Look Mom! That raging male bull is coming right towards us!

When I turn on my laptop, numerous programs and applications start themselves. Steam, AVAST, iTunes, and MSN Messenger, to name a few.

As usual, the MSN Today box pops up, and I saw an interesting story.

This morning in Madrid (afternoon for them) a bull leaped out of the ring during a bullfight, injuring around 40 people. It was caught on video, and here it is, for your sick pleasure. (1:50 seconds into the video...Snape kills Dumbledore.)

Pretty shocking/funny, right? Anyways, you're allowed to laugh because nobody died.

But if someone did, I know you'd laugh anyway.

Sick bastards.

This, class, is an ignorant American.

In late May, I was browsing Facebook, an activity that nearly 250 million people partake in every day. I stumbled across a post that made my slap my palm against my face. Upon viewing this, I lost a small portion of faith in humanity. Below is the post, copied and pasted in all of its glory.

Beware. LOL-inducing.

"Obama has DESTROYED EVERYTHING even the earth... it will take decades to clean up the oil mess he created, and there will a loss of marine life that will take centuries to re-establish.. a possible estinction for many.Obamas needs to be held accountable for his act of distruction. The most Evil I have seen in a life time is now in our mist and view. We the People Shall never forget for we Patriots have work to do."

Now, I could start by correcting the grammar mistakes.  This post, which I found on a Facebook fan page, was composed by a middle-aged woman (Her profile said 46). The woman was from Georgia, which is completely irrelevant to the fact that her grammar is vomit-inducing. 

Wait..maybe it IS relevant. 

I'm kidding. After posting this as a status on Facebook, and reading numerous replies by my friends, I instantly saved the text into a Notebook document. Recently uncovering it due to a strange conversation with my good friend Mitchell (Read his blog here: http://beatlefreak9.blogspot.com/), I instantly decided to post it here.

If I could contact this woman, I would ask her how Obama destroyed the oil rig. Elegantly worded by one of my friends, 

"I can just imagine Obama in an Iron Man suit or something going and totally destroying the oil rig... So THAT'S where our tax dollars are going! Super high-tech personal robotic warfare! Hmmm... Cool!"

 I know the oil spill topic is growing old, so I tried to stay brief by sharing the ignorant post with you. As I said, I could have gone quite a while correcting the woman's spelling and grammar mistakes. I chose not to, and now I ask you, the readers, to not criticize my grammar.

(Feel free to correct my spelling, but spellcheck's got my back.)

Obama Hopeman image taken from g4tv.com
Mitchell's blog here: beatlefreak9.blogspot.com

First official post. Addiction.

So this is Blogger. Looks pretty neat. I don't know what spurred me into creating my own blog.

Oh yea, my addiction.

No, I'm not addicted to any drugs, unless you count Green Tea as a drug (see 'About' page). No sir, the addiction I speak of is far worse. The subject in question?

I started playing World of Warcraft in May of 2007, a few months after The Burning Crusade expansion pack was released. The game was incredible. There was so much to do, so many people to meet, and I just had an overall great time. That fall, I went into my 8th year of school. For most people, 8th grade was cake. I kept on playing, and playing. I played through the summer and into my freshmen year of high school.

That's when it got a little out of control.

Now, I'm an A-student by 50% talent, 50% hard work. Getting A's in all my classes was kind of a big deal to me. World of Warcraft ruined my freshmen year. That year, I had a B average with a couple C's scattered here and there. So there go my chances of a 4.0 GPA.

Same thing happened the next year. Played all summer, came into Sophomore year. I cut back playing a bit, but eventually it happened. I stopped doing all my homework. I stopped studying. Just to play World of Warcraft. I finally scraped a 4.0 during the last quarter of the year, but then I knew I had to quit. I tried last June, only 2 months ago.

Jayse: 0 - Warcraft: 1

Finally, last Wednesday, August 4th, I quit cold turkey. It happened during a raid the previous night. I started wondering why I was playing the game, and started thinking about what it had done to my life. So, without telling anyone, not even posting a "farewell message" in guild chat, I logged off. I cancelled my subscription on the spot, and uninstalled WoW from my computer.

Having no credit card was advantageous in this case. I went straight up to my mother and told her to never let me start up again. It was pretty simple.

If you're ever going to quit playing the hell-game World of Warcraft, here's my advice.

Quit cold turkey. Trying to play less and less doesn't work. New content will always come out, and you'll start right back up full swing playing again.

Sorry for the long-winded first post. I've had this post planned for a long, long, time.

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