a while ago, i ran across an old (10/7/04) journal entry i had made about my initial impression of grifflet, who i first met erroneously as the guy who got the job i wanted primarily due to better attendance. the entry was such a rude commentary, so uncharacteristic of me and so grossly inaccurate regarding grifflet, that of course i just had to post it here for the world to see. :D (hey, and plus grifflet said i should, so.)
…And the guy they hired… does he actually DO anything?!? Every time I walk by, he's just sitting at the desk looking vapid. But at least he's there 100% of the time, doing nothing. He never calls in to say he's too sick to sit at a desk and stare at things.
i think it's particularly fitting that a mere 3 weeks later was the first of many times i'd have to eat these bitter, petty words: namely that Halloween when grifflet showed up to work as a blood-soaked zombie. since then i've come to know him as the ringleader of the revolution at work, a kick-ass GM, a generous friend, a scary-smart dude and a surrogate big brother.
i shudder to think of life's near wrong turns and the great things we'd never know we'd missed if we got everything we wanted when we wanted it.
Sexual Reference 
Hear Hear for a good man. We owe it all to our daddy griffon. may his dice always be lucky!
Don't blame yourself, Ernie. It's good to know my cover of "looking vapid staring at a computer screen" fooled even you! (How else would I get away with all the crazy and radical things I do without looking vapid on the surface?)Thanks for all the compliments! I, for one, am grateful that you gave me a second-chance and overcame your first impressions about me. It's too terrible to think of an alternate reality where you and I were enemies instead of friends.(Except, of course, that we'd be AWESOME enemies and the entire library would be our battleground. Still definitely not worth the trade-off though.)
"Who's your daddy?" Booyah!
would the use of robots be forbidden, or awesome?
I love this story. It's so funny how things change and evolve. Our opinions, no matter how dead-on they may seem at the time, should always be moldable/changeable…or, like you said, we might miss out on something really great.As for Mr. Staring-Blankly-at-the-Screen – keep it up! You're an awesome force for change in a very static environment.
would we be ULTIMATE enemies? in an ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN of sorts? maybe… of ULTIMATE DESTINY??
MR ROGERS!!!!!!!! gah!
who else could pwn every superhero, then commit seppuku?