John is the funniest man alive.
In other news, I watched Jon with no h drift race today.
In other news, Brooks McCluskey came to visit my workplace today.
In other news, Brooke Morton never answers my phone calls.

as you have all come to realize, john is like david letterman... without the alcohol and lovechild, but with a little more... soberness maybe? this is why he will outlive the dinosaurs... really...

ok, honestly, i know i have taken the easy way out and gone for blatant shout outs as of late, but i will continue until all "props" are distributed as need be. so this post goes out to julie "tubbs" colombiano, who invited me to have thanksgiving at her aunt and uncle's cribb (which is probably rowdy enough for MTV cribbs now that i think about it).

nestled away in some untouched corner of davie county i found myself stepping out of my car, breathing in that wonderful country air -- knowing i could leave my doors unlocked cause there aren't that many ghetto's in advance, nc. meeting the family was always awesome, though i had some quams about actually watching a dog show on tv without it being the movie "best in show". this was all wiped clean when i found out that those people who wer acting my age (her 10 year old cousin) was watching ernest goes to camp in another room. needless to say, jim varney had my full attention... this was, until lunchtime where i enjoyed platefuls of thanksgiving love cooked from the most secretest of family recipies... or something... regardless, it was mighty tasty and to boot i had some cool conversations with my new found best 10 year old friend, and julie's brother. all in all, fun times, fo shizzle... it's always nice ot meet nice christian folk!!!

then we went to my house where i was not nearly as good a host, or entertaining, or... well, anything good. but julie smiled and pretended she was having a good time anyways, which made me happy... cause, ya know -- she's cool like that :-) reminds me of the first time we hung out *stares off in deep reflection...* hehe, just kidding...

so all in all, mad props out to God, julie, and thanksgiving... thank you...

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

So...you'll notice at Mikey's suggestion a few changes have been made. I hope you guys will like what I did with the sidebar, cause now there's a GUESTBOOK available! Wowee!
Plus kaiser permanente versions of the links you saw in Mikey's post below.

Aight. Jon Brande and I are nerding out.


Out.

so merry thanksgiving everyone!!! and what better way to start off a BLIGGITY BLOG than with some encouragement to those rowdy folk i know...

there are three main easyjournal's in my life now... the first, and ORIGINAL, laura "i never post" wright, and our two newest journalers, susan and connie. i must say that it has been pure pleasure reading consistently updated, and clever journals from our newcomers, and can only say -- keep up the good work! and for my dear laura, i must say that since you have been at home, you have rekindled your old posting fury, which has been nothing less than a breath of fresh air in a world that smells like my kitchen after daniel has not washed dishes for three weeks... i would say that we should send you away to rutherfordton so we would get such posting out of you more often, but i know my heart wouldn't be able to stand to have you gone so long...

so one more time, i reitterate how awesome and generally rad the new (and old) updates are coming -- and for the rest of you, send them some love:
Laura's Easyjournal
Connie's Easyjournal
Susan's Easyjournal

speaking of leaving love... i have been thinking about how the brotherhood spends a good deal of effort to bring you quality posting... well, brooks doesn't -- but no one's perfect. you see, we have no idea how it affects you, the reader, or who ACTUALLY reads it. this is because we don't have rowdy features such as counters and message leaver-er thingies... so, i am gonna see if nate can't get us a guestbook or something -- message board maybe -- i dunno, anything that will let you all leave us some love when you visit. i mean, no harm in knowing that someone is out there right...? you are out there... right...?

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

Well, I haven't posted in a few days. Happy Thanksgiving ya'll.
Here are a few highlights of my week from your friend, Nate Rose...the Legendary.

Monday Zoe and I went to see extreme metal at Ziggy's-finally caught a live performance by my second favorite Swedish metal band, Soilwork (my definite favorite metal band, In Flames, I have already seen twice). That was definitely crucial, and we caught most of Soilwork's antics on video camera-mad props to Zoe for being "that" girl with the camera for one night.
Tuesday folks came over to my house, as pointed out in Mikey's last post, for the watching of X-Men 2. Nothing much to be said, except I fully agree with Mikey that Wolverine should have made more jokes in this movie, wheelchair-related or otherwise. And Jon should have made more jokes about how white I am.

