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Jul. 21st, 2011 @ 09:24 pm Back in the saddle again.
Current Location: The Ghost Panet
Current Mood: contemplativecontemplative
Current Music: "Follow You, Follow Me" by Genesis
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I have just realized that it has been over two years since I posted to LJ.  What used to be a dedicated summary of the day's or week's events just got run over by the ease of Facebook, and tossed to the side.

And I can't help but feel bad about that. Granted, FB has instant gratification, and has managed to put me in touch with friends that I miss dearly. Yet, Live Journal was more, well, intimate.  The only folks who responded to my entries here were friends I associated with on a nearly daily basis.  A select few rather than the teaming masses, as it were.  Will these rantings go unnoticed? Who knows. I know that [info]danny_t still pops in once in a while, so I hope to view his wisdom (yes Danny, WISDOM. You have buckets of it!) on my pieces.

So, with no further a due, let's move on to what's going on in the realms of the Doomfarer.

After what seems to be for-effing-ever, I finally re-certified as an instructor for the Red Cross. Now at hand is the task of teaching CPR, AED and First Aid to my colleagues at the Oceana and Navy Dare sites.  It sounds like a challenge, but truth be told, it isn't as hard as it used to be. A class takes me all of two and a half hours to teach now (vice eight hours!) and the certifications are good for two years.  It's still a love/hate thing for me never the less. I enjoy providing training that just might help one of my fellow shipmates on board the starship Earth to hang around a bit longer, but having the tasking shoved down my throat leaves a bitter aftertaste.  I deal with it, mainly because surely it builds the good joss and the little things I do get away with seem to make the tasking bearable.

I'm scheduled to go to sea soon.  More on that after the fact. With pictures.  No, it's not a 'spook' ship. I keep telling you, I was never a spook, and besides SURTASS couldn't afford me. Well, not at the moment at least. It's just a gig that fell into my lap, and one that I look forward to enough to defend with my utmost effort. No, not to the point of bringing in my katana or the hammer DOOMSLEDGE, but close.

With all the classes I've had to teach this week, and the longer work days, I got tomorrow off. You know what that it leads to, right? Okay Einstein, go up and look and this entry's picture.  Got it?  Ir not, go sit in the corner and figure out how to score some geek-cred.  Me, I'm off to the AMC 18 at Lynnhaven for a show.  Hoody Hoo!

And that's it.  More stuff as I think of it. The wonders of the modern age seems to be that I can leech wi-fi everywhere, so updates are as easy as cake.  Devil's Food cake. With ice cream. Damn. Now I'm hungry. Off to the kitchen, then to Bonnie to watch the rest of "Land of the Dead" on the telly.  Take care friends, and be well.
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May. 20th, 2009 @ 09:41 pm Back in the Saddle Again
Current Location: The Ghost Planet
Current Mood: accomplishedaccomplished
Current Music: 'Heat of the Moment' by Asia
Well, enough is enough. I've been putting this off long enough. It's time to grow a pair and get to it.

That's right; I'm going to get back into the WoW mode and get Gimmelots in the game.  Having a character for nearly three years and still have him not at least to level 60 is too much.

Okay, it means sacrifices have to be made in regards to time, but gaming is one of the main reasons I went with this specific computer in the first place (an Area 51 Alienware) but I just haven't made time for games.  I enjoy spending time with the smarter half, and there's always another book to read, a show to watch or repairs around the house to make.

But, I've gotten a fresh OS load on Agamemnon, reloaded everything, and now, due to the reinstall of my SB Extigy, got decent sound.

So look out trolls here I come.

Right after I get Office 2007 loaded and this report off to Strike Forces Training, Atlantic.........
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May. 14th, 2009 @ 09:25 pm The Fall of Smallville
Current Location: The Ghost Planet
Current Mood: pissed offpissed off
Current Music: 'Fields of Gold' by Sting
While this week has not been what you could call a total loss by any means (hey, daily trips to Trader Joes taking me five minutes? Hoody Farkin' Hoo! Chocolate covered chocolate chip dunkers for everyone!) and work has been alright, despite the further idiocy of mid management and his failure to understand that my primary job is that, and his SLJ's just have to wait. No, the final straw has been broken, and I have just about had it.

CW, let 'Smallville' die already, okay?

When Smallville first graced us on the small screen, I admit I really enjoyed the premise it displayed, and it was good.  Then it just plain started getting more teen angst and less interesting.  It seems that the writes and producers wait until the season premier to come up with the sort of action and creativity they started with to sucker us in, then it's more angst and, well boredom.

The eye-candy just doesn't do it for me either.  Don't get me wrong; Allison Mack and Erica Durance are both lovely, but it just seems to me that all the powers that be want them to do is get themselves into situations where a 'red-blue'blur' comes to their rescue.

