November and December are my busiest months by far. I assume December is for a lot of people with Xmas parties, real Xmas, shopping for Xmas. I get all that plus I travel for work for 4 weeks roughly plus have to see all my local customers. I am not complaining, I love my job and these trips are pretty good. Most guys aren't super into work, mostly talk about the holidays and have a nice meal as a thanks for the business! Plus my family lives 500KMS away so at some point make that drive and spend a couple days at home. Again not complaining it is all good but ya it does take it out of a guy! So I got that all done and came home and slept solid for 9 hours. Doesn't sound like a lot but my Fitbit told me 87% sleep score, usually hit a 75 and usually get lucky if it is 7 hours of sleep. So I guess I was tired, New Years next week but I am not doing anything crazy for that!!! I guess what I am saying is between all that I kind of fell behind on what I wanted to write. I did a blog on a crime in Edmonton and I have been jotting things in here. I got on a real roll for a bit. Sitting at 35 pages 33,000 words I was happy with, but fell way behind. So after this one I am doing no more randoms for a bit. Set some goals, no resolutions but things I want to do for personal life and work and this writing change is one of them. I don't think there will be many blogs from me in 2025. This one, well it is because every morning it seemed like I was waking in a hotel and after doing work emails needed something to write but couldn't get into good writing. Being home, that is part of my goals now.
I don't have much for movies. We did watch Conclave, it was good but slow as hell. I thought it was a big conspiracy movie, like Angels and Demons but it is more politics and a look at human nature, power and the Pope. There is more a twist than a conspiracy. I would say give it a watch but not for action! Pay attention as well. That's it though, no movies out I even really want to see. Well I would like to watch Kraven at some point. We did watch Muppets Christmas on Christmas Eve as a tradition but other than that it has just been television.
Don't be a trash bag. I am sure I will get into ball hockey later in this blog but I have to write about last night. So we played a very important game and we lost. I won't complain, they won fair and square but it did get stupid. I am 43 so if I am calling someone grandpa, they are old. At one point grandpa on the other team keeps threatening to knock me out. Also grandpa is my size maybe 5 and a half feet at best. I flat out told him I didn't want to knock someone's grandpa out when he wouldn't shut up and somehow we both got a roughing penalty without ever touching. Later one of our players gets injured. He had been out for two months with a knee injury, then in a battle along the boards he went into the boards on the same knee. I get it, he was playing aggressive and probably could have been given a penalty. He went down hard and I probably would have thought it was a dive as well if I was on the other team. In fact I have called out divers before. HOWEVER when the guy stays down and needs help to get up don't clap. Ya when the guy gets up there is the stick banging which the team did and that's good but before that the wives clapping and mocking the guy on the ground, stfu you trash bag hoes. Just cause you got tag teamed by your uncle brothers in the trailer park doesn't mean you should hate the world. I honestly can't remember the last time I was that mad at hockey. I have been mad about poor sportsmanship, dirty hits, gloating but I move on. Those women made me stupid mad. Classless bitches. So yes I accept the loss they earned it but the wives are trash.
Last night we went for a Xmas kind of dinner with a friend. I wasn't driving so I actually had a few drinks. Ordered a smoked old fashioned but just got a regular old fashioned. I have had one before so it wasn't new but it was good. Then tried a Negroni for the first time. They are meh, but I can say I tried it. Then a few glasses of wine. A nice pasta for supper with lamb and calamari. It was all good but let me tell you that isn't a great mix in the guts!!!!
