Hello All,

Yep, this was the one I had actually planned on writing, and there was a reason I had saved it till now. I had hoped to have some news in my life that would bring me a measure of calm, but that didn't quite happen. :lol: A bit long probably, but it is a wrap-up of the past while.

College has finally hit full swing, which means I cannot merely skate through it. I am going for an AS degree in networking...but far more importantly, for CCNA certification. It is recognized in most of the modern world as a certification meaning you certainly know your stuff and are safe to hire...because of this, "John1918: CCNA," may soon be coming to a country near you! :P Right now I am buckling just a tad under the new influx of work, but it will pass with time...most consuming of all is likely the capstone project I am working on right now with a man named William. It has us going in and redoing the entire network and computer systems of a business...while maintaining the lowest possible cost and ensuring many other variables are satisfied while still doing everything the course normally wants as well...though the 1000-odd page book I'm supposed to know by heart is also a bit...um...scary. :lol: Oh, I also am fearing the snow starting again...because once it does I may not be able to make it to cl@ss.

On the gaming front I have happened to aquire a few new playthings, such as the original Halo (nope, never played it). This adds to my collection of stuff I don't really have the time to play...but I literally got the stuff for a song...no pennies left their John. :wink: A sad thing for gaming, however, is my current lack of time to really play all that much...and, for some reason, Dawn of War still seems to draw my time, likely because I can play it for extremely short bursts while I am trying to keep my head from exploding because of work.

Now that good thing I wanted to be able to tell you about. :? I get funding for going to school, money paid to me for my 'seat-time,' which is one reason I try to take a rather full schedule. However, mess-ups with this stopped it from firing up with the new semester, and I was forced to sit out the first month while I fixed it. The first of October I was supposed to get a check again...this time having it all fixed, however, I got nothing whatsoever that day in the mail. Today, the second, I am hoping against hope that it is late, but I whole-heartedly expect it to not come till at least November. My main problem here is that I started the semester with very tight funds, and those funds are essentially gone, despite being extremely careful and spending very little on myself personally.

I now am getting a temporary loan from my family (yes, I pay them back as soon as possible and hate to take small loans from them) so I can continue to afford gasoline for the car, without that, I would not be attending cl@ss. I am considering that I may have to get a job in addition to a full board of cl@sses, 12 hours each week spent driving, and the many little things I must do here to keep things running smoothly. However, there is the slight problem of tiny places having very few free jobs, especially with the small number of hours I will actually be able to devote to working. If I end up finding and taking a part-time job, then I will likely inform you all that I will not likely have any free time for the internet or gaming...

That there has shoved me from feeling down to teetering on mildly depressed, and at times I've even found it hard to laugh...odd for me as I always do my best to joke and laugh through anything.

As you might have heard me muttering as I wandered through the halls of GS, my sleeping hours have been the hardest hit of all my 'spare' time. I have not fallen asleep before 3 AM for about two weeks, and mostly have done so after 4 AM, right now my eyes are not red-lined, but rather an unhealthy shade of pink...they also get these nice circles under them after I've been up for about 14 hours. I'm guessing this is why my back has been hurting for about 5 days, and probably explains the headaches and overall tired and sore feeling.

Um...some good stuff would go good here. I am pulling A's out of my cl@sses, and I am the top of the hardest and most technical course. I've found some good guys at college, and actually half-way fit in with the people there, which is surprising for me as I do not always fit...some of you have noticed I possess 'mild' intelligence, and that can be a real drawback for fitting in. I've also been considering trying out for next year's football (american version) team because of going to some games at the high-school and deciding that it could be fun to play on a team with equipment other than a ball and training other than "hit 'em." :D I used to play a fair amount, but nowadays I might be too small for a team to want me. :lol:

Sadly I've only done a few fun things down in the city because of lacking money, but the library is pretty nice at the college, and it doesn't cost anything to talk to some of the nice young women there...of course, they are all taken, but that does not mean I cannot say hello. It is also really funny to watch boyfriends puff up their chests if they notice me saying hello. :lol: Right now I'm looking for other things to do that are free, and though my list is short, it should give me something enjoyable to do till I have no time to do anything. :wink:

I was going to reply to my old blogs here, but it would likely pass me over the word-limit...so that will be a separate thing appearing soon probably...if any of you even give a damn. :lol: I think I am going to go to sleep...god only knows I need lots of that. :D Best wishes to all of you, maybe your days be bright, and your life be merry. :)

-John1918

A friend is a story held not in the hand,
that flitters from mind into soul,
each day a new chapter springs into life,
and this way our stories are told.

