I had a few ideas this evening seeing as how I had plenty of time to think. (I know, I know, try to contain your shock.) One thing that came to mind was a story from my early days online. I figured I'd take a minute to tell it since it gave me a laugh when it happened.

My first foray into website design happened purely by chance. Basically I got a call from a friend and the conversation went something like:
Friend: "Hey man, wanna make a website?"
Me: "Uh....sure."
Friend: "Cool."
*click*
That led to my site at Geocities. Sure it sucked ass, (still does depending on your view of Majestic. But I digress.) It was basic, with the most trouble coming from setting up the frames, which are still there, giving you indication of how much I hate to be bothered to really change something. My friend then gave me the most important piece of advice for website design known to man: "You want people to visit the site right? Then you have to fill the meta tags with every word known to man that will draw people in." And as we all know, that means everything has to involve the words "porn" "celebs" and "nude." So I followed his advice. I also decided to try to stay anonymous. (Ooooo...internet...scary! Full of freaks! Guess they weren't totally wrong.) I set up the site explaining the creator had no way to be contacted so email any comments to his friend. Who the hell would fall for that right? Well, eventually I forgot about the meta tags and stopped bothering to update the site regularly. Until I received an email. It was poorly written and unfortunately I don't even have a copy anymore, but it basically went along the lines of: "Hey! I searched for nude Gillian Anderson pics and ended up at your site! There are no nude pics on it! WTF!? Tell your friend I want my nude pics! That's false advertising!" Yadda yadda yadda. So not only did this idiot believed the whole crappy lie about no way to contact the site creator and to contact his "friend" instead, but totally missed the fact that the meta tags were just supposed to draw traffic, which they did.

So that was my story. I still find it funny.

Onward.

I came home with a head full of ideas. I actually started designing some buttons to go along with the banner I created for Nick. Basically, if I can't or won't bother to do anything about my blog so I can customize it, I might as well put that creative energy to some use. I also had some ideas for my site, (if I were ever to do anything about it,) and photoshopped some stuff up. I may throw it up and let you take a gander later, who knows.

God I need a real hobby. - asmyth82 10:57 PM - ____________________

It's Q & A time again!

I said Q and A Matt, no need to get excited.

I received an email today. (This site has generated feedback not from our little group! Amazing!) I responded promptly as is my custom when people are kind enough to send me email, and I'm sure it was partially legible. Once sent, I realized the email address was a company address so I may have inadvertantly gotten someone in trouble. If such is the case use the excuse "It's spam!" If they need some more proof, I could always forward some pr0n links, or have someone else do it, I know a few people who would jump at the chance.

So on to the question. I was asked "do you pronounce your last name like "Smith" or with the long "y" as in fyfe "

Now I should have realized the sender of this email was at work for the lack of capitalization when starting the sentence and lack of a period denoting the ending of said sentence. The person did however capitalize the name "Smith", which is always a plus. Now the answer to the question is that my name is pronounced like "Smith." The Y only means an added coolness effect. This email does raise a few questions itself, such as: What exactly is a fyfe? Does anyone own such a thing? Would I be able to pick one up at a local shop? Say Walmart for example. Would I be able to walk into Walmart, step up to the nearest walmart employee and say "I would like to see your store's assortment of fyfes please." Would said employee look at me as if I'd fallen off the turnip truck? Would said employee know what a fyfe is? I doubt it since they are working at Walmart. Anyone who knows what a fyfe is surely has the qualifications to run a country. Well, maybe not America. I'm sure President Bush would attempt to show the people he knew what a fyfe was if asked by attempting to point it out on a map. Or claiming he talked to President Fyfe that morning and the crisis in President Fyfe's country was under control thanks to American help. Then when asked which country Fyfe was president of, Bush would stare blankly at the reporter before shouting out "Let's have jujubes!"

Kidding. I know what a fyfe is.......It's a breed of dog isn't it?
- asmyth82 5:04 PM - ____________________




When it comes to being mysterious, that's what you do best. You like to leave others puzzled and speak in riddles. You're not out there for the fame and fortune, you're just being yourself, doing what you do best. You're strong and courageous, and you're always the leader of the pack. You're skillful; people respect you, and you respect people.


