...and then I temporarily fell off the earth.

Well, not really.

I just got really busy all of a sudden, out of nowhere. I suppose a brief update is order.

Did the second day of BlizzCon, which was fun but not as exciting because people had already spent all their money the two previous days or Blizzard was simply out of what they wanted. Still met more awesome people though, which is the best part.

My car got smashed by some dumb twat a few days before BlizzCon and the insurance people finally did the estimate on my car and promptly had it sent to the repair shop, where it has been ever since. Over two weeks now, I have been having to take the bus again, which makes me decidedly unhappy.

Not a huge fan of people. It's not the people per se, it's my anxiety that makes me not want to be around strangers, like, ever. Sometimes its hard for me to even be around friends, but they understand and are very accomodating. They also know how to deal with my bouts of depression which can cause me to go into radio silence for a while. Yeah...depression/anxiety = no fun. That with a fair amount of OCD makes for an interesting person, trust that. But I digress.

I work as a prep cook in a fine dining restaurant and we recently added a small pizza place to the front of the building. Since pizza has been something I have worked with for years, I was volunteered to help them get this place up and running. While it is nice that they are looking to me for so much help in running it,  I am fucking exhausted. I am up at 430am every day (that is generally the time I'm going to bed) so I can be at work by 7am to get ovens turned on, dough out, etc. By the time I get home at night it's about 6-7pm which gives me like an hour before I should be trying to go to bed. Never happens. My body and mind refuse to be  in bed earlier than midnight.

Did I mention how fucking tired I am???

Well I'm almost home now. Time to get in my P.J.s, turn on my laptop and get to the gaming. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

Cheers! 😊

BlizzCon, Day 1

Last September, shortly after moving back to Southern California, I found a temp job working as a cashier at BlizzCon. On the assumption everyone else is not as much of a nerd as I am, I will explain what that is. 

BlizzCon is a yearly convention dedicated to all things Blizzard Entertainment. This includes, but is not limited to, World of Warcraft, Diablo, Hearthstone, Overwatch and Heroes of the Storm. It's a huge deal if you are into any of that shit. Used to play WoW, until I found Guild Wars, which to me is exponentially better. I do still love anything associated with gaming and cashiering I can practically do in my sleep, so it was a no-brainer to do the job. 

I was glad I did. It was a lot of fun, mainly because of all the people I met. We had customers from literally all over the world and seeing so many people from different walks of life bonding over gaming is amazing and wonderful to me.

When they called me a couple of months ago to see if I wanted to work the event again this year, I jumped at the chance. Then I found out Wil Wheaton (one of my heroes) was hosting and I got even more excited, because hello...WIL WHEATON!! Bonus the closing band this year is Linkin Park (last year was Metallica), who I have yet to see live and now I'll get paid to see them. 

Today was not exactly what I expected though. It wasn't bad by any means (at least not to me), but it definitely had some people on edge. Last year, the Blizzard store, a.k.a., merch booths were located upstairs on one of the main show floors, so people wouldn't miss too much since the wait is generally about 2-5 hours. This year, they have us in what equates to the basement, which would be great except it keeps fucking with our internet connection, which in turn fucks with our ability to do things like run credit cards on 60 registers at the same time without the system crashing. Apparently it happened yesterday as well, can't say I'm sorry I missed that. At one point, we had to do a cash only line of registers, which meant people that didn't know how to math like they said they could looked a little silly. If you can't math without a computer, you have no business cashiering. They got it straightened out after a couple of hours, but it was still slow going for the poor customers. I imagine we will be having these kinds of issues all day tomorrow too, so hopefully Blizzard learned their lesson and will fix it next year. 

Cool thing about it though is we got to hang out with our customers longer and chat. It's the best part of doing this job!! Met a guy from Chile, a few people from Canada, Texas, Florida and Sweden. Just like last year, everyone is super nice, which is also amazing considering how long they are standing in these merch lines AND that some of the stuff they want sold out the first day. 

So in about 5 hours I head back to the convention center to finish out the convention, ending with that Linkin Park concert. I'll be there all day, so hopefully I'll have some more interesting stories than this. :p 

Favorite band I-/

Music is the most important thing in the world to me. It has seen me through every difficult time in my life, has always been my escape and my comfort. 

It's helped and healed me in ways people have never been able to. 

There has not been a band or musician in years that has affected me as deeply as this band has. The last was Matthew Good, who is still ultimately the best thing that has ever happened to me musically.

twenty one pilots is right up there with him. 

The music itself is catchy as hell, but if you really LISTEN to what they are saying...

...damn. 

So be warned, you will see a LOT of stuff about them and Matt on this page. It's important to me and hey, you may end up loving it too if you don't already.  

"I'm fairly local

 I've been around

 I've seen the streets

 You're walking down

 I'm fairly local

 Good people now"

What the hell happened to today???

I just don't understand how a pretty good day ended up changing so damn fast!!!

Seriously...what the fuck.

Woke up, got my ass to work. On time even!! Things went smoothly there, got everything done I needed to without any hassle. 

Then I fucked up my night by leaving work. 

Wasn't even 5 minutes away from my job when it went to shit.

On my drive home, an idiot lady in a Mercedes decided she just didn't need to notice that I was coming up the street and literally turned into my car. Luckily I was not driving more than 30 MPH at the time and I saw what her dumb ass was in the process of doing. I was able to break enough that she only took the entire front fender off my car. 

Needless to say, I was more than a little upset. 

Luckily she did not try to leave, because I would have followed her with my shit dragging. She pulled in and after her husband pointed out to me where she was still sitting in her car (she hadn't even bothered to get out of hers to see what she had done) and I proceeded to ask her what the hell she was thinking, did she HAVE to turn right then? Her response was fucking priceless.

"I didn't see you at all."

All I'm thinking is WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU DOING DRIVING???

What I said was, "you should come look and see what you did to my car, you demolished the front of it." to which her response was "I'm sorry, I didn't see you..".

So after exchanging insurance information with her husband (and making sure they were both okay even though I was still pissed she fucked up my car), I put the pieces of my fender she wrecked in my backseat and continued home. Of course on the way, I got stuck driving behind every slow fuck on the road. 

In case you hadn't noticed yet, I have a bad case of potty mouth. Don't care, won't apologize for it. It's me.

Anyhow, got home and changed out of my work clothes while deciding what to have for dinner. Fast food was happening tonight, because I sure as hell was not cooking or waiting for anything to be cooked. The decision was Burger King, because you know, Chicken Fries. After being assured everything was there (while I was trying to check), got home and discovered my burger was missing. Everyone else had theirs, which was good at least.

I just wanted to relax and have some food and I couldn't have that.

You'd think I shit in someones cereal or kicked a puppy or something!

Things are finally calm now. Better damn well stay that way. 

Only good thing about today was it got me back started on this. I used to maintain a blog a few years back, but due to personal reasons had to step back. Shit circumstance killed my passion for it honestly. 

I missed this and I'm glad to be back at it. 

Hopefully I can keep you guys amused enough to stick around with me. 

:)