I make no excuses, I am simply worthless. Like so many other things in my life I let something wonderful go because I couldn't allow myself time, time I should have had. Its been a very long time, I feel lost on this site now. I have been playing World of Warcraft, like a madman. I met a girl from Tasmania (that is off the coast of australia) and I am very much in love with her, and so for the past 2 years of my life I have been tied to her and I have forgotten all of you. I owe you all a great debt of gratitude, there was a time in my life where the only happiness I knew I knew because of all of you. One day, when I don't live thousands of mile away from the woman I love you will see me finally return from my self imposed exile, until then I am so sorry for the hurt I caused anyone, for the friendships I soured and lost. You are all amazing and I thank you for making me a better person. Until I post again.

The Odinson

Every now and then you realize that life hates you for no bloody reason. You are just sitting there trying to get on the internet when you realize that you can't, at all, for any reason, because IE has corrupted and left you totally screwed. You then realize that IE is also you OS browser, so you can't really get into your comp to fix anything, leaving you even more screwed. Luckily enough, you own a Dell, with award winning service and support, but also very luckily they don't send out format discs with their comps, you have to ask for them. And once again you are lucky enough to be an idiot with a $400 overdue shut off phone, and now, no internet access, leaving you scratching you head, and wondering why you can't catch a break.

So, you ready? Ready for what? Is that really a question? Come on now, you know how I roll! This isn't a game any more. I am TheOdinson. I am not some average joe shmow. I am the ******* Thunder God. I am one serious straight KO Ring King Killa!!! So you wanna be me, not likely, to fight me you need to be you times 90!! You're 1,000 miles from me. You're far from perfection. WHAT!?!?!?! I'M BACK, AND THIS IS YOUR WARNING!!!!

Well, I am level 13. I recently completed my second hugely successful FFFU Final Battle. maa has the amazingly insanely ranking system up and running in Fantasy Threads. I am speaking in crazy yellow words. I attempted to enter the Swag contest, but I don't really know if it worked. I am tired as hell but my brain won't shut down. I am so happy to be on GS right now, and so sad to need sleep. Anyway, I have things to do on the morrow, and sleeping will allow them to come about sooner.

Things are going well, so I decided I needed to throw a change up. I have decided to change my font settings. Now, I don't know if I can permantly change them, so for now I have to do it all the hard way each time, and I have forgotten a great deal, but I am going to use this font set up for the next decent bit of time. I needed something new, and text seemed the way too go. Something to set me apart, to really catch the eye. Hope no one is too annoyed, but really I am a god, what do I care.

Well, the Tag system hasn't been up and running long, but I have finally become a Tagger King! I put alot of effort into it, and tried not to be too cheap with my tags. Nothing that wasn't in the article or related to the game, and for that I am glad, as I have seen a couple of people raging on the Ask the Mods forum about why their tags were deleted and they are no longer a Tagger King, as they had at least in some way tried to cheat the system. So now I guess I am the King of Monsters, or the Monster King. I will let you decide.

Oh, you better watch out, because it is on like Donkey Kong now folks. I just got my 4th new E3 related emblem/badge, E3 Monster, because I am obviously a monster, and E3 was the only thing that could sooth this savage beast. I am starting to feel better, got through the weekend somehow, and I have another trip planned this coming weekend to play some Magic: The Gathering, good old U.S. Regionals, in Indianapolis, Indiana. After that I plan to come back and really get back to getting my monster on. So look out, because Godzilla, King Kong, and Mothra ain't got nothin' on me!!

Well, things could be going better. My job has gotten pretty rough, we had 3 people quit in one week and no one has been hired. I have to work from 3pm until12am on Sunday, which is Mother's Day, which means we will be busy as hell and that is a monster shift, 12 is just a guess, it could be 1am or even 2am. I have been trying to watch as much of the GameSpot E3 coverage as possible, which has me thinking. It isn't insomnia if you decide to stay awake right? I haven't slept more than 5 hours a day in 5 days, and I am starting to wear down. Also, watching all the coverages keeps me distracted. I haven't been paying my unions enough attention. I don't even really have the energy too. I don't think I will even log in on Sunday. I just don't think I have it in me. Tomorrow I am going to try to get caught up on a few things. I really wanted to hit 5000 posts this week, but that isn't happening for sure. At least I am getting somewhere. I got 3 new badges for watching/reading the conference coverage, and I got the old-school and tagger maker emblems. I really want to become a taggers leader, I have alot of tags, but apparently not enough. I don't know how many more I need, but I will work on that too. I finally became popular rather than just being convival, but for some reason it took me like 3 days at over 50 friends to get there. Don't know what is up with that. Anyway, I am hoping that now that E3 is over I can get things back on track. Really get the storm going again. At least my newest game thread went really well.

Well, life can be a very amusing thing some times. You never know what will happen next, you just hope you come out of it ahead of where you started. I almost didn't make it this last time, almost got sucked up in my own storm. I became very very very upset during this whole TOS issue. I was initially worried I might get suspended or banned. Then I was mad because I found out in was someone actually in my union doing it. Then I was even more angry when I found out that while this person did indeed abuse their power, they really didn't do anything wrong and so they would not be dealt with in any way, not to mention I was told that my union was on very thin ice and might get shut down, if someone didn't start making the right moves. I was so upset in the end that I almost just quit GameSpot and left.
That is an almost though. One very special person really helped me hold on. kinetic-core, the leader of the Final Fantasy Fans Union, one of my favorite unions to begin with, really gave me alot of support. She not only messaged me on the boards, but in PMs as well, asking me how it was going, how I was doing, and offering moral support. I really don't know if I would have stayed otherwise, as many other people in other unions in which I am an officer didn't even seem to care a lick that I might get banned or suspended. kinetic-core then did the one thing that I think made me stay the most. She offered me an officer position in the FFFU, in fact, she offered me a co-leader position. This made me realize that while I may not be happy right now, someone still enjoys what I do, and would like me to stay on and help them make their union grow. I haven't said this to her yet, and she will be away for a few days. But honestly I just want to say thank you. And I want everyone to know that the main reason I am still here is one of the most enjoyable and caring members of GS, kinetic-core.
Thank you, kinetic. I can't say it enough.