Last night was rad. A total fox and legend in her own right schooled me for at least a solid hour in Tetris and Dr. Mario, both games which I thought I was pretty good at beforehand. Brooke Morton has obviously shown me who the real Nintendo puzzle game master is. But I had fun getting my tail rocked...hardly a reason to get upset in that situation :)
But I must bring out my dormant competitive nature if I ever want to stand a chance at giving Brooke a fair fight. So it shall be someday.
After a fierce "whuppin'" I made my way to the Fissel Manor to partake in the ancient ritual known as "Watching the State". Our inductory last night was Julie, who not only was introduced to The State, but also Wet Hot American Summer, in the same evening. She survived well. I did not, for I was mad tired after my whole evening, and had to wake up early the next day...Thursday...

Today was Thursday. It was also Thanksgiving.
I spent this Thanksgiving with my stepdad's quirky family, it was in some ways decently amusing. They remind me of some kind of traveling group of circus performers, except they don't do any tricks, they just...could be in a circus, in a parallel dimension.
So yes, my lack of sleep and big meal meant a long nap today. And then I woke up and we were back in Greensboro. And now I'm here, after a round or two of Warcraft III and a post-Thanksgiving meal snack or two, I'm ready to hit the sack.

So, in conclusion, lessons learned this week:
Metal still rocks.
Friends still rock.
Family still rocks.

I'm out.

so, on the eve after the departation of greensboro (aka any UNCG holiday over a day), i decided to celebrate the loss of nearly 75% of my friends at nate's with julie and john watching x-men 2, or X2 if you're hip, cool, and have no shame because you have never read any of the comics... well, needless to say i am still mixed in my response to the movie - so here's another elitest movie review for everyone to enjoy :-)

while x-men 2 is a far superior film to the original x-men movie in nearly every way (it only lacks one line where wolverine refers to professor X as "wheels"), does that mean it necessarily should be considered a "good" movie. just because crap is better than crap, does it mean it doesn't stink any less...? that is the question i have to ask myself when going in comparing anything to it's predeccesor. well, let's try to stay away from that, but keep it in mind...

x-men 2 starts off immediately in the whole, being one of mark's favorite movies. now, if we look at the kind of movies mark thinks are "GREAT!" (tomb raider, tomb raider 2, etc...), then we will know that it sets x-men 2 in a place that few movies could rise out of. but luckily it starts off with a good action sequence on the shoulders of the newest character, nightcrawler. now, out of bias for him being my favorite x-man, ever since x-men the arcade game in 6th grade, they get brownie points in my own little world of criticism. the movie continues with many action sequences that are not nearly long enough, which is dissapointing. a few highlights are the mansion invasion, the lady deathstrike fight, and magneto's escape.

the charachters themselves are nearly all a bit lacking. easy enough to point out, storm's dialogue is corny, and no male who has seen monster's ball or swordfish really wants her saying anything in the first place, but rather repeat her performance that somehow won her an oscar (we won't go there...). then you have cyclops, who in the comics and the cartoons was a real leader, go getter, and most of the time a pretty hard core guy. well, i guess for the movie it's easier to make him useless, easy to beat in a fight, and generally whiney. so this easily earns him the nickname "gaybot" -- enough said. now, there are a plethera of other characters who have horrible dialogue or just general horrible actors playing them (ie styker, rogue). but when the finally tallied, the cart is balanced by hugh jackman, ian mckellan, and that girl who didn't wear any clothes cept for blue body paint (wait... that's not what i meant).

as far as story goes, it had a followable storyline and it was pretty intense. at times corny, but i guess that can be written off to the gods of translating a comic to movie, though this one saves face where others have failed (daredevil). so after blocking the old one from my mind, i realized i DID enjoy x-men 2, though it isn't my favorite movie by a long shot. it was altogether a worthwhile flick, and nothing makes a movie better than good company who don't mind when you make crying noises everytime cyclops opens his mouth...

review rating - B+

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

wow Mikey... have you been eaves-dropping into my life tonight...? God is moving tonight. Definately moving.

my most wisest of friends tonight reminded me that we cannot trust our heart for it is most misleading of all, and yet we cannot trust our mind because it is merely situational. so what then can we trust? what can we turn to for the answers to all the plaguing questions...? God, is, has been, and always will be the only thing... we MUST turn to Him...


I must turn to Him...

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

oh my goodness... i just read our new bio for the brotherhood over here to my left. everyone stop reading this right now and admire it in all it's glory...

now... if only you could hear awesome theme music through this page as well... hmm...
thanks again for your cooperation.

