Well, it's been awhile since I've posted on here, and there have been some minor changes already, the biggest of which has been my changing from ICQ, which forced me to update to its newest version with the sound of new messages arriving which I CANNOT TURN OFF, to Trillian.

So, max_the_black, chaos_r? I can't message you two anymore since I don't have an AIM account and I can't get your contacts to appear on Trillian.

The other thing I've found is that with my new job, working 10 hours a day roughing in a house, I'm almost always very very tired by the end of it. Tired, hot, and sweaty, which puts me not in a mood to work out, but to just lay about and do nothing. For example, last night, I just took things easy and was semi-conscious while messaging a few others before finally falling asleep around eight or so. I'm actually feeling wide awake now, since I got me an extra two hours of sleep, which I'll need for today because I'm going to be working extra hard. Since I'm taking tomorrow off, I'll be trying to help Jon, my co-worker, get as much done as possible.

A great side effect of working this hard has been that I am actually writing consistently once more, much to my relief. I think getting such a productive job, where I work hard and feel like I've accomplished something by the end of the day, has helped me to overcome the writer's block I was going through. That and not having to worry about playing WoW and grinding out cash.

Seriously, that game was such a JOB at times I have to wonder why I played it for as long as I did.

Tomorrow, after I get paid, it's time for some running around, paying bills, and whatnot.

And sleeping in.

Lots of that, considering I worked straight through the weekend.

Love...

... is someone subbing the 80s run of the Dirty Pair anime.

Sweet god/goddess in heaven, but there's nothing better than 80s anime! The music, the sound effects, the animation and designs, not to mention that funky hair, WHOOO! ^^

Ahhh, I love the 80s.

And so did the sun rise up and Saturday became Sunday, and on that day, this day, I turned 30 years old.

I am now officially too old to have ANY interest in anime, games, superhero comic books, or anything else of the sort. ;p

*snort* Hardly, just kidding around.

I honestly don't see any reason to give up any of the things I like just because I've reached a certain age. It seems to be implied that you have to give up certain things at certain times because then they'll encompass your whole life and you'll live for nothing else.

As for turning thirty itself, I don't feel any older, any different than I did the day before. I still feel like me, and my life is chugging along at a good pace here. I got all signed up with the Union, with the wage for a first year apprentice being 26 an hour, I'll be able to finally make some headway in paying off my student loans this year, as well as easily affording money for rent and whatnot.

How did I get a job in a unionized company? Well, it all started on...




So that's all taken care of, thankfully, and at this job, I'll get easily 10 hours of overtime, easy. I can pick up another 10 on the weekend if I so desire, and I'll be doing that for sure so that I can pay off my Visa, which is far too big for my liking.

Other than that, nothing much has happened, and I went to a party here last night, as one of the other roomies upstairs, Jason, had his birthday this weekend too, so we celebrated both. I got a couple of cards, and Marlene, my landlord, got me a bike. It's second hand and needs some fine tuning, but at least I have some transportation now.

And I don't need to buy gas for it. ^^

Well, off to my new job tomorrow. Night night!

Just was flicking through the channels when I saw some of Naruto in his continuing search for his lover, soulmate, best buddy Sasuke, when Sakura actually did something selfless and noble.

Naruto's response?

Naruto: Don't you ever sacrifice yourself, even for someone else!

Translation: You're a girl Sakura, and only manly men can sacrifice themselves so nobly!

And what did Sakura do, boiled down?

Inspired Naruto to go Super Saiyan Hulk-out so he could break out of someone's unbreakable hold by placing herself in danger. *YAWN*

So she's a cheerleader. About the only improvement I've seen is that even now she's realized how useless she's been made by the writing.

Seriously, this is how many hundreds of episodes in and she's STILL the same useless character? Forget the cheeseburger, I can haz character growth please?

At least now I know why I don't watch as much anime as I used to; it's all the bloody same.

Well, after some thought and realizing that I've been playing the game less and less every week, I finally canceled my subscription to the World of Warcraft game and took it off of my computer.

