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Via Ken, this is the supervillian I would be:

Your results:
You are Venom

Venom 71% The Joker 64% Mr. Freeze 64% Dr. Doom 62% Apocalypse 60% Dark Phoenix 58% Juggernaut 58% Kingpin 55% Green Goblin 54% Lex Luthor 54% Magneto 44% Riddler 43% Catwoman 41% Mystique 38% Two-Face 38% Poison Ivy 37%

Strength, disguise and adrenaline are your greatest weapons.

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A goofy web quiz via my brother, here are the results:

Your results:
You are Iron Man

Iron Man 70% Spider-Man 65% The Flash 60% Green Lantern 55% Robin 45% Catwoman 45% Supergirl 45% Hulk 45% Superman 45% Wonder Woman 40% Batman 30%

Inventor. Businessman. Genius.

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What Dave said.

Except that I live about 5 miles from his home. You may or may not have heard of James’ run-ins with the law here, but let me tell you that isn’t representative of the man as a whole. He did much more good than bad.

He donated a great deal of time and money to charities in and around the CSRA. As much as you can hear his influence on music, you can see his influence on the world around him everyday here.

I’m not for minute saying that his spousal and substance abuse issues weren’t bad things. They were very bad. But I am trying to convey the fact that it is very complex. As was he.

Whether you love him or hate him, you can’t ignore him.

Goodbye, sir. You will be missed.

I hope everyone out there has a wonderful next couple of days. Enjoy family, friends and all the wonderous things that come with them. I will and I hope you do too.

Happy Holidays.

It’s almost Christmas here in the beautiful state of SC. All the decorations are hung, all the presents bought and the preparations for our annual party are almost finished.

Oh and it is 71 degrees and partly cloudy. I’m sitting on my back porch with a T-shirt and a pair of shorts on (sans shoes). And loving it.

I have to admit to not being a traditionalist when it comes to hoping for snow and a blustery night. Sunshine and warm weather is just fine with me.

Merry Christmas to all and to all pleasant weather.

If you were wondering why your comments have taken so long to be approved, it’s because I’m a moron. A few people needed moderation that I didn’t reaize needed moderation. I just assumed that they had been approved at some point in the past, so I didn’t pay close attention to the email notification . That whole “awaiting confirmation” thing obviously isn’t expicit enough for me.

So your comments are up now and sorry for the delay. Back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Since I was talking about learning from mistakes in my last post, let’s check on Dear Leader:

President Bush on Wednesday said the enemy in
Iraq is “far from being defeated,” but he vowed not to be rushed into adjusting his strategy and gave little indication that he intends to veer sharply from the direction his war policies have taken.

Way to go Mr. Bush. I like the way you stick to your guns. Me, I’m a pansy. When I screw something up, I stop. I change tactics and try to get it right the next time. That’s why you are the president and I’m not. I don’t have the courage of my wrong convictions.

Gotta love a cat that neither learns nor cares.

Okay, maybe I don’t.

An ongoing series in which you don’t have to be stupid, because I’ve done it for you.

I work alot of nightshifts. Half of all my regularly scheduled shifts are nightshifts and all the overtime I work nowadays is nightshift.

I mentioned to my doctor once about how tired and sleepy I get when on the nightshift. He told me that they have this great new drug called Provigil that helps with Shift Work Sleep Disorder (SWSD, who knew they had named such a thing?). It’s not a stimulant, he told me. It just helps you maintain a normal wakeful alertness. He guaranteed that it wasn’t habit-forming or anything and by that time I was losing interest in the whole thing.

I got the prescription from him anyway and gave it a whirl.

Pretty unspectacular results. Still sleepy, still nodding off. Pretty expensive drug for having about the same effect that a Starburst would, without the burst of fruit flavor.

So yesterday I didn’t sleep much during the day. I think to myself: “Self, what can you do about your sleep deprivation?” Then it hit me: take two Provigil tablets.

It’s probably not that the drug is useless, it’s that I’m taking the wrong dose. At least that’s what I told myself. So I pop 2 of them bad boys at about 4:30 P.M.

By 9 o’clock my heart is pounding, I’m flushed, nervous and I want to puke. Essentially I feel like one of the last 2 Miss America pageant contestants and Bert Parks is taking his ever-loving time.

I never did puke, the agitation died down and I didn’t get the vapors or anything. But it is 10 A.M. the next morning and I’m still wide awake.

So now I’ve got this expensive bottle of non-stimulants (HA) that don’t work when you take the prescribed dose and do horrid things to you when you take more than that. I’m considering dropping the whole bottle in the trash right now.

I should just learn to drink coffee.

I just purchased a camcorder. It is the second camcorder I have bought, the first being this incredibly cheap, incredibly cheap looking and incredibly cheap performing number off ebay. This new one is a Canon ZR500.

Man this thing takes some good looking video. Or at least it looks great on the little LCD screen. I have yet to buy any MiniDV tapes for it. I’m working night shifts right now, so my shopping time is a bit restricted.

I plan on taking some amazing video of two incredibly beautiful children and maybe doing some vblogging of sorts. Or videopodcasting, or whatever it is the kids call it these days.

I will post some here as soon as I can, which will be as soon as work takes it’s icy death grip from around my throat.

So they recently began scaling back the available overtime at my job. Which was cool with me because I had 168 hours on my last paycheck. I get paid every two weeks, you do the math.

So this 7 day break was going to be the first full one I had taken in, umm, I don’t know. Months and months.

Then I got a call this morning asking me if I wanted to work tonight.

I don’t really want to, but there is a certain amount of politics involved in this. When OT gets tight, the crewleaders get to choose who they want to call and who they don’t. Being available when they need you makes you more likely to get the next call.

So in I go.