You know what? The hell with pretending you're no big deal. I'm fucking awesome.

How else can you explain the fact that I made bacon roses...

Yeah, I said it. Bacon. Roses.

I love Halloween.

So... what's been up? Just have a few quick things to share.

This is one of the cooler gifts I've given in while. Inside the box was a roll of toilet paper, beef jerky, ramen noodles, bandaids, Survive any Situation Handbook, Soap, and a coupon for a 4-hour license-qualifying course in gun safety/shooting.



This is the crazy ass rain and thunderstorms we had last week. Reminds me of the end of Ghostbusters.



And finally, got myself a new quick and dirty crafting project. Decided to register for an even called the Warrior Dash. It's just a 3 mile race with obstacles. Not really anything all that badass, but they encourage costumes... so why not?

These are the very early stages of a do-it-yourself Viking beard:







When it's all done it'll have a well defined moustache portion, and a few hanging braids for effect. Might trim it shorter. I'm sure I'll have another picture or two up after the day... you know... after I've buzzed my hair into a mohawk and added some blue war paint.

Yo'. Just repopulated a handful of albums. Feel free to check them out.

I had planned a long blog, but I'm in a bit of a rush and don't have enough time to really give it. So instead I'll leave you with a photo blog.

I call this, "Construction of a Creepy Bear Head".

The inspiration:


The math:


Home Depot is my craft store:


Concentric circles:


Coming together:


It's a start anyway:


Sanded down some:


Carving out the facial features:


The muzzle:


Looking more ursine:


Disguising the eyeholes:


Doubly sanded and assembled:


Painted 'er up:


A little frightening:

It's been a long while since I've blogged, and the last one I was sick as a dog. But now I'm happy to say that I am typing from my brand new laptop. My last was a bit old, so while I was sad to see it die, i'm pretty fucking excited with the upgraded specs.

Okay, maybe i'll write something longer, wittier, and with pictures later... for now I need to catch up on boobies.

I've been very sick for... um, 3 days now? It's the Flu I think. Spend most of yesterday semi delirious and drifting in and out of 30 minute naps all day long... which sounds fun, right? but turns out it isn't really. You lose all concept of time, and next thing you know it's 7pm and you just want to fall back asleep but you know if you don't stay awake until at least a respectable bedtime, then you won't sleep through the night. Plus, I swear I haven't had a hot cup of tea this entire time. I've made at least 7-8 cups of tea, and each one I wind up dozing while I'm waiting for it to cool just a little, and then hot tea magically transmutes to cold tea. Ugh, I am so sick of sleeping! I never thought I'd say that.



Today I called out of work, but my temperature is back under 100, barely, so hopefully I'm finally kicking this thing. It's also been pretty lonely this whole time because I basically shut myself in and turned away any offers for help. I would have loved a nurse and all, but the flu is no joke and I didn't want to contribute to spreading around to friends and family. One of the awesomest people I know (besides myself) kept me grounded by sending me frequent texts though. It was like little islands of sanity in a sea of delirious napping and sweating.

Okay, that's about all I've got in me, later.

Well, I guess it’s time for that past due blog entry… though I suppose it’s not technically past-due because I only just rejoined a few days ago… but regardless there’s still lots to catch up on, a few pictures to share, and the usual tomfoolery that those who remember me have become accustomed to.

First and Foremost, why did I leave? Well this is a bit too somber for me right now, and I’m probably not going to answer this to anyone’s real satisfaction anyway, so let’s just leave it at… I felt like I needed to leave for a bit. I needed to prove to myself that I could walk away from this website if I wanted to… and so I did. I’d never say it was an addiction… but let’s be honest, I do love me the ladies, and all the moreso when they’re nekkid. So it's a bit too easy to just spend too much time surfing the more pornographic aspects of SG and not enough time living a healthy social life otherwise.

I’ve definitely missed you all though, truly, and I’m a little surprised to admit that I’ve missed coming here and sharing the general oddities of my existence as well. I know it hardly sounds modest to admit that I like talking about myself, but you mostly know me by now… I’m fucking awesome. And once in a while I don’t mind descending down from Mount Awesome and letting the masses bask in my Awesomeness. Actually, I mostly just think I’m funny, and am unashamed about my ability to make myself laugh. As long as it gets a few people laughing with/at me as well, then I feel justified.

Okay… the catching up part… I might as well do this in a periodic fashion, I think I disappeared from here just a bit before Halloween, and it’s now midway through January… And if you know me… that means I've been through a few outrageous costume parties between then and now

And this enters the photo intensive blog portion, sprinkled with general nerdy musings.


