Waldon here, and I'll put it bluntly: I didn't do the blog last night because I was lazy. :P I'm allowed a transgression now and again. I think.

Yeah, so the title. xD I just REALLY like games, movies, media and books based around any sort of Fallout. I don't know why, but I do. :P

Now, what did I do yesterday? That's actually a really good question. I was sick yesterday, I caught a bug in my belly. So, I was pretty much fairly sick feeling all day. xD But that didn't stop Bre from coming over and making me feel better! : D It was great! :) She rubbed my back and everything. xD If you've ever felt my back (Which would be really creepy F.Y.I.) you'd know it's practically MADE of tense muscle. So, back rubs are much appreciated. :)

After lunch, I was playing xBox and I beat "Bulletstorm", I can't wait for a sequel, hopefully they'll make one, and so I decided to put down the game before starting the Echoes option in it. Then Bre showed up and we played some Sims and listened to music! :D Oh yeah! And we went for a drive right up to the river overlook. :)

Then after supper I played Sims for a few more hours, and then Bre came over again! : D So then we played Sims and listened to music. :) Then I went to bed! :P

So, I guess I'm done! Good morning everyone! :P
-Waldon

Waldon here! And you may have noticed, this is a very early/late post. On the blog date, it says the 25th, but where we live right now it's 3 16 AM. xDThere IS a reason. In fact, I only got home about 20 minutes ago or less. :P I was with Bre all day today! :D We spent late this morning driving around town to buy hemp and beads so that she can make me a replacement necklace! :D Mine broke this morning... :(

It sucks. She made me that necklace herself at her job this summer, and it broke! :( But she's amazing, and she'll make me another one. :) She's great. :P

After that we were just importing all my CD's onto my computer xD I'm STILL not done. :S I've got about 4 days and 12 hours worth of music, and I'm not done! :P

Then I had supper, and went down to Bre's again, where we watched TV all evening and played with her Charlie the dog. :P

Shortly after midnight I started walking home, when I met up with Glad on the way back. So then we spent a few hours walking around and just chatting and being weird. Oh, and I proved that I'm both fantastical and magical to the nth degree, but I guess that's another story that I might tell you some other time. Maybe. :P

Anyway, I guess I'm done! Good night/morning all!
-Waldon

Waldon here. I'd like to announce that I only have one day left (and that day officially started 11 minutes ago! :o ) before I have to go back to work. I think I'll be putting in my two weeks notice for the end of the summer soon. After the next two weeks is up, I'll be going back to school again!

So, today I officially did NOTHING. Bre and I went to the Drug Store to pick her out some hair dye. I got some dinner, she dyed her hair. It's still dark right now, but it'll change color soon after she washes it a few times. :P

After I ate dinner... Yeah, that's pretty much it. I watched TV and listened to Apocalyptica. I lead such an exciting life, aren't you all jealous? xD

Seriously though. It's so early in the morning right now while I'm writing this because I didn't know what to write earlier. I'll mention that I got a bunch of new witty T Shirts and Dungeon Siege III from Mom after her trip. They're pretty awesome.

And I guess I'm done! I'm exhausted. :P Good night All!
-Waldon

Waldon here, and I really don't have any excuse as to why I keep forgetting to do the blog. I just do! I'm sorry!

Now, for some fun fact; I've been home alone since Friday night, and I've seen a grand total of 4 people in the roughly 54 hours since then. During that time, I've spent 1 hour with Glad, 2 and a half hours with Bre, and half an hour with My Dad and the random knock-on-the-door guy combined. :P

I'm very lonely. :(

You see, it wouldn't be so bad if I could get out of the house and do stuff, but I have to stay home because if we leave our dog alone he tries to do things that he shouldn't do because he'll hurt himself. I mentioned this before but he has two damaged back legs, and when he puts too much weight on them or strains them too much they get hurt again. So, I'm on Dogsitting duty until my Mom gets back from Newfoundland tomorrow.

I've been texting everybody, but Glad's phone and my phone refuse to acknowledge that the other person's phone exists, and our texts don't reach each other. Bre's been having a stressful time and I haven't really heard from her, or she's wanted to spend time with her family. Aside from those two, there's really nobody else that I've been able to get a hold of! Nobody's even on MSN!

So, I've been watching TV. And playing xBox. Yay me.

