DonMarco

"Man Apparently Left In Wheelchair Outside Orlando Airport For 3 Days"
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This could have been me, people!! But it wasn't and I'm back home and online again. Yay! I have pictures and videos and stories involving me eating 9.5 burgers. Tomorrow!?

Before you ask; No, I didn't notice him. Which is to say I wasn't really paying attention to stragers I may have or may have not passed by. But! I was at the airport... Hmmm... At least the hurricane is veering off to Texas. Yay!

Last stop before tomorrow!

I'll be on a trip, starting in 12 hours or so. I will be offline for about halfs of it, and to hell to telling you when that will be. Better yet, I figure I'd rattle off a list of TV shows.

I'm deeply saddened by the loss of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. But glad that Frisky Dingo will be returning. Smallville getting it's seventh next year. Wow? There are a whole slew of returning cartoons for Adult Swim. No losses. Squidbillies, Harvey Birdman, Boondocks... Good news, everyone!

Next update will be about comic book movies. Madman, 30 Days of Night, etc... If I remember my camera, it will be about something else. Possibly DEATH RABBITS.

Also! AAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHHH-- I'll be missing out on The Simpsons Movie and so many great DVDs and box sets. No spoilers, please. I'll be sure to do that first time I'm back in america. That and visit an internet cafe. That and see if anyone famous died. Which is a pretty morbid thought, but celebrity deaths always seem to coincide to times I'm "out of contact". So if I come back seeing this guy or that girl all over CNN and newspapers it actually a good thing. Otherwise, I'll go years, maybe decades thinking that actor or this singer was still living. Maybe! Even bringing it up one time many years down the road. Then get those angry, anti-understanding looks from people saying "They died like 4 years ago. Jackass." And I end up leaving the party early to catch the last bus. Stupid Walter Matthau...

Finally! Beer! That is all.

Peace out.

What an afternoon! Woke up on time, started to clean my room, and decided to move my guide collection around a bit. Sunday will be spent unpacking and seeing what I'm still missing at my new place in Orlando. Aside from sticky-something to hang up posters, shouldn't be that much.

I will not be appearing in court next week, which is also good news. If I had a lawyer, she (or he) would probably tell me to say no more. It's a woman, though. I will tell you that much.

Man, I have so much to do in the next three weeks it's not funny. The later half of July and beginning of August will be spent away from a stable internet connection. I couldn't do anything even by cell phone. If I had a cell phone that could do fancy stuffs online. Which I do not or have ever owned.

And where will I be??? You take your wildest guess while I take a nap, cool?

I decided to post this week, instead of next, as things may get hectic with my court trial appearance thingie.

So ponder this!

For a fact, I consider Star Wars to be a non-fiction, like a documentary. Not a family adventure or science fiction movie. Until it is proven without a doubt that there really was no Luke Skywalker and Jar Jar and Yoda and whatnot in existence between now and the big bang... It's non-fiction, and you can never definitively prove to me otherwise.

If you can, however, that would be cool. Saying "Lucas just made it up" won't work, either. I could tell you a story about John Smith that got married in California last decade. Without me knowing if this is true, statistically speaking, I'm confident it could be proven with a little research. With the proper tools and documents. Long ago, far away, strange names and happenings... My story has it all.

Ponder with me 14 billion years from now, in a galaxy far, far away... I wonder if there will be a story of a "human" named "Marco" that wrote something on "his cyberweb's LiveJournal." Sure, it will probably be sucessful and many sequels will be made covering other parts of my life. But will that strange alien race actually lean back in their hoverchairs and wonder if I really did once do this? It's so fantastic and alien. "Impossiblely the most fictious thing I've ever heard of" some might say...

My journey of a thousand miles began with this single step.

The journey? To become a college drop-in.

Bold? You're damn skippy!

So I'm getting tired now, and get this- it's actually still dark out! Talk about a wacky way to end a Wednesday, am I right? Also! I just found out that Leonardo Dicaprio is 7 years older than me. Whew.

So what's up, cyberweb? Did I miss anything this last month?

