Got some good news when I got to work today. my current nemesis, The Moron, quit!!!! someone more powerful, The Power Hungary Idiot, has already taken her place as my main nemesis at work, but like everyone else who I have fought against, I will defeat her too.

Needless to say, with her gone, everyone was more relaxed and happy. It was busty since we have Chicken on sale, but it was a good night. In fact, only one thing really was bad about it. We got a late start cleaning so we got done later then normal. Between a busy day and something that left me exhausted mentally (more on that after I eat. The McRib I got is calling me and saying "EAT ME!!!!") I got McDonalds (Mmmm. McRib) When I got to the pay window I realized that they messed up and charged me for a medium instead of the large meal I wanted. Easy enough to fix. They had already poured my med drink, so when I got to the pick up window, they asked if I wanted the med soda too, since they couldn't use it this late at night. I said ok.

Unfortunately they had hit the wrong button again and given me Coke. I asked for Powerade. Not complaining, because I got free Coke, which was good since I was tired, but I wanted Powerade. Oh well.

With only a few more hours before I go to bed, if that is the worse that happens today, I'm not complaining to bad. ad after what happened yesterday (more on that later probably) it was a nice change of pace.

I mentioned I would talk about some stuff the other day and here is it.

About a week ago, on CNN or MSNBC or some other station, one of the people that they gave an hour long show to (sorry. it was a week ago and I didn't really care enough to remember who did it.) dedicated an entire show to bashing formor president George Bush. then, on Veterans Day, the editorial cartoon in the Star Trib was essentially the old "George Bush Is An Idiot" thing that was so popular early in his first term as president 10 years ago.

Other things of this nature that have annoyed me since the last election is stuff like the OpEd piece I mentioned in the last post that was apparently complaining about Republicans simplebecause they were Republicans. Then there have been at least 2 items written and published (in Italics because it surprised me, even for editorials) in the Washington Post that called anyone who voted for conservatives in the last election idiots. It actually said that in one of them! If it was a letter to the editor that would be one thing, but this is someone on staff writing about it! Even as an editorial that is unprofessional.

I think what it boils down to is simple. Liberals in the news media don't really have anything to work with. They can't understand why liberals lost so badly int he elections, and the only thing they can think of is bringing up jokes from 10 years ago, reminding people how bad things were with Bush in they White House, and name calling!

We have been seeing this for years, and I have mentioned this before. When the Democrats get elected, they become big cry babies. They don't get their way, they throw a hissy fit. They don't like a plan to do something like fix social security, but they don't have a better plan, they just go around telling people how bad the Republican plan is. They call people names and it is fine, even if they are comparing someone to Hitler, but when someone else does the same thing to one of their own, it is a horrible sin. They take over and start doing what they want, regardless of what the people that elected them want, because they can.

I'm not saying that this is true of all Democrats or all Liberals. I'm also not saying that the other side of the aisle is any better. All I'm saying is that maybe some of these people, both in the news media and those chosen to run our states and country, need to grow up a bit before they start doing jobs that require the maturity level of someone over the age of 15

I thought about posting this yesterday, but decided not to for a reason that should be clear by the end.

Yesterday was Veterans Day, a day where we honor those who have fought to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. And of course there were plenty of people out there on Twitter, Facebook, the Blogosphere, and everywhere else thanking Veterans for doing exactly that.

The letters to the editor page of the Star Trib was pretty much entirely thank you's to vets (except for the editorial cartoon, which I might talk about later) but it was the last one that bugged me. After giving a brief history of Veterans Day, the writer then went on to talk about war and basically it turned into an Anti-War protest.

On the OpEd page, there was one that was about how the recent elections will hurt Vets the most. it seems that several of the people in charge of committees dealing with Veterans were Democrats who lost their elections and will replaced by Republicans. Obviously the Republicans will do more harm the good (at least according to the writer) and it is the Vets that will suffer because of it.

