Lost An Entire Blog Post

Like, seriously!

I had a huge heart to heart about his blog and the state of my life since the State of the Blog Address, and all Blogger gets me is a shrug and the post pulling a disappearing act.  Seriously, what just happened here.

So, I'm still working, got a promotion, I'm apartment hunting for a place for my girlfriend and I to live, and this blog is returning.

Wish I could write more, but I have a but of a headache at the moment.

State of the Blog Address

Gerfargletargle!

September was not a good month for me.  In fact, I wouldn't say I've been in the best places mentally since July.  That is part of the reason why I haven't really blogged since the bloggiversary.  What I really needed was a hiatus, a sort of no blog period from the bloggiversary to Comic-Con, which is next week.  Again, I am just going on the Saturday, and cosplaying as the Ninth Doctor instead of the Tenth.  Planning on meeting John Barrowman as well.

So I assume you want to know what happened since the death of the Dakota?  Well, since July, I have been having panic attacks off and on, stacked on top of my depression.  Had some life changes happen along that rode to.  Lost some friends, became single again, new job, and some new friends to.  I've reached out to old friends, and have rekindled some amazing things, especially with my friend whom I shall name on here Zombie Girl.  I'm hoping October will be a better month for me, and so far, it has yet to disappoint.

So alongaide that, here is my State of the Blog Address:

*Table Plan and Table Stories are returning to their regular Monday schedule, starting with a Story called "Revenge at Havyn," based at the LARP I go to.

*My friend aka the Pirate, and I, we were planning a YouTube series in which we sit back, smoke cigars and talk about all things nerdy and awesome.  If we do it, expect links!

*Speaking of, Ganon still can't surf the web, too many links.

*I've been getting into board games since my laptop started acting strange (I'm posting this from my new phone, which is basically a phablet), so expect some board game shenanigans.

*Yes I virus scanned and such on my laptop, I'm no dummy, I think it might be a hardware issue, which is beyond my expertise, and I'm too poor for Geek Squad.

*My D&D group and I are making a setting cooperatively so expect posts on that, some of which will be in Table Plan.

*Since last Blog Year I took an accidental hiatus and this year I needed a break to recuperate, I think the Bloggiversary to Comic-Con hiatus will be a thing now.

And there we have it.

By Jove did I miss this :-P

So Long, Dear Dodge Dakota

A simple little post, a simple little post to say goodbye to a truck that has been there for some really formative moments in my life.  For getting me to see Destiny in Philly, to Pagan/Buddhist festivals that shaped me, to countless D&D Nights and other a nerdy thing, I thank it for its work.  And even though you have been consigned to an early death thanks to the mechanics not really looking at my truck, know that you were always a hard worker (except for that time, of course, when you erupted like Old Faithful with coolant).

The Green Dragon, aka, Clara, Sheila, and the TruckDIS (trucks in relative dimensions

and space?)

1993-2013

ADDENDUM

Because this post wasn't over the top silly and sentimental already:

Get Him to the LARP

So here's the thing...

My part-time job pays semimonthly/biweekly (take your pick of big words), so I am sitting here with $27 in my wallet, a fistful of change that I hope makes it out to an extra $3, and me trying to plan out a trip to Dystopia Rising.  Yes, it's that time of the month again!  It's time to LARP!

I didn't go to Dystopia Rising last month due to not having the money, and it killed me.  I sat around wondering, "damn, I wonder what is happening in Havyn right about now?"  I am not passing this up this month.  My girlfriend is going, she LARPed before, and she wants to LARP with me.  I also love LARPing, it has become rather quickly a passion and a hobby, much like table-top gaming, or puzzles with my girlfriend.  I actually didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did, but I loved it.  I loved playing as my Baywalker.  It's relaxing.  It's realy fun not being Kyle for like 36-48 hours, and be my Baywalker Finnegan.

And I am awesomly photogenic as Finnegan

So I think I have the money thing down pat.  Next is trying to wrap this around work.  I work the weekends, my days off being Monday and Tuesday, and many a LARP are a Friday-Sunday kind of deal.  I know I can't, with how little money I have, to make the whole weekend work; so leaving from work to DR, and then from DR to work, and then homeward bound is the only way I can work it.  In total, it's about 122 miles, tacked onto my 32 already clocked on my truck, takes me to 152.  Not bad, except for the fact that my truck is a gas-guzzler, guzzling gas like I guzzle boneless wings or pizza.  my truck gets right about empty at 200 miles.  While I can get there and back on a single tank of gas, and finish off the week at work on that tank, it still annoys me.  I think this is more an annoyance at my truck, which is, while much better than my last one, still seems like it has one tire in the junkyard.  Trucks and SUVs and such are traditionally gas-guzzlers, and being the traveler that I am, I hate having that sort of limit.  My friend whom introduced me to Minecraft has a Mini, and his gas gauge barely moved when he and I once went to a video-game convention down near Philly.  My truck would have sucked down so much gas, I could hear Mother Earth groan in pain.

Back to the "making this work around work" subject, I will only get about 17-18 hours at DR until I have to go back and work for more money.  I will be missing out on 22 hours of action this time around.  Next month I will have more money to stay there for longer (an extra 86 miles back to DR and then, *gasp* back to work, maybe I could see if I could call off for a day), so I won't get THAT much time there, but time enough to have a little bit of fun and get my LARP fix for the month.  It might sound insane, but then again, there are people out there who get addicted to gambling.  At least here I lose a fixed amount of money, and not a random amount based on my aching need to give it one more spin of the wheel.

