Reason I Woke Up Today

1) White Wolf producing the Old World of Darkness books through Print on Demand

2) White Wolf announcing their MMO will be based on the Old World of Darkness

3) Chest bursters

4) Chocolate Mousse

Reasons I Woke Up Today


1) EXTREME Moostracks

2) David Addison

3) Bottle Cap Of Karmic Justice

4) Playing "Rawr!!" with my son

Reasons I Woke Up Today

After a too long hiatus, RIWUT triumphantly returns! *enter fanfare*

1) Peter gargling (sure this was from yesterday, but I still get a kick outta it)

2) Five hour Supernatural marathon

3) Dixon Hill

4) Scooby Doo: Mystery Incorporated

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) It either should or should not. It shouldn't should sometimes and it shouldn't should not others.

2) The 'Current now'? How many kinds of "now" are there?

3) Playing DDO with the guys at work

4) Midnight showings of movies!

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) First Rule of QA School: Never smack your testes in public.

2) The magic tickles of Skittles

3) Frisky Dingo

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Crapping the whip

2) Blue and Gold

3) Peppercorn stake

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Star Trek

2) Old!

3) Thunderstorms

4) Quiet time

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Morphine (The band, not the drug)

2) Using the company credit card and feeling like a bad ass

3) 30% off sales at F.Y.E.

4) Finishing yet another DS9 novel

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Finishing Lost at 2:30am

2) Two reps at the gym

3) Finding enough quiet time to write this

4) Cooking food

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "I've got my own odd little quirks about comics, but arguing that something official isn't really official just because someone said it officially, isn't one of them."

2) I want to believe

3) P.J. Harvey

Reason I Woke Up Today

1) 5 kinds of push ups

2) Comfy chairs

3) Stealing said comfy chair from co-worker

4) Framing different co-working for previously stated chair theft

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Trust

2) The crazy coolness of the human brain

3) Singing corpses (sure that was yesterday, it's worth mentioning today also)

4) Surround sound.

5) And of course, comic day!

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Hail storm drinking games

2) Corporate lunch

3) The Wang-Chung Rebellion!

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Beatles Rock Band

2) Lego Rock Band

3) Rock Band in general

4) New pants

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "Booboo, feel the pain of a thousand Jews!"

2) Dark Heresy

3) Fringe

Reason I Woke Up Today

1) "Sucking the marrow from the thighbone of life."

2) Fringe

3) DC Comics. Really.

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Good smelling women

2) 7th Seas

3) The Joker

Reason I Woke Up Today

1) Rock Band!!!!

2) Rickrolling

3) Musical interludes at work

4) Iron Man 2

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Cheese bread!

2) The origin of a man named Max

3) Salad... yeah, yeah yeah

4) My Testees! Go team!

First Joke

Because I don't have an official journal anywhere, I'm going to post this story here.

My son told his first joke today. I was holding him and he looked at me and said "Owie." Nothing seemed wrong with him, so I said "Owie? Where's an owie?" He then smiled at me and headbutted me right in the eye. Obviously I yell "OW!" and which point he started laughing and said "Owie!".

I'm so proud of him!

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "OF COURSE they don't even bother going to the cupboard and instead simply make a can of whoop-ass on the spot."

2) The Cure

3) One day farther from my past and one day closer to my future.

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Six-in-a-half feet long tree lizards

2) " There's no point in writing if you don't care about reading and thinking."

3) Science!

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "Life doesn't give us purpose, Black Hand. We give life purpose."

2) Laughing Stock

3) Kites

4) The Exodus of the Red Eye

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Blackest Night #8 tomorrow!

2) Not being at Pompeii (though this is somewhat mitigated by being so close to the Yellowstone Caldera....)

3) Peter laughing at his silly daddy

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Brom. The dude was awesome, and he signed my Deadlands book!

2) Sand. The dude is awesome, it's always good to be able to see your best friend.

3) "I like fake boobs. And real ones, big or small, its all good. I don’t mind that fake ones look fake. To me, boobs are like spaceships (no, not ‘cos I never get to touch either of them); it’s like, you see a picture of the space shuttle and you go ‘wow, that’s awesome, a real life spaceship!’ And then you see a picture of an Imperial Star Destroyer, and you go ‘WOW. I totally know that’s not real, but that is really awesome. And so BIG. Unrealistically so, but still …’ You don’t go ‘hrmph, I don’t like fake spaceships.’"

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Cupcakes

2) Mulder getting some

3) The Coming of Brom! (Because that means the Coming of Sand!)

4) Rawr!

5) Oooo Firefly

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Abbott and Costello

2) Chicken In A Can!

3) Deadlands talk

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) The answer came independent of the question. That's when I knew I was in trouble

2) Arkham Horror

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) My posterior saved for posterity

2) St. Patrick's Day!!

3) "Well, Jack, you stand there and say, 'Gee, Rocket Raccoon, I'm so glad you brought that unfeasibley large cannon with you...' and I go like this."

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "I've always wanted laser hair removal, but nature is doing it for me."

2) Boondock Saints 2!

3) Boondock Saints 1 (almost...)!

4) Business Mode

5) Hot chocolate

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "Frank Miller falls into a whole separate category - "batshit insane"."

2) Boondock Saints 2!

3) Tons of baby kisses from Peter.

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "Sooner or lazer."

2) The Other Hand!!!

3) Some 4th ed lovin'!

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Maintaining my Heavy Weight Nerd title via Tremors knowledge

2)Finally getting to see Avatar. In 3D. At the Imax.

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) New music for new day

2) Magic lunch breaks!

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "He's such a tightwad that he tried to save Jesus."

2) Hot blind chicks.

3) My son, who really is the reason I wake up everyday.

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) All Will Be Well

2) Coffee. Seriously. Without it I'd still be in bed.

