Random Fusion

Some times even the best writers have a hard time thinking of something to write about. I suppose lately that it isn't that I am lacking material to write about, rather that the motivation to put my personal life down for all to see isn't there.

But talking about bad shit in your life helps. So, I am going to do a good versus bad thing here and let them duke it out.

Good Things
Shauna
My Friends
My Family
My Apartment
My Health
Smallville (I love that tv show)

Bad Things
My Job
My Bills
My Apartment (why cant it be free?)
My Health (I could be a bit thinner)

In the grand scheme of things, my life is very good right now. I have my own place, a well paying job, a loving girlfriend, family and supportive network of friends. My debts, while fairly weighty are actually under control (somewhat) and I get by as best I can. However, this doesn't mean I think things are all fine and dandy and rosey. In actuality, my job is stressing me out to almost, if not for sure, unhealthy levels and I think that the stress I am feeling is effecting my social, familial and personal relationships and when work does that, it isn't a good thing.

Trying to figure out some more of this template so I can change a few more things and make it a little more colorful. Look for more changes soon.

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Well, I guess the big news this morning is that Carmien got elected as Head Story Teller in the Fred By Night game and since he got elected that means that I am now the Assistant Story Teller for the game. I am going to be in charge of background story generation. I get to go through all of the players backgrounds, read them over very carefully and then put together sub plots and little stories out of the things the people have in their backgrounds. In addition to that I am also the genre ast, everything outside of the vampire genre, such as mage or werewolf, I am responsible for.

I will admit, I am very nervous about this, but also very excited about this as well. For the last little while, my interest in roleplaying has been dwindling and I was beginning to get myself ready to get out of it. Now I have a chance to spend some time seeing the game go the way I wanted it to. That isnt to say that I didnt love playing with the previous STs, but there were some things I wanted to see that didnt get done. Now, as a ast, I have a chance to do those things.

Shauna is going to help me with Mage stuff and Ryan will help me with Garou stuff.

I am looking forward to doing this.

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Shauna and I went to see this movie on Friday night. This is a must, must see movie.

::: Spirited Away :::

This is from the web site:

The winner of the prestigious Golden Bear Award at the 52nd Berlin International Film Festival makes its North American debut with The Walt Disney Studios' release of A Studio Ghibli film Miyazaki's Spirited Away the latest film from the legendary animation director Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke). Sprited Away follows the fanciful adventures of a ten-year-old girl named Chihiro, who discovers a secret world when she and her family get lost and venture through a hillside tunnel. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, Chihiro must fend for herself as she encounters strange spirits, assorted creatures and a grumpy sorceress who seeks to prevent her from returning to the human world.

This is the most amazing anime movie I have ever seen. The movie isn't typical anime, it has no robots, no multiple tenacle monsters and there is no magic computers gone awry.

The story is deep and full, the characters, especially that of Chihiro, are full and well written.

I enjoyed every minute of it. Go see it.

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Right now I am going through the process of figuring out what I want to do with the next few years of my life employment wise. I am trying to figure out what I want to do, what I want to get paid now, in a year or two and in ten years (a million dollars a year, 20 million a year, and 1 billion tragillion zillion and year). The hardest part is, of course, what do I want to do for that money?

I read somewhere not that long ago, that men define who they are by what they do and women define themselves by how they look. Now I am not saying that this is for real or that it applies to everyone. But for me, it kind of rings true. I feel that I define myself by what I do, in my professional life as well as my personal life. I am a geek and gamer.

I know now, with more certainty then before, that what I want to do is Network Administration. I hate to use a vulgar turn of phrase, but talking about routers, servers, networks, hubs, megabit and gigabit transfer speeds and security gives me a hard on. I love talking about this stuff with people. I love the idea of a network and the Internet as a whole. I have no trouble envisioning the net as the Matrix that William Gibson dreamt of.

