Friday, September 25, 2009

I Can Has Blog



So I guess I have been living under a rock for the past year or so, because I just heard about LOLCats. To the creator and all the people who keep LoLCats going I thank you. LoLCats remind me of the posters that use to be offered in elementary school via Scholastic. Does anyone else remember those? Every 2 months or so your teacher would hand out a flyer and it had books you could order and pencils with designs, and other school stuff. It also had posters of animals usually puppies and kittens doing something cute. At the time I though, who would buy a picture of a kitten sitting in a coffee mug? It seemed like such a waste especially when you could buy Garfield 19: The Monday that ate the lasagna, or some other such book. I bought a lot of Garfield and now I own an orange cat, my name isn't John but it is to close for comfort. It's funny to think how scholastic book flyer's are still in my life. So yeah I love me some LoLcats now. It's sad I have been stalking my cat around the house , camera in hand, waiting for him to do something cute but it just hasn't happened yet. Nevele is looking pretty annoyed.

I am happy the weekend is here I want to go out and do something with my friends. A movie might be nice, but nothing serious, this week had plenty of real drama, The Informant looks funny maybe everyone will be on board for that. In nothing else I can look forward to my 5 day vacation in Center Point Oregon. What is in Center Point? My Parents, after that nothing, nothing at all.

Okay I leave you now with a few Pics, See you next Monday.


TranquilNow@gmail.com
~Johnny~
Now 5% more emo

Thursday, September 24, 2009

Blogonaut

Last night while watching TV I caught a local new commercial that was talking about the danger of BLOGS, it cuts to some guys saying " It could be any random person out in the blogosphere, saying whatever they want and causing a lot of damage." Okay the blogosphere? Does the average person who watches the 8 O'clock News know what that means? The news is so terrible why does anyone watch it? I thought the term blogosphere was pretty fun, it made me think of space. I now proclaim myself a Blogonaut, who for the good of the people will explore the dreaded blogosphere. Whatever information I find in that terrible space between our world and THE INTERNETS, known as the Blogosphere, I make my solemn duty to bring forth so that our people may prosper.

A quick Google search says this about blogosphere: The term was coined on September 10, 1999 by Brad L. Graham, as a joke.[1] It was re-coined in 2002 by William Quick,[2] and was quickly adopted and propagated by the warblog community. The term resembles the older word logosphere (from Greek logos meaning word, and sphere, interpreted as world), the "the world of words", the universe of discourse

So there you go, now we all know something more about blogoshpere.

On the real life front I received an email from Carlie. It was pretty tame it said she arrived safe and that her and Karin (her best friend she went to Europe with) were having a good time so far. currently they are in London with plans to go to Whales. So that the girlfriend, exgirlfriend Unknown Status friend update for today.

Work is just inching by this week, it couldn't go slower if time was standing still. Today at work I had almost nothing to do, so I decided to look up old cartoons from the 80's. Most of what turned up were boys cartoons, He-Man, Gi-Joe, Transformers, Mask, and the list goes on. I noticed while doing this search a few cartoons I only vaguely remember, they were aimed more for girls I believe. I am not talking about JEM or Carebears we all know those. These are shows like Shirt Tales, Monchichis, and The Punky Bruster Cartoon. WOW they are just awful, some of the worst things I have ever seen. The theme songs are so bad they are almost good. Something I noticed is that lots of these shows have nonhuman stars or sidekicks, which is pretty odd when you think about it. I leave you with these lovely videos to watch.



TranquilNow@gmail.com
~Johnny~
4 the Popples

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Excuse me, my Blog is Showing.

Well I guess people are reading.
I got an email last night asking about the name of my blog from LaughOutLOL@gmail.com It is pretty cool that someone that I don't know has already found this blog, anyway the answer. Tranquil Now is just something I got use to saying after I got out of the Air Force. People would come up to me and say, how does it feel to be a free man or something like that and I'd say I am tranquil now all is peace and love. It was mainly a joke but I did feel a great sense of peace after leaving the military. It was harder on me then I realized. I was just an account, but every fund I approved was pretty much in the aim of killing others or war. It sounds a little melodramatic but I was a cog in the machine, turning the gears of war. When it was over I was happy to be done. I liked my time in the military and I learned a lot, but I wouldn't go back. So that's where Tranquil Now comes, it would have been peace now but that sounds like and antiwar slogan.