At this stage, it wasn't so much fun as it was a second job for grinding out nonexistant gold that I could not use in real life for moving just a little bit faster across a landscape that had grown damned boring. It was fun at first, to be sure, but not anymore, not when I can use that time to read, write, learn to play my guitar, and date women.

Especially date women.

Like the Spanish lady who's slim and likes to boogey that my landlord is going to introduce me to at her house warming disco party.

Also, I  got a new job doing residential wiring  that I start on Monday, so only two and a half more days at my old job which is teaching me nothing and making me darned apathetic.

Well, on Saturday I moved into my new place, and in that new place on Tuesday, I received Internet.

I don't think I can properly explain how good it is to be in my own place that's basically mine since Dean, one roomie, stays with his girlfriend and the other, Trevor, works the night shift.

So, I present to you, some pictures...


It's awesome, and I love it, and all I need to complete it is a nice lady to share my life with.

Which I'm working on, BTW.

In other news, I need more work, so I can at least pay off my visa. If I can clean that off rather than relying solely on my regular job, then it'd get me closer to paying off my student loans. I need some extra work, but I don't want a second job because I don't want to commit to that. It's also a huge drain to be working two jobs.

Which leaves me with finding work elsewhere... as in, under the table.

>_>

(dons ninja suit and electrical tool belt)

The Ninja Electrician heads out!

Well, the day has come where I'll be moving out and into my own room in a basement suite I'm sharing with two other guys. The place is huge, of course, with a high ceiling and all the expenses paid, such as heat, electricity, and even a local phone line. No longer will I have to worry about coming quietly into my OWN room for fear of waking the roomie, seeing Trout Face's expression upon the asking of VERY SIMPLE questions, nor hear Kayla's complaining about how she has to work and oh, what it does to her nerves and how stressful it is to do more than 4 days of it.

I'll also have four walls instead of just 3 with a bedsheet replacing the forth, and an awesome kitchen to work in, so this weekend, I'll be making some specially done up chicken with a recipe provided by lynn_neko.

Ohhh, I cannot wait to get out of here, however, I might be offline for a bit, as I'm looking to get my own Internet access over there instead of having to plug in something else to this computer and pay more money and possibly deal with the after-effects. That and I don't think I have enough room in my computer for a wireless card, nor the money to get it AND install it.

Besides, I don't want to be fighting my roomie for bandwidth.

Plus, a good and proper bed to sleep in, that'll be great.

Well, see you guys later.

Now, as some of my friends know, I subscribe to WoW, and have been doing so for quite awhile. In fact, it was when I first met max_the_black that I first subscribed to that MMORPG, and overall, it's been a positive experience.

However, one thing did come to me as I was trying to save up gold to buy a level 60 mount, and that is the thing which ALL MMORPGs require: grinding.

Grinding, in and of itself, is very tedious and boring, to the point where I'm close to getting a headache just from staring at the screen for so long, and from my brief viewing of the forums, most recommend farming, grinding, mining, whatever for 4-5 hours a day in a certain spot to build up the gold to get what you what.

4-5 hours.

A day.

Grinding.

That sounds an awful lot like a very boring job to me, if I do say so myself, and it simply boggled my mind that people would do as much in this game. for so very long. Sure, I'm doing it now, but I'm sick and have to stay inside, something I can't help. Still, when faced with playing that much and doing something outside, I'd honestly prefer to go work out, work outside, or just go biking... outside. In the outdoors.

I just can't wrap my mind around doing something like that for so long, to the point that anything constructive I might have had to say is lost at the thought of sitting in my chair for hours starring at a screen.  I may sit in this chair for hours from time to time, but I also like to read good old paper books, something solid , weight,  and with that wonderful smell that comes from pulp made paper and ink combined.

I'm also not trying to say there's anything wrong with it either. I've been a geek, a pro-wrestler, and other things in my life that steer off from what everyone seems to label as normal, so neither do I want to label any lifestyle different from mine as wrong, I don't have the ground to stand on, either.

