ya ya, I missed yesterday's blog...so sue me....lol

I started writing a blog yesterday of a book review of Halo: Cryptum, but part way through, I realized that I don't remember most of the main points of the book. So, I'm gonna have to re-read it to refresh my memory. So as for book reviews on my blog. You guys will have to wait a little longer. I'll start them later on this month....hopefully.

Tomorrow people. the contest starts. Stay tuned for the Horror Movie Question Contest. Thankfully for Netflix, I have lots of Horror movies to watch. I'm even thinking of making a couple questions a little more difficult. I might watch a bunch of movies in a series (ie, Nightmare on Elm Street) and then pick one line from one of those and you will have to figure out what one its from. Not sure if guessing NoES would get you the normal points then a bonus points to pick what one specific movie its from. I'll be pretty much going on the fly with these questions. If anyone is on my XBL friends list, you might have an advantage if I keep it set to online when I watch the movies so you might see the movies that will be in question.

Well, about yesterday....Like I said above, I want to re-read the one book, and other books again, so I can do a better review. Guess I'll have to start on Cryptum when I get home tonight. I was gonna write a whole different blog after having a writers block on the review but work and life got in the way. Thankfully today is an `easy` day for me. Still busy, but not `pulling my non-existent hair out` kinda dayz.

One good thing about yesterday is that I joined a gym. Been thinking about it so why not. Stop off at the gym 5 minutes from my work before heading home. Kinda makes it easier that way instead of having to go out of my way to work out. I'm not doing this to become all muscle bound, I just want to be more defined and have more energy. I did have a membership in 2007 but I got laid off for about 3 months so I had to cancel my membership.

Tomorrow is my birthday, so I'll be posting a blog sometime tomorrow, other then my movie question, about me and things of me. I might even do multiple ones of things I'm doing for my birthday tomorrow. I am definitely going paintballing with some friends. One's birthday is on the 5th of October so for my gift to him is that I'll be paying for his paintballing too. I've known him for over 15 years so why not treat him to a present. I used to bring him with me whenever I got Windsor Spitfire tickets for my birthday but that hasn't happened since we were in grade 8 or 9.

Ya, I'm rambling on again. Oh well, kinda excited for my birthday. Not really the age I'm turning but the fun filled day I will have. I get my daughter tonight for a sleep over, then she'll be going to her Grandmama's just after lunch so I can go paintballing. After that, I'll be picking her up to go do whatever she wants until my bowling league starts. Normally we don't bring kids to the place to make things flow more easily, but its my birthday, so I don't care what anyone there says, and if they don't like it, they can bite me. After about 30-60 minutes there, her mom will come pick her up to bring her back home, then its nothing but me bowling and drinking. LoL. I'm making sure I tell the waitress that I do not want to see my glass empty. lmao.

Well, its been fun writing this blog. I gotta get back into the swing of things. I've been slacking. But we all do at times.

When life throws you a curve ball, duck, let it hit someone else and wait for a better pitch.

~ JB

Cats. Bet u didn't know.....

Another day, another late blog. Sorry guys, been really busy with things. I would like to say I'll try to post earlier but right now it's hard. My work is crazy with 12hr shifts 3 days a week and family things the other 2, and weekends. Well, I normally get my daughter most weekends so my time is mainly doing things with her.

I heard a interesting thing today from The Rooster Teeth Podcast. http://www.roosterteeth.com/
Cats can survive a fall from crazy heights. In 1987 there was a study of 115 cats that showed that cats have a higher chance of surviving a fall from 9-32 stories then they would from falling under 9 stories. Also of the 115 cats, only 1 in 13 that fell nine or more stories sustained a bone fracture, whereas most of the cats that fell from lower stories suffered some type of broken bone. http://animals.howstuffworks.com/pets/domestic-cat-info5.htm

That's pretty much all I got for you today. I would write more but my mind is mush and I also want to get a head start on watching the Horror movies.

I've gone to go look for myself, if I return before I get back, tell me to wait.

~ JB

Past midnight blog

Well, I'm suppose to be doing a book review today bit it's late.....and I actually planning on starting my schedule on the 1st. So technically I'm not going off my plan lol.

I will talk about something else though, games I'll be getting within a week. They are Rage and Dead Island. I would just be getting Rage but after seeing the one trailer someone posted on SeasonedGamers.com of Dead Island. I have to get it. Even if the game looks shitty, the trailer sold it to me.

