Spring time clean up

Well, life has been pretty good the last little bit. Some ups and some downs but overall, its been amazing.
Been spending loads of time with my daughter and taking her out almost every other weekend. It's almost burning a whole in my pocket so I need to slow down. lol

My bowling league is almost done. This Saturday is my last week. I'm gonna miss it, but this will give me the time to work on improving my game. I'm gonna try and teach myself how to throw a hook instead of throwing a straight ball. My average has went from a 132 last year to a 128 now. I did however start with a 141 average this year, but it has slowly went down.

I'm gonna be moving in the next 3-ish months. Gonna get me a small apartment so I can save lots of money. I will miss living in big houses and my own yard but I wont have to pay as much to heat it up, and the overall, I'll be saving more money. I just need to find a place where I can get cable internet or hopefully I can get internet from Telus. Their phone services are amazing. I've never had a problem with them. (Not sure when Telus will be having satellite internet in Ontario though.)

I just recently got a new router. A Linksys EA2700 Dual-Band N600 Router with Gigabit. My last router was an older Linksys BEFW11S4. Which after doing a little search online I found out was made in 2004. Who would have thought that an 8 year router would still work with a house with 3 smart phone's, 2 Nintendo Wii's, 2 Nintendo DSi XL's, 2 computers, 2 HDTV's and an XBox 360. Usually only 5 of the 12 things were connected at any given time. I just have to wait until my one buddy stops by with his XBox and see if we can go online with both. My last router would drop one of both of us from XBL consistently.

Now about my blog. I've been pondering the past month on what direction I want my blog to go in. Cause right now, the way it is, its pretty dead. And I haven't had that much ambition to write more. I get ideas to write something quiet a lot, but by the time I chew over all the facts I would like to write about, it doesn't seem as interesting a topic to post. Maybe I'm over thinking things though. I think the direction I will be going though can be easily titled, "The Life of a Gamer, inside and outside the ones and zeros." I think this will be more accurate to describe my blog.

Anyways, I have been also thinking of doing a podcast or whatever, but I'm too lazy atm to set anything up or get all the information I would need to start recording one. Hell, I might just use the Avatar Kinect to record. lol
Or maybe even use my iPhone to record audio or video and go from there...but that's way too far in the future, I will be focusing on the now. I will try to get my blogz up more, but life tends to get in the way....only time will tell. Also, most of my blogz I have a lil saying at the end and I will try to keep this up.

The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.
-- Bern Williams --



Enjoy your Spring people,
~ JB

Thinking of a Possible New Contest to do.

So far, my blog has passed 1000 views. Less then I was hoping for around this time but that could have been affected by the amount of times I have actually wrote a blog. I can only really blame myself, but it's more fun to blame other people. So, you readers suck for not spreading my blog around. Doesn't everyone want to read about nothing? You have people trolling forums just to find something to piss someone off. lol

Anyways, now for the purpose of this blog. I want to make this blog a little more professional. I want to get a logo, background image and an updated photo of myself. Not sure if it'll be just of myself or a photoshopped image of myself. First of all, I want a logo though. Nothing big or extravagant, just something that pops.

So here it is. Anyone and everyone (in the U.S. or Canada) can participate. I would like people to send me an logo image in a photo type file. (jpg, bmp, gif) I want `Johnny Blazez Blogz` in it anyway possible. The rest is up to you. Just remember it is a logo so keep it simple. Depending on how many people send me a entry, will determine what I will be giving away. I am hoping on giving away another year of XBL or maybe 4800ms points. I don't think I have many PlayStation gamers out there so I don't know if I'll be doing a PSpoints card for the winner but that depends on who I choose to win.

If I get a lot of entries, I will post them in a blog and have people to vote on them. You can send up to 5 entries but I will only pick one of those to be voted on. Send all entries to this email addy   I currently don't have an end time for this but I was thinking to give people at least a month, so today is March 1st. I hope to have enough entries in by April 1st. Then the voting will start sometime around then.

Get the designing people.

~ JB

Things you see that you don't talk about...

