Bill versus Billy

Had a customer today who did the whole, "scan the name tag, then look you in the face" thing and then called me "Bill" even though the name tag says "Billy".  Which kind of made me do a take, because here in North Dakota, I'm Billy, back in California, I'm Bill and it got me to thinking about the differences between Bill and Billy.  And those differences do exist.

Bill
Bill is/was the subject of myth and legend.  Seriously.  A comment in passing at The Pit sent an entire crew of Bulletheads into high alert.  Bill didn't need to lock the door to the apartment in the fucking barrio, even though they were the token honky in the LITERAL projects.  As recently as a year (or so) ago, at a party, I met a new person and he was all, "I know who you are, man.  You're kinda legendary."  There is a lot to live up to as Bill.  Honestly, sometimes being Bill was/is kind of a chore.

Billy
Billy was who I was all through school.  Billy only recently resurfaced as I moved to North Dakota.  Billy is a "worker bee"  Billy is happy just being an awesome cog in the machine.  Billy is the one with MS. Billy is still an awesome human being, without a doubt, but Billy doesn't have the expectations/baggage that Bill does.  Not by a long shot.  Billy is also a lot less stressed out about things than Bill was.  That's for sure.  Billy is also a responsible fucker.  Billy pays his bills, shows up early for work, saves his cash.  Bill did NONE of those things.

So yeah, that about covers the differences between who Bill is and who Billy is, even though, I'm just one dude....

One and Seven

So, I stepped outside myself and examined the ritualized behavior that I engage in on a daily basis and have determined the following:

On an average day, I drink one beer and seven shots of Jagermeister.  Hence this blog post's title of One and Seven.

Not to mention the copious amounts of cannabis I imbibe.  Before work, it's only a couple tokes, to know the pain down; after work, I go for "blindfold me with dental floss" baked!

But to get back to the ritualized behavior, I find myself married to the "shot-smoke-shot" spot.  I have a Geordie Bomb, then nurse the rest of the beer as I get the work off of me. Medicate, then do the first round of 3S.  Eat some food, fuck around, medicate some more, then another 3S.  Sometimes I call it a night at this point, sometimes I go for another round or two, but usually I wrap things up after the seventh.  If I don't complete the circuit, it will actually keep me up at night and shit.  Like, I won't be able to sleep until I do that last shot...or that first shot, for that matter.

I was never this level of ritualized behavior prior to the MS, I swear!

The List

As part of my following the Tao, I have discarded many desires to become more enlightened.  One of those desires that I have discarded was the carnal desire.  However, while I have discarded those desires, I do still enjoy the beauty of the female form.  In some cases, so much, I would dumpster dive for that carnal desire that I discarded.  The following is a list of those who I would fully dumpster dive for.

Yuka Hirata

....she's all that is woman!

Yeah, I have a mini-song just for this chick.  The way she played Mele in Gekiranger...with both mischief and devotion.  Mele's loyalty to Ryo...and just the fact that she did proper ACTING....holy fuck.  Yeah, it doesn't hurt that she's smoking hot, either...

Kat Dennings

I do dig squishy chicks and when that squishy chick can be so snarky and hot at the same time?

Oh yeah, I've watched utter shit just because she was in it.

Nao Nagasawa

Yes, HurricanBlue was a reason why I watched that shit of a series Hurricanger.

And I mark out whenever she guest spots on series like Kamen Rider Fourze.

Amanda Righetti

As if I needed a reason other than Simon Baker's portrayal of Patrick Layne to watch The Mentalist....

Serious, ginger hotness is hotness that is ginger... *drool*

HIZAKI

 OK, I know that this is a male.


I also know that there is enough tequila for me to ignore that fact.  To quote the Macho Man, "It ain't gay if there's nothing in ya, dude!"

Ai Kago 

  There is a reason why this bird was the wife of Hank Hooligan.

