A day with no pants....it's coming....heeeee!

It's been a crazy couple of weeks lately. Hopefully after this weekend I can spend a Saturday at home free from social obligations. Right before my birthday Todd and I went to see Cabin in the Woods. Which was by far movie of the fuckin' year in my opinion. We also hit Azuma's for sushi and Todd and I managed to order something random on the appetizer menu that we had no idea what it was. It's been a weird ritual where we find something we have no idea what it is and try it out. So we got a double order of the Dynamite, and it basically lived up to it's name. We were not dissappointed. They also have these awesome cheesecake bites for dessert now.

Week after that was the Weird Al Concert. We went up for bbq at Whole Hog before the concert and ate out on the patio since it was actually a pretty nice day. Weird Al, as always, goes all out for his concert. He doesn't just sing, he really puts on a show. It was especially funny to see Cass let loose and start dancing her heart out in the middle of the concert. She held it together for the better part of the concert but she couldn't hold back the groove when he started in on "Fat"

Week after that was Jarrod's bachelor party. We all dressed up in in fancy duds and went to the Avengers. It was everything we could have hoped for. Earth's mightiest heroes, a huge invasion force, it was pure poetry. Then on to the comic book shop to kill some time until our dinner reservations. We were a little over dressed for the comic shop but it was kinda neat. Then some magnificient steak at Paul's Monterrey. It was glorious.

This weekend is Jarrod and Chelsea's wedding, which I'm really looking forward too. I'm really happy for them, and it's going to be a wonderful wedding. I wouldn't miss it for anything.

But yeah, next weekend I am going to be a lump on the couch and not moving for anything.

:D

AVENGERS! STEAK!! BOOZE!!!

in that order, fuck yeah!

I haven't done much writing lately, and I feel kind of bad about it. I'm really spending far too much time on video games and this time it's Todd's fault. I suppose I'm also to blame for this. Lord of the Rings War in the North is just too much awesome. We can't repel awesome of that magnitude. So yeah we've kind of hit it pretty hard, playing pretty much everyday other social obligations haven't pulled us away from it. It doesn't matter that the story is kind of lame with talking eagles and Radagast getting kidnapped by spiders. Our characters kick so much ass, and it's just so damn satisfying to work together to bring down cave trolls and stone giants. I don't know how many more times we have to beat this game to get it out of our system, but it hasn't gotten old yet.

Been feeling ick the last few days. Since Monday really, but it only got bad yesterday. Woke up Monday with a raw throat, which I figured could've been just an acid reflux thing. But it persisted through tuesday and then wednesday evolved a cough that had me hacking up fistfuls of mucus. I'm doing better today. The cough is retreating though my voice is stuck a couple octaves lower than normal. Like Fluttershy after touching the poisonjoke.

So I started watching My Little Pony Friendship is Magic. I wasn't sure how I'd like it since there been this odd nerpsplosion about it, but some of my friends whose opinions I trust didn't care for it. I'm kind of in the middle. I'm not gonna go all fanboy over it, but I actually really like watching the episodes available through netflix. I love that the message of the first two episodes was, "you had the magic inside you all along." I get a very simplistic 80s cartoon vibe off it, so it's cool in my book.

Todd and I started playing Lord of the Rings War in the North. Definitely one of the better multiplayer games I've had the pleasure of playing. It's a great action rpg and we're both really enjoying the fact that we can sit in the same room for the multiplayer. I really wish RE:ORC had that option.

It's been lovely and overcast all day, without actually raining. So I've actually been letting the light into my house as opposed to trying to fend it off. I don't mind the sun so much when it's filtered through grey clouds.

Once again as much as I hate the current gen trend to nickel and dime the fan base through dlc, I'm going to end up supporting it. Capcom just released the first dlc mission for Raccoon City. The first hit is free of course but they'll be releasing another 6 over the next few weeks. I don't know how much they'll be charging for each one, but no doubt i'll buy them. Mother fuckers, they know I'll pay anything for just another hit of that sweet sweet zombie killing goodness.

But at least I managed to beat the main campaign on the hardest difficulty. Now if I can just unlock every weapon and ability in the game I can finally get it out of my system.

I think Operation Raccoon City answers the most important question in the Resident Evil mythos. What was the critical failed Step 2 in Umbrella's evil plans? Step 1 was obviously Zombies. Step 3 was certainly profit. Unfortunately they dropped the ball on Step 2 : Train a squad of combat ready field scientists to mind control the zombies.

I'm trying to make it through RE:ORC campaign mode on the hardest difficulty. I leave the game public and on rare occasions someone has joined me but mostly I'm all on my own with the poorly trained AI squad mates. Picking the field scientist though, lets me tag and control up to 5 T-virused companions to do my bidding. Notice I didn't say zombies. The real beauty of the scientist is that I'm not limited to just zombies. I've taken control of Lickers, Hunters, and even my most beloved of all Umbrella creations, T-103 aka Mr. X.

There's even a fight with two T-103s and I've been able to turn them against each other and just sit things out until only one is standing. Then I can still take control of him so he just stands there while I shoot him in the face until he dies. I have the feeling this isn't going to work once his power limiter is off, but for now it's a pretty neat trick. I like having my own pet Mr. X. If I had known this was the kind of shit field scientists get to deal with I would have dropped out of an entirely different major.

Of course being double teamed by a pair of T-103s make me think I should do some T-103/Pyramid Head slash fiction.

So this week...

One meal was two bottles of wine
Another was two grilled cheeses and a PACKAGE of bacon.
Today was just one grilled cheese and another PACKAGE of bacon. I held back a grilled cheese because I was going out to eat tonight. It's important to know your limits.

why? because fuck gout that's why!

I can assure you all I am not trying to kill myself. It's just been a bachelor chow kind of week. So anything goes. Granted I'm also not trying to not kill myself. Basically I see the continuance of my life as inconsequential. If I give myself a heart attack, meh. If I don't, grand, that means I live to consume more bacon.

Also it's well after midnight and you know what that means...Rambly post!!!

Uhhhh, I had something here. Nope, it's gone. I got nuthin'.

Managed to pull off a full story yesterday. So feeling a lot better about the whole writing thing. Added some detail to it today as well as got in another page on a longer story I'm working on. So yeah, feeling much better.

So my first console, that was all my own not having to be shared with the family, and videogame was the original grey gameboy brick which was bundled with Legend of Zelda Link's Awakening one Christmas in the early 90s. I knew I was getting it for christmas and it killed me to know it was sitting there under the tree a month before hand. There was nothing I wanted more in life at that time. 4 AA batteries were required to play and I must have poisoned the earth something fierce with the number me and the old brickboy went through. I loved that game soooo much too. It is still in my opinion the best Zelda game ever and Zelda wasn't even in it. The ballad of the wind fish is still the prettiest song ever composed on 4bits. However, I loaned the game to a friend only to have them up and move away unexpectedly with my game. And I gave my old brick to my mom to keep my little brother and nephew entertained on car trips. Who knows what happened to it after that, but they don't have it any longer.

So this last xmas, Zeke was nice enough to get me another old brickboy, which was an incredibly thoughtful gift given the fond memories of it I had recounted to him. Just this week at the local pawn shop, I found a copy of Link's Awakening for $4. I was so ecstatic. Playing it again last night was like nostalgia punching me in the face. I will once again gather the Siren's instruments, defeat the Nightmares, and along with Marin we will waken the Wind Fish, and literally sing the song that ends the world. It will be so sad and beautiful.