Oh Bon Jovi, What Happened To Thee

From their newish country song that's all over the radio stations that I am forced to listen to at work, I quote: "Like a blind dawg without a bone/I was a Gypsy lost in the Twilight Zone/ I hijacked a rainbow and crashed into a Pot of Gold".

What In The Living Fuck do visually impaired canines, the Roma, and an old Sci-Fi Show have to do with leprechauns?

Worst Simile EVER!!!

Q: Does this show an total lack of respect for the intelligence of the audience,or does this make sense if you smoke something good?

Eye Are Eye Dee Ten Tea

The following is the text of an e-mail I just sent. If you didn't receive it, and you're reading this, that means I don't have your e-mail. Read the e-mail, and if you wish to respond, write to markjess at gmail dot com. Thanks


So, as the title of this e-mail would suggest, I am an idiot. While perhaps not the most surprising of admissions, I have manifested this behavior in a particularly idiotic fashion this time. After finishing my business on the toilet the other night, I promptly stood up and pulled up my trousers in a rather abrupt, authoritative manner, as if to say "Ha, showed you who's boss". No sooner had I done that, when I heard a splash coming from the commode, and looked with curiosity at the bowl. My cell phone had somehow, as a result of my authouritative pants yanking (please, no jokes) gone from my pocket to the, I must emphasize, CLEAN toilet bowl, and become wholly immersed in water. I pulled it out and tried to dry it out, but to no avail. The phone will not start up, and as such I have my phonebook, which I do not have a back up of.

So, this is a long way of saying, I can't remember phone number for shit, so if you could e-mail me with your contact info, it would be much appreciated. I should have a new phone within couple of days. At which time I will return to taking advantage of my unlimited long distance.

Thanks,

Marcus

Well Then

Those of you have read this blog in the past will know that a)the writing isn't all that good and b) it's infrequently updated, indeed, moribund since Canada Day last.

While I make no firm promises as to future updates, I will declare this: I hereby pledge myself to keeping this off of Smith's Dead Blogs link, from now until July, unless I really can't be bothered. So, with this wholly equivocal commitment made, let us begin to barely meet it.

When I started this, I was in Lethbridge, and had nothing better to do on the Internet than read webcomics and the blogs of everyone Steve knew, and others besides. But, last spring, two big things happened: I moved back to Edmonton, and I upgraded my computer. This meant that MSN would no longer be my main point of contact, and that I would be able to catch up on my PC gaming. I'd been gone from Counter-Strike too long to get back into as deep as I had been in second year. Yes, I was leet, or 1337, and nigh on uber 1337 when I had to leave the U of A. Some claim that the two or linked, but I believe that to be a fallacy of the sic hoc, ergo propter ho type.

Anyways, I played a little CS, but I didn't have the hardware to run CS: Source, and that's where all the action is these days, so I went and got hooked on an even better drug, World of WarCrack, er, WarCraft. This game is so wicked-awesome-cool, that I no longer was able to waste my time reading blogs, because I was wasting my time leveling a character, or trying to make money on the Auction House, or just Fishing. Yes, this game has fishing, and that's just one of the reasons I love it.

So, between that, and work, that's pretty much all I've been up to for the last 7 months or so. By mid-August I had a 36 Human Paladin on the same PvE server as my buddy Paul. Then, I went to Dark Iron, a PvP server, after the guys at Penny Arcade issued a call to defeat the PvP Online Horde. Long story short, I created a Dwarven Hunter, yadda yadda yadda, he's now level 50 and has a big red Hyena named Clifford, and I'm pissed off that I'm not at level 60 and running with all the people I used to run with. But, whatever, I've had 4 days that I haven't been paid for in the last fourty odd.

Yes, my name is Mark, and I am a Big Geek. In other news, I think I have decided what to do with my life, post-secondary & career wise. But that can wait, as it will give me an excuse for another post.