Casey, this is for you, my love. Happy birthday!

(Just kidding, Jay. . .but hey, as long as you're out there and possibly reading this, do you suppose you could accept my MySpace request at some point?)

So, what's been up in my world for the last. . .*checks watch*. . .eh, however long? Glad you asked.

The main reason for my lack of updates here is, once again, the increasing success of The Daily Norseman, which is, quite frankly, the best damn Minnesota Vikings-related site on the Interweb. March 2008 has already been our biggest month ever, and we're still a few hours away from hitting 23 March. This is the first month ever that the site has gone over 20,000 monthly hits. . .and it's the freaking off-season! With the draft coming up and what I hope will be an exciting 2008 season for the Beloved Purple, the site should only become more successful, which will be awesome.

It's been a great opportunity to be able to work for SBNation. . .and to think I got the chance to work there based on the post I wrote [Vince McMahon mode]ON THIS VERY SITE[/Vince McMahon mode] after Daunte Culpepper's knee injury back in October of 2005. Man, has it been that long? The next step is to be regularly getting paid for running the site, and it appears that SBNation will hopefully be on their way to that by the beginning of 2009.

Speaking of getting paid, it looks like yours truly will (hopefully. . .knock on wood) be working at one of the local casinos here in the next couple of weeks. I applied for a part-time position as a Player's Club representative at the Beau Rivage Hotel and Casino in downtown Biloxi. Hopefully I'll be able to work weekends and every other Friday (since we have every other Friday off around here). I figured that while Casey is working (more on that in a bit), I could either sit on my ass in front of my computer at home and make $0 an hour. . .which is what I'd be doing. . .or I could sit on my ass in front of a computer at the Beau Rivage and make $9 an hour. The latter sounded preferable by a large margin. So, I'm just waiting for them to call me back about it. One of my co-workers at the schoolhouse worked there for about six months, so hopefully that will help me get my foot in the door.

Speaking of my beautiful wife Casey, she's been out of work for a while. At the end of November, she caught a pretty nasty case of pneumonia and was in the ICU at the Keesler Medical Center for about a week and a half. As you can imagine, it was pretty hard on her physically, but she's finally starting to come back around. She technically still has her job doing housekeeping on base, but I'm hoping that she finds something less physically demanding and stressful for her own good. . .so she's applied to the Beau Rivage as well as a front desk person. Still waiting on the callback from that, too, but their website said that they had nine openings, so there's got to be room there for someone as lovely, courteous, intelligent, and beautiful as her.

That marathon thing that I mentioned a while back? Yeah, not so much. . .not because I lost my desire to do it, but because my training partner developed a major case of bitchbecrazyitis. My theory? She wanted to ride Space Mountain and couldn't get past the fact that no more tickets were being sold. At least, that's my theory. . .everyone else's mileage may vary (but they're wrong). You can read about it at the link to the blog I was putting up about it a little further down the page there.

Life as an instructor is still pretty good. Just passed off my most recent class. . .I hope to hell that they learned as much as I think they did. . .I don't need to go back into work on Wednesday and have their new instructor telling me that the students are saying that I never taught them (insert something that I know damn well I taught them here), because that crap just annoys me. Also, being an instructor didn't help me nearly as much with WAPS testing as I hoped it would. . .but, hey, there's always next year, right? Even though I REALLY, REALLY hope that I made it this time around, I don't think I'm going to get my hopes up too high. Sure, I'll be disappointed if I don't make it, but life will go on, I suppose.

And, really, that's about everything for now. I'll try to be a little better about keeping this updated, but if The Daily Norseman keeps growing at the rate it has, I might not have the time.

Take care, folks. . .hope everyone out there is well.

(If not, you can click on the "Video Games" link under Topics and get a recap of the whole sordid affair.)

Well, it turns out that Alliwire.com owner Dillon "Fucking Scam Artist" Millsap is at it again, this time running a rip-off site called Entertain Extreme.

Here's the only tip that I can give you on this front. Don't ever, ever, ever, EVER give this fraud any money for anything. Ever.

You've been warned.

The largest reason that I haven't posted here in so long is the success of The Daily Norseman. I've been running the site for nearly 13 months now, and we should get our 60,000th hit sometime next week. Traffic should only pick up more with the football season upon us once again. I couldn't possibly be happier with how the site has gone to this point. I hoped it would be popular, but I didn't think it would get this big. Granted, there are some sites on SBNation that get more hits in a day than I do in a week, but for a team that isn't supposed to be particularly good and that wasn't particularly exciting, I think we're doing okay.