Each of your stories are dear to me,
uniquely a small piece of you,
for these I am happy for the passing of days,
and to share my own chapters with you. :)

I am going to sleep...that is all. :roll:

After the first I will make a real blog probably...but for now, put all yelling at John for being an idiot in PM form so he can see it tomorrow...and yes, he already knows he is an idiot. :P

Thank you, come again.

Hello All,

Firstly, I would like you all to note that this is categorized as humor...mostly because I have a migraine, and right now I cannot really think clearly, an amazing time to write, I tell you that! :lol:

Ok, so this story has been told to a couple of immensely "lucky" souls out there...maybe...I can't really remember if I actually told it all or not. :roll: At the very least, its existence has been hinted at. It happened a couple of days ago, and was when my life decided to be both rather unlucky, and rather lucky, all at the same time.

Two chapters here...

Build-up

[spoiler] I like to go walking, I think that is one of the relatively normal things about me, and I decided to go for a long walk the other day. I made up a pack for the first time in a long time, and went off up the mountain with the most athletic of our dogs. Its not exactly an easy walk, the path is pretty wide, but its steep, the rock is very loose, its in direct sunlight, and it has lots of wildlife that would love to munch on your innards.

Personally I've gotten used to the difficulty, after all, its the place I go walking the most. However, I ended up having to stop a number of times going up because the dog was panting...and normally he doesn't do that the entire time we are going. I do admit, it was mid-day in the summer sun, so I did sweat a fair amount on the way up, it was allot more comfortable once the clouds covered the sun a bit.

We got up to the first tier of the mountain and I wanted to sit for a bit, rest up, take a couple of pictures, all that good stuff. But Mr. Panty? Oh no, he wanted to walk around and wouldn't stop whining. :? So I eventually got up and went in circles around the old rock quarry pit, then I kinda got fed up with circles and we diverged a bit. Went off to the side, and convinced him to lay down while I put an 80, or so, pound boulder on his leash. When I was little I used to love jumping across rocks and going up little cliffs and all, so I decided to have some fun here by going across these 20 foot diameter boulders like that, jumping and climbing along for a good picture of the mountains. :)

I got some pictures, and had a hell of a good time going along the boulders like that, only a few of them even slipped away down the hill when I stepped on them. I might even upload a picture I took on here one day...when I'm not feeling quite as lazy. :roll: Then I went back to Mr. Whiny, and NO I did not go far from him at all, animal might have eaten him if I did. :P Anyways, I got him watered and gave him a little snack, and then we got up to go back to the house. [/spoiler]

Let loose.

[spoiler] Thats when the dog nearly jumped out of his skin (he's my little brother's dog and a damned chicken :|). There were a few shots fired down below us, and it wasn't exactly surprising, because its used for shooting practice from time to time...besides, it was a .22, so it sounded like somebody stepping on bubblewrap. :lol:

I climbed up to the crest of the hill, and started bellowing down at the family below us, waving my arms, and looking like a prime example of a lunatic. :D It took them a rather long time before one of them saw/heard me, and then I took a guess that they might understand hand-signals better, so I motioned from my position, and down the hill, they looked at me, and stopped shooting, so I figured it was all good.

I ran the dog down the hillside, mostly sliding down uncontrollably personally, since the rock was loose. We got to the bottom of the hill and rounded the corner into their line of sight, and then they all let loose with their rifles. (had not taken me but three minutes to get there) It was a solid pattern of 20 rounds and then a brief moment of reloading, only to have 20 more fly by. :| Now THIS, this took me by surprise a bit, and I leapt back as well as I could behind the relative safety of the hill...even if the .300 mag the dad was shooting could have easily gone through the thin spots of the hill. (This is where I twisted my left ankle)

I've been around guns for basically all my life, I own one, I have shot very many, and I've been around tons of them going off. I've even been shot at before, on purpose, so I knew that the bullets were landing near by me...just wasn't sure exactly how near. Apparently it was...well...it was a wee bit closer than was nice, especially with all the ricochets. :lol: Only people who have served in the military have likely had that number of bullets hit so nearby at once, it was around 60-80 shots during the second portion before I got them to stop.