Seriously though. I'm jonesing for some companionship. Gunner is great! Don't get me wrong. I love my dog more than life itself! But he can't talk back. Or walk for long enough for me to get tired. >.<

Speak of the devil, my dog is at my waist now. :P So, I'm typing this with one hand whilst the other scratches his head. :)

I'm all jittery, and I need something to do. >.< Video games are great for so long, but after a while I want to see REAL people. Not little colored dots on a screen masquerading as real people. ;) Maybe I'll go for a walk when Dad gets home this evening?

Oh, right. I forgot to mention that my Dad is home from about 8 30 onwards every night, and he's gone when I wake up. :P He's a forest fire fighter, so seeing as this is the hot season there's, accordingly, fires. That's why I'm not in Newfoundland right now too. :P Because he was supposed to stay home with Gunner while Mom and I went out.

Oh well. Plans change. :P

So at the start of the weekend I was just like. "Oh well. Now I get to spend the weekend chilling out with everybody instead."

But then "Oh damn. Nobody wants to hang out/Nobody can hang out."

So after that "I guess I'll write that long overdue blog."

:P

Yeah. So. You guys just heard my entire weekend. I took gunner to the docks with Glad. Hung out with Bre for a couple hours. And watched Discovery Channel and Cartoons. Woot! xD

I guess I'm done for now. Good night all!
-Waldon

Waldon here! The title, of course I'm sure you already know this ;), is about Apocalyptica. Apocalyptica is a musical group consisting of 4 cellos and a drum kit... playing hard rock and heavy metal. Ahhh... Can't you feel the awesome? :D Seriously though, they rock. Check 'em out if you haven't already.

Today was one of my on call days again, so I spent the day doing nothing and going nowhere. Exciting, isn't it? :P I helped put up two of the walls on my new shed this morning, that was fun. xD

Then, this evening I went to Bre's! It was great! I missed her a lot more than usual today and so I went for a visit. :P She was nice enough to let me come down. :)

Okay, so I seriously spent about 10 hours of today playing Oblivion. I have a problem. >.< Although, my level 17 Wood Elf Battlewitch is pretty awesome, regardless. I know you're all jealous. >:P

So, seeing as how I seriously did almost nothing today I've actually covered everything that happened, easily. xD I don't see how Bre puts up with me, I must be the most boring person in the world :P

And now I guess I'm done. I'm tired. I'm gonna read some Terry Pratchett novels and go to sleep! Good night all!
-Waldon

Oh lord I haven't written in ages please don't kill me.

Good evening all! I have no excuses for why I haven't written the blog in a while so I'm just going to get right into it!

At the moment, Britt and Junior are going through Junior's manga. It's all kinds of fun! I'm sitting at the computer, eating some yummy gummy candy from Maynard's. I haven't that much to say...

Today was all right! Work was long. We were outside until dinnertime and stayed inside after lunch. We tried to get the kids to act a little bit but nobody would listen to the ones in front of the group. Gosh, kids. Then we made puppets out of paper bags! :D

Mom made pizza for supper tonight and it was so good! :D

Gosh, I'm so sorry. I have to stop writing now. I'm exhausted. (><)   I think that's why I haven't written in ages . . . I'm sorry, but I don't even remember. : (  Until next time!

- Bre : )

Waldon here! Sorry guys, I know you're probably getting sick of me by now. Most people do, after a while. Bre in particular has the patience to put up with me. :P Bre was unable to post a blog due to her continuing computer problems, so I told her I would do it. It's the least I can do for that girl, she does so much for me. :)

This afternoon I was going to wash my truck, but instead Bre asked if I wanted to go out in boat instead, so of course I said yes. :P We spent the afternoon out around the bay with some of her family. :) Then I showed her little brother how to catch cushies. (or Three-Spined Sticklebacks for those of you not into our dialect :P)

Then Bre and I got ice-cream, and it was great. :D

After supper, Sandra and Robyn came over, and then Bre and her sister Brittany came over. They came over from her dads house, and I wish she knew how much that meant to me. <3 She didn't have to, but she did anyway. For that, I owe her so much. :)

Robyn was playing Oblivion all night, and Sandra, Britt, Bre and I were watching her play. I think I've made another convert to the awesome that is Oblivion. :P Also, we were talking about every possible thing under the sun! Sandra and I had an absolutely riveting conversation about fears on the way to her house !I just dropped Sandra and Robyn off a little while ago.

...and now I suppose I have to go to bed. I have work in the morning! Good night all!
-Waldon

Yes. Waldon!