She's a nut bar, and she smokes, and she loves to eat, and she's a nut bar.  I so much lessthanthree this bird.  Her jazz standards are top shelf.

Megan Massacre

 This level of hotness AND she can sling ink like a boss?  OK, sign me up!

 

I kinda wish that I could post pics of people I see in my daily life, like the Statuesque Ginger from Sport About, or the Chick That Looks Like Delores O'Riordan's Hot Little Sister, or Dark Haired Ukrainian Chick, or Lotto Jan (Yeah, I would SOOO much make her walk on her shoulder blades, just because she's awesome and could use that kind of O in her life)

But yeah, that's pretty much the List as it stands currently.  Not saying that more names won't be added later, especially if I'm on the receiving end of a mouth hug, I do have a Y chromosome, after all....

Sakebito Schlerosis Stories

Don't want to add to the pity party in the MS groups, so I'm gonna vent this shit here.

Today was a meds day (elbow dropped my Chinese hamster ovaries, even had a pic made about it)

 and I come in to work with a later start so I can nap them off (my well-established erratic sleeping patterns make doing it before going to bed an issue) and then go in for work in a state that's semi-human.  However, I didn't get like a proper nap, only lightly dozed, so I was really worthless today.  Like even Moms was worrying over how I was going through the motions of daily life, which is kinda weird because Friday injects, on the back of my arm (I set the auto-injector standing up on my desk and then "do an elbow drop" on the top of it and trigger the Corporate Colored Sonic Screwdriver)) have usually been my easiest day, both in pain and site reaction.  As long as I can nap them off, I'm pretty decent, at least until the ibuprofen I took about an hour before injecting wears off and I get all flu-like again.

Anyways, after the Regional Manager, Kevin (who is here covering things while my Manager is out of town on a family emergency thing) actually hung around and worked the register while I took care of doing the closing stuff out in the lobby (and taught him about how I time the closing duties and why I wait until this time to do that thing and junk and stuff) Moms rolls in and Kevin's outside smoking and they chat a bit....whatevs.

Wasn't until later I found out that she was all, "I'm so glad you stuck around because Billy was having a tough time with his meds today."

Shit.

But when she tells me this, it's right after I decide to break into the emergency supply of cannabis, and she's all, "It's like I got my old son back!"

I was fucking choked up over that, fer realsies.  It wasn't until later that the "Shit." moment happened, when my brain started properly grasping the details of the story.  I've worked hard to regain as much of my pre-MS awesomeness as possible....I take pride in the gains I've made and kinda dig it when people find out and have no idea that I'm impaired the way I am.  The fact that she could tell and that she would clue Kevin in to the fact that I was not at my usual levels of awesomeness both kinda horrify me.  Spotting it?  OK.  You're Moms, you're gonna notice that shit, but to break my kayfabe like that?  I was doing a fairly decent job (IMO) of faking the funk. 

I had wondered why he got all 20 questions about my shitty shit while I was closing down the main till and doing the Store Close in the system.  Funny how a single fact makes everything clear.  And here I was thinking that he was showing an actual interest in the condition of his Ace of The Cage (corporate nickname for our tiny little store)

Anyways, I guess the moral of the story is:  No matter how good you are at faking it, your cover can be blown by a well meaning human being that knows the truth.

The Official Kamen Rider Wiard Drink Game Rules!

You will need:

A shot of your favorite hard liquor
At least one beer.

First:  Do your shot (or in my case, a Geordie Bomb) at the opening credits.

Any time the driver says, "Please":  Take A Drink
A doughnut:  Take A Drink
"Saikyo~!!!!":  Take a Drink
Koyomi spotting a Phantom:  Take a Drink.

I've found that the Geordie Bomb (a boilermaker with Newcastle and Jagermeister, I know it sounds gross, but it's so creamy smooth and wonderful...try it, tell me different and I'll call you a liar) and then the rest of the bottle + 3/4ths of another bottle, is about how much your gonna drink in a 27 minute (or so) episode.  Be a boss, wait until the entire 2 episode arc has wrapped and then have a go with the game over the entire arc.  Guarantee you'll be drunk within an hour!

