Quick Update, more later.

Yeah, so the whole blogging thing really fell apart the last two months.  Mainly due to the fact that to spend the time writing, editing, spell-checking, re-editing, and finally posting a blog entry requires a certain amount of time that I have not been able to dedicate myself too. However!  It is for good reason.  Being the awesome person I am, I picked myself up a second job.

Posts/entries/whatever will be few and far, if they continue.  The Who's More Awesome Competition is indefinitely postponed as I am working 50-60 hours during an average week.  It's difficult to find the time for something like that when so much of my time is taken away by work.

But to keep people entertained to some extent, I will post videos to my youtube account about once a week.  I'll simply post a link here with a brief description to save time and focus on writing other posts.

Well, the clock is reading GO : TO : BED am instead of an actual time, so I assume it's time to do just that.  Look for a video update by the end of the week.

Beware Blogger!

By the time you read this sentence, you have just wasted approximately 5-10 seconds for the page to load, another 5 scrolling, and another 5-10 to read it.  By the time you finish reading this blog post, you will have wasted 5-10 minutes.  But you and I both know you won't stop there.  Blogger is home to more than just my blog, and you will more than likely repeat the process of clicking and loading and scroll multiple times, before you get off the internet.

Couldn't you have used this time for something far more productive?  Couldn't you be hanging out with friends, or reading a good book, do your laundry, take care of that pile of dishes that has needed washed since last Thursday?

I understand though.  Blogger is addicting.  You get to post your thoughts, stories, opinions, poetry, and get to read others' as well.  It's a community of every type of individual you could possibly imagine: dorks, athletes, intellectuals, bookworms, lawyers, criminals, parents, kids, gamers, companies, critics, artists, and even pets.  The possiblilties of what you can read is endless.  I've only been using it for a couple weeks, and already it has began to take up so much of my time on the internet.  Probably because of the fact, I love to read and learn, and so people like me should beware Blogger.

-Born Jimmy, Born A Dork.

Awesome April

A thing that makes my girlfriend that extra little bit of awesome is that she has this knack for finding the most random things on the internet that I enjoy.  A-Z April Blogging Challenge being one of these things.  All you have to do for this challenge is post a blog everyday, but Sundays, in the month of April.  And each blog must be themed using the next letter of the alphabet. As you can see, I chose to test my creative writing skills by beginning every sentence with the letter A. As a person that enjoys doing fun silly things such as this, I couldn't pass it up, even if I'm 2 posting days late to the start.  After all, you're not supposed to post on sundays, so I'll just have to post twice today, to catch up to C. 

Another awesome thing about this April is that my Who's More Awesome competition will begin this month.  All I have left to do is find a final couple more competitors and plan a day and time for the first event.  All my readers should expect an update on it as soon as I have the last competitor slots filled.

And the final thing about why April is so awesome for me; almost all my readers at the moment are personal friends, so most are already aware of this....As soon as my drug screening comes back clean, I will be starting training for a second job!  Adding a second paycheck to my income will bring in enough money to pay off most of my debts and get moved into my own apartment within a few months.  "Are you excited" I hear you ask.  Answer: Are you good at asking dumb questions?

All blogs must come to an end and this one has reached it.  Au revoir! Agur! Afscheid! Adeus! Auf Wiedersehen! Αντίο! Addio! Ardievas! Adiós! And any other ways of saying "Goodbye!" in different languages!


-A dork named Jimmy

Proof I am awesome

Last year in college, I lived on campus in the dorm called, Wise Hall.  Every dorm had a Leadership Advisory Board (LAB) that the residents could get elected to be on.  LAB was a way of getting the dorm residents involved in campus life type activities and improvement of the dorm halls.  Basically, it was like city council for the dorm halls.  I was elected into the position of recycling co-coordinator.  Now for most this was just a bullshit position that people only applied for so that they could have a seat on LAB and be able to help run things.  But not I.  I took being Recycling Coordinator to a whole new level it had never seen.  I regularly made and displayed informational posters about being more green, I handed out fliers, I set up and ran recycling competitions that increased recycling by over 200% compared to the previous year, I took the time and sorted through 5 floors worth of recycling; I turned that dorm hall green.  We even won a campus-wide (13 different dorm buildings) recycle-athon under my "term".

And a year later, I receive this comment on my FB wall; "I just wanted to say how I sat through a half hour of everyone praising your accomplishments as the Wise Hall recycling coordinator last year at this years last lab meeting. Apparently you got everyone to go green in the dorm, were a dedicated worker in preparing recycle bins as well as spreading awareness, and all around were "the shit". Just thought you ought to know of your legacy."

Proof, I am indeed, awesome.

Who's More Awesome Competition 2011

Being a member of the testosterone-driven male gender has its perks. We get to pee easily standing up, we build muscle and strength fairly easily, we can grow bad-ass beards, and lots of other awesome stuff.  However, we have one major downfall, and that is our drive to feel superior to and more alpha than every other guy we know personally at every single thing you can be better than someone at.  Anything that can be turned into a measurable competition, will be.  Hence the reason sports exist and are popular in the first place.

Now, sometimes these competitions are harmless, painless, well-thought out, and don't damage anything but the losers' egos.  Things like, who can throw this object the farthest?  Or, who's the best at Halo?  But eventually, we run out of harmless, safe things to discover who's better than who.  Eventually we get bored.  Eventually, we try dumb, painful, spur-of-the-moment, and sometimes even illegal things.  Dumb things like, who can eat a bag of jerky the fastest?  Painful things like, The Cinnamon Challenge.  Spur-of-the-moment things like, "hey guys you know what would be fun?  Let's see who can get kicked out of Walmart the quickest!  Ready, set, go!"

Now, why am I going on about this?  What is the point of today's blog?  Well, quite frankly, I think I am overall far more awesome than my other guy friends.  They however, do not agree.  Sounds to me like we need a competition of epic proportions, so I can prove that I am better.  BUT, we need event ideas.  Give me your ideas by posting a comment, and the top 5 suggestions chosen by me will be a part of this Who's More Awesome Competition in addition to the 5 I have already decided on: One Gallon Milk Challenge, Manly Things Scavenger Hunt, Dollar Menu Eating Contest, Ice Bath, and Tri-awesome-alon.

So, like I said, post your suggestions in the comments (try to keep them on the safe side of the law) and I'll give you all an update when the events are chosen.

Desire without ambition = me

A blog is something, that somebody like me, should have started years ago.  There is so much that occurs in my daily life that I feel an urge to tell people about....The odd conversations with friends and random strangers, the ridiculousness of the D&D campaign I am partaking in, stories from my childhood, and of course all the fortunately unfortunate things that seems to happen to me. 
I guess I used to kind of blog on Myspace way back when it was popular and everybody knew who Tom was, but over time, Myspace turned into an almost music exclusive site so, like everyone else, I moved on to Facebook. But Facebook didn't last as a place to blog as it quickly evolved into what we know it as today; a website to play Farmville and all it's spin-offs on.  And then twitter came along, which is somewhere to take your 12,349,235,151,235 character long thoughts and condense them into 140 characters or less.  Not very accommodating for any real storytelling, or deep thought.  So years after my first urge to blog, I finally have the ambition to do so and found a site I have deemed adequate.  And so you are all about to be graced with the ramblings, rants, and life stories of my awesomely unfortunate, fun, and funny life.  Enjoy.