In a way, this all relates to my turning 30 next month, and how, in my older age, I've become a lot more selective of what I spend my time on. For example, I'm continuing to work out because I like listening to music and exercising my body. I've included bike riding in this because there's nothing that'll get me as close to flying as riding a bike while the beats of my favourite tunes sound in my ears.

Movies, TV, and reading materials have also fallen into this critical eye with which I now view them, and I find myself needing something... deeper to truly enjoy it. A lot of what I was extremely hot upon has cooled, such as various anime series I'd been watching,  as well as the second season of WITCH (and not just because Weisman killed all my OTPs by making the male minor characters from the comic all important).

The new Spectacular Spider-Man cartoon series has certainly captured my heart with its different art style and frenetic action, but also with the old school feeling of a young Peter Parker truly struggling with his responsibilities as a superhero and his responsibilities in regards to friends and family. It's really very good, in terms of story telling and action, and... sadly enough, better than Spider-Man 3.

Games I honestly don't have much time for unless they're very good RPGs. I made time for Wild Arms 3, which had a fantastic story to tell, and I'm looking to get Skies of Arcadia for the Gamecube from a friend, which I'll make time for as well.

I guess as I get older, with me, and who I am, I wish to do something more tangible, something I can hold up in my hands or see and hear and feel and taste, as opposed to what one accomplishes on a computer. Again, this is not an insult towards those who feel inclined to stay indoors, it's simply my feeling.

Wow, that felt good to get out. I don't know why, it just did.

Well, time to order me up a pizza and nurse my illness all weekend. Tomorrow I get a good massage, and hopefully I'll feel better.

Well, that itchiness, dryness, and constant coughing up of crap in my throat has finally gotten to me, laying me out with a mild case of bronchitis. I went into work yesterday morning and just couldn't hack it anymore, so I got my butt taken to a hospital and checked out. Two hours later, I was at home recovering with medication. Fortunately, since I have medical insurance, I only had to pay the dispensing fee for the drugs, which was only 17 bucks.

Now I'm home for the rest of the week and throughout the weekend, trying to stay warm and get better. My chest has already loosened, and I'm currently in the process of hacking up all the crap and gunk in my lungs.

However, come Monday when I'm all better, I'm going to have to get in as many hours as I can to make up for the days I've lost. It won't be so bad, but it's going to be a grind.

In other news, I get paid tonight at midnight, and I'm getting some money onto the visa, but also to pay the first month of rent at my new place, which I'll be able to move in come June 1st. That will be nice to take care of.

Well, time to lay down a bit... ciao..

First off... two more weeks until I move into my new place! Yay! Hooray! Celebrations! I can't wait to get into my own room in my own place with my own key. As of late, I've been locked out of the house time and time again, and it's getting really annoying. It's basically gotten to the point where I can't depend on the door being open even after coming back from a workout.

I also checked myself against my last update, and I dropped an inch and a half off my waist. I may not have lost much weight, although I haven't gained it back, but I feel I'm in much better shape. The bike riding has helped, although I wish my side wouldn't hurt so much from time to time.

I'm also keeping an eye out for another job elsewhere. Keyano College might be hiring electricians soon, and if I get some work in as a teacher, then that'd be great too. I'd like to get some more work out of this bachelor's degree I've got.

Why look when I've got a job already? Mainly because most of the seniour guys are looking to go elsewhere for better pay and benefits. It's making me a bit nervous, although I'm not going to go anywhere else unless it's absolutely necessary.  There was also the matter of Dan pushing me to get a car, although after I'd chatted with Ryan about it, the matter hasn't been brought back up since.

Still, I don't want to be left hanging...

I also have to work tomorrow, even though it's a holiday, because the company pays us vacation pay, and so they don't feel the need to pay us for stat holidays. For my International readers, tomorrow is Victoria's Day here in Canada, and as such, if you've worked for a comapny for mroe than 30 days, you get the day off AND get paid 8 hours for it.

Not with Convergent.

Plus, all that crap in the water treatment facility is messing with my sinuses and sticking to the back of my throat, making me cough and gag every bloody morning.