I also have an Alice in Wonderland fetish. - asmyth82 1:29 PM - ____________________

My day. Whoo. It was one of those days you look back on at the end of it and ask yourself: "What the hell did I do with my day?" At least I got to sleep in. Sure I had stuff I should have done but dammit, sometimes you need to let yourself sleep and then rush out a half assed job. I'm sounding more American all the time. :-) In class today we got to do page layouts. Woo again. At least it gave me reason to screw around in Photoshop. I enjoy anything that gives me reason to do that. Photoshop is occasionally how I spend my free time. Sometimes I have an idea of what I'm trying to do, other tiems I just go and see what I end up with. And you people thought I didn't know how to have a good time.

I skipped my Mythology class. Sure, it's a fun way to kill some time and yes, I did spend a few years of free time reading all I could find. It was enjoyable and I was learning. So basically, I know everything we talk about in class. So do many of the other people. The difference between me and them is that I don't flaunt my knowledge! Sure, I could finish every one of the profs points, but I'm not rude. I'm really getting sick of other students shouting out anything and everything in some inane attempt to show everyone else that, hey! They know their shit! Sometimes I just want to stand up and yell "Good for you! You know this! Nobody gives a fuck! So shut your pie hole and let the teacher do what she's paid for so we don't have to sit here and let you waste another 20 goddamned minutes!" Unfortunately, since I'm not rude enough to interupt with the truth that I know this too, I'm not rude enough to actually shout that out. It's all about not making waves or coming off as a pretentious asshole. If everybody else learned that rule, the world would be a better place.

"Shut your pie hole" just sounds classy. - asmyth82 11:19 PM - ____________________

I'd really like to update the look around here, I really would. But blogger sorta narrows what I can do, plus the fact Geocities and the rest of the free hosting services don't allow images used off site. You get what you pay for. So that basically leaves moving my blog to my geocities site, which basically causes the phrases "Work!?" and "Screw that!" to be uttered. I'm sure the phase will pass and I'll settle back into an uncreative funk in which I don't care what the site looks like as long as it works and people can read this. I can probably help that along by doing a few projects in photoshop and have them not cooperate. That way I'll come to the conclusion "Why bother?" and give up for a time. If you were lost in the woods, I'm not the one you would want leading the search party basically.

If I did move the site and thus let myself change the look, I'd also be able to display DAoC screenshots. So I'd have to start taking them. They'd look sort of like Dusty's, only with a twist: "Here's me lying dead on a hilltop. And here I am face down after being jumped by three arachites. Oh! And here's a kobold pissing on my corpse." AS you can tell, DAoC wise, I'm dying bunches again. I really need to go out with a group. for the past two days, I've been soloing in a spot in Myrkwood, trying to draw greens out of a large group to take them on one by one. I've had some slight success, but it always comes down to the same thing: I kill a green, rest, go after another, start fighting it, it's buddy runs over, starts attacking me, then a wood imp joins in because wood imps are bitches. The area I've been hunting in goes from a pack of greens with two blues thrown in, to a large pack of yellows. Occasionally my grave will be surrounded by all of them at which point I sit on the top of the hill on the other side of the road and cry.

I really need to power level.

Wood imps are bitches. - asmyth82 4:00 PM - ____________________

Despite the fact I enjoy this, I have once again missed a couple of days. This weekend was pretty boring. Spent Friday and Saturday DaoCing. I've been able to hit level 7 soloing, but that's becoming a pain. I've been able to find a couple of nice hunting grounds for leveling, but it's tough finding creatures to fight that are a) blue, menaing i can kill them for exp. and/or b) that are far enough away so I'm not fighting off multiple characters. Stuff like that happened a couple of times. I had been close to hitting level 7 and was about to kill a blue when a spook (yellow) walked over and proceeded to beat me to death. At other times, I was fighting a sapherd end a wood imp would run over and I'd have to fight them both off. And then an arachtite greensilk showed up and they'd all beat me and then do unspeakable things to my corpse. All in all, I was killed about 6 times just by spooks. Next time I'll try to get a group going and go hunting. Soloing is fun, but I've done my exploring, I know where I can get to and where I shouldn't even bother trying, (I'm not even going to attempt to pass through Myrkwood Forest to get to the Skona Ravine. And I hate trying to get though the forest just south of Audliten.) Now I need to power lvl. That's my next goal beacause it's been slow going so far.