October:


Started off my favorite holiday month by paying homage to The Great Old One in this Cthulhu pumpkin carving. I didn’t any good shots of it lit up, and I wasn’t around to witness any of the trick-or-treat’er reactions, but by all accounts it was well liked by the neighborhood.





As for what I dressed up as for the party, I was basically stumped until two weeks before the weekend… I’ve sort of run the gambit of costumes over the last few years, between Halloweens, themed birthdays, and all other excuses to craft something. Clark Kent, Shinigami Initiate, Bomberman, Zombie Indiana Jones, Steampunk Dirigible Captain, Tie Fighter, Cthulhu, Apocolypse Survivor… and more I’m forgetting… Where do you go from there?

And then it hit me… why have I never done a Ghostbuster? Bam! So, rightfully, I started with the Protonpack… with a little cardboard, duct tape, spray paint, other odds and ends and a little creative ingenuity, I had something close enough to suspend disbelief. But of course I had to take some creative license with the Warning labels. Top one reads: Danger, Danger! High Voltage! When we touch, When we Kiss. The lower one reads: It's not gay unless your streams cross*. (Footnote: it would be helpful to know that my friends have a joking credo that states "It's not gay unless your balls touch."... just something that's funny to say from time to time).







p.s. those ecto-goggles were functional!.. sorta… depending on your idea of function. One of the eye pieces was a weed carrying compartment.


(M)November:


Ah, Movember. With a capital M. Some of you might have heard about Movember, the international charity initiative to raise money and awareness for male specific cancers, like prostate cancer. The charity consists of growing a mustache through the course of a month and soliciting for money along the way. Having never really done much for charity up to this point, I figured I could manage to *not* do something (shave) for a good cause. And so with the help of great friends, frequent mustache bloggings on the Movember website, and a whole lot of daily hazing from friends and strangers, I managed to raise $767 (way above the individual average), and ranked #1601 nationally.

Raised enough to get two free tickets to the Mo’Gala at the end of the month, and even got nominated for Best Mo’ Couple at the event. I wasn’t prepared for much stage presence though, and we didn’t win… but hey, a nomination is something.

Here are my mustache growing pictures in rough sequential order… it looks pretty bad at the start, I'm not gonna lie… but it culminates grandly into… well… still looking pretty damn bad, but I don't think I looked so bad in the final picture of this set.

week zero: My fact versus fiction reality


week one




week two




week three




week four - finish




Yikes... now if we're all done being tortured by that mustache, (you'll be glad to know it's gone), lets just move on.


December:


There aren’t any good pictures from this month, but it was Christmas (my 2nd favorite holiday), so it was a good month in general. Misc. presents tally: Got me a Kindle, a new art tablet for my laptop, a few video games: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood (xbox), Modnation Racers (PS3), Megaman X Collections (DSi), some Bluray/DVD: Expendables, Inception, Grindhouse, Mega Pirahna, season one of Superjail, a few books: Dreadnaught- Cherie Priest, Behemoth – Scott Westerfeld . I also got a box of Stay Puft caffeinated marshmellows… which I inhaled almost immediately *drool* *twitch* <3

I also got to see my whole family, brother, sister, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, mom and dad as well as some extended family. It’s been a little while since I got to see them all at once… it was both great and draining… as most families seem to be.

I also got to hear about a friend who finally got away from her previous living situation, which I won't elaborate on but this is really amazing news and more than designates this as a happy month.


January:


One of the most holy of months… because it contains mah birthday! Last three years running have been the most amazing sequence of annual parties. I share a close enough birthday to two friends that a few years ago we decided to just combine our parties and make real ragers of them. Three years ago was the infamous Video Game theme party (I was Bomberman), last year we had a mustache themed party (I was... mustachio'd ), and this year…. Duh duh duuuuuuuh! 80’s cartoon themed party. Oh man… it was enough to induce tears… both of hilarity and general geek love. I don’t have adequate representation of the costumes (mostly because I try not to post pictures of people who otherwise don’t frequent this website) But here’s a few. I and one of the other birthday buddies dressed up as Donatello and Michelangelo, and we convinced a few others into TMNT related costumes, but across the board we had really good representation from some of the greatest 80’s cartoons. Thundercats, Smurfs and Carebears… oh my.



Yeah... that costume disguised our faces, and really very little else. I actually wore a sports cup... hence the extra, um, definition.







And this is me... turning YOU on.



Okay... so that was fairly well exhaustive. I hope you all enjoy the data overload. This is by far my longest blog... and will probably remain my longest unless I ever disappear for 3+ months again.

I won't get around to refiling my albums today... maybe another day. Later kids.

Yeah so.... I'm back?

Don't all rush at once to mob me... besides, it's not like I've re-invited any of my friends on here yet. Placeholder blog until I'm more situated.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.