Another first.

Well, I said I would never play on XBL with all of those geeks. Now, I have been playing almost every night since May of 2006. Turns out quite a few of those supposed "geeks" are really good people to play and bullshit with. So, this is my first blog posting. EVER. I have always been of the opinion that anyone who has a blog either: A.) has too much time on their hands. or B.) are so pretentious as to think that people actually give a crap what they write about. I guess add me to that list of having too much time on my hands. Styx had a song about that. I know this is coming WAY late, but this will be my first official RANT.

When in the hell did Easter become brother to Christmas? Did Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny become blood brothers sometime in the past 10 years? Earlier this month ( around Easter duh!) I was in a store, when I overheard a woman basically bragging to the person who was checking her out about how her daughters Easter "budget" was around $400. $400!!?!?!?!!? WTF?!?!?!!? I know this is going to sound just like someone's grandpa telling them tales of REAL woe about the one time he had to eat sawdust for a week, but damn I NEVER got $4 much less $400 for Easter. I was so damn happy to get a chocolate(hollow) easter bunny and some real boiled eggs,that I thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. Getting an Easter basket for your kids with candy, etc. , and having the traditional Easter Egg hunt with your family is great. But, damn what in the hell do some of these kids have to look forward to? They don't have to work for anything. Mom and Dad will buy them whatever, whenever they want it. Any parent wants better for their son or daughter than they had. Building some kind of work ethic in your children should come first , before just giving them everything. Parents have just lost sight of what's best for the children. Instead, it has been replaced with the need to keep up with the Joneses and making sure little Timmy has everything he wants. Raising a well mannered child or any child for that matter is hard work . I know this, I have a 10 year old son. He wants to go to the movies, help Dad with the yard first. He wants the latest greatest game out, show me what you can do with your grades. Little things like this help. Anyway, end of rant. Time to go chainsaw some 2old4Duty(plug!) members.