After a minute I grabbed a white and blue shirt and jumped out during a reload to wave it like hell in front of them, taking care to leave the puppy behind the hill. They kinda got the message, and stopped for a minute, and I ran like the gates of hell were closing in front of me till I was no longer in the damned kill-zone. (Thats where I pulled something in the back of my right leg)

The dad was shocking someone had walked all that way, and was probably feeling a bit sheepish that he and his kids had nearly just turned me into something very, very, dead. I really wanted to yell just a wee bit that you shouldn't shoot somewhere when you KNOW there is a person there, but I decided that I should not let my anger out on a guy with a rifle when his kids are standing behind me with two more rifles.

I ended up realizing that the family camera had fallen out of my pack when I did my shirt waving, went back down the hill in half the time it normally took, and then went up with a vehicle, and eventually found it. Shockingly I only got yelled at a bit by my mother, she was rather less angry than I expected. [/spoiler]

So, yeah, you all had a very good chance there of never having to hear from me again. I just happened to have a bit of grace from god, or a bit of good luck, or maybe you had a bit of bad luck, and I am still alive. You all run out and either thank your lucky stars, or curse them, depending on whether or not you would prefer me dead. :D Other things, obviously, have been happening, and I might do a slightly more normal blog at the end of the month or so, might even answer the comments in the last one. :o

I hope you all are doing well, I wish you all the best my friends, see you on the flipside.

-John1918

(For those wondering, my family is not being informed of the number of shots at my position, nor of the ankle-twisting or that fun stuff. :wink: )

Didn't accept the post till early on the 30th, oh well...:|

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Hello all, many of you can likely guess what this contains...at least those who have had the misfortune to learn the ways of my mind.

This day, the 29th of August, the first day of Thoth, an Egyptian God...holds something for me and my prescence here on Gamespot. A year ago this day, a n00b was born, wandering onto Gamespot, seeking perhaps a way to spend a bit of his time...

He drifted across a number of boards, rarely speaking, just watching to see what forums really were. He had once participated in such a thing, long before Gamespot had formed, and a friend had found him even back then, so he pondered what kind of people might come to this place of wild activity.

He settled into a union, making it his own, finding his place within it, and making the first of what would be many friends. As time passed on, the union split, and he was thrust into the limelight as leader. Over time he joined more unions, some he is still a part of, and gained rank in others.

Time changes all things, and time brought me to see the bugs of Glitchspot, and the horrible people who lurk in some of it's corridors. Some are older people, predators, looking to take advantage of young and foolish members in horrid ways, others merely asses and trolls whom I have no use for.

But time also brought me to find friends the like of which I have not had the blessing to meet in my life. Because of them I will never be able to truely hate Gamespot, and because of them I am still here. I would like to thank my friends for this friendship, from some of the oldest and dearest like David, to the newest as of this point of my writing on the 25th, veni-vidi-vici.

All of you, my friends, are dear to me. Despite how I may tease you, or how I may appear to act, I do truly care about you, despite my hardened heart, and I wish you all only the best. I would also like to thank you all for befriending me, it is a pleasure, and an honor, to know you all. :)

Time again is changing my life, and shaping it with no reguard for any wishes of mine or yours. College is swinging, and though I am doing well at this moment, it will swing all the harder soon enough. Already lacking much time to spare for Gamespot at some points, I am now officially stepping down from my leader positions. (though will remain the leader of one until I can find a person willing to even post :|) I am sorry in truth, for I had plans for both of them, but I am also relieved to be able to remove a burden that was threatening to break this camel's back.

I welcome my leaders to remove me from officiatorial positions, as I will not be acceptionally productive as of this moment. If you choose to leave me be, I will be around a small amount, and I will be back someday in a slightly larger small amount for a short while.

For my friends, this merely means that I will still be only spottily going to blogs. I will do my best, serving my own curiosity, to get around to you all, but sometimes I may not comment quickly, or at all. But remember, I am here for you if you need me, you all are now the reason I am here, the only reason.

A year has passed, and much has changed, but some things are still the same, I guess this is common in all lives, but having good friends, perhaps that is not something to complain about not changing. :)

-Your Friend, John

Changes come so fast these days,
and time slips by like rain,
I must hold tight to my dear friends,
or they may just do the same.

Goodbye All,

Yes, I started off with 'Goodbye,' you might be able to guess where this is headed.

