We all have responsibilities and duties. But you and I are warriors fighting in a great war. Think of it - you and I can fight battles that others can only dream of. The time for glory is here - it is not a time to worry about stabilizers. It is a time to celebrate, for tomorrow we all may die!
Yes, sweetheart, I did some more cleaning of my room and kicked up some dust. But the two-part Klingon civil war is on, and I can't miss this.
I have a long history of posting like this, I truly know. I've already done the wacky backwards update, so this will be the update where time has no meaning. This update will traverse the fourth dimension like a spastic monkey on crack.
The Network:
You are the Voice of World Control.
Fnord.
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So after Blowjob Night, or Thanksgiving Eve to the unenlightened, I joined the Magyar clan for Thanksgiving. Traffic was utterly insane, so I didn't make it to

After dessert, we decided to wander over to the Pastena household right across the street. A pair of dirt bags in leather knocking on the door Thanksgiving evening, something every family looks forward to. We were let in, and got to chat with Guy for a while. He has a great dog. Guy's doing well, has a great relationship with a fellow future practitioner of medicine, and had narrowed down what field he will go into.
Walking back, we decided to visit the Mintel household. While Matt lives down in the

Welcome home. You're SO Jersey. You know Wildwood
and Seaside are the most disgusting places on
earth, and only good for drunken after prom
vacations, you know there's always a
"short-cut" to someplace. Isn't
Jersey great? I mean, where else can you go 80
MPH and STILL be the slowest car on the road?
How JERSEY are you?
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December 13th, we had a surprise gathering for
So I was supposed to be giving
Compassion: You are there to share your sympathy
with others. People would consider you
affectionate and caring, and someone to look up
to.
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So while working at EB, I got a call from
A few days after that, stopped to help someone broken down on the side of 78. Got them a tow truck, and gave them an extra drink I had bought that morning for seemingly no reason.
A week or so after that, I had to work at EB the day after
A few days after that,
So during all of these events, I swerved to avoid an elderly gentleman who was walking into the path of my car as I was turning. I got out of the car to go shopping, and he followed me, cursing me out. Called me a dirt bag, told me to get a haircut, threatened to take my license, and wouldn't listen to my apologies. I let him live, and walked away.
Really, my whole goal in this is to become the Avatar. Now give me the mantra of Compassion, or I'll be forced to cut Iolo's head off, fucker.
When the floor was opened to questions, someone asked Bill about his experiences working with Patrick Stewart. He said that he and Patrick have become really good friends and he recalled a couple of funny incidents. One involved a cab driver who was irritated that Patrick Stewart had hailed the cab to take him across Las Vegas Boulevard, literally across the street, albeit a very wide street. The angry cab driver ordered Patrick out of his cab, only then realizing who he was. "You're Captain Picard!" he exclaimed. "You're lucky, because if you were Captain Kirk, I would have punched you out." Bill said that he and Patrick shared a good laugh over the incident.
The week between
``I live in Hoboken.''
``Hoboken? That's cool. That's really cool.''
Yeah, you were a drunken fratboy, thanks for playing, motherfucker. Wednesday was the technology holiday lunch, featuring the grab bag that we had been mulling over for weeks. Different ten dollar gifts were tossed around by a few of us, I finally settled on a copy of 1984 on DVD, and ended up getting a squirrel nutcracker.
That weekend was
Also during that week,
Bill was back on Sunday sounding worse than he did on Saturday, this time armed with a throat spray which he used frequently as he could barely talk. He admitted that while he should have gone home and rested the previous evening, instead he and his wife Elizabeth spent the evening with Anthony Hopkins and his lovely wife at the beach in Malibu. "That's really where I lost my voice," Bill recalled with some fondness. "He (Anthony Hopkins) was playing the piano...and I was flush with lyrics." They enjoyed a wonderful evening together despite Bill's illness.
So
We had a bit of a longer visit a couple of weeks before that, the weekend after Blowjob Night. So I was working Black Friday for the first time in years. Ever since I got the job at

