Where Procrastination Meets Apathy - I won't care tomorrow.

What happens when you have a dream where your step-mom looks just like a hotter version of Pamela Anderson, seems interest in you, but instead of exploring that relationship you're instead going on a epic adventure in a world reminiscent of Hyrule to commit excitement much akin to James Bond crossed with Lord of the Rings?  This is the effect of sleep deprivation, I believe.  I really have no clue what to make of it.  It's very confusing.

Seriously, people, thanks for the load of support.  And folks gripe when I don't update.  Eat me.

In other news, "pod slurping" is my new favorite term, and something I plan on practicing more often.  If you must, look it up.  I promise you, though, that your imagination is much more exciting then what it actually is.

August 8^th, at around 8pm, my best friend, little brother of spirit, and compatriot Brandin Johns passed away.  Born with congenital heart disease, he lived 25 years longer then he was supposed to.  Dealt with a bad hand from the beginning of the game; Brandin cheated, bluffed, dared, and starred down death until yesterday.  Finally pulling the Deadman’s Hand of aces and eights (8/8 @ 8) but the odds are always on the house.  His last chip was lost as I watched them slowly shut down his life support.

We made an interesting pair.  Opposites at the surface but inseparable at the core.  His short, lanky frame a comical tangent to my tall, bulky self.  His twisted, sardonic attitude a clash with my warm, jovial demeanor.  He taught me that evil can be entertaining and I taught him that there is good in people despite the thick layers you have to chip through.

He was immensely powerful inside.  Never backing down, never giving up, holding himself bravely over the crashing waves of his own body shutting down and medical doubt of his survival.  Thanks heavily to his beloved Niccy he enjoyed a happy handful of years, taking pleasure in everything he could or that his body would allow him to do.  He was able to go to Hawaii and soak up the sun and surf, he was able to see his childhood dream of the Transformers movie finally coming to the big screen, he was able to play games and enjoy a touch of fantasy.

His spirit was indomitable… but the universe gave him a bad heart to stop him from taking over.

Still trying to get this right.  Didn't realize the audio was crap at the time, sorry.  Will get better as I do this.

Yeah, first one.  Go Me.  I'm sick.  Still trudging along.  Woo.

So I finally got to see Casion Royale.  Left from work and went with one of my co-workers because, dammit, I wanted to see a movie and I hate doing stuff alone.  Thankfully he wanted to see it anyway and didn't have anything else to do so it didn't take much to talk him into it.

Amazing.  I don't know if it was the best Bond flick I've ever seen but it sure as hell ranks up there.  Very clear developement of how Bond became Bond and Daniel Greg did an amazing job as Bond.  I really enjoyed it.  It was a surprisingly long movie but I didn't notice.  Just remember going in, then coming out and blinking at my watch... thing was about two and a half hours long.  Anyway, go see, it's a great flick.  Now I'm off to wash my drysuit.

So I did my penetration dive.  It was sad - our umbilicals were too short so we could only go into the outfall about thirty feet before we had to turn around and come back.  It gets dark in there... I mean REALLY dark.  The kind of pure blackness that can only be found underground or underwater, where there's NO light at all, not even a hint.  It was cool but short lived.

What was fun was later on in the day we had a huge lightning strike!  There was a bright flash, so much so we had divers in the water radioing back with "what was that?!"  A couple of seconds later and the place shook with one of the loudest cracks of thunder I've ever experienced.  Something over in Magnolia got hit because we saw a ball of fire and then a plume of smoke over in that direction just before a massive cloudburst downpoured on us.  It was wild.

So, I had a my HAZMAT final today.  I was stressing over it during the weekend as my tests were okay but not as good as I'd hope them to be.  So we went through the test and, as usual, I was one of the first ones done.  I felt fairly confident and it seemed easy which always means one of two things: 1) the test WAS easy and I did great or 2) I deluded myself and failed the whole damn thing.

I got 100%

I'm HAZWOPER certified, baby!

Your Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Score
Category	Your Score	Average
Hacklust	23.58% Has conversations in between massacres	53.5%
Sensitive Roleplaying	16.46% There is no player. There is only.... Zuul.	54.7%
GM Experience	17.39% Worldbuilder, storyteller... Master.	69.5%
Systems Knowledge	71.19% Local rules guru	90.4%
Livin' La Vida Dorka	28.74% Carries dice in pocket 'just in case'	63.4%
You are 34.52% pure Average Score: 68.8%
Take The Ultimate Roleplaying Purity Test and see how you match up! (By The Ferrett)

Why am I always so reluctant to update this thing?  I mean, I know I should as some people use it to check up on me but I always think "nah, I'll just update it later when something neat happens."  Oh well, time for an honest update then.

I had Drea out here last weekend.  That was perfect.  Honestly, even despite some hangups and delays, I wouldn't really have wanted to change anything.  It was great.  We walked all over Seattle, saw the Waterfront, the International District, the Sci-Fi Museum, had some lovin's, in general had a fantastic weekend.  Oh, but did I pay for it on Monday... that's okay, it was well worth it.

Another thing I'd like to state... I have a Photobucket site now.  I've been taking a ton of pictures - as have other people in my class - and I needed to put them somewhere.  For all interested in how I'm doing, check out the album here: http://s133.photobucket.com/albums/q47/DIT109-06/.  Lots of pictures.  Some even of me!  Wow!  Anyway, I really don't know what else to say.