On Monday college fires up, ergo, not going to be around much at all. Stepping down at both of the 'True' unions, though I still am working on my list of tasks for the 40k one. Otherwise, I might come around to blogs, and pm's will be checked some, just not sure how much. It all depends how much work I have to do, and that will only get to be more as a late-starting class fires up.

Needed to do this anyways, I've been pushing myself way too hard, free time is gone, and gaming-time is just when I am skivving off other time. So it's for the best. :)

MSN will still get some attention from me, as will my email addresses, and my mod will be getting some as well. Otherwise, not so much, I'm even putting my novel on a back-burner until I get the crazy bottled up.

Not gone for good, yet, but gone mostly.

-Adieu, Arrivederci, Goodbye, John

Hello All,

I actually have a few different blog ideas, but I've been doing other things lately and they are piling up, for now I have this, an update on the game modification Epic Commander for the game Supreme Commander.



Warhound Titans, great for killing, smashing, and tea parties. :P

It is a short update, but if you like giant robots with guns, it probably is a good one too. :wink:

Not much else to say in this one, short blog for me. :lol:

Link to Update on Official Forums

-John

Hello All,

Yes, once again I have come back from the oblivion I pass into when I am not around here. I actually managed to not get hopelessly lost, get crashed into in the car, horribly injure myself, or get eaten by a bear while I was gone...I think I just heard one of you say "Dam It!" :| I'm back with a large number of mosquito bites (there should NOT be mosquitos on the coast like that), a small number of pounds lost from my body I would assume from malnourishment, and a slightly cleared head. Of course, I also am really, really, really, tired, so any and all comments on here are likely to have additional insanity even above my normal levels. :P

For those of you who did not get a reply from the last blog, those are now in, so go check out my horrid norwegian and all that other wonderful stuff. :lol: PM's should be getting replied to soon, then again, we have nearly all found out in one way or another that I'm not superbly punctual at times with those. :roll:

Now you might be more interested in my trip than in looking at your computer's cd drive light blink, so I'll give you the general run down.

[spoiler] I left from my home and ran up into Oregon, from there I hooked back down into California and stopped at a pizza parlour to grab some dinner, and breakfast. :wink: After that, I spent the rest of the early evening chatting to some older guy who didn't shy away from me like I was going to bludgeon him to death and steal his wallet...I swear, imaginations these days. :roll: After that I was alone for a fair portion of the night, and took to writing down an ancient legend about the birth of redwood trees, ended up finishing it by flashlight around 11 at night. (I'll upload a copy for the next blog maybe) Then it was time for the insomniac in me to take a little stroll or three around the campground. 8)

The next morning saw me taking and packing up and moving in the campground to another spot, I attracted a tiny bit of attention, because instead of folding my tent up and re-opening it, I carried it on my back flipped upside down. :D It was much easier than trying to pack the bugger down only to bring it back up. I then went off to go take a short walk down Damnation and back, Damnation trail that would be...only 2.1 miles top to bottom, and 1000 feet down. But that's long enough for it's own blog, probably the next one will have it. :) Suffice to say it wasn't the easiest walk in the park, nor was it the best maintained.

Didn't really do all the much that night, went to bed "early" around 11 after cooking dinner on my campfire. Next day saw me lazing about, getting cleaned up, and then diddling my way back home. Stopped a whole heck of allot of times on the way back, and the one person who was foolish enough to allow me to send postcards, they can expect to recieve a "few" of them...:roll: [/spoiler]

Hmm...what else did I want to put in here...Ah, yes, pictures for you lovely little people to oogle. :P So lets see what I can dig out of the camera...hmm...not that...or that...or that...oh hell no, not that...ah, here are a couple fit for your eyes. :wink:

Pictures from the road there:

[spoiler] Yes, my mountain, sadly it is losing most of it's snow.



What the bulk of the early drive looked like.



What it turned into.



Oregon.

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Other Pictures:

[spoiler] My Tent and Chair

The car that got me there.


Totally randomly snapped picture #9573, just this one happened to look nice. :D


I brought you all some flowers. :P Mind they are on the side of a really big cliff, so it really is amazing I got the picture. :wink:
[/spoiler]

Now the picture that a few of you might have been waiting to see...such poor innocent little people. :P This is the face behind John1918. :shock:

[spoiler] [/spoiler]

Now the question I would be interesting in hearing an answer to, did you expect something like that guy?

Anyways, this is getting really long, so I'm cutting off here, see you all soon, and enjoy the pictures. Oh, I might update the pictures to have links to bigger versions for some of them, but not yet.

