| MIddle of nowhere! |
[Nov. 7th, 2006|11:39 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Taos, New Mexico | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | Explorative | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Indian Flutes in the background | ] |
I need to update this thing more offten. But I figure this is as good a time as any. I'm accually supprised to have a wireless connection way out in the middle of the New Mexico desert. I'm out west visiting family and we're currently touring the wild west. I'm at the Taos Pueblo right now. The buildings these indians are living in were build over a thousand years ago. That's wild. We're going to be hitting Roswell NM in a little while too. Woot! The strange thing is, my internet gets connection out here near the village, but my cell phone is very spotty. I hope I'm not missing any important calls. I can see my parent's packing up so I've got to go, but I'll report a little later about my trip. Later all! |
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| Still here! |
[Aug. 10th, 2006|08:27 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  good | ] |
| [ | music |
| | They Might Be Giants - Entire Collection | ] |
Much to the dismay of some folk, I'm not quite dead yet.
I don't really have anything major to talk about, but since some people have a passing interest in my life, I'll toss some info on my current status.
I am finally going to make it to Gen Con this weekend. To those who don't know, it's basically the E3 of the pre-electronic gaming industry. I'll get to meet all the designers and writers of the old and new board games, card games, and RPGs. Heading there with the Saturday night D&D group. I may even spend some time at the Twilight Creations table signing autographs because of the Zombies!!! card I'm on.
Unfortunately, going to Gen Con means I'm going to miss the first weekend of the Renaissance Festival. But aside from the first weekend, I will be attending every weekend after that. Don't know who all still reads this journal, but it would be cool to run into somebody I know there. Besides the usual motley crue that practically live there.
I've recently had a car die on me, but picked up a new one (to me anyway) last weekend. Spent $100 on an 85 Volvo. Never had one before, but I hear they're tanks. Makes for a good winter vehicle.
Because some people have asked, yes, I am still single, but not unhappily so. Still looking though. Seem that any woman I meet that's interesting, is uninterested. But that's the way they say it goes.
On a positive note, either late October or early November, I will be in an airplane for the first time. Going to be flying to Texas to visit my Parents. If I can time it right, I may even hit the Texas Renaissance Faire if I can find a pretty thing to show me around.
That's pretty much it for now. Never really been public with my life. The good stuff I don't brag about and the bad stuff I like to keep private. So y'all are stuck with the mediocre stuff. Then again, that's the majority of my existence. And that's the way I like it.
Darrell Cleland
aka
Horou Wholf |
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| Too young for this... |
[Nov. 10th, 2005|05:54 pm] |
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| |  disappointed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Kawaii radio on winamp | ] |
Looks like I won't be making it to MFF this year. I had arrangements, but I won't be able to travel for a little while. I got very sick over the weekend. Started friday, and lasted through monday. It was the flu, so it's nothing serious, but it caused some other complications. The extreme dehydration, the chemical imballanced in the body including a severe lack of potassium, and the strain of vomiting caused a minor heart attack. So since Monday night, I've been laying in a hospital bed recovering. Had to do a heart cath, so there was some surgery involved too. It's now Thursday and I'm home with a fridge and pantry full of low salt, low cholesterol foods. Yuck... But I was declared very healthy by the doctors. It was the flu that caused the attack. Anyway, sorry to those I said I'd see at the con, but they're be other cons. Later all!
Horou Wholf |
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| I'm in! |
[Sep. 16th, 2005|06:27 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Irish Internet Radio on winamp | ] |
I'm now officially in my new house! I've owned for two months and have just now gotten settled in, but everything's okay. Got the cable installed so this is the first thing I did. It's going to take a little while to fill the house with memories though. For one person, it's a large house. Heck, my computer gets it's own room. That's the first room I decorate though. Lots of ren faire stuff, paintings, costuming, and weapons. My own personal den. I should have a house warming party or something in invite my friends, but not many I know would be interested in coming up to Flint. It's all right though. In other news, my parents move to Texas this coming week. It's going to be kinda tough. I've been on my own off and on for a while now, but this time, it's for good. It's going to be odd not having them live down the street for me to visit and mooch off of anytime I want. But I'll be okay. I keep waiting for things to return to normal between work and the house and the 'rents moving, but I guess I have to get used to this being "normal". Oh well. Catch y'all on the flip side.
