So apparently there is a new movement ravaging across the youth of today. (I can say youth now, I am over 30) When I was young, there was this new style called Goth. Typically Goth people wore black, listen to dark music, and are very very angsty. Now, I loved wearing black, I was a big fan of dark music, and being a teenager, was the epitome of angst. I played Vampire, I yelled at my parents, you know, all the things that a young Goth teenager would do. Even into my early twenties, I still enjoyed the music and wore black. The only problem is, so did everyone else. To be “Goth” became the cool thing to do. Everyone was Goth now. Stores like “Sears” and “JC Penny’s” started selling dark Goth clothing. The only problem with this is that, I enjoyed being Goth because it was the rebellious thing to do. Now, if everyone is rebelling, who are we rebelling against?

So I tapered off my Goth regime. I started buying some regular clothes, some non-black jeans, the occasional blue T-shirt, etc. I look at the kids today walking around in their black spiky hair, and their torn “Doors” black shirts and I just laugh. I laugh because, 1: I used to be like that, and 2: I did it because it’s what I wanted, not what everyone was doing.

BUT WAIT, There’s more. Now there is a new movement, it would seem that the Goth scene has split (that’s what happens when you have too many people rebelling) Now you have Goths and Emo. Goths are the Dark Rebels and Emo’s are the Trendy rebels. At least, this is what I see.

This all started with my friend turning to me and saying

“Your so Emo.”

“I’m what?”

“Emo! Look at you, you wear trendy black, you style your hair, you listen to punk music, Your Emo”

“I am so not Emo”

He sent me a few online quizzes and sure enough, they said I was Emo. I don’t want to be Emo. To me, Emo was a Stand up Comedian who had a really whiney voice and a scary disposition.

So I changed my Website, No more black and Red. I have started to evaluate my wardrobe and after the first of the year I believe I will be doing some cleaning in that department. I want to be Steve, not Goth, not Emo, not Punk, just Steve.

So you may notice a few things different about the Place. The website has been up for almost a year now and I thought it was about time for a Face lift. I mean what website isn’t always under construction. But hey, with Re-Design comes new features too! Check out the “PhotoBlog.” This is a great tool powered by Buzznet for Cameras and other pictures. It’s totally free for basic service. And seeing as how I got a new camera phone, it’s perfect. I can snap a picture from anywhere and send it to this within seconds.

Also….. I Notice that not many people ever use the comments feature on the blog. (Either that or no one cares, and I am just talking to myself here, which could very well be true) Please feel free to use the comment feature and leave me some feedback! It gets lonely in my little corner of cyberspace.

I feel like crap. No, wait, crap probably feels better because it’s out and free. You know sometimes I am floored by Humanity, especially in times of “Goodwill towards man, and Peace on Earth.” Alright I guess I will explain.

Christmas is coming and I have been making plans for quite a long while now to go visit my Son and My parents in Oregon. So I am going to be gone from the 21st through the 28th of Dec. That’s great stuff right? Amy was making plans to go visit her family in TX as well. So we wouldn’t be spending Christmas together, I understand that, we are both with Family and that ok. I even thought it would be a nice Idea to buy her a Plane ticket for her Christmas present. Wasn’t cheap, but I figured, part of that good will towards man thing, it was for a good cause. She would get to see her Kids, and be with her Dad and brother on Christmas.

Well, that was the plan. Last night new plans came to light. For reasons not to be listed here because it’s not my story to tell, we had to cancel Amy’s ticket. Granted she now has a goodly sized credit with the airline that will be used before Dec of 05, minus the $130 cancel fees. But now she won’t be going anywhere for Christmas, and I will be in OR. This kills me because I know she knows so few people here and most of them will be leaving too.

She is being very adult about it, but I know it hurts. I have spent a lot of Christmases alone due to Military and whatever so I know what it’s like. You say in your head “It’s just another day” Until that morning comes around and you wake up and then try and force yourself back to sleep because you know Christmas is there and no one else is. You turn on the TV and see the Specials Airing, “Christmas Story” (you’ll shoot your eye out) and “Nightmare on elm Street” (Whenever Freddy Kills, and Angel Looses his wings).

I sat staring at the Cancel button for a few minuets while the Orbits Lady on the phone explained how to handle the credit and all. And I felt the pain shoot through my heart when I had to click it. I am so used to making things work no matter what and I have lost control of a situation that probably wasn’t in my control to begin with. I don’t know what else to do.

Wow, what a weekend! For starters you may have noticed a little change in either how you got here or where you are now. If you don’t notice any difference than I did everything right and it’s Transparent. I switched Domain Hosts! We are no longer hosted by V3, which was a nice company, Just not what I wanted. We are now Hosted by BlueHost! And www.wizzer.org is a Domain and Host site, not just a Redirect.

Ok, Let me take it down a notch for those who are looking at that last paragraph and saying “Huh?” When I bought the rights to www.wizzer.org last year I only bought the name. V3 actually Redirected all Traffic that went to wizzer.org to my cox.net personal web space. Which is why most bookmarked pages are members.cox.net/spetrucelli/page.htm instead of www.wizzer.org/page.htm . Following so far? So by doing this switch, all of my Pages are now hosted on the wizzer.org machine. I have set up a few Temp pages that will forward you from the old site to here, just in case.

