Greetings friends and fellow bloggers. Today I bought a 2008 RAV4. Now, it's a pretty cool car, small SUV. It's suprisingly powerful with a small V6. Gets suprisingly good milage. And it's comfortable to drive. I prefere standard transmissions, but only automatics are availible. Fair enough. The unfortunate thing is that I won't likely get to drive it often as my wife has already laid claim to it. sighs Well, I work a lot of nights, so I can take it when she is sleeping.
Greetings friends and fellow bloggers. I have come to the conclution that I no longer have the use of adverbs. Unfortunetly (one of the few adverbs I use correctly), I enjoy being discriptive when I post to the forums or in blogs, so I tend to be very wordy. And I think that I have hamstrung myself by limiting the use of adverbs, but I cannot in all good consciousness, continue to use adverbs until I can correctly use Adjetives at least 80%. Remember the Bush Administration's educational policy, Leave No Particle of Speach Behind.
Let me leave you with a challenge. How long can you go without using the verb to be in any of its conjugations? I once went 48 minutes.
Greeting friends and fellow bloggers. I have taken my depression medication and now feel totally funky. In fact, I made a totally inapproprate post in the Bleach forum and I can't stop laughing to myself. Anyway, after a 17 hour shift, I went home to pick up my wife to take her to do her driving test at 9am in the morning. I am soooo exhusted, but you gotta do what you gotta do. So, anyway, I have been taking her our to practice driving over the past few weeks. And the truth is I am not too worried about her actually driving as long as she is being mindful of the American style of driving...it's when she drives chinese that she scares the living bejesus out of me. So, I expected her to pass. So, the good news is that she passes and now has a US drivers license. The bad news, and I totally saw this coming, is that we are not even home on our way from the Department of Licenseing and she is already asking for a new car. Yeah, I knew it was coming. I thought that I was prepared for it. But hearing her say that out loud, well...I guess that I wasn't prepared. The prospect of dropping another 20 or 30K...damn...my savings only goes so far. Anyway, my stress level is high as I try to wrap my mind around the possibilities. At least she is no longer asking for a Mercades or BMW. Jesus. I remember when that conversation first came up. My long and disjointed life flashed before my working-class eyes. But we agreed upon a Toyota SUV. I can live with that. I like Toyotas...my last two cars have been Toyotas and their 3.5L V6 gets better gas milages than their 2.4L I4 eventhough it pulls 100hp more. God bless technology! Anyways, we have a weekly 'date night' and this week our date is car shopping. Maybe it will be fun...but I still this sinking feels in the pit of my gut.
Greetings, my friends and fellow bloggers. I have noticed that since the end of Blood+ (please note my continued and shameless references to Blood+) that all most all of my posts to the various forums have been and the game and humor threads. Now, knowing myself relatively well, I am not at all suprised by my posting proclivities. And I have seen some very funny posts over the last six months or so. When I think back to one of my favorit 10 posts, I am reminded of something I put down on a game thread in the Bleach forum called Bleach Blind Date. My quote is "Pull a Rusty Singapore" describing what Chizuru would say about Orihime. Yuri, to be sure, but I really have not idea what that could possibly be. Anyway, I laughed by butt off when I was writing it. So, anyway, my question for you is this: what are some of the memerable things you have posted?
yeah, it's been several days since my last post and I am sitting here at my second job tired as all hell. And this vegetable juice goes straight to my brain. Anyway, I have a deal with my wife. She is totally against me geting a motorcycle. In fact, she said absolutely not. So, any way, I have been bringing up the issue. And, in a completely unexpected and unlike-her act of contrition and comprimise, she said that she would let me get a motocycle if I was able to lose a significant amount of weight. Well, I dropped from 260 to 240 by just giving up sugar. But I have been stuck at 240 for a while and I even gained 5 pounds. Crap. So, I need to lose 45 lbs. We are going to started hiking on my day off, although that isn't arobic excerise, it is still something. I was thinking about cuting my alcohol consumption in half again, down to one a day, but then I am not sure how I would deal with my dysthymia. Of well. One step at a time...on in my case, one pound at a time.
