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Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Welcome to my weblog.

Finally, with this post I'm launching my personal weblog. I've spent a little time here and there thinking about how I might start... Should I start by criticizing my friends and family, depress everyone by detailing my poor opinion of myself, maybe a movie review for a bit of a lighter start, or I could jump right in talking about why I'm disappointed with the World around me...

All of that is going to have to wait. I want to use my first post to say thanks to my friend Heather Martin for a present I got from her today to thank me for helping her a little over the summer with her computer and whatever else she thinks I did to deserve a gift. It must have been pretty good. I went out with Heather for 6 years and didn't get anything for all of that but a kick in the pants.

I got:

a Nintendo GameCube Game Boy Player

the Game Boy title "Yu-Gi-Oh! The Eternal Duelist Soul" (w 3 limited edition official game cards inside);

and the soundtrack to the movie "Punch Drunk Love"

(which by the way is not available at the Apple Music Store )

All of it is from my Amazon.com Wish List.

Thank you very much Heather! I've already listened to the cd a couple of times (any gift I can use while I'm sitting in a Starbucks is a good one, while I'm out of work) and I'm looking forward to playing with the gaming stuff.

Sorry I tricked Jenn into telling me about the present a little early.

So why would I want that? I don't play the card game. This will be my first Yu-Gi-Oh game of any kind. I watch the cartoon on TV. It's addictive in that it's serial and the plot unfolds very slowly. The story develops around a small group of friends fighting to save the world by playing a card game, saving each others souls and the souls of family and friends over and over again, winning prize money to pay for eye surgery, and learning life lessons along the way... Admittedly it's a little tough to take but I got sucked in.

And where else am I going to turn to learn important life lessons about the value of friendship, honesty, compassion and loyalty? After 17 years of school and nearly 10 years of working professionally I have to turn to cartoons to be reminded that hard work, dedication, a commitment to excellence and a desire to do some good in the world are all supposed to be important. Does anyone else find it upsetting that kids cartoons, comic books, games and puppets to learn this type of stuff? Kids are learning about what it means to be a good person from anthropomorphized animals and inanimate objects.

(I think I can't say "anthropomorphized inanimate objects"... it seems contradictory. Sorry, hopefully you can figure out what I'm trying to say.)

All I've learned from the people I've met in my life, from my work experiences and my education is that for the most part people are bitter, selfish, ignorant, stupid and frightened. I've learned that to be successful you need to be lucky and that hard work and dedication are punished more often than they are rewarded.

In a cruel World that makes little sense, I say, "It's Time to Duel... Go Yu-Gi-Oh!"

There you go the first one is out of the way. I'll try to post at least once every day.

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