Not many video game trailers make you really want a game. Unless it's a genre you like. This trailer though, if it doesn't make you want to get it, you will appreciate the wow factor of it. http://www.ign.com/videos/2011/02/16/dead-island-announcement-trailer
I have seen gameplay so I know it won't be shit.

Now on Rage. Some people said it looks like a Borderlands rip. But doesn't all post-apocalyptic type games look the same? I know Borderlands isn't a post-apocalyptic game but it does have that feel. What I found out about Rage is that it will be 3 discs. And you know what that means...bigger fuckin game.

At this point of writing this I got distracted with playing Halo: Reach with fellow Pinq Mafia members.

From what I've read about Rage, I definitely want to play the shit outta that game. Multiple types of enemies with different fighting skills. And half way through the game they promised a big change in the game. I think they were hinting on enemies.

In the next 2 months I'll be owning 5 new games...maybe 6. My life is gonna be cramped. But being busy is what I like.

Can't wait till Saturday. Bday, bowling and paintball. Hell ya.

When life gives you lemons, grab the tequila and drink till you forget where the lemons came from.

~ JB

Blog Timeline. Weekly Schedule.

Well, lets just stat the obvious first. This is what I plan to do, will it be followed exactly, hopefully....lol There will be some changes in the future and I'll throw in a interview every once in a while. Maybe once a month.
So before I start rambling like I've done in the past, here is what you will be looking for when you tune into this blog everyday. I'll just let you know now, the times when I'll be posting them will be random. Work and Life will obviously get in the way at times.

Monday - Random blog...probably stuff about gaming, interesting stuff I've read on Live Science or other type of website or maybe even just random things that happened in my life or changes to my blog.
Tuesday - Book Review. I'll be doing a quick write up of a book I have read. I have a nice collection of things I've read over the past little while so I'll be doing those first. Hint, for the first while they will be about the Halo novels, with a random other novel thrown in.
Wednesday - Refer to Mondays type blogz.
Thursday - Game review. Just like the book review, I'll be writing about game's I've played. If I get to a point where I reviewed all games I've beaten, I'll be doing reviews on ones I'm currently playing.
Friday - Again, refer to Monday's lineup for blogz.
Saturday/Sunday - Starting October 1st, I'll be doing my Horror Movie Quote Contest and the Movie Review will follow after the correct answer is given. Because my weekends are normally busy with family things, I have this as a double blog like day. Meaning, you will get at least 1 blog on the weekend instead of me trying to do 2. But because of the contest I'm having, I'll have 2ish blogz for now. 1 HMQC question, then Review.
Interviews - Like I said above. They will be at least once a month as long as I have someone to interview. I have 1, maybe 2 lined up but because I have never interviewed anyone in my life, I'm taking extra steps to make sure I do a good one.

I'm hoping I can stick to this so I have more of a solid Blog schedule so people at least know what they are getting into when they check out my blogz. I am still waiting for you guys to email me your questions for my `get to know your bloggest` blog I want to do on my birthday this Saturday. But if I don't have any, I'll just have to only do the HMQC post.

Something to ponder about; Without rules, there would be chaos. Without chaos, we wouldn't need rules.

~ JB

Practice makes perfect.

Me and two other members of my Extra Life charity gamer team played some XBox for a few hours. Getting out body ready for the 24 hour gaming marathon on October 15th. If you want to sponsor us please visit http://www.extra-life.org/team/thenimrods

We can hit the reset on our games as many times as we want to get the best outcome. These kids can't. :(

If's not broke, don't fix it. If its broke, learn something before fixing it.

Didn't really have time to think of a blog topic today. Been messing around with my router so it would stop dropping my XBL connection.

I bought my router off of an old coworker so I didn't get a manual. After many attempts over the last 2 days. I finally found a usable manual online.

After reading parts of the manual I went on XBox.ca/support to see what ports I needed to be opened. Hopefully I was able to fix my problem. Can't really check right now if I did. When I finally got it fixed I had to leave for my bowling league.

I'll have to check when I get home I guess.

Well, hopefully my game keeps getting better. My average is already up 12 pins in 2 weeks from last season.

If something breaks or messes up with your computer or network, don't stress about it. Take the opportunity to learn something. Cause if you learn something new a day, that day isn't wasted.

~ JB

Horror Movie Quote Contest - Official Rulez

Contest Rules.

