Monday, April 28, 2008

april 27th, 2008.


most days for me start out early. around three in the morning. if i'm lucky, i get to sleep in once in a while until five-twenty. on this sunday, i make it until six-thirty.

do the dog pissin/shitting thing, come in, feed the sweet faced bulldog, rub my eyes a bit, pour a glass of grape soda, and watch, "hitman."

i end up enjoying the film for the most part, i've seen worse videogame flicks by far, but didn't find too much to really nitpick about. it was what it was. timothy olyphant owns.

jump onto, "halo 3," and do up some double experience points weekend team swat, and within two matches advance to gunnery sergeant. i get happy only to find out i have to earn 150 more XP's to get to gunnery sergeant grade 1. dreams are shattered for the day.

spend the rest of the mid to late morning fighting with myself to take a nap while having season five x-files as background noise to help. it never pans out.

bryan, bridget, and atty show up a little later and we make an attempt at getting them caught up on, "the office," and make it through disc three of season two, and at the end of it, i'm reminded why i love the show so much. it's hilarious approach to basic situations with people we've all met at one point in time, in one form or another.

now, i can't be sure, but i think when i was getting atty a popsicle, bryan pulled the ol' wang chungers out and waved it about. i'm not fully sure though.

they leave after a bit, and i retire to more, "halo 3."

i end up going into my room, sifting through more season five x-files, and finally, end up passing out at some point to be awoken by my alarm clock telling me it's time to get ready for work. i curse at it, eat some m & m's, drink some milk, piss, shit, shave, brush my teeth, and head into what will be my day.

Saturday, April 26, 2008

april 25th, 2008.


i wake up groggy, and swallow all my meds with one fierce swoop of water.

i let the dog out, walk around out in the dark for a beat, enjoying the cool breeze that's very rare these days. the dog drops magnums and wants to go inside immediately. i conquer, and follow suit.

feed the ol' girl, brush my teeth, trim my sideburns, swab on some deodorant, put on my clothes for the day, and with an hour to spare, i get onto some halo 3 ranked matches.

finish up with fifteen minutes to get to work, and go in.

work goes by, and i piss off two co-workers, but to my benefit, i have no morals whatsoever, and let it in one ear and out the other.

i get home, let the pooch out, and check my machine to find my credit union fraud prevention services wanting to know about some charges made on my debit card. i call and find out someone got my info and wiped me out dry.

broke, sad, upset, and hyper, i freak out, and then calm down after talking to the credit union peeps who inform me it'll be okay, but it's gonna take a few weeks to get my money back. with mortgage and bills due next week, and no debit card [i had it canceled,] i begin to try and reason with how i'm gonna make it through all of this.

against what i tell myself, i let my mom know what's going on. my dad, who i've always feared, loved, and respected, makes it clear he's gonna help me out, despite my protests. i tell him when i get this straightened out, the money is coming back to him. he says he knows it is, and that this kind of thing happens, and that's what parents do for their kids. i have to remember this for when it comes time to put him in a home. it'll be a nice one. *i needed some humor to break the tension of how my nerves are...*

dante and i play, "gears of war," co-op for the second time around, so i can get the dom achievements. he's a real bro that way.

joe from work comes over and gets the work out machine the roommates left behind.

when i'm helping his friend load it in his truck, he goes into my house, and leaves forty five bucks on my keyboard.

after joe leaves, i find the money, and get a little tearful. this is a guy who i couldn't stand when he started, who now found out last week he will be let go because of budget cuts, and is worse off financially than me with a wife and kid, and finds that he feels the need to help me out anyway... we as a society take small acts of kindness for granted. he is a king among men.

dante and play some more and then he has to go for a clan match, so i catch up on my thursday night show line-up from the night before:

my name is earl, assy mcgee, scrubs, smallville, lost, and the office.

they all own except for, "my name is earl," which is starting to bore me.

i play some halo 3 before deciding to retire to my room for some season five x-files episodes where i fall asleep midway through, "the great mutato," episode, thus resulting in a dream that has a soundtrack of nothing but cher.

