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As I’m digging myself back out from underneath the rock I’ve been hiding under, I am remembering things that had an effect on me in recent months.  Two are as follows:

Cpt Pearson sent me a link a few months back that he thought should go on my site.  He was right.  Let’s go back a few years…

I think it was 7th or 8th grade when I first saw Iron Maiden on MTV.  I was hooked.  Why?  Well, my dad was a high school English teacher and in his syllabus, Greek mythology was featured.  He taught the creation story from the ancient Greek perspective as a teaching tool, and so I’d been hearing it most of my life and as a result, I thought (and still do) that Greek mythology was cool as hell.  (Don’t tell anybody, but all my computer devices have names deriving from the Greek pantheon [geeks do that - have a theme for naming all the devices in their network])

Okay.  So by 7th or 8th grade, I already had an interest in Greek mythology and one day I saw a video on MTV.  This video was for a song called Flight of Icarus.  ?!?!?!  WHAAAA????  What’s this?  Imagine my surprise when the lyrics actually accurately adhered to the subject matter, which I already had taken an interest in.

That’s why I took an initial interest in Iron Maiden and I must say, they haven’t disappointed.  Well…the 90s sucked for them, but the 90s sucked for a lot of viable music, so what do you do?  At any rate, I’ve always loved Maiden ever since then and so what’s my long-winded point?  It’s this:  Anything (in this case, Maiden) + Star Wars = AWESOME

Now…having said that…as if that wasn’t even enough… Peter, who sometimes goes by the name Meatbucket, recently turned me on to another phenomenon whereby somebody out there on the Internets tried to answer the question “What happens when you make Rush a doom metal band?”  Well, I’d have to say that Total Awesome is what happens.

Enjoy your day.

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Hey there crimestoppers!

I was eating a schnitzel sandwich last Thursday when I heard a firecracker go off, or maybe it was the ice cracking under my feet.  Funny thing is, I wasn’t hiking on a glacier, nor was I playing with explosives.  No, I was eating my dinner.  So when I heard the noise, my brain said to me something like, “Hey, there’s that noise you hear in your dreams sometimes, but I think this time it’s for real.”

It was for real.

Of course, my first course of action was to get the Denial Machinery up and running.  “OH NO YOU DINT!”  But after sending my tongue out to do some intel gathering, I found out that, “OH SNAP!  YOU DID!”

I had cracked one of my molars such that about 1/3 of it had calved off into my mouth.  Oh goody.  I say that because I am one the many Americans who are going to be affected one way or another by the current health care debate going on around us.  Mainly because I don’t have any insurance.

The next day I made some phone calls and found that the University of Washington School of Dentistry takes patients and, since you essentially end up being a walking training session for some post-grad wannabe dentist, the rates are cheaper than going to a private practitioner.  Hey, I live right by the UW, let’s go!  It’ll be fun!  Especially when I found out that they were going to have to install a crown.  Me?  A CROWN!?  I know my name is a kingly name (not Chewy, my real one), but this is AWESOME!!!  When I’m king, I’m going to make everybody ride a bike for a year before getting a driver’s license and I’m going to make Rainier available to every – what?  Different crown?  What the hell?

No, this sucks.  I don’t want them to cut into my mouth and chop my gumline down to install a cap on my toof and…it’s going to cost money too!?  Oh jesus…

What’s the moral of the story?  Chuck E Cheese pizza is terrible, don’t eat it.  I realize that it doesn’t relate at all to this post, but it’s a good maxim to live by.

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Guess what? It’s Mastodon!

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Okay, so I got one element working. That’s the “featured content” feature, which features a given post by allowing you to upload a large, custom image that suits the aforementioned featured content.

Gonna try some others in here to see how/when they affect each other. See you in a bit.

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Yep…haven’t posted in 2 months. Finally got The Email from Dudeman saying, “You suck, post or die!” And since I was bored with the old layout, I decided to change it up again. The next few posts are going to be tests of the Standard Operating Procedure of this new layout.

There you have it.

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