1. Participants must be residents of Canada or USA. (sorry other countries)
2. Winner will get their choice of prizez**. Estimated value $50.
3. Timeline for contest will be from October 1st to October 31st. Winner will be announced on November 1st.
4. Leaders of the contest will be posted with every new question asked.
5. You can answer as many times as you want, first to answer correctly will receive the 10pts.
6. Additional points will be rewarded for; (i) Retweeting blog links (2pts for each new retweet. You cannot retweet the same tweet over and over again to get points that way.) (ii) Random questions will be asked throughout the week. (5 pts each correct answer.)( *more details below*)
7. Winner MUST contact me in an email AFTER contest results are posted.
8. Every Saturday I will post a quote from a Horror movie. Sunday I will post my review of that movie only if I get a correct response.
9. If no correct answer is posted by 10PM EST time Sunday night, no points will be rewarded and movie review will be posted then.


**prizez
I will let the winner choose from one of the following;
$50 PSN card
4800 M$ point card
12 month XBL gold card.
$50 pre-paid MasterCard (must be 18 years of age or older)

* Random questions *
These questions will be random and off the wall...at least most of them. Sometimes the correct answer won't be what you expect but there is logic to my madness.
eg) 2 + 2 = ?
incorrect answer - 4.
correct answer - fish.

If you have any questions about this contest that I may have missed, please contact me @ JohnnyBlazezBlogz@gmail.com or add me to Twitter @JBBlogz



Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna get tough, grow a vagina. Those things take a pounding.

~ JB

The sky is falling, the sky is falling....

As some of you may know, NASA's Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) will be falling to earth sometime tomorrow (Friday, Sept 23, 2011). The satellite's mission was to study the Earth's atmosphere, particularly the protective ozone layer. It was launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery during its STS-48 mission in September 1991. The 5,900kg satellite entered orbit on the 15th of September 1991 at an operational altitude of 600km. The original mission duration was only suppose to last 3 years but in July 2005, 14 years after the launch, 6 of the 10 instruments were still operational.

Sometime tomorrow afternoon, UARS will fall to earth. LiveScience.com asks the question, "What are your chances of getting struck by NASA's falling satellite?" Well, taking in account that there are nearly 7 billion people living on this planet, the chances of anyone being hit is 1 in 3,200. The chances of you being hit, is 1 in several trillion. Read More Here Just imagine if parts of the satellite fell by you. How would you react? I personally would first, duck and run for cover while looking up to make sure I do not run into another falling piece. The other thing was after I made sure nothing else fell, I would go grab that debris and add it to my geeky things collection. lol Common, who wouldn't want a part of a NASA satellite...?The more and more we look up to the sky and wonder our place in this universe, we tend to forget where our feet are. Just remember, wherever that may be, the steps you are taking through the journey in your life are way more important then any discovery NASA finds in outer space. Take the time to enjoy the time you have with your loved ones, because no matter what NASA finds, it cannot give back lost time. ~ JB

Change is good...but some people hate it

Ok people, finish complaining so you can carry on with you life and not fill my Facebook news feed full of status updates and comments on how much you hate the new Facebook look. It is nothing new. Facebook has changed things around before and they will change things around again. Like how life changes, everyone needs to change and adapt to be able to grow.

I for one like the new Facebook look. If its not for you, then go to MySpace, Google+, Twitter or whatever other social network website. But remember, all these websites will change as the time goes on. No website will keep their look forever. Unless they are only around for a couple months, then you can say that that website kept the same look and never changed.

Facebook is technically still the same, just with different bells and whistles. You can still make a status update on your home page. Most people's comments I've read stated that they couldn't. Just look for the `status update` button on the top of the home page, click it and a window will drop down to post a status update. Not hard, you just have to look.

It seems most people do what little children do when you ask them to go look for something in their room. The walk in their room, look around the room, literally, they turn in a circle, then come back out and say they can't see or find it. Then Mommy or Daddy comes in and actually looks and moves things and they find it within a minute or two. People, don't be lazy. Look around the page. Spend a couple minutes to see where things have been moved. And for Gods sake, read the little pop up windows that Facebook gives you to read explaining some of the new features.


Change is a must in life. If we never changed, we could never grow. If we never grew, life would get boring. Change keeps things interesting and exciting. So embrace the changes in your life and enjoy the journey that comes with it.