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Eve 6

2) Blackest Night #7 (and I haven't even read it yet....)

3) Getting to watch BSG again!

4) Blackest Night #7 (and I DID read it!)

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Peter reading D&D books on my lap

2) Mass Effect 2

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Working from home!!

2) Cajun fries

3) "Listening to this gloomy, heroin-soaked collection of songs had me ready to quit my job, divorce my wife and hunt down Nick and tell him he was to blame. Instead, I kept the job and bought the rest of his albums. The jury's still out about the marriage, but in the end, I'm convinced that my life will end in a fiery disaster and Nick will somehow be to blame."

4) The Guardian of Forever!!!

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "Everyone has regrets, Lieutenant... and the consequences of our actions, of the choices we make, can stay with us for a long time. I only stopped by to say that I hope you won't let your past dictate your future- and to wish you well."

2) Iced mocha frappuccino (even if it's the bottled Starbucks' kind....)

3) Fox hand-puppets!

4) Running the full 22 minutes without dying after three weeks of inactivity.

5) Dan Dido, Jim Lee, and Geoff Johns. F'n A.

Reasons I Woke Up Today

Be working non-stop for the last week, so I've slipped. Here's stuff from the last week.

1) Star Trek Online

2) CCR

3) Breakfast at IHOP with Peter

4) http://www.xfilesshrine.com/xs-sounds.htm

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "However, by the early 1970s, exclamation points were mostly used because comic writers wanted them, not because they had to. It was useful in making comics seem dynamic. If everyone is shouting, then some pretty cool stuff must be going on, right (see the TV series 24 for the same basic concept)?"

2) Businesses that don't lay off

3) "The money powers prey upon the nation in times of peace and conspire against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than a monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, and more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes. I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the Bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.. corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money powers of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in the hands of a few, and the Republic is destroyed."

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Having your new game get announced.

2) "The devil may not have given Peter Parker a good deal but the cards have been great for Hal Jordan."

3) "I'm looking for my dog. His name is Heinrick. He's a Norwegian Elkhound. I use him to hunt Moose!"

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "In fact, just thank The Clash that you're alive because fuck you, they're the fucking Clash."

2) "All right, Fear-asaurus. Let's try this again."

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Passenger train!

2) "Anyone that claims that troubles come in threes is someone who I'd classify as an 'Optimist'."

3)

4) Peter dancing with the plush bear that's twice as big as he is.

Reasons I Woke Up Today- Weekend Edition

1) Being headbutted with love by Peter

2) Bear-baiting and rat-selling

3) End of first season Supernatural

4) Star Trek Online- it's really starting to grow on me
5) Figuring out how to put the Drow into PCGen

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Losing the first Magic game I've played in two years.
2) "I would have gone with the 'Assorted Seafood with Your Choice of Cheese'."

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) "Ohmygosh! This amazing display of early amateur website design has totally got me to change my mind! And convert to Scientology!"
2) Peter Gabriel's hair circa 1986









3) "The preservation of Oa and the the Central Battery is my Primacy Directive by order of the Guardians."

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) Peter saying "Blanket".
2) "All irregularities will be handled by the forces controlling each dimension. Transuranic heavy elements my not be used where there is life. Medium atomic weights are available: Gold, Lead, Copper, Jet, Diamond, Radium, Sapphire, Silver and Steel. Sapphire and Steel have been assigned."
3) Being able to really hold down food for the first time in a week.

Reasons I Woke Up Today

1) The Teabag Jar
2) "Which brings me back to my big question: I asked it in The Descent, and ask it in Deeper, and will again: What does the face of God look like?

No spoiler alert here, but I happen to have one answer. Every parent does. The first time you look in your newborn’s eyes, you know without a doubt who that is in there looking up at you. That’s God peeking out through the window. Just as surely, you realize that there really are monsters in the world, and that guardian angels really do exist, because now you are one."

3) "But while you were busy destroying my life what was half in me has become whole"

Reasons I Woke Up This Morning

1) A Casino Royale/Quantum of Solace double feature
2) Deeper

Reasons I Woke Up This Morning

1) "The chances of getting dragged off by a bear dramaticly increase the moment you step outside your door."
2) "Someone is always paying attention, Mr. Mulder."

Reasons I Woke Up This Morning

1) Playing "peek a boo" with Peter
2) "So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the Congo
Oh no no no no no
Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go"
3) The Return of the JLI

Reasons I Woke Up This Morning

1) "I need you here despite your destination."
2) Having my game be the most downloaded one on Xbox LIVE.
3) Artifcial pork flavoring on real 18 cent noodles.
4) Hearing Peter say "Really" for the first time.

Reasons I Woke Up This Morning

1) The Sherlock Holmes soundtrack
2) Tumblebugs
3) "I'm skipping past 'Whining' and going straight to 'Pouting'."
4) "With this wonderful piece of modern medical technology, we are able to laugh in the face of death, then spit in it, make obscene phone calls to his wife three in the morning, steal his newspaper and shit on his porch. With science."

Reasons I Woke Up This Morning- 1/6/10 (The Day Late and Dollar Short edition)

So, in an attempt to be more appreciative of this crazy ass life I have, I've decided to start listing the reasons I wake up from day to day. Just a list a of little things that happen that I would have missed had I choose to stay in my warm RPG filled bed like I so often want to do.
Anyway, I meant to start this yesterday, but I got really busy, so here we go:

Reasons that I woke up Today (Timewarp edition I - 1/6/10) .

1) Hot chick with Spider-Man gloves
2) Five Guys Burgers and Fries
3) "Freedom! Terrible, terrible freedom!"
4) "Uh... I'm a girl, sir! See? I've got curves and everything!"
5) "Remember everything your teachers gave you. Don't be any of them. Be all of them."