Quickie
o, I’m puttering about Casa del Java today, doing my chores and such, bopping along to music and playing with the dog, just generally having a good day. In the back of my head, I’m kicking around the plot of a short story I’m putting together, and I’m thinking, okay, so the character is fortyish now, but I’m writing the story from back when they were in college, so I’m going to need to do some research on the Sixties . . .
Bear with me, here.
. . . and it suddenly occurs to me, Hold on a minute. So if the guy is forty now, then he’s been out of college for say twenty years, right? That means he was in college in the Eighties!
I remember the Eighties, I was there for the Eighties, I don’t need to do research for that. Oh no! I’m old! Shit!
Man, it was a bad moment. Not as bad as the other night when I was doing coffee over at VC & Missa’s house, and I went to stand up from the couch, and got stuck half-way through standing, paralyzed by stabbing pains in my hip. Fuck. I don’t feel old. I don’t know when it happened. Age is some sneaky shit, let me tell you what.
In other news, Missa and I have decided that we need to learn Systema. Missa found videos, and made me go watch them, and folks, this thing rocks. I need to learn this. Quickly. Before I get too old to do any of it. 
No, seriously, this is the neatest thing I’ve ever seen. Just click the video up there and watch it. These guys hardly move, and just hand out ass whippings left, right, and center. I need to know how to do this.
April 26th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Hey, you!
I wanted to drop in a wave.
*wave*
*wave*
Ok… so two waves.
jlc
JavaElemental Reply:
April 26th, 2008 at 11:46 am
Hi! It’s great to hear from you!
*waves back* I just sent an email back to Cuthbert, and told him to tell you and the ‘Hawks Hi, from me. (Sent him some stuff to make new team badges with.) I’m hoping to be back to gaming with you guys soon!
April 26th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
It’s just not the same without you. So much so that I just couldn’t handle it… I transfered to Cold Cell.
Okay, so you weren’t the main reason; I just can’t play the game under Clint so I asked for a transfer to a battlegroup that needed a warm body. The Cellians are pretty cool and we’ve kicked ass.
Sorry about you and Dave. I just didn’t want it to be true. Cuthbert gave me a heads up based on what little info he had at the time (or at least what he was ‘allowed’ to say) but the blanks were pretty easy to fill in. Sucks but I see you’re already floating. I’ll stop here before I start creepy-rambling (I got no idea on relationships, so…).
I still have 1 StickZilla blanket and 2 bags if you need’em
JavaElemental Reply:
May 12th, 2008 at 11:08 am
I had a feeling you and Clint weren’t going to get along. Ah well. How’s Cold Cell working out for you? They seemed like a good bunch, just so quiet.
The divorce was a long time coming. I’d like to say that it was a shame that it came to divorce, but honestly, the problems had been growing for five years and more, so it was pretty much just a relief to be out of there. I didn’t tell anyone at the Fortress much about it — didn’t figure anyone would need to be burdened with all the drama.
I got no idea about relationships, either, apparently. *LOL*
Kilroy Reply:
May 12th, 2008 at 6:54 pm
Yeah, me and Clint even butted heads a little in BC. Can’t say I was too happy when he got assigned to Battlehawk, but I thought I could get over it and for a while I did. However, when he continually spewed his ignorance of youth, I just couldn’t take it and decided the only way to deal with him was to ignore him completely. I would just scroll passed his posts and wound up placing him on my “do not accept PMs from this person” list (of one) after he used the Fortress (I hope he didn’t somehow get my email addy) to send me an invite to join his MySpace friend list.
That just creeped me out.
I see MySpace this way: I’m a guy, 34 years old, not a celebrity, not on a TV game show begging for votes, and I’m not a pedophile. Therefore, I have no reason to have a MySpace page. I looked at MySpace some years ago to see what could be so “dangerous” about it and it just reminded me of AOL back in the days of 14.4 modems.
Clint’s a kid. Maybe he’ll grow up, but that’ll take a while. The only thing I’m really good at with kids is placating them long enough for them to get distracted by something else and go away.
Cold Cell? Oh man, Cold Cell ROCKS! I started a mission less than 3 weeks ago to hit 10,000 XP before Memorial Day. I was about 1,400 shy of it and I knew it would be a stretch to hit it, but we see so much action that I’m 151 XP away from it right now! UD is fun for me again. Clint kinda sucked it away for me, but while you were there and even more when you were CO, it was still far more fun than not. When you left, it died for me so I asked Jensonson for a transfer to another battlegroup in need of a body.
He said it wouldn’t have a bearing on the decision but he did ask if my request had anything to do with Clint. Without going into detail, I simply said yes. No point in griping at him over it.
I’ve seen divorce from many angles. From “why” as a child to “why the hell did it take so long?” as an adult. My dad is on his 4th marriage right now. One could say I have issues with the idea
. So who got Grimshaw? Or did I miss something?
As for having an idea about relationships, well, you’re trying; something I gave up on as a teen so I won’t even pretend to offer advice
.