They Found Me

I've been found.  I guess this means I have to post something now.

Human After All

For the past five years of my life, I've had a metal wire lining the teeth of my lower jaw.  They called it a "retainer" but it really was more of a "torture device."  For those five years, I had to grow used cutting my tongue and food getting caught in the wire.  There were times I wanted to take a pair of pliers and just rip the   thing out myself.

Luckily for me, today I had it removed.  My mouth definitely feels weird, but it's a feeling I look forward to getting used to.  I'm so glad to have that nightmare behind me.

The only downside is that now with no metal in my body, I can no longer consider myself part machine.

Alas.

UPDATE:  When I returned to pick up the transparent retainer that I'll need to wear at night from now on, the orthodontist starting touching my new haircut, curious as to how I keep it up.  I can now confirm that I have the mid-30's female demographic firmly on lock.  Things are looking up.

"The Run" & Other Fun Physical Activities

Below is my Facebook post the day after I began jogging:

"I'm trying this new fad called uh, jogging. I believe it's jogging or yogging. it might be a soft j. I'm not sure but you just run for an extended period of time. It's wild."

Hilarious stuff.  That got me 12 likes so you know it had to be good.  Anyways, during my finals week this past semester, I had a revelation.  I decided that I had to do something to make me a better person, something that would allow me to gain at least one shred of self confidence and something that would give me a goal to work towards.

This is heavy.

What I decided to do was exercise.  It's something that I've always wanted to do more of, but I was embarrassed to begin in front of prying eyes at the gym at school, so I figured that this summer would be as good a time as ever to start.  The day after I came home, I began going for a 15 minute or so run every morning after I got out of bed, and a few days later I began lifting weights and regularly did other light exercises such as push ups and sit ups.  Today, I believe, would be my 34th consecutive run, a feat I'm quite proud of.  

I also got a haircut, which I am starting to believe was one of the best decisions I've made in quite some time.

I briefly touched on all of this before in the final stage of my triumphant return to blogging.

Continued after the break...

There's Always Money in the Banana Stand

I've been ranting and raving about how good of a show Arrested Development is for a while now.  Imagine my surprise when I went to go pick up my paycheck at Target today and found an Arrested Development t-shirt immortalizing the Bluth's Frozen Banana Stand.

Unfortunately, the mediums were completely gone, so apparently someone must have taken my advice and watched the show.  My shirt will have to wait for another day.  But in the immortal words of Wayne Campbell, it will be mine.  Oh yes, it will be mine.

¡Rio!

One of my best friends and likely the only person to have ever read this blog is in Rio de Janeiro for the rest of this week and all of the following week.  For what purpose?  To hunt down the drug lords in the favelas Research.

And what does his experience hunting down drug lords in the favelas researching look like?  I'm guessing something like this:

Above:  Hunting down drug lords in the favelas Research

Hopefully he can log on and see this while in between hunting down drug lords in the favelas researching so I can get that elusive second page view from Brazil.

If you're reading this, good luck the rest of the way.

And for the record this changes nothing.  I still hate Modern Warfare 2.

Generational Meeting

Being home from college means lots of hanging out with high school friends, and that's precisely how I've spent most of the past week.  The other day I decided to bring my PlayStation 3 to a friend's house to eliminate the need to download content and install updates for any games I brought.  Seeing as he already owns two different PS3 models, it occurred to me that when I brought my 2nd generation console over (furthest to the left) all 3 generations of the PS3 would be in the same location, possibly for the first time in recorded human history.  I decided to commemorate the occasion with the picture above, which has taught me that the iPod 4 does not have the highest quality camera.

It is a blessing that such a meeting did not result in catastrophe.  The human race is fortunate that the different generations meeting did not result in some sort of Back to the Future scenario where they each interfere with each other's existence or something.  I don't know.  I tried to think of something funny and then it kind of died.  Trying to be consistently entertaining is harder than it sounds.  And it doesn't help that this is being written at 1:50 AM.

This is heavy

What resulted of the meeting and how did humanity survive?  Continue to find out...

Regarding Pyramid Schemes

Lately there's been a lot of talk among my friends and I concerning pyramid schemes.  Apparently there's some sort of energy drink called Vemma, and college-aged kids around the country are being suckered into "marketing"  it by buying a package for $500 and then attempted to fool people they know into doing the same thing.  It's a complete joke.  I've been harassed in an attempt to get me to sell the stuff  personally several times.  The best part is when those pushing me straight up said that it isn't a pyramid scheme.  And based on recent discussions that I've had many, many people are trying to push this on several people I know.  It's unbelievable.

A friend of mine showed me a really great article detailing Vemma and explaining how it's a scam and a waste of time and money, but I can't seem to find it.  So just take my word for it.

And every time I hear about this the first thing that comes to mind is this scene from The Office.

I seriously pity anyone foolish enough to get involved with that junk.

UPDATE:  I found the article I was talking about. It explains everything very well.  Apparently the guy who started the whole thing is using an assumed name because he got in trouble for a similar scam several years ago.  That doesn't bode particularly well with me.  And while searching for that article, I also came across this and this, both further proving that the whole thing is a joke, if the first article wasn't enough.

Again, LOL @ anyone that falls for that, and from what I can tell several people I know already have.

Daddy's Home

It is done.  I am finally prepared to reveal my revamped blog to the public.  Welcome my children to Blizzard of Kozz.  If you are reading this for the first time, welcome.  Content on this blog varies wildly.  My main areas of interest, if the header wasn't descriptive enough, are the NHL, gaming, tech, music, film, and history.  For the most part, posts will consist of material related to these topics, be it simply passing along articles or videos I feel are worth sharing, or adding my snide commentary to news about said topics.  My life will also be mentioned from time to time, but who reads a blog to learn about the boring life of the author?  A lot of people?  Whatevs.

Actually I've been pretty committed to making some significant changes in my life as of late.  I've taken it upon myself to break my habit of being lazy and unmotivated.  I aimed to accomplish this by beginning to work out over the summer to give myself a goal and motivational tool.  So far it's worked splendidly.  I don't know if I should eventually expect physical results, but mentally each workout does a lot for me.  I will make a post detailing this more at some point in the future, but I'm not quite sure yet.  I'm not promising any more articles like I did last year because 90% of them never came to fruition.  If I can actually get some people to read the reborn blog I might actually keep up with it this time and write some articles from time to time whenever I'm bored (hence the revamp), but that remains to be seen.

To be continued after the break