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

The only thing that would make this page cooler...is if we had guest appearances. Maybe like, cool people who we wouldn't want to post all the time, but it'd be cool to have a "Spotlight On: Such and such Brotherhood associate". If only there were a way to do that. Maybe a guestbook might work, but then that would defeat the egoist allure of us being the only ones allowed to ramble in this exclusivist faux-english-nerd corner of the web. A catty corner to be in.
Until such a thing is found out, I have three things to share with the masses.

A) I am the deepest sleeper ever. And since my parents are out of town this weekend, that means there is no one to wake me at the buttcrack of dawn to go to work. So, with that being said, it is now 4:03 AM on my clock, and I must be at work at 6:30 AM. What's going on? Well, besides me not making much (funny) sense, I am preparing for another 36+ hour stint of awakeness.

B) My stomach muscles are sore, but it beats the sharp pain I felt the other day. I wish I had a woman in NC to rub my belly...

And the bulk of my writing tonight/this morning:

C) My computer is dead. That's right, dead. I did some research on the net (on my parents working computer), and I found out that more than likely, according to the nerdly sources on PC troubleshooting forums, that my computer is rocked with damage. More specifically, for all you geeks, what happened is, my new video card sapped the resources of my power supply, which has resulted in my motherboard being fried-thus, all the problems with my computer working not-well/not-at-all.
I then figured out that if I wanted to repair this system and make it worth my while, I was really going to have to spend a bare minimum of about $200-250 (Pentium 4 processor, new motherboard, new power supply, and if I'm gonna get all that, gotta get a rockin new case) just to ensure that I won't have to upgrade again in like 6 months. And then I realized that it'd be silly to spend that much money, considering what I have already spent on the system, and the fact that I am leaving in a month anyway for an indefinite time, and that all I use it for (besides playing Final Fantasy) is listen to In Flames mp3s, which I can do on my parents computer.
So, after some reluctancy, knowing it means for sure the loss of nerding out, I then came to a more-or-less God inspired moment where I realized, "yeah duh. why do I need to let this computer be my god when I have so many other more cool ways to spend my time?" At some point, in the future, when I am on the other side of basic training and more to the nearer side of Army dorm housing (and affectation of personal belongings), I may decide to upgrade my system (which would mean more or less an entire revamping with the exception of my slammin' video card, hard drive and disk drives).
Until then, I will enjoy my freedom out of the bondage of the computer gaming world.

Just to let you all know, this has a spiritual tie-in. I think so much of my spiritual struggle has involved having a computer-it's such a drain on resources, time, and so much stress when it mucks up and you don't know what to do. So really...I think you can certainly have a computer and not abuse it, but me and technology don't mix. We form a mutuality for a while, some kind of symbiosis, but eventually the fellowship breaks and we have it out. So I'd just rather use my time this next month to glorify the Lord, knowing I will be getting out of the house. Seems really sad that I have been aware of how much time the computer takes from me, and yet I haven't done anything until the Lord himself smote my computer.

Next it'd have to be the Playstation 2.


Oh yeah, and Carol Anne needs a shout out. From me. She e-mailed me today, but I would give her a shout-out anyway. But she did e-mail me...it was a sweet and endearing message too. Fair maiden of South Carolina...how I long to bring you out of the third world...
Someday...someday...I'll forge her ring out of Mayan gold I find in some ancient Guatemalan ruins, where I parachute down on a mission to kill off a Cuban expatriate druglord.

That was some kind of throwback to the movie Congo. Ughhh.

i have been taking sort of an impromptu poll about the brotherhood page as of late to see if people ACTUALLY read our hard work and literary effort, that we so occasionally pour into this website. it has occured to me that people, even if they deny it, sometimes to frequent the brothehood page. this makes me not only want to up quality, but also quantity... i know how depressing and nearly life ending it is to check someone's journal (laura) and not have an update for DAYS!!! i mean, even if you know what they have been p to - it's always nice to read a written interpretaton of it... and beg for shout outs...

so to cover some basis... here are some shout outs by way of people who i have heard say something about the brotherhood page - in all it's glory...

emily garrett - "so i was online today and i read some of the brotherhood page... it's... interesting..."
nate (however biased) - "dude, the stuff we have been posting recently has been the funniest stuff in a LONG time!"
julie from DC - "um... i never read it cause i don't have a computer."
susan collier - "i read the brotherhood page... i want a shout out!"
zoe - "dude, that post was like the coolest post EVER!!!"
julie heiner - (after i commented that i keep forgetting we haven't talked in awhile because i read her journal every couple days to keep up with her) "yeah, i do the same thing..."
Christina - (after telling her i was posting) "uh huh..."

so as you can see, there is a wide variety of feelings towards this site. and continuing with me not having a point to this post besides to figure out ways and bogus quotes to give big ups to people, um, i shall say - goodbye goodnight...

