I'm just going to leave this right here

The most adorable thing in the world

I'm not sure exactly how it came up, but it did. We all agree that this lil girl dressed as Chun Li is hands down the most adorable thing ever. There isn't really even any contest here.

The picture of me is cute and all. But it would have been way better if I was dressed as Boba Fett.

Prosperous is a funny word.

Say it out loud and think about it. Pra-spur-us. Heh...


Well shit. If I don't get my act together this April of 2011 might be the month with the least number of posts since I got serious about this whole blog thing. I can't decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing, but either way it makes me feel like I should say something more...


I went to Las Vegas. It was a birthday party for NESF. Not really a birthday party, but kind of like one. We did all kinds of things that I'd like to tell you about however if I did I would violate the policy of "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas" and I don't really want to have the Las Vegas Tourism Bureau, Gambling Commission and other various state organizations coming after me for breaking the rules. I will tell you that I saw Love. It was amazing. I'd never seen a show in Vegas before and I was very impressed. Seats were right up front too. Nobody got arrested either. Good stuff...


My dog poops outside now. Exciting isn't it? Well it is for me. 


I need to find a place to purchase old (and some new) arcade games for cheap. I really need a Big Buck Hunter Pro in the warehouse. Snow Bros would be another one I could use. Maybe the original Simpson's arcade game. I think it'd be pretty cool to have an arcade at home...


Pangford has come and gone. I'm trying to figure out a more grandiose post to do about the whole experience. But if that doesn't materialize, know that he was here...


Oh yeah! One other thing that I'll tell you about Vegas. The credit card machine in the cabs run advertisements to you while you ride. Just like TV...


I really want to teach Wes how to do the Stanky Paw. We aren't having much luck, but some minimal progress has been made. Who am I kidding, the only "progress" has been him jumping around chaotically. I should still video tape it....


This is what I looked like 28 years and 22 days ago:

Yeah, I know, adorable

Alive

This morning when I got to work I decided that my gtalk status needed to change. I thought to myself "I need something that's reassuring that life is good" I thought for a few minutes and went with "Alive", because in the end what's greater than being alive? Apparently few people share my thought process on this one. 


Almost immediately I got a series of messages asking if I was okay, was I dead before and things of the like. Every one seemed to think that there was some horrible tragedy or near death experience in my life that led to my use of this individual word. I was chatting with NESF for a few minutes about this when he made the comment, "This is an interesting phenomena. Using the word alive on its own rarely sounds reassuring." I couldn't help but wonder why that is.


I have to stop for just a second here. This cup of coffee I'm drinking is amazing. Sorry about that, but I thought you'd all really want to know.


Isn't being alive the greatest part about our existence? If we weren't alive we wouldn't be at all. However by using the word "alive" by itself I think that we immediately take it as a comparison. If someone is alive they are not dead, and if they're going as far as to say that they're alive, they must have had an encounter with the possibility of not being alive. 


I guess what this all breaks down to is death. Merely mentioning the word alive brings with it the idea of dead or death. It doesn't have to. But now I'm just rambling, as if this were something more earlier on. Here's some tube videos:

"What you have heard is true"

It's National Poetry Month. Here's a reading of one of my personal favorites.

Wesley Green the Brown (sometimes Emo) Dog

But we just call him Wes.

In case you haven't already determined, I got a pup! He's awesome. Still fairly timid, but he's getting better each day. I brought him home on Friday. At first he was SUPER emo, when I put the harness on him he just laid on the ground and didn't move for 10 minutes until I took it off. Since then he's been adjusting nicely. We still have a lot of work with the house training, but that was to be expected. He's only 5 months old. His birthday was October 27th, 2010. My birthday is today. As such I'm not working. Just hanging about with the dog and later this evening I'm going to meet up with some peoples for games and drinks. Hopefully Wes is a little more comfortable with me leaving this time around. We'll have to wait and see.