While deciding to move the indie adventures to DPS (for absoluelty no reason...) I found this on my old harddrive:



Try not to look at it too hard. Locked inside the picture is a completely rational story for why this picture was taken at that moment. If you find yourself looking at this photo for more than two hours... consult a doctor.

Once upon a time, I lived with my two younger brothers. I shared the upstairs bathroom with the youngest, who from time to time, was abscent three or four days at a time. Barely a few weeks in to the whole mess, Cosmo took all the toilet paper from the bathroom (extra rolls under the sink and all) and gave them to his girlfriend or donated them to the church. This is one of the reasons I now check the toilet paper before getting down to business.

*flashback*
So (it was a Sunday) I went and bought a 4-pack and got on with my life. Cosmo came back two days later, and the very morning the roll was missing! I wasn't able to ask Cos why he took my toilet paper until maybe 4 days later. He says "I didn't take it" then a few minutes later "yeah, I did take it- but it was my roll in the bathroom". I then grabbed the 3-pack from my room (I didn't leave it in the bathroom) and pointed to the empty gap in the bag where my 4th roll of toilet paper would have been. Either he took it, or I went through an entire roll by myself in less than a week. Then there was this weird period where he kept on using our bathroom and me never leaving any toilet paper in there. He knew I had it and he also knew I wouldn't give him any until he appologized. The end.
*end flashback*

I've had this loopy sleeping schedule for the last few weeks. finally I got it down close enough back to 10 or 12pm as my bedtime. Cos, when he stops by, usually shows up at night, after 10pm. Always. I've seen him come back in the morning twice and 1-7pm maybe three times. So maybe not always, but more likely so. So very in a very understanding manner I'd like you all to see that he could have come back after I had fallen asleep last night around 10:30pm.

Which leads us to this morning. I woke up around 6:30, refreshed and somewhat happy I didn't wake up at 2am. I noticed sometime in the morning that the kitchen looked a little weird, and I couldn't put my finger on what was changed or what was moved around. Then I noticed the space between the microwave and the counter above it. Something that had been there was gone, and I couldn't remember what it was. This big void, about the give of two lunch boxes... Empty. I forgot about that, made breakfast and caught up on some tivo'd Star Trek: Voyager. Around lunch time I made me a few nice bean-and-cheese sandwiches and got some laundry started. I cleaned up the kitchen, threw out the trash and then bam! The space over the microwave had this big box filled with the white kitchen trash bags. It was gone. Not in the closets or pantry. Nowhere. I figured that my other brother, Bruno, who is here almost everyday took them, as he was tremendously busy cleaning up his frat house or something. I couldn't ask him because he had left about two hours earlier. So I left the kitchen's trash bin without a bag and head upstairs to take a shower.

Okay, here comes the best part of my morning. So I'm in the upstairs bathroom when I notice (in time) that there's an empty roll in the toilet paper-holder thingie. I don't remember running out yesterday and it's a very minor annoyance to hunt down another roll. Rather than grabbing a roll from my closet (see the flashback above) I head to the downstairs bathroom, used maily by guests. Well, it was also empty. Really odd, as that bathroom sees very little use. And if a guest notices there's no toilet paper, they've never been "quiet" or "discrete" about it so far.

So I guess you all see what happened again? The bathrooms are toilet paper-less and he also took the kitchen bags. Oh, and did I mention the shower curtain from the upstairs bathroom has gone missing?? Because not having that is probably the biggest inconvenience. One I did not notice until the water was running and I reached up to grab. I was honestly dumbfounded. "Gah!!," you know?

Jackass. Unless he was using it to take a corpse out of the house, I can't see this ending in a positive way. What reasoning he would have to take a damn shower curtian is beyond me. I'll get a new shower curtain, trash bags, and toilet paper in a week or so at payday. Then again, maybe I'll just buy trash bags, use them as a cheap shower curtain and as trash bags. The toilet paper I can steal from McDonalds... Yes... Plotting is hard work and I never do it on an empty stomach.

