid I'm getting rusty. I have stories kicking around in my head trying to get out, but I just never seem to have the time to set them down on paper.

11. Go back to school- This is that thing. That thing I keep putting off...my hours are bad for goiong to school, I don't have the money, I'm not ready to commit. I have got to stop with the copouts and just go back to school. But I must solve the major dilemma of the major. I'm looking at two right now and if you're lucky, I'll remember to discuss it on these pages next time, but you see how that's going with the promised topics.

I forgot what I was going to post about next.

2004-03-05T19:30:00.000-08:00

So, of course I'm not going to talk about what I said I would last time, get used to it. I'm having one of those I want a healthy lifestyle but I don't have the time moments. In order to get in my dose of gaming, and excercise, I did what comes naturally to me....Dance Dance Revolution (or step step revolution in Phred's words). It's an addictive game, and it burns calories. We'll see how long that lasts before I get distracted again.

I'm happy, new seasons of most of my favorite tv shows are on the horizon. I think I'm most looking forward to Six Feet Under starting back up again, the wait has seemed eternal.

Off for some Everquest now, I'll try to get back to you all soon.

Scent of a Gamer

2004-03-01T20:23:00.000-08:00

Ok, I know I was supposed to talk about how I rose up out of my own GG-dom to become the moderately socialized creature of the real world. I was ready to relate the tale of my days in high school and jr. high school convinced that an evil wizard was coming to Florida.....just for me and my friends....because we were powerful. I knew this because the Ouija board told us and everyone knows that no one ever pushes them. We're not going to talk about that now though.

I went to the comic book store. That in itself is actually a pretty regular thing. Some of my comic books are on a writing upswing, rekindling my love for the genre, so I am once again hitting the store on a bi-weekly basis. My comic book store used to be a nice, clean, well-lit, and altogether pleasant enough place. Then, they opened it up to evening gaming.

They were all over the place, the card gamers, the miniature gamers; no D&D or live action though. Coming in just past the front door it hit me like a wall. A wall of stench! It was bad. Really, really bad. The miniature gamers were spread out with boards over the back issue boxes, to my ongoing chagrin, and the card gamers were holed up on the floor by the new issue racks.

My dilemma lay with getting to the new issue racks. It is customary to at least pick up the latest issue of X-men to see if it still sucks as bad as it has over the last few years. (It does, but here's hoping for some improvement on the horizon) The smell was at it's worst in the back. Phred (you'll get to know him well if you stick around, he's like my husband but without the sex, the ring, or the tax break) had to make for some fresh air as dinner threatened a return. I clammed up, willed the sinuses closed as I made my purchases and joined my Phred in the clean outdoors.

I hate the fact that my first two posts are complaining about my fellow gamers, but I guess I set myself up for it with my title. It just makes me sad and a little hopeless. I'd like to settle down with a nice guy that games, video games, role-playing games, card games....heck I'll even take a nice guy that plays live action Vampire for a deity's sake but please! bathe. It's a simple request, but it is the first step to overcoming the antisocial tendencies of being a GG. I think tomorrow if I don't get distracted I'll talk about what games I actually play. So now you can spend all day thinking about that and I'll have something else to talk about by the time I get to my computer.

On a side note, I'm a little proud tonight, I used real html to make my bold italics and that little line between my first two paragraphs. Now you know why my email address is an AOL account :-).

2004-02-27T19:44:00.000-08:00

I want to open up with the fact that I suck at introductions. I always devolve into rambling out the same tired statistics that define a person to strangers. 30, female, single, interests are blah blah blah blah blah. So rather than continue on as such I'll relate a story. It's recent and it in essence captures the spirit of all that irritates me.

I have a friend. That alone should seem amazing, but hey,she's a long distance friend. She gets on the computer and tells me there's trouble at home. Her best friend and roommate has been seeing a guy in a pseudo-dating type relationship. (note for clarity sake her best friend is her roommate, I'm not going to start this thing with a love triangle). The guy had a stroke. Yeah it was a minor stroke and yeah he'll get back 98% of his facilities, but a stroke strikes me as a serious thing. (forgive the str alliteration, I'm horrible about it). The roommate/kindagirlfriend is spending all her free time there at the hospital with the guy to be supportive. My friend is upset because her roommate should be at home with her because her life is chaotic (she's trying to go back to college) and she has a cold.

Yes, a cold.

This is the essence of what my circle has dubbed the GG. The initials originally stood for Gamer Girl. They were those girls at the Sci-Fi conventions, you know the ones. They wear nothing but crushed velvet and have to play Toreadors in the live action Vampire game. They write those bad fan fics with themselves as the main characters who all somehow manage to win the heart of Legolas. They have some bizarre allergy or ailment that they never fail to mention during every conversation, and every drug known to man has the exact opposite effect on them than on everyone else. They have 20 cats ALL named after Greek goddesses and when those run out, they move on to Egyptian and Sumerian ones.

That's not to say that every female Mercedes Lackey reader is a GG. The term is reserved for those who never developed adult social skills because they find themselves and their winged unicorn collections infinitely more interesting than anyone else on the planet. The term has in recent months been expanded to include guys Gamer Guys, but enough has been said about them a la William Shatner's all too famous "Get a Life"

Enough rambling for now, the introduction is out of the way, next post I will detail my own narrow escape from the GG lifestyle.

The Myshinator