Badass, or somesuch

I was having a beer on this little patio in front of the New Orleans, a little bar/restauraunt in Seattle's Pioneer Square, the other night, and some guy randomly walks up to me from the sidewalk side of the railing. He was obviously drunk, and dressed sort of like what you might expect a modern pirate to look like...big hoops in his ears, red bandanna tied around his head, short beard, etc. Not even remotely in a hip-hop way either.

He says to me "I wish I could be a badass!" with no detectable sarcasm or irony but almost a hint of admiration, which is what made this odd. I was just kind of hanging out, and I don't think of myself as nessecarily looking 'badass'.

He puts his hand out to shake mine, and I shake it.

Then he says "How long have you been a bouncer?"

I reply that I am not, I'm just having a beer.

The modern urban pirate turns and walks away without another word.

Ah, I love the odd things that happen to me sometimes.

Musings on Travels and Such

So I have finally returned to the Pacific Northwest recently (as most of you know) after eight years of moving around in the Coast Guard. Not long after I got here, I found out that a couple of my close friends were about to take off to Indonesia for a year. That ought to be a great adventure, and I wish you fair winds and following seas, guys!

Makes me wish I had done more international travelling in the last few years. Most of mine was in the continental U.S., although I did get to see Mexico and Guatemala, as well as some of the less populated areas of Alaska. Some that weren't even populated at all, and it was a great experience everywhere. I hope to someday make enough money at a job that allows for a decent amount of time off to travel out of the country more - I'd like to check out Europe, the British Isles, maybe some of the more rural areas of Central and South America like the mesoamerican ruins and such, and I would like to go to New Zealand and Australia. I went to NZ once when I was a baby, but for obvious reasons I simply don't recall much.

Maybe someday.

Other than that I completed one project at work and it was a great learning experience, especially being made a lead - I was expecting to have to work up to that, so I got a little bit of a head start. I'm on to my next game now and it's too soon to know for sure how it is going to work out in many different areas, and quite frankly I'm not allowed to talk about it much anyways. Sometimes it seems like I can talk about even less things involving my new corporate type job than I could when I worked for the government. I'm excited for it all though, and it should be an interesting experience.

Other than that, not much going on. Been reading a lot, mostly geek stuff like Star Wars novels and Zombie books. Playing some 360. Got a webcomic in the tentative early planning stages now, with an artist involved (hell it was the artist's request to do one in the first place!), so this one should get off the ground and I'll keep you posted. It's going to be sort of an anthology thing, playing with many types of stories that loosely tie together...not a straight up comedy, although we will probably hit on that from time to time. I'll let you know when we get it up to a point where it is previewable...right now it is simply a matter of my finding the time to sit down and get some more stuff fleshed out on paper enough so that I can get started on more detailed scripts.

Did I say finding? Probably more like making time. I have so much reading I want to do and games to play that I get sucked into those, lose track of time, and need to be somewhere or sleep. Perhaps I'll figure out 'study times' when I just do comic related stuff, be it research or writing or whatever.

Ah well. I'll keep you informed.