So... to be continued?!

Geico cavemen get a TV show! = easily the best news anyone could give.

You're welcome.

So I'll be watching a lot of moives these next few months. At first glance, you might think I was a 14 year old boy what with the heavy comic book theme... But I blame Hollywood for that.

March 9: 300 !!!
March 23: TMNT !
April 6: Grindhouse !!
April 13: Hot Fuzz (maybe)
May 4: Spider-Man 3 !!!
May 25: Pirates of the Johnny Depp 3 !
June 15: Fantastic Four 2 !
June 29: Die Hard 4 !!
July 4: Transformers !
ALSO!! Spyhunter !!!

Not many in May, but I'll probably end up seeing Spider-Man 3 like eight times. And having typed that, I know deep down that it's going to be terrible and my dreams are practically dashed RIGHT NOW. Still, as long as they're killing off Mary Jane in it, who really cares, right? And.. now having typed that, too, she'll probably end up not-dying and murdering Bruce Campbell's character. Blast!

I'm no longer completely without job. I left EB Games Dec 28th or so, and found a Gamestop less than 6 minutes away from my new place here in Orlando. It's 6 minutes on bike. 8 by car. I don't know how that works, exactly. On bike I barely slow down, cutting through traffic and ignorind red lights.

But tonight was my first night working. A nice 5 hour shift at minimum wage. But that's cool with me. I only want a few hours a month and minimum wage pay is for suckers. Sigh. Jobs. I should be a millionaire by now, if I had stuck to my original plan of inventing a sleepsuit and taking over the western seaboard. 2007-2008 was establishing a pseduo-mafia internet crimesolving task force. I needed them for phase three of taking over China. But instead I'm biking to a minimum wage job waiting for this college life to be over with.

I know it'll be a while, but I'm kind of hoping to be done with it sooner than that. Meh.

What a day this is shaping up to be some day. My brother (not brothers) is coming down to help load up the truck. All the heavy stuff, like furniture and some 450 pounds of strategy guide collections, along with books and DVDs and beds. Bah!! I hate packing up the guides. I wish I could take a picture of them, but I'll have more time and better arangement in the new place.

Furthermore! I found my DS Lite, which was in a bag kicked under the sofa. I first noticed it was missing when I bought Portrait of Ruin and took it home and was all like "..." which is never a good thing. I thought back and forth on where I last had it. "Did I leave it in Orlando on the last trip? Did I lend it to my brother- no, he has one. Will I have to buy a new one? Did the cat pawn it?" And then today I find it. Cool beans, huh?

Lastly!! It's a day off for me, and Zelda is coming out. My store took 50-something preorders and is getting roughly half sent to the store. I sure as hell am picking up my copy, paid in full months ago. Many months. I had it preordered months before I even started working at that EB, back in early 2005. Back when the pre-ordering limitations were nonexistant. It'll be an ugly day, lots of pissed-off customers canceling preorders and picking up a copy at the Wal-mart. Oh wells.

Finally? I downloaded Frisky Dingo episodes 8 and 9 off the Xbox Live Marketplace. It's pretty expensive, some $2 for 11 minutes of PURE GENIUS COMEDY. But that's really about the same as buying two songs online. And it's reall funny stuff. Every 160 points I throw at FD is $2 more they raised to pay for the cost of production. And they get $2 closer to getting a season 2 in production. I'll force my brother (not brothers) to watch it. I'm pretty sure the new place doesn't have cable. I'll be sure to ask sometime today.

El post scripto! I need more boxes for the guides. They are like $11 for 10, but totally worth it.

Note to self: Buy twenty more, just to be safe.

Take the Garfeld cartoon, remove Garfield's lines and what do you have?

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Ross, click here for more! Not here!! This place won't work, either! You've gone too far, dammit! Nooooooooo. Also, as a warning, I'll be lying down all day tomorrow playing on Xbox Live. That, or maybe write some sexually explicit game review. Not sure yet.

What do you all think I should do?

