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The Monday Read - 03/31/2008

Posted by Saphrym
on April 1, 2008

(The Monday Read is a series of blog posts written on posts that have been found throughout the Entrecard blogosphere. If you’re interested in having your own post listed here, send me a link to that post THROUGH ENTRECARD. You can do so by clicking on the “E” on the Entrecard widget to your right. As you’re reading, make sure that if you like the sites you see, that you share them with friends, subscribe to them, etc. There’s never anything wrong with giving good content extra traffic. Actually, there’s always everything right about it. Confuse you yet?)

I know. Late again. One of these days I’ll get it right. I promise. (Just not promising which day or more than one day.)

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The Never Ending Blog - Gary Gigax Tribute: Sword of the Three Souls - Page 1

Posted by Saphrym
on March 30, 2008

Yeah. I know. It’s a long title. But as everyone should have heard by now, Gary Gigax died on March 4th. Considering his impact on my life, I think he deserves a long title. And this being Sunday, it’s a perfect day to dedicate a post to him. See, I wanted to do something special, but couldn’t think of anything. So it’s taken me a while to do this.

As for the Sunday comment, well, here’s why:

When I was about 13 I was going to church in a small town in Louisiana. The preacher’s son would be in the sound room upstairs during the service and he invited me up there. Unbeknown to the crowd below, he’d bring his Dungeons and Dragons books with him and we’d sit there reading them during the service. I know. I know. “It’s sacrilegious!” But I was 13. There was no youth program. And to be quite honest, the preacher had a monotone voice. Mix that with the fact I was easily bored (and still am actually) and you find there was an excuse. Not a good one, but an excuse nonetheless. That was my beginnings with Dungeons and Dragons. Although that particular activity stopped, I never stopped reading the books. In high school I met friends who also played. That was the beginning of Jolt Cola, Pizza, and Weekend Gaming Sessions. I won’t go into the gritty details. At least not in this post.

So what is this tribute? And why page 1? Well, there used to be this thing on the old BBS systems (read as “before the Internet”) where we would post forum posts that were the beginnings of stories and people would come in and continue them. It was a form of roleplaying, but without the dice, pencils, and math. It tested your creativity and your writing skills. Well, that’s what I want to start here.

RULES

I’m going to start a story just below. I’m then going to tag a specific person to continue the story. The point here is to pick someone who you think can accomplish the goal and also keep the spirit of the story alive. You may want to ask the person before you tag them. Some people would call this a meme. I’m just going to call it fun. To each person who is tagged throughout this story, I ask that you put the page number in your title so everyone can keep track. I also ask that you put a link to the page before yours (in other words, the person who tagged you) so anyone who wants to read the story from the beginning can find their way. And last, but not least, when the person has written the continuation, please edit your post to contain a direct link to the next page. For example, when the person I’m tagging has written their part, I’ll edit the link at the bottom of this post to point directly to their page of the story.

I’m tagging Woobie.

THE STORY

Page 1 | Page 2 | Page 3 | Page 4 | Page 5 |

“What did you just say?” asked Serol. He was a blonde man about in his late twenties. The scar below his right eye always seemed to twitch when he was excited, bad or good. It was twitching now. There was good reason.

“I said I’d rather not go back to Reindwood. I know you came to take me there. But King Cers and I don’t really get along. It’s a long story,” said the gleaming white sword in his hand.

“I don’t know anything about that story. What I’m having a problem dealing with is that you’re speaking in the first place,” said Serol.

“Well, when the King sent you on a quest for the ‘Sword of the Three Souls’ and offered you treasures beyond your wildest dreams, did you really expect me to be a plain sword?”

“No. I figured the cyclops guarding you didn’t just like you cause you were shiny, or he may have considering the intelligence level of a cyclops in general. But a talking sword?” asked Serol.

“For a man who has had conversations with dragons, or so the legends go, you’d think you’d be used to things like this,” said the sword.

“Dragons have mouths. You don’t,” said Serol as he blinked.