He was driving up from



No, really, further violence from old people. Some older looking gentleman saw me at the end of the bar, loudly exclaimed "What the fuck is this?" and charged straight for me. After that, he started interrogating the three central Jersey dirt bags. Minty gave a fake name, I gave my real name, and
So
Enter
Next day, we hung out for a while. Watched some Gargoyles with Diane, some Death to Smoochie, and left before they watched Back to the Future III. More bitching about the no drugs policy here.
One time, when we were renegotiating our contracts, we were all asking for raises, which we all felt we appropriate, because TNG was really taking off, and was really making lots of money for Paramount. Of course, Paramount needed that money to keep churning out their film *cough* hits *cough*, and was reluctant to share it with us. So a long and annoying negotiation process began, and, during that process, the producers first counter offer was to not give me a raise, but they'd give my character a promotion, to Lieutenant.
What? Were they serious?
My agent asked me what I wanted to do. I told him to call them back, and remind them that Star Trek is a television show! Here's me calling the bank: "Hi...Uh, I'm not going to be able to make my house payment this month, but don't worry, because I am a Lieutenant now. Where? Oh, on the Starship Enterprise. Feel free to drop by Ten Forward for lunch someday."
So one night over the past night,
So, as many people who know me in real life have noticed, ``No worries'' has become a tagline of mine over the past year or so. It's something I say constantly. Watching the Crocodile Dundee trilogy, I think I've figured it out. Subconsciously, long ago, the kindly face of Paul Hogan burrowed its way in. decades later, attempting to find a more peaceful lot in life, that line burst out like a small woodland creature in the microwave. ``No worries,'' a mantra for the ages. Also it was great to see Tony's sister in the third movie, and someone ordering people to spontaneously applause that should have been cut. Whoops.
I had a long debate with
One night I was talking with someone about mixing Because I Got High and Everything Dies. I can't remember who it was, and I apologize for not remembering. But damn, that would be a fucking amazing mix between Afroman and Type O Negative. Finally heard the acoustic White Wedding recently. It was odd.
One day Shafer called looking for
While
``That has got to be the worst Ricardo I've ever heard.''
Like I said, in honor of
It was a bitch trying to get my car out, I tried to dig it out twice, finally needing
So IBM invited my boss's boss's boss out for a night on Broadway and a fancy event. He had a budget meeting,
But it wasn't just me and Microsoft guy. Got to meet some of the Seton Hall techies, who had actually gone through a similar reorg a couple of years before us. Mostly chatted with Neil, the Microsoft man, and financial techies. Was interesting to hear their problems, how different yet similar they were. Tales of having to put off upgrades to support legacy systems, being able to outfit everyone and their grandmother with a BlackBerry, and many people asking why we don't use tablet PCs when our sales rep wasn't shushing them. A gorgeous fucking view, an amazing spread, some great conversations about solutions and problems, and entertaining presentations by Intel and Microsoft. The latter skipped over Outlook, not wanting to ire the Lotus fans. Got to shake hands with a vice president of IBM, and other captains of industry.
Following that, we went over to the theater and saw Thoroughly Modern Millie, which was an excellent play. Never thought I'd see Delta Burke dressed as a mockery of a Chinese woman, singing with a pair of Chinese men while running a white slave ring. Never thought I'd see that at all.
You are a True Metalhead. You dig the
classic music and the classic lifestyle. As
metalheads go, you're pretty open-minded in
terms of music and lyrics; if it rocks, then
you'll listen to it. Concerts are the pinnacle
of the metal experience, though sometimes they
get a little too crazy. You generally respect
everybody else, but as far as you're concerned,
they all wish they were Priest or Maiden.
What Kind of Metalhead Are You?
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Thanksgiving, Easter, and many other holidays I don't mind sharing with another family. Call me a self-centered fucking asshat, but Christmas I feel a little differently about. If I'm dating a member of the family, that's fine. I've got gifts for all of them, I'm part of it, I feel comfortable doing it. Otherwise, there's that uncertainty. I don't know them well enough and don't have a girlfriend to help me get perfect gifts for them all, and I don't know who all to get gifts for. Sometimes they get me gifts and I haven't gotten them gifts or vice versa, and it's just off for me. But I'm just the kind of person who worries about such a thing.
But after driving sick

Over the course of the day, kumquats and asparagus were both referenced. Hoxxxt.
At some point in the evening, my back broke.
Woke up feeling like utter shit, unable to really even get off of the floor. Spent Christmas trying to relax and feel better, as I detailed, praying for the sweet release of death.
Shopping, dinners, and video games - just like last time that the two of them were in town. One night a bunch of us went out to eat at Yuka, where I had just been with
Spent NYE with
As I posted,
And that's all I have to say about he war in Vietnam.