So I paid for PlayStation Plus for 3 months, I wanted to play Arkham Origins. I am on a Batman kick. I enjoyed it right until DeathStroke. There are all kinds of posts on this. Why is the hardest boss in the entire game one of the first ones. I remembered him being hard and he was. I rage quit twice in one day, then two days later I beat him on my second try. IF you do nothing but counter at the exact right time he is actually pretty easy. However I do have to say WTF why is the hardest boss one of the first!! Also they released a trailer for Witcher 4! Ciri is the main character OR at least that's what it sure looks like. My question is how do they power her down. Her magic, control of time and space, plus Witcher training she should pretty much be a living weapon. Trailer story looks like a return to Crook Back Bog so hopefully the last crone dies and she gets Vesimers medallion back! I guess that means her as a witcher is canon. I mean that is the good ending so I hope so. Already the qeirdos are crying she looks older, well duh. I am assuming these are the guys who make Ciri naked in Witcher 3 when they have a chance. I am just happy it is coming. I have written it before, 3 is one of my all time favs and if they can do the writing for this like that, it will be a masterpiece. Also Mafia Old Country trailer came out! Again Mafia 3 I loved. The game itself is a bit repetitive but the story was awesome. I am hoping they can do the same and recapture some of that magic. I am almost overwhelmed with gaming right now... I want to finish Origins and I am almost done Blood and Wine. Plus I am maybe half way thru Cyberpunk and RDR2, both I would like to finish oh and redo Mafia 3!
Superman trailer is out. I am not super impressed. I will say I am not really a Superman guy but I felt it was meh. Saying that I thought Captain America was going to be awful. Even Man of Steel I wasn't pumped for but I loved both, a lot. Again I am not a Superman guy so maybe Cavill wasn't a great Superman but in my mind he did a great job. Personally I am going to be comparing this to him and for me that means this is going to have to be one hell of a movie to make me like it!
Elder millennial. It is time I accepted my title. For many years I have wanted to be Gen X, they are awesome. I looked for sources saying I was Gen X and they all said I was either the very end or missed it all together. I was sad and I didn't think I liked millennials. Then more and more I see posts and read about what people think they are and I guess I am okay with it. I realize the people I admired in the 90s growing up are Gen X, so I can try and be like them and accept I am not them. This comes from listening to Gen Z? is that what we are on? All the bad things I heard about millennials, turns out that's Gen Z what the hell is wrong with the world! Anyways wow Gen Z wtf.
My love of the Romans grows and grows. I always thought they were impressive and then travelling there this year really blew my mind. I was listening to the forbidden history podcast when my respect grew more. Now it is important to keep in mind this is just a podcast and it is just theories but King Arthur was a Roman? Okay so we have all these medieval romances of Arthurian legend that he was a knight in a beautiful city / castle Camelot that we all know. Serious historians though admit if he was a real person he was before those times, which puts him in the era of roman rule of England. When digging gin the British archive anthropologist Graham Phillips found references to a warrior king know as "the Bear" Fun fact the language spoken at that time saying The Bear is almost dead on the pronunciation of Arthur. That's a stretch as is the next part but his father was known as the dragons head. If you know the legends Arthurs father was Uther Pendragon. Or the Dragon. He did fight numerous battles keeping invaders out of England among other circumstantial evidence. Since no one will ever actually prove who Arthur was I am running with this one.
Saw the Book of Mormon. So damn good!! I have to say Matt and Trey are geniuses. Everything they write is clever and this play is fricking hilarious. It pokes fun at some much and probably crosses lines but it is clever enough to get away with it. My thoughts are how do you go from a cartoon to a musical? I get it, some of the songs are very close to other movies and things they have done and some characters are close to South Park but to jump into a Broadway musical that is so good is very impressive.
I may have said this before but I HATE reboots of comics. I am loving the new Uncanny Xmen that I think is on issue six. Legacy number low 700s. Why must we relaunch every few years and start at 1 again? Its not a legit 1. Its greed hoping people will buy it and over time it will gain value. It won't. How many have, that's an actual question. If we stopped all these reboots maybe they would but.... So I am really liking the current Uncanny run and the regular title Xmen. In the middle of the Graymalkin storyline and I will admit I am not 100% sure why Rogues team and Cykes team don't get along?? I do like how Rogues series has introduced new heroes and villains. Just hope they keep going and don't just cancel the runs and reboot again after a few issues. Also Marvel again milking the mutants, I am not sure how many other titles they "started" again. Might check out X23 though, just started the omnibus of her I bought a year ago. God her origin is brutal! Also really enjoying Hyde Street. Usually horror comics don't do it for me but this one did get it hooks in. They did a great job putting out some mysteries to hook a reader. Also Absolute Batman has been a great reimagining of him. I will comment on "poor" Batman in a minute but I am enjoying this version of him. The other title becoming a soap opera with a brother for Bruce and Gordon fucking the mayors wife. It isn't a terrible story but a bit soapy for me. Also this formula in the other title rejuvenating Bruce, isn't that pretty straight forward what is happening?? Maybe I am wrong but I feel that is pretty predictable.
