My Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day!!!

Ok so it started out good,

I had woke up before my alarm but then I spilled my Protein shake all over the kitchen floor while trying to shake it up in a new container I got from my job…(OMEN)

Whatever lil' spill, still left out early and had everything, I was ready.

Got to the bus with 5 mins to spare--

Then got on the metro didn’t have to stop to add fare I was good to go--

Got off the Greenline at U Street and as I reached the elevator I checked my phone clip to find… no phone,

SON OFA...

I had mistook the wallet in my pocket for my phone and had left the phone somewhere near or on the seat… that or I got GOT…

In a word BLOWN

Walk to the place of employment…mad

Get the my job and just lay in my classroom pouting as I lay lounged against a bold green child sized couch. Then I get the motivation to do something about it…

I call sprint, and realize I am past due… so I pay the bill only to be told from the Jackasses at Asurion that my insurance didn’t count cause the phone was not activated at the time it was lost/stolen...

Is Wayne Brady gonna have to choke a bitch

So I am texting on my computer to my gf to try to get the Metro lost n found and then I stop getting responses, and what do you know, a teacher has to leave early so gues who has to work for 7-5 this guy…

Finally go to the lobby and call home to be told that I had like a dozen responses to the texts I was sending and all she kept getting was hello, mostly cause I wasn’t getting anything on my end, and she had now been waiting for a full hour to pick me up from the metro that I had not even got on yet….

In short on August 26, 2011 it was written… FML

--H00k

On a more positive note I did remember to grab my jacket before it started to rain… (it’s the little things)

BACK in the game

TANKING

Today I watched a video from Lore and the weekly marmot . The topic was tanking and threat WoW is a great game, and it has evolved over the years. Some love where it is now, some hate it, and some play it completely indifferent to the changes because they know they are just going to play the damn game anyways… well I appreciated the game mechanics from when I started to where they are now, and with millions playing it is a grueling task to try to appease that crazy population (proudly I am a member of that crazy population)

TANKING

Before the new changes

Tanks - Focus on keeping attention of the boss (sustaining aggro as we call it)

Healers - Focus on keeping Party members alive

DPS (damage per second, its virgin for Damage dealt) - Focus on Killing

After

Tanks - Focus on Staying alive

Healers - Focus on keeping party alive

DPS - Focus on Killing things

MY TAKE ON IT ALL

WoW as a game has become more of a calculation than a game to most hardcore gamers. In the same fashion as one counts cards in poker or black jack this game has been broken down by players so much that you are really expected to know the formulas in order to attempt End Game content.

I don’t think they ever meant for the game to be interpreted so analytically but it has and for me that might be the worst part.

Back with a CHALLENGE

*****THE OFFICIAL 5 FOR 15 CHALLENGE*****

So, I heard from a good friend that if you take the time to be good at something, even if it is just 15 minutes every day, that in two years you will become an expert. I decided that the day after my Birthday would be a perfect starting point to test this theory. Starting today I will take 5 fifteen minute segments of my day, everyday and use them in the service of 5 personal goals. Through the help of Social Networking, I will record and document the results. But, I know I will need help and so I am sharing my challenge my Social Network. I will be using Facebook, Twitter, Blogspot, and Youtube to Kick it off (maybe others as I get better). Now it doesn’t have to be 5 that’s just a catchy little hashtag, it can be more, or just one goal but the important part is that you put in the time EVERYDAY and try.

My 5:

- Acting/Entertaining

- Japanese

- Drawing

- Blogging???(this is the tough one lol)

- Chess

- Learning JKD (yea its 6 wanna fight about it...)

If you want to be apart, just do it! Comment, Reply, Retweet, Message me, or post a video link of your #5for15 or #5for15challenge and include that tag in your post.

I know I will need the encouragement of my friends to make it happen so I encourage you, I ask you, and I CHALLENGE YOU (in my Charlie Murphy voice) to become an expert and take the #5for15challenge

Thanks in Advance for Indulging my madness…

~H00k

h00ktastic@gmail.com

http://h00ktastic.blogspot.com/

http://twitter.com/#!/H00ktastic

http://www.youtube.com/user/H00ktastic

http://www.facebook.com/david.hooker2

The Vid -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbgNWyZWz-8

Some Guy's Story

This is my most recent attempt at a monologue, I am learning with each one but I think this one sounds OK, tell me what you think... I will perform it on my youtube page so you can get a real feel for it.