Friday, April 18, 2008

there is no sunlight where i'm going.

the doctor's visit went well. i have a trifecta of infection's beginning in my right ear canal, going into my nasal passage, and ending in my throat. it's so severe, he put me on this high-class potent antibiotic that he told me was so good it's ridiculously expensive. luckily, my insurance covered it and i didn't have to fork over a dime.

waking up the past few mornings with this has been the worse. dry/raw throat. puss/blood coated phlem. barely being able to swallow... this just sucks.

i'm sure i'll get shit on monday from work, but... i can't help it i have shitty immunities... and bad luck.

i had no clue that, "death cab for cutie," had a new album in the works, and i somehow managed to nab a copy of it in advance, and to be honest... it's incredible.

i've never been a big fan of death cab... i liked, "the photo album," and, "transatlantacism," but everything else always left me kinda dry. especially their last release.

when it comes to ben gibbard, i've always been a sucker for his solo/postal service work, but this new death cab is really something to be heard. it's melodic, dark, depressive, optimistic, and experimental... i would dare to say beautiful as well...

i traded in, "bully: scholarship edition," and here's why:

i beat the game on ps2, and with this, on the 360. i unlocked every achievement with the exception of two. dual nebula, and perfectionist. while one is worth 125 gamer points, the other is at 25, and they're mundane in what you have to do to get them, so i said to hell with it, and swapped it out for a game i never had a desire to play until it's fourth installment wowed me...

call of duty 2.

the game's hard as hell. no way getting around it. of course, i'm playing it on veteran seeing as how that's the only way to unlock achievements.

please don't assume i'm an achievement points whore, because i'm really not. i just figure, if the game has them, and i'm gonna play it anyway, why not throw in the challenge of playing it on a harder level and be rewarded.

and i've only unlocked one so far on COD2. it's ridiculously hard on veteran. but, i guess after beating most of the games i've played lately on hard or more, anything seems possible.

still, as far as games go, COD2 is okay, but not nearly as compelling as, "call of duty 4: modern warfare." that game is a glass of brillance in and of itself.

there's not much else going on in the way of life. i want out of florida, and even though my house has been on the market for a little over a month, i have yet to have one bite on it. this country has gone to hell in the way of economy. congrats bush supporters. you wanted him, and now he's wreaked havoc like the fires in mordor.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

"now he's idling, and time is dwindling, in his mind he's figuring out life's about the little things..."


i've got the chest cold in full effect. i went to work the past two days with it, and today was enough for me to call in, take nyquil, orange juice/sprite/splash of brandy, and vicks rub on my neck and chest... i thought when i quit smoking, this shit would end.

i wish i wasn't broke. i would totally get the necessities to make a hot toddy. i could definetly go for one of those pain-go-bye-bye juices'.

saw the new, "rambo." eh. nothing spectacular.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

'cause this is grand theft auto...

i realized that at four thirty-five in the morning, i haven't done much writing since i decided to jump back online.

it's thursday and thankfully one more day to go until the much coveted weekend.

saturday evening i have a, "gears of war," co-op with dante on insane mode that will probably last all the way into the wee hours of sunday if i can keep my head up.

i've been staying away from media stuff on the net, like previews of movies and games, because i realized, in the past, for myself, i've virtually ruined games and films with pre-disposed opinions based on footage shown online.

because of this stance, i've stayed away from GTA IV related stuff with the exception of the first two trailers, but today, decided to read 1up.com's review for the online modes and how awesome rockstar made the online chunk of the game. that review can be found here.

after reading about it, let's just say i'm glad i took off the 29th, and am stoked that it's a midnight release.

"the office," and, "scrubs," start back up tonight, and that, excites me.

i hate florida, and my job. that is all.

Sunday, April 06, 2008

"it was liking sitting in the snowy woods, having a nice morning poo, and talking with god at the same time..."


so, yeah. i'm twenty eight now. i know this is corny to say, but time really does fly by. next year will be my ten year reunion, which, godwilling, i won't be going to because i'll be were i belong, up north.

i truly live for the weekends as of late. broke as sin, but happy. though that six hundred bucks ol' bush is sending will help.

did have enough to get a few groceries and my comics for the week. good stuff this week. although, i'm pretty pissed off at kirkman for killing off an essential character in, "the walking dead." not pissed off on the level of, "annie," from king's, "misery," but pissed off nonetheless.

i got my hands on advance dvd copies of, "run fatboy run," and, "cloverfield." both great films.

also nabbed, "transformers," "hellraiser: bloodline," and, "shallow hal."

started playing, "gears of war," again on hardcore which... is pretty hardcore as it turns out. friendly fire is consistent it seems.

i've been eating nothing but homemade cheeseburgers for the past two days and it's probably not the healthiest thing to eat... but it's AWESOME!

i have to leave the computer now, because my loving dog just beefed on my leg, and the room smells what i envision a field of corpses to smell like.

also, "apocalypto," was actually a good movie. seacrest out.

other forms of fun.


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