A not much of a rescue at that. Folks, I see Superman as a larger than farkin' life individual, doing great heroic deeds on a grand scale. Are we seeing that?  I say no.

I realize not everyone has seen the season finale, but have it Tivo'ed for your later perusal.  To prevent major spoilage, I suggest you turn away now.  Go on, I'll be here after you watch the show.  Go on now.

Okay, where to start. 

What the smeg goes man?  The titanic battle between Doomsday and Clark takes less than FIVE FREAKIN' MINUTES?  When I saw Clark stop a thrown car, I foolish thought "Hot damn! Finally, some really superherioc fight sequences!"  After Clark gets his hide beaten by ol' Rocky, all they could come up with was a super-leap into Doomsday that forces him into the geo-thermo shaft?!!! What the hell is that?

Again, with the farkin' time travel.  I have to admit I didn't care for it in 'Star Trek', and I don't care for it much here.  Where the hell did Lois end up THIS time.

Jimmy Olsen gets whacked.  Dear gawd, Jerry and Joe are spinning in their graves with the casual slaughter of a major character.

The final scene with Clark and Chloe.  More angst BS that will leave us waiting all summer to hear a resolution.  And then there's the big "ohhhhh...ahhhh' with Tess Merser and the burning man.

Overall, this season has just not done anything for me.  I expected action and adventure, and we get another version of Roswell.  I honestly can't say that I'll be watching this series next fall, unless, like this year, there's just no competition for it during that timeslot.  Or I just might say to hell with it and catch up on my reading.  Either way, Smallville has to got a long farkin' way to get my attention.  As it stands now, I'd rather watch Star Trek Enterprise reruns than endure another episode.  This series had such a great start; it's a shame it's become another teen drama instead of the ball of fire it started out as.

If we're really lucky, the burning man at the end of the episode will be Lex Luthor with a really bad kryptonite-powered mad on and whack the whole cast, then do himself in to put himself and us out of our collective misery.

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Okay, maybe it wasn't all that bad, but gawd knows it wasn't all that great either.

I return the soapbox to the gear locker.  Now, I'm off to watch something decent and have a glass of milk with my dunkers.

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May. 7th, 2009 @ 03:54 pm Is anyone......
Current Location: The Ghost Planet
Current Mood: busybusy
Current Music: 'Little Wing' by Jimi Hendrix
Planning to go catch 'Star Trek' this weekend?  I'm thinking about trying for a show tomorrow night at the AMC 18 Lynnhaven.  Let me know if anyone wants to come with...

Otherwise, my weekend will consist of household chores, bringing Agamemnon, my Alienware desktop, back from the dead, a session of AD&D Sunday night, and last, but not least, Galacticon 2009 over at the Central Library in Virginia Beach.  It looks like it will mostly be Star Wars ::stuff:: but it will be nice to cruise through and kill a few hours (and maybe find a few likeminded folks who won't mind a fast, down and dirty run of AD&D!)

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May. 1st, 2009 @ 11:31 pm Big Ol' Comic of..... DOCTOR WHO!!!
Current Location: The Ghost Planet
Current Mood: bouncybouncy
Current Music: Orange Blossom Special by The Charlie Daniels Band

Guys, I have no idea how the hell this guy does it, but this site has carried on since March of 2007 a running comic of Doctor Who, starring every incarnation (and then some) of the Doctor, and just about everyone of his companions.

And it is still going on.

It took me the better part of a couple of hours to wrap myself around this graphic tale, and I have to say, despite the simplistic drawing technique the artist, Rich Morris, utilizes, it amazes me that he has hit the nail on the farkin' head.  The Doctors are not only recognizable, they are true to their unique personalities.

So, with no further interruption I give you ... THE TEN DOCTORS

http://comics.shipsinker.com/2007/03/10/a-doctor-who-comic-the-10-doctors/
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Apr. 24th, 2009 @ 06:54 pm So you think YOUR life sucks....
Current Location: The Ghost Planet
Current Mood: amusedamused
Current Music: "Misty" by Ray Stevens
Just found this site.  Some of it really funny, some not so much, but still, when you think your life sucks here's the place to go, either to make yourself feel better, or, if necessary, contribute to the madness that is "F My Life" ...

http://www.fmylife.com/

My favorite so far: "Today, I had dinner with the girl I thought I would end up marrying. Everything was going well and after I had payed the bill, she said she was a lesbian. Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, she challenged me to see who could hook up with a straight girl first. I lost. FML "
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Apr. 9th, 2009 @ 09:45 pm What the Hell?
Current Location: The Ghost Planet
Current Mood: okayokay
Current Music: Strange Magic by ELO
I realized that I have been most lacking in my journal duties of late, but truth be told, I have had so darn little to talk about.