But enough about DAoC. I have a life. I don't spend all my time playing DAoC, I really don't.

Sad thing is, DAoC is the most exciting thing going on right now. - asmyth82 12:29 PM - ____________________

Finally the weekend begins and I can get back to blogging. You don't realize how much you, meaning me, miss this, meaning this, until you, still meaning me, can't find the time to do it for a few days, meaning a little bit.

How much you, meaning you now, keep up, miss this depends a few factors, meaning denominators.

Yes sir, sure have missed this whole rambling unintelligently, or as we ramblers call it: Snuh! Shabba blah ruttabagah! Liphbub abner!

As you can probably tell, I have nothing worth writing about. Despite the fact I haven't posted anything since Tuesday, nothing has really happened. I could always post about DAoC. What's that? What are you screaming? "For the love of God no!"? Well, if you insist:

I finally got back into it yesterday after taking my sick time. It wasn't long before my countryside exploring had led me into another group invite which led to a guild invite. This guild, Tyr's Fury, is better than the minor one I had joined earlier for an hour or so. This one so far, has paid for my travel expenses while hunting. A group of 4 went Tomte hunting in their dungeon, but when our hunter died and our healer was disconnected we remaining two decided to leave. We spent the rest of the time hunting ants and dying after the soldier ants slaughtered us, over and over. I also took the time to become a weaponsmith....And as soon as I can make anything good, hey, I'll have it made.

Let's kick it. I'll say kick it and you'll just kick it with a tasty groove. - asmyth82 3:11 PM - ____________________

OK. I changed the links and added Jin. (Sorry about that, I didn't even notice. Crap...that didn't come out right. *Digging a hole*)

I didn't get a chance to say Happy Birthday to Dusty, mainly because I was lying in bed praying for death. Sometimes sickness just hits you out of nowhere and while it comes on mild, it quickly grows into the strangest illness ever. I was slipping in and out of fevers, Nautious then not. Over four days I had a bowl of cereal and three bowls of soup. So the lack of appetite caused a lightheadedness that I actually went temporarily blind when I stood up to go get a glass of water. My tastebuds also crapped out. I've probably lost some weight which I'm sure isn't good since I'm thin as it is. So that has been my story since Friday night or so. - asmyth82 11:23 AM - ____________________

I got a little giddy when I got strong enough to actually kill a couple of creatures without dying or needing to rest. I found myself giving off a low, evil laugh that I can do very well for some reason, as I killed over and over. Not just creatures at my level, but the old lynx cubs that have now become beneath me. I get no XP for them, yet I'm evil enough to slaughter them in one blow.

Dusk fell and thus began a night that taught me a lesson. I had been so into being a death train to the wolves and frogs, that I wandered a little too far out. Suddenly I find myself surrounded by creatures, the lowest level of them being yellow. I decided I was good enough and took out a carrion lizard or whatever the hell it is. I then decided to head back home, if I could only remember which way home was. I ran past orange creatures and a bunch of reds. I tried to stay as far out of there way as possible.

That's when I was blindsided.

I ran too close to a pack of imps. One of the little buggers decided to chase me down. I lasted all of three seconds.

The lesson? Beware the imps. Especially if you're a slow fat assed troll. - asmyth82 6:26 PM - ____________________

I found time yesterday to install DA*C and play for about an hour. Of course when you start out with only a tiny, weak weapon, the first thing you think is: "I gonna go kill me sumpin'!" So off I went. First thing I saw was a goblin fisherthing. I go off and start clicking away in battle. I died of course, just as I did when I went up against a few snakes, a lynx cub and I think it was a drunk pot bellied pig. I soon learned I don't need to go into a huge click frenzy and was then able to butcher the goblins as they tried to keep to themselves and fish, and skin the cubs as they tried to play whatever baby lynx's play. Despite the fantasy setting, I still thought there'd be some realism. I was blown away to see my hulking troll get bitch slapped by a tiny garden snake.

So I'll keep playing, see how it goes and NO, I'm not going to disappear.