Maybe it's the witching hour, maybe it's my dysthymia, maybe it's because my wife is out of town and I feel a little lonely, or maybe it is because I am in a drunken stuppor at the moment. In any case, I had a very strange idea. I think that the origins of this idea came from an intercetion of two events that happened in the past 30 minutes. The first is, I just finished watching the second episode of Bleach. Now, the second episode of Bleach, Rukia explain to Ichigo a little about the nature of hollows. The second is that I was posting about a filler episode on the Bleach forum. And as I was thinking both about the post I was making and the episode I had just watched, a strange thought occured to me: the supposition that hollows - basically evil spirits - are created when a soul can't let go of thoughts, feelings, or identity after death. This prevents a soul from 'passing on', as they say in Bleach. And anchored to the thoughts and feelings, a soul then corrupts, unable to move beyond the context of the moment of those thoughts and feelings.
Now, here is the thing. This concept from Bleach now strikes me as being very Buddhist. Particularly the metaphore of the 'anchor' and the 'hollow'. Now, I fully understand that Buddhism isn't the sole religion in Japan, but I have to wonder if this concept is present in Bleach because of Buddhist elements in Japanese society, or perhaps in the author of the orginal manga, or perhapse it's just a coincidence. Anyway, just thinking out loud here. Has anybody else observed a spiritual or religious subtext in Bleach. I will say that I am not super intimate with Buddhism, although I studied Buddhism both as a kid and later in college. I married a Buddhist woman. And although I am a catholic, I have a Buddhist idol on my mantal in place of the Virgin Mary. And if you look at the top of my page, you will see a picture I took several years back of a Buddhist carving. Ummm...I think I just lost my train of thought. Anyway, anybody have any idea how off base I am on this???
Hello fellow manga readers. Ok, here is something that I don't totally get. I mean I sorta get it, but then again, I sorta don't.
Backstep...
Ok, here's the deal. I read manga daily...or just about daily. Maybe just a few chapters, maybe 20 or more if I only work one shift and I am not in a drunken stuppor. The point is that over the past year, I've seen a fair share. Now, there is something that seems to be universal in shounen romance commedies, and that is the lustful nose bleed. (yeah, you won't see it any other target manga - imagine a nose bleed in a Seinen - I'd be like, why the F am I reading this - but for some reason, for shounen it works so well that next to the harem theme, it's the second most symbolic image) Dear god, that was a long parenthetical statement...but I digress.
segue...
So I don't get the gysier of blood errupting like Old Faithful whenever a teen age boy sees a pretty teen age girl in a provocative situation. Ok, I get the flushing. I get the physiological response to an increased heart rate. And the thing that is even more bizzar is that the girls never seem to notice the large pools of blood or the dude hemoraging all over himself. I am not sure which is the harder aspect to disbelieve. I came in from PE many times bleeding...and maybe this was just the mid 1980s...but I tell you this...Girls notice. And if it was firing out of me like I ruptured an artery, I never would have dated at all...even considering how cool I thought I was. So, anyway, what's the deal??? I mean, it's only in romance manga...OMG...can you imagine what would have happened if Ichigo fired two gouts of blood out of his nostrils when Yoruichi pulled-a-Sharron-Stone on him? I mean, is blood really that funny? So break it down for me, because I'm not getting the big picture.
Hello, once again my friends and fellow bloggers. This is a call out to danharr, one of my very first tv.com friends...from way back when the only forum I went to and the only show I watched was Blood+ (please note my continues and shameless reference to Blood+). Perhaps this is shameless as well, but it pleases me that I have some cool, thoughtful, and interesting people to talk to and debate with. About 80% of my online time occures during the witching hour between midnight and 8am. And I am glad too that when I am at my most fatigued after, or during, a 16 hour shift, that I can spend some time on the boards and in the blogs here at tv.com. So, thanx, danharr for giving me the shout-out and a bit of recognition. BTW, danharr, why didn't you like my travel stories??? Those were always my favorit posts...
see ya
ST'Q
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