vacation baybee

well here i am on vacation for the week and do i get to play games? nope, i instead find stuff to do other than sitting on my ass in front of the tube with drool escaping from the corner of my mouth.......

i present dinner for the week....

an early birthday present.........

new rug and thus the rearrangment of my living room to accomodate my OCD.....

yes it's a one-bedroom apartment and for those that kept up, it's now a very cozy place to be and for those that have made it this far thru my blog, i picked up GoW2 last night, not just GoW2 but the damn limited edition GoW2, shit it's heavy! and for the extra ten bucks, it's not worth it IMO. but that's just me, so i shall be popping this bad boy in shortly and see if it lives up to the hype. i did enjoy the first one but never got past the first level (being insanely drunk and playing it one time that is) and from the reviews and opinions this looks like a worthy title to have picked up........no youtube today peeps, the window into my life was enuff, heh.

one more day.......

one more full work day and half of another and i will be in slacker heaven!  w00t!

played some soul caliber iv last night after getting the NXE and made my avatar.  the graphics are gorgeous, some of the moves are killer but it failed to "wow" me and i was too lazy to look up the controls so just kinda mashed my way thru it and figured most of them out.  i just kept thinking to myself, i want street fighter or mortal kombat or tekken or hell, even toshinden (which was totally awesome on the ps1 when you were stoned).......call me old school i guess but fighting games that get so complex into their button combo's just doesn't entertain me very much.  i'm in no way slow or stupid, well i guess it depends on which exwife you talk to, but it just seems a waste of time to memorize hitting keys in a litany of b, x, y, a, rt, lr, push this down, squat jump 3 times, spin on your heels and then click them three times to perform the super-duper-totally-outrageous-funkadelic one combo kill move.  thanks but no thanks so that game is going back to gamefly today so now i get to screw around with ninja gaiden while still feeding my fallout3 addiction.

1 1/2 days to vacation!  double w00t!

anyhoo, i see the stock market plunged below 8 grand due to the worries over whether we will bail out the automotive giants, that even though they're about broke, they still managed to find the funds to board a private jet and fly to meet congress to ask for help with taxpayer money.  gotta love the corporate cats, they have balls.  screw 'em all i say, plunge our society back into another great depression, do a global reset and let every freakin' business go under.  i mean, they do have teams of accountants right?  they couldn't see this coming?  where are the indictments for cooking the books?  anyhoo, i'm just ranting and have no real purpose other than to do just that, rant with no feasible back up to support it other than my own theories based upon the right-wing web-sites and liberal radio shows i listen to on a daily basis.  ;) 

and just because i'm looking forward to cooking my ass off on sunday and enjoying some much needed downtime from work and the trials and tribulations of my latest divorce escapades i present to you Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.  c'mon, you know you can feel it....

catch y'all on the flip!

ah monday......

mondays suck, especially after you stay up till 11 o'clock at night watching your football team get embarrassed on national tv.  sometimes i swear i should just root for the bengals, they stand a better chance of actually doing something in the next fifty years.....blah

well i didn't do much this weekend except laundry and work and play a little magic and even less fallout.  i'm currently a level 4 wanderer and time hasn't been a premium for me the past week but when you need to get some frustration out, fallout isn't exactly the type of game you can just hop into and kill something immediately, or at least not yet based on my level.  so GoW2 is looking more enticing, especially horde mode and i am going to wally world today to stock up for thanksgiving week, not to mention i need a computer desk, sitting at the damn patio table for the past couple months is damn uncomfortable, so who knows, we shall see.....

did you know that by using a quart sized ziploc bag, two eggs, and whatever ingredients you like (for me it's cheese, sausage, ham, mushrooms and pepperoni) and a pot of boiling water you can make a no-mess omelette?  yup, it's awesome.  you boil the water (duh), crack your two eggs into the bag, shake the bag to mix the eggs, than add your ingredients into the bag and shake again.  once the water is boiling, after pressing all the air from the bag insert your bag for 13 minutes (keep an eye on it, as i walked away and the top of the bag fell over the lip of the pot and melted, heh) into the boiling water.  after 13 minutes, open the bag and out slides your omelette, perfection!  and damn tasty i might add.