- asmyth82 1:31 PM - ____________________

OK so DnD:

We continued our adventure from last week minus a few people. We started by talking to the kobold leader and agreeing to find the dragon. We spent the next while wandering aimlessly and ran into a few goblins chained up. We were considering releasing one to lead us, but finally decided against it. We ran into some goblin bandits and kicked their asses. Scored some gp out of it. Always good. We continued on and ended up in the hall of the goblin king. Big guy named Durnn, three hobgoblins, a goblin mage and a bunch of goblins. Needless to say, they all wound up dead. Goblins were dropping left and right and Cit, after missing on his first shot at Durnn, took Durnn down with a critical hit shot. The battle came down to the entire group against the goblin caster. EC, our bard, used her spell Mage Hand to pick up the little goblin pain in the ass and tossed him in the pit in the centre of the room. Overkill? Maybe. But it was sweet. To make things even better, Cit has leveled. That's right, you're now dealing with a level 2 rogue. What was the first thing done? Cit's Disable Device skill was improved with good reason. That arrow to the crotch was an eye opener. Also added: A decipher script skill so we don't have to find any person in a village to translate any scroll we find, as has happened once before. Also an appraise skill. Why Cit didn't have that to begin with, who knows, I figured other skills would come in handy. But with some gems now, might as well appraise them by somebody Cit can trust: Himself. Or maybe he can't trust himself. He did get himself an arrow in the crotch.

Success is sweet. Excpet for the arrow in the crotch. (No I'm not getting off that yet. It was a scarring experience.)

- asmyth82 12:39 PM - ____________________

Monday, January 14, 2002

You know what I don't like about OpenRPG? The fact I can't copy the text so I could at least use it to do up a summary of last night's adventure. Oh well, that'll have to wait until later. (ie. when I have more time.) Maybe tomorrow.

In other news unrelated to most of you, I say most of you because it may affect a couple of ya, I bit the bullet and bought DAoC. Hopefully my willpower will be strong enough to resist disappearing altogether into the game, but since my willpower couldn't stand a couple of "You know, you should buy it." So it's iffy.

Pray for Mojo.

- asmyth82 1:50 PM - ____________________

Saturday, January 12, 2002

Saturday night and I'm home. Yay me. I had better slow down my hard-partying lifestyle before I injure myself. Bah.

I've gotten back into Team Fortress Classic. Why? Mainly due to the lack of the "Next Big Thing" but also because a buddy wanted someone to play with. He convinced me and another friend to get Counterstrike. I could have downloaded it and saved $40 bucks, but that would have voided my "sucker" title. I've only played against one of them, luckily it was the one who had been talking smack. I proceded to hand him his head on a platter. So despite haveing the CS mod, I still prefer TFC. More killing, less waiting around for a match to end. It's a fun little time waster except in Hunted when all the snipers are god damned campers. Nothing pisses me off more. Add to that a stupid guy playing hunted who thinks the way to success is to ditch the bodyguards and hop his way to victory. I was ready to shoot him myself every time he'd yell "Screw waiting! I'm going to rush them!" He then made a lovely stain on the nearest wall. Things did pick up when the snipers got sick of camping and procedded to rush the bodyguards spawn area. It took a while, but a few managed to get through and finish off the hunted. Not a good overall strategy though, rushing a bunch of guys with rocket launchers and gatling guns. Ah well, fun was had by all.

I can't be sure, but I'm sure I've experienced some cheating over the past few days playing. I don't like to accuse anyone or think ill of them, because hey, if I won't cheat then I'm sure nobody else will either right? Pfft. I had a sinking suspicion when I was repeatedly shot though walls, through bridges, through objects in general. Plus when some people shot out of deep pools of water like superman, it sort of made me go "heyyyyyyyy...." Penny Arcade summed it up best I believe.

I'll shut up about it now since it's only a waste of space since I have nothing better to do at the moment and also because....now what was that reason? Oh yeah, no one cares. Always forget that second one.

The duck raises an excellent point.

- asmyth82 10:38 PM - ____________________

Friday, January 11, 2002

Boring morning. That's everything so far wrapped up in two words.

