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Come on, Bush, you pussy, let’s take this outside…
At least, that’s what it looks like to me. But then, having spent a large portion of my life in Northern Ontario, where this kind of scene is a way of life, the usual way of dealing with personal conflict, it comes as no surprise.
Come on, use your imagination; it looks like it could have been what they were doing…
Photo credit shamelessly lifted from: CBC news
Posted by Ron as Politics at 8:55 PM EST
I’ve been trying not to post about politics lately, but a recent story has struck a nerve with me….
Has anyone else noticed the parity between the recent events in the Ukraine and what happened in the US elections both a few weeks ago and four years ago?
What I want to know is why North Americans seem unwilling to do anything about it, whereas the Ukrainians have decided to pursue justice and democracy… I think it has to do mostly with apathy. If this is the best we can do, then we need to try harder.
Update: Usurpers - 3, Democracy - 0
Posted by Ron as Politics at 4:53 AM EST
Now that I am once again locked into the Monday-to-Friday drone of the working world, I find myself looking to the weekends with an ever-increasing sense of longing. Not that I hate working, just that I like not working better. And, aside from that whole ‘need-money-to-pay-the-rent’ thing, who doesn’t, really?
Okay, so there are probably quite a few, but I’m not talking about them. The Poor Richards of the world that would rather work because it keeps them away from their Hyacinth at home are a different story altogether. (Reference here, and here.)
Unfortunately, I squandered a large portion of my weekend by doing what so many other blue-collar types do around here, this lovely town with supposedly the highest number of bars per capita in Ontario. Getting to that in a minute.
Saturday was fine; some new-pants shopping, followed by a lovely evening of D&D. Even Sunday morning could have been worse. I was fine until I dropped that jar of pickles in the grocery store… it all went downhill from there. I also bought an apartment-sized potted Norfolk Island Pine to use as a festive decoration this season, and after that as just a regular decoration. Unfortunately, I spilled the soil all over the back seat of my car. At least it was only the Stratus. Things really got worse when my downstairs neighbours asked me to help them move an old refridgerator.
Being the friendly neighbour type, I naturally agreed to help right away. Fridge moved, yada yada. Then they invited me to sit down for a drink. A drink. Not play the role of garbage disposal for two bottles of wine and half a bottle of ale that they didn’t want. I’m fairly certain that I’m not an alcoholic, but they just kept feeding me this stuff and for whatever reason, I did not object. (Sounds like your house last Christmas, eh Luke 
Did I think I could actually handle that much? Perhaps I just didn’t notice the effect it was having at the time, until after, when I got back upstairs and tried to make tea.
And that is how I wasted my evening: being wasted myself. I wisely slept it off, drinking plenty of water and tea, and polishing off the crusty ends of some french loaves to absorb the rest. I still felt unwell all evening, and truthfully still do at this moment. All this after me ranting to a coworker this week about how I thought getting drunk was a foolish pastime. I won’t take it back, this having nicely underscored my sentiments.
Posted by Ron as Work at 12:27 PM EST
As the title suggests, I have nothing much to say at the moment. Things have been pretty low-key and normal around here. I need new pants. Oooh, exciting.
I’ve just been up to the usual; gaming, working, reading, eating, sleeping, breathing.
NCIX has a great sale on a juicy Samsung TFT screen that I was thinking about taking advantage of. It’s about $100 off the price shown there ($487 as of this writing, so it’d be around $388), which is pretty good. It has a fast resposnse time (12ms) so it’d be decent for gaming, but has no digital input support, which I’m told is a big deal. I probably won’t get it anyway. As much as I’d love to liberate some desk real-estate, I’d sooner get some more hard drives, since I’m quickly running out of the other kind of space. Raptors are fast as hell, but they don’t hold much data.
I’m tempted to treat myself to a little present, but I should pay down my debts a bit first.
Posted by Ron as Miscellaneous at 2:07 PM EST
Several years ago, when my sister moved out of our parents house, I built a new system and gave her my old computer. I recently borrowed my old hard drive back from her since it was the last hope of recovering any of my files that were lost in the crash. While there were none of my written things on there (too old a backup), I did manage to recover some old games (yay?), and a mess of MP3s. My extensive MOD and MIDI collection had long since been sacrificed to free up space. I guess I could still try running a disk recovery program on it…
Posted by Ron as Computers at 8:18 PM EST
It’s been over a week since my last post, so I figured an update was in order.
Mainly, the reason I’ve not been posting is that I now have a job. It’s not glorious or anything; definitely not one of the “cool” Gen-X type jobs. The company is called AP Plasman and it is a factory. A plastic factory to be exact. They make moulded plastic for car exteriors, like door trim, bumpers, and other such things. I work days as a pre-assembly inspector for the door trim that goes on the Buick Allure. I think it used to be known as the Regal, but for some reason the name has been changed.
Other news, I’m totally hooked on Front Mission 4, adding fuel to the no-updates fire. I’ve previously blabbed about this game, so I won’t repeat myself. If you dig tactical RPGs, buy it.
And, finally, we have started a D&D group again. Hopefully it will work out. Most of the players seem okay, but I do have some reservations about ‘Munchkinism’ deveolping into a problem with some of them.
Anyway, I’m out.
Posted by Ron as Work at 4:29 PM EST