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'."

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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."

The Game's Afoot

I know that I'll have regrets, but that's the price of one more lesson learned- She Wants Revenge- I Don't Want to Fall In Love

While today hasn't been very eventful, it has been enlightening. One of our designers went on maternity leave last week, so I've been moved off of testing on onto designing. This is a very cool development. I'm still learning the ropes (and I think I will be for a while) but it's tons of fun. I don't know if this is a permanent move or I'm only doing this until she comes back, but either way I'm just going to sit back and enjoy it. The only problem was, because I came in late to this party, I had no real idea of what the game was about. Well, today we had a long design meeting and I am now looking forward to playing this game when it's done!

Seeing Myself For the First Time

Fetishize your beauty, the scars that you don't hide- Juliana Hatfield, Cool Rock Boy

So as you may or may not know, I recently got contacts. I'm still adjusting to them. It takes me something like 30 minutes to put the damn things in, but it's well worth it. I wish I would have gotten them years ago. I've been completely surprised by the boost of self confidence that I didn't even know I was missing since I started wearing them. I guess I've thought about myself as a lame glasses wearing geek that it never even occurred to me that I could be something different. Now mind you, I'm still a lame geek, that hasn't changed at all... but to paraphrase Vinnie from My Blue Heaven sometimes you have to change from the outside, in.

Chinese Curses

My utility belt says it's to the bar Batman!- The Streets, Too Much Brandy

Life is an interesting thing full of many interesting events and interesting moments. Case in point: Just the other day I watched TV. Zam! Pow! Odd isn't it?
Blogging is a fun intellectual exercise for the emotionally underdeveloped.
I've had many people come up of the street and ask me what I do doing an average day. To these people, I can only say with all seriousness, "Your mom."
Doesn't this seem a little late for Al to run?
Life is an interesting thing.

Seeing Other People

Despite the hopeful things I've said I've lived my life inside my head.- Barenaked Ladies, Everything Had Changed

Brace yourselves for some, possibly shocking news. I started up a LiveJournal I know what you're thinking. It's OK, though. You're still my favorite. I'm not leaving here, not by any stretch of the imagination. This is still, and always, my primary blog. As a matter of fact, I've pretty much even used these colors over there to give you both a compatible look. So. Let's get some synergy going on!

Running Thoughts

We are scientists. We do genetics. We leave religion to the psychos and fanatics. -Grinderman, Go Tell The Women

So, I had a couple of random thoughts go through my head today. The first was that I wanted to to run. Not in that The Fugitive type way. Or in that Arnold Schwarzenegger The Running Man type of way. No I mean in the real honest to God "I want to feel the wind run past my face in a fury as I cause my muscles to explode in pain" type of way.

Odd isn't it?

Also, while I was walking back from the store, I saw a nice old lady raking her yard. And I thought, someday I want to do that. I want to be able to be able to reflect upon my eons long life racking leaves on some alien planet, reminiscing about watching as the sun ran out of hydrogen and helium becoming a red giant that slowly consumed the inner planets of its doomed solar system. Then bitching about how gaudy the monument that they put was. You'd think that after 5 billion years, mankind would be able to get over the need to erect giant phallic symbols for any old reason? Ah, well. Kids today.