Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night

It’s been recently announced that the U.S. Mail, starting next year, the U.S. post office will cut Saturdays from their delivery days. Meaning, weekends will be mail free, and we will only receive mail five days a week, as opposed to the six days that we are used to.

This bums me out slightly, I mean, I rarely ever use mail. In fact, I couldn’t tell you when the last time I bought a stamp was, But I do order items and packages, and I do subscribe to netflix. It’s nice to be able to receive those things on Saturdays! I will miss that!

However, if that’s how they want to handle things, cutting delivery down to five days a week, then fine. However I think they would save money by keeping saturday deliveries and eliminating Mondays. How so you ask? Well, because it seems like every other monday the mail doesn’t run to begin with, due to some holiday. The Postal delivery people still get paid on those days. Holiday time, but if they didn’t work on those days normally, they wouldn’t need to be paid on those days!

However, if they absolutely MUST get rid of Saturday deliveries, will this mean that they will take off less holidays? That to me would make sense, or at least decrease the cost of stamps!

The Darker side of me

Everyone has something they don’t like about themselves, some have multiple somethings that they don’t like about themselves. Take yours truly for example. There’s a few things that I don’t exactly like about myself. Several small little pieces of me that could stand to be improved. I’m not perfect, although I am pretty damn close!

No, seriously. Stop laughing. I am pretty damn close!

That’s beside the point anyway, so feel free to laugh all you like. The point of this entry is focusing on the fact that I am not perfect. However, despite the flaws, I am content, and capable of dealing with it and be happy with who I am. However, there is a side of me that I not only dislike, but that I totally despise! It’s a darker side of my personality, that I had thought that I managed to destroy. Turns out, all I managed to do was bury it over really well.

The Darker side which I am talking about is my Jealousy. I thought I had eliminated it from my life, simply because I haven’t felt jealous for a good couple years. However, recently the green eyed monster has begun raising it’s head back up into my life. This disgusts me, because I hate the feeling of jealousy. It litterally makes me sick to my stomach.

So, why is it suddenly back after not being around in such a long time? I wish I could answer that. I suppose there are a dozen possible reasons. I just wish that in the end, that these feelings of jealousy weren’t part of who I am, and I hope I can eventually purge them from my personality.

Voyager

I’ve recently been watching old episodes of Star Trek: Voyager. I actually prefer Voyager over DS:9, TNG, ST:E or even OST. Im not sure why Voyager appeals to me more than other trek shows, but it does never the less.

Although sometimes in the series, they do something that strikes me as odd. Take for instance the first season episode entitled “Faces”. In the end, they rescued their crew, and they beamed them all out. What happened with all the other slave in the mines? I wouldn’t think they would just leave them there. However, that’s how it would seem. Nothing to say otherwise, no mention of the slaves being rescued, no end of the episode “Captains Log”. Nothing.

That doesn’t really sound right, and on that episode in particular, I think the writers really dropped the ball, unless of course they were leaving it open for a future episode. I don’t know.

I list

01) i hurt: whenever I get punched in the nose.
02) i love: Karen.
03) i hate: very few people
04) i cry: whenever i continue to get punched in the nose.
05) i fear: most dogs and spiders. Especially spider-dogs!
06) i hope: I will one day become famous.
07) i sadden: when someone says they are gonna punch me in the nose.
08) i feel: kinda hungry.
09) i kill: Spiders and enjoy every minute!
10) i talk: About games.
11) i listen: to my Animals, but they rarely have anything to say.
12) i break: whatever I touch.
13) i see: my reflection in the monitor as I fill out this survey.
14) i smell: someone BBQing way too early.
15) i taste: pretty yummy, or so the mosquitoes think.
16) i work: hard at being a the worlds most famous guy.
17) i remember: very little.
18) i hold: my pants up sometimes cause they can be baggy.
19) i hide: my nose whenever someone wants to punch it.
20) i pray: that my nose wont get punched.
21) i walk: as little as possible.
22) i drive: only when I absolutely have to.
23) i read: Comic books, and that’s OK.
24) i burn: nothing, but money burns a whole in my pocket.
25) i breathe: a lot.
26) i play: Star Trek Online and Secondlife. Yanno, cause im a geek.
27) i miss: Karen pretty much all the time!
28) i touch: things with signs that say “Do not touch”
29) i want: people to stop punching me in the nose.
30) i wish: I were famous.
31) i know: how much wood, a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
32) i said: please don’t punch me in the nose!
33) i dream: about going to bed and having a dream.
34) i have: a dislike for being punched in the nose!
36) i fall: whenever I get punched in the nose.
37) i wait: til 8:00PM before expecting to watch anything good on TV.
38) i need: Karen.
39) i live: on Earth (A small blue little planet in the sol system)
40) i die: very rarely! In fact, I plan on dieing even LESS in the future, cause that’s how I roll yo.

Jraw Dopping

So, the demo for Splinter Cell: Conviction came out on the xbox 360 the other day. Obviously I downloaded it, and it was incredible! I can’t wait til the game is released next month! Don’t get me wrong, i’m not saying the game is perfect. The gameplay COULD have been better. I preferred the gameplay from past splinter cell titles, so this style will definitely take some getting used to.

