I begin dreaming
Category: Holidays
Who cares about the bottom line?
I’m sure I had something important to say to make my glorious return to the blogging world even more glorious, but damned if I can remember. Must be all these damn RPGs I’ve been playing. They’re rotting my brain with their complicated plots, memorable characters and unique battle systems. Stupid RPGs. I’d looove to ramble more about any of those games, but alas, comics don’t draw themselves.
I will be the flame
Got a wad of cash thanks to my many, many relatives, and with it, I finally got a DVD drive for my PC. Not only that, but my very own Best Buy incompetence story as well! I’m so happy to finally have one of these.
Sales guy (we’ll call him Jim): Looking for anything specific?
Ryan: Yeah, I’m looking to pick up a DVD drive.
Jim: That’s cool. They’ve really come down in price. They used to be like $400.
Ryan: Yes, I know.
Jim: So what are you getting it for?
Ryan: Um… playing DVDs? Burning stuff? (to self:) What else do you do with them?
Jim: Cool cool. So they’re all pretty much the same. They’re all internal, they all do dual-layer, what-have-you.
Ryan: What about this one? I think it’s external. *points to an $80 Sony drive that’s clearly external*
Jim: Wha? *Looks at the tag that says internal, and then the box, and the tag again* Well… That’s fucked up. That tag is wrong. Huh. Well if you have any more questions, just ask.
At this point he walks away and I continue to mull over which drive to buy. About a minute later, he comes back.
Jim: Well, that’s definitely wrong. And also, the price on that one is actually $170, not $80. *rips out the tag*
Ryan: Huh. Way to be organized.
I don’t think there are many things that are as entertaining as stories about how Best Buy fucked up. Oh, and while I was there, my brother was looking for a cellphone, so my mom asked this one guy for help, and he said he’d go get someone who knew about cellphones. They waited five minutes, and after no one had shown up, they just left.
Woah, I feel it! I feel the cosmos!
I’d love to get an article up tonight, but I squandered my afternoon, and now I won’t be able to get on the computer where it resides until mucho later. It’ll probably be up tomorrow around noonish, but maybe overnight?
Anyway, did everyone have a sweet Canada Day? I know I sure did. We went out to Lac du Bonnet for a (craptastic) parade, a (a good as you can hope for) fair, and (very good) fireworks. Since we were out there already, we spent the day at the cottage, and there plenty of drinking, shooting, and steak ensued. What more could you hope for? I also managed to snatch a great little item that will be reviewed in a week or two. I won’t say what it is, but I’ll say this: It’s definitely a site staple.
I also need to tell you a little about the aforementioned fireworks. You see, we go out there every single year on Canada Day for the fireworks (only recently have we made the fair a yearly thing), and normally they’re pretty average. This year was darned impressive, if I might say so. And you must realize, I’ve seen all the fireworks spectaculars that Disney World has to offer. So this year they decided that to amp up the excitement, they’d integrate music into the show. It was poorly done, to say the least. Firstly, there was no coordination at all. That’s the whole reason for music. Secondly, the songs seemed to be plucked straight from my personal library. Among the various bands included were Loverboy, Nazareth, Heart, and Styx. It’s all music I love, but it’s not fireworks music. Not in the least. Music issues aside though, it was a great show, and the bar is definitely raised.
Where faith is not taboo
It’s Mother’s Day, and it’s also the start of a new week. Know what that means? Bingo; article day. While I can’t promise that they’ll always be up on Sunday, I am striving to post one article a week. And while this week’s is somewhat weak, it’s still there. Enjoy. Next week I’ll have something slightly less… re-used.
It makes me sick
Don’t forget to check out the V-Day comic at Coozy for Hire…
Where are my ho ho hoes?
Your Christmas gift is here, in the form of a small update to the CD collection. I’d like to say something along the lines of “Now I head of to do the Christmas thing, see you in the new year”, but you know I’ll probably be spending Monday hard at work on a new article.
On a whim
I whipped up a short(ish) article today, just out of the blue. Actually, it wasn’t really out of the blue, but we’ll say it was because it’s not that one “surprise” article I talked about the other day. It’s kinda stupid too, but I’m gonna go with the philosophy I went by back in the early days: content is content.
Speaking of the early days, three years, baby. Yeah. I think the consensus is that the site’s “birthday” is on the 16th (Why the 16th? I don’t know. Technically it should be the 2nd…), but for the third year in a row I forgot. I mean, I’ve had it in mind all month, but when posting on this here blog, it managed to slip my mind. So yes, three years and I’ve still not given up. Huzzah for me!
Changes abound
Well, that snow sure didn’t last long. Being so close to the internet equator probably isn’t helping. The fact that I got annoyed with it might have something to do with it too…
Secondly, there are tiny little updates all over the sidebar. Okay, two. First, I added a link to Comedy Napalm, a fancy-pants new website which I have signed on to write for. Whether it will get exclusive content, I don’t know, but my full articles and psedo-articles will remain exclusive to TE. Only time will tell what goes down. I also changed the forum link to go straight to the Comedy Napalm forums. As you might have been able to tell.
I really haven’t got much else, so here’s a couple links
The Xmas boogie
Surely you noticed that it’s snowing over on this part of the interweb. I know it’s like the biggest website no-no ever, but I couldn’t resist. It’s just so damned cute. *Loses 10 masculinity points* Also, there’s now a mistletoe on the sidebar, so be sure to keep clear of it if there’s anyone around. I don’t have anything to give you today but another entry in the CD collection, and that won’t even be up for a few minutes still (I wanted to get the blog post done first, so sue me).
As for the article production sheet, we’ve got two that will be done by the end of the month. One is the yearly Xmas article and the second… Well, it’s a sequel of sorts, I’ll tell you that much. Think about what time of year it is and it should be apparent.
The last thing I want to do today is drop you a new (sort of) link. You’ve all been subjected to my many plugs for the MOA-Online forums. Sadly, some two weeks or so ago, they dieded for goods. On the upside, they’ve been reborn as the MOA Aviary forums. While they’re more animal-centric now, a bunch of the old users are back, and there’s still plenty to gab about. I’m not an animal person myself, but I’ll be doing my share of posting there. Not anywhere near as much as last time, but there will be posting by me. The point of this plug is that since my forums will never be revitalized, all I can do is plug other forums I visit and live vicariously through them.