Easter...from a....Different point of view

Hey everyone, did you have a nice Easter?  I know I did.  Got to see family rarely seen, which is always a good thing.  Been sick the past few days, so that’s why I haven’t been writing.  Hard to concentrate when you feel like you are coughing up a lung ya know?  Anyway, Easter always seems to be rather like Christmas, a proverbial war between Jesus and Santa for Christmas, Easter, however, has a giant Bunny that hides eggs.  This is also the only time of year that we see the Cadbury Bunny and his chocolate eggs.  I never understood the Easter Bunny and the need for hiding eggs, especially where it relates to Zombie Jesus.  That’s right, I said Zombie Jesus.  Anyone who is dead and rises after three days, especially since he bled so much he ran out of blood, is a zombie.  While I’m the subject of the supernatural, drinking his blood does make us partly vampires, I don’t care what y’all say.  I haven’t yet figured out how to justify the eating of his flesh…Oh wait, cannibalism, nevermind…Yeah, Christianity is odd sometimes, but that’s just part of faith innit?  But I’m getting off track, I’m talking about Easter.  I grew up with the Easter Bunny, only recently did I learn about what Easter was really about, and I have a skewed version of it, just as I do in almost everything….

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Yuri Nater? Yuri Nater? My mouth is begging for a Yuri Nater!

I think I’ll share something about myself that y’all might not know.  I LOVE puns.  I think in all honesty that humor has no higher calling than puns, I love them all.  From the simple to the ridiculous, there are not many puns I don’t like.  Like all comedy, it’s all about the delivery, take a vampire setting for example, perhaps he’s dying to sink his teeth into something….get it? No? Aww….

Tree humor is another of my favorites.  I’m gonna go out on a Limb and Leaf this with you, Wood you mind holding it for me?  Just gonna go Rowan down the river, maybe Branch out a little, I don’t know…

Name humor is always good too, Like Mike Rotch (My Crotch) , Seymour Butz (See more Butts) , I.P. Freely (shouldn’t need to translate this one) , Al Coholic (Alcoholic) , Jacques Strap (Jock Strap) , Hugh Jass (Huge Ass) , Amanda Hugginkiss (A man to Hug and kiss) , Maya Normusbutt (My emormous butt), among others….Gotta love the Simpsons…

Food puns are good too:  Lettuce entertain you, Orange you glad I didn’t say banana?, Berry nice to meet you, My friend dropped his box of Italian pastries on the floor. I cannoli imagine what he must be going through, I can't drink milk. I lactose genes required to digest it, but the best ones are like this:  There was a fight in the candy store. Two suckers got licked, Did you hear about the lost sausage? It was the missing link, and last but not least, I was scrambling for another egg joke, but I can't seem to whip one up. Guess I'm a bit fried.

I think I’ve made y’all groan enough for one night, so I think I’ll stop here. I hope you enjoyed reading this and I hope you come back again to read what other bit of randomness comes out of my head.  My contact info is at the bottom as always in case you have any questions or comments, and be sure to keep an eye out on my review blog, The Quilly and Star Review Page for those book reviews when I get them  Until next time, Toodles ^^

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Greninja of Destiny

Arin rode the elevator to the top.  He didn’t know that the Pokemon League building was this high.  He arrived in the center of a chapel-like room, covered in stained glass, and just ahead of him, “Diantha.  I should have known it’d be you.”  “Hello Arin, so nice to see you again!  So, you have beaten the Elite Four, now it’s time to face the Champion.  Are you ready?”  Arin nodded, “Of course I am.  After all, I’ve traveled far and went through a lot of people to get here.  I think I’m more ready than I have ever been.”  Diantha smiles softly.  “Then let’s get started.”  She sends out her Hawlucha, Arin sends out his Greninja.  “Tobias, Ice Beam!”  Tobais fired off lightning quick hand signs and fired a beam of ice at Hawlucha, freezing it solid as well as knocking it out. “Impressive, let’s see how he handles this one, Goodra!”  “I don’t see how that’s gonna help you, but whatever floats your boat I guess, Tobias! Put that dragon on ice!!!” Tobias sent out Ice Beam after Ice Beam until the Goodra fell. Diantha giggles, “Lovely, how about this one?” she sent out Aurorus. “Hmmm…Tobias, Power-Up Punch!” Tobias closed the distance in a flash and punched Aurorus right under the chin, snapping its head back, knocking it out instantly.  “You are just adorable Arin, you and Your Greninja. Already half done with me and I haven’t even landed a strike on you yet. How about this one?” She sends out Gourgeist.  “Tobias, I leave this one to your judgement.”  Tobias nods and uses Ice Beam again, knocking out Gourgeist.  “Perhaps Tyrantrum will be able to do something.”  “Tobias….” “Greninja.” Lightning handsigns and an Ice Beam later, Tyrantrum was down.  Diantha sighs, “I have one last Pokemon to use against you.  I want to say that she’ll be th turn around, but with the way Tobias has been performing, I think he’ll have no trouble at all.  Do your best Gardevoir!”  Gardevoir emerged from her pokeball and started to glow.  “Mega Evolve!!!!!”  Gardevoir became Mega Gardevoir, “I know you have seen Mega Evolution before, but can you face one used by the Champion?”  Tobias, Night Slash.”  Tobias moved faster than anyone could follow and slashed Mega Gardevoir, after a few seconds, she dropped, ending the battle. “Merveilleux, excellent travail! You have defeated me and became the New Champion!!!!” And thus Arin and his Pokemon were immortalized in history as the Greatest Champions of all time.