I wound up buying Halo 3 ODST for the Xbox, I had never played a Halo game but they this one is pretty fun. I am not very good yet but it keeps me occupied, so for that I am thankful. The Xbox has games you can download , so I have been testing out tons of demos to see what I want to buy. My top picks so far are Uno, Braid, and Castlevania. The Castlevania game is just a port of the playstation 1 game but it is still one of my favs.

My lunch is almost over so its time to get back to real work, until tomorrow.

Tranquilnow@gmail.com
~Johnny~
3 Onions walk into a bar....
(sorry I can't go on this joke stinks)

Monday, September 21, 2009

The allure of sights unseen

I haven't slept much and I have questions.

What is the allure of sights unseen and travel?
This is something I have never really understood, I have never really had the desire to travel or go places I have never been. It is fair to say that I am not the adventurous type, but that isn't always a negative. I get a lot of grief from my friends about my lack of travel ambition, but I ask you what is so wrong about wanting to be close to the things you love and know. The grass isn't always greener, and vacationing is a farce. Why do people need to leave everything they have established to relax? If the home and life you have is that terrible I think maybe its time to change your life on a more permanent basis. Perhaps I am one of the lucky few that likes their life how it is? I don't need or want a break from my life I am happy with how things are I don't need a change of location to make me feel better. Here is another question, What happens when you take a bad vacation? You hear a lot about people who had an awful vacation, so what is the remedy for that? Is it another vacation, or is it going home and getting back into the routine? If the answer is being home and back to your normal life, then why was the vacation necessary in the first place?

I am just feeling bitter. Carlie being gone has soured my mood, and with my best friends getting married and moving to New York I don't have an active outlet to vent to. Sorry blog readers I have to tell someone, and that someone is you. It's bad enough to sleep poorly and wake up early, but to dwell on all of this is just sickening.

I think after work I will go to WorstBuy and grab a game for the Xbox, maybe that will take my mind off all of this. Time for work, adios.

TranquilNow@gmail.com
~Johnny~
2 For the Show

Sunday, September 20, 2009

Hooray!!! First Post

So this is the first post. Woooo
Okay now it's over and we can move on.

So the focus of this blog is mainly about everyday life. My friends have encouraged demanded me to write this. This demand is not based on an skill or because I have something profound to say. The real reason is because I never call, and I am terrible at keeping them up to date on what is going on. For the most part all of my friends have moved, which sucks. It has been a mass exodus in the last 11 months. I went from having most of my friends within 10 miles to only 3 remaining in California. To top it off my girl friend just left for Europe for 3 months. So that's the story, that is why I blog.

I am having a case of the Mondays. I am at work and I have a ton of stuff to get done but I just can't seem to find the motivation. My weekend was pretty blah or bad, mainly bad I guess. Saturday I drove Carlie to the airport so she could disappear in Europe for 3 months, what a piece of drama that was. I am not sure how I feel about trying to maintain a relationship over an ocean. We have only been dating 4 months I know I like her a lot, and I am sad she is gone. What I don't know is, if its fair to tell her that she needs to stay faithful and behave in a manner befitting of girlfriend status. She says she want to stay together, but I told her to have fun and not to think about me or call. This was her big graduation present for finishing nursing school. I just don't think she should restrict herself. I think as long as she comes back from Europe, without an STD, pregnant, or a tattoo bearing the name of some foreign lover, I could see us getting back together.

So essentially I think we are broken up, but she gave me an Xbox 360 and told me to be good.
Will an Xbox be enough to keep me faithful? Probably, it is not like I am out there meeting tons of girls, I work with all men, and I don't like to party. I guess we will have to wait and see if video games are the way to my heart. The count down to Xmas and Carlies return begins.

Tranquilnow@gmail.com
~Johnny~
0 now lonelier than 1