Well, this may be my final blog. I recently recieved my 33 TOS violation, the 30th in less than 24 hours. I also now face the issue of editing a members post who then recieved a TOS violation for that edit and very angrily too things too the mods. I spoke up and took the blame, as I am a stand up kind of guy, and I don't yet know what the outcome will be. I have only had 38 days to find a home here, and I found of the best I have ever had. It is with much sorrow that I bid you a potential ado. I will miss you all.

Most lovingly,

TheOdinson

I don't know what to do. I am now in 23 seperate unions. I don't have time to spend in all of them, I have 6 officer positions and so I spend a great deal of time in those places. I also have a few other unions that I enjoy enough to really put the effort into visiting, but I really don't have time for more than about 10 unions a day, especially with the way I post, which often involves paragraphs. I feel bad about not going to these places, but a number I only joined because I was invited, and some I have never even been to because I am so daunted by what I am currently involved in I am afraid to go somewhere new and try to get into the grove of that forum. I have already, over the course of the 37 or so days I've been on, left 3 unions. I hate to leave more because I once again feel bad, but I don't know if I will feel worse having to see so many and not know what to do. I don't want to disappoint anyone, and especially myself, but I don't know how much longer I can keep up this game of union hoping.

I also just barely missed level 10, most likely because of the 2 new TOS violations I got. I don't know why my messages are offensive to mods but apparently no one else who reads them seems to care.

Anyway, enough sad bastard talk from me. I appreciate the way everyone has taken to me, and I am sorry to anyone I end up angering in the days to come through my actions of sifting.

Who are the five greatest GS members of all time? TheOdinson, TheOdinson, TheOdinson, TheOdinson, and TheOdinson. I'm the best member alive ninja ax about me.

Ok, so I'm not the greatest, but I am feeling pretty good. I have been on alittle over a month. I have over 3000 posts, I am level 9, I have 8 reviews up, 5 officer positions, and I have found a place to waste more time than I really have. Thanks you GS and everyone I know that has made my dream a reality.

Well, I got to 3000 finally. Took me an extra week, but at least I made it in 4 weeks, which is pretty good I think. Most people think I have alot of posts for my level and for when I started. I really am a bit obsessive though, and I have always been a power leveling kind of player, so I just really wanna get high level really fast, and I thought posting was the best way to do that. I don't really know if that is true, I seem to jump up in percentage randomly and so I don't know. Also I somehow lost all my badges, but maybe that is just my comp acting up.

Well, once again I will be leaving of the weekend and that isn't good. I mean it is good, in the fact that I will be having tons of fun and all that, but I hate leaving my unions, especially the ones in which I am an officer. But this time I think I have my bases covered a bit more. But zam, I am sorry about leaving you alone all by yourself at the Rage Against the Machine Union. I mean no matter how much we do to make it the most fun and enjoyable, if not random union in gamespot, we still can't get anyone to post. However I know you have other unions too. The storm is calling my name again. Who knows when I will return.....well, me actually. But I also know that the weekend of May 13th and the weekend of May 20th I will be leaving again. Once for a Tool concert, and then again for a Magic tournament, this time regionals, probably in Columbus. Man, I joined gamespot so I would have more to do, and now I have more than I can do. But, what can you do?

Well I just got another TOS violation for something I posted a month ago. I have no idea why it just now got noticed or whatever, but that is so stupid. I mean why give me a violation for something that happened two weeks ago and has been ignored by everyone else in the union. Freakin' worthless.

Well I decided today that I love toast more than any other food. French Toast happens to be my favorite toast, but I still love all other kinds of toast. Any bread toasted with some butter is fine, but I really love a nice assortment of jellies to go with it if possibl. I mean raspberry is probably my overall favorite jelly/jam/preserve/marmalade, but I must say I really can't name a jelly that I don't like, other than pepper jelly which to me isn't really jelly as it is spicy and I really just want sweet. I like peanut butter and other toppings also, but jellies and what not are my favorite right now. However, a very similar and high ranking favorite food of mine is an english muffin with peanut butter and marshmallow cream.

Well, the tournament didn't go well for me, but at least we had alot of fun and I got to get out of the house for the weekend for once. Next weekend should be way better, I have yet to do worse than 14th at a prerelease and I won the last one I went to. I hate being away from GS that long though, I feel like my unions suffer and I miss out on alot of things. Luckily it should be awhile after this one and I can hopefully sort out something about my updates while I'm gone.

Well, I'm out for the weekend. See everyone laters. Wish me luck.

I have so far gotten 1000 posts a week and had yet to feel as though that were really all to hard or insane a thing to do. However this week I have really fallen behind. I haven't even hit 2500 yet and it is Thursday. And I won't even have access Friday and Saturday as I will be out of town for a Magic: The Gathering tournament. But that is ok, I still feel like I am getting my unions going, at least I have gotten my topics posts, going maybe not. Anyway, I have faith in my own posting powers to return shortly, so look out.

Well, after my 2 days of almost non-existence I am back. I got 3 new topics up and going, although I was shooting for 5. I need to work on the last 2, but there are alot of details to iron out and it is too late too finish them. But damn it feels good to be back with a clear head and plenty of time.