Rip Van Wrinkle

So the last week or so of my class here in Texas has been pretty tough.  I had a hard time with the next to last class and had to repeat a portion of it.  This would be the first time ever I had to repeat something and I took it pretty hard.  Not to mention the fact that my job said if I didn't pass it a second time I could look for a new job.  Though standards huh?  Anyway, about 1/3 of my class (five people) ended up taking it again, with only three of us making it.  

I'd take this time to wish the two ladies the best of luck in their new job hunt.  It certainly wasn't fair, but life rarely is.

Anyway, as you could guess, I like my job and especially the paycheck that comes with it so the pressure was on to do well on the test retake.  I'll save you the suspense and tell you that not only did I do excellent, I did better than the instructors had seen on some sections ever during their time teaching it.  But that is not what this post is about.

Pain in the neck.  Because of the mishap of the last week as I like to call it, I'm stuck here an extra few weeks due to missing my original day to move my things.  The movers will be back in about 3 weeks then I can hit the road.  The good news is that it doesn't really affect me to much, the bad news is that I'm still going to Georgia.  The point I am trying to make though is that it has been a whole lot of stress dealing with it all.  The pressure of possibly losing my job, the pressure of rearranging all of my dates to get out of here and the overall embarrassment of having to wait an extra three days to get my training certificate.  All of these things (plus a few more I have not mentioned) have caused me stress.  What has the stress caused?  A literal pain in the neck.

I woke up about ten days ago with a killer stiff neck.  I've had them before from sleeping wrong or cold air blowing on my neck or whatever.  You wake up and your damn neck is sore.  Usually it is gone in about three to four days.  Not this one, nope.  It was eight days later and it was still waking me up in the middle of the night.  I decided enough was enough and went to see the Doc.

He says that the neck is most definitely f'ed up and I need to stretch it and take muscle relaxants.  The only problem he says is that they will cause drowsiness.  Drowsiness?  On my first celebratory weekend?  No way, not me, I'm to happy not to party.

Uh, yeah right.  I took one of these things at four PM on Saturday and next thing I know it is 6 AM on Sunday and my phone has a bunch of texts from my friends wondering where I am so we can go out.

Also, King George is no longer in power and the American Revolution has taken place.

I can't stop laughing at it!

An otter was sitting on the bank of the euphrates river doing his ottery things when a scorpion scurries up to him:

Hey you think you could you ferry me to the other bank?

The otter replies: nah, you'll probably just sting me.

But if I sting you we'll both drown.

The otter thinks for a moment and agrees to ferry the scorpion.

They get to the middle of the river and the scorpion stings the otter.

Why the fuck did you do that? the otter yells, now we both drown!

And the scorpion goes: ALLAHU ACKBAR!

Captian Morgan Rum

Is no longer my favorite spiced rum. I have discovered (why didn't I have this before?) Sailor Jerry Rum. Man this stuff is good. I've been drinking it tonight with my Coke Zero and have since switched to sipping it off the rocks.

So sweet, yet just right. The Captian has to step down for the Sailor. Don't worry, I won't make him walk the plank, there's always room for a Captian on my ship, but sailors are more welcome now... huh, that sounds kind of, uh never mind.

By the way every time you click a link, I do a shot.

My friend Spider Girl

Has changed her blog address to http://spyder-girl.blogspot.com/ and it only took me a little over a year to fix it on my links on the side.

Of course I see she has killed my link on her blog. If she even had one. Pssft!

The King of Kong

It's a three day weekend and this special documentary about the world champion Donkey Kong player and a challenger is getting fantastic reviews on Rottentomatoes.com. In fact, some are calling it the movie of the year, yeah, all year.

Well, I love movies, I love video games, I love documentaries. Sounds like I have a movie to watch. The movie is only playing in 7 cities across America. Austin being one of those cities. Austin is only 3 hours from me, so I said what the hell, I'll drive 6 hours, see a movie (a great movie) and party hard in one of America's best college towns.

Long story short, I didn't go, but I did see the movie. Don't ask me how, I'd have to kill you.

Best movie of the year? Yes. I can't do a full review because I'm at home playing Guitar Hero and Donkey Kong, but the urge to blog just hit me and that is what I am doing in between sets of Holey Diver on hard.

Some have called this movie a classic David vs Goliath story, but I know that facts and attitudes were edited a certain way to give it more of that flare than really happened, I would say that if Michale Moore saw this movie he would be proud, then he's sue for "style infringement".

Anyway, I digress. This is, even with the shady edit job, one of the best movies of they year. Even if you don't like video games one bit I guarantee this movie will have something for you. The challenger to the title, Steve Wiebe, is an every day man and his passion as well as his feelings will resonate with you. The champion, Billy Mitchell, comes off as one shady, arrogant son of a bitch. Some of this is editing, some of it is the fact that he's the best god damn video game player of our time. Several people I know have met Billy and say he is a nice guy in person. I say who cares, when you're that good, you can be cocky. Life's short, right?

In essence the movie is about a small town guy trying to dethrone a king, a god. To do the impossible. To defeat a score that has lasted almost 25 years and has never even been in any danger of falling. In fact, no one but Billy Mitchell has even beaten Donkey Kong. Will Steve be able to do it? Well if I told you that it would be like telling you Bruce was dead right at the beginning of a certain other movie. Takes a lot of the fun out of it don't you think?

So, in short, go see The King of Kong. It's great.