~ JB

Book Review ~ HALO The Essential Visual Guide

For those who have not read any of my blogz, I've stated before that I am a huge Halo Geek. I own almost all the games (not ODST) and I own all their books. I still have to get the books that were redone. Oh well, I don't mind putting money toward my favorite sci fi universe.

When I picked the book up this past weekend, I thought that it would just be a book filled with pictures and explaining what they are and some history about it. Turns out I was right. lol

The cover is visually stimulating. It has a huge front view of the Master Chief from about the waist up. Cortana is standing in front of him with her back toward us. And sorry guys, the A in HALO is covering her ass. the cover looks basic but it speaks volume.

As you open, the table of contents are in alphabetical order as well as numerical order. Whoever made the layout made the book idiot proof. As long as you know your alphabet, you can easily find what you are looking for.

Quickly thumbing through it you can find anything worth reading. No matter what page you stop on. It is filled with useful information and pictures from all 6 current Halo games. There is nothing referring to any of the books or from the Halo Legends movie.

This is a must have for anyone who loves Halo. If you want to show off your Halo knowledge then get this book as well as the Halo Encyclopedia which overs all Halo things excluding Halo: Reach.

It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it becomes a sport, EA buys the rights and makes yearly games.

~ JB

Things are slowly coming along. (give me some questions to answer)

I am slowly getting things ready to get my blog to grow more. I have a separate email address and a twitter account set up. @JBBlogz and JohnnyBlazezBlogz@gmail.com. Like the twitter bio says, I am the Seinfeld of Blogz. That show was about nothing, and so are my blogz...lol

I know I said at a earlier time about commenting on here for the contest I will be having but please use the gmail address to email your answers in. It will be easier to know who is the person that's messaging me and not having some idiot pretend to be someone else.

I might be doing a interview with random people starting within the next couple of weeks and have a bi-weekly or maybe monthly interview posted. If anyone wants to be part of JB's Blazing People, email me and let me know. Like I said, I will be trying to get this blog more out there so I can talk more about nothing. We all know, everyone likes to read stuff thats about nothing. Sometimes there is something interesting in it.

I want to try and make my readers more involved with my blogz. Make comments, suggestions, post a comment about nothing...hell, do whatever you want. (Except posting links to obscene pictures or videos). Ask me questions to answer.

I'm gonna have a post between now and my birthday from whatever questions anyone has for me. Ask me anything you want. You're only held back by your imagination.

I just do not want this blog to just be me rambling on like an online diary. I know there are lots of people who would like to read things a little more interesting and help read things they helped with. So I want you people to help this blog grow. Without you, this blog isn't going anywhere.

If things in your life are looking down. Stand on your head. With your new perspective on life, things will start looking up.

~ JB

Prizez to be won. Detailz below

I've been going over in my head a way to get more people to ready my pointless blogz. I came up with an idea, but I am still not sure as of the prize will be.

Throughout October I will be watching some horror movies and I'll be grabbing some lines from the movie that makes me laugh. I will post them in my blogz and have people guess what movie its from. I will tally up the scores and by end of October, I will announce the winner. I'm leaning to a M$ or PS point card or maybe even a $50 pre-paid master card. Pretty much it'll be around a $50 prize.

Yes I know I can use that money for many other things but I want to reward people who take their time to read my blogz. I might even throw in some random questions for bonus pointz. The point system will be as followed.


10 ptz will be awarded to the first person with a correct answer.
5 ptz will be awarded to bonus questions. (These will be random and nothing to do with the movie quote in question.)

ALL ANSWERS MUST BE POSTED AS A COMMENT ON HERE, NOT ON MY FACEBOOK OR TWITTER LINKS. I'll post more details about this at a later date.

Here is an example of one of the random bonus questions...

Question; 2 plus 2 equals?
wrong answer; 4.
correct answer; fish

I will follow every question with my review of the movie that the quote was from. I will be doing other reviews as well throughout the month. I'm planning on doing the Horror Movie Trivia Quotes on Saturdays starting on October 1st, my 27th birthday, and following every Saturday after that. But I might be extra generous and throw in a couple here and there in the middle of the week so stay tuned.

Whats the differences between a horror movie and a whore movie? One has people coming after you and the other you're cumming after them.

~ JB

Anxiety. Oh how I loath you

Ya I know I didn't do a blog yesterday. I had a very busy day and I just couldn't find any time to even post a simple joke or anything. I'm here now, on lunch at work posting. And as the title hints, I'm dealing with anxiety.

