I Need Bail Money Too...

I'm usually broke. I have enough money in my wallet right now for maybe 5 gallons of gasoline. When is the gov'ment coming to my rescue? This whole bail out package that congress is going to be voting on is highly suspect. I thought that we lived in a world where you have to deal with the repercussions of your actions. Obviously, I was wrong. Nancy Pelosi, the House Speaker (thank you SO much California) as quoted from the USA Today stated that the House will vote on a new $700 billion financial bailout bill on Monday to send a message to Wall Street that "the party is over."

Um, what the hell? Being financially irreresponsible is partying? Well shit, I guess I've been partying my entire adult life! Where is my bail out money? I don't need 700 BILLION, heck I'd settle for 700 dollars! Oh wait, I already got that thanks to president bush's tax relief check (that I had to split with the Ex. GRRRR!!!!)

I've never pretended to be politically or financially savvy. I know just enough about both to be able to give fairly accurate opinions on each of them. If an individual writes a check that their "ass can't cash" then said individual is held liable for any debts incurred. No government, on any level, is going to tell them that "the party is over" and help them out of trouble! That's just crazy talk! I realize that the naughty companies being bailed out are indicative of a much larger problem and that the individual American's financial difficulties can't even be compared to the woes of these companies. For lack of a better term this bail out is crazy. Yeah I just started a sentence with a preposition, deal with it.

All this makes me wish I had finished college and went to law school to specialize in Bankruptcy Law. Open up your yellow pages and let your fingers do the walking and you will see what I mean.

Gov'ment of the (rich) people, by the (rich) people, and for the (rich) people. Here's a fun statistic! In 2004 approximately 35 million people living in the good ole US of A lived below the poverty line. That was four years ago and no doubt that number has gone up. I'd check the most recent statistics but I'm lazy and I'm on a good rant here. Who cares about the poor? They're just sucking this country dry anyway, right? They're the ones that are serving the food at the upscale restaurants, pouring your drinks at the bar, answering the customer service hotlines at 2 in the morning, running the cash register at the convenience stores, the list could go on but you get my drift.

-Twiz

One of the reasons I love World of Warcraft

This week marks the 2nd annual Brewfest in the game World of Warcraft. Any game that gives a nod to alcohol is ok in my book. I went down to the brewfest to check out the festivities tonight and I found this on one of the vendors.


Now, in an episode of my favorite tv shows of all time, Firefly, there were several references to this "Mudder's Milk" Yeah I'm stupid but just seeing this in the game made me smile and made me a little happy. So thanks Blizzard, my show ain't dead!

-Twiz

Today's project. The Dungeon

I'm off today so I call up my Dad and ask him to come over. Today we tackled the dungeon, or as some people call them, the basement.

Damn. The entire bottom floor of my house was a wreck. I haven't seen some of the stuff I found down there in 4 years. To say it is the least used room in the house is an understatement. There was a lot of the ex's crap down there which was the main reason to clean it out. Once again half of my garage is filled with her shit so if you are keeping score two halves make a whole damn garage! The sad part? We only got half of the stuff cleared out and still have half the basement to go! My basement seems absolutely cavernous now with just what we moved out, including a huge metal cabinet that was wedged in there so tight it took us 15 minutes just to figure out how to get the thing out!

Looks like Wednesday we are going to finish off clearing out the remainder of the junk and I will have another room to call my own.

-Twiz

Lots of readin material!!!

Once again I have been neglecting my blog. I thought it best to cool down as I was really close to busting a creamy load of personal drama all over the internet. I'll leave that type of stuff to the teenage girls and bitter jerks of the world. I'm bitter but I try not to be a jerk (insert laugh track here).

Anyhoo, for your viewing pleasure I present to you the Nissan Live Sets on Yahoo! Music with Weezer. Basically the band got together in a room full of what appears to be band geeks and did some of their bigger hits acoustically. It's good and I like it so you should watch it. Here's "Pork and Beans" which has sort of become my anthem due to recent events in my personal life.



And here's a link to the entire list of ten videos that Weezer put forth onto Yahoo.

