Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Today is the Ides of March and I'd like to take this opportunity to inform the regular readers of this blog that my online game buddy and best friend, Randy, is my man and soul mate too!

Randy and I met each other on March 1st 2004 in an unusual dispute over stocks in BlogShares Fantasy Stock Market. This kind-hearted man impressed me with his gaming strategies until we played as a team not only in BlogShares but, also in Neopets! We've done many things together as a team like being the top 5 BlogShares Richest players in 2005, held successful eBay auctions, supported Save-A-Child charity, made some million neopoints from Neopets' World Challenge games, NeoStocks, Neoquests, Plushie Tycoon and Black Pawkeet slots. Lately, when his wife filed a divorce in August 2005, he slowed down from playing our favorite games and even was hospitalized last year from overdose. That time, I was preparing myself to work abroad and renewed my passport. When his wife decided to spend the Christmas somewhere else, we decided to meet in person to celebrate 2005 Christmas before I leave the country for work! And that's how we turned as lovers and prefer to go further as soul mates now that he's a free man from his previous marriage. He didn't like me to work abroad and he wanted instead to correct the mess in my life from previous relationships. While it's amazing that married women in the USA profited from their divorces by getting half of their men's networth, the women in my country normally get nothing but misery and burden of supporting kids. Anyway, Randy is my best friend and hopefully, the best man in my life, too!

And since we met in BlogShares, we held a mission to express our appreciation to BlogShares Community and we want this to be a very remarkable day in BlogShares history by awarding these BS Mission #788's prizes to:

• Peach
• Joe White
• Joe Elam

Thank you for your BS Mission #788 participation and looking forward to future missions Randy and I will offer. Please do not hesitate to contact us for any suggestions.

Congratulations to the winners! And, more power to Island Dave for supporting this mission!

Today I had a brief History Quiz on Beware The Ides Of March! The answers are here but, you won't see them if you don't look very closely...

1. Today is commonly known as the the Ides of March. Who first warned us about this day? Answer: William Shakespeare
2. What important event used to take place in the U.S. on March 15th? Answer: Income Tax Deadline
3. Traditionally, residents of Hinckley, Ohio always know when it's March 15th because these birds return: Answer: Buzzards
4. In 44 B.C., this Roman emperor had an attempt made on his life: Answer: Julius Caesar
5. In 1945, "Billboard" began listing the #1 album on its charts. What artist got the first top ranking? Answer: Nat King Cole
6. In 1937, the first of these was established, in Chicago. Answer: Blood bank

Your final score is 6 out of 6 questions!

From dictionary.com newsletter: Word of the Day for Wednesday March 15, 2006: Ides \YDZ\, plural noun: In the ancient Roman calendar the fifteenth day of March, May, July, and October, and the thirteenth day of the other months. Ides comes from Latin idus, probably from an Etruscan word meaning "division" of a month.