Here is the reason I have a problem with these. Actually there is two problems with the OpEd piece. I'm not saying the guy is wrong, the new guys in charge might be worse then the old guys, but at least give them a chance. And if you are going to complain about them (as far as I can tell, it is simply because they are republicans. again, more on that in another post) at least give evidence to back up your claim instead of just evidence of why the old guys are so good.

The main reason I have a problem with those, and the reason I didn't post this yesterday is this. The people who wrote those (and I'm sure plenty of other similar items) used Veterans Day as a means of getting their political message across. Maybe it is Anti-War. Maybe it is Anti-Republican. Either way, it is a political message and has no purpose being spread on Veterans Day. Veterans Day is about honoring the men and women who fought to protect the freedoms we enjoy (as I said before) and not about furthering agendas.

Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against them saying these things. As I have said before I am a strong believer in the first amendment. But as the saying goes, "With Great Power Comes Great Responability." Yes, we should be free to say what we want, but in order to have that right you should have common sense enough to know what to say and when to say it. Had those items appeared today I would not have a problem with the, but Veterans Day is not the day to be giving political speeches.

While recommending some music to a friend I realized something. Most of my music collection (at least the music on my computer, which is the stuff I listen to the most) is Metal or Punk, or some off shoot of those genres. There is some Celtic music, mostly instrumental or folk for when I need something playing in the background but don't want to be distracted by lyrics. There is also some classic rock, mostly Eric Clapton or Santana, for pretty much the same reason. As far as the stuff I listen to a lot, it's metal or punk. Or Johnny Cash.

You read that right. In my main play list, I groups like Metallica, Project 86, Flogging Molly, The Clash, and Abney Park. and mixed into all that is Johnny Cash. And the reason should be obvious.

It's Johnny Cash.

Do I really need to explain it beyond that?

Writing Month--November 2010

Another year, another NaNoWriMo. Lat year was another unofficial year apparently, but I typed 7649 words. Not great, but better then I did on 2008. Hopefully this year I will do better.

As for my projects this year, once again SPW is in there. I went back and have been working on creating the definitive version of the show and working on creating the Wrestleverse as well. There were a lot of early stories that didn't turn out as well as I would have liked, so I'm going through and re-writing them or in some cases removing them all together (at one point 5 Alarm had 3 different storylines all going at the same time and all three suffered as a result) I'm also introducing new characters and some new companies to the Wrestleverse. Plus with this reboot of sorts I can go through and get character and title histories, at least as far as the time after the start of SPW is concerned.

I am also working on a series called "Phoenix". It is a spin off of sorts from Fantasy, starting here. It is about a cyborg that uses a mystical artifact to stop his creator from taking over earth. should be fun. I have it plotted out to 5 volumes at the moment, but am focusing on Vol.1 at the moment. the plot changes with each volume (at least a bit) but that is the plot for the first one. Who knows. maybe I will get really ambitous and write everything I planned to this year as well as start Vol.2

In addition to all that, I might work on some site re-design and I have to finish this years Halloween story. I started it but didn't get far before I had to stop for pumpkin carving (pics will be up soon hopefully) The site re-design is more site creation the re-design, but I will talk about that more when I actually get it done.

Finally, with no new games coming out that I am looking forward to (or more accurately that I can afford) there shouldn't be many distractions from those. Just Smackdown VS Raw 2011, maybe some Left 4 Dead and Red Dead Redemption and Dead Rising 2: Case Zero. Lots of games, but they all tell fairly decent stories, so I consider them more research then wastes of time.


Update: 11/1 Word Count: 0. Post is up. Time to get writing. There will be no distrac....Oooo. Sci Fi movies all day on AMC and Top Gun at 7. Doctor Who marathon on SyFy and Psych Marathon on Sleuth. Damn

Update: 12/1 Word Count: 1352. Well, could have been worse. Could have been better. NaNoWriMo is over and I wrote 1352 words :( And they weren't even in a completed project. They were from about 5 different unfinished projects! On the bright side, at least I got an official word count in this year and I am officially a participant this year! And there is a House marathon on Slueth today to cheer me up. YAY!!!!