You ever have one of those days? You go and spend a ton of moneys and get home all happy and it's a day off tomorrow. You take a nap after a long day of work. Wake up about 10:30pm, go upstairs to start the night off with some PSU and Michelob Lights...

And the game isn't in the bag? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Joke's on me, I suppose. Look's like I'll be waking up early after all. Only after the nap, I won't be tired. I hate sleeping when I'm not tired. Dammit. RAAAAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Also picked up 5 seasons of The West Wing. I barely watched it but after getting to Japan, I got totally into it. Fun fact: I'm used to the Japanese voice actors, not the actual American voices. Same thing happens for a lot of the time with anime. Rarely with live action stuff. Live action stuff and video games, which are practically the same thing, yes?

I played so much PSU tonight it's not funny. In the last four hours I only went up one level.

WHY???? Because I spent most of it chatting with some japanese kids. We talked about the 360 and Blue Dragon and Final Fantasy and other things. I'll be getting the game next week. You can bet on that. The strategy guide will be obtained as well.



Rock.

Hey Ross, here's a picture of my sold-off copy of Marvel vs Capcom 2 I once had long, long ago.



I found that pic, linked the indie adventures a little on irc and read or skimmed over most of them in the last 15 minutes. I'm now homesick for Japan, if that's even possible.

Sigh.

Oh what a day I had yesterday. It starts off innocently enough with me getting a flat tire on the way to work. Not too big deal as I ride a bike and not a car or motorcycle. I left it chained to a bridge guard rail and walked a mile to the nearest busstop. After walking for 10 minutes and waiting for another 5 minutes I was tired hot and late for work. Thankfully the bus didn't take too long and it was only by 20 minutes. So I show up tired, hot and miserable. Before I could ask to get a drink from the dollar store, everyone working there left. Then all the customers left (it was a slow afternoon) so I closed shop and bought something from a vending machine and came back.

I was fortunate enough to get a ride back to my bike, shaving me 30 minutes off the walk home. So I picked it up and pushed it home in a limp fashion. Walking after a long day of work is usually a thing I try to avoid. But it gave me some time to think. I thought up a list of things to do that night, before I went to bed.

Feed cats.
Clean out litter boxes.
Clean out lizard cage.
Feed lizzard.
Clean out cricket cage.
Feed crickets.
Watch new episode of South Park.
Clean room a bit.
Laundry.
Not play Chromehounds.
Download PSU.
Eat dinner.
Fix the bike before I work tomorrow morning. (or wake up early)

Only did about half of all that. Yep. The PSU demo wasn't released. I missed 1st half of South Park twice, will watch it tonight along with Drawn Together. Laundry can wait, I still have 3 socks left. I had two lime popsicles for dinner, will eat Burger King for breakfast to make up for it. And woke up at 6:55 to fix bike and goof around online, which I didn't have enough time for yesterday. Friday's a day off for me, so I'll spend it... cleaning and doing laundry. Maybe. Depends. Whatever.

Let's see now...

Sunday I was promoted to Assistant Manager (yay!).
Monday I finished watching season 5 of Smallville.
Tuesday I beat all the single player campaigns in Chromehounds, cementing my "expertness" in the game.
Wednesday (today) I bought Okami and the strategy guide for it.
Thursday I work.
Friday Pong's going to be moved in to a larger cage.

<-- see how cramped s/he is??

Saturday, one of my brother's is turning 22.

If you're looking for a 1 GB AAA-powered Mp3 player, here's one for $43. I use one for biking and they're small enough to never not-carry around.

Hey, so Fatal Frame 2 is now on the 360 backwards-compatible list. Like I totally said so. Spy Hunter: Nowhere to Run and Lego Star Wars II are also on the new list, which makes these two not-yet-released games forwards-compatible. Yay! I won't play either, but thanks anyway, Allard!

Tecmo Arcade Classics went down to $5 (new) at EB/GS. There have been a ton of recent price drops, if you were unaware of which.

I got three new video game-based DVDs today!



Yes, three. Not two. Look it up. There really was a game called "Resident Evil".