Recently, they've opened a Tim Horton's close to my house. For those who are too American to know what Tim Horton's is, it's a doughnut shop. Excellent coffee. I didn't like it at first because basically the location was entirely stupid. The community tried to tell the builders that the road they were putting the Timmy's onto was very busy. The contractors wouldn't listen, saying they'd done the road surveys and it wasn't a problem. Apparently they hadn't been out between 7-8 am or 5-6 pm. Traffic backs up incredibly far. So add to that people trying to turn into Tim Horton's plus the new fire station that was put in recently and you have a road that's fux0red traffic-wise. Surprisingly, there haven't been any huge accidents yet, or at least no accidents I've heard of. I fully expect some soon, because you know there are going to be problems when some of the construction workers have complained about trying to get in and out of the location while they had been building it.

So to my point/rant. I just gotta wonder: How the hell long does it take for teenagers to learn how to make coffee properly?! I once thought it near impossible to fux0r up a Tim Horton's coffee, but in the three times so far I've stopped in on my way home, I've only had one have decent cup of coffee. The first time I went in I was served by a kid who couldn't have been more than 16. He had a slightly vacant look on his face and I ordered my coffee to go. I started drinking it halfway home and nearly spit it out. I had ordered my usual, a medium coffee, one milk, two sugar. It seemed to this kid "two sugar" meant two cups. It made my teeth hurt. I choked the rest down and made a mental note that if that kid ever waited on me again, to tell him no sugar. Then today I ordered the same thing from a differnet server. She lacked the vacant look, but still served me crap coffee.

And it's not that I haven't been drinking coffee long enough to know a decent cup from a mediocre cup. Quite the contrary, in fact. I've been a coffee drinker since I was four and no, it hasn't stunted my growth. I've had all different specialty blends of coffee and whatnot, and have alwasy found Timmy's coffee to be very good. I just don't know what it is about these teenagers working there. Do they put in too much sugar because they've tried coffee for the first time recently and don't like the taste and assume therefore, no one else does either? And you can always tell someone who's only started drinking coffee recently when they order something like a triple triple. For God's sake, skip the caffine if you're going to get a sugar high.

So that's my whole coffee rant. Hopefully I won't have to type coffee again for a while.

- asmyth82 12:40 PM - ____________________

Thursday, January 10, 2002

This will take some getting used to. It wasn't too long ago that my weekend started end of the day Wednesday. Now it's back to a five day week. It's times like this that make you realize how spoiled you were when things change.

Total travel time today was the usual two hours. Class time was two hours. Barely worth it. It's the times I have to travel two hours total for an hour class that annoys me. General rule of thumb in my mind is that if I have to show up, it better be for at least three hours.

Well, basically my day was a complete bore. Nothing of note happened and I spent the day sitting here, trying to find something to occupy my time. I'd like something to happen sometime. Something I could at least talk about here, or at least something to tell my grandkids when I'm older. Or, if I don't have grandkids, then some anonymous kids in the park. I could see it now: "Mommy! Mommy! That crazy old man was back today and chased us around again screaming about "the event" like a loony!"

High goals, low motivation.

- asmyth82 5:14 PM - ____________________

Wednesday, January 09, 2002

I had to be in class for noon. So what happens to my day of sleeping in a little? It gets disturbed by some yelling at first. Then, after I've drifted off again, I get woken up by the sounds of deathmatching in Team Fortress Classic. Seems my brother decided to skip today, something about it being too icy. Jeez, a born Canadian letting some ice stop him. Pfft. I would have been mad but he let me take over the game. Instead of sleeping I was shooting computerized strangers. Ah well.

My day was slow and boring. Wanna know what my elective is? I'll tell ya. It's Mythology, Folklore and Fairy Tales. That's right, they give credit for sitting and reading Cinderella and whatnot. Greek myth? I guess this means I didn't waste some of my free time for three years to learn all that stuff. Can you say cake walk? I knew ya could.

My day tomorrow starts at 8 am. I love those kind of days. :-P At least I'm done by ten, so I'll see any of you who are around tomorrow around 11 or so.

I saw Brian's little note about wanting to post about the lack of posting going on. Let me just say I can't be included in that grouping. I post daily, or at least every other day. Depends on my schedule and if I get a minute to think up more stupid crap to throw up here. :-) I don't have anything like DAoC to rip out my brain, toss it in a blender and hit "puree." I'm sure there's an acent on one of those E's, I just can't be bothered. Draw it on your screen in marker if you want to see it.