Gonna bitch about the world right now because of comics. Batman is "losing" popularity with the public because he is a billionaire. Tynion IV even wrote that Bruce lost his fortune. SERIOUSLY WTF. If this is a problem we have hit rock bottom as a society. People have nothing better to do than complain a fictional character is rich? That fortune is how he has all those wonderful toys as the Joker stated. On top of that Wayne charities help all over comics BUT this imaginary fortune is still a problem. This is seriously one of the dumbest things I ever heard. Its like people that have an issue with Snow White getting a kiss to wake up when she is out. You think she wants to be in a coma?? Dude if I am ever in a coma and the only thing that will wake me is a french kiss from a fat hairy dude, all I can say is have a mint first please. We as a society have become so fucking dumb it hurts.
As painfully dumb as Justin Trudeau is, I don't care that during the Montreal Riots he was at a concert with his daughter and dancing horribly. He was being a good father, there is plenty of reason to dislike the guy being a dad isn't one of them. He really isn't Batman, he isn't about to leap down into the rioters and stop them. Even assholes should be allowed to have a fun night with there kids! The real issue is afterwards. What will the government do? Freeze bank accounts? Actually catch people? I saw it said a million time, deport them if they aren't Canadian?? Montreal city should have had police units there stopping it and if you want a reason to hate Justin, that would be if nothing was done about these people. I guess the next few weeks will show.... I can say these freak that were supposedly "supporting Palestine" sure weren't just bbqing and playing in bouncy castles, so the full extent of the law will be used right?
So Jon Snow and Aragon are epic heroes right? Why do they both sleep with their aunts?
Put some dirt on your boots. If you are working with guys who do actual physical work and need steel toes, scuff your boots! Nothing stands out more than shiny new boots. I am starting to notice more and more the difference between the guys in an office and the guys in the field. Some stereotypes are true and some guys don't like to get their hands dirty. You can also tell who came from the "field" or ground or shop or whatever word you want to use and those who didn't. I am going to leave it at that before I get bitchy but.... scuff them boots and get your hands dirty.
I love Behind the Bastards podcast. Robert is pretty funny and when it comes to facts they do a great job. I don't overly agree with most of Robs politics and honestly he is getting worse BUT I will give he does often give more balanced views than most podcasts. Saying that, omg his fans are unhinged. I guess no more than the far right is but man oh man. Everyone is a Nazi! I have to say it to both sides, not everyone you disagree with is a commie or a nazi. Also not every cop is bad. Listening to the Diddy episodes and "The NYPD didn't do anything, they never do" However if they ever do I am sure they would be "bastards" It is a no win cycle for these poor guys. I am getting to Luigi Mangione.... SO this guy kills a CEO and he is hero. Now if we don't like your job or politics we can shoot people?? So these rednecks with tons of guns against drag queen story time can now pop off?? Another great light on how messed up society is, that we now think murders are good? Before anyone says anything I don't think anyone should be shooting anyone, that was an example. On top of that I am sure a lot of these people supporting Luigi were furious with Kyle Rittenhouse. THEY ARE THE SAME THING!! Murder is murder and people supporting it is pretty awful.
So our season went out with a whimper not a bang.... We had a single game "play in" quarter final. Not being cocky or a jerk here but it should have be an easy win. They have struggled all season. We lost. I couldn't play, I had my year end inventory which is the one thing my work will never let me out of. Sadly my entire team had something to do. Our 17 man roster only 7 guys showed up. The other team had 17 guys show. At this point it becomes a numbers game, they can just run us down. Oh and the average age on my team is probably 40+ for them I am guessing 22. The guys who did play for us should be proud. Looked like the shots were close to even AND it was only 3 - 1. Again not cocky but if it was 17 vs 7 the other way I guarantee we have a lot more than 3 goals. So sadly that was the end of us. Started the season 5-0-1. Ended 9-7-1. Looking at that I would assume we are in the right div, just hope for more next season...... So next season starts this week. I hope I have this up before game 1. I assume because the league size changes as they change the divs. I felt we were in the right div, games were close and it was fun. SO we still have that div BUT they added a bunch of teams we eat alive. That's not being cocky a few of them have been games where we are hitting double digit scoring. On top of that they dropped down some teams that eat us alive!! So this will be a wild season. Our first 8 games are up and I would say 3 we massacre them and 2 we get our asses kicked 3 I am not sure... I want to win, yes for sure but I really want to be better myself this season. Take a couple seconds more to play. I have found I play too fast, get the ball and trying to get it to someone "better" within seconds. The games I do actually try to play, I tend to do better. I think this mix of a div to start at least will give me a good chance for that. After a month of eating and drinking though I imagine it will take a game or two to get "legs" back!
