Well, now I’m famous. Looks like the article I’ve been waiting for, for the past three weeks, has finally been churned out of the Quad City Times. Props to the author of the article, Kelly Steuck, whom I work with at TownNews.com.

Never thought I’d be in the paper for anything but my obituary in 287 years, but this certainly works! Better yet, it’s great exposure for the QC DDR group I started about a year ago. It’s hard to build a community with no machine, so hopefully this article will herald a deluge of interest. Of course, when and if Miller Time Bowling finally gets the new machine, it’ll be even easier! Ryan tells me they’re close, and are applying pressure to their game supplier to get them the machine, so it’s only a matter of time.

Before I get to the “story”, I’d like to say that it was inspired by a post on Kuro5hin.org a kind of moderated internet commune where this story was posted about the history of the American school system as written by a former New York Teacher Of The Year. You can find the text of the book on John Taylor Gatto’s site. Whoever submitted the story to Kuro5hin couldn’t fully relate the idea of Leviathan, so I helped him out. So, here we go…

What, you mean my housewarming was over on Monday and I’m just now doing the writeup? Quiet you! If I needed that kind of criticism, I’d raise Sam Kinison from the dead and ask him to insult me for an hour. Yes, I’m a lazy, dirty, and evil man - but be that as it may, the party was great!

I figured I’d spend some time to get a AAA rating on some light songs, since my feet hurt too much to play standard or heavy for a few days. I managed to get five AAA’s yesterday. The last one took over an hour and drove me nuts, forcing me to play it over and over again after continuously scoring 1 great. It doesn’t help that my pad’s right arrow is flickering, but oddly enough, the single great I kept getting was never in the same place, nor caused by the flickering arrow.

For this latest rant, I’d like to quote a letter forwarded to me by my former friend Becky, who apparently believes it’s fine to entice men into sinful thoughts. Please note that I have enhanced the letter somewhat to provide appropriate descriptions for certain key words.