Hello All,

Some of you might remember that title-line vaguely, its part of a poem of sorts from the Lord of the Rings...about the road, and how it beckons to those who would dare to follow its course. As I have sprinkled rumor of on this site, I plan to follow the road for a bit in the coming days...it has always beckoned me to follow in my life, and I sometimes wish I could travel as much as it would like me to.

Da Trip

[spoiler]

So on Tuesday, and Wednesday, and even on jolly old Thursday, I will be absent, missing, departed, and in all ways, shapes, and forms, gone. :D I will be traveling to the Western Coast of California, as the more lengthy trips I will eventually make will likely wait until next summer. Most of my trip shall be completely winging it, as I have resisted any offers of "help" in planning it out, I do not wish for timeframes or schedules, just little more than to see the redwoods, hear the ocean's roar, and feel the road pass beneath my feet. :)

However, it is fairly likely I will spend at least one night in the Del Norte Redwoods State Park (or something like that). So if you happen to be there at the time...uh, well nothing really because you wouldn't likely know who I was if you saw me. :lol: So if you want a post-card from the Western Coast of America, send me your mailing address as it should be written from an American point of origin, and I might, possibly, consider, maybe sending you one. :lol: No promises as I have a very bad memory with things like that. :P And no, I'm not a stalker or a letter-bomber. :lol: Maybe. :o [/spoiler]

Da Uvver Stuff

[spoiler] Now what else has happened? Well summer is ending sooner than one might have hoped, but it will be nice to get more of college over...college may be different than the numbered grades, but there is still part of me that asks myself why I'm not working a full job yet. :| This is an important thing I guess, because once college fires up I will be on here only very rarely. I'm considering trying to get my unions ready to be able to run without me, and then probably demoting myself in the ones I'm leader in.

I'll be headed down to the city, with a damn long drive, three days a week. And while it won't be too bad to be able to grab something or other from the store, it will be pretty bad to have to devote so much time to driving considering the amount of homework I expect. If it gets to be much more in later semesters I'll probably have to go into their dorms...which means more money out and a lovely roommate I hopefully wouldn't kill. :wink: Then again, it would also mean more parties...all clouds have silver linings. :P [/spoiler]

Da Uvver Uvver Stuff :P

[spoiler] Caution, Randomness. :shock: If you have been following along, the leg is finally back from oblivion, and now I've started up my midnight work-outs again. I've also been getting in some practice cooking, while the family has been gone to all and sundry, and it might scare some of you that I can actually make a pretty good meal. :lol:

On the gaming-front, I have now gotten to a similar point with Moe the Paladin as I was with my Necromancer before the restart. And I started back into one of the Rachet and Clank games for the PS2, mostly because my little brother really likes to watch me play it. :roll:

As for books, I read the Harry Potter thing, and was fairly disappointed with parts of it...not a bad book, but she sort of fell into doledrums with it. Also been reading a fair few other things, like "In the Company of Heroes." But, I'm not babbling on more on that. :P [/spoiler]

Well, that's it for now I suppose, see you all around.

Hello All,

So...lately I have been having a bit of a hard time wrapping myself around the more "serious" chunks of GS. Blogs I've been reading and commenting on some of the, my unions I've been visiting, but doing little more than the odd comment, and PMs...well, I've answered a couple...:roll: But more on that in it's own place. :P

The reformat went fairly well, and the comp is doing much better now. Unfortunately I lost most of my saved data, as I said, and that has set me back on a couple of things...sorry about that Roma. :( I've restarted Diablo 2 with a couple of different characters, and I am about half as far as I was before I lost my Necromancer. I also have gotten most of my programs loaded and running, though I still need to check the configuration on my firewall and a couple of little things like that...:roll:

I told a few of you that I had a slightly interesting story about my last camping trip, so here it is. :) Might be boring, but if you're on GS you have too much free time anyways. :P

[spoiler] I've said before that I do not sleep well at all, and it holds true for the road as well. Because of this I have developed a new habit for camping...I go for walks. Now that may sound normal, but, I happen to go for walks in the middle of the night, say 12 to 1 in the morning, normally without using a flashlight. This has snagged me a few laughs from people thinking I'm going to 'get them'...because it's always funny to watch people scurry away while trying to look normal. :P

