Words On Wednesday

Coincidentally, I happened to post Thirsty Thursday Eve topics on the last Wednesday of the month for three months in a row. So I inadvertently made it a thing. Hence, the last Wednesday of each month will be a Thirsty Thursday Eve post for as long as I remember to do it. This month’s Thirsty Thursday Eve is less of a review or recommendation, and more of a tale. A story of my decision to purchase a full bottle of liquor on the recommendation of a friend, and the disappointed journey that followed. I discovered that I strongly dislike Southern Comfort, so at least I learned something from the experience. The beginning of this story takes us back to soon after I turned 21. Like many people who reach this milestone age, I was trying numerous different types of alcohol just to figure out what I did and didn’t like. I’ve always been a rule-follower and come from a very conservative family, so my exposure to alcohol was extremely limited before I could legally buy it for myself. I k...

I knew it would happen eventually. My third bond recently ended and I’m getting to the point now here I’m pretty burned out with the paid game. Mind you, I still haven’t paid a cent of real money on the game since my purchased membership ended on 8 September 2013 . But the whole situation of having to prioritize making money within the game to pay for the bonds I’ve purchased with in-game currency… it gets old. I’ve fortunately found some ways to recoup the monetary cost of a bond pretty quickly, but temporary membership of any sort still adds that feeling of obligation to the game. For each bond that I buy, I’ve got 14 days of membership, and I have to max out what I do within that time, else I’ve wasted it. The entirety of my first bond was colored with that “ermahgerd, I’m a member again” magic. Considering my only exposure to p2p in the past almost 5 years was a free membership weekend, having 2 weeks to do whatever I wanted in the game was great. It wasn’t really driven, and hones...

Note: If you haven’t ever read “A&P,” I encourage you to do so. It is a short read, and currently available to read for free here and here . “A&P” is a short story by author John Updike. This first person narrative discusses a young man Sammy, and his experience when a group of scantily clad girls walk into the A&P store in which he works as a cashier, and ultimately spur him to quit his job. Updike’s short story is typically met with a wide variety of opinions, as evident from its goodreads profile . A vocal majority strongly dislike the work, criticizing it for the misogynistic narrator Sammy, as well as seemingly lacking a good point. Some others consider the story tolerable, but nothing special. The apparent smallest group, including myself, consider “A&P” a classic, giving valuable life lessons in a small and entertaining package. On the surface, it is completely understandable to consider that “A&P” is a shallow exploration of a teenage boy’s blatant lu...

Roughnecks was a television series came out about 20 years ago that nobody seems to remember, but was my absolute jam back when I was a kid. Source: http://starshiptroopers.wikia.com/wiki/Roughnecks:_Starship_Troopers_Chronicles Fully titled “ Roughnecks: Starship Trooper Chronicles ," the show was based on a movie , based on a book . I didn’t know anything of the book or the film until recently. When the show was airing, I just knew it was about military guys shooting aliens with big guns, and that was awesome. As one can assume, CGI animation from the late 1990s and early 2000s was not very good. The creators reused a lot of scenes, especially one particular explosion sequence that seemed to be in every episode. I only know this because I watched through the series again during my freshman year in college with my roommate, the only person I know who also watched this show and remembered it. We wanted to love the show the same way we did as kids, but it did not age well ...