The Daily Kudos

Both Amy and I travel a lot for work. While Amy boards airplanes to fly to exotic locations in other countries and often on other continents to cover important geo-political issues and events, I board a bus and drive down different streets and avenues to a trucking company where I cover a big office chair with my fat rump. Most people would prefer Amy's situation to mine, but since I loathe flying and everything to do with it, and since I loathe the crowds at the airport, and since I'm extremely lazy, I prefer my situation. But it does leave me wife-less for sometimes weeks at a time.

I was recently in one of these situations when Amy was sent to Orlando, Florida to attend a conference of some kind. Incidentally, my cousin Mike Lysyj once had an amusing line about confereces that went as follows: "You're going to a conference? I've never been to a boring one of those...no wait...every single one." This is what I say to Amy every time she says she has a conference to go to. The joke has become a little tiresome really. In any case, back to my point. Amy was out of town for about one and a half weeks. It was during this time that I was finally allowed to let my true self shine and I really thought I ought to congratulate myself on all the awesome activities I engaged in while she was gone.

I've said elsewhere that my weekdays are entirely made up of routine. I won't here repeat the routine, I'll just say that it stayed pretty consistent during the time Amy was gone. However, the weekend was a different story. Saturday and Sunday was all about Joe.

Since my social skills are...well to be nice let's say sub-par...I don't really have a lot of friends here in the TO. I called up my one friend (my Dad) to see if he wanted to PAR-TÉ but he was busy or out of town that weekend. So I did what any self respecting loser with no friends would do which was to spend my weekend watching both the (original) Star Wars trilogy and the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. And an awesome time was had by all who were involved. If I had cable, many episodes of Star Trek, Star Trek the Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine, Star Trek Voyageur, Star Trek Enterprise, Star Gate SG-1, Babylon 5, and Battlestar Galactica would also have been viewed. And an awesomer time would have been had. The funny thing is it didn't really strike me to be that nerdy of a thing to do until much later.

In a past Daily Kudos (I believe it was the first one actually) I gave the nick-name 'Kipling Ronald Dynamite' to a schoolmate of mine after this character from Napoleon Dynamite.




Perhaps, however, there is a person who is more deserving of that nick-name.



Little does Amy know, but I've already started planning my first Star Trek Convention. I have the right hook-ups too. I used to work with this girl at Starbucks who's dad planned them. Also, since you don't get by in the sci-fi business without a cool sci-fi name, I've decided to go to city hall and have my name officially changed to Trekulon Picard.

In any case, I really thought that I ought to recognize my awesome achievement of watching 15 straight hours of sci-fi and fantasy. It was everything I hoped it would be. So Kudos to me. My brother spoke recently of slowly sliding down the slope to Star Trek Nerdism (click here to read about it), well it seems that instead of slowly sliding down like Greg, I have willingly dove head first down the same slope. See you at the bottom Greg!