Thank god Friday is here!  This has been my first week back in reality and I am desperate for the weekend.  I need to make this clear - I love my new job!  My co-workers are awesome and the work itself is fun.  It has just been tough adjusting to a normal schedule.  I have also been very busy with my social life.  Big problem, I know!  I need some “Mike” time.  A day that I dedicate to relaxing.  Maybe next week.  Tonight I had a hockey game.  Hockey has been a frustrating experience for quite a while.  I was never great at it.  As a younger man, my greatest skill came with my ability to hit people in open ice.  I would consider that a skill as it takes some serious timing.  Before I took a couple of years off, I was the kind of guy who scored goals.  I knew that if I got the puck that there was a good chance it was going in the net.  I was so confident in my abilities.  These days I have crawled into some kind of shell that I just can’t bust out of.  I seem to get more hesitant with each game.  I am so screwed up that my body just freaks out when I am near the puck.  I know I need to just slow things down and take the puck and take my time and look for opportunities.  Knowing and doing and very different things.  Amazing what confidence can do!  I have it in all other aspects of my life.  None on the ice anymore.  I am thinking I should get drunk before my next game.  I am always a little more ballsy when I have had a few.  Let’s see what happens!  Happy Friday everyone.  If you are in Canada then I know what you will be watching tonight  As usual, here is an SMBC comic that has nothing to do with anything.

Good morning everyone!  Hopefully you are all waking up hung over as hell and plan to spend the day on the couch watching movies and football.  I have a volunteer gig and a ton of homework, so that is going to take me right up until around midnight.  Crappy!  Oh well.  My life has ramped back up to being completely busy.  I guess it’s a good thing I am single.  Speaking of that, here are a pair of comics from SMBC that seem to revolve around that single theme.  Enjoy!

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It has been a few days since my last post.  I really should apologize for that.  Someday, maybe I will.  I am FINALLY done my second semester at school.  I had a final exam on Friday and I had a practical test and project due as well.  On Saturday I went out with some friends to celebrate and I drank all the booze in Toronto.  All of it.  Go ahead…check your fridge.  It’s gone.  I drank it.  So, Sunday was a write off.  I managed to drag my ass out of bed for my hockey game at night.  Since I really don’t have anything else going on I figure a comic will give you some value for stopping in today.  Here is another gem from Cyanide and Happiness.

Every once in a while you hear about a new site that is just awesome in it’s simplicity.  It is something so easy that you could have easily started it.  But, you didn’t.  Someone else did.  And now you visit there site and kick yourself in the ass.  I once featured one of these amazing sites called HotChicksWithNoEyebrows.  In fact, if you click THIS LINK you can see a pic of me without eyebrows.  I am even more streamlined than usual!  I recently came across another site worthy of being mentioned on this blog.  It is called Garfield Minus Garfield.  It is simply Garfield comic strips that have Garfield removed.  It turns into a horribly depressing and sad insight into the Jon character.  That poor bastard really is alone and depressed.  I strongly suggest you check them out regularly.  Here are some samples.

The weekend is over and I already need another one!  I am crazy busy trying to stay on top of school work while also having summer fun.  It’s a tough balancing act.  I went golfing on Friday, but I also had to study for a Monday mid-term.  Next weekend will be more of the same.  Actually, every weekend will be more of the same.  I am exhausted just thinking about it.  I guess it is time to laugh.  I haven’t posted any comics lately so this is my attempt to make up for that.  I picked two of the better SMBC funnies from the last week or so.  Enjoy!

*Yeah, that would be me if I ever went to rehab.  Now that we have made fun of alcoholism let’s go with an equally fun topic such as women’s rights in history…

Sorry for not having much to post the last two days.  I had to see an orthopaedic surgeon about my broken wrist and they had me fitted for a different cast.  This one is cooler than the last one, but it also makes it a lot harder to type.  This new thing is made of fiberglass instead of plaster and is much lighter and more breathable.  I am supposed to be in this for two weeks before being re-evaluated.  I am pretty sure this thing will drive me crazy and I will be forced to remove it myself.  Tomorrow I will try to get some pics of this thing and post them up here.  Here is a spoiler: it’s a funky colour!  Either when I do it or the nurses remove this I will try to get a video up on YoutTube.  So, tonight I will give you a comic from SMBC.  This has relevance because I just checked my first semester grades and, as expected, I was awesome and rocked all A’s.  Had I gotten an F I may just have tried this.

Anyone who has been around this blog long enough knows that I enjoy making fun of religion.  There was this post…and this one…and also this one!  It is not that I am knocking people with faith, I just find it funny how people get so pissed off about it.  Seriously, pretty much every religion teaches peace and we have used this as justification to kick the shit out of anyone who has a different version of this peaceful message.  I find that irony pretty funny.  And, to be fair, I will make fun of every religion…especially my own!  That’s why I enjoy anything to do with Jesus being less than “bible-esque.”  In spirit of that I have two things to bring you.  One is the newest book I have decided to read.  It is called “Lamb” and it is by some guy named Christopher Moore.  Apparently this guy has built quite a library of books taking a funny/sarcastic look at things.  In Lamb he delves into Jesus: the missing years.  These are stories told by Christ’s best buddy growing up named Biff.  I just cracked into it and so far I can tell you that it reads very well.  It is a pretty cool style of humor, funny because of the topic but not so obvious otherwise.  I would have probably finished the thing if not for the fact I have 5 final exams this week.  It’s a good thing that I piss excellence!  Back to Jesus.  Here is the pic of the book.  Now you know what it looks like so you can go buy it or rent it or borrow it or download it or whatever the hell you do to read things.  And, just for fun, I threw in a comic on this topic from SMBC.

I have a hockey game tonight so I am not sure if I will be able to trade during my usual evening hours.  I also have a couple of tests tomorrow so I really should spend any free time studying.  I know this blog is about Forex but I do try to mix it up a bit.  How do I do that?  Simple: throw in some random comics that have absolutely nothing to do with Forex!  I can always count on the good people at SMBC for that.  On that note…

Sorry for the extremely late post today everyone.  I got caught between a bunch of tests today and studying for tests and a presentation tomorrow.  Whoa…flashback to when I was a punk student in my teens.  Weird.  Now that I know all there is to know about myocardial infarctions, I need to relax.  What better way than with a comic that has nothing to do with anything?  C & H can always be counted on for that.  Check out their latest…

I always wondered why there is such a stigma about Internet dating.  The Internet is the most prominent form of communication for everyone.  Yet, if we meet someone online we prefer to lie about how we met them.  Somehow it is more socially acceptable to say you met when you were wasted at a bar.  Weird.  Now, I actually did meet my girlfriend at a bar.  BUT, if I met her online I wouldn’t have a problem saying so.  Think about it.  If you meet online at least you get to see some pictures and talk to the person first.  When I went on my first date with my girlfriend I couldn’t even remember what she looked like!  I was pretty hammered when we talked at the bar so she could have been ugly!  Lucky for me she was gorgeous and things worked out.  Since you can never trust what people say, you need a chart to decipher what they really mean.  Below is a chart/comic that clears everything up.  So, according to this, I met my girl through friends.  How did you meet your significant other?