Horou Wholf |
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| Moving |
[Sep. 5th, 2005|01:10 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  groggy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Bluegrass | ] |
I have discovered why gamers live at home for so long. It's a stereotype for a reason. The reason gamers live with their parents until they're 30 is because they own too much damn stuff!!! And it's not normal stuff... easy stuff to move. It's books. 30 truckloads of books. And you can't move too many at once. Sure, I could have loaded all my books into a few huge boxes, but then we'd need a crane to move them. And you never know just how much stuff you own until you try to move. I've got a walk in closet that's floor to ceiling books and now matter how much I pull out and box up, it's not getting any less packed. I don't plan on moving again for a long time. And yes, I've owned the house for two months and am not just moving into it. Gamers are lazy too. :D |
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| Unexpected Concert |
[Jul. 25th, 2005|07:09 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  bouncy | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Live Vamo'alla Flamenco still bouncing around in my skull! | ] |
Wow! A buddy of mine called me up out of the blue Sunday morning to ask if I wanted to use his extra ticket to see the Detroit Symphony Orchestra at the "Dear Friends: Music from Final Fantasy" concert. How could I pass that up? I suffered at work today for the lack of sleep, but it was worth it! The program went as such:
Liberi Fatali (With the Stoney Creek High School Chamber Singers)
To Zanarkand
Terra's Theme
Theme of Love
Dear Friends
Vamo'alla Flamenco (My all time favorite)
Love Grows
Intermission
Aeris' Theme
You're Not Alone
Ronfaure
Final Fantasy I - III Medley
Cloud Smiles
Final Fantasy
Then they brought out the chamber singers out for an encore` of One Winged Angel
And if all that wasn't cool enough, while pulling out of the parking garage, I see a few car's up, the license plate "FZYOTTR" I had the driver pull along side and it was Kenny and Alphawolf! It was a very good evening indeed.
Horou Wholf |
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| (no subject) |
[Jul. 7th, 2005|12:21 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Soundtrack to Starwars | ] |
Looks like I was recruited to do one of those meme things... So here goes.
"List 5 reasons you are a dork. And make them good reasons. Justify them. Explain them. Be loud and proud of how big a dork you are! Then pick the 5 biggest dorks you know and have them do the meme."
1) One of the deciding factors in the house I bought was that it had a large enough basement to set up a gaming room.
2) I was owner of my own gaming store purely for the reason of getting all my games at wholesale prices.
3) I run a monthly board and card game meet at the local gaming store for city children.
4) I've had multiple bookshelves collapse under the weight of hundreds of gaming books.
5) I'm involved in two D&D games with different groups and am still looking to start another. |
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| Update on my life. |
[Jun. 18th, 2005|08:17 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | excited | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Black Mages II - Vamo Alla Flamenco | ] |
These last couple of months have been a turn around in my life. Sort of turned upside down and shaken around. But it's all good.
First thing, I bought a house. And it was a bit of an impulse buy. Saw one I wanted and took about 8 hours to think it over, then signed the paperwork. It was one of those offers that I couldn't let pass by. Unfortunately, it is in Flint so it didn't get me closer to anywhere. It's a three bedroom and one and a half bath, a very large basement for gaming, a attached garage which is nice, and it comes with all the appliances. The elderly woman who lived there before me spent $25k in updates so the roof, the windows, garage door and opener, washer, dryer, furnace, central air, refrigerator, stove, and dish washer are all less than a year old. Then the woman passed away and her family lives out of town so they just wanted to sell the house for quick cash and no hassle. It's in a very nice neighborhood and my house payments are $400 a month which is less than what I'd pay for rent anywhere decent. It's a good thing I paid off my camero payments. Things are going to be tight for a little while. But...
I got a promotion at work. A big one. I went from the shop floor to "Assistant System Administrator". I've gone from wearing a uniform with my name on it to wearing slacks and polo shirts in an air conditioned office. The hours are a little longer, but the pay is much better and I get better parking. Unlike production, my overtime isn't voluntary, but now that I have a house payment, I'll take it! Now I just have to take up playing golf. *laughs*
That's about it for now. I will catch y'all at a later date! |
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| The circle is complete. |
[May. 22nd, 2005|08:43 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | exhausted | ] |
I just got back from a trip to Mt. Pleasant PA, visiting Danielle and Tammy, a couple of friends from way back. Left Thursday morning and just got back this evening. Because Danielle had to work, Tammy said she had a surprise for when I got there. She was taking me to see Star Wars EP3 at the drive in theater. Wow... She didn't know this, but the first time I saw the first movie 27 years ago, I saw it at a drive in theater. I honestly got a little emotional as we were pulling in. I enjoyed the movie, but I loved the nostalgia. |
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| Homestar Runner. |
[May. 14th, 2005|01:02 am] |
| [ | mood |
| | bouncy | ] |
I just found out that the Homestar Runner crew are going to be at the Motor City Comic-Con this weekend in Novi! Now I need to bring something for them to sign! |
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| Unexpected loss |
[Apr. 6th, 2005|08:05 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | numb | ] |
Today started out so mundane. The same as every work day has been for the last several years. On the way home, I stopped at the comic book store like I have every Wednesday for 15 years now. Instead of the owner, a friendly eighty year old man, it was his son running the store. It turns out, the owner had suffered a accident while cutting down a tree last Sunday and broke his back, neck, several ribs, and fractured his skull. At age eighty, one dosen't recover from that. Fifteen years of a friendly smile and a "I'll see you next week!" and now that's over. I didn't even realize it had been that long or how routine it had become until today. |
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| Refreshing weekend |
[Mar. 13th, 2005|09:00 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | content | ] |
| [ | music |
| | The Bare Necessities | ] |
I need more weekends like this. A visit from a good friend, and a general weekend of relaxation. First weekend in a long while I haven't worked or driven all over the state. Got some good gaming in at the weekly D&D game, picked up a few new card games, smoked a few fantastic cigars, met Elysium's really cool sister, and found a treasure to download off Bittorent I thought I'd never find. I am actually ready to go back to work tomorrow. I feel this weekend has been restful enough while still being entertaining and I haven't wasted one minute. In all, I have nothing to complain about. |
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| Chocolate Niblet Beans |
[Jan. 8th, 2005|10:25 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | geeky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Chocolate Niblet Beans | ] |
Another insane video. It is humanly impossible to identify every bit of pop culture represented in this music video. And if you think that you actually have identified it all, watch it again. In fact, I'd wager a twenty spot that it can't be done.