Bre asked me to fill in for her tonight, but I'm feeling kind of sick too! I just finished re-scanning in all of my pictures AGAIN. My god, I hope this process becomes easier the more you do it, this is so tedious I'm almost falling down sitting here. xD

I wasn't reckoning on doing the blog tonight, so I really don't have much to say. O.o I've decided to go to bed early tonight, hopefully I'll be able to fall asleep before the sun starts coming up again. >.< I hate insomnia. :(

So, today I mostly just sat around the house, playing Oblivion xD And that isn't nearly as exciting to the rest of you as it is to me, so I guess I won't go into detail about that. :P

Although, there was a break in all the tediousness today when Bre asked me to go to Tim's for lunch! I was ecstatic! I hopped in the truck and on I went! It was a great time. :) But Bre had to go back to work before too long, so sadly we had to cut it short and go our separate ways for the day. :(

Now, Bre seems to be preoccupied this evening. I suppose it's just her being sick? But I know I'm waiting for about 15 or 20 minutes between texts, and that's kind of making me really worry about her/annoyed. :S I have the bad habit of treating text conversations like real conversations, and that tends to make me somewhat of a grumpy guy at times xD Does anybody else do that? :P I hope so. I don't want to be the one guy to think like that..

Anyway, I think I'm going to go on to bed now, I'm exhausted. Good night all!
-Waldon

.... I will always regret doubting how much work webcartoonists have to go through to get their stuff online. O.o

Waldon here, and I guess you can tell my big amazing blog isn't coming around just yet. >.< It took hours, upon hours to finish what very little I DO have, simply because I did it wrong the first time and had to redo it all again. So, I've got the inking of it done, and now I'm working on scanning it all in the computer and editing it.

Luckily, I saved a (very) depressing short story to post on here for just such an occasion.

I'll put that up after a quick word or two about my day. :)

Today I was on call all day, so I didn't work, so I dropped off some papers in the afternoon, played oblivion, worked on the "blog" and ate supper. Then I went to the store with Bre, then to her Nan's house where we played the card game Golf for an hour or so. :P It was fun! :D

Then, I came home and worked on the "Blog" again. >.<

So, here's that short story, along with all my condolences!

[Pre Story Note!
This is NOT Non-fiction. None of this story is real!]

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    A long, long time ago when I was still a knee-high bean of a boy, I had a person who was very important to me pass away. He was everything I wanted to be. He was kind, hardworking, smart and artistic… He was my hero. He was my Grandfather.

I miss my Poppy.

            My grandfather wasn’t a very imposing man by any means. He was only up to where my shoulder would be now. He was balding with bright white hair and crinkled up eyes that shone like light whenever he opened them too wide.

            He had breathing problems and heart problems and a few other problems too. Whenever he got back home from his work, I would run to his breathing machine with those big funny looking pleated tubes and frantically get the machine ready as he counted down from ten. Just as he reached zero, I would shout out “blast off!” and turn on the machine. Then he would put those two tubes up his nose. I would always laugh, and he would smile at me with his kind, wise, old eyes.

            We would go for walks around the yard sometimes. My Poppy would make sure he put his hat on every time we went out, no matter how hot it was. He would look at me dead on in the eyes and place his hat right on top of his head, and slowly twist it just a little bit to the right. To “lock it” he said. So, of course that’s what I would do. I would copy every little thing he did and slowly and carefully place my hat on my head, and “lock it”. Of course, I could never do it as well as he could so he would gently and patiently fix it for me and off we would go. We’d step out the front door and right away he would put his two hands behind his age-bent back and slowly shuffle around lifting his feet as high as he was capable of. With all of his joints the way they were it’s amazing he could walk at all. I, of course, would try to copy his every move, and slowly waddle along with my hands behind my back.

            Of course, in school I was never one of the popular kids. So if I ever had a hard day, I would come and tell my Poppy. He would pick me up, and place me down on his knee and right there in front of my wide eyes he would pick up his worn out pencil and a piece of blank paper. There he would stare for a minute… and start drawing up this great big moose for me. And over the many too many years since, I’ve never seen anything quite so wondrous as that. I’ve never been more amazed in my life, as when he showed me that beautiful picture of that big moose.

            I miss my Poppy.

            Poppy was an entrepreneur. He worked hard his whole life right up till the day he died at the ripe age of seventy-one. He made his own business and made a name for himself. Lord, I was so proud of my Poppy. He started off working by renting a part of a building on the other side of town and basing his business from there. Over many years, he worked his way up to getting a full building of his own, eventually two, and then three. To this day, those three buildings are in the family.

