Friday's Randomness:

"No Water, No Room...No Mercy!"

"It be funny if you prepare for a zombie outbreak, you kick open the front door head to toe in zombie gear only to discover werewolves. It's a perfect "Oh Fuck." moment.

...and that wasn't  a quote, but Staci raised the interesting point that a Lycan outbreak(Pff, yeah right, but lets be open minded here) has similar signs to an early low level outbreak....A rash of unexplained deaths coupled with a media black out and strange medical cases arriving at hospitals...

and a .22 LR suppressed pistol does wonders against a zombie at close range(The bullet enters the brain and bounces about) but you are all but fucked against a werewolf. The 12 gauge slugs would be ideal...if only you had silver, but that'll eat up a lot of the machete/katana/Crowbar budget. Two is One and One is None!

I also realized that I haven't seen Brother Mark in three days(This counts as the 3rd Day) which has to be a new record not including my(or his) week long vacations. I don't know why I had to bring that up.

Starbucks might be poaching Staci. They keep asking me and I keep telling them I can't mix "State" and "Religion" like that...though....if you think about it...Movies just might be my religion. Best not tell the Sarge.

I don't know why I can't sleep....You can't blame the coffee on this...I mean, you can't blame this on the coffee. Maybe.

 But I have been up watching the first two "Back to the Future" films. Since Scott had them on in the store earlier this week...and we did just get another trilogy pack with the last shipment...it's a good buy. Oh...and I got 94.78% on my M Shop...and I Don't know what that really means.

I think I can blame the insomnia on the heat....according to Staci I'm in a fashion flux...Summer colours, winter person. She can wear any colour she wants and look great in it....except yellow. Yellow leads to a belly button blinding voip ! 

Other random things.

Staci getting a kick out of a customer asking me if I knew the musician "Daniel O' Neill"...Pause for SG1 joke. And for the record, I can't even remember what the actual name was...it "o" something...

A random John/Rodney faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan-Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiictttttttttttttttttttttiooooooooooon about mer-people had be singing "Part of Your World" for the rest of the day...and Staci found that amusing too.

...Done? Done...so goals from yesterday(Not disappoint Staci + High Numbers) are considered completed. I deserve Battle Sisters and I shall name the squads awesome names.

...-Cleric  

All I have to do is survive today and I'll be fine...Well, survive today and keep my numbers up. Don't ask me why I suddenly care about that kind of crap. I can see through all the propaganda yet fall victim to it. Dammit. At least I've been delivering for the past few days and since when have I disappointed on a Friday Night?....at work....(cough)

I remember a while ago Brother Mark was naming Ultramarine HQ members after us. I think his Liberian was Lucas and I was the Chaplin or something of the like. Names like Lucas and Mark(Marcus Magnus for example) can turn into awesome Latin names. However, an old English name like mine sounds lame...

I was planning a similar thing with the Orgyns until the idea for the Witch Hunters came up...since really, naming giant high gravity world morons after your friends is not a good idea.

The Witch Hunter's Retinue is perfect since it's a mixed gender organization. I always got a little worried about the Cadians and their absence of women. The Space Marines no longer have needs except to cause death for the Emperor. Most Guardsmen still have "needs." That's all I'll talk about that.

Tomorrow is a glorious and hopefully fun day off...though the combination of Pryo + Downtown + Dad + Family Events have been known to wreck even the most glorious days off. Pryo has been throwing a fit as of late because for some reason he doesn't want to stay overnight in a hotel...pfff. Wuss. I can't think of anything better to do then spent my time in a downtown 4 star hotel in a suit...and possibly drink coffee.

Oh...screw the Dreadnought for the WitchHunters. I'll leave that to Brother Mark as I focus on awesome tanks such as the Standard Leman Russ, The Demolisher with its Meltas and Demo Cannon and the Immolator(Multi Meltas Ahoy!) which has proven itself over and over again in Soulstorm....especially in that final IG Campaign where I had to take on two Baneblade...Ha, I just move to a secondary HQ as the two Baneblades tore through my initial HQ and stopped. Why fight what you cannot stop?

Done? Done. Done...Sleep, then coffee...then I'll spend the rest of the day trying to not to disappoint Staci and Keep my numbers up.

