Just Enjoying It All

Thinking back on my video game experiences over the years, ummm decades even,  the best parts are sitting around with my friends and kicking each others butts.  Without the ability to play right alongside or against my friends the the whole experience wouldn't be nearly as enjoyable.

A couple of days ago I'm driving home in the evening when I pull up to a set of traffic lights and wait my turn.  The nearest car is probably two blocks away while I sit at the red light twiddling my thumbs.  As I continue to wait I realize how much I like traffic lights that have a switch to speed them up when traffic is light.  I'm pretty sure this particular light is the last one in town without such a switch.  

A Han Solo Carbonite Desk is just too damn cool.  Although Lady would either kill me or disown me for sure.

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At work today one of the guys was listening to Lose Yourself by Eminem from the movie 8-Mile.  One of the servers walked through and said "Cool.  We got some old school music today!"  Old School?  The song is from 2002 so it isn't exactly recent, but I don't think it qualifies as old school.

Today I had my first real issue my Xbox 360 in the 3 years I've had it.  It's a pretty minor issue but a big pain in the butt.

I've been playing Need for Speed Shift the past number of weeks and I have to say it's the best game I've played in quite a long time.  If you're a fan of car racing games you should definitely give this one a try.  Anywho, I started the game today and it didn't recognize my career, it would only let me start a new one.  After much poking around and restarting of the console I finally caved in and started a new career.  I had my driver level up to 40 out of 50 and I was on a pretty good run until this happened.  Now my driver level is a mere 4 and it makes me sad.

Since I'm starting with some experience I decided to up the difficulty level a bit this time around just to keep it interesting.

Here's a clip of the gameplay, it's amazing stuff.  Although right side of the video seems to be trimmed off for some reason.

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I received my copy of the 2010 Burton catalog, The Good Book, yesterday.  It's done in a kind of Bible style and it's chock full of good stuff if you're interested in snowboarding.

Ever had one of those moment where you're just happily going about your day the suddenly a quick bit of pain shoots through you for no apparent reason?  That was me yesterday.  It turns out I had a nick on my finger, just a little one, which I discovered while mixing a bowl of red onions and balsamic vinegar.  Yowzers!  That'll wake you up in the morning.

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My experience this evening would have my old Cub Scout leader going on a rant for the ages.

I was dropping off Dude for his weekly Beaver meeting and they were getting ready for an evening of Halloween delights.  They were just setting up the bonfire when I noticed a gas can next to the fire pit so I walked over and casually said "My old Scout leader would go crazy if he saw a fire getting lit with gas and at the Scout Hall no less."  The leader thought the wood was too wet to light due to the recent snowfall so she was using the gas.  The only thing she was actually slightly embarrassed about was buying a jerry can of gas while wearing her uniform.  This does of course reveal that she bought the gas before she checked the wood for the fire.  Definitely not the scouting way!

When I was in Scouts we were always taught the proper way to build a fire and it works really well.  Plus our leader always challenged us to build our fire with only one match and most of us got pretty good at it over the years.  He even showed us how to build a fire without matches and I was very bummed out when I couldn't make it happen myself, no matter how many times I tried.  We were even able to start our campfires in the middle of January only using wood we found in the forest.  It's damn cold and it's tricky but it does work.

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October is usually the time of year my mind starts to anticipate the upcoming winter season and this year is no different.  Everyone has something that officially tells them winter time is here and I'm no different.

Everyone knows that people are creatures of habit right?  For starters I always put on my shoes, pants and drawers left foot first.  I also always hang my shirts in the closet with the fronts facing to the left.  There's no particular reason but if I do it the other way around the whole procedure just feels wrong.  Very strange indeed.  So, is this just and old habit that won't die or some kind of minor compulsive behavior?