Personal

Seeing as I haven’t written anything meaningful since I started my pseudo vacation last week, I thought I might get right back into the swing of things with something near and dear to my heart: a rant. It’s no secret that I spend a lot of time posting in and reading forums. Like any public forum, it attracts idiots who feel the need to unload things that are either totally uninteresting or useless. One of the more obnoxious types is the “leaper” as I am going to refer to this type of individual. Much like people who climb to the highest stories of the tallest buildings to stand on the edge and threaten to jump, these morons explain how they’ve come to stand on their very own ledge. ...

I turned 23 as of midnight (EST). I’m a year older, a year wiser, and a year closer to being able to rent a car (the last major milestone in a person’s life as far as I can figure). I had a few drinks at a local watering hole, so I’ll be cutting this entry short.

I’ve had it with AOL’s mobile device feature. I come online and I don’t inspect all my buddies to see if they are regular AOL or mobile. Certain users are always forwarding their IMs. I send a message expecting to get back a meaningful message and instead I’m greeted with the standard forwarding response. Now, that wouldn’t be so bad if I then got back an IM from them while they were on their phone, but most often I get nothing. What’s the point? Is having a phone number not enough? Maybe I’m just getting old.

Enjoy your turkey, stuffing, football and pumpkin pie!

I love when I get mentioned in other people’s blogs. In particular, when it’s a sexy context as at Dana’s blog.

WCVB, here in Massachusetts, has decided not to show Saving Private Ryan, the award winning film. I’d list the awards, but honestly, they would make this post huge. That is how many awards we are talking about. What is there reasoning and excuse? There’s too much violence and profanity in the film. Too many kids might watch it in the 8PM time slot originally allotted. What kind of society do we live in when children watching an award winning film with genuine social value is a problem? It’s absurd! ...

Because nearly every business gives Veteran’s Day off (save for Raytheon obviously), my entire commute took only 40 minutes, as compared with the normal hour and ten minutes to two hours. People left space, one could change lanes to pass someone if they wished, and I didn’t have the urge to jump out of my car and clobber anyone. Amazing. I know my ride home will be nice and I’m just glad that I’m not working tomorrow because I couldn’t take dealing with the normal traffic again so soon after my best ride in to Woburn ever.

I tried calling on Thursday about my order of GTA: San Andreas. The customer service representative had just talked to another person that ordered it from them. From the way he talked about it, a lot of people had. They had almost 700 outstanding orders and only 290 copies coming in that they knew of. He was so frustrated with people calling and checking that he almost had a speech for me and it was extremely impatiently said. It’s not that I was getting belligerent (as I have been known to do). ...

Just for fun, I decided that I would check Bloglines related feeds feature on my weblog. The results were rather surprising. Every single “related” feed was “en espanol.” For the life of me, I can not figure this out. What exactly about my site makes it similar to these sites? I certainly don’t use any spanish.

Rockstar Games released Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas today. I’ve been waiting for this game since I pre-ordered at eCost on July 25th earlier this year. They were offering the game for $38.95 at the time (with a $3.95 handling charge) which has since gone up to $41.49 (shopping cart special). Yes, I’ve been waiting a long time. If you count the time since I completed GTA: Vice City, it’s been even longer. Now I must wait for eCost to deliver it (which will feel like an eternity especially because they’re still estimating 10/28). ...