The Rules

I've heard mention of rules lately, especially with a group of friends the other night. Over the past year I've started to develop my own set of rules. I first got the idea after watching an episode of NCIS where the main character Gibbs (played by Mark Harmon) had a list of rules which he lived by. I liked the idea and looked up on-line to see said list of rules. I decided to borrow some as they made sense, but most of these are of my own that I learned from experience. One through three I follow the most (the third one is from NCIS), but I quote Number 12 quite often (which is also from NCIS with an amendment by me) as it should be followed to avoid drama in life. Now Gibbs has fifty one but I'm stuck on twenty nine.

Here they are:

Rule #1 Always treat others as you would have them treat you.

Rule #2 Never assume others will follow Rule #1

Rule #3 Don't believe what you are told. Double check.

Rule #4 Never be unreachable.

Rule #5 Best way to keep a secret is to keep it to yourself.

Rule #6 Never say you're sorry, it's a sign of weakness.

Rule #7 Always be specific when you lie.

Rule #8 Never take anything for granted.

Rule #9 Never go anywhere without a knife.

Rule #10 The less that is said, the better.

Rule #11 When the job is done, walk away.

Rule #12 Never date a co-worker or a mutual friend.

Rule #13 Never discuss religion or politics at the work place.

Rule #14 No matter how good you are, eventually there will be someone better.

Rule #15 Always work as a team. No one person can do it alone.

Rule #16 Respect my personal space.

Rule #17 Always be aware of your surroundings.

Rule #18 It's better to seek forgiveness then to ask permission.

Rule #19 Learn to anticipate. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Rule #20 Keep your mouth shut at all times less you make an ass of your self.

Rule #21 Never let anyone tell you that you cannot do something.

Rule #22. Always be the better person. you will always come out on top in the end.

Rule #23 Never mess with my coffee.

Rule #24 Respect is earned, not given.

Rule #25 If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Rule #26 Never let fear control you.

Rule #27 It's over when you say it's over.

Rule #27 Always have a back up.

Rule #28 There is no such thing as coincidence.

Rule #29 If it seems someone is out to get you, they are.

Iron Man swede

There's a film festival coming up next Saturday and part of it is having people submit sweded movies. What a sweded movie is, is a reanactment of a movie or scene in your own vision. It comes from the movie Be Kind Rewind where they had to create movies with very little resources.

I decided to do Iron Man as I wanted to do something recent and something that hadn't already been done on YouTube. Sure there's a sweded trailer and someone sweded the first part, but mine is the only complete film, including the after credits part. The movie had to be under five minutes and I'm pretty proud that I was able to get the entire movie done with two seconds to spare.

Gotta thank my sister Brittany and her friend Katie, they helped me with filming and acting most of the parts out.

With out further adieu here's the swede.

National Weekend

Well the weekend is winding down even though I have Monday off. Friday the 4th was pretty uneventful. Since my girlfriend had to work both that day and on Saturday I decided to make use of a free movie pass and go see Iron Man for the fifth time. I mean it was a pretty American film of sorts. I mean rich billionaire playboy creates his own exo-suit to kick ass, how much more American can you get? I was suprised the theater was about half full. I was expecting to just be myself (which I was hoping).

Saturday was much better. I had won four tickets to the Fresno Grizzlies game on Sat. and I invited two of my girlfriend and I's friends whom we hadn't seen in a while. The game was good, bit boring though as it was a pitcher's duel and all the runs were scored off home runs. The best part was afterwards there was a fireworks show. This was especially nice since I hadn't seen any fireworks on the 4th. I took a bunch of photos, I'll try to post them in a different post as soon as I am done sorting them.

Today I haven't done much besides play World of Warcraft and watch an internet broadcast of a haunted investigation they do every Sunday from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm PST. The site is http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-wolfe-show.

Tomorrow I may see Wall-E with my sister. Waiting to hear back from her.

I wish I had a life.....two years later

Ok, so I'm fricken addicted to World of Warcraft. Which is even more sad since the major craze was about two years ago. But of course I had dial up for so long I couldn't get it. So I've spent the last week or so playing at least 4 hours a day (well except for last night cause I was with my girlfriend). Even worse I created a character with her name. Yeah I'm sad.

Blah Blah Blog

Don't really have a subject for this post, but I'm trying to stay in the habit of writing to this blog. Past few days have been both good and interesting.

First off the Fresno State Bulldogs won the College World Series which is great for both the school and community. The school had been hit with some huge sexual lawsuits lately from former coaches and it was such negative news, that hearing Fresno on ESPN in a positive way. Things did get a bit out of hand though, people calling it the greatest upset in sports ever (um Miracle on Ice anyone?) and there was an interesting debate on the Fresno Bee's website about this. It remained mostly civil (note I say mostly).

Friday I took my sister to see Indy, as she had been wanting to see it for a while. I was afraid I wasn't going to like it that much the second time, as it didn't really meet my expectations the first time. Suprsingly I enjoyed it again, watching it for what it was, a popcorn flick.

After that I went back to my mom's to watch Be Kind Rewind with my sister. There is a chance of a swede film festival in August and I wanted her to get an idea of what a swede is. I've been working on banging out a few ideas for X Men.

Not sure about today. Just playing WoW and maybe seeing my girlfriend later.

Underdog Wonderdogs

I'm not much of a college baseball fan, but the fact that Fresno State is in the College World Series final has me watching the games. They are playing the University of Georgia. State lost yesterday, but today came back and destroyed Georgia. Which means tomorrow is game three and it's all for nothing. It would be one of the biggest upsets in NCAA just due to the fact that State isn't even ranked and weren't supposed to win their regional, let alone get this far.

It's nice for once for Fresno State to be getting some positve publicity. They are the talk of ESPN right now and it's been all positive. I hope Fresno win tomorrow, but I know I speak for everyone when I say that I'm proud of them for getting as far as they have. But I know they will win. Go Dogs!!!

Bye Chris

I'm kinda bummed. A good friend of mine is leaving for New Jersey at the end of the week. It will be good for him as he will be near both family and friends as well as having his job in Philidelphia. Thankfully though we'll still keep in touch, both on phone as well as e-mail. I also decided to get World of Warcraft (since I know have a high speed connection) so we can do some on-line gaming. Who knows, maybe he'll come back one day. Still good luck Chris, I'll miss ya.