Two-of-Hearts

I'd love to try airsoft or paintball, but honestly what I'm really saving my money up for is 3 gun competition. Real guns, real ammo... course I'm dirt poor and its going to be a long time before I can afford a firearm. Especially in the current 'firearmaggedon' atmosphere where political talk alone has doubled the price of an AR-15.

House Slytherian... its not that we're that good, its just everybody else sucks. I like Slytherian. To me the power hungry sorceror is one of the most interesting (and also tragic) characters in fantasy/science fiction, and Slytherian does definetly seem to embody that.

I imagine I've gone several weekends without saying a word, but conditions have never been right for me to go longer than that, so I'd say I've gone two days without speaking. Although I am one to talk to myself at times, but I don't know if that counts since its not so much that I'm socializing but rather just thinking out loud. If the conditions were right I'm sure I could go months without speaking, and I'd probably love it.

Faustus: How comes it then that though art out of Hell? Mephistopheles: Why this is Hell, nor am I out of it. It comes from the play Dr Faustus which was written in the 1500s by Chrisopher Marlow. When I first read that part in my English lit class my jaw dropped open.

I'm trying to join the US Army, but I can't until I get my weight down to 180 lbs (I currently weigh 220). So yeah I do have a vested interest in the military and firearms. I don't own any firearms myself (though I really want to), but I just can't afford a super expensive hobby piece like that right now. The guns I want include an AR-15 (either from Armalite, or Rock River Arms), a modernized FAL made by DSA (.308 Winchester, it even has 'win' in its name). I'd also like a Cz-75 Phantom pistol, and a Sig P266 pistol. What mostly got me interested in joining the Army was my dad. My dad is a Vietnam war veteran, and I was raised on his stories. I'd also say my love of history also drives me to enlist, though in truth I'm not that big into military history. I'm far more interested in philosophical and religious history.

Real World Places: New Orleans Cadiz Spain Rome Florence Greece Crete Jerusalem Fictional Places: Equestria (though I really really wish that teleport machine doubled as something that could turn you into a pony) Star Wars universe (Tatooine, Naboo, and Nar Shada would be the main places I'd want to go) Naruto universe (but only if I could be a super badass shinobi) Skyrim The Warhammer Fantasy world

Of course! It all makes sense now. Simba is a Dovahkin! Things I learned: -Bad guys that break out in song are somehow all the more menacing -Princess Jasmin is hot

I don't know, for some reason I want to write about this. I was 18 when 9/11 happened, you would think I would have strong and clear memories of it, and I kinda do, but its mostly anecdotal and stuff that happened to me personally following those days. I vaguely remember coming upstairs and seeing my parents glued to the tv screen. I saw one plane go into the tower and I was like 'wtf? how does a pilot manage to do something that stupid?" Than I saw the second plane and I was like 'oh fuck... this was deliberate.' For the next week I was actually afraid that something like that might happen in Seattle. For the first time in my life, I was honestly afraid of a possible attack on my home city. I remember going down to the storage room and looking for our American flag which we promptly hung outside our house. I also remember a couple days later we drove downtown just because we do that sometimes, and I remember seeing a truck decked with American flags and honking his horn going through the streets and pumping his fist out the window. Just trying to be ultra patriotic I guess. I also remember going on a hike in the Washington state mountains about 2 weeks afterword. I don't remember the hike, what I remember is us getting to the look out point, and my dad saying to me 'you know Nick, with the world trying to kill itself, this is a much nicer spot to be.' I'll always remember that. I remember there were flags everywhere. The mainstreet in my little burrogh (West Seattle) was decked with red, white, and blue, and a lot of cars were sporting flags too. The political feeling... honestly... was 'lets go bomb someone.' We didn't care who it was, we just wanted to know who the culprit was and we wanted revenge. Even I got kind of swept up in that. As soon as GW Bush said 'Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden,' we were all like 'great! Lets get some!' Well 90% of us were anyway. It wasn't until Bush started talking about invading Iraq that the majority of Americans were kinda like... ummm... ok.... I remember the fear lasted for a good three weeks or so. The fear that we might actually be bombed. If you grew up in the 90s which I did than you pretty much felt like the US was untouchable and that nothing from outside could actually hurt us. 9/11 proved us wrong.

First off, I'm 29. 1. I know how to use one and I used on in the late 80s. My grandma had one. Actually a pretty nifty little piece of retro tech. 2. I got internet access in my home I think when I was around 14. It actually wasn’t that great because it was super slow, didn’t have half the cool things on it that it does today, had that loud ‘screeching’ dial up noise, and my parents didn’t let me play on it much anyway (cause of the porn). Cooler and more significant for me was the first PC video game I ever played which was Warcraft 2… good times. 3. I was in my first year of college when 9/11 happened. The first major world shaking event that I remember is the Berlin Wall coming down (reunification of Germany, the collapse of the Soviet Union). I remember watching the news cast, but I was only like 4 or 5 years old so I didn’t know what the Berlin Wall was at the time. 4. Again, my grandma had such a tv, and I remember watching that during the mid to late 80s. 5. Hurrican Katrina is in history books? 0_o That happened yesterday for me. 0_o Reading about Bill Clinton? Well for me the Clinton administration time period was a happier time for me overall, sure there was bad stuff going on, the usual middle and high school bull, but overall I think I was happier back then. Reading about the Clinton admin might actually give me nostalgia. And as I said above, I remember the news cast for the Berlin Wall but that was quite young for me, so reading about it in history books doesn’t phase me (I do remember that some of my history books mentioned it while I was in high school). 6. My dad until very recently, he only got his first cell phone maybe two years ago. I only got my first cell phone about 4 years ago myself. I’m rather anti-social so have little need of such bobbles. 7. Son, I remember playing the Atari ET game on the original Atari system that had WOOD PANELING… so yeah I remember floppys. (And yeah, that game did suck… bad). 8. I dunno, late 90s? I do seem to recall looking up numbers for gaming/comic book stores around that time period. 9. You’re going to make me choose? It would either have to be Thunder Cats or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, both of which were highly in vogue when I was in Kindergarten. In fact, I remember in Kindergarten your ‘status’ was measured by how many Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle toys you had. 10.) Sure 80s cartoons seem dated to me, even in the 80s they showed older cartoons so when you’re little you can’t really tell the difference between a 60s cartoon and a 80s cartoon. I can now though, but I would consider both to be ‘old’ cartoons.