Posted 18:05 by Grote 0 comments

It's about time someone wrote about this

Kerry said "He will fight to restore the jobs lost under Bush in the first 500 days of his administration." (via Kerry's webpage). Well isn't that special. Through which magic wand is he going stop the outsourcing? Bush isn't any better, he's passing tax cut after tax cut while increasing spending. Yay! A Deficit! In reality, the person(s) who create jobs isn't the President. It's the entrepreneurs, and this article goes into much greater detail than I will. But bottom, line is we as a country are lazy. We expect everything to be handed to us on a silver platter. If we get fat from eating too much fast food, it's not our fault, it must be McDonalds. We need people to take a chance, get out in the world and start a small business. Even if the President (whomever it is) creates 100,000 new jobs, how are we, the taxpayers, going to pay for it? How are municipalities going to pay those 10,000 fire fighters or policemen after the government says, "Good luck you're own your own now" after the money runs out. As I stated in my Nader rant, we cant work from the top down. You have to start with small businesses and expand from there. Waiting for the goverment to create you a job will probably do one of two things. One, it will have you waiting an awfully long time to get a job. Or two, you'll have a job until the money runs out and then you'll be unemployed.
For those of you who are curious I'm currently leaning towards the position of Anybody but Bush, unless its Kerry.

Posted 17:35 by Grote 0 comments

Think You Got Game?

Well I'm throwin' down the gauntlet at your feet. Game Faqs is doing their annual poll/contest to determine "The. Best. Game. Evar." My challenge to you is this: Think you can do better than me? E-mail me and I'll send you an excel bracket filled out with each of the starting 64 Games. All you have to do is fill in the blanks with the ones you think will win (Remember this is a popularity contest). The person with the highest score will win a DVD of their choosing (one, not a boxed set or anything like that). I'll keep a weekly running total of scores on the left there. So feelin lucky punk?
If you can't open an excel style worksheet, e-mail me and we'll work something out. Entries must be received by 4/2/4.

Posted 22:24 by Grote 0 comments

Funniest picture so far of the 2004 Election

From MSNBC:

I don't know what funnier, the fact that we've got lil Ralphie on a minibike or the fact that they found the goofiest faces of our candidates.

Posted 12:24 by Grote 0 comments

Road Trip! v.2004 -or- Darn you Dr. Tsatalis!

It's about 12:15 here, and I'm still at work. The good news the day is about half over. The bad news is that I still have 6 hours to go. Anyway, the reason I'm shaking my fist in mock anger at Dr. Tsatalis (the first shift radiologist today) is I told him that I had a vacation in November and I didn't know what I was going to do with myself. He said, "Michael, I have one word for you: VEGAS! It'll be warm there, cold here and you'll love it." So it got me to thinkin' and lookin' and it seems like a relatively inexpensive trip. Provided I don't get bit by the bug out there. So, anybody up for a trip to Sin City? (And Hoover Dam and the Grand Canyon?)

Posted 08:56 by Grote 0 comments

Grrr! -or- Blogging From Work

So, here I am, its 8:46 am, Sunday morning, and I'm at work. This is the only reason I hate being on-call. The $5.00/hour is nice for times I am on-call, but I hate being called in on Sundays. Nothing happens on Sundays. All that the Radiologist Assistant does is bring back requisitions for the one (and only) radiologist to read. So other than the occasional call results or ER CAT Scan, I'll have little or nothing to do. I guess the one reward is that I'm making an extra 10% today for the weekend differential and at the end of the week I'll have 12 hours of OT (give or take a half hour), but I'd rather be sleeping or playing Crimson Skies or Panzer Dragoon Orta. (I rented them before I knew I was getting called in, in fact there was a message on my answering machine when I returned from the video store). Well, maybe with the extra money, I'll hit FunCo Land and pick up Steel Battalion(if they still have it).
Mike, Mike, and Jim: Don't worry. I made triple certain that I wasn't on-call Thursday through Sunday for our weekend. It's cool. Relax.

Posted 17:26 by Grote 0 comments

Leaves more for the rest of us

Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim. Why didn't you tell me you were working in a factory in Missouri, Illnois, Iowa or Nebraska? Or at least PLEASE tell me you were being sarcastic in your post about the microwave popcorn. The light bulb sometimes doesn't come on as quickly (Maybe it IS the popcorn). In any case, I'm hungry so I'm gonna go make some popcorn. MMMM extra butter.... mmm fattening.... mmm lung disease /Homer.

Posted 17:09 by Grote 0 comments

I've been busy...

...which is why I haven't posted in a while. Got my brand new X-Box with controllers, X-Box Live and games from a friend who owed me some cash. So I've been busy killing the Covenant, enemy mechs, and some really lame bad guys in Brute Force.

As mentioned on another website, I've been working on the "secret" project with Jim "Strange Interlude" Spurrier. Which reminds me. Jim, how's the artwork coming?? Drop me an e-mail.

I've also been working on a second board game of my own design that I've been kicking around. Its going to be a kind of Space Conquest (maybe tm, maybe not) game where players build ships and kill each other. Fun! I'm about a good 1/3 of the way through I have version .02 of the rules done, and planetary cards done. I just need to make ships, event cards, and the board. Then I can begin to playtest.

I spent last week (3/1-3/5) working 3rd shift (double ugh) because while I'm no longer on the bottom rung of the film-hanger (oh I'm sorry its Radiologist Assistant now) totem-pole, its now because I'm the most "flexible." Oh, and speaking of work, watch this blog for a new feature in the coming weeks.

Next week I'm working second shift (sigh) for the same reasons as above, but I'm meeting the aforementioned Jim, Mike Addison and Mike Sellers for a trip down to Cincy on Friday to see the St. Peter and the Vatican exhibit in the Muesum Center. Should be a good time, plus we'll see my brother play Hamlet in Rosencrans and Guildenstern are dead the next night.

Finally, the last iron in the fire is my and Jason Googash's project on the Witch's Tower/Patterson Castle/Frankenstein's Tower out in Kettering/Dayton. Although, we probably won't start on that until April or May because we want to spend a couple hours in the day and in the night and right now it's too damn cold. You might notice a link at the bottom of the page for the Franklin County Ghost Debunkers (or if you didn't click here). So did I, but they were there for a couple hours and kinda did a half-assed report (trust me I know half-assed reports).

So there you have it, that's what I've been up to these last ten days or so. We're Fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?