Do you remember the good ol' days, busting out the old NES or SNES, or perhaps Sega Master Drive or Genesis? Or maybe you came into gaming later on, and your first console was the N64 or PlayStation?

Well, there came a time when video games were made seemingly exclusively for young, juvenile players. Then as they got older and became teens, two things emerged: 3D graphics, and sexy characters. Of course today it's almost impossible to pick up a new game without seeing at least one ultra-sexed, misproportioned but libido-stimulating female hottie with a pair of swords or guns or...really, whatever to go along with her pair of bombs. But just as these pixelated sex icons and idols are coming and going with each new game, we forget those who paved the way for these new girls to ma

 "There is nothing more difficult than armed struggle. / In armed struggle, the difficulty is turning the circuitous into the direct, and turning adversity into advantage." -- Sun Tzu, from "The Art of War"

 Ah, it's been quite a long time since I updated. Once again. I'd have a good estimate as to how long it's been since I've last updated, but I can't seem to open my own journal. Eh heh heh... Oh well. If anything in this breaks my usual format, I'll maybe fix it. Or I'll forget. Whatever. This entry will probably be short, because there's really not much to tell, though there have been a few events to occur in my life. To begin, I have a new occupation. That's right, The Ron now works at The Home Depot. I started working there about a month ago, as a cashier. Of course, as things have been going recently, my position as a cashier is only a technicality. Management loves to put me in other departments, especially the lot and lumber. And from there, I'm usually going through the store helping everyone. Not that this bothers me, mind you, as straying from the front-end usually means my days go by a lot faster, not to mention the fact...

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." -- George Bernard Shaw I wonder if I had this coming? Well, maybe it wasn't some sort of punishment deserved, but perhaps I should've foresaw this happening. Today started out as a very fun day. I went to Pete & Elda's with my friends Amy and Anthony, from the Hollywood Video in Jackson. They would be, in this case, The Professor and Dr. Buck respectively. The meeting was intended to be a farewell party for me leaving Hollywood. Sure, it was almost a month late, but I'm not complaining. For those of you who don't know, by the way, Pete & Elda's is a pizzeria and bar in the Marlboro/Neptune area (and no, none of us were drinking). We had chosen that destination (which is decently far for us) because of a certain little traditional contest they hold. Apparently, whoever can eat a whole double extra large pie by themselves is awared a free t-shirt, and naturally this was a challenge we simply could not pass up. We had a really fun night, and managed to snag us each a t-shirt, although being the sinister man that I am, I managed to throw an ice cream on to...

”Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.” –- Friedrich Nietzsche There’s a better variation to the quote I used today, but for the life of me, I just can’t find it. Oh well. I want to begin this post with an apology. Two apologies, actually. The first is that there was my realization that because of failed and/or deleted posts, I have left gaps out in my work situation that I simply assumed I had covered. I will be covering that as my first topic. The second is that I was going to explain this situation in a post a week or so earlier, but it was deleted. I’m lovin’ the interconnection of problems. But, these things are but a minor grievance, and we can press on despite them quite readily in any event, but I wanted to apologize right from the gate. In July, I had taken up employment at the Hollywood Video at Brick, under Marie, their current Store Manager. No surprise there, as I do believe I’ve mentioned that. I worked there until around October, keeping some contact with the Jackson store (mainly its store manager, my buddy Chris). Around October, I had gotten word that the fool Candice had been promoted to Sto...

 "I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago." -- Edgar Allen Poe

 Today is one of those days where if I owned a gun, I'd be in jail for multiple homicide. Well, yesterday would make that more exact, but the fact remains that people would be dead. Work was a fucking bastard. I had game inventory to do, and I was teamed with a friendly yet still green rookie, who is too inept for his mouth. I didn't get out of work until around 3 AM, which also involved a fiasco with Checkpoint, the security company that protects our store. I got home around 3:15 and let my dog out, as well as fed my cat. I played games for maybe an hour before I turned in for bed. I started college today, and although I'm starting my days later than I used to be, I still wanted to get some rest. From 6 AM to 8 AM, I didn't get a wink of sleep. I had the dog on my bed, because I don't feel like dealing with his ass wimpering and trying to climb on when I'm trying to sleep. He was asleep before I was, but he woke up ar...