One thing I did miss however was being able to pick up and move unconscious people so you can drag them into the shadows. This game, from what I saw didn’t allow that. I could be wrong though of course! The demo isn’t very long, it’s just enough to give you a taste of the game. Which despite the gameplay style, tasted REALLY good!

One of the best things about the game though is the graphics. I mean, they are incredible! Plus everything is so smooth, and the stylised lighting just improves it all! I’m telling you the game looks so good, that it’s beyond Jaw Dropping! It’s Jraw Dopping! I just made that up! See, it’s like so Jaw Dropping, that you can’t even pronounce it right, cause you are so mesmerised by it, and also because your jaw is laying on the ground and dragging behind you while you are walking about in this dazed overwhelmed confusion trying to tell people how totally AWESOME the game looks.

Yes, I did say Awesome. You got a problem with my retro way of speaking pallie?

Newest Splinter Cell Demo

Well, it LOOKS like this time the game Splinter Cell Conviction might actually get released. It’s spent the last few years getting pushed back, and to be honest I doubted it would ever see the light of day! Although it looks like THIS time it might actually do it! Apparently a Splinter Cell: Conviction demo will be released on Xbox live on the 18th of this month, and since that’s planned, it might actually NOT get pushed back this time around.

Now I am really excited!

Li’l Tim – The Yearbook

Before Tim became the drunken Video Game Junkie that he is today, he was a typical student.

Ok, well he WAS a student, which is proven by his yearbook photo!

Star Trek Online

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am a total geek, and also that I am a major online gamer. These two traits are what led me to try games like Star Wars Galaxies and The Matrix Online. All of which left me very disappointed.  Although those two traits also led me to try Lord of the Rings online, which I am not at all ashamed to say that I truly do love, and the people that I have convinced to try it with me, have fallen in love with it.

The point is, I love the idea of games built on the backs of established  franchises, however those games rarely work out! Needless to say when I first heard of Star Trek Online, I knew right away that I was going to be trying this game, and I also knew i probably wasn’t going to enjoy it, and that I was going to regret buying it. I all this before it was even released!

The game is then released. I decided to hold off on getting it, because as I said I knew it wasn’t going to be enjoyable to me. Also, other games like Mass Effect 2 were coming out, and quite honestly? Mass Effect games take priority over any other games coming out. However, after I finished ME2 and had no other games to really play except old unfinished games, I decided to go ahead, bite the bullet and get STO.  I went ahead and actually bought the game from direct2drive for instant gratification, plus if you bought it from there you got some in-game weird wonky personal shield contraption unit thingie. I then installed it, and began playing it, and after awhile I realised that i was 100% correct! The game stunk like a skunk caught in a sweathouse! I then turned it off, and went off playing Secondlife, since that is actually a game that I do enjoy.

That was my first impression! However, I didn’t uninstall it. Call it fate, call it karma, call it pure laziness! Whatever you call it, the fact remains, that I most certainly did not uninstall it. A few days pass and I am bored, Nobody I know is on Second Life and I have finished all my good games. I then remember, that STO is still installed on my hard drive. It also still has it’s initial free gametime. It’s there, it’s not going to cost me and I am bored! So, I log in and play it a little bit more. Then it hits me, the game is actually kind of fun. The begining is slow and boring, but as you move along the game gradually pulls you in, and it’s like you are becoming tangled up in this epic Star Trek world! In fact as time went on the game went from kind of fun to freaking great!

So, I continued playing I thought I had only been playing for 30 mins, an hour at best. Then I noticed the clock. To my surprise I had been playing for 4 and a half hours! Not only that, but I litterally had to FORCE myself to quit playing. This is one of the better franchise games I have ever played, though in all honesty, it doesnt hold a candle to LotRO, but that’s not surprising.

What I am saying here is, that if you are a trek fan, or a sci-fi fan in general, you REALLY should look into the game! You won’t be disappointed! Now, there’s no DEMO or TRIAL currently available, however if you are someone I know, and you are wanting to check it out, let me know, because STO does allow me to send out a 5 day buddy key or buddy pass or something like that. It lets you trial the game for 5 days!

sometimes a cigar is just a cigar

It has recently come to my attention, that some people (Whose names shall not be mentioned) may read my blog, notice I have posted the lyrics to a song, and assume that since this is for the most part a personal blog, that the lyrics I post are somehow connected to me and my life on a personal level. They may then read too much into that assumption.

Fact of the matter is, I post lyrics of songs that for various reasons are currently stuck in my head. For instance, I posted the lyrics to Devils Haircut by Beck, and this song had NOTHING to do with my activities on the day I posted it! In fact, I am not even really sure what the song means, since it all seems totally non-sensical to me. The tune however is catchy, and I heard it on the radio and it stuck in my head.

Another case in point, I recently posted the lyrics to the song tempted. Now, this has nothing to do with me on a personal level, I didn’t post it as a jab to anyone, because honestly, that would be fucked up. I posted it, because it was stuck in my head! It’s that simple! I’ll tell you why it was stuck in my head. Also recently I have mentioned how since I had beaten Mass Effect 2, that I was going to focus a bit on playing GTA: Vice City. Needless to say, I did start playing it some more, and one of the songs that play on the games built in “radio stations” is the song tempted, and for some reason it seems to be playing everytime I turn it to the emotion station. Because of that, the song has been stuck in my head, and there the lyrics were posted. Plain and simple.

Just saying!