April 03, 2009
So while IÂ’m away IÂ’m leaving you a question to ponder and discuss.
You receive the following text message, “I’m guna rape ur gurl!” from 815-555-5555. Now, in this situation you do not have a daughter. What would you do?
This did not happen to me, but to one of my minions. I know what I would do; I just want to see if my reaction was par for the course.
I expect good answers come Monday.
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March 16, 2009
Yea, it's not traditional Irish music, but dammit, sometimes I like the new stuff!
There, that's a more traditional Irish song...
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March 15, 2009
After there we went to Carlyle to have a couple of drinks. I had their new one called Creme Brewlee (get it?). It was way too sweet for my taste and at 9.9% ABV, you could taste teh alcohol in it. Carlyle was right along the route for the St. Pat's parade in town. There were a lot of people in there with their kids waiting for the parade to start. I couldn't help but to give beads to all the kids and ladies. Again, there was no showing of breasts for beads!
After there we went to Muligan's in Rockford. This is were our behavior started to go down hill. That probably had something to do with the Irish car bombs we started doing. Others started showing up to join us. Not going into details, but that's when glassware and bar signs started to "disappear". This is also were the good beads started to come out and the we started giving out beads for breasts. Yes, there was showing of breasts for beads!
All in all it was a good time. Now I'm just taking a break before going out and starting today's celebration!
Liver Don't fail me now!
PS. Barry O'Bama did not get his arse kicked
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March 14, 2009
Right now however, I'm going to be taking the next couple of days to celebrate St. Pats day. Yea, I know, it's early.
Yesterday I started at Old Chicago doing a mini-tour. Today I'm doing a bar crawl across the Rockford Area, I know we are hitting Fritz's and Mulligan's, maybe some others.
And for the next couple of days my alter leprechaun ego will be coming out. I put a picture of him in the extended entry. more...
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January 19, 2009
If you have the day off, you are all more than welcome to join me.
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January 17, 2009
It's based on the ten commandments, so there are only ten questions.
And yes, I am going to hell.
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January 10, 2009
Jennifer Anniston as a Midget
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Jennifer Anniston as a Midget
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December 30, 2008
For those of you with delicate sensibilities, I put the story in the extended entry. If you came to this post directly, I'm sorry. more...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azU8ZxAgYjgDecember 21, 2008
Now that I know... I'll be more careful!
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December 01, 2008
When I think of Dinner Theater, I think of a show that is going on incidental to the meal. IE, you are eating and the show is going on. This was not the case with Fireside. You eat in one section and then go into the theater for the show. I felt a little disappointed when I discovered that. It has been many years, 20 years to be exact, since I had been to a dinner theater and was kind of looking forward to it.
The food was pretty good, and the show was entertaining. Clone liked it, at least for the first act. The second one he was a little bit restless through out the entirety.
After we returned home, 7 hours later (travel time, shopping, eating and a show), I left to head down to Fritz's to hook up with T1G one more time. He had called earlier in the day and asked if I wanted to get together, but it was right after we left the house for the show. I told him that if I got home at a decent time I'd head down.
We spent a lot of time talking, joking about Thanksgiving morning, and making fun of the fact that I can't keep getting the two oldest Fritz girls confused in my head. I keep calling them the wrong names and forgetting which one I'm talking to at which day. I used to never have this problem, not until the last month.
Now if anyone has seen T1G over the last year, you know he has long hair, that he keeps in a ponytail. Well Saturday night I scalped him. He turned his back to me, I pulled out my pocket knife and cut the damn hippie lock off. As much as the story would go better if I could say I was drunk and I did it with out his permission.
The truth be told, he was leaving to have his haircut (by one of the Fritz girls, don't ask me which one because I'll get it wrong) and told me I could cut it off. The best part was the reaction of people in the bar as I took my knife (it's a Boy Scout knife and had mini-scissors on it) and cut it off. People gawked and stared and whispered to each other in shock.
After taking it off, I took a picture of it with my camera phone and sent the picture of my trophy to every blogger for which I had a cell number. Shortly after sending that message I started getting responses from people. Some in disbelief, some in shock.... and one from Graumagus calling me a liar and saying that I pulled it off of T1G while riding like a horse. (Yea, there's a mental image for you!) Next thing I know there are text messages flying back and forth and everywhere.
It was hilarious. It was almost like a blogmeet... only even more geeky!
T1G ended up coming back to the bar after finishing his haircut. We ended up closing the place down. It had been a while since I've done that. I usually end up leaving earlier.
For those that are wondering about the Ponytail, yea, I still have it. I'm thinking of turning it into a scalp lock. Either that or mounting it on my wall as a trophy!
I'm not sure yet.
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October 31, 2008
So what are you doing for Halloween?