I want to be a net admin guy. I want to sit in a small room with no windows and watch a network. I want to see people log on and log off. I want to watch some dumb kid try and hack into my network and then watch him fail as the firewall, software security and the like, keep him out. I want to play with routers and hubs and servers. I want to talk to people about hot swapable drives with 50 gig drives and I want to drop things in conversation like "100 terabytes and gigabit fiber" and stuff like that.

What would I like to get paid for all of that? Well, it would be nice if I got about $76,450 a year, but right at the moment I think I could work for $17/hour and like it easy enough. I would like to work for a large company to see what that is like and I think I want to work in a nice big office tower, high up and all that. Downtown Winnipeg would be nice, but I think Vancouver, Victoria, Calgary, Melbourne, London (England) or San Francisco would be nice as well.

Well, if I am going to find that job I want so much, I should get to it.

Peace out homies.

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Ok. so yesterday wasnt too good of a day for the old blog. As far as I can tell the issues I was having with my template was related to a larger problem that was plaguing all of Blogger and not just me. I dont recall whether or not I had anything to say yesterday or not, and nothing super fresh has come to mind, so I may as well fill you all in on how my life is going.

Work
Work is not good. I wont go into specifics here, since it really isnt the place for me to make detailed bad comments about my place of employment. What I can say is that I'm not really doing what I want to be doing, which is network administration. I really like knowing things about networks, both large and small, as well as working with the bigger computers and stuff. What I am doing now is basically a even mix of secretarial stuff and consulting work on numerous projects. I dont really get paid what I want and that coupled with personality conflicts with my employer, make things really hard to handle well.

Australia
No news on that front as of late. I guess I should really kind put some sort of deadline on this.

Personal
If you know me away from the computer, you know everything. If you dont know me in real life, then here is a small bit to keep you coming back.

Shauna and I are doing good. She has said that she kinda likes my place now and says that it isnt so bad.

Thank you, please come again.

I think I will try and write more later.

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Things seem to be working all right now. Seems it was a problem on Blogger's end, not something I had done wrong.

Hopefully I will get something up today, but judging by the mood I am in, it isnt likely.

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>Insane Bellows of RAGE<

Still problems.

Very upset now.

Me mad, maybe break something.

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Once again, you guessed it...testing...something is wrong here...very wrong.

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Just another test

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Testing

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Ok, so as you can see the new lay out is in place and looking pretty much as I want it to. It's going to take a bit of playing to get it the way I want it to look, but that shouldn't be much of a problem.

I guess the big news is that Amber moved out of the apartment this weekend and Saturday night was my first night in the apartment all alone. It was an interesting feeling to know that I was on my own. I mean there are neighbors to the right of my apartment and below me and a hundred other people living all around me, but for the very first time ever, I was on my own. It wasn't as hard as I thought it might be, I mean it wasn't like it my first night in a new apartment or my very first time ever being alone, but it was the first time I had been alone in an apartment that was solely my own. And I liked it. I could do whatever I wanted to and it wasn't a problem at all.

I think as time wears on, I will miss (at times) having someone else in the apartment on a regular basis, so I will most likely make sure that Shauna is over as often as possible. She has mentioned that she is warming up to the apartment more now that it is mine alone rather then something that I was sharing with someone else. I am looking forward to the two of us living together. When I am at her place, we act as though it is our place (or rather that it seems that way to me) and it feels nice.

Shauna and I spent most of our time this weekend with my mom who was in town visiting. I am absolutely overjoyed at how well the two of them get along together. My mom raised me and I think the world of her and it would make a relationship hard for me if the other person didn't get along well with my mom. However, that does not mean that I would let my mom ruin a relationship just because she didn't like who I was seeing. Thankfully I don't have to worry about it. Shauna and my mom get along very well and seem to have no trouble ganging up on me to give me a hard time.

Saw Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers again for the third time now. Gah! I love the movie. But when you are tired, that damn movie never seems to end!

More later perhaps.

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Removed the title feature.

Until I can figure out how to make it work the way I want to I am going to leave it off.

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Another wonderful post!

This is getting there, it is almost where I want it to be.

This was a lot easier then I thought it would be.

