On a dare, I am posting this comic.  It comes to us courtesy of The Oatmeal.  Take that Owen!

I have been debating whether to blog about this or not, considering it is a very personal thing.  I try to keep things light on here and I really do avoid getting serious.  In the end I figure why the hell not!  I recently had an experience that is pretty new.  I had someone from my past get back in my life.  We hung out a little bit and she told me how she never stopped loving me and what she wanted was a life with me.  She said all the right things.  I am not normally a big fan of dating someone I had already dated in the past.  My previous thinking was that we had our time and should just move on.  I had moved on.  I loved her before and I knew what I was giving up when I broke up with her the first time.  Unfortunately I also think the best of people and refuse to make them pay for past mistakes.  It wasn’t that I still loved her, it was that I thought she had good qualities and that I was willing love her all over again.  Boy was I wrong!  After leading me down this path for a week she randomly changed her mind with little explanation.  Now, having dealt with this girl in the past I knew something weird could always just hit me out of the blue.  She just wanted to get me thinking we were together so that she could end it with me.  Playing some form of games with people you just start dating is one thing.  Finding someone who has moved on, telling them you love them, convincing them that you should consider a life with them, lying the whole way through just so you can end it is about the cruelest thing a person can do.  My guess is that she just wanted that power.  Well, my response was pretty calm.  I told her that, for her sake, I hope Karma ignores this incident.  I do not bring up this story as a way to get even.  I have no ill will towards her.  I wish her well in her journey.  This is supposed to be a message of hope.  There are people out there that are just bad people.  No amount of covering up for their actions or ignoring aspects of their personality can change who they are.  Their bad nature is probably slapping you in the face every day.  Life is all about choices.  You are choosing to let them hurt you!  You cannot blame a bad person for having a negative affect on you.  It’s all up to you.  This person had brought negativity to my life many times before, and she managed to keep staying in my life through deceit and taking advantage of my forgiving nature.  I do not regret this.  It is what it is.  It proves only that she was not for me, and the universe gave me the ample proof I needed to never doubt that again.  Maybe you are in a bad relationship and you wonder how your luck is so bad that this is your lot in life.  Take a look again - maybe you should be thankful that the universe is doing everything it can to prove something to you.  You are being shown that this person goes against your very nature.  Everything you need is in front of you.  All the signs are there.  What are you waiting for?  It’s your move.  I know some people who might need this message of hope.  Maybe my honesty can help them to face their choices.

What is next for me?  I continue to hang out with my friends and work towards being a firefighter.  The Month of May is pretty big.  My mom’s bday is tomorrow.  Mothers day is on Sunday.  My birthday is next week.  I turn 32…wow…it looks weird to type it.  I just laughed about a loud fart.  Are 32 year olds supposed to do that?  I have resolved to try something new.  I always meet amazing people when I am out.  It is definitely a passion of mine.  On any drinking night I usually end up with some random friends as the night goes on.  I am now going to expand my reach.  I think I am going to give the online dating thing a go!  I have had many friends with much success in the past and now it might be time for me to give it a shot.  Being such a technology advocate, you’d have thought this would have been my first choice for dating!  Let’s see what the future holds!  Since I hit you with some serious stuff, I owe you a comic!  Here is a funny one about dating from Cyanide & Happiness.

One day in and I already miss life as a bum.  For the first time since December of 2008, I am back in the ranks of the working class.  I actually had an excellent day at the office.  Everyone was very nice and it seems like it will be a fun group to be around.  I will get to satisfy my geeky nature while I continue to pursue my ultimate goal of being a firefighter.  It really is the perfect situation.  Hell, my new boss even bought me lunch today!  Not bad at all.  Everything was great right up until 5:30 when I left the office.  In case you don’t live in Toronto, we got hit with a bit of a snow storm.  This wasn’t exactly unexpected, it was on pretty much every weather report you could find.  Somehow this managed to cripple the commute home.  my hour long drive took 2.5 hours to get home!  I needed over an hour and a half just to get to the highway.  On my drive I saw people in ditches, people who had smashed into each other and people who almost ran over pedestrians.  Seriously, we live in freakin’ Canada.  This is freakin’ February.  Why the fuck are we so unprepared for this?!?!?!  It’s snow.  You have seen it before!  Make your dumb ass familiar with it’s properties and it’s affect on your vehicle.  This will come up again in the near future.  Unless you have the memory retention of an eggplant this knowledge will be applicable repeatedly.  Just a tip from your favorite smart-ass!  Now, as is tradition, a web comic that has nothing to do with anything I just talked about.  This is just about how awesome engineers are.  Enjoy!