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September 13, 2008
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September 03, 2008
We went over a lot of details as well as the logistics and cost benefit analysis of continuing long term support. It was determined that in order for this project to work they need to have staff permanently located in Tulsa that has a thorough knowledge of the products. Finally it came down to my assignment, or re-assignment. It looks like I will be permanently relocated.
I will be returning to Rockford on the 13th and 14th, then after that I return to Rockford for the last time on the 26th. After that there will be no more taking time off to fly home. It's a done deal and I really don't have a say in the matter.
On September 26th, I'm going back to Rockford permanently!
That's right, on September 26th I wash my hands of this project. Thank the powers that be that I'm finally coming home. I've had enough of this place, this project and this job. I'm pretty much thinking that come October I'm going to start looking for a new job outside of this company.
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July 19, 2008
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July 18, 2008
I'm thinking that with the new lap top and web cam, I might run a cord out to the back yard and set up a live video channel later so any of you that want to stop by and see what's going on can. Then again, I may just be a little too "socially lubricated" to get it set up.
UPDATE: Forget the live webcam, I tried to figure out how to set it up and folks, it's just beyond me.
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May 31, 2008
There's only one beard type missing, The Harvey. The man has the most well groomed beard I've ever seen.
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Head over to FlameKA.com and you can start the process to pimp out your Kitchen Aid mixer. And it's not just flames, like the above fighter style, there are many more. Check out their picture page.
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May 20, 2008
I know that when I shaved my facial hair and decided to get rid of some of the items in my camp that are not period correct, I took some, okay a LOT of ridicule. The thing is that I think some people are missing the point. Now, I can only really speak for me, but after conversations with Wes, I think heÂ’ll agree with me on this. I didnÂ’t make these changes because someone else forced me to or because I didnÂ’t want. I made these decisions because they are what I wanted.
When I was younger I was brought up that if you are going to do something, do it right and take pride in your work. History has been a passion of mine for years. When I was younger I loved going to museums and ready about history. I loved going on vacations and taking tours of various historical locations. When we went on these tours I was always the kid fighting his way to the front so I wouldnÂ’t miss anything the tour guide said.
In 1997 when I had an opportunity to start doing some re-enacting, I jumped on it. I joined Clan Chattan and we did more of the Scottish Highland Game/Ren Faire style re-enacting. We had two events that were early American events, and those quickly became my favorites. In fact after a couple of years I started hating the Ren Faire and Highland Games gigs. There wasnÂ’t much history to them and the people that attended really didnÂ’t want to know about history, unless I was talking about the history of the sword. Occasionally I would find someone that wanted to talk Scottish history with me, but mainly they just wanted to see the sharp shiny objects. After leaving Clan Chattan, I havenÂ’t worked a Ren Faire or Highland game.
Now IÂ’m on my own doing what I want to do. Over the years IÂ’ve been slowly weeding out what is wrong in my camp and gear. I was reading more books and brushing up on more history. Becoming more and more knowledgeable about the history of the period and location IÂ’m portraying. I know what is wrong in my camp and what needs to be improved.
At the end of last season something finally snapped into place for me. I shook off the last of my Ren Faire mentality of “if they had it, they would have used it” and “If it looks period correct, that’s all that matters.” Now, I’m striving to get as historically accurate of a camp that I can get and still have my family with. (There is absolutely NO chance of my having a White wife and kid with me in 1756 in Northern Illinois/Southern Wisconsin) So I make exceptions, because this is first and foremost a FAMILY hobby for us, and its damn well going to stay that way. Yet I am going to make the changes I need to make for me, and my costuming and my equipment. Not the family’s stuff, but mine. Ktreva is behind me on this.
Things really didnÂ’t hit the fan until last month when I made the decision to shave my facial hair off, replace me capote and update the camp chairs. All of a sudden everyone was going nuts about my decision. HereÂ’s the thing. IÂ’m not doing this because someone told me to. Its not because I feel I have to. It isnÂ’t even something I didnÂ’t want to do. This was a decision I made in order to get it right. I did it because I knew these things are wrong for my persona and my camp.
I did this because I want to do my best to do it right. I am taking pride in what IÂ’m doing. This is something that I know is right and I want to do it. It doesnÂ’t bother me that people are making fun of my cleanly shaven face. When they laugh and tease me about my decisions, it rolls off of me. The fact is simple, it was a decision I made, it is something IÂ’m standing by and none of them can tell me that IÂ’m wrong.
IÂ’m not mad, irritated or even annoyed at any of them. Because IÂ’m doing what is right for me, and they are doing what is right for them. And that is what is most important.
That is what they donÂ’t understand.
Now of course if Wes wants to bring his Bodhran and play, I'd be all for that. The nights are going to get quiet.
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April 12, 2008
Yes, it's kinda geeky... but it's still cool. Right?
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