Still playing poker, kind of. I left $5 in my FTP account and withdrew the rest, using it to screw around a bit at the $.05/.10 NL tables. I've fluctuated up and down a bit, but I currently have $15.95, which isn't bad. A couple of bad beats have kept me from being significantly higher. . .well, as "significantly higher" as one can be playing $.05/.10 NL, anyway.

My best friend Adam and I have launched a website to sell gambling e-books. The name of the site is Way of the Gambler, and you can find it by. . .well, by clicking on the link there, pretty much. Adam did an outstanding job designing the site, and now it's just a matter of advertising it before it takes off. Spread the word, people!

I'm back to working out 5 days a week again. . .my fitness test is coming in early October, and I decided that this year I wouldn't wait until 2-3 weeks before the test and run around going "OHMYGOD OHMYGOD OHMYGOD I'm gonna fail!!" But it hasn't killed me yet. . .hopefully it won't, either. Oh, and I finally have a significant long-term fitness goal. . .but I'll save that for another time.

Teaching has been great thus far. I just finished my first ISC (Initial Skill Course) class and passed them off to their next instructor. Two months spent molding the same young minds for 8 hours a day. . .man, those kids are going to be truly fucked up now, aren't they? (-: I don't have to pick up another class until the first week of October, but in the meantime I get to re-write part of the course and have all the fun that that entails.

And that's pretty much everything from this part of the world at the moment. Both people that still read this blog will be happy with the update, I'm sure. (-:

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Seriously, I'm well aware it's an automated message. An actual message would mean that someone at that place actually gave a rat's ass about how their "administrators" were running the site. . .and we KNOW that's not the case.

Ah, well. . .the guy's been exposed. That's all I was really going for here.

EDIT: Oh, and here's yet another threat from him, via my Private Message box.

You get the weekend off. I explained in detail what went down to the last word. You now need to shut up. It's over and done with. There will be no more action taken no matter what you want. You are starting to smell like a troll. Drop it.

I wonder which explanation he's talking about. . .the one where he lied, the one where he plain ol' made shit up, the one where he insulted my intelligence, or the one where he covered for his racist little troll friend? So many excuses, it's tough to sort through them all.

Well, guess what? It turns out that it was all one big April Fool's Day joke.

Yeah, right. That's the excuse they're going with. Do you really think that this stupid fucker has that kind of intelligence or foresight?

Yeah, me either.

As I've said lots of times, feel free to contact Packer Report management to register your disgust with the behavior of their moderator.

The e-mail address for the Packer Report Editor is packrepted@aol.com

Well, if you'll recall, a while back I posted a story about the racists that are running a site called Packer Report. If not, the story is a little ways down the page.

Well, anyway, I received a lovely little message from the main antagonist, dewitt60 today after I asked to be removed from the board's Hall of Fame over the matter. Yes, a Green Bay Packer forum voted a Viking fan (a couple of them, actually) into their Hall of Fame. Goes to show that they know intelligent football fans when they see them. . .well, most of them do, anyway. But I digress.

Here's the burning missive I received:

Just let this die. It's done, if you want to pout and get out of the HOF I frankly don't care. It was handled like every other infraction on our board. That's our policy. I pulled it and repremanded him, he apologized profusly. That's private business. I'm not like Chica and you either posting entire PM's or details on the site. Private warning, timeout for a week followed by 2 and then permanent. You don't run this site and frankly I don't care if you ever come back. You're draggin down our bandwidth. I will tell you this and I'm sure it will end up at PT or you'll go running to Nick. You shouldn't be in the HOF, your immaturity and childishness displayed is not becoming of someone in our little goofy HOF. If you want to run a site then I suggest you apply to PT and get on there.

Keep in mind, if you go to the original thread I started about it, you'll see a message toward the end of the thread from vikingsteve, one of the moderators at Purple Thoughts concerning a thread I posted at PT. . .not at PR RR about the matter. . .and I quote:

"Believe me I have the dogs straining at the leash for revenge. I'm pretty well like except for a certain nutjob. That's not a threat, I just want the same from you guys. It's how we hold things together. The threat is I have guys with 50 id's. They can't wait to raid if it comes to that. You figure it out."

You'll notice that the man has very little to say after that point.

So, basically, I've decided to stay. . .nothing would annoy our pal dewitt (or noted RR assholes like gator53. . .one of the biggest assholes I've ever had the displeasure of sharing bandwidth with. . .and I have that on good authority from Packer fans that have actually met him in person) more than my continued presence on their site.

So, there you have it. . .the saga continues.