I am sorry. I am sorry that I am not the man you thought I was, not the man I pretended to be. I have this thing where I have to try to be the perfect man. Not because I want to be but I have to be the best possible candidate for you, well for any woman, Maybe its some kind of inferiority complex, maybe its because all the ones that "got away" destroyed my hopes of ever finding a "soul mate". True Love, It all seems like romanticized bull shit when you're getting shot down because you are "too nice" or "such a good friend".

I don’t know, I just need for you to think that I am worthy of you, that there is a reason to want me. Women come with so many prerequisites and red tape that it was not enough to be me, so I become whatever she wants me to be. I spent years figuring out how to be "that guy" and I got really good at it and after a while that was all that mattered, All I cared about was how to get "her". I don't even stop to see if I really even want her, just do whatever it takes to get the girl to pick me.

I mean she didn't mind feeling special and part of me just liked to make her feel that way because, well I could. But then we get to this point, or I get to this point and am ready to capture the next one.

I make excuses for myself saying that I am not good enough for her and she will find someone better, I never stopped to think about if she wanted to… I can't because every thing in me tells me I am wrong for feeling this way.

Karma is gonna get me back for breaking her heart, she was a nice girl. But instead I just find a new one, and she makes me forget. I see the next pretty smile, or nice ass, or whatever , and I forget. The chase starts again and I say all the right things and I convince myself I am head over heels, when I am really just taking a breath. So I am sorry, but I have to go, again.

FML

It is extremely difficult for me to write this because once it escapes my mind it is true, and the truth, in this case, hurts.

I am on the verge of being Evicted from my apartment. I have about 28$ in my bank accounts (checking and saving) and most of it is my fault. I have been able to do things by sheer will and determination on several occasions in my life. I HATE not being in some type of control and waiting to hear back from multiple positions is woefully difficult for me. I have been raised with the philosophy of doing the right thing gets rewarded and money will come. That you should do things for the people you care about. Unfortunately, you just can't do everything you want with out sacrifice. My mistake was what I chose to give up. I sacrificed rent money, to appease her. I sacrificed financial stability to appease her, and some logic just to appease her.

What is hard to swallow is the fact that no matter how much I rationalized my decisions, some were just plain wrong. Crunching numbers, counting on empty promises, and assumptions are my downfall. Unfortunately for me, It bit me back in a bad way.

Not a failure, just a chance to prove I can overcome.

--LIFE

Wait Til I Get My Money Right...

BEING BROKE SUCKS.

Now that we have that fundamental truth out of the way I can begin this rant. It all started after I graduated from College back in 2008. I was full of hope and promise. Despite the fact that the economy was in the worst position I had ever seen in all my 21 years of living. But I didn't care. No job, who cares I will work at school, Living at home with mom-- So, I will just stay on Campus. I was pretty carefree at the time making enough money to get by, and taking a break from well the life I normally lead. You know, the one with responsibilities and goals and aspirations.

Well it was all good until last year and I had to get my own place, which meant I had to get a REAL job. here is a simple equation for you:

Recession+Real Job= Fallacy

So I ended up finding 3 part time positions and busting my ass like ::racially insensitive statement ahead:: the jamacians on In Living Color. It was rough and I ended up being paid alot less than what they tell you I am supposed to get for having a Bachelor's Degree. Ah but it was enough to get a place!

So me and my RL GF (lol I just think its funny to have to put RL on the front of it) move in to our very own place.

Everything is all sugar and rainbows right, WRONG. I am still not making enough money so now I am almost late on rent every month. What pisses me off is that I can't seem to get ahead. I have a multitude of job offers come up, and fall through but the summer is the worst because there is NO MONEY out there. I won't be out on the street don't worry (I know your concerned). But I will be BROKE until Sept. when the School Year starts and I can get back to making some actual income.

HERE WE GO...............................................

STOP BSing

I have no reason to procrastinate. I am almost 25 and no where near where I want to be at this stage in my life. Seems like just yesterday I was watching those commercials for Auditions for the next "All That" cast member thinking, I could do that....
I am kicking it into high gear, starting now. People are depending on me to do something BIG, and I cant do that thinking small. So this Blog, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube will start seeing my videos and ideas on a regular basis until I have really gained some steam and a name on this neighborhood called the World Wide Web...

FULL STEAM AHEAD!

NEXT STOP, fool ain't no stops on this train, only one destination... GREATNESS!