A lot of us have been in a position where we see things happening and we don't talk or say anything about it. We look the other way, we pretend not to see or notice it, but we do, and its stuck in the back of our heads wondering, should I leave it or do something about it. This is where most of us get stuck. Should we take a step onto the edge and bring up the issue and either possibly have it backfire and blow up on everyone, or have it stop the situation all together. If we don't take the chance, you will sit back and watch helplessly as some peoples lives get more complicated and possibly in the end, ruin everyone's lives that are tied together with the issue. What I'm mainly talking about is cheating.

Most likely we have all been in a situation where we have seen friends or family sleeping around behind their partners back. I am speaking loosely of sleeping around. It doesn't have to be sex, just another relationship all together. Anyways, we have been in this situation and we all have chewed over what to do. Most often, we just ignore everything and just let it move on its coarse at its own leisure. Even though we know it will ruin at least one of the individuals involved emotionally. But we stand by and do nothing. We would rather watch peoples lives get turned upside down around us as we sit by idly so we don't get pulled into the drama.

I have three individuals on one of my online social profiles that are caught up in this drama. Two of the three I've known for a while and one of those I've known their family for an easy 15+ years. I've been asked by one person to check the others social page for information, and to show the other person an email that was sent to me of a long conversation of the two. I know more then I want to. And I don't plan on hearing anymore information on the situation. I did say my piece at one point to two of the individuals but one didn't want to hear anything, and the other listened, but from what I seen, went back to pursuing the one caught in the middle. So in the end, I tried, but no progress was made on my part. So, I am done.

I can't say that you should go and tell people when they hear of someone cheating on them, or just leave them alone. This is a type of thing that should be talked about between friends and family that if one person knows their friend or family is being cheated on, then they would know if they should speak up or not. I for one would want someone to tell me if someone I was in a relationship with was cheating on me. I personally despise cheaters. I've dumped women in the past when I found out that they slept with someone else.

Cheaters never win, Winners never cheat, and chickens look funny in pink spandex.

~ JB

The Elder Scrolls Skyrim MMO....How would it work?

I know a lot of people out there are like me and would love to play Skyrim online with other people. Or at least just a couple friends. But for a game that was created for only one player, how can it work with multiple players? Would it be PvP, PvE or a mix of the two??! Over this blog, I will give the pros and cons of what I think would work and wouldn't work if they branched this game into where you can play online with other people through DLC or just another new game all together.

The first thing that comes to mind is the quests. Unless you have caves that consistently re-spawn enemies, and items, this would be a problem. I know some caves do re-spawn some enemies but that's only after a couple days in the game. As for items, I haven't seen all the chests filled again after going back. Also would the quests be for anyone in any party size to be able to do them, or will there be some quests designated for X amount of players?!  But tweaks like this would be easily made.

How would the story-line change?
All of us that has played The Elder Scrolls games know that after doing certain quests, things in the game change. With multiple people playing at once, this would cause a problem. Maybe Jimmy didn't do the Dark Brotherhood's quest where he has to kill the high queen of Skyrim, and Mike did. Jimmy will still see the high queen but Mike wont. If they paired up together and went to the city that the high queen was in, Jimmy might be left alone while Mike will get attacked from the guards. Or Maybe Jimmy did the storm-cloaks quests and Mike did the Legion. That would have conflicting story-lines going. Who would be in charge of the Holds in Skyrim? The only way I can see this happening is with minimum issues is having the rebellion a constant thing of change. Different people are put into Jaul positions, quests will have you kill different NPC's that change every time someone kills the last. And the rebellion could be whatever side has had more completed missions be in charge of Skyrim. To simplify that, 37 people completed the Storm-cloaks mission where 49 people completed the Legion side. So, the Legion will be in charge of the land. This would leave to every interesting things happening.

Now the big part that has my head confused on how it would work. PvP or PvE or PvE/P....
First I will say, the only way I can see this working is having the world as a PvE and have arena's that are PvP. They can implement a PvP outside the arena but that would be best where you can only fight people within 5 levels or so of yourself and if both people agree like how they have it Borderlands. I know in sometimes in Skyrim I would go around and easily kill a NPC with one arrow, now just imagine playing it as a MMO and some dick at level 55 walks to a guy who is level 6 and one shot kills him, then loots his body. That would get annoying fast.