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

ah, i can't believe you missed the most obvious parallel kildoo -- the brotherhood "trilogy +1" is basically just like star wars. the first movie WOULD be about the formation and have stories centered around good times at the fountain and such, complete with a catchy title like The Brotherhood: A New Hate.

the second WOULD deal with the events of last year, which as we all know, were very dark... much like empire, The Brotherhood: The Estrogen Strikes Back, would cover the humiliation of defeat, the impunable letdowns, and the unending terror women reaked on the brotherhood. i must conceed though, that even though it is plagued by turmoil, there is a glimpse of hope as each of us escaped with our lives - though, with john solo (john han to all his friends) trapped in the carbonite of virginia, it is not certain how or when we would bring him home... maybe the love of kildoo skywalker's equally tall sister, princess laura...?

the third could only be a tale of the ever increasing rise of power in the brotherhood this year, and the eventual overthrowal of the evil "sophisticated" empire who are in the way of keeping it real... REAL real... the title would be something that lacks gusto, but still, like nearly all good series, has the word "return" in it (ie. LoR: Return of the King, Return of the Jedi, The Return of the Aquabats, The Return of the Mack, etc...). so for arguments sake, it shall be simply, The Brotherhood: The Return!

with that said - all that would be left is to agree that three is all we REALLY need. unfortunately as our careers slowly die out, we feel the need to ruin a perfectly good trilogy and make another, later movie, in which there will be little, if any plot, but will have us doing everything we always did in the first three movies, except we're old this time. but the point is we get paid lots of money and countless scores of women will pay to see the film dozens of times just for the "BIG NAMES" that were brought back together (ie Kildoo)...

all in all, it would be a worthwhile set to rent at mcnutt for free...

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

Whereas I wouldn't usually post such as this, I think that this webpage/story/article is post worthy. My friend Josh left the link up on my screen after borrowing my comp. I think I've either heard or read something similar b/f, but it still stands as worth reading... If you can't see/hear/smell/touch/taste it, is it still there?



(ps... PUMA'S ROCK!!!)(ain't that right Love Bucket ;))

So, Mikey and Julie and I made a Walmart run last night in the wee hours to be the first on the block to obtain The Two Towers Special Extended Super Deluxe Value Size Edition.
Whilst we were waiting for "the stock guy" to come back up with our grand prizes, who should appear but Kildoo, on the exact same mission.
And it was like, a really funny Brotherhood moment. A touching reunion in a comedic kind of way.
It made me feel like...we were in some movie sequel, like, "The Brotherhood part 4: Home for the Holidays", and Kildoo had been one of the crucial characters for the first 2 movies, but by some fluke was shooting a foreign romance film at the same time as we were making "The Brotherhood part 3: Summer of Love". So he ends up returning in part 4 as a clever cameo.
I dunno. It worked in my head.

since nothing extremely entertaining is going on in my life at the moment - let's have another segment of "wisdom from john". the fun event where john gives us simple, man-like wisdom and council to everyday problems and situations...

john's wisdom on the proper way to ask a girl out:

thesonof PETE : i think you should inform her that she has won the honor of being "your woman"
KngPolystr : worde... maybe i should
thesonof PETE : yeah, tell her she won the grand prize
KngPolystr : haha, women DO like to win things...
thesonof PETE : there you go
thesonof PETE : and guys like women....
thesonof PETE : so everybody wins

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

Life's updates...
I'm in a new clan. Ghieve's Blood Knights. So...that's nerdy. What's even nerdier is we schooled Wagrit the Orc Warchief today.
And in other news...I work all the time...when I'm not playing Final Fantasy XI.

so there is this black guy at work who goes to A&T (if that was not redundant, i don't know what is) and his name is stephen, though i call him "steve-o" -- for whatever reason. and i always use my black voice when i am around him and he laughs in that "what a silly white boy" kinda way. it usually makes me happy. but i can't ever tell if i might be offending him or sincerely getting through to him on some deeper level...

all my questions were answered today when i was up in the rafters bringing down boxes of plastics and at one point steve-o saw that i was gonna have to throw one box down cause it was too small for me to set it down on the ladder, so he told me to "drop it like it's hott!" and who am i to refuse a brother...?

as always, keepin it BLACK... REAL black...

man... sometimes I wish my PC was in the bathroom. the brotherhood posts would really make for GREAT lavatory reading.

