A Tale. . .
Alright, so today was insane. I will first provide some background to my story.
Okay, so I went to my friend John Flaherty's house for Thanksgiving. I met his brothers, who were totally sweet, and a bunch of his younger brother's friends, also very sweet. Thanksgiving dinner was totally delicious, some of the best stuffing I have ever had. The social atmosphere was sort of awkward though, ionno. . . I still enjoyed it, because I had a nice loving family and good friends to spend it with and num nums.
After dinner I watched countless episodes of Lost, a show I've never really watched at all, and I started watching through all of Season 3. I would not say I am hooked, but I am curious now, though I have probably ruined it by watching everything that will happen. But yeah, that aside, I stayed up the entire night and morning watching those, and then woke John up at 7:30 because we were to go get the Nintendo Wii. So we travel to this big shopping central (it is "Black Friday" by the way), and the Wii is sold out at all 5 stores we visit. . . LAAAAME! I do, however, learn that Best Buy will be getting another shipment on Sunday. So we go back empty handed, I fall asleep for an hour, John wakes me, we come back to campus, I sleep for 40 more minutes or so (a total of 1 hour and 40 minutes, this is important later, I promise). So I get back to my room, and I am exhausted, so I think to myself I am going to drop straight off to sleep.
WRONG!
Turns out I am going to begin constructing my master plan on how to get to San Jose early Sunday morning to get to the nearest Best Buy, to get myself a freaking Wii! And then the other 10 hours or so I spend playing World of Warcraft. . . good ol' wonderful WoW! So I go to bed at 3:30 AM Saturday Morning. Then. . . we wait. . .
17 hours later I wake up.
It is now 8:30 PM of Saturday, I decide I have slept for long enough, and get out of bed. I promptly finish making my San Jose plan which I will get to in a second, and have a wonderful chat with my good friend Nate, take a shower, play some more WoW until it is 4:00 AM Sunday morning.
I put on my jacket, get my water, get my metro station directions, and I begin running. I need to get to the Santa Cruz metro station (2 miles or so away) by 5:50 AM. I stop by a 7/11 and get one of the most delicious donuts ever, and get to the station at 5:30 or so (I was not running the entire time, like maybe a mile or so).
I then ride to San Jose on a bus, get to my stop at 6:45 AM. I, again, begin to run, because now I have another two miles to run before I get to the Best Buy. So after spastic bursts of sprinting, sore legs, and nearly completely wetting my pants, I finally arrive at Best Buy. . . there is already a line of 30-40 people. I think I am doing well with my time. Unbeknownst, I am not doing well with my time.
I am 34th person in line. . . there are 30 Nintendo Wii's. Interestingly, I was completely alright with this; I accepted this defeat much better than I think most would. I seriously put on my headphones, blasted some Of Montreal and walk-danced to the mall. So what is the cause of this inexplicable joy?
GOD! Holy snap! I was so just. . . happy! I was totally alright with not getting the Wii, besides I have much better plans on how I will get it now, it will wait till I get back home, but I think some of my friends would like to join me in my Esco ventures. But seriously, God is soooo ridiculously amazing. It was like he was just telling me "yo Alex, yer not getting the Wii right now." And so I was like "Okay dude, I am fine with that, I really am. . ."
And so I went and bought FFXII instead, and it totally rocks! Besides, it will hold me over till that Wii thing enters my hands. Really though, such a great day, you have no idea. Church this evening was AMAZING tonight as well, great worship and a very very well done message on homosexuality. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, he brought to the Bible and addressed it through that. And he managed to be very firm in what we as Christians are to believe, but he also shed any preconceived homophobic tendencies we as Christians might have. It was so good. Yeah, so love you and catch ya easy.
-Alex
Okay, so I went to my friend John Flaherty's house for Thanksgiving. I met his brothers, who were totally sweet, and a bunch of his younger brother's friends, also very sweet. Thanksgiving dinner was totally delicious, some of the best stuffing I have ever had. The social atmosphere was sort of awkward though, ionno. . . I still enjoyed it, because I had a nice loving family and good friends to spend it with and num nums.
After dinner I watched countless episodes of Lost, a show I've never really watched at all, and I started watching through all of Season 3. I would not say I am hooked, but I am curious now, though I have probably ruined it by watching everything that will happen. But yeah, that aside, I stayed up the entire night and morning watching those, and then woke John up at 7:30 because we were to go get the Nintendo Wii. So we travel to this big shopping central (it is "Black Friday" by the way), and the Wii is sold out at all 5 stores we visit. . . LAAAAME! I do, however, learn that Best Buy will be getting another shipment on Sunday. So we go back empty handed, I fall asleep for an hour, John wakes me, we come back to campus, I sleep for 40 more minutes or so (a total of 1 hour and 40 minutes, this is important later, I promise). So I get back to my room, and I am exhausted, so I think to myself I am going to drop straight off to sleep.
WRONG!
Turns out I am going to begin constructing my master plan on how to get to San Jose early Sunday morning to get to the nearest Best Buy, to get myself a freaking Wii! And then the other 10 hours or so I spend playing World of Warcraft. . . good ol' wonderful WoW! So I go to bed at 3:30 AM Saturday Morning. Then. . . we wait. . .
17 hours later I wake up.
It is now 8:30 PM of Saturday, I decide I have slept for long enough, and get out of bed. I promptly finish making my San Jose plan which I will get to in a second, and have a wonderful chat with my good friend Nate, take a shower, play some more WoW until it is 4:00 AM Sunday morning.
I put on my jacket, get my water, get my metro station directions, and I begin running. I need to get to the Santa Cruz metro station (2 miles or so away) by 5:50 AM. I stop by a 7/11 and get one of the most delicious donuts ever, and get to the station at 5:30 or so (I was not running the entire time, like maybe a mile or so).
I then ride to San Jose on a bus, get to my stop at 6:45 AM. I, again, begin to run, because now I have another two miles to run before I get to the Best Buy. So after spastic bursts of sprinting, sore legs, and nearly completely wetting my pants, I finally arrive at Best Buy. . . there is already a line of 30-40 people. I think I am doing well with my time. Unbeknownst, I am not doing well with my time.
I am 34th person in line. . . there are 30 Nintendo Wii's. Interestingly, I was completely alright with this; I accepted this defeat much better than I think most would. I seriously put on my headphones, blasted some Of Montreal and walk-danced to the mall. So what is the cause of this inexplicable joy?
GOD! Holy snap! I was so just. . . happy! I was totally alright with not getting the Wii, besides I have much better plans on how I will get it now, it will wait till I get back home, but I think some of my friends would like to join me in my Esco ventures. But seriously, God is soooo ridiculously amazing. It was like he was just telling me "yo Alex, yer not getting the Wii right now." And so I was like "Okay dude, I am fine with that, I really am. . ."
And so I went and bought FFXII instead, and it totally rocks! Besides, it will hold me over till that Wii thing enters my hands. Really though, such a great day, you have no idea. Church this evening was AMAZING tonight as well, great worship and a very very well done message on homosexuality. Everything, and I mean EVERYTHING, he brought to the Bible and addressed it through that. And he managed to be very firm in what we as Christians are to believe, but he also shed any preconceived homophobic tendencies we as Christians might have. It was so good. Yeah, so love you and catch ya easy.
-Alex