Click this carefully worded sentence for the link.

My pants fall off by themselves ladies!!

I went to super wal-mart the other night after work and had my arms full of groceries and to get to the front door of my house you have to go down some steps. I'm carefully navigating my steps in the darkness (it's 3am) with 3 of those blue bags in each hand, dodging Ralph my cat who I swear is trying to assassinate me. That's when it happens. About halfway down the steps my shorts drop down to my ankles. So there's me, standing in the late summer moonlight, 6 bags of groceries in my arms, a murderous orange cat looking up at me, and my undies are all that are between me and the little town I live in. I'm just thankful it was in the middle of the night. My neighbors already probably think I'm a freak of the highest order.

I chuckled to myself and didn't think of my nocturnal peep show for a few days. Then it struck me that, hey! I haven't weighed myself in about 2 years. I dig around the house and find a scale and hop on it and turn an eye to the dial.

I am happy to report that I am under 300 pounds for the first time in at least twelve years. Right now I'm sitting at 290 pounds. I'm still a big tub of sweet lovin, but I needed the ego stroke that loosing some poundage gives.

Now if I could just find some eager young ladies to stroke my ego for me...

-Twiz

A city, INSIDE MY TEEVEE!!!!

As previous blogs stated I got my XBox 360 back, so I have been spending lots of time cruising around Liberty City. The Grand Theft Auto series are the best games ever made. GTA4 is no exception. I remember a few years back I saw some screen shots and thought to myself that there is no way this game can look that good. Wow, I was wrong. Even my my crappy television it's breathtaking. Liberty City (based on New York City) has every little detail in it possible. I've never been to NYC but I can tell that the makers of GTA4 did their homework. The game is good, and I am hooked.

I've all but forgotten about Warcraft for the time being. I see that the expansion is coming out in November sometime so maybe I will squeeze a few more hours of play out of it at that time but at the moment, meh, tired of it.

-Twiz

Sick Cat, XBox, Moving stuff from point A to point B.

It's been an interesting week around here. This past Saturday night I had to take Harley, one of my cats, to the emergency veterinarian. He was weak, could barely move, panting, and was meowing so pathetically it would break your heart. My parents and I took him in and after an examination and some blood tests the vet told me what was wrong. Harley has what is known as immune mediated hemolytic anemia, or IMHA. Basically his immune system is fighting his red blood cells. There is no none cause and really no known cure. A lot of people would call this disease feline aids, but it isn't. That's a whole other disease. The doc gave me two types of pills and said that he has a 60% chance to make it over the next four days. Needless to say those four days were touch and go and after the first two I was really worried as he wasn't showing much improvement. The past two days he hasn't turned a complete one-eighty, but Harley is doing a helluva lot better than he was, so I am happy. He will probably have to be on pills the rest of his days and since he can't take them himself, I get to jam a little orange tablet and a large blue capsule down his throat twice a day for the rest of his life. It's worth it though.

Microsoft got my XBox back to me and it works great. Not really super important to me at the moment as I'm still taking care of Harley, but I thought it was worth mentioning. New problem? I took it over to my buddy's house and played it on his super ultra modern, high def, flat screen, pimpalicious, huge ass teevee. Going back to my wittle burned out teevee is going to be rough. Damn you wal-mart for getting rid of layaway!!!

And finally, my Dad, my buddy Jarrod, and myself have spent the last two days moving the Ex wife's stuff up to my garage so she can come and get it at her leisure. Until we started going through stuff I never realized how little I had possession wise in my house. I got one room stuffed full of computer type things, my Transformers, and my books. The rest of my house, well, it's fairly empty now. Guess I'll just have to fill it up with manly type stuff such as posters of barely clothed women, tacky furniture, and empty beer bottles. The beer bottles aren't a problem, the other two may take some time.

In conclusion, I'd just like to say that I honestly don't know what I would do without my Parents. They've been there for me the past eight months since all this wacky shit has gone down. If you want to call a divorce wacky. There are no words that can express the appreciation I feel. You guys rock.

-Twiz