so everyone is doing turkey this year but not i.  not going to see family, not going to see friends so i will be home on turkey day.  the plan is to make a nice huge dish of lasagna and follow it up with making a cheesecake (no spring-form pan tho).  i have the entire next week off so sunday will be spent with my house-maid's dress on (yes, the cute french maid outfit ladies) watching football, drinking beer, cigarette hanging from my lip and cooking.  this single thing is starting to have some strange effect on me and i think i like it......

you knew i couldn't resist but to shake the monday dulldroms outta ya, here's a little bleeding for ya, marking as NSFW in case there are some prudes out there as there's some skin in the video, but covered up skin

catch y'all on the flip!

ah addiction..........

my old friend, welcome back.......so i took a day and night off from ye olde xbox as when i woke up tuesday morning at 6, after going to bed at 3, my eyes had that weird 3D mode going on where if you focused on one point for more than 10 seconds it would kinda do a bubble out effect and that's when i figured, well better put the crack pipe down. so i did just to prove it to myself that i could but last night i picked it back up and was immersed in FO3 for a couple hours on the first level alone and then downloaded the Left 4 Dead demo which i'll give a whirl later on today, i did watch the intro and it looks insane and a hoot to play.

to totally switch gears, i love the holiday season, before transferring into my current role i managed a team of 3rd level tech support folks and would travel between raleigh, nc and austin tx two weeks out of each month. i would rarely take vacation as there was always some issue that needed resolved but i always took the week of thanksgiving and the week of and the week after christmas for myself to mentally recharge and keep my perspective. there's also some miscellaneous days throughout the year i would take but never more than one day off before the holidays. so that being said i am extremely pumped to be single (not officially yet - have to wait till April) and have 3 weeks of vacation to do nothing but play video games! muwhahahahaha, i rule! does anyone else see the pure geekness of this? i just re-read it and i'm thinking, hmmm, 3 weeks of vacation and not one mention of womenz....ummm...yea, you'll have to read back a few blogs but unless i want to sneak around to get my freak on, i'd rather just wait until everything is official and then go whole hog, besides i need the time off from relationships anyways, time to recharge my emotional batteries so to speak.

i have also joined up with gamefly and have the first two games coming that should be here today, ninja gaiden and devil may cry 4. sweetness, just sweetness. i'll eventually look into maybe joining a clan but there's so many multi-platform clans out there that play a lot of halo and now GoW2 that i'll probably have to pick one of those up as a permanent game before seriously looking. right now, i'm just having some fun. in the immortal words of billy idol, i'm just dancin' with myself.

i look forward to eventually getting out on xlive and getting to know some of you better than just reading your blogs but until then peepas........

a little chello music for the soul!!!!

catch y'all on the flip!

wait.........is that daylight?

so, after posting yesterday i immediately went back into fallout3 and it ate me for lunch, shat me out and i begged for more.  my eyelids are propped open with toothpicks and the caffeine in the coffee has failed to kick in and neither has the rockstar drink i guzzled just a bit ago........i usually like some rails on my rpg gaming but the openness of this game is astonishing.  i have played this game since sunday night, 95% of yesterday (well, i did have to shower and eat and even forced myself to play some kung-fu panda) and i plan on going back tonight, and tomorrow night and then i have all day thursday with it as well    but there's just one thing, i suck at it.  lol.  i'm a level 4 saint or something and got lost in arlington national cemetary, jumped back to arefu, unsuccessfully tried to kill the trader (i got ganked instead) and then just had to finally shut down at about midnight.  then i threw in burnout3: takedown and that sucked me in for another 3 hours.....sigh, i don't think i'll be seeing my PC clannies any time soon as i plan on restarting fallout3 and give it some much needed attention to detail on my character development.

now i'm thinking of GoW2 and granted it's been a while since i've done any FPS with any consistency, UT: GOTY was the last, i tried UT2004 just couldn't get back into it....so now maybe i'll pick that up and hit some peeps for some adds......or maybe see what this whole rock hero thing is about......hmmmm, possibilities abound

damn you bill gates.........damn you

catch y'all on the flip!