Now, why did I do all this? GOOD QUESTION! I needed more from my Site. More space, more capability etc. and to do that I needed full blown webspace. I am working with DeadManWalking on getting my Gallery moved over from the Team Immortal site to here, and will prolly move the Movies over as well. We have a whopping 2gb of space to play with.

So as for the weekend, You guys know that I was feeling pretty sick last week right? Yeah well that being said it prolly was not a good idea to go out and Drink on Friday night. Knowing that it was a bad Idea to drink it would have been an even worse idea to drink Jägermeister. So with these incredibly bad ideas in mind, Paul and I headed out to a local irish pub on Friday Night called Ned Divines. It was here that we started to Imbibe. First came the Liquid Cocaine. Next, the Red Headed Slut. Then, another Liquid Cocaine. Somewhere in there we ate dinner.

Ned Divines wasn’t as happening as we had hoped so we headed over to a great little college bar called T.T. Reynolds. Right off the bat He started there with gin and Tonic and I had an Amoretto Sour. Throughout the Night it was all Ciders for me, about 5-6 of them. Paul stuck with the Gin and Tonic, But I could swear he had more ice than Booze. Well a few bands started Playing and the music there was Uber loud. Of course that might have something to do with us standing Right next to the speaker. By about 1am I was hurting. No wait, I take that back, I was feeling no pain what-so-ever. I gave Amy a call and gave her pretty good directions (considering I was 3 sheets) and she was on her way to get us. Paul had wandered out of the bar to catch up to me, and then realized that he left his Tab Open and Credit card there. He stumbled back in to retrieve it and we started wandering down the street. I have No idea how far I got before Amy got to us, but she said she was happy that there were no police in view, as we would have been taken in for Public Intoxication. I wonder if that Bush Paul fell in was Public or private.

I am going to spare you the details of the rest of the evening, needless to say it got really Ugly from there. (Really ugly). Saturday was not to happy a day for me because of all of this, but I still managed to get up and moving and get some things accomplished. We went through and got all of my Paperwork in order. We finally picked up Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 7, so I can see how the story ends. Sunday was a slow day as well. We decorated the Tree and lounged around the house.

There may be more, so I will probably try and update as the memory returns to me. Oh, I know one thing. (how Could I forget this) Due to the events of Friday night and the Sickness of last week, I now have no Voice. Yup, you could say the weekend left me totally speechless. (ba-dum-dum)

DISCLAIMER: For those Family members and friend who might actually be concerned for me. Please keep in mind, I Rarely go out and drink. And even when I do drink it is VERY rare that I drink as much as I did. The last time I drank this much, I believe was in Okinawa, the night before the Alice in Wonderland auditions. (For those that remember that) So don’t think that this is a regular occurrence for me. It’s not, and it will probably be quite some time before that ever happens again. (Well, at least until new years (: )

Wow, Things suck when your sick. I have lost track of time and here it is Friday the 10th already. I have been sick the past few days and am still a little woozy now. So I am really not sure how this Blog is gonna sound.

The weekend. Well we did the Toys for Tots drive last weekend in Fredricksburg, It was great fun. I realize that I have a lot of repairs to do on my armor before the next event, But that’s gonna have to wait till After X-mas as I don’t really have the time to do it. Saturday night Amy and I went to my Company X-mas party and it was a very nice time. Dinner was great and we sat with Paul and Kevin making jokes the whole night. The rest of the weekend was split between Cleaning, Lounging and playing EQII.

The Week has pretty much been the same thing. A few new things tho….. I picked up one of the greatest inventions known to man: The TIVO. If you don’t have one of these I highly suggest you go get one. I now have effortless recording, Pausing of Live TV, The Button on the remote that I like to refer to as the “what The???” Button. (Instantly rewinds the last 10 sec) Not to mention that the TIVO will stream Music and Photos to my TV and Stereo from my PC. And sometime this month I will be able to Stream the TIVO recordings back to my PC. It’s Freaking Awesome! There is also a way you can go Online and Tell your TIVO to record something without you even being there. That mixed with the new TV I bought off of Paul. He Sold me his old 32” Trinitron for 200 bucks (can’t beat that price)

This coming weekend is a Cleaning and getting ready for the Holidays Weekend. I leave for Oregon on the 21st and come back on the 28th. I will let you know how the weekend Panned out on Monday.

Ok, So the weekend is Upon us and it looks to be a busy one at that. Plans for the weekend include: Friday, Crucial Employee Appreciation. This is when we usually get our seasonal bonuses so that should be good. I plan on Buying a TIVO unit so I will finally catch some of the shows I am missing out on without having to laboriously program my VCR. Friday Night is a Spirit Night. There is a Local Woman here that does a John Edwards style reading. It should be fun and it will be nice to get out of the house.

Saturday will be a Toys For Tots drive at the Fredericksburg Toys R Us. The Garrison will be there in Full Trooper Gear. Should be lots of fun. I love seeing the Kids reaction to a bunch of Storm troopers. After That is the Office Christmas party.

Sunday is a down day, doc may be up to visit but aside from that, not gone be doing much.

I have to say I have been having a lot of fun playing EQ2. It floors me that this is the same company that makes SWG. They had so many issues with SWG, and it remains to this day to be broken. But yet they can make a Game like EQ2 that just seems to work. I don’t get it. Anyways, I will most likely have an update for you guys on Monday with how all of the above went. Have a good weekend!