Slightly Psychopathic

So there was no post yesterday, but I was dealing with money stress for the better part of the day that I did manage to resolve by the end. However, it bogged my head down for most of the day, and I was somewhat anti-social as a result (not that I get a lot of attention at work, which helps).

Now, while I was at work, I learned a nifty little trick about Guitar Hero, so I was eager to try it later. I tried it and it worked, but it'll take a ton of practice to get DragonForce up to speed. So I decided to play another song: The Knights of Cydonia on Hard. I practiced a couple of sections and was satisfied with how I was doing on it. Trouble is, to reach these most difficult sections, you have to play through most of the 5-minute song, and doing 4 minutes only to crash on the fifth is frustrating. I went back and forth to practice and try again, and I kept failing out the song.

Ok, when I get frustrated, I get very quiet. Reason for this is the anger wells up in my head, and I shut down to control it or else we'd be short one guitar controller (though the gods of rock would smile upon me). When I shut down, the Queen doesn't know how to react to me, since my reactions have often been unpredictable when I hit that mode. I'm a lot better at controlling my frustration than I used to be, but she finds it to be far better when I'm frustrated to leave me alone until I cool off.

Time was, I had a very violent temper to the point where I would throw things, but as I've grown older, I've learned to control it to such a severe extent that I suspect that control is one reason I come off as largely emotionless. I actually have some pretty radical emotions that can be extreme at times, but I keep them bottled up. Yeah, Spock is my hero.

I watched Taking Lives recently, and at one point the profiler stated that normal people react to the mention and evidence of violent acts where psychopaths are detached from them, viewing those evidences as just something else in the world. It makes me wonder how close to the edge I am since internally, I react, but externally, I show nothing in most cases. I believe the Queen is now scared. Love you, honey!

For Easter, the princesses each got a new Webkinz turtle. Their main excitement there is registering them on the Webkinz site so they can setup rooms for them, and name them, and of course, all those online games. Well, Sassy Pants wanted to call hers Shelly. The site denied the name's use. Know why?

Get a load of this: the name was not allowed to be used because...it contains the word "hell." yeah, that means they've got some logic set up to exclude foul language from within the names selected. While I grant this is for obvious reasons -- I mean, you don't want some creative compound names coming up -- it also means that the have an animal with a shell and no way of using the word shell in the name (like at 75% of the children will try to do). What will they do if a Shitzu comes out (ok, so it can be spelled shiatsu, but where's the fun in that?)? Or Hello Kitty? I'm sure profane words appear in several other common words (that I can't think of). While it may inspire creativity, I suppose +h3r3 @r3 \/\/@y$ @r0vl\ld 1+.

To end this post, this morning I came into work as usual and a short while later, Optimus Prime arrived. We were chatting about nothing when someone walked between our cubes and stated, "cake...kitchen." Naturally, we understood exactly what this meant, but I had to remark, "so which of us is cake and which is kitchen?"

She came back by, so we asked. She rolled her eyes as so many people do when we start such nonsense. Optimus figured he would be kitchen because he's the larger of the two of us. I disagreed with this since that would make me the cake boy. While we were speaking of this, she opted to clarify that the cake was in the kitchen.

Well, we paused for a moment and Optimus commented that he didn't much like the implications of that.