I did it!!

I finally did it!  I went out today and bought an HDTV.  50" Samsung LCD!  My wife rolled her eyes and said that's the last T.V. we buy!!  I don't even care at this point.  I just can't wait for it to arrive.  I just have to figure out what to game to play on it first!  I already have the movie picked out as The Empire Strikes Back is sitting on the DVD player waiting for it.  I just can't decide which game to play first.  I've heard that there is a definate difference playing Rainbow 6:Vegas on HD so I'm curious to see how much.  At the same time I'd like to start up Dead Rising again since I can actually read the writing now.  I know it seems kinda trivial to be thinking about which game to play but I don't give a shit!  I'm just too excited! 

Posted by Molson @ 8:45 pm EDT | Permalink | 0 Comments

Just Venting!

Just thought I'd vent a little bit today about all the fun things that are going on right now.  First of all I had a great weekend!  I spent it going through my father's things with my sister.  We finally got the courage to go into his room and start going through things.  I couldn't believe the things I found.  I found things I never knew existed!  One of the items of interest to me anyways was a family history detailing ever member of my family since they arrived in Canada from Scotland in 1866.  Reading this family history revealled an interesting fact which I was shocked my father never told me.  Then again, he never told me he had the family history.  Apparently my family settled in a small town in Ontario called Owen Sound.  Now what's interesting is that my family NEVER left Owen Sound.  Every member of my family was born there, was raised there, and died there.  Until my father.  He was the first one to leave the town and I was the first one to be born outside of Owen Sound.  I found that to be interesting.  We also found a bunch of things that I was shocked my father didn't throw out.  He had my sister and my report card for every grade in school.  He had every single birthday card he ever recieved.  He had drawings we did, school projects, Santa Claus lists, everything my sister and I did growing up!  I never knew he was a complete pack rat!  I also couldn't believe that he bought a two year warrenty on a 20 dollar toaster!  But hey that just adds a little character to him.  Now the other thing I really wanted to vent about is the apparent family fued I supposedly started.  Now my family is Catholic, and I was raised Catholic.  I however, now anyways, am not Catholic.  I'm an athiest.  But my father's funeral was a Catholic funeral.  Which is were the fight apparently started.  You see when it came to the part of the service where the priest performs the Eucharist, he gave it to my Grandparents, he gave it to my sister, he gave it to my nieces, and when he came to me I refused.  I wasn't rude or anything, I just politly said that I couldn't accept due to my beliefs.  The priest put his hand on my shoulder, muttered a few words which I guess was a blessing and moved along.  I was unaware that anything was wrong until the reception.  My aunts and uncles started questioning me big time.  All because I didn't eat a little piece of waifer!  They felt I was disrespectful of my father.  After all, I was baptised into the Catholic faith despite what I think or believe now.  I don't feel I was disrespectful.  I don't really understand how not accepting the Eucharist is disrespectful.  I would think it would be more disrespectful to accept it.  But hey, what the hell do I know right.  So now my aunts and uncles are all pissed at me.  I don't know what I can do to fix it but then again, I'm also think that if this is what they are pissed at me for, then so be it.  Be pissed.  Fuck em all.  I've lost my father and now everyone is angry cuz I wouldn't eat a waifer???  I shouldn't say everyone because my sister agree's with me.  Although she's the only one.  But I guess I'll talk to them this weekend or try to since everyone in the family is coming to my sisters house to see if there is anything of my father's they would like to keep.  Or rather not talk to.  I'll try to but I'm sure they won't talk to me.  But hey, that's okay, cuz like I said before....fuck it! 

Posted by Molson @ 10:28 pm EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

Is it just me?

I have a problem.  That problem is that I'm completely bored with gaming!  I have been a gamer since my parents brought home a Coleco Vision and this is the first time that I am bored with gaming.  Is it because there aren't any good games out there?  No.  It's because every game that comes out seems to be the same thing.  There isn't anything truely groundbreaking and new.  I thought for sure that the Halo 3 beta would get me out of my slump.  After all Halo 2 is what got me heavily playing Xbox live.  Sadly it didn't.  All it was to me was just a glossier version of 2.  Now I understand it's just a beta and not the final version but still, it was a bit of a disappointment.  Everyone in my clan is tellling me to pick up Shadowrun.  Again it doesn't seem to be anything new.  Just rehashing everything thats been tried.  The really sad part is that it doesn't seem like it's going to change.  There absolutly NO games coming out this year that I'm interested in.  I had hoped that the Nintendo Wii would get me out of this.  For a time it had.  The problem that I'm having now with it is it seems to just give a new way to play the same tired old games.  I found myself grabbing my old SNES out of storage and playing that again.  I found that it is really sad that I'm having more fun playing games that are 10 - 15 years old than games that are brand new.  So the question is this, are games in a rut?  Do they need something to come out that really shakes things up?  It happens in the other forms of media.  Whenever movies, or music, or books seem to get boring something brand new which no one has ever seen, or heard, or read comes out and completely shakes things up making all of the previous stuff enjoyable again.  The only problem is, and please tell me if I'm wrong, nothing coming out seems to do this task.  It's all just the same ole RTS, FPS, sports game, racing game, platformer, RPG.  Just prettier.

Posted by Molson @ 10:03 pm EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

First time blogging!

Well here it is!!  My first blog.  I've never done this before and I'm not even sure anyone will like or read this.  I have a lot on my mind and I guess it's time to see what other people think of my thoughts.  So if anyone is reading this please feel free to comment.  Like it or hate it, just respond.  I'd like to say that my first blog is something good but there is only one thing on my mind right now.  My father passed away this past Tuesday after a short battle with Cancer.  To me that's not really the bad part since I really lost my father 4 years ago when my mother passed away.  Her death changed him into someone who really wasn't the man I knew as my father growing up.  The worst part of his death was having to take care of my grandparents, his parent.  They were burying their son.  I spent most of my time talking with them and making sure they were alright which of course they weren't.  Whenever someone came to see how I was, I directed them to my grandparents.  It also really made me realize how warped burying your child really is.  I'm a parent of a 15 month old and that is something I myself would never want to experience.  It completely goes against nature.  Our children are supposed to bury us, not the other way around.  It is something that I hope no one ever has to experience or witness.  I'm going to be spending a lot my time, as will my sister and my Aunts and Uncles making sure they are alright and can get through this.  I'm not so sure my Grandfather will as he was already pretty ill going into this.  All this though has made me wonder if we have been lied to about time.  That time does not heal all wounds.

Posted by Molson @ 10:23 pm EDT | Permalink | 6 Comments