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Growing Old...

Remember when times were more simple and all you wanted to do was rush through the day just to get home from school so you could play with your friends?? Remember when you looked back on those times and thought "Crap, I am old!" Well that time is at hand folks...

Yes, I am approaching my 29th Birthday, and let me tell you the list is getting longer in the "You know you're old if..." catagory. It all started with a simple email from a friend of mine. It was one of those "Top 20 signs that tell you you're getting old" lists, and I'll be dammed if that thing has not come true.

I found that once you hit around 27-28 it becomes some odd fascination to watch the weather channel. "Hey you want to go golf this weekend?" .."SURE, Let me check the weather channel." Yes folks, that has slipped into my life.. Planning my outings based on the weather channel!

Then to top it all off, I actually called the police on some idiot with too loud of bass. I am going to quote George Carlin on this one... "If I wanted to listen to your music, I'd be sitting in your car!" Here is the run down, I got home early from work...I was doing a little work on the old PC here, and I hear it...BOOM BOOM BOOM BOOM CHICKA BOOM BOOM BOOM CHICKA BOOM....Tejano music, full volume, 2 miles away. YES! So loud that I can hear it over my surround sound system playing VH1(See I AM old)! So I think "What an idiot!" and go about my business....

Well later on I am at SONIC getting some food and talking to Collyn on my cell, and my windows are rolled up and what pulls up behind me?? BOOM BOOM BOOOM CHICKA BOOM BOOM BOOM CHICKA BOOM! It was him! My tormentor, Mr.Loudstereo! I am on the phone with my windows rolled up and I can't hear Collyn on my phone. So what do I do? Hang up and call the police...Yes folks, I called the police. See I am old.

The guy had it coming...He drives around in this green chevy (Pronounced Chevy like Chevy Chase for him) and it has just about every piece of aftermarket crap on it you can get...Windshield Visor, CHECK, Spinner Rims, CHECK, Side Window Covers, CHECK, powered by Mexican sticker in back window, CHECK, Airbrush Mural of the Virgin Mary hovering over the truck infront of a waterfall, CHECK! Thats correct, he has a airbrush mural of HIS OWN truck on the tailgate, in front of a waterfall, with the Virgin Mary and Jesus floating in the air over it...The owner needs the cops called on him just for that!

So yes, I have become old....and perhaps a little jaded? ? I don't know, but...

GET THE HELL OUT OF MY YARD! sorry there were kids playing in my grass..lol

Nolan Bushnell is a dick....

Sorry but its true. Way to jump on the Bashin Sony bandwagon you fuckin douche...I used to look up to you and consider you the father of video games, but not anymore...How much is Microsoft paying you to jabber out their fuckin Propaganda you damn robot. When you were on GameHead I could almost see your strings and the spackle that stops you from looking 150 years old....

Kiss my ass you old dickhead.

I give you a gift...And that gift is HEAT VISON AND JACK!

Old Yeller and The Civil War and Giant Lizards!

On saturday of last week Collyn and I decided to take a little get away from the Big b-town (Brady) and venture over to Mason to see the sights. Haleigh had just finished reading the book "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson, who was a Mason Local. There is a whole part of the library dedicated to him and his craft. So we thought it would be cool to take Haleigh and Dorian to see it. Well Dorian didnt think it was cool, and to put it in his own words "I dont want to see some stupid statue!" So he stayed home with his mom.

We get to Mason only to discover that apparently 12:00 noon in Mason is 11:30am becuase the library says "Open till 12noon!" on the door for saturday, yet they were closed up tight..Assholes. So we did like good tourists and peeked in through the windows. Hahah...Haleigh liked seeing his boots..made it all seem real to her, plus the picture of Fred Gibson and the real "Old Teller" brought it all to life for her.

Next stop on our guided by me tour of Mason was the old historic "Fort Mason" I don't have time to type all about this old civil war fort, so read more on this link..http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/FF/qbf34.html

It was a nice looking, fully time period restored fort, complete with setups showing how they lived...but you know me...I started to notice small inconsistancies....such as the following. Keep in mind this place is off limits at dark, so why did they install lights in it?? I don't remember Civil War forts having modular Ikea lighting?

Then I hit the motherload...If you look at the picture below.....

Yes folks, there is your proof...Computers are old news....Apparently they had them back in the civil war days...See the speakers coming out of this nice, period accurate antique computer desk? Seems it was faster to send an email than it was to send the pony express. Just look at this ancient email I found in the library's files.

To :

RobertELee@CivilWarFrontierFort.com

date
Jan 15th, 1864
subject :
Indians are coming!
mailed-by
ThomasStonewallJackson@CivilWarHomeFort.com

Body:

"Get the hell out as the indians are coming!"

So it was on to the next stop on our schizophrenic tour....

Here we see an art piece called "Too much time and a chainsaw"...or "I really love lizards"... I was driving by one day while at work and noticed a GIANT lizard in someones yard..Of course that got me to stop...Hell I'll stop to look at a kangaroo, so you know this got me to stop. Apparently when trees fall in your yard, you're not supposed to haul them off, you are supposed to make something out of them.

This dude chose to make a giant lizard...Which looks kick ass by the way, totally detailed. What an odd choice for a carving...If a tree falls in my yard, I am going to call it "Fallen Tree" or "Future Firewood".....

So that concludes our nice tour of Mason Tx, and I hope you enjoyed it....If you have any questions just ask me!.....

This caused me to stop....

Is that not a cool ass picture?? I saw this when driving through Menard Tx and it seriously made me slam on the brakes.....Almost as if there was a naked car wash or something on the side of the road. Here was the remains of a house, which I learned was eaten by a tornado and lo and behold the only two things left standing were this player piano and an old console tv.

So you know me, I had to pull over and take a picture of this....And try to play it too...Suprise! it still works somewhat! Ok, somewhat is a rather loose term, more like most the keys went down and didnt come back up. Also the black keys are breaking off at the level of the white keys due to the elements. Seeing this got me thinking.......

Wouldnt this be a cool location for a music video? Like a new video by The Fray, or Ben Folds Five, or a Coldplay video? That's what I thought...and I am sure you are thinking "Man, this guy's mind is way messed up!". But enough about that, I got some good news!

I have been playing video games since Pong, and I have always had a love for them, and people always seem to ask me about games. So I have parlayed that into a little joint venture with a friend of mine who is also a gamer. We are going to start reviewing all the downloadable games that are available for the PS3 and writing reviews and guides for said games. This is still really early in this venture, but we'll see where we can take it. I just want one thing to show through in all this....The love of gaming. Plain and simple. Yes, my writing sucks most of the time, but I write as I talk and think....Guess you could call me the Stephen King of the game review world. Well heres to the future and lets see where this goes!