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The title stuff is now driving me mad.

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A brand new lay out is now in place and I think it is working for me. I am going to tweak it constantly for the next day or so, but it is exactly what I was looking for overall.

Stay tuned for more.

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Working as diligently as I can on the site today. All posts here will be for tests and stuff.

Here's what I want to do. As you can see I have an abundance of links and assorted stuff on the right hand side of my site. I have been trying on my own for some time now to develop a three column layout for the site here, so as to organize things a little bit better. So far, all of my own efforts have gotten me no where (I have made a hundred or more attempts and each attempt just didnt meet with what I wanted the site to be. So I contacted a few people, some who did not reply to my emails and some who did and gave me some assistance (thanks and shout out to BWG).

More notes and posts will appear here over the course of the day as I make a very serious effort to fix the layout of this darn page.

Posted by Random Fusion at 10:21 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Well, if you come here regularly (which is basically only Shauna, Hi there babe) you can now see that there have been a few changes. I have added a ton of links, reorganized the links, and added something to help those people new to blogging understand what is going on here. The side bar there is about as full as its going to get. So very very soon I am going to spend a lot of time forcing this site into three columns so that I can shift some of those links onto another side bar on the left.

As you can also see, I have got the title thing going. It isn't fully the way I want it yet, but I will get it there. What I want is a title for each post. So far all that it does is make one title per day. I think it might have something to do with where I put the code for the titles. Anyway, keep coming back for more new stuff.

Oh yea, and don't forget to link me.

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Practicing with another post

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Yup, just like the title says there, I am playing with it.

Hehe

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Found this online comic today.

Magna kind of thing with a fantasy twist thrown in for good luck. I haven't read the whole plot line, but it looks pretty damn good.

Konsekai:Swordwaltzer - Updated every Friday

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Found something absolutely cool today!

I am a huge fan of a show called Red Dwarf, a popular BBC science fiction television series. The show began about 9 or so years ago and is one of my favourite British tv series.

Today I picked up the first season, and the second season.

I started watching Red Dawrf several years ago and since then, I have been a huge fan.

Head to the web page and check it out!

Smeg Head!

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Australia Update

It sounds like things may begin to happen soon. Was talking to Shauna again today and it sounds like her family over in Australia is really looking forward to us coming out. I still have to wait for her Uncle to offer something to me and I wont begin working on getting out there until I have a contract signed.

I will post more as we go along.

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Went and caught a movie with Shauna last night instead of going to the Vampire game. I suggested Dreamcatcher, the movie based on the book of the same name. You can take a look at the web site using the link below.

Dreamcatcher

Brief Review: Wait till it comes out on video.

Long Review: The acting in the movie was slightly above par then most, except for Morgan Freeman. The man is a really good actor and I have seen him do better work, but in whole scope of the movie, he isn't all that important. The script wasn't too bad, and ranks somewhere in the middle of all King book to movie transitions. I have seen better, namely The Shining, and I have seen worse, namely The movie with the killer trucks or something. I would give this movie a 6 out of a possible ten and say, wait till it comes out on video.

AND NOW THE RANT
The movie theatre we went to last night is one of two very large movie theatres here in Winnipeg, one is at Polo Park and one is out in St. Vital. The general age of the crowd that attends movies at the Polo Park Silver city is fairly young (somewhere around 15 or so) with the minority being older people (18 and up). It seems to me what a lot of parents are doing is letting their kids go to Polo Park to see a movie because the area is fairly safe and is a fairly low crime area. This does not mean however, that children there behave themselves.

NOTE: I say "Children" and mean anyone under the age of about 16 or so.