By the way, an iced toffeenut soy americano misto(I think that's the right order) is a great calm down drink after doing two FOUR LONG SHOT NO WATER ICED AMERICANOs during work. I'm still shocked I have a stomach lining...and I should remember...no matter how many Full Throttles, Red Bulls, NoS(Awesome bottle, just re-branded Full Throttle) and Rockstars(Fuck you Rockstar) I may consume...coffee in it's most purest form is the best energy drink and it will keep me strong and willing in my pursuits.

-Cleric

This is a vein attempt to re-establish some type of sleep pattern. I work in the morning. 11:30 to be exact. I bet it'll be full of receiving (Staci isn't THAT good to get it all done last night...Maybe) and answering really stupid question asked by equally stupid people. However, there will be no letters. Nope. Since I only had to put out two for yesterday, I decided to bite the bullet and do something nice for person working 11:30 the next day and get them done. Yes, it's me...but that had nothing to do with it.

This is my...Sixth shift in a row? I still have another two then I get a day off for my cousin's wedding...which I have the odd feeling The Sarge didn't want to give me, but since I asked in June he really had no choice.  

I'm back in on Sunday and Monday...quite possibly Tuesday. 

This means simply more little plastic and pewter "people" to paint.

I'm still allotting how I will spend the birthday credit given to me by my parentals. The WitchHunter Codex is on the list for sure as are at least two more Orgyn to make a basic squad. Since there are 4 different models (The "Bone-ead" and three others) getting three makes sense....but I had discovered they are difficult to paint due to their weight. He's still going to come out fine...just my fingers will be worse for wear.

No Battle Sisters or Inquisitorial Henchmen(but have you seen one of Crusader or Missionary Models? Snap!) until I settle on a build from the Codex. However, I've been planning a separate paintjob for my dedicated stormtroopers....imagine LAPD SWAT Colours with red visors. This will stand in drastic contrast to the Camo painted "Cadian 812" Stormtroopers I currently have standing. I think I'll join the School of Thought in which Sisters have "real" hair colour . Not that white nonsense the 'Eavy Metal team is pushing on us.

I try to include short hair brunettes* in every facet of my life.

*That term is fairly loose these days since I like to include a large spectrum of colour in my definition of brunette...so pretty much anything you can't call "Blonde" "Red" or "Black" is brunette. The colour "Chestnut" consistently comes to mind with such people like Staci and/or Dani.

 Speaking of Staci**(and "Chestnut" for that matter) I found out today she hates Jennifer Morrison...and even more shockingly she hates Alison Cameron! *Gasp*. Staci said something about hating her character. I was going to make a Dani reference...but making a Dani reference to Staci always seems a little odd.

**I just might a Sister Superior(Which is sort of like the Battle sister's Sarge) with a Bright Awesome Purple streak in her hair...it' s just a thought.  

 There was also something today, as Staci and I sat in the Starbucks....I was on my break and she started in 15 minutes that the Sarge had the day off after the inventory...neither of us did. She did point out that the Sarge has been working hard...whether or not we like how he works is the question. I respect the man for trying to hold together the motley crew we currently have despite all the shit that falls down....but even a supreme movie geek like myself has his limits. Be glad to know my limits are surpassed when I do 9 days in a row...which not working Saturday will prevent.

Yep. I think I'm burnt out enough to sleep.

Night 

-Cleric 

You know it it actually became a "Sing Along Blog" last night since it was on Staci's phone and everyone involved knew the words.....but now that you think about it....Joss didn't really have it a sing along blog since there was no bouncing ball.

I got a call around 10:00 saying that Staci had a "plan" For the inventory. This plan was to change the energy of the inventory...since we get most of energy sucked out of us during Games...she managed to make the game inventory really fun with random music(Dr. Horrible for example) and Coffee Crisp bites...which are fantastic.

It was a textbook inventory. The more the three of us do, the better we get. I think I got the NR Wall done in less than 3 hours and that's 1000 some odd items. The Sarge says it just how you learn to move your hands properly....yes, that sounded odd.

I felt bad for Brother Mark. He Clo-Pened with a Midnight Close. Of course, that is bad...but then I paused I realize...Yes Mark...that was rough on you...but I still win...since I saw you leave at midnight and arrive back at the store at 8.

Though, it's no longer a contest. We just take comfort in mutual misery....and that reminds...I still have to get him that Land Raider to commemorate the fact he passed his RCMP exam.