“Oh. So now you’re racist against beings without mouths. I see how it is,” the sword grew slightly brighter and with a red tint in the tip.

“Ok. Ok. No need to get angry. ‘Sword of the Three Souls’ is kind of a mouthful. What can I call you?” asked Serol.

CONTINUED BY Woobie.

Gamer, Writer
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The Saturday Update: 03/29/2008

Posted by Saphrym
on March 29, 2008

DIET DIARY

NUMBERS FROM TODAY
Blood Sugar: 78
Weight: 285.0
Fat Percentage: 48.7
Water Percentage: 29.8
Muscle Percentage: 34.6

I really need more cardio. I’m waiting on a friend who is supposed to be getting me a cheap exercise bike. Gonna put it in the living room and ride when I watch television. I mean, my clothes are still getting bigger. My muscles are still getting bigger. But I want my weight to go down. Must have cardio.

“Saturday Update? Why the name change?” Well, because I’m going to start using Saturday to not only update you on my diet but on anything I feel I’d like to tell you about the site. So here’s a few things about the site:

  1. I updated to WordPress 2.5 so if you see anything weird going on, feel free to let me know. The backend on this thing is beautiful.
  2. I got rid of Project Wonderful and replaced it with Show Your Ad Here. I’ve also cut down to just the one ad. So if anyone actually buys the ad, then they’ll be the only ad on my site, other than the Entrecard. It’s only $10.00 a week and will help me cover the cost of my hosting. If you wanna buy one, the link is under the ad.
  3. I’m going to change the MWF Read to the Monday Read. This is kind of like when I stopped doing the daily diet update. This isn’t a diet blog. It’s not a “Best of Blogs” blog. It’s a blog in which I want to write stuff that creates emotions within you. Whether you cheer for me on Saturdays as I lose weight (hopefully soon again), cry as I stir your heart strings, smile as I rant about the things that happened in my life, laugh as I produce satire and parodies because of all of the things that I truly want to make fun of, or wait in anticipation as you read the grueling tale of my life during and after Hurricane Katrina attacked us when we lived in Louisiana. I want to write these things, but lately I’ve been writing too much of the other stuff. But don’t worry. If you’re here for the dieting, tune in on Saturdays. If you’re here for the “Great Blog Posts,” tune in on Mondays. Otherwise, enjoy the ride the rest of the days.

As for tuning in, tomorrow I pay my tribute to Gary Gigax. Feel free to join in.

(For more information about my dieting and weight loss, click here. For more information about the specific foods I eat, click here. For the diet I follow, click here.)

Dieter, Webmaster/Blogger
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The MWF Read - Random Rewards Vol. 3

Posted by Saphrym
on March 28, 2008

The MWF Read(The MWF Read is a series of blog posts written on posts that have been found throughout the Entrecard blogosphere. If you’re interested in having your own post listed here, send me a link to that post THROUGH ENTRECARD. You can do so by clicking on the “E” on the Entrecard widget to your right. As you’re reading, make sure that if you like the sites you see, that you share them with friends, subscribe to them, etc. There’s never anything wrong with giving good content extra traffic. Actually, there’s always everything right about it. Confuse you yet?)

For those of you who participated in the blurb post, here’s my gift to you (along with 100 ECs for each of you):

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The MWF Read - Entrecard Special

Posted by Saphrym
on March 27, 2008

The MWF Read(The MWF Read is a series of blog posts written on posts that have been found throughout the Entrecard blogosphere. If you’re interested in having your own post listed here, send me a link to that post THROUGH ENTRECARD. You can do so by clicking on the “E” on the Entrecard widget to your right. As you’re reading, make sure that if you like the sites you see, that you share them with friends, subscribe to them, etc. There’s never anything wrong with giving good content extra traffic. Actually, there’s always everything right about it. Confuse you yet?)

I know. A day late again. Sorry. Was looking for some more blog posts to throw in this post. See, I’ve never written a blog post about Entrecard on my own blog. So, here is where I get a chance to do so. Oh, and be back tomorrow to see what I do for those of you who participated in my last post. I’ve got something special planned.

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