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Long time, no post.
I think Issue 8 of City of Heroes is being loaded onto the live servers as I write this. If that proves to be true then I know what I'm doing for the rest of the day. If not then its back to AutoAssault for me.
My recent good news is that I just paid off my wrecked (and under insured) car and now have about $400/month more to spend on foolish things like 'Food' and 'Gas'. Being truely poor for the last year has sucked.
Anyway, I'm off to the bank and then breakfast and then to Paragon. See you in the skys.
-gd
p.s. I found my phone.
I think Issue 8 of City of Heroes is being loaded onto the live servers as I write this. If that proves to be true then I know what I'm doing for the rest of the day. If not then its back to AutoAssault for me.
My recent good news is that I just paid off my wrecked (and under insured) car and now have about $400/month more to spend on foolish things like 'Food' and 'Gas'. Being truely poor for the last year has sucked.
Anyway, I'm off to the bank and then breakfast and then to Paragon. See you in the skys.
-gd
p.s. I found my phone.
This sucks,
I lost my phone today and it could be in something like 4 different places along my 15 mile route to and from work. This blows. So ah, if any of you happen across a virgin mobile flip phone that says "game dork" on the screen banner, drop me a note. I'll give you hug for it, I promise.
Not currently texting,
-gd
I lost my phone today and it could be in something like 4 different places along my 15 mile route to and from work. This blows. So ah, if any of you happen across a virgin mobile flip phone that says "game dork" on the screen banner, drop me a note. I'll give you hug for it, I promise.
Not currently texting,
-gd
Okay, so I have fallen into City of Heroes the same way so many gamers fell into World of Warcraft and I'm loving it! I get in an hour a day on the bad days and a 'day' on the good days. The biggest reason for this new addiction to an old casual habbit is that I'm so damned broke right now that internet and CoH/CoV is all I can afford to do.
As far as vices go it's not that bad. All I need now is a lady that is also addicted and that lives here in the valley of the sun(stroke).
Fighting the good fight,
-gd
As far as vices go it's not that bad. All I need now is a lady that is also addicted and that lives here in the valley of the sun(stroke).
Fighting the good fight,
-gd
Well my birthday is the 16th (just hours away) and my big excitement was paying my monthly bills and getting all my movies out of pawn. The biggest honest thrill of all though was getting back my Dad's white gold ring. It has a square black polished stone in the face and is really very simple, like my Dad. I had pawned it a few months ago to buy something to put in the pantry and it saved from going hungry, just like Dad did when I was back home and broke.
Its weird how such little things remind us so much of the people we love. Every year on my birthday Dad and I would shoot pool in the basement or at his favorite bar. We would joke about his failing vision and how it seemed to make him play more "strategy pool" (i.e.: he missed his shots more and more as he needed his glasses more and more) rather than just hanging me out to dry like he had when we were both younger.
Anyway, he had bought himself the ring when he was in the Marines and I can't remember a day he didn't have it on his right hand. When he passed away 6 years ago it came to me. I keep it on my bookcase along with a small jar of his ashes and a few pictures of him. When I'm feeling a little weak or small I wear it for the day and it feels like he's here. I can almost smell his cigaret smoke and flannel shirts and hear him shuffling his playing cards (also sitting on my bookcase) and I feel like I am where I aught to be.
Dad wanted to move out here to Arizona when he retired and my youngest sister graduated high school. She was coming with him. My folks had divorced when I was 24 but Mandy was just a little kid and she and Dad were the closest of us. He passed away the Feb before she said goodbye to school and they missed their chance at roadrunners and sunsets in the desert.
That's really why I'm here at all. I brought some of his ashes and some of his favorite things down here with me and every year I ask off of work for my birthday and I take him and his cards and I drive up into the mountains for a few hours. Usually I just head up Hwy-17 toward Flagstaff and find a rest stop with a westward facing and good view of the mountains. Then I'll tune in a country station and play solitaire on the dashboard while I bring Dad up to speed on what's going on back home and here in the valley of the sun. We talk a bit and joke some and then I drive us home. It makes for a good day and it lets me almost hear his voice again.
Well anyway, my birthday is always just before Fathers Day and it's always a mix of emotions for me. I miss him so much that I'm crying as I type this and I would give anything to just be able to say Hi to him again and shake his hand.
If any of you are from, or near, Manitowoc, WI (and I know some of you are) do me a favor if you have the time. Find your way to the Lincoln Park Zoo on the north side of Manitowoc. Follow the brick walk down the middle of the zoo straight in from the gate and follow it to the right as you pass the deer enclosure. Keep walking it down to where the Billy goats live. As you walk you'll notice that the bricks in the walk have names carved in them of people that donated money to the remodeling of the zoo. And there, just across the walk from the Billy goats, near the little shade gazebo, you'll see a doubles size brick with a face carved in it. It's my Dad's brick. We bought it for him just after he passed. It's the only brick in the zoo with a picture carved in it and its Dad's smiling face. Do me and my sisters a favor and just run your fingers or toes through the carving and brush out the leaves and pine needles. I'd like it if he had a clear view of the river and the zoo and I'm sure he would too. Thanks.
If you are lucky enough to still have your Dad around please give him a hug for those of us who no longer have the privilege of giving one to our Dads. I'll thank you for that too.