Speaking of Brother Mark, since he currently has my copy of "Watchmen" he lent me the first two volumes of "The Ultimates" which is a great little Marvel graphic novel which looks like the basis for that awesome animated "Ultimate Avengers" movie I enjoyed and The Incredible Hulk...since they "Throw" Banner out of a helicopter in order for him to fight another super powered being...Sure, Norton's Banner jumped on his own feel will...They just kicked the Ultimate one out the door after Captain American says "Permission to traumatize Banner!"

Oh...before I forget...HULK SMASH! Cleric Smash after certain parts of the inventory made no sense.

Done? Done.....

-Cleric 

As my favourite song says "Everybody Gets What They Deserve" but I wonder why I deserve several things I "get" including a misplaced and most often misguided sense of honour towards my workplace despite hating 90% of my job. Staci and actually helping someone fill out the other 10 by the way. At least she gets to stay home and rest today. I can draw strength from that. To do the 11-Whatever followed by the midnight inventory. I say 11 to whatever simply because at this moment in space and time my misguided sense of honour says to tell the Sarge not to take the rest of the shift since he has increased travel time. I can slug it out for 8 hours. Get a few precious hours of sleep(I need so few anyway) then come back all full of coffee and Full Throttle(Since I can no longer handle Red Bull in the amounts needed) ready to rock eight hours solid with The Sarge and Staci....which is no longer fun.

What is fun? The fact I finished my ultra cool Inquisitor Lord Model...who apparently is named Gideon Lorr. Now I'm looking to increase my WitchHunters Troop count...which is easy since all my current standing guard(The Stormtroopers especially) can serve in either force. Or we can team up with Brother Mark's Grey Knights and Super Marines for an ultimate Inquisition event. Innocence proves nothing!  I was peering through the designers notes for the WitchHunters and a phrase made me giggle:

inspired by the phrase "who watches the watchers," we wanted the arrival of an Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor to be greeted with a mixture of awe and dread, the feeling that yes, he might have come to take down the powerful rogue psyker eating your babies, but could just as easily have come for you.

I have grand vision of adding a Chimera painted WitchHunter colours as a paddy wagon...a neat Demolisher tank for use in both forces...and a Dreadnought which is much more tactical flexible than a Penitent Engine ...and much easier to paint....but if they ever make a plastic Penitent Engine kit(Too much detail for plastic) I'd sign on.

...I got nothing else. I might actually need some sleep...and I need to stop talking about little plastic and pewter people.

-Cleric  

Friday? Worked. Yep. We know. Birthday blah blah. I don't care.
Saturday? Tiny shift in and out. Staci was there for a couple hours.
Sunday? Close with Brother Mark. Nothing new.
Monday suddenly went from a day of rest to a morning shift
Tuesday is the inventory. I'll be glad to be rid of these in the Fall.
Wenesday. Eight hour morning.
Thursday. Eight hour morning.
Friday. Eight hour Morning.

Saturday is the wedding. I hope it'll be a good time since it's my only day off. Any event I get to wear a suit for(New tie + shirt in play) is always a kick. It'll also be the event that'll break the "Older Cousin" Marriage Curse.

I really can't think of anything else to say this early in the morning. It's four something as I'm watching random FurTV clips on Youtube....Crude British puppets. Fantastic.

My birthday was pretty much how I live most other days: Small, quiet with Greek food and Staci....Oh and Saint...and Brother Mark.

We ended up going back Staci and Mark's place to watch "Persepolis" which I had rented. She surprised me with a little birthday cheesecake. I hastley blew out the single tealight so she could eat it....the cake....not the tealight. With Staci you do have to clarify....I wouldn't be surprised if she ate the tealight.

Brother Mark has provided me with a loyal Orgyn Bone'ead Bodyguard either for my Guard Officer or my Awesome Wicked Bunker Membership limited edition Inquisitor Lord. Pretty much the best 35 bucks I've ever spend at a GW. That 35 also got Brother Mark a fairly wicked looking Veteran Space Marine.

Even Pyro, who is one of the cheapest people I know bought me the new Dawn of War game for my birthday...which does have the Sisters of Battle in it...but not really as members of the Inquisition...since they are not lead by an inquisitor lord....

The parentals got my a Starbucks Card and GW Gift certificates...so I won't be spending money on things for a while since really, that's all I spend money on(Minus the 24 someodd dollars I spent today on iced tea, root beer and copies of "In Bruges" and "Be Kind Rewind" in the 2 for 20 deal.) 