But this time it nearly got me some trouble. :roll: I was out and had just gone about, oh, lets say a mile. And I had a guy say hello to me, normally people run, but sometimes they say hello. Now this guy was like my dad, always wanting to talk, so he actually got into a nice little conversation with me about the park and all. While we were talking security happened to pull along, and they took a bit of interest in the two young men talking on the side of the road at 12:30 at night. A few interesting questions later, the guy I was talking to started asking them something about the dock...and I decided it was a very good time to fade into the night while they were busy. :D

Another mile or so down the road, and I noticed a bunch of junk on the ground. Pulling out my unused flashlight, I have really good night vision, I took a closer look, and saw several hundred feet of toilet paper spread on the road. :lol: Now, I didn't do it (really), but I highly doubted they were going to believe some nut was out walking around at 1 in the morning just for the sake of walking. So I fired up my legs to a much faster speed so I wouldn't be around when security happened along again, and it worked, for a bit.

Eventually I headed back to my trailer, pretty much forgotten about the paper on the road by now. Nearly back to the trailer I saw some headlights in the distance...knowing it was my 'buddies' I stepped it up some more to get back before them...didn't quite work this time. :D

I took a 'detour' off the road into the neighboring site, and stalked off into the treeline, but...they saw the motion of my white shirt and stopped. :| A tense minute passed and I figured they were about to move off...they did move...but it happened to be backwards instead. :o A few spare seconds before the beams of the lights made my shirt yell "Hello!" I started back-pedaling a bit, as the paper was DIRECTLY outside my current location. (still didn't do it! :roll: )

Finding a nice big tree I slipped behind it and scooted around it in fun little circles like I've done while hiding from authority figures in cars before. (yes, I've done it before...and from more than some park security :P) Unfortunately they decided to get out of the car and look with a flashlight...this prompted me to be creative and lay down on the picnic table's bench for a 'nap'...figuring that A. the crossbeams would hide me, and B. I would have the excuse of napping. :lol:

While it certainly took the guy bloody well long enough to go away, my hiding spot was a good one...thank you to all games of hide and seek I have ever played. :wink: The next night also had some..."fun with security" but not quite as much. :P The real fun came along when my parents asked what had kept me so long. :D [/spoiler]

Now about being off lately, mind, off as in not thinking straight with GS, not actually off...I've had some things on my mind, and its been floating away a bit lately when I try to do GS stuff. This has led me to not do that much with my unions lately...sure I've been planning things, but actually doing them...not so much. :| The only reason I've actually been on as much as I have is because I hurt my leg a bit on my trip, therefore I missed out on some dog-walking and a party. :cry: :P

Whats next for me? Well, I just found out that a friend of mine, gamer_girl15, left her union to me in her absence to take care of. (everyone go here and wish her best of luck in infantry training, and best of luck for her grandmother. :)) So between that and my union I'll have a few things here to keep me busy.

Also, I'm going to take off for at least a few more trips before my summer closes out, camping in the redwoods, sans family, is one of my plans. I'm also fighting off a sudden urge to take a detour on my camping trip...the 2000 mile kind of detour. :lol: (Most of you will likely stratch your head about that...but a rare few might get it. :wink: ) Then college will fire up again, and when college hits, I guarantee you will not see nor hear from me nearly as much...so if you need to talk to me/get ahold of me, then pm me for an email/messenger thingy that I only rarely give out, there are a couple of you I am close enough to/trust/respect enough, that I would give it to you if you asked...and I'll try to check the less personal email some during college.

In GS news, I stopped tracking some people I never interact with, and the number of people who have looked at this profile is now even greater than my forum posts. :| Rather scary if you think about it. Also, I was considering tracking back a couple of the people on my list...but not decided on that yet. :P

So, this is another insane blog from John1918, have fun with it...and to answer a popular question: Yes, I am male, as those of you who have seen my pictures in some of my unions would know. :lol:

-John

Hello All,

Short blog here, I probably have enough stuff to say to kill your eyes, but I just wanted to say I'll be MIA for a bit till I get everything reinstalled. The computer is getting worse with each passing day, and I finally got what I wanted backed up...

I was heartily considering telling you all a few things about me, since you're just such devoted fans of mine. :P But I decided that doing so would also tell about some other people in my life, ergo its a nogo, because some of them are staying unknown to you all for now. :wink: Why I said that is currently unknown, I probably should have just skipped over it. But I've been acting odd lately and have been wanting to talk...a very un-John1918 thing. :?

See you all on the other side. :)

-John

[spoiler] [/spoiler]