Indiana Weather

Though I’ve never said it here, I’ve always told anyone who was willing to listen how much I hate the weather in Indiana, my home state.  The weather happens in such a way that it could be raining on one side of the street and sun shining on the other side.  I’ve been rained, snowed, sleeted, and hailed all within a span of like two hours.  The weather person is never right, so I’m never dressed for the weather, because I don’t know what the weather is going to be at any given time.  Now, if I worked inside, this wouldn’t be a big deal, but I work outside, so if the weather sucks, then it sucks to be me.  My continued exposure to the random weather has helped me adjust to climates that my family can’t handle.  This is usually reflected when it’s cold outside, they’re wearing coats, I’ve got a hoodie on.  They’re 3-4 layers thick, I’ve got 1 shirt on under the hoodie.  I hate Hoosier weather, I really do….

I think that’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading this and I hope you come back again to read what other bit of randomness comes out of my head.  My contact info is at the bottom as always in case you have any questions or comments, and be sure to keep an eye out on my review blog, The Quilly and Star Review Page for those book reviews when I get them  Until next time, Toodles ^^

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Clouds

Have you ever been outside on a nice day and just suddenly stop everything and just stare at the clouds?  Aren’t clouds nice?  I think so, enough I did just that at work today, saw some nice fluffy evening clouds, and just stopped mid-stride on the sidewalk and stared for a few minutes, just watching them go past, and pondering their shapes.  I’ve never done that before that I can remember, so I’m not sure if it’s normal or just a by-product of my potentially ADHD addled brain, but I’m getting off track.  Clouds, by their very nature are nothing more than a large amount of water vapor up in the sky, yet is one of the most entertaining things to gaze upon by people of all ages.  Some people try to form shapes out of the clouds they see, others just space out.  Clouds come in all kinds of shapes and names, but to me, they are just clouds, potential harbingers of rainy weather, which is all fine and dandy when I don’t have to be outside, but otherwise….yeah.  I think the best clouds are found on a pretty day in front of a nice blue sky, but the ones seen on an evening background are awesome to behold as well.  I’m curious as to what y'all think about clouds.  Shoot me a line in the comments section and tell me all about it. And one more thing, why does Microsoft name their mass storage…thing the Cloud?

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Book Haul, composite version

So today I thought I’d write about my recent book haul this evening.  I bought 36 books tonight, some of them were a box set counting as one item, so THAT is awesome on an epic scale.  Most of the books are Foreign Language Learning books that span Europe. Such places as Spain, France, Italy, Russia, and a few others.  I have two books that involve being creative with duct tape, I accidentally got a book on soap making, but I think I can work with it.  A few books on Minecraft, a moonshine book, a book on journaling tips, a book on kites, creativity with cardboard,  a book on creative rebellion, War of the Worlds, a book on Office weapons, The Tarizon Trilogy and another book from that saga, and Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a book I’ve wanted to read since I played the Dynasty Warriors games back in the day.  Rounding out my haul are box sets of books, which I mentioned above at the beginning.  Most of these books were free on Amazon.com, so I hope that they’re not free because they suck.  Whatever the case may be, you, the reader, shall find out one way or the other when I read and review all these lovely gems.

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Pokemon Do Die

Gonna real talk about Pokémon here.  Most people play Pokémon like you normally would.  I don’t. I play the Nuzlocke rules, which means I need to be careful with my Pokémon, or else they’ll die, and there are few things more demoralizing than watching your beloved Pokémon die before your eyes because you got reckless and came unprepared for the fight.  I’ve been there in Sinnoh, but by that time, I had already lost my best to the Gym Trainers in Hearthome City, so I stopped caring.  Unova also saw this tragedy, but I got ahead of myself, so I had it coming to me.  Kanto and Johto have been spared that I can…Oh wait, Johto had a run too. Dammit. Hoenn hasn’t yet, so I have two untainted regions.  Anyway, all attempts to do get a team of Pokémon to survive to the Elite Four has ended in failure so far, but Kalos is looking promising, I’ve got 6 badges and only two deaths, so that’s a real good sign.

