Some times the humor of a situation escapes me. This forum post made me want to just say whatever kind words I could muster. I figured I would try to contact the person that made the post. But I’m not sure of how to do that. So I tried iming the hotmail account that’s in the last post over at Chrome’s site. I wasn’t sure who the account belonged to so I tried to just get a conversation going. This is the response I got:

Now death hasn’t been something I’m good at dealing with. When given the chance to prepare for it, I do ok. But when it just happens I kind of have a hard time. I didn’t know Chrome for as long and as well as some other people. But the response I got wasn’t what I expected. It kind of pissed me off to be honest.

I didn’t act in my usual hostile manner. I just exited politely. And maybe this all shouldn’t bother me as much as it does. But it does. Chrome passing has been hard for me. I guess it goes back to the post Band Of Brothers. But I didn’t take into consideration the thought of losing these “virtual friends” I have made.

Maybe it’s more than that. Maybe it’s because I saw a lot of me in Chrome. Enough for this to bother me as much as it is. Maybe it makes me realize my mortality. I don’t know. I don’t have any answers. I’m not even sure of the questions. Maybe it’s just me. That’s to many maybes.

I have never had to deal with this kind of situation. Not in the virtual world which I play in. I’m kind of at a loss for words. Here is what sad news Gawain had to deliver in the forums this morning:

For those of you who were wondering where Marisin has been these last couple months (or even remember he was in the guild) his name was Scott Maddox, and he has been in the hospital with some serious health problems. He died today. I got the call at about 9:30am, and I don’t know the details yet, but there you are.

I really don’t know what to say. Marisin was a great guy. He was one of the few guildies I truly looked forward to talking to online. I didn’t know him that long. But in the time I had to pleasure to know the man, I know that logging in to DAoC now knowing he will not ever be there again to exchange witty comments with; well it saddens me in a way that I just don’t have the words to explain.

Please take a chance to stop by the forum thread. Leave a few kind words. Tell a story about the man named Scott Maddox who you may or may not have known as Marisin. Also if you have the time and you want to know more about the man behind Marisin, stop by Scott’s website. When more info comes my way I will post it here.

This post was more or less a cut and pasted from the AoD Site. Marisin was an in game character for the man named Scott Maddox, who has never been mentioned at Hotelblues.com before. Scott’s website (it’s the one called Chrome Magnum Man) has been over in the quick links over on the right for a while now. I wanted to put this up here as well just to make sure that any guildies who may or may not check this site first sees this message.

I have opened the forum that Gawain’s post is in up so anyone can reply to this thread. But I want to make it very clear that anyone who takes advantage of this and says anything that even in the slightest way comes off like disrespect I will ban you from my website and from the forums. No warning. No second chances. Please have some respect on this subject.

Here is another “thing you fill out and get a clever something” I saw over at Gawain’s. This one is called What is Your Destiny? My destiny is below:

What is Your Destiny? by Valcion
Name	Turk
Color	Black
Birthday	03/27/1972
Destiny	Legendary Hero
Date when you fulfill your destiny	July 26, 2009
Created with quill18‘s MemeGen!

Legendary Hero? I can live with that. Point your browser over here to find out your destiny.

Here is another one of those things I saw over at Gawain’s. This one is called What Is Your Battle Cry? Simple enough. Here is my result:

What Is Your Battle Cry?

Who is that, stalking amidst the terrain! It is Turk, hands clutching a sharpened screwdriver! He screams ominously: “I’m seriously going to spank you until you’re a Dungeons & Dragons statistic!!!”

created by beatings : powered by monkeys

Turk gives a more boring result. So I went with my real name. And I’m happy using my RL name, because now I have a new Battle Cry.

Well if it’s good enough for Gawain it’s good enough for me:

Your Name: Turk
Your Date of Birth: 03/27/1972
Your Question or Information: I think you suck!

Past Fehu – Increase of wealth and possessions, protection of valuables. Used to send energy on its way, fire in its uncontrolled, primal state.

Present Gebo – Gifts, partnerships on all realms, sex magick, brilliance, integration of energies.

Future Ing – Fertility, successful conclusion to issue or situation, ending one cycle and beginning another.

Cast the runes here:
Rune Caster

Whatever!

Ok I don’t often reveal secrets regarding myself. But today I am. Here it is. I hate being called buddy. I just can’t stand it. Nothing annoys me more. I really mean it. Even my friends don’t refer to me as a buddy. And my friends would be the only people I would allow calling me buddy. Of course people who don’t know me just won’t know this. If you read this you can consider yourself warned.

Of course there is nothing I can do to stop people from calling me buddy. It is a free world. I just wanted to make sure that this is known. An example of the usage buddy in a sentence (just so everyone understands what I’m talking about):

“I’m sorry for being late to work Buddy.”

There I hope everyone is on the same page now.

It’s been a while again since I posted. I had a reason for a little bit. The MySql database was acting funky the first week of this month. Then I had six glorious days off. I didn’t do dick on my time off. Well I did play a lot of Dark Age of Camelot. Well I played a lot for me.

Since then I’ve been busy with work. We are getting a new computer system. Encore is going bye bye. The new system is a Windows based os and is a lot more user friendly. So I have been working my usual 3rd shift and on top of that I’ve had training for the new computer.

The system that is replacing Encore is called WinPM and it is produced by Multi-Systems, Inc. It really is better than the old Unix based Encore. The guy training us on it is also pretty cool. So Let me give a shout out to Mike the MSI Trainer.

Other than this stuff, I don’t have much else going on. I have a community service announcement I have to put up. But I’ll get to that later.