Last night, I was witness to the most ill behaved, ill mannered and loud bunch of little 16 year old boys and girls I have ever had the horror to watch. I shudder to think if that is how some of those kids act now, how will they be when they can drink, drive and live on their own? Example: While I was waiting for Shauna to arrive at the movie theatre, I was waiting outside. Eventually this group of 6 or 7 kids (2 boys and 4 or 5 girls) came out making quite a lot of noise. At some point they started yelling about another boy and girl who had just come out holding hands. One girl screamed (and I do mean screamed)

"Oh my god! Billy Kissed Jenny!!!" (Names changed to protect the retarted)

At which point the whole little crown converged on the two. The conversation in the group went something like this:

Girl 1: Oh my god! I cant believe they kissed!
Girl 2: Oh god! Did they french?
Girl 3: They frenched!
(Lots of very very loud high pitched giggling, laughing and shouting incoherently)
Boy 1: (possibly Billy's friend) Hey, Billy! Isn't that your mom??"
(Lots more laughter and shouting about it not being or really being Billy's Mom and how scary she is)
Girl 1: I want to see you french her! French her now!
Girl 3: Oh my god! French her now!
(Point to note: These kids were NOT being quiet, they were conducting this conversation at the top of their little lungs)
Girl 2: French her! Come on!
Girl 3: Jenny your a slut!
(Several girls call her a slut)

They now proceed to call her a slut and demand that she french Billy or that he french her. This goes on for a few more moments until it is in fact confirmed that Billy's mom is indeed there waiting for him so she can drive him to his next party spot. As Billy drives by he hides his face from the girls and they all laughed. If I was that boy I would be hiding my face too.

The small pack of little girls then proceeded to drift in and out of the movie theatre, occasionally shouting things are people or just at each other.

Ok. Now, multiply that by about 100 and that is what it was like at the movie theatre last night. So by the time Shauna and I got into the movie, I was ready to beat the shit out of someone. I cut people off in line to get food and to give our tickets to the usher. I was even tempted to pee on the kid next to me when I went to the can. Thankfully no one talked during Dreamcatcher, so I didn't have to beat the snot out of someone.

Some people should not be allowed to have children and some children should not be allowed near normal people. Herd them with cattle prods or something. Use stun guns on them at will. Hehehehe

Girl 2: French her!!! FRENCH HER!! FRE-- ZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzap! Eafhghghhhahshasafggggggggg (commence the shaking and the drooling and the twitching and the hey hey).

Yea. That would be nice. *Smile*

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Another day and still no ideas for anything to really write about. This is getting a little bit annoying, seeing as I was on a really good stretch there for a bit.

Australian Update
No news is good news. However, I had neglected to mention the plans I was making with my grandparents. My grandfather called me at work on Thursday and chatted with me for a while beforehe said he had spoken with my brother and that he had heard I might be going somewhere. At which point I felt guilty. I love my grandparents (my dads parents, unfortunately my moms parents, my omma and oppa are gone) a lot and I have been, of late, a hermit. I should call them more often. I should go visit more often.

Bleah, I'll write more later.

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Excellent Smithers!!

Random Fusion is now being sold on the open market! That's right. Shares of my blog are now floating around the Internet for people with blogs themselves to buy or sell or most likely, ignore.

Check it out.

BlogShares - Fantasy Blog Share Market

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Ok, no idea what to write about. So. I am going to ramble for a little while and see if anything important comes to mind. Middle of the week, hump day, and I am massively looking forward to the weekend. I am so needing a few days off to get my head together.

The weather has been cold lately.

Ok I give up. Nothing to write about.

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Another night at Shauna's. No bitching today though and I should actually clarify something about yesterdays post. Yesterday's post was more of an explanation rather then a bout of bitching. Shauna has no control over her neighbours, my in ability to sleep on a waterbed, my cold or my choice to take some cold medicine. I know that she can not sleep if the bed or her room is too cold. I dont blame her for anything and in the big scope of things, none of it is that bad or so bad that I would choose not to sleep there.

I slept ok last night. I took just some nyquil before going to sleep and it helped a fair bit. I was up again at 2am and every hour or two there after. Bladder was working over time I think. So I am a little bit sleepy this morning, but I am not cranky.

Working hard, so I will have to post something later today or tonight. I want to put something lengthy here and over at www.twofishes.blogspot.com

Laters

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