I got my second email generated from this site. From the same person as the first one was, but who's counting? This one was in response to the questions I answered in my post below somewhere. The person apologized for not putting a name on the email, (you can tell the person is Canadian if they apologize for something so trivial,) and said they only asked if we were related because:

"I am also asmyth."
That's right folks, there's another me running around out there. The world just became a better place. Forget the Raelians and there claims of working on human cloning, I've apparently already been there and done that. I don't remember doing it so I must have been drunk at the time. That didn't narrow it down at all. Seriously though, I must admit I have done some searches before in online phone books for other A Smyth's. Yes I am that vain and in love with myself. :-) There were a bunch, even a couple Adam's in Texas if I remember correctly.

Slowly but surely, my Smyth army shall conquer the planet with our dashing good looks, dry wit and fantastic personalities.

- asmyth82 10:48 PM - ____________________

Tuesday, January 08, 2002

Another online test day. There are a few today so let's jump right in:

Click here to take
the quiz!

Always my favourite character. Next:

Arwen If I were a character in The Lord of the Rings, I would be Arwen, Elf, the daughter of Elrond. In the movie, I am played by Liv Tyler. Who would you be? Zovakware Lord of the Rings Test with Perseus Web Survey Software

If you're going to be a character from fantasy, doesn't hurt to be hot.

You're not a know-it-all, but you can never pass up an opportunity to needle someone when you're right and they're wrong. You're irritated because people tend to forget (or be ignorant of) who you are when you participate in things. You make others uncomfortable, and have no sense of personal space, ya looney.

Another chick....I wonder if this says anything about me. Onwards:

This quiz says absolutely nothing about your personality. Take it!

Is that a nice way of saying I have a stoner personality?

So those are today's tests. Exciting as always, I'm sure.

I had to be up around 5-5:30 this morning to be on time for class. So of course, in true me fashion, I woke up at 6:30. Still made the bus on time and went and sat in class....For half an hour. Then went and took a "break" for two hours. I don't know what it is about the people I hang out with, but I couldn't talk them into getting a beer. It was 10 in the morning for God's sake! How late in the day does it have to be for some people to start drinking? But I digress.

The worst I've ever been is "out of control" or so I've been told. I wonder how close that is to raging alcoholic. In actuality, I don't drink that much and I'm not making fun of a disease like alcoholism. That would be rude and insensitive. So normally like me I guess, but still I'm not making fun.

"How could I be so thirsty this morning when I drank so much last night?" - Slogan on a shirt I saw today.

- asmyth82 10:27 PM - ____________________

Monday, January 07, 2002

Ah, the aftermath of a DnD adventure. I didn't die this time which is a plus. Though I think I got a little cocky after a while. It must have been a combination of the stuff I stole last week paying off, plus the new weapon, and the death of a creature, (even though my shot missed.) Then more gold from a successful mini-quest and we were off again. A quick "I'll help scout ahead" to make Cit feel important and useful to the team, then dodging a trap, (which was missed in his trap search due to lack of light.) Then came the ego deflator: "I'll disable that trap on the door! Everyone stand back!" Click, BANG! And now I have a new hole in my chest. Sigh.

Had no luck picking the lock on the big, imposing door with the dragon on it, which was to be expected. Did swipe some nice little jade, (probably fake,) figurines.

The kobold speaking 133+ was a very nice touch Matt.

Anyhoo, on to something else. From what I've read on Dusty's page, DAoC sounds like hella fun. I barely kept myself from buying it when I had "Some of us should start playing DAoC to find Dayna and bring her back." I may just give in and get it. Though I'm sure I'd start and either a) people I know playing wouldn't want me to tag along because I'd be low level, or b) they'd let me tag along only they'd be going after huge MFing monsters and I'd die quickly. Shades of Cit Sejam in a whole other game. I don't know if I'd want to pay the monthly online cost though. Extra time would be the factor. I'd either not find enough time to go in and do anything of note, (ie. kill something other than a rat or level up,) or I would blow off everything else, which I couldn't and shouldn't do. Hopping onto a Wolfenstein server for an hour or less is doable, (or will be easier to do once I can actually get over the loading freezing on me. Need more RAM probably,) but starting up a MMORPG would sap all of my small remaining free time. It would be fun I'm sure. We'll just have to wait and see if my will power is weak. Stay tuned!