...from left field,

I will totally blame the medication for this, but here it is, and it wasn't something I thought I could properly convey in a Tweet or a Facebook status, so here it goes.

Rachel Maddow is the anti-Stephen A. Smith.

Rachel Maddow:

Honky
Homosexual
Female
Says things I disagree with on a regular basis on a national platform.
Can't help but dig this chick all kinds.

Stephen A. Smith

African-American

Heterosexual

Male

Says things I agree with on a regular basis

Can't help but to find him completely unlikeable.

Seriously, while I may disagree with Rachel far more often than not, I really like her.  She's a cool bird.  An actual functioning human being on television.  Sure, she says things that I disagree with to the very fiber of my being (from my political Libertarian viewpoint) but that fact has no bearing on how much I like her as a human being.  Human beings are cool, unlike people.  People suck.

Speaking of people, Stephen A. Smith is one of those that are a "people"  He's on ESPN, and much of what he says, I agree with...or at least the base principle behind what he is saying.  However, I find it maddening that I'm agreeing with this jackoff.  His diction, even the pace at which he speaks grates upon my nerves in a manner akin to nails across a chalkboard.  Not his tonal quality (one of the things I do not dislike is the key at which he speaks) but more the attitude and over-inflated sense of worth and importance and the (feebly) subtle name-dropping coattailling on the athletes he oozes as he pontificates upon sports topics.

Ergo, I submit that Rachel Maddow is the anti-Stephen A Smith.

Kamen Rider Wizard - ep 3

OK, I'll have to admit it, I watched the Over-Time softsubs first before getting the TV-Nihon hardsubs so I can have good screencaps.  Also, IMO, the TV-Nihon subs are just better.  Start the nerdrage now.

Anyways, the hand-to-hand combat in this series is so top shelf, I don't mind watching the episode twice!  Speaking of....

Shunpei thinks he's a wizard and pops off his finger of fire for a bunch of kids, then this guy shows up to interview him.

Flattery will get you everywhere.

Poor sap Shunpei.

Haruto has it figured out already.

and here's the conflict for the episode

And now, for a double shot of Medusa Phantom Scaroused!

OK, back to the episode...

sneaky guy!

After Hellhound clues everyone in on his plans to turn a Gate into a Phantom, he flash over to Haruto and Eyebrows and a touch more of Wizard's backstory is revealed.

Then some stuff was shown.  Haruto and Koyomi, raining, stuff and junk.

foreshadow much?

Rinko moment of hotness!!!

well, now we know who the Phantom was....it was the TV Host!

TAKE A DRINK!

and now he outs himself as a Phantom

SPIT TAKE!

TAKE A DRINK!

TAKE A DRINK!

The TV gets cut by the National Defense nefarious government agency.  Koyomi, however, has some kind of magical doo-dad to stay abreast of the situation.

TAKE A DRINK!

This also just so happens to be the ring that eyebrows made.  Hellhound can't hide in the shadows if everything is lit up!

TAKE A DRINK!

On a side note, Water State isn't too bad.  It's all D so far, but there's potential for it to have offensive strengths as well.

TAKE A DRINK!

TAKE A DRINK!

TAKE A DRINK!  (Underworld Style!)

 OK, I capped this because "Very Nice Kick Strike" is a cheesy name for a Rider Kick.

Shit resolves, Haruto saves Shunpei and now we have a new member to the cast of regulars.

Another Rinko Moment of Hotness

Koyomi isn't keen on the new additions to the group.

Koyomi wa cho kawaii!

Well, it seems that the core group is now established and now comes the fight with the Phantoms!  As long as we keep getting combat like what we've gotten thus far, I'll be a happy Sakebito!