These are the main points I can see that would be an issue with turning this great game into a MMO or at least a co-op experience. The one main thing that I, and many others will love is you and your friends can finally settle the argument on who has a stronger character. lol

Sorry this took so long to get out but I wanted to chew over my words and make sure everything sounded good before publishing.

If anyone has time, check out the Skyrim Off The Record podcast. Always a great show.

PEW PEW!!!

~ JB

H.U.O. - Hearing Unknown Object

Ya ya, I'm a day late, what are you gonna do about it? Yesterday was a bad day for the most part. My daughter was way too sassy and for me getting up at 5am on the weekend both days made me a little short tempered so I just didn't want to sit down to write this. And I couldn't access some sites I needed to on my home computer for some reason.

Well, here is the blog I talked about....

I seen a post about this on my facebook page and I watched the video and it got me interested. I posted on a forum for people to discuss it so I can get some feedback before writing the blog. Plus I didn't want to jump into this posted about it and not having much information. I still don't have much though. Just speculation and a collection of thoughts from many people.

Anyways here is the video on Youtube

Its a 15 minute video of a sound heard from western Canada to places in Russia, Europe and many other places. It sounds a little like the sound from War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise in it but it also doesn't seem to be the same from clip to clip. There are similarity to them but it could be some small audio tweaks to change it.
The sounds started from January 11th, 2012 to the 16th. I have not heard the sound myself in those days, but because it is winter, I spend 99% of my time inside, hibernating.

There are many things that can make this look like a fake. There are no curious movements from any animals seen in the clips. People in the background seem to be unaware of the sounds. And unless I'm wrong, the clip from Montreal Canada has green leaves and green grass. I know here in Windsor, it was warmer then usual, no snow on the grounds so you can see the grass, but the only green trees were Evergreens. Every other tree had lost their leaves a couple months ago.

The only way I can think of it not being a fake is the variety of locations being taped. And the slight differences between the sounds from clip to clip. Some do seem the same, but others don't. I personally am leaning toward a fake though.

If the sounds are real, but man made, it could be a marketing stunt to promote a new game or movie. We have seen stuff like this happen in the past. One in particular was the ILoveBees.com situation that lead to the release of Halo 2.

In the end, I did not find out if this was a hoax or something real. Again, I am leaning toward something fake. It is something interesting to release to shake people up with this year being 2012. With people already worried about the Mayans calendar and saying the world will end this year. I personally think those people are idiots. Yes I said it, if you believe the world will end this year, please...PLEASE...take a 2 by 4, nail in a 10 inch spike, lay it on the ground, and fall face first into it. This will cause you to not be gullible with the end of the world theories.

The Mayans never said the world will end this year anyways. All their calender says is that our planet, Earth, has made one full trip around the Milky Way Galaxy. The same way our planet circles the Sun. Nothing will change, it will just be year 2 of our galactic year. (Or 3 or 4 or however many time we circled the Milky Way since the time of creation.) (~~~creation from God or the Big Bang or whatever you believe.~~~)(gotta cover all the bases here...lol.)

Please feel free to email me or comment me with your thoughts on this.
my email is JohnnyBlazezBlogz@gmail.com

And before I go, if I am wrong about the end of the world, and man-kind does end in December, come New Years 2013, I will dress as a banana and do disco dancing down the main street of the city...but remember, I will only do this IF the world ends in December...lol

~ JB

Another exciting blog....NOT!!!! LoL

Well, here is another installment of my blog. Exciting eh!? lol
Well, I've been thinking of how life is now and how it was last year. And I have to say, because of certain things last year, I pretty much had to put my life on hold. I almost even stopped hanging out with friends entirely but thankfully for them, they worked with me and we were able to hang out the odd time. Not as much as I would like, but more then not hanging out with them.

The reason for my life being put on hold was this one job the company I work for had to do. My co-worker and I were taking turns working 12hr shifts. The other days we worked about 7-8 hours. By the end of November, the job was finally done. No more doing work for those guys. Not only did I have to almost stop hanging out with friends because of that job, I also had to put off my dating life. Shitty thing was I was even starting to see this one girl. Fun to hang with, good dancer and a somewhat gamer. Oh and she's done modeling too. lol. I think my chance with her now is gone but there is many more fish in the sea.