I’d like to highlight/relive some of my really devastating losses, beginning in Sinnoh with the loss of Marcus, my Machop and love interest to Zelda, my Golbat.  To this day, I still don’t understand how the Geodude was faster than he was, but it grabbed Marcus before he could attack, which I thought was odd, then it started to glow, then I realized that the problem at hand was much worse than I could have imagined.  The Geodude self-destructed, fragmenting itself and Marcus.  Zelda declared all Rock-type Pokémon her mortal enemies, which meant that she went out of her way to fight them, which meant that she was a t a disadvantage as they could just knock her out of the sky with rocks, but she felt the need to avenge Marcus’ death by destroying all Rock type Pokémon.  Speaking of Zelda, she was one of the Pokémon lost in the Hearthome Gym, which specializes in Ghost types, a type Zelda was prepared for, except that Ace Trainer Allen’s Haunter had other ideas, One Hit Killing her with Shadow Ball, un critical, with a level gap being three levels up on Zelda. That was a blow to the gut. Shae was an equally devastating loss as she more or less committed confusion suicide to a Misdreavus.  Actually, that one just pissed me off, but with her death, I was no longer really prepared to face Fantina, the gym leader, so I just sent my Pokémon to die.

Unova was doomed to failure, I had early success and got overconfident, to which Clay, Driftveil City’s Gym Leader, quickly put me in my place.  And that’s all I really got to say about that.  Johto was a blur, so I don’t really remember that one.

Kalos region deaths really hurt because both deaths were needless and stupid.  Arnold, my Amaura, was groomed as the star of the team next to my Starter, but the Reflection Cave put an end to Arnold’s happy times as I faced a Battle Girls Throh with him, which anyone who knows their typing chart sees where I went wrong, pitting a doubly weak Pokémon against Throh. Arnold went for the Take Down, hurting himself pretty bad, but not knocking out the Throh, which repaid our arrogance by grabbing Arnold by the neck, spun him around by his neck and slammed Arnold down so hard it left a crater in the ground.  After Copperfield picked up the pieces of the Throh, I buried Arnold and spent the rest of my time in Reflection Cave reflecting on my stupidity. Lucas, my Lucario was a case not unlike Shae back in Sinnoh, and I was getting flashbacks to that day as well, but that’s what I get for pitting a fighting type against a flying type.  Another senseless death, and to a Team Flare Grunt even, almost as bad as what happened to Arnold.

I think that’s all for now, I hope you enjoyed reading this and I hope you come back again to read what other bit of randomness comes out of my head.  My contact info is at the bottom as always in case you have any questions or comments.  Until next time, Toodles ^^

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The Story of Craig Part 1

It’s said that for every winner, there are at least 3 losers.  Craig, he is one of those three.  A man who did everything possible to move up in the world was cursed to mediocrity.  No matter what he did, he was always looked over.  Craig wished for a better life, one where he could fit in and stand out as well.  He found his wish in Team Flare….

Well, mostly.  Hard to stand out when everyone looks the same, but Craig did fit in with these new people, who seemed like they had a good thing going, preserving the beauty of the Kalos region, stopping those who would despoil it, though the tactics seemed a little unsavory at times, Craig was happy to be doing some good for once.  His first real assignment unsupervised was to collect fossils in the Glittering Cave.  He never understood the importance of the fossils, but he was allowed to do it without the Admins breathing down his neck, so it was already proving to be a kush job in his book.  His job was simple, so simple a moron could do it, stand at the entrance where the fossils were and stop anyone from interfering.  That complicated things a little, but who comes this far into the cave?  After a while, he got bored, the guys looking for the fossils were taking forever and Craig’s mind was starting to drift. Just as he was about to zone out completely, he heard footsteps coming from the cave.  And from it, came a boy, a small boy, he didn’t look like much, Craig thought he could take him. Craig stopped the boy and challenged him to battle, sending out his Zubat, while the boy sent out a….Onix….oh boy, this could be bad. Craig was at a loss, how could he have been so stupid to be in a cave filled with rock types, and bring two pokemon who are weak to that type? “Zubat, use Wing Attack!” The zubat tapped Onix with its wing, needless to say, it wasn’t very effective. The Onix picked up a sizable rock with its tail and smacked Craig’s Zubat with it.  Super Effective, and a One Hit Knock Out….what a surprise….  Craig sent out his other pokemon, a Houndour, which promptly had a rock dropped on his head.  Craig was defeated, and a failure once more.  Flashbacks of his life before Team Flare started running before his eyes.  “No, I will not lose again, I must not be a failure here too!