So are trump and trudeau actually trolling each other on line? I guess justin wasn't so bad, he simply responded to tariffs but chump actually called him governor of Canada? These are not serious people, this is who is in control of nations?? I am so scared for us all.
Bluebloods wrapped up. Pure copaganda as some call it, read online and I guess only Boomers watch it. I did not know how much shit it got from younger audiences. I almost feel that is the problem with the world today. The basic premise of the show is doing the right thing, oh and family. Not cheesy like Dom in Fast and Furious constantly saying family but actual family. Being a good person but instead people want to bitch about it. Either way I am saying it wrapped up, the finale was blah. I mean it was okay unlike some finales I did not hate it but all they did was take 45 minutes to wrap everything up with a nice little bow. They did come up with a banger of a story, a war on cops and the city of NY in general that should have been a 3 - 5 parter, instead in the end the Regan family stops it all, again. I mean it was alright but it was a bit corny and rushed!! Yellowstone wrapped up and I still haven't watched last 2 episodes. Not sure I will. People made so much fun of the second last episode and I have heard how it ends, maybe I will just try and remember the early seasons and pretend the awful last one never happened. Started Dexter Original Sin and my wife was watching SO we also started season 1 of the original series. She has never watched it. I really enjoy the first couple seasons and we will likely get through them but that's it, some of the seasons are pretty bad.... Almost caught up on FROM. This is literally the horror version of LOST if you haven't seen it. Same draw and same issues. So many mysteries that you want to find answers to BUT then none of it does get answered. That is what kills it, sure mysteries are fun but one or two need solved not just keep making stories that never end.... Recently did a blog on Rings of Power and said season 1 wasn't very good. After learning a lot of the lore, it still isn't. Somethings make a lot more sense on a rewatch and I understand some references a bit better now BUT overall it hast changed my mind on season 1, kind of crap. Need to find a new show to watch at night, I keep thinking the Wire. Everything I read says it was a classic and it is in the genre I like but I have actually become so lazy with TV I don't want to search it for 10 minutes on HBO every time I want to watch. Was thinking the Borgias or the Medici might be worth a watch. Also Mayfair Witches starts again soon, so I might have to rewatch season 1 before then.
I listened to the Silmarillion on audio book over the last month. Its a lot. 1000 elves whose name starts with Fin and family trees and places that are hard to keep track of. However it is an amazing story. I do think having it read to me was better, trying to read the dry parts I doubt I could finish BUT when it gets good it gets really good. With audio books and travel I usually do an hour or two and then music for an hour or two. With this there were points I couldn't shut it off also there were points it got so dry I didn't want to turn it back on. I would say anyone into fantasy should read or listen to it but at time be prepared to be very bored!! I have no new music or other pods to talk about. Between Tolkien and the Batman audio book I haven't listened to much. Not sure if I mentioned it but on Spotify there is a free audio book Batman Resurrection. It starts a bit slow, have to give it the first 45 minutes but it gets really good. Set after the events of the Batman 89 movie, the author does an amazing job getting back into that universe! Well worth a listen bat fans!! Guess I will toss my reading into this to, I am not doing much! I want to do more in the new year. I did get World Travel by Anthony Bourdain for Christmas and I did read the first couple chapters. Its good, I mean I like his takes on things but it is kin dof just a review of places highlighted in his shows, I guess if I can get out to travelling those places I may check them out.
That's it, that's all. Less blogging this year, more real writing.
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