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/cnb.php |
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| Another year older and deeper in debt. |
[Jan. 1st, 2005|05:30 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | contemplative | ] |
So another year has come and gone, and I turned the bit 30 new years eve. As much as I did enjoy myself at the party I did attend, there were so many friends missed. I wish there was a way I could have made the rounds and visited everybody, wishing them all a Happy New Year in person. I wasn't really planning on making any resolutions this year, but now that I'm thinking about it, I think that getting out more often to visit friends is a good resolutions to make. I look forward to seeing all my friends soon enough. Later all! |
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| (no subject) |
[Dec. 21st, 2004|08:26 pm] |
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| | amused | ] |
I know this is something I usually don't do, and there are others who read my journal who don't care for these, but I wanted to post this one. It's a fun little test. (Also to test to see if it works. Never posted anything like this before.)
| You scored as Neutral Good. A Neutral Good person tries to do the 'goodest' thing possible. These people are willing to work with the law to accomplish their goal, but if the law is corrupt they are just as willing to tear it down. To these people, doing what's right is the most important thing, regardless of rules, customs, or laws.
Lawful Good | | 70% | Neutral Good | | 70% | True Neutral | | 65% | Chaotic Good | | 60% | Lawful Neutral | | 60% | Lawful Evil | | 30% | Chaotic Neutral | | 30% | Neutral Evil | | 25% | Chaotic Evil | | 15% | </td>
What is your Alignment?
created with QuizFarm.com |
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| (no subject) |
[Nov. 3rd, 2004|09:00 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  irate | ] |
| [ | music |
| | David Allan Coe - You never even called me by my name. | ] |
I enjoy where I work. I believe the people I work for are in all, good people. I don't have a boss there I don't like, and I seem to have an awful lot of them. But... Three months ago, I put in for a vacation for this Thursday, and next Monday. Since we don't normally work Fri, Sat, and Sun, that gives me a nice long five day weekend and only have to use two vacation days. Well... Because our business has picked up soooo much, and our salesmen may have taken on more work we can handle. So for the first time since I've started, we have a mandatory weekend. It was decided that no body is exempt from working on Fri and Sat. I still get Thursday and Monday off, but they don't know about the days in between yet. I had a talk with my boss, my boss' boss, and her boss as well. I was told that it would be discussed with the management committee, and they would get back to me tomorrow with their answer. On Thursday. The first day of my vacation. So now my question is... Do I cancel my vacation to stick around and hear weather or not my vacation is canceled, or do I take it anyway and find out Tuesday weather or not I should have taken it? I'll get back to y'all when I get back from Greensburg Pennsylvania. |
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| Kung Foo Mother of Doom |
[Oct. 20th, 2004|08:10 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  embarrassed | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Random anime music on an internet radio program | ] |
I made a discovery today! Do not turn your back on somebody after a smart-ass remark, especially when this person is a mother of 3 boys. They've mastered the martial art of the "open palm to the backside"! |
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| The Sims 2 |
[Oct. 5th, 2004|06:52 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  confused | ] |
Okay, I sat and played this game for several hours today, and I really need somebody to explain the appeal of this game. I made this little guy who looked exactly like me. I thought that was pretty cool. Lots of options there. Then I got a cool little house. I think I would enjoy living in this cool little house. And I got to fill it with some neat stuff. So far, so good. Something I would have been comfortable with. Then my little guy started living and doing stuff in the house. Well... I need a job, so mini-me went out and got a job. What do you know, he's got a well paying factory job. Well, I can relate to that. So he wakes up in the morning to an annoying little alarm clock, used the john, then goes off to work. After waiting around looking at an empty house for a while, he gets home, uses the john again, takes a bath, chats and plays on his computer to keep his fun and social levels up, makes himself dinner, then goes back to bed....... Okay... See... The sad thing is, I didn't even see the irony until HIS COMPUTER BROKE! WTF? It was depressing! *sobs* I'm going back to playing Silent Storm and SW Battlefront.
Horou Wholf |
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