Work was work today. I don't care about working on my actual birthday date. It was an alright shift with Scott...we were short handed for reasons I no longer care about.

I work later today...another little shift....I'm really not complaining since next week I'm doing the inventory followed by at least three 8 hours morning shifts. I haven't looked past Friday.

Anything else? Nope....Oh I just want to mention the fact that for a while I forgot how old I was....yep...that's scary.

-Cleric-  

I've been stuck in my own private musical time capsule the past few weeks. I've dug out such personal favourites like The Chris Gains album...which instantly destroys any music cred I might have gained during my time with the Lt as well as Remy Shand's "The Way I Feel." His second album has been in...development hell for years now. I managed to find a suitable version of The Churchill's "Everybody Gets What They Deserve" which is simply one of my favourite songs period. I found an odd "Up" version of the song which bothers me...since it's not an "up" song...

I'm such a night owl(Wait for the joke later) that I trekked out at 2 in the morning in sandals to return "Watching the Detectives" instead of waiting until the morning. I wasn't about to get up early to meet the 9am deadline....but really, like anyone will come seeking out that one film when it comes out later today.

I love the film, despite it not having an ending or any Elvis Costello music...but it had movie geeks galore and that I can roll with.

Mandy Moore is tall...not many people seem to know this. Tall. It's most obvious when she's in heels and standing next to Billy Crudup at the Dedication premier. I bring this up simply because I'll go into a Watchmen rant in a few. I loved Dedication come to think about it...tortured writer movie. I just have to find a tortured writing movie geek movie and I'm set...though I think that was "Adaptation" which is impossible to explain to a teenage girl about adapting the inadaptable. That and the Mark Harmon "Summer School" does not involve male hookers...thought if it did...Staci would still watch it.  She said something about wanting to see it because it's "Gibbs" in a "Tony" like role....

I can't even remember what got her in NCIS. My entire family had been watching it years before she even set her eyes on Abby's gothness and the implied sexual tension between Tony and Gibbs.....

Yeah, don't ask me. I just hang out with the girl, I've stopped trying to explain her. Like today we got "Coffee"* on her break and we had a nice neat random 20 minute conversation as I once again marveled at neck in her purple tank top. We debated the merits of the Golden Delicious vs. The Gala Apple. We made jokes about our favourite politicians and how getting a Dixie plate full of whip cream in the face cannot be called a pie. That would be like throwing a bag of chocolate chips at someone and calling it a cookie.

"Oh God! They're in my eye! Ahhh! Semi sweet!"

I can take pleasure in that "Watchmen" is a truly Canadian experience. Besides being shot here, my man Dan Payne will be playing Dollar Bill...Yeah, Dollar Bill doesn't have a huge role(But he does set the whole "No Capes" thing) but Dan Payne will bring it. Since he was every "lead" Kull Warrior on SG1 and that Big Wraith that hunted Ronan in SGA....oh and he's vaguely connected to Dead Like Me....only vaguely. I thought about renting "Little Children" a couple of days ago not only because I've been told it's a fantastic movie, but it would be like the "Old Days" with The Night Owl and Rorschach....because Patrick Wilson and Jackie Earle Haley are in it? Pfff, I'll leave that one to the movie geeks.

At first I was a little upset Carla Gugino wasn't playing the second Silk Spectre....since I love Carla Gugino from her years on Spin City and much different and...um...revealing role in Sin City...but the trailers and other promo stuff on Malin Akerman....I hope I will not be disappointed....I'll still be a little weirded out when they have to age Gugino for some of the movie. Thumbs up for the reimagined Silk Spectre costume...less poof, more oooomph. Yay! Thought Night Owl still looks like Batman...when really he should look like Blue Beetle...whoever the hell that is. Help me Chris Notarile! Actually...just send Niki...thanks....

Brother Mark still hasn't read Watchmen...despite the fact I lent it to him in January. The book moved with him for goodness sakes.  

 *She got one of those Orange Mango things, but I did get my usual Americano...but the term "Coffee" for us is a loose figure of speech for drinks available at Starbucks. Oh, no matcha for her...but she did say "Thank You Very Matcha..." which she promised she'd never repeat. Who know turning your drink puke green would be a tasty venture? At least it's better than those god awful Green Tea Frapps...

Done? Done...I just had to get some stuff out. I know it makes no sense, but really...have I ever? Nope. Never.

-Cleric