I've had small anxiety attacks here and there but nothing too bad. Last time I had one this bad was when I was in High School. That was over 9 years ago. I thought the major attacks were gone. I can easily handle the small ones but the big ones just destroy me. I know the thoughts in my head are illogical and irrational but I just can't help it. If you have never suffered from anxiety, you won't truly understand.

The only way I can focus and not let this consume me is working on overdrive and work, work, work. If I let my mind wander it will start playing tricks on me making me think something terrible is gonna happen. To me, something bad happening at work, something bad happening to family, etc. I literally was in tears on the verge of crying because of those thoughts. And knowing those thoughts were irrational, I was getting angry. Nothing worse then having an anxiety attack, almost crying and being angry from that. Nothing comes good out of that if you dwell in that place.

I actually wanted to do a blog today about video games and stuff like that but with how my mind is, I'll have to do it tomorrow. So stay tuned for a better blog tomorrow or if things get better, tonight.

Life is like a Reese crunchy chocolate bar, we are all nuts on the inside.

~ JB

Adventures of a Saturday with a Princess

Well today I was planning on writing a blog about seeing Lion King 3D but my damn iPhone app said the 3D started at 1:15pm, but after getting to the mall it was at 4:15pm...the 1:15pm was the 2D. Fuckin bullshit....

Well besides that, today was awesome. Woke up early and after being lazy for the first part, I went to Dollarama with my daughter Sierra. We picked up a few things then headed to BK for lunch. I ate, Sierra played in the play place. Typical child lol.

We went home for a bit. Got ready to go to the mall and off we went. Like I stated before, we were wrongly informed about the show times. So, we went walking around the mall. Which I wouldn't suggest doing after having been payed the day before. My normal work weeks are about 36hrs. I've been working about 50+ hrs the past little while.

Anyways, we went to a few stores but only spent money at 3. We both got hats, books and Sierra got 5 Mario Brothers figurines. We were gonna look at more stores but my buddy Matt called about picking up his XBox I was using. We got a ride home and I grabbed Matts things.

Just after that my sister and the boys came home. I threw on Megamind on Netflix for the kids and relaxed with them for a bit. Fun movie. I'll give it 8.5 outta 10. After that I shaved my face and head and got ready for bowling.

I did actually good tonight. Better then my good games last week. My average is now up to 144. I'm on my way home now. I wrote this off and on throughout the night. And now on the way home I get to finish it up. Time to relax.

The best gift to give to a bald person is a comb. It'll be something he can't part with.

~ JB

Mentally Drained.

In sitting here at work running plates on the high powered laser trying to think of a topic to post about, but I'm so mentally tired that I'm drawing a blank. So this post will be about nothing. That's right, nothing.

Every other post I wrote had something I wanted to say but today, I don't know what to say lol. Well I'll review my day today. Sounds exciting eh!?

Today was payday. My favorite times of the month. Got up an hour early. Did my morning cat duties. Clean Sevens litter, change his water and put food in his dish. Then off to work.

Like most mornings I skateboard and walk to work. Takes between 30-40 minutes. I love the exercise. I hit up the Tim Hortons at the mall and got a XL 3/3 and a breakfast sandwich. Then off to work.

Busy busy day today. Had to get a job of 108 tags and one of 150 tags then a rush job and finally, four 4ft by 4ft signs. That last one drained me. Enjoyed doing it but it tired me out. Now I'm running those damn Dajcor plates. :(

I'm hoping to make it to the LCBO right after work before it closes and pick me up a 26er of vodka. Then hit up a corner store and get what I need to make some Xtra spicy caesars. Yes, I love my caesars. They are so good, especially how I make them.

Tonight at home I have a online meet up with some fellow SGers for some GOW2 multiplayer. This will be my first time playing MP online and what a better way to break my GOW2 MP virginity then with some SGers. And most of us will probably be drunk. I asked them to take it easy on me because I don't want to be walking funny the next day. lol This is going to be the last GOW2 firefight that SG will be doing because GOW3 is out Monday. Im glad I made it to one of then. Didn't make it to any other ones cause I just got GOW2 with my new XBox 360s 2 weeks ago.

Always remember; It's better late then never...unless your talking about your girlfriends period.

~ JB

Bonus Blog - I mean I can't believe it worked

I am surprised that it worked. The faq section of OXMonline.com said that they do not encourage it but almost all of the readers that have had a reading problem with the disc said it worked. I got the Halo Anniversary edition of OXM, cause if you know me, I am  die hard Halo Geek...lol. I got it just after I got my new XBox 360s.