OK, maybe I can talk about something non-geek now............................................................................I guess not.

As hard as I try, I cannot escape the geek side.

- asmyth82 12:11 PM - ____________________

Sunday, January 06, 2002

I received my first email generated from this site. YAY! It consisted of two sentences: "are we related???" and "where are you located?" The email wasn't signed so to whoever sent it, I'll answer your questions right here. I thought about emailing back, but y'know, I'm lazy. So here we go answer time!

1.) "are we related???" I have no clue seeing as how I don't know your name. Judging by you email address my first thought would be no, but hey, there's always a possiblity. Besides, in the end, aren't we all brother and sister? And if so, I have a bone to pick with most of you regarding forgotten birthdays and Christmases. I want my presents dammit!

2.) "where are you located?" I'm located in the big ol' country known as Canada. I'd ask if you were familiar with it, but seeing as how the email address of yours was .ca, I'd say you could probably point it out on an unmarked map. Maybe. OK, 50/50 chance.

I hope that answers your questions. If you have any more, be sure to drop em by. I'll try to answer them as well, and as vaguely, as possible.

- asmyth82 7:04 PM - ____________________

Saturday, January 05, 2002

I checked my email to find a few messages waiting. Figuring it was the daily junk mail, since I never get actual email, I checked it. Two of the three were spam, but the third made me laugh. It was the "Majestic's been cancelled" announcement. Why this would make me laugh, I also cackle gleefully at the thought of people I don't like having their homes burn down. I probably need help. The first couple of sentences made me chuckle: "While the game was a huge critical success, it was not as popular with players." Now why woul that have been? I'm not going to start back in with the problems with Majestic rant, because it's been done, the horse died and we continued to beat it for a while. Besides, now as of April, there is no Majestic.

"Consequently, EA has decided to discontinue the Majestic service in order to focus resources on new, more popular content." ...Which EA will run into the ground and ruin any chance of fans enjoying it.

"The Majestic Team is extremely proud to have contributed to one of the most creative, innovative and critically acclaimed games in history." They are also proud to have the chance to find new employment, I'm sure.

"Players may play through their game until April 30th. Majestic puzzles and gameplay can be completed in just under two months, so it is possible to finish Majestic before the service ends on April 30th. Be sure to play Majestic daily and complete each day's activities in order to complete Majestic before April 30th." I don't know. Asking people to finish an hour's worth of puzzles in a few months is asking a lot.

Alright, so it was one last, good kick at the corpse. I'm entitled, aren't I?

- asmyth82 5:29 PM - ____________________

Thursday, January 03, 2002

Things are getting back to normal, as normal as they can be around here. Spent time in the BRoF chat today with Nick and Dusty. I think everybody would agree, or that least those of us who do spend hour after hour in that chat room, that it was sorely missed over the holidays.

As of the past few weeks, I've tried to extend what I write here, to enlarge it, increase it, um....dammit! Get me a thesarus! Anyhoo...I oft times end up rambling, walking the rambling path, spending time in La Cosa de Ramblo. Ramblo 2: First Blood. Walt Disney's Rambli. See? I'll try to cut down on it in the new year. The rambling I mean. Ramba lamba ding dong. Dammit. So much for that resolution.

Sorry to say, but I have no cute stories to share. At least not at the moment. I wonder if that means my life is in a rut at the moment. With no sitcom level stories and anecdotes to pass on to you who are ravenous for such tripe I am at a loss of what to fill this cookie cutter, uncustomized area with. (Yes, I am thinking of customizing this place. No it probably won't happen.)

So I'm throwing this madcap collection of thoughts up right now because I'm at a loss for what to do with my time at the moment. I'm writing here as an actual way to spend some time. I must enjoy doing this I guess. :-) I must admit, it is very relaxing and I haven't even yelled about anything or anyone that bothers me on this blog.

Ever.

Something to add to my "to do" list.

- asmyth82 11:57 PM - ____________________