April 10th thru the 16th, 2005Previous Week | Archive Index | Current Blog | Next Week What's in a Sunday  Up early-ish to pick up a friend from the airport, and then home, then over to the Rusty Pelican for brunch-- some of
us were very hungover from the night previous. But not me. I had a Monte Cristo. It was tasty and
delicious. And palatable. And other synonyms I'm sure. Then home... and I slept. A lot. Like all day. One
of those naps where you wake up and can't think of anything else to do with the day so you just sort of
stay there and make yourself sleep more. But eventually I couldn't do that anymore, so I arose and watched
The Limey. An okay flick. Not amazing. Just
merely okay.
No more MxO I quit MxO. The bugs got to be too much. I "failed" the same mission four times in a row, due to bugs-- and never the same bug twice. To heck with this. And they don't make quitting easy. You have to call someone, who, of course, tries to talk you out of it. But not too hard. Because I got the first month free, I still have until the 22nd play before my cancellation goes into effect. No thanks. I mean the only reason to get in there and slog it out power-gamer style, even on days you don't feel like it, is for the eventuality of being a bad-ass. And since I've wiped out that eventuality, I shant be powering no more. I decided to work at the kitchen table, instead of the office, and so I did. I also went to the grocery for some newspapers (crossword puzzles) and vittles. I plugged ye olde iPod into the living room speakers... at the end of the day, there was little or no juice left in ther iPod, so I tore apart my office closet, looking for the power adaptor. Now my office is a right freakin' mess.
After bowling I dropped off the neighbor and went on over to Target. Got some supplies. T-shirts. Dry-Erase Markers. Guild Wars (beta) for 99 cents. Alias season one. A big-ass storage bin. At home I reorganized the closet again. Looks good. Room to hide the extra office chair in there. Happiness. Paging Dr. Waaaassuuuup!  The
Day. I'm becoming some sort of inverted Ramadanian Muslim-of-activity. I mean nothing much happens in the
day... truthfully, nothing much happens at night. But at least more. Anyhoo. What did I do on Tuesday?
Garsh. The usual I suppose. I installed Guild Wars, but
it's still in pre-beta, so there is only play on the weekends for now. This game has potential if for no
othe reason than it's an online-game that does not require a subscription. We'll see. I also found a copy
of Lineage II, that must have come free with some other game. So I installed it, and it spent the
next several hours updating itself online. Linneage II is distributed by the same people who do Guild Wars and City of
Heroes (NCSoft) so I'll give 'er a try. I'll be on American
servers, but the game is HUGE in Korea-- one in three play the game. That's a lot.Eventually it was time for evening coffee so off I went to Revolutions. An okay turn-out. Good conversation. Porn did not come up until the very end, thank goodness. Then I went home, dropping by Mandarin Gate for some noodles and some beef. I watched a disc of Alias. Jennifer Garner is growing on me-- but my favorite character is still Marshall, a sort of James Bond's Q mixed with Buffy's Xander. These Are the Lays of our Dives  Arose,
worked, played Lineage II. The controls suck and if there's
a way to reconfigure them, I can't figure it out. This is older-school MMORPG, with updated graphics,
sure, but it has all of the elements that new-school MMOs strive to overcome-- kill stealing, ninja
looting, and ganking. So far, I'm in the "newbie" area, so no one messes with me. I DID get randomly
attacked by some jerk-face-- as soon as I attacked back, she ran back into the no-attack zone. "Don't
worry," she said, "I'm only level 2, I can't hurt you." Here's the thing-- you don't need tons of XP and
tons of power to IRRITATE THE SNAPPLE OUT OF ME. You can pretty much that just be existing. Anyway, that
sort of stupidity aside, I don't see a long relationship with Lineage II ahead of me. Am I losing
my video game Mojo?Decided I was hungry, was not happy about that, walked to Larry's, got chopped vegetables, a roast beef aram, and a Mountain Dew. And the two local papers, for the crossword. Did them. The crosswords. Most of them-- finished one through and through, anyway. Oh, an "aram" is wrap kinda thing.
Broke 100k Scored 100775 in Lumines today. Not sure what level that is. Unlocked the "Sister Walk" skin, though. Whew! That game is hard on my neck. I'm sure my chiropractor will be either very mad or very pleased, depending on her level of evil. Ah who cares, at least she smells good.
Rain and Sunshine
Sin City Work Work Work This is going to be a boring entry because all I did was work work work. All the way until, I don't know. 7 o'clock or something. Maybe later. I don't think I played any games or read any books or looked at any super-cool websites. Just me in my cold little room, pounfing away at a keyboard until my swollen fingertips, too sore to go on, hung limp ay my sides and I wept like a small child. Well, more like a grow-up child. Cause small children tend to scream. I did not scream, but maybe sobbed a little, oh, and then I had to blow my nose like fifty times. I think I might be coming down with something. OKay, all of that is a lie, my day wasn't bad in the least. The work part was true, but the crying and the fingers and the children part, all lies. I am a prevaricator. I Think I slept In 
I'm not sure. I just remember not doing too much. Then I got up and watched Party Monster and Party Monster, The Documentary. They are the both the
story of Michael Alig, his rise and bust as the King of the late-80s early 90s Club Kids, and the murder
he committed in 1996. Interesting, but now that I've seen it, not so compelling. Basically, it comes down
to this: drugs ruin everything. The end. Macaulay
Culkin and Seth Green did superbly, I must say.
They're better actors than people give them credit for, I think.Then I played some Guild Wars beta. Refreshing, after the crap games I've been subjected to recently. I think this one may be a keeper, if only because there will be no online fees. So there's no reason to lament not having played for a few months. And I think my online friends will give it an occasional whirl was well, and so that's swell. Look for Dakota Jones, everybody!
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Went to bowling. Our opponents were the all-girl team. Or
does the grammar of the sentence go "our opponent was the all-girl team"? Yeah, that sounds better. I
bowled mediocre, but thannks to my neighbor, the uber-bowler, we managed 3 of 4 points. The girls are
cute, true, but one can't get attached, since they won't be in the league next season-- they're switching
to Thursdays because a 4th is being added to the team. And while I might seem like I am talking about this
too much, I am only doing so to flesh this paragraph out. And engaging in this meta-discourse for further
flesh. Aaahhh...
Lodetha came over and we went to 