I popped it in to check out some of the demos and it wouldn't read. It kept saying my disc was dirty. WTF!!? Disc dirty. I took the game out and looked at it. Crystal clean. No marks, scratches, nothing. I did not think much of it. Today though, I wanted to try it again. Just to see if it was just a fluke that it didn't work. Tried it, and I got the same problem.

Then I decided to check out OXMonline.com. I was too lazy last time but because I have my XBox connected to the main TV, the computer is right there. So I went online.The faq sections said that most people that had this problem took the disc and put it into bowling water for about 15 seconds, patted it dry and when they put it back in the XBox, it worked. So, I tried it. But, I only had it in for maybe 10 seconds. I dried it, put it in the system, and BAM....it fuckin worked. I actually laughed a little.

The reason OXMonline.com said that it would possibly work was because when the disc is finished being made, it is washed and sometimes residue is left on some discs. It's clear and hard to see, but it might be just thick enough to disrupt the laser trying to read the disc. I'm still smirking because it worked...kinda cool if you think about it. Boiling a disc so it would play...lol.


No matter how dumb something sounds, if enough people said it works, don't discredit it until you try it.

~ JB

You know your old when...

Today I was watching a video on Break.com about the Scarlet Johannson leaked nude pix and I noticed the guy talking on it had a t-shirt on with Homie the Clown on it with 'Homie Don't Play That' written down the side and I thought, "I would love to have that shirt." (btw, the video was safe for work. All nude parts were blocked out.) 5-10 years ago I wouldn't have thought that. And it got me thinking...man I'm getting old.

Now yes, I am still quite young. Gonna be 27 in just over 2 weeks, but that's not my point. It seems like I'm getting to that age where things that would have bothered me in the past, doesn't bother me now. I just simply don't care. I've also been looking at some retro gaming t-shirts and hats that I might pick up that I wouldn't dare be caught in over 5 years ago.

It's funny how things change as you get older. Things that mattered to you before, doesn't matter to you now. You look at more of the simple things in life instead of caring about the big luxury things. I care more now about coming home from work and relaxing then where the next big party is at. I'm not saying that I don't like to party still. It's just not a priority.

I wish I actually realized all of this years and years ago. My life would be so much different. Hell, I might have actually gotten married and shit. Buuuut, I do love my single life. I don't have to worry about making sure my girlfriend/fiancée/wife was happy. I don't need to see if it's ok to join online leagues or buy a new video game or whatever. I answer to no one but myself.

Life is the longest thing you do. Don't you deserve to be happy no matter what anyone else thinks? Life seems short though because when your gone, your gone forever and you can't restart it. It's over. Unless you believe in reincarnation. So for my younger readers, worry more about what makes you happy and ignore anything negative that anyone else thinks and says.

Remember this people, Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

~ JB

One year gone, thousands of covenant killed.

One year ago my favorite video game franchise released a new game. If you haven't guessed, it was Halo: Reach. I played the shit out of that game. lol

Lucky for me I had a friend who had a non-modded system and he let me borrow his, and he borrowed my modded system. I had to get a new disc last week cause it was so warn from playing.

Over the past year I've played in a league and clocked in almost 3 million credits. I've seen people who's made it to 20 million credits in that time. Looking at it another way, at 3 million is a level 40 and 20 million is level 50. I don't think I'll make it to level 50. lol

The league I was in, the team I was on made it to the championship game but lost. Our season/playoff stats are 25-6-0. We lost 3 in the championship games. Sucks, but we had a blast playing. In February the next Halo league is gonna start and you know I'll definitely gonna be signing my ass up lol.

If you are curious about joining the league or others like CoD, Racing, GOW3 (I think there will be one), golf and possibly others then check out SeasonedGamers.com

We do have some rules though....We are an adult gamer site, no one under 18 y/o. We want gamers that will be part of and contribute to the community. Forum activity is important. To make sure people aren't just joining for the league then quitting, we have a minimum requirement of being a member of the site and post count. These are just a generalization. Some info may change over the next while. (Age will stay the same.) Talk about rules to join is still under discussion.

Yes I had to say something about the gaming community I'm part of. I am the 2nd longest active member. I registered two positions behind the founder. LoL I gotta help the site out anyway I can. And yes I know I can talk about the new halo game coming out this year and next but I'll leave that for November 15th.