I'm looking back into getting in the dating world but some other issues have came up. One major one is the fact that the sub pump in my basement doesn't work all to well. And after having the landlord come in to fix it at least two times, it still doesn't work at times. Everything seems to be going good, then one day I'll wake up or come home from work and part of the basement is now a swimming pool. There are a couple issues that seem to be causing it but the landlord seems to not want to put as much effort into fixing things the proper way and only wants to fix things quickly and cheaply.

Oh and I'll add this so you can get a better view of why this is a major issue. I currently live with my sister, her hubby and their now 3 kids. We all go the place together almost 2 years ago after discussing us moving in together.Well, we agreed that I would get the basement. Just so I can have my own apt like setting.

Now that you know that I basically live in the basement you know how terrible the flooding problem is. Thankfully the basement floor isn't flat and most of the water moves in a very predictable way. I have 99% of my things set up so if the basement floods, the water wont hit anything I don't want ruined. Like my electronics.

So as in my dating life, even though I would love to get back out there and get into a relationship, it looks like I have to put it on hold for the time being. Even though I've been meaning to try and get this one girls number that works at my local EB Games. Or maybe I should still pursue that one girl, and just tell her who I live with and say that I would rather chill at her place to avoid the awkward situation of my sister and her family being there.

This year does seem to be slowly getting better though. Especially from last years crap. It literally put my life in a big slump and I can honestly say, I slipped a little into depression. It sucks but that's life. Take the hits, but keep pushing forward.

I'm loving the more time I get with my daughter. Even though I have to wake up at 5:15am the weeks I have her to get her to daycare on time, it is worth it, BIG TIME!!! I'm even planning a fun day this weekend. From after supper tomorrow night till the time I have to go bowling for my league Saturday night. She's excited, I'm excited. This is gonna be an awesome weekend.




I'm thinking of doing another contest sometime soon. Not sure what it'll be of or what the prizes will be so please email your suggestions or questions or whatever and I'll keep everyone posted. Also if anyone can send me information on how to do a podcast using free software, let me know. I'm thinking of trying it out and maybe I'll do a podcast once a month or something like that.

Until next time, stay cheesy my friends....

~ JB

The Non-Technological Age

This morning while I was waiting for the bus with my daughter I got the thinking. With how the world is, with technology and such, what would things be like if EVERYTHING electronic just stopped working....so, this is my thoughts on this subject.

First of all, we wont have anymore blogz to read lol. So much of the world would get so chaotic. About 99% of my work is received by emails with 100% of it is done on a computer. There will be no way I could keep a job and I would have to resort to going back into bricklaying. I don't mind the physical labor, but with the experience I have, I know most of the people in that industry are complete assholes. But a job is a job.

There will be no way to get any information to each other except for by word of mouth. There will be no iPods, cell phones or TV's. Life as we know it will completely stop. It will start slowly but I think within a week or two, countries will have to have some form of martial law. The only problem with that is how will the individual cities get their information from the head of the governments? Or do they already have a plan to put into action just in case this situation arose? I know we kinda had a touch of this back in 2003 when approx 55 million people lost power in both Canada and the U.S. Lucky for us, that only lasted a very short time. Not long enough for a society to become chaotic.

Other then many, many bad things that could possibly happen, there are a few good things that most likely will happen. We will find a way to look past our differences and be able to help each other out. We will help our fellow man knowing they will be there to help us when we need it. There will be no need to be better then someone by getting the newest TV or game station or cell phone, etc. People will actually get off their asses and get work done. Over eating will be gone due to lack of artificial foods and lack of actual food. So no more Micky D's for those out there who can't go a couple days without stuffing your face with food that germs won't even touch.

It would take years before the world would be able to get back to `normal`. Countries might actually break up into smaller factions or holds and govern themselves. So the whole corrupted government will actually change from what it is now. And things might actually get done for the better....maybe...lol Well, I can dream can't I...?

How do you think your life will change if all that is electronic just stops working? What would you do to survive? Would humanity survive? Comment, discuss and explain your reasons. Just no flaming...except from me. :)


Oh and if they non-technological age is brought on by a zombie outbreak, sorry, but I'll be tripping your ass to save myself and my daughter so I'll just say sorry now.

~ JB