Do I love LARPing?  By Jove I do, but besides that, the act of having a hobby is very healthy.  I like being healthy.  I haven;t taken the best of care of myself in the past few months, so it's about time I pamper myself...

...by being another person for a short time and kicking Zombie ass!

The Conjuring

HELLO PEEPS, I'M BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACK!



Wow, it sure has been a while since my last blogpost.  Can't really say that it was a nice vacation, I didn't really go anywhere, and it was more of "I don't want to write because of the fact that I had like three emotional breakdowns."  Oh, and finally getting a job doesn't help maters much as well.

But I think the world knew I wouldn't stay away for long.  Isn't that right China?  A big ni-hao to the insurgence of Chinese viewers.

But let us get on topic.  So recently my girlfriend, her mom, her mom's boyfriend, and I went to go see The Conjuring!

Before I get into my list of criticisms, and, by Jove, are there a lot of them, let me say some good points.  The film is successful as a horror film.  as it had "true" events to work with, the horror was balanced with some pretty scenes and comedy, besides the riffing comedy we added.  More on that later.  The acting was pretty good, it was believable to a point.  I enjoy paranormal investigation stuff, and I enjoyed seeing a debunking at one point of the film.  Usually such films make it seem like every haunting has some sort of ghost, elemental, or demon waiting around the shadowy corner.  Maybe the plumber cut corners and crappily put in your pipes?

But speaking of demons, we must get to why this movie is secretly horrible, and I mean, balls rippingly horrible in secret.

Towards the beginning of the actual investigation the movie is about, Ed Warren talk to the dad about demonic possession, and if the kids were baptised, and then tells the dad that baptism was basically an urgent requirement for protection.  Um, okay, before we continue, let me say that I am no enemy to faith.  I am a Buddhist as well as a person who prays to the Greco-Roman Gods, if anything, I have enough faith to last me this lifetime.  However, I do not see a time of crisis: physical, mental, or spiritual, as a time to proselytize, I think such a thing is immoral.  Also, for being such a protective power against demons and other spiritually icky things, I wonder why then does it seem that Christians are the most assaulted by demons?

Also, if non-Christian spirituality attracts demons, as is suggested in more recent times by Lorraine Warren, I should be swimming in demons, much like St. Anthony.  The statues of the Gods and Buddhas, my two malas, shit I bought from the New Age store (like the Reiki charged candles, which I bought mainly because they smelled good), and let's not forget the time I opened my girlfriend's keychain Ouija Board in my room and moved the planchette across the board.  Damn, soon ghosts will be dragging me off my bed and head first into closets and vomiting blood into my mouth.

TIME TO MOVE!

This movie was an insult not only to non-Christian spirituality, but also to the religion that the movie seemed to lift high up on a pedestal, Catholicism.  I'm not doubting that Ed and Lorraine were not devout Catholics, I would never do that.  However, isn't there supposed to be some sort of protocall before an exorcism, including fasting and ritual preperation?  And isn't that a type of training usually given to a priest, or is usually undergone by one?  Much like I would doubt any Tom, Dick, or Sylvia claiming to practice authentic Tantra, I think a non-trained person doing an exorcism is a bit insulting to the tradition behind it.  I'm surprised the demon didn't pull a Jonah Hill and claim that the power of Christ wasn't really that compelling.

Beyond the movie being preachy, the movie seemed to be more of a hagiography of Ed and Lorraine Warren than a movie about the haunting and investigation.  I came to see this investigation.  I came to see ghosts and shit I haven't seen since The Exorcist.  Instead, we are treated to a look in the daily life of the Warrens.  While it was a nice look, it would have been more fitting for a biography than a horror film.  In fact, and interview with Andrea Perron on The Blaze (which I am not linking to due the me not wanting this site infected with Glenn Beck cooties lmao) states that some parts of the investigation were even left out (perhaps to make room for more hagiographical scenes).

But at least the family knew when it was TIME TO MOVE.

I didn't leave the theater insulted.  I guess some of the more insulting bits came more in the sense of Fridge Horror than anything else.  I had more pressing issues at hand, like where to drive to drop off people and such.  But the more I sat and thought, the more I realized that, under the layers of a decent film, was this festering hole of preachiness and a hagiography that, while interesting, had no place in this film.

Happy Blogiversary

WHEW!

I did it, we did it.

One whole year of blogging.

I do not know what to say.

Well, I could always do my cast roll like I was going to yesterday.  I've actually been kind of busy all week, trying to get this job I applied for, working on my schedule, things have been chaotic, but one thing I have looked forward to is this day.  This day is special, it's my Blogiversary!

And I'm actually not feeling too hot today, leave it to me to kind of feel a bit sick on my Blogiversary.

Fuck..........

So, tomorrow you get my Blogiversary vid and also the secret, the secret behind the one missing day that was supposed to be legitimately missing ( and not like the other missing days that are missing due to laziness).

Four Cat Pics, as I Promised

Here are my Four Cats:

Addy

Cali

Garfield

Lucky

No reason for this blog, just showing off my cats, because cats are awesome!