Remember people, Life is not a video game. If it was there would be a 'revert to checkpoint' feature.

~ JB

I <3 my career.

Work this week is gonna be a relaxing one. No I do still have to work OT, no it still seems like a busy week. What makes it a relaxing one is that my boss is gone on vacation. :)

I don't want people to think I'm gonna goof around and not work at times. I actually still work the same, it's just I dint have to worry about my boss asking me to update him every other hour on my jobs and have him come in my office about every half hour to hour asking if I have everything under control.

You would think me doing the same position for seven and a half years and running the department the last 3 years would have him know I got things covered. But this is what you get with a neurotic boss. It is humorous when he freaks out with the occasional flies we get in the summer. Turning off lights to "corner" them. lol Despite his neurosis, he is an awesome boss. Best one I've had.

For those who don't know what I do, I'm a laser technician. My basic position. I make lazered and full colour graphic plaques for the auto industry. And I am trained to operate our Nd YAG laser to engrave tool and die moulds for the auto industry. We have done other stuff too. The odd sign and banner for some people, name tags, award plaques and special jobs every so often.

We've done lazering on tools for NASA which have been used on the international space station, tags for parts on helicopters for the US air force and my favorite, which I don't know if I can legally say but I'll give you a hint...they were ran across Canada.
I'm also proud to say that we are the only place in the world that we know of that makes the full colour graphic plaques for the auto industry.

I can also proudly say this; In 2007, my boss came to me about 2 months after getting this new program and machines, after I taught myself the program and how to use everything, he asked if I can see if I can use it to make full colour plaques. 1-2 hours later, I went to his office with a sample and he loved it. Another couple weeks go by with us working hand and hand with a tool and die company we were able to get the process fine tuned. We are always adjusting things to make them better and faster.

I love this career I have chosen. Definitely a prayer answered by God.

And on behalf of my boss, (he says this EVERYDAY when he leave), If you need me or anything goes wrong, call me, I'm just around the corner. Be safe, don't get hurt. lol

~ JB

9/11. It&apos;s been 10 years.

I can't believe it's been 10 years since it happened. Today is also my nieces 11th birthday. Can you believe it, having that happen on your first birthday...? Crazy.

I can still remember that morning. Had my English class like normal. Seemed like a normal day. Then 2nd period came. Maybe 5-10 minutes after class started another teacher came into our class all frantic asking if we heard what happened. We all said no so she turned on the radio as she was saying what happened. For the rest of the class our class listened to the radio covering the news. When I went home for lunch I turned on the TV and watched it till I had to head back to school. Scary shit.

I still personally think it was an inside job. Main reasons are, absolutely no plane wreckage of the supposed plane that hit the pentagon and how the WTC's fell....from what I have seen of videos online, the only way a building has ever fell that way was in a controlled demolition, and those take weeks, maybe months to plan. If it fell from structural integrity then it would have fell totally differently and would have damaged nearby buildings more then they have. Plus the reports of multiple smaller explosions seconds before they fell.

We all have our own opinions and this was mine.

~ JB

Worked today....been working mote Saturdays the past couple months then ever before. I have probably worked about 25 Saturday's in the last 7 1/2 years. Loving the extra pay though lol. It's also nice that I'm the only one in on the weekend when I have to work. I get to blare music. =)

After my 4hr shift I went to my local EB Games at the mall near where I work to see about getting my Halo: Reach game cleaned because a couple weeks ago the maps stopped loading. I could be to all the menus though. :/
It took me a week to find my receipt for it but I noticed that I forgot to get the one year warranty. :(

Anyways, the manager at EB said, "no we don't clean discs but just give me a moment. Do u have the game here?" I said ya and handed it to him. After about 5-10 minutes on the computer he told me that instead of me buying a new game he could give me a refurbish disc and a year warranty for....$5.65. HELL YA!!!! So, I got a new disc and it works. Already installed it in my new XBox 360s that I bought last week.

I go to that EB Games a lot. I've spent maybe $1000+ in the past year. Every time I'm there I make sure I spark up a conversation with the employees. They've set aside a Duke Nukem Big Balls of Steel package for me cause they got one extra. Got a Duke Nukem necklace keychain for free and now that. I think they like me lol.

I decided to let the manager know about SeasonedGamers.com and he seemed generally interested. For those who don't know, it's a gaming forum for older, mature gamers. They have a few leagues a year of Halo, CoD, L4D, racing, golf and maybe more. And we do have our own Olympics. It's mainly focused around XBox but there is something on there for any system.