You are witnessing history...for the first time in probably over a year, the entirety of the original Brotherhood has posted on the same day.

My latest news is an affirmation of solid opinion on the latest two topics.
Number A - The Matrix Revolutions...was like Warcraft III, because Neo became Illidan so he could see what couldn't be seen. And it was nuts, plotless, but I enjoyed watching it. Once will be enough. And after I left the theater, I thought..."well, at least I have my weekend at the Wrights to look forward to."
Number B - My weekend at the Wrights was indeed awesome. Nancy is indeed the goddess of hemp crafts. Mrs. Wright is the goddess of baking things that taste delicious. Mr. Wright is an imposing figure of might and friendliness. And the rest of them kick my butt in random video games and flashlight tag.

Also, I would like to add that Emily Garrett will likely be the next person to have her musical tastes transformed by mine and Mikey's collective catalog of awesome bands.

And speaking of awesome bands, Soilwork is coming to Winston Salem with heathen metal fury on the 24th. Should I go? Only if there's guaranteed singalongs and stagediving.

i am glad we can agree to disagree... and i wish i could spend more time with mark - especially if that time were spent with him on drums and me on guitar (like we all know God intended, hehe). but on the other note:

as far as blowing my favorite movie out of the water -- i have probably seen the matrix like 36 times (honestly), and loved it every time... the latter two just didn't do it for me. i guess you really can just try too hard sometimes. i can guarantee one thing though, even though the trilogy as a whole is pretty good, it will never out do the indiana jones trilogy, the original star wars trilogy, or possibly the back to the future movies as well. and the number one guarantee that i will stand firm on is that after reading Return of the King -- the entire matrix trilogy combined will not hold a finger (not even a finger 11) to the bliss that will be many of our december 17th, 2003's.

so in conclusion ladies and jellyspoons... i will leave you with two things: one, i agree with john that the french guy should have "bought the farm", if you will, in the end... somehow... i don't care how... and secondly, a quote from steve murray of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on his review of The Matrix - Revolutions, that basically summed up my only thoughts as the credits began rolling and i stood up to walk out...

"Oh well, at least we still have The Return of the King to look forward to..."

for the entire article, which mentions some of john's afore mentioned video game like eye candy, feel free to click here to basically understand, in essay form, how i felt about the third matrix movie:
Movie Review

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

The Wright Clan... where could i begin...? who knows - good food, good fun, good fellowship, good bible feeding... all around great times and hard to say good bye's. i know i collected many spoils from the trip to rutherford county. first off, i must mention my new fury of an "neo-frat guy looking hemp bracelet" - though mine comes fully equipped with a little ark charm, and a stamp of authenticity from the hemp accesory goddess, nancy wright. secondly, i must say that my new acquisition of a "sharmin" shannon, cannot go without mention (squeezably soft). third, where would my focus be today if it was not for my enlightenment as to how cool and un-stoic mark crosswhite can truly be... if only he always stayed up late reminiscing about his dreams and desires for martian women to come to earth to grab a few strapping lads (including himself) to repopulate their slowly dying (and unfortunately short handed of males) planet...

all in all, i would have to say that i miss the family, and wish i had one of my own. sentiments that i know are shared by all. most importantly i take time to think of our hostess and all around wonderful person, laura wright - who in her infinite wisdom and guidance thought it would be a swell idea to take a little bit of her greensboro to meet a whole lot of her rutherford county... my toboggon off to you oh prophetess of fortune. i can only encourgage you by saying that verily, verily, you have one of the most loving and supportive families i have ever met (noting special props to the McClusky Clan), and you will always have people that love you, here and at home - wherever you choose to let that be... make sure you tell your parents thanks for the wonderful weekend... Jesus RoXoRs!!!

as for me... i am back to the daily grind of 40 hour work weeks and two classes that think i have time to write them 10+ page papers. surely i shall get it done - i've GOT TO MAN!!! love to everyone - read James, it's a great book... outtie bo boughtie...

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

Surely,
I have nothing significant to break the Streak-O-Mikey Posting Fury other than to say that:
a) Mikey will possibly be buying my pimpmobile off o' me.
b) That very pimpmobile will be making its way down to Rutherfordtonfieldville on the morrow after tomorrow.
c) Online RPG geeks need Jesus.