I'm 35 tomorrow but I'll always be Danny's boy. And I'll always miss and love my Dad.
-gd
Its weird how such little things remind us so much of the people we love. Every year on my birthday Dad and I would shoot pool in the basement or at his favorite bar. We would joke about his failing vision and how it seemed to make him play more "strategy pool" (i.e.: he missed his shots more and more as he needed his glasses more and more) rather than just hanging me out to dry like he had when we were both younger.
Anyway, he had bought himself the ring when he was in the Marines and I can't remember a day he didn't have it on his right hand. When he passed away 6 years ago it came to me. I keep it on my bookcase along with a small jar of his ashes and a few pictures of him. When I'm feeling a little weak or small I wear it for the day and it feels like he's here. I can almost smell his cigaret smoke and flannel shirts and hear him shuffling his playing cards (also sitting on my bookcase) and I feel like I am where I aught to be.
Dad wanted to move out here to Arizona when he retired and my youngest sister graduated high school. She was coming with him. My folks had divorced when I was 24 but Mandy was just a little kid and she and Dad were the closest of us. He passed away the Feb before she said goodbye to school and they missed their chance at roadrunners and sunsets in the desert.
That's really why I'm here at all. I brought some of his ashes and some of his favorite things down here with me and every year I ask off of work for my birthday and I take him and his cards and I drive up into the mountains for a few hours. Usually I just head up Hwy-17 toward Flagstaff and find a rest stop with a westward facing and good view of the mountains. Then I'll tune in a country station and play solitaire on the dashboard while I bring Dad up to speed on what's going on back home and here in the valley of the sun. We talk a bit and joke some and then I drive us home. It makes for a good day and it lets me almost hear his voice again.
Well anyway, my birthday is always just before Fathers Day and it's always a mix of emotions for me. I miss him so much that I'm crying as I type this and I would give anything to just be able to say Hi to him again and shake his hand.
If any of you are from, or near, Manitowoc, WI (and I know some of you are) do me a favor if you have the time. Find your way to the Lincoln Park Zoo on the north side of Manitowoc. Follow the brick walk down the middle of the zoo straight in from the gate and follow it to the right as you pass the deer enclosure. Keep walking it down to where the Billy goats live. As you walk you'll notice that the bricks in the walk have names carved in them of people that donated money to the remodeling of the zoo. And there, just across the walk from the Billy goats, near the little shade gazebo, you'll see a doubles size brick with a face carved in it. It's my Dad's brick. We bought it for him just after he passed. It's the only brick in the zoo with a picture carved in it and its Dad's smiling face. Do me and my sisters a favor and just run your fingers or toes through the carving and brush out the leaves and pine needles. I'd like it if he had a clear view of the river and the zoo and I'm sure he would too. Thanks.
If you are lucky enough to still have your Dad around please give him a hug for those of us who no longer have the privilege of giving one to our Dads. I'll thank you for that too.
I'm 35 tomorrow but I'll always be Danny's boy. And I'll always miss and love my Dad.
-gd
Life is looking up. I've just secured a new living arangement that will drop my rent+utilities to a total of $250/month. I'm going to be renting a room from a friend here in Phoenix but at least its with a friend. I'll be in a house full of gamers too!
I'm only staying until I have my bills paid off and then I'll be back on the prowl for Ms. Needs a roomate (all things being fair; girls live a little cleaner than boys).
Have a great day,
-C
I'm only staying until I have my bills paid off and then I'll be back on the prowl for Ms. Needs a roomate (all things being fair; girls live a little cleaner than boys).
Have a great day,
-C
I'm not going to say that girls suck.
All I'm saying is that honesty is the best road to take and that some people just end up not being worth the time.
-gd
All I'm saying is that honesty is the best road to take and that some people just end up not being worth the time.
-gd
Well X-mas came and went and my whole weekend was spent working at the Emergency Animal Clinic...Again. I was really surprised at how decent people were treating eachother and our staff this year. We only had one or two jerks all weekend and we had several well-whishers and do-gooders.
Three different past costomers brought our staff everything from cheesecake to veggie platters and two people in the lobby called me aside to volenteer to pay for medical services on a stranger's pet.
In general it was a pretty good X-mas. Ofcorse I would have rather been home with the fireplace reved up and popping, the object of my affections by my side, and a good movie on the 'set, but if the folks at the animal clinic didn't show up to do our jobs, who would?
I hope all of you had the holiday you had coming to you and that you enjoyed every minute of it,
-gd
Three different past costomers brought our staff everything from cheesecake to veggie platters and two people in the lobby called me aside to volenteer to pay for medical services on a stranger's pet.
In general it was a pretty good X-mas. Ofcorse I would have rather been home with the fireplace reved up and popping, the object of my affections by my side, and a good movie on the 'set, but if the folks at the animal clinic didn't show up to do our jobs, who would?
I hope all of you had the holiday you had coming to you and that you enjoyed every minute of it,
-gd
Hello folks! I'm back after about 2 years of being cought up in real life. I was formerly called "caddok" but for some reason I was unable to reactivate that account (maybe it was to old?) But it doesn't matter, I'm here now.
So, what's been going on?
-gd (a.k.a: c)
So, what's been going on?
-gd (a.k.a: c)
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