So people, make sure you get a good friendship with the people at the game store you go to. You never know what you can get from a good friendship with them.

Well that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

~ JB

Friday Bitchezzz!!!

Well, 3rd day of blogging. I actually first thought that I would maybe blog once a week but i guess I was wrong.

After a shitty/busy day yesterday, today is a vacation. DMS, our sales company had a BBQ lunch-in for everyone they do work for. I definitely went there with an appetite. Get out of work for about an hour and get free food, it's win, win.

Not only all that good stuff but I also get to leave 1 1/2 hours early to pick up my princess from school. She can't wait, and neither can I. Originally though, my mom was suppose to pick her up but due to my moms brain tumors, she had a seizure the other night and I'd prefer that she rests instead of having to go for me.

On a different note, Blogger did something yesterday that I thought was perfect timing. Day one of my blogz I looked for a blogger app for my iPhone, but no luck. Yesterday, they announced a free blogger app now available. Now I can blog without being near a computer. Another win, win.

So if things go how I think and feel they might be going, There might be days where I blog more then once.

Anyways, it's Friday, I have a job, and I got shit to do....

~JB

When it rains, it pours

What a shitty day. Rain, rain, rain....oh fun.

Normally I wouldn't mind the rain but today just doesn't seem like a good day so far. Woke up earlier then normal again. Don't know why my iPhone likes going off before 6am. I HAVE NO ALARM SET OF ANYTIME BEFORE 630am. And just to make sure it wasn't something messed up with the internal clock, I changed the alarm last night to 7am and it still went off at five-fuckin-thirty in the morning. At least I was in bed by midnight last night.

The alarm going off early was only the start, next I noticed that my 7 month old kitten Seven can now get on top of my fridge and he knocked  the one container I have some of his food in off of the fridge and he proceeded to scratch and bite through the bag of kitten chow I have up there. He has more then enough food in his bowl, why did he want to go up there for some, I have no clue...

Then it continues....I go to catch my bus cause of the rain, but even though I was 5 minutes early for the bus, was already passing the bus stop before I got to finish crossing the street. Fine, ok, I can deal with that, I'll just be a couple minutes late for work by catching the next one. The next bus came and it stopped to let a couple people off, at first the bus driver didn't open the front door to let me in. I did notice a lot of students on the bus, but if the lazy ass students didn't want to fill in the large amount of room in the back of the bus, they all seemed to think that moving 3-5 steps back was too much work to make more room. If it wasn't for the lone student who exited the front of the bus, the bus driver woulda drove away without letting me in. As soon as those doors opened, I hoped in, and payed, not caring, and not listening to see if he said there was no room. Thank God for headphones and loud music lol. I didn't see the problem of letting one person on the bus when the next stop, half of the students would have got off the bus anyways, and then the other half would have got off the stop after that one....

Ramble ramble ramble...ok I think I'm done venting now.....

First Blog - Extra Life 24hr Gaming Marathon

Well, here I go, my first blog. A couple years ago I first thought, "why would I want to blog about anything....my life seems too simple and boring to write about and have people read." Then recently I seen a few odd blogs post that was about nothing and/or random things, so I got thinking and I came to the conclusion, `hell, why not start one, not like it'll be any worse then the crap I've read online...lol`
Well, because this is my first blog, it might be the longest one I will ever write.

There is 38 days until the Extra Life 24 hour gaming marathon charity event. I'm the captain of a team of 5 (counting myself.) All the members are part of the church I go to and we are also friends outside of it. We were looking into taking a day and going to visit the children at the hospital whom we chose to send the donations to but we were denied due to security reasons. Only friends and family are allowed to go visit the children there.

In preparation of the 24 hour gaming marathon, a few members of my team gamed for 6-12 hours this past Monday. Normally you would think, `avid gamers, playing for that long straight, not a big deal,` but I could tell that some of the team wasn't that experienced with gaming for that long. I on the other hand played for 12 hours with the occasional break. I did feel a little mentally drained after but I know I could have went a full 24 hours. If you would like to sponsor my team, please visit http://www.extra-life.org/team/TheNimrods

I will be hopefully doing a live blog post approximately  every 1-2 hours throughout the gaming marathon with updates on whats going on.

Thanks for wasting your time on a pointless blog post. More Blazing blogz to come.

~ JB