http://home.eyesonff.com/blog.php/60-To-plume-up-my-will-in-double-knavery The Eyes on Final Fantasy Forums are the premier place for Final Fantasy fans to meet and discuss this classic video game series. Join our community today. en Thu, 14 May 2026 09:14:28 GMT vBulletin 60 http://home.eyesonff.com/images/images_neoclassic/misc/rss.jpg http://home.eyesonff.com/blog.php/60-To-plume-up-my-will-in-double-knavery http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/6207-Other Mon, 08 May 2017 21:51:11 GMT Been re-sending the Childe Cycle, from whence my sobriquet originates, and am surprised anew by how appropriate it is. I picked the name Bleys because I thought it was cool, but I have a lot in common with Bleys Ahrens. Ahrens lives in a universe in which humanity outside of Earth has divided... Been re-sending the Childe Cycle, from whence my sobriquet originates, and am surprised anew by how appropriate it is.

I picked the name Bleys because I thought it was cool, but I have a lot in common with Bleys Ahrens.

Ahrens lives in a universe in which humanity outside of Earth has divided into 3 main "splinter cultures": the mystical Exotics, the militaristic Dorsai, and the fundamentalist Friendlies. He is part of a group called the Others, which are people descended from two or more of the Splinter Cultures. He's part Exotic and part Friendly. That is me to a T--I am the perpetual hybrid, at once belonging to both sides of a dichotomy and neither. That's a paradox, not a contradiction.

I was born in 1980, which makes me too GenX to be a millennial, but too millennial to be GenX, yet I'm both. I was born in the Maritimes and raised in Alberta, so I'm too Maritime to be Albertan and too Albertan to be a Maritimer, yet I'm both.

Ahrens' youth has strong parallels to mine. He was raised by his Friendly uncle Henry MacLean, who is a carbon copy of my stepfather--Brad was also super religious, and I spent my formative years desperately wanting to believe in God and failing. He had his older half brother Dahno, I had my Aunt Patty.

(At this point I'm trying and failing to remember if Ahrens killed Henry, Dahno, or both. I'm not going to kill anyone though)

There are differences, of course. I'm not a genius (quite the opposite), my mother never neglected me, and, of course, I don't think everyone living on other planets should return to Earth because I'M NOT BLOODY MENTAL, but I do think that Others are the future of humanity and any different outcome will be an unmitigated disaster culminating in the destruction of the human race ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/6207-Other http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/6192-Wisdom-and-age Mon, 06 Feb 2017 23:37:48 GMT When I was in my 20s, there's a story I loved to tell. It's a true story.

When I was going to college, I moved in with my father. The first big snowstorm of the year, he and I went out to shovel the driveway. My father is an engineer, and he spent quite some time looking over the driveway and the available tools and deciding on the most efficient way to do the job with minimal effort. I, on the other hand, grabbed a shovel and started moving snow.

By the time he had finished planning and plotting, I had cleared out 1/3 of the driveway.

In my 20s, I thought this was a brilliant Buddhist parable made all the better for the fact that it was true.

That is wisdom in your 20s.

Years later, more years than I'm willing to admit, a thought occurred to me.

That was my first year at that address. It was not his.

My father had his method worked out before the first snowflake fell, and a key point of that method was to do fucking nothing until I had completed 1/3 of the job.

That is wisdom in your 40s .

I realise I do not come out well in that story, but lesson learned. ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/6192-Wisdom-and-age http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5895-Religion Sat, 13 Jun 2015 00:47:52 GMT I'm not a religious man, but I've recently discovered that my cat is a Protestant.

I found a dead cardinal on my doorstep. ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5895-Religion http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5860-Wrong Mon, 27 Apr 2015 02:19:30 GMT A woman recently asked me, "How do you view lesbian relationships"?

I thought to myself, " Well, this is dangerous, but on the other hand, it's an open-ended question, surely it's safe to answer "

Apparently not

APPARENTLY, this was a question with right and wrong answers

And apparently," 1080p fullscreen " was a wrooooooooonnnnnnnggg answer" ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5860-Wrong http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5852-Micturated-off Wed, 08 Apr 2015 01:42:29 GMT I'm beginning to grow annoyed by people claiming that technology is destroying society. Yes, young people prefer their tablets and phones to "traditional" activities like family diners- but what does this replace? What was the most common thing people did before the internet? Fucking war, that's what. Tech is bringing the internet inti homes, and that is making people interact with others from other countries and philosophies and thereby find out that such is not evil. Yes, we still have wars... Started by older people who don't grok shit. I belong to the first generation that is poorer than our parents and dumber than our kids and I say it's time to say fuck jealousy and let nature take its course... To the benefit of all. ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/5852-Micturated-off http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/3645-So-this-happened Thu, 05 Jun 2014 04:23:05 GMT http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/06...ng-in-moncton/

I got stuck at work for a couple of extra hours due to a police-mandated lockdown.