            He was proud of what he’d done. He was a hardworking man, and worked his way to the top. But he was still my kind Poppy. When he got a shipment of business cards in that he found more than amazing, he gave one to me, and told me, “This is my place here. Don’t lose this card now, it’s got my number on it!” I know it’s nothing prosaic like you were expecting, but it’s what he said and I took it to heart.

            I’ve still got that card. It’s never left my wallet.

            Has anybody else ever realized that they never appreciate what they’ve got, until it’s gone?

            I was still very young when that lesson started to barge it’s way into my life. In our school, you would get home from classes for the day at around eleven thirty AM. So, of course that meant I was just in time to come back and watch the daily cartoons that I loved so much. But Poppy would come home right in the middle of my shows, and I would be forced to go find something else to do. My young mind started to get angry before Poppy even came home.

            Finally, in the Spring of my seventh year of life, I’d had enough. Of course, I was a big kid! I knew what I was talking about. I freaked out! I had a fit!

            I told my god-blessed, kind, wonderful, loving, old Poppy that I hated him.

            Mom came and picked me up, and I went home where I was scolded and told what I’d done wrong. I didn’t care. Why would I? I was sure what I thought was right. I said that I meant what I’d said that I would never take it back. My infantile mind vowed it. I kept to that vow.

            I’ve never regretted anything more than that day, that vow.

            I was at my grandparent’s house every day that week. Steadily staying away from Poppy. I was sure I was right. Everybody would apologize to me when they realized that. Why couldn’t I have figured out how stupid I was earlier?

            Less than a week after those stupid, ignorant words… my Poppy was dead.

            It was one evening at home when my father came to see my sister and I. He wasn’t home much, but when he was he was always joking with us. So when he looked at us and said, “I’ve got bad news guys… your Poppy is dead.” We didn’t believe him. We yelled at him and cried. It didn’t bring him back to life.

            They cleaned Poppy up, and got him ready for his funeral. I wasn’t allowed to go to see him at the morgue. Then they buried him. He was put underneath the large White Spruce in the graveyard, next to my late Aunt and her Daughter. He was with family.

            I missed my Poppy.

            About a week later, we were going through his things and my Mother looked in his wallet. My Mom found two pictures of me underneath Poppy’s own. I was his pride and joy. He told his friends about me, she said. Look at what I had repaid that with. I might as well have been the one to kill him for all the pain he must have felt from my words, my ignorance.

            I carried those pictures with me until they fell apart.

            I still go to the graveyard every year on his birthday and leave him a single flower. He used to love nature. I think he’d like it. I never apologized to that kind, hard-working, artistic old man… and I’ll live with that guilt until the day I die. Maybe he knows that I’m sorry. Maybe he doesn’t. I’ll never know. Maybe he’ll get to read this, up there in heaven.

            I love my Poppy.

Waldon here and I've had this horrible ringing noise playing in my head for the last almost 6 hours and I'm going crazy. Something got jammed in the greenhouse fan at work and it was making this really high pitched ringing noise. The thing wasn't big enough to actually JAM it, just to alter the noise. ARGH.

Enough of that. Hopefully it'll be gone tomorrow morning.

Obviously I was working today. :P I started my shift at 12 PM and worked right until 8 PM. I took my supper break at around 4 30 sometime? Bre was off somewhere when I text her lol, so I spent the break talking with Adam and Steph. :P They're cool people xD Steph is a crazy-eyed little person, but her neurotic side is mostly held back :P And Adam is a classmate of Bre and I's, so he's good people.

Somebody during work today started comparing me to their dad and grandfather. Let me mention now that I detest that. I mean, if you're going to compare me to them, why aren't you with them instead?! It's the same as telling me about how amazing and perfect all your relatives are or bragging about what they've done or own. I mean. Come on. Do you really have to brag about things that you don't even do or own!? ARGH. It just aggravates me. xD

Then, after I got off work Bre and I went for a walk around the bunkers uptown, it was great! :D We went a little while through the bushes and came back to the truck early. There were too many flies around to really enjoy it though. Mosquitoes are evil. I swear to god.

I think they're learning. They avoid my line of site now when they're biting me lol. They go just underneath my arm where I can't twist to see easily. xD

So, I guess I'm done for now lol. The only other thing I've done today is listen to B.B King and play Oblivion. But I like both of those things so much that I think if I started talking about them, I wouldn't be able to stop before I broke some sort of blogging law. Good night everybody!

-Waldon