Alright, I know I am extremely late to wish you all a Happy Valentine’s Day.  I figure that if you have someone you love then you were probably busy spending time with them, so you really shouldn’t have been checking out my blog.  If you were alone then you probably didn’t want me reminding your lonely ass about the empty life you live.  I spent Valentine’s evening drinking with some friends at a bar downtown Toronto.  Things got a little hazy and I ended up in some persons living room wearing pants that didn’t belong to me.  Weird.  Well, weird for anyone but me.  Sadly, this kind of thing seems to happen fairly often for me!  I spent all of the holiday Monday recovering from the damage I did to my liver.  This week is all about trying to get back into some form of routine.  School is done.  My vacation is over.  It is time to get back to reality.  I recently accepted a job offer with a tech company in Toronto.  I start my job on Monday.  This will be my career until I get on with a fire department in the area.  I am pretty excited about making money again.  I haven’t done that since 2008!  That pretty much gets you up to date on my world.  Here are two Valentine’s Day related funnies that I think you will enjoy.  The first is from FailBlog and features a bunch of wedding proposals that are…well…complete fails!  When asking someone to marry you in front of a large group of people I would think you should make sure beforehand that the answer would be a yes.  After that you get the Valentine’s Day comic from XKCD.  God I love geek humor!  Since I am largely abusive to you, my faithful blog readers, I think today I should be nice.  I actually love you all….except Kevin Gray.  I hate you Kevin.  I hate you with every muscle in my elegant, brown body!

I haven’t posted an SMBC comic on here in a while.  So, I was able to go through quite a few to pick one I really liked.  I figured you would get a kick out of this one.  This week has been a little crazy for me.  Even though I am done school I still have some major exams coming up.  Tomorrow I write 4 different tests.  It is pretty much a summary of everything I have learned this past year.  I enjoy a challenge so I have yet to really start studying!  I have been putting it off for a lot of days now.  I really am a master at procrastination.  When I have to study I find that absolutely any other activity is fun.  Yesterday I found laundry and cleaning the floors to be an absolute blast!  Today I have about 5 guys coming over and hopefully they will kick my ass into gear.  My only break from studying today will be to feed those animals when they get here.  As a result of my schedule, I probably won’t post anything tomorrow.  I will let you all know how it went on Friday.

Here is that SMBC comic…

Every dude has dealt with this before.  I can’t even say too much because the comic does it for me.  Just read and enjoy.  Any guy that has been through the same situation, which is probably all of you, will instantly feel it!  This comes to us courtesy of AbstruseGoose.

wow, it really feels strange to write 2010 on the title of this post.  I am sure it will take me a while to get over the habit of ‘09.  My New Years was a relaxing little gathering at a friends place.  That didn’t stop me from knocking back enough beer and bubbly to kill a horse.  At 3am I took a cab to another location and honestly felt like I was traveling through a post-apocalyptic war zone!  Hoards of people were on the street trying desperately to get into the cab.  Twice we had people jump on the hood of the car trying to get the attention of the driver.  We finally avoided all the zombies and I got to my destination.  New Years day was a day of recovery.  I did manage to get in a weight workout and a run.  Well, it was 3/4 of a run.  I walked the last KM because I was out of gas.  The evening was spent with an amazing dinner of butter chicken and naan.  I tried to have a couple pints but threw in the towel after only one.  I am 31 years old dammit.  I need some downtime!  I think the rest of this weekend is going to be very chill.  I am also fairly confident I am coming down with one helluva cold.  I hope everyone out there is enjoying these last few days before we all go back to reality.  Well…not me…I have never been anywhere close to reality.  Here is a comic that, as usual, has nothing to do with anything!

Hello all.  As some of you probably know, my site got hacked a few days ago.  At first I was certain that it was an exploit on Wordpress that was exposed.  After going through pretty much every freaking file of my installation, and replacing with known good files, I shifted the blame to my host.  They took care of the problems and luckily I only lost a couple of posts.  Worst case scenario, I would have lost about 5 posts because of my most recent complete backup earlier in the month.  Once again, situations like these make a strong case for being anal about backups.  Even if some Internet jack-ass screws my site up, it really wouldn’t take much to throw in a clean install of Wordpress and then load up my backups.  I have been dealing with some interesting quirks after regaining control of my site though.  I hope to get those sorted out soon.  Obviously, I have to prioritize.  New Years is coming up and I need to know where I am going to get drunk!  I will certainly try to shoot you a post either before, during or after New Years.  That’s right, I said during.  Gotta love being able to post via Blackberry!  As usual, here is a comic that has nothing to do with anything I just mentioned.

Alright, I have been ultra-lazy when it comes to blogging lately.  That is probably because I have been ridiculously busy over the last week.  I wish I had more to talk about, but my life just isn’t that interesting.  Or, maybe it is so interesting that it is all a secret and I am just keeping you in the dark.  Intrigued?  Then consider yourself verbally bamboozled.  As is my trend in these situations - here is a comic that has absolutely nothing to do with anything!

Being single, I can appreciate how hard it is to meet people some times.  Let’s face it, there is a lot of competition in the city.  It really can come down to that first impression.  That first pick up line you get out might be a “make or break” moment.  It’s just unfortunate we have to be so crafty with our language in order to get some attention.  I long for simpler times.  Here is a quick look back at early man in the process of a pick up.  They really knew how to rock a pick up line!