Peace,

so i had a real cool conversation with jenmac of all people... not that one couldn't have a good conversation with her, but i just don't (personally) get to talk with her much is all. regardless, it was nice because we ran into one another and we started joking about how God must hide his face when He sees us do some of the things we do down here. like, if God could be embarrassed, surely He would be of me, etc... but that is the great part - no matter how many dumb things we do, or how many useless, unglorifying to God things we do (such as watch movies like 40 days and 40 nights or go to a club), He still loves us because He is friggin awesome... so just mull on that for awile...

i told a guy at work that i wanted to go to seminary after college sometime, and he very sarcastically said "why? so you can go around and tell people to love God?" at the moment i was too confused to answer, but i wish i would have told him that the real reason is so i am better equipped to tell people how much God loves them...

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

i am leading worship this week at IV. this makes me nervouse, because, well... it's leading friggin worship!!! by myself is the hard part i think. i am so timid to step up and do the thing i love doing most for some reason. maybe i am afraid i will let people down somehow and not really get them into worship like i could have or they would want. just gotta trust as long as i am inviting to some Jesus up in there that He will be all over it... good stuff...

in the same news, i have been reading james over and over. especially chapter 3... it's all about controlling our tongue and how we can't do it at all. it all flows from God taking over all we do and what is at our heart, because all that flows from our tongue is a reflection of what we have on the inside. is what i have on my inside hate? sarcasm? intolerance? selfishness? bitterness? envy? lust? just plain filthy language...? i dunno. i hope not. according to chapter 3, a well cannot bring forth pure water and bitter water, so i want to be a well of only pure water. i apologize to all those i have ever made taste from my bitterness... so to speak

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

i went to volunteer to sell those coupon books today at lowes and i must say that i was not very successful. first off, i was doing it mainly for the fact that i have to write a paper on my attempt at strategically trying to convince people to do something for an organization or something... for class. well, luckily i had the priveledge of volunteering with joel and brooke morton (SOME people left me and proved their TRUE loyalties [brooks, ben, lizz]). anyways, many highlights... including brooke pointing out that out of the three of us there she had the biggest balls, cause she was the only one approaching people. but i am cool with that...

some tidbits from joel...
arbitrary lowes shopper #1: "no thank you, i've already got one."
joel: "yeah, i BET you got one!"

joel: "yeah, missionary kids need a lot of counseling, you don't even understand what they go through..."
mikey: "how so?"
joel: "it messes with your mind!"

anyways, this is all in the hopes that more people will post so i can start another revolution. in other news... i shall be obtaining a different vehicle soon (i hope). be on the look out ladies for mikey with a large bench seat mobile so you can all cuddle up next to him as he bobs and weaves in traffic!!! oh, the excitement!

as always, keepin it real... REAL real...

On that note, today marked my fifth day of geeked out adventure as I spent many an hour online playing Final Fantasy XI. I have to say, this game, as cool as it is, is about the apogee of nerddom. It consists of all the glaive-power of multiplayer online gaming, and the traditionally nerdy concept of console RPGs, complete with the über-geekdom of an Everquest-based interface...not to mention its trace roots in Dungeons and Dragons, just like any computer RPG.
So what has been happening in my game? Well, see, I'll share with you all. I am a human warrior from the Kingdom of Bastok. I have been hard at work completing missions for the future of my country. This has included teaming up with other online fellows to battle big friggin lizards, whack turtly-birdy monster-men, and of course, the obligatory sandworms and earth elementals. Meanwhile my swordskill and parrying skills have vastly improved over the course of the last few days, and I have a "linkshell" chat going on with several guys-which is the FF XI equivalent of a CLAN.
So now that that's said...I think I should go to sleep. I work tomorrow, and then eventually return to the world of Vana'diel. Hopefully soon I can complete another mission for Cid and get my rank promoted. Until next time...
I will be nerding out in full effect.
Nerd...out.
Peace.
Out.

on that note, nate and i went to the Asian Student Association Halloween party dressed as black ghetto gangsta's... some black guys saw us and after doing an obligatory black nod at us for several seconds only said "sup gangsta's!?"... to which we replied "chillin... chillin..." at some point zoe will stop and realize how funny our costumes were last night - that will be a good laugh for all :-)

as always, keepin it real... REAL black!!!

On that note, I'm gonna marry Carol Anne, because she won't break my heart like a twig, or my mind like a slightly more resilient twig.