"According to a new study, Botox injections can help back pain. So you see, that's why John Kerry had all that Botox - his back was killing him from all that flip-flopping on issues." -- Jay Leno Heh heh...what's our president's name? Ok, ok, enough fake Jay-Walking. Sorry I haven't written anything in the past...what has it been? Almost six months? Well, as I write this, I'm sitting in the library in college with 15 minutes left of class. I figured I'd at least write something. Perhaps I'll write again when I get home. And if I don't, well, I apologize. I've been busy as a motherfucker, and with Christmas less than a week away, you can count that I'm gonna stay busy. But since my statements are coming out faster than minutes pass, apparently, I can at least touch on my current state, talk about what happened, though probably briefly, since the time we left off until now. Not much to say, really, but I didn't expect this post to be very exciting. Just something to keep the blog active. I still have the journal entry from when I returned to vacation sitting on my computer half-finished. Yeah...I'm trashin' it. Anything I've written th...

 "You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?" -- Bryan Ferry

 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WAH! AAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! AH! AH! AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Y'know, I could go on, but I could scream out a whole journal entry's worth! I wanna put a rusty nail into my skull right now! Why? Because if I lose this damn challenge scenario one more time, I'm gonna go in-fucking-sane! I wad advised that it would be hard, but it's impossible!! What am I talking about? Well, I bought Romance of the Three Kingdoms 10 yesterday. There's an option in it to load your created characters from Romance 9 onto 10. Now, in Romance 9, there was an option to load your characters from 8 onto 9. Therefore, I'd be loading my characters from both 8 and 9 onto 10 as a final result. Now that's a pretty sweet deal. Now, for those who don't know, Romance of the Three Kingdoms 9 is one of the hardest games on the market, and I hate it like the fucking plague. So I ended up deleting my data in it. So, I decide to rest...

 "This is the greatest handgun ever made. The Colt Single Action Army. Six bullets. More than enough to kill anything that moves. Now I'll show you why they call me...'Revolver'." -- Revolver Ocelot

 Heh...guy gamer for life. Well, today seems to be the start of a horrible week. Sure, technically the week started yesterday, but as far as I'm concerned, the week starts on monday. And today was horrible. I woke up early to get some money for my car, but my mother stopped me in mid-process and told me not to, then I went to OCC so they could validate a form that states that I've been doing good in school, which will ultimately get me a discount on my car insurance. Well, after giving me some trouble about it, they finally took my form and told me they'd mail it to me in 3 to 5 weeks. Is it really that complicated? Well, whatever. Then I ran to the bank, while my mom called me every half hour, either checking where I was or to refer me to some job that's on my second-string in case I don't get any of my other jobs, and is insisting I go to fill out applications tonight, even though I've been on the road all day. Then we went to get hay for her gard...

Poison was the cure..."Two things you coulda done better: first, find and trash the locator beacon inside the ship you jacked. But that woulda meant taking the time to locate the locator, wouldn't it? You musta been in one shit-fired hurry. Second -- and this is really the more important part -- you shoulda dusted my dick when you had the chance." -- Nick Chinlund And that's why I love the Chronicles of Riddick. Well, one of the reasons why. I like the character of Toombs. Day 4 back home, and nothing to do. Sigh. I have to start looking for a job soon. I'm not even sure why I'm updating right now. Eh, probably something to do. Man, I wish I were back in Florida right now. Yes, I know what I wrote in my last entry, and all of that still stands, but I sort of eluded to this last time, excepted I focused on one half more than the other. I haven't spoken to Kira in a couple of days. Not really a big deal, since my intentions were sorta to leave her alone for a while, see what comes from all this. Sort of a way to either test my theory and/or just leave her to herself for a while, in case she wants time away from me. Whichever the case may be. Getting...

"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely." -- Erma Bombeck Why is it that I try so hard, fail before I even begin, and just generally waste my time? I've come to another example I can add to my long list of "why the fuck did I even bother" events. I should've seen this one coming, though, so I have no one to blame but myself. Or maybe the blame can fall elsewhere. I'm not sure where, though, but I'm not happy. Sometimes an experience or assessment can't be fully appraised and judged until all of its after-effects have taken place. Well, now that I've seen my seeds sow, I'm not happy with what has transpired in the end. Again, I'm probably upsetting myself as a result of my own stupidity and hopeful optimism for something that I could never have ever, but I've proven once again that I am my own worst enemy. Kira read yesterday's entry. No surprise there. We started RPing, and she asked me if I wanted to tell her anything before we started. I thought it wiser to keep my mouth shut. I still felt insecure about the letter I had written, and she had told me that "she'll always value my friendship". Ok....