Today, should you be interested, I feel as if I have been beaten with a large stick.  You see, I have started a tradition of taking the week of my time share on the beach off, and, instead of resting and relaxing in the timeshare, doing house upgrades. 

Yeah, in retrospect, this does sound pretty goofy.  Last year, it was the tear down and rebuilding our stair way.  This year, it is our back yard patio deck.  I did get smart enough to bring in someone who knows what he's doing (first off, he works cheap, at least for me, and secondly, he was really down in the dumps, and needed to be around my bubbly self.)  The down side to all this, of course is that my ancient physical self is pretty pissed off at my 17 year old persona.  The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak sort of thing.

Still, it's not bad.  I help a friend who really needed the work and the chance to hang out with us helps him out.  I get a deck that I don't have to worry about the hot tub falling through, and it actually looks very good.

Still, I really need to start acting my age.

Nay, screw that.  Who's up for a game of AD&D?
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Apr. 9th, 2009 @ 09:27 pm Dave Arneson, 1947 - 2009
Current Location: The Ghost Planet
Current Mood: melancholymelancholy
Current Music: In the House of Stone and Light by Martin Page


The other half of the creative duo of Dungeons and Dragons has crossed the Vale of Dreams.  I feel so badl because frankly, he was ignored for so long for his part in creating the game, and thus a rift between himself and Gary Gygax, never to have been resolved in this mortal coil.

I met Dave at the 2003 Gen Con in Indianapolis.  He had been working on D20 modules and was selling them from his own stand, so of course, after purchasing several of his modules, and getting him to autograph one of them, I timidly asked if he would autograph the original three books and his Black Moor supplement.  He was very generous with his appraisal of the condition of my books, but was 'perturbed' to see Gary's signature on all the books.  It was very obvious that there was no love lost between the two.

Never the less, he was a very grand conversationalist, and before I realized it, had spent several hours just talking to him.  He had so many stories to tell, and he could make you feel as if you've been friends forever. 

The sentimental part of me hopes that beyond the veil, the two meet and are able to bask in the company of one another.  And I can't help but wonder what could have caused the hard feelings in the first place.  You all take care, and roll a 20 sided for dear old Dave.

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Jan. 14th, 2009 @ 12:42 pm Another Friend Walks in the Fields of God
Current Location: The Ghost Planet
Current Mood: sadsad
Current Music: None


We lost Frostie last night.  He had been getting thin, but the vets couldn't find anything obviously wrong, and thought we should just make sure we fed him up, give him vitamins and the like.  He's been the active and affectionate cat we have always known, and seemed to be getting better, but this morning he was in his bed lying far too still.

I hope he's found Spotsie by now; they were very friendly with one another in the Realm.  I'm gonna miss the little bugger.

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Dec. 25th, 2008 @ 10:25 pm Musings From An Old Scrooge......
Current Location: The Ghost Planet
Current Mood: jubilantjubilant
Current Music: 'Days are Numbers' by The Alan Parsons Project
Hello Everyone and God Bless Us, Everyone.

Just finished my last tradition of the Christmas season. No, it wasn't opening the presents, or the mulled cider or the companionship of friends and family (truth be told, my lovely wife and I decided this year to spend the holiday alone with one another, watching 'A Christmas Story' and then off to the Happy Buffet for a Christmas Chinese dinner!

No, my final act of the Christmas Day, as it has been for three years now, was to download and watch the Doctor Who Christmas show.  While I am saddened to hear that this is the final season for David Tennant, and I confess that the Children in Need mini-sode left me feeling gipped, this episode made up for quite all of it.  It is a full hour long, RTD out-did himself, as he always does, and I never knew who was doing what.  My take on it is superlative. I will say no more of it; if anyone would like to have a showing of this episode, and perhaps some others, let me know and we can do something. I hope.

Of course, another aspect of the yuletide season is one of reflection. The one's we knew and loved who have left us to cross the Vale of Dreams, the friends we lost contact with, some hopelessly forever, the good times and bad, but best of all, our friends and the times we have with them. So many people that I have come to know, and I think of them daily to keep their memory bright. I think of them, and basically, all of you guys, and think that no matter how bad things may seem, just knowing that you are out there in the realm makes things better.  To you whom I have not been able to come and see or do stuff with, I'm terribly sorry, and promise to make amends somehow (if you feel you're in this group, feel free to submit helpful suggestions. I am not beneath subtle hints and hard work!). And to you whom I have been able to catch up with, thanks for helping me stay sane and keep my big ol' feet on the ground. (Ah, err, well, if you need help, you know where I am most of the time too!)

In any case, you all take care, thanks for being my friends, and my hopes for you all for a joyous season and a happy new year to us all.  Now, go get out there and have fun already.....
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