I didn't get shot, though.

The shooter is still at large, and apparently people are reporting where they're seeing the cops on social media. How thick do you have to be? ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/3645-So-this-happened http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/3638-Bizarro-World Mon, 26 May 2014 23:18:50 GMT What year is it? Because I just passed a video rental store and now I'm concerned that I may have fallen into a time vortex without noticing.

I also got off work early today, the probability of which has been a running joke at work pretty much since Ted Rogers died. (As in: it doesn't happen anymore, and hasn't happened since Ted's day.)

With all of my extra leisure time, I decided to have an aimless walk around town. That's when I saw the video store.

Perhaps more perplexing is that I've been walking in the city in the Maritimes for over an hour and this is the first Tim Horton's I've seen. And the first thing I heard when I walked in was a conversation about kilts. I have only seen one other person in Moncton wearing a kilt in the last 12 years. But I wear them. ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/3638-Bizarro-World http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/2608-Orange-Juice Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:28:04 GMT So, I thought I really liked orange juice and bought one of those huge, nearly 2L cartons of it yesterday. Turns out orange juice is fucking disgusting without gin. So, I thought I really liked orange juice and bought one of those huge, nearly 2L cartons of it yesterday.

Turns out orange juice is fucking disgusting without gin. ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/2608-Orange-Juice http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1750-Confession-time Mon, 17 Mar 2014 05:44:53 GMT I keep forgetting how well-educated one of my drinking buddies is because she's a woman.

The weird part is that she's totally "one of the guys" and I'd forget she was a girl if not for the fact that she was moderately attractive.

I got fucking SCHOOLED tonight and I deserved it.

ITT: castigate the moron. ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1750-Confession-time http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1745-Stupid-stupid-stupid Wed, 05 Mar 2014 15:53:26 GMT I'm even stupid in my own dreams. I ruined what should have been a totally erotic dream with my own stupidity.

I was a 16th century Earl and this super-hot peasant girl came to my manor to beseech my protection, and I was too fucking stupid to capitalise on the situation.

Seriously, she was sending out signals left right and center. All the sidelong glances, fiddling with her hair when she talked to me, saying that she'd do anything for protection. Anybody would have tumbled her, but not me, I was too fucking moralistic.

Even my butler was saying "I'faith, m'lord, thou should'st most assuredly hit that." and I was all "Firk off, Chumley, thou'rt an asshole."

I was pissed when I woke up. I could have done whatever I wanted and harmed nobody. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

I would have made a crap medieval English lord and probably died a bachelor (not even in battle, rather of dysentery) in the Wars of the Roses and had all of my lands given to my worst enemy by Edward IV. ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1745-Stupid-stupid-stupid http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1738-Play-Idea Fri, 21 Feb 2014 19:12:31 GMT Much Ado About Nothing II: The Realistic Version. Plot synopsis: Benedick and Beatrice discover that they were tricked and their entire relationship is based on a lie, so they break up and die alone. Much Ado About Nothing II: The Realistic Version.

Plot synopsis: Benedick and Beatrice discover that they were tricked and their entire relationship is based on a lie, so they break up and die alone. ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1738-Play-Idea http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1713-Geek-cred Sun, 26 Jan 2014 02:35:00 GMT So, I taught myself to read and write in Eorzean tonight. As a bonus point, the example I made is saying something geeky! Image: http://www.bleysmaynard.net/eorzean.jpg So, I taught myself to read and write in Eorzean tonight. As a bonus point, the example I made is saying something geeky!

]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1713-Geek-cred http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1634-1upsmanship Thu, 12 Dec 2013 05:18:57 GMT Since I discovered that I can afford it (Thanks, Frenchy's), I've been wearing suits to work. Because this started just a week or two before I started watching Doctor Who, many have thought I was wearing bow ties because of the 11th Doctor. This was enhanced because the Doctor started wearing a waistcoat and pocket watch just after I did and it was close enough timingwise to fool most.

Solution found: I now have an Ascot. Top that, Peter Capaldi.

My ascot and my martinis go together like whipped cream and breasts. ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1634-1upsmanship http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1611-Theological-Query Mon, 02 Dec 2013 03:49:37 GMT So. The Bible says we are all descended from Adam and Eve. Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel. The human race was not extinct after that second generation Did Abel and Cain fuck their mother? So.

The Bible says we are all descended from Adam and Eve.

Adam and Eve had two sons, Cain and Abel.

The human race was not extinct after that second generation

Did Abel and Cain fuck their mother? ]]> Citizen Bleys http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1611-Theological-Query http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/1524-This-is-why-I-don-t-try-to-draw Sun, 01 Sep 2013 23:23:28 GMT I've been in a bad mood all night, so I tried to doodle a cheerful-looking face on a post-it note in order to try to cheer up.

The more I tried to make it look cheerful, the more it looked like the Prince of Darkness.

So...I just said f it and drew monster teeth & a hitler mustache on it and now it's my avatar
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