A Whole Month's Worth of Crap
Well, I just finished the project I was working on and since my supervisor just left for lunch and he alloted me two hours to do a thirty minute (if I type slowly) project and I can only standardize screens for so long I suppose I'll go ahead and throw together an update for ya so that I might stave off the 'Update please' comments for a little while.
First the basics. I'm alive and well. Work is going pretty well. Have expanded my Nintendo library. Someone tried to break into my truck. My phone stopped working. The Buffalo Wild Wings here sucks copious amounts of ass.
I suppose I should expand on those things now. Or perhaps it can be a sort of teaser trailer for things to come in the next week or so... You're lucky I'm at work and don't have cool things to do that would distract me.
As I stated above, I have expanded my Nintendo library. This recent expansion began with an innocent enough trip to Rhino Games, the new used video game store in town. Turns out they'd just gotten quite a shipment of NES games in. That, coupled with their buy two get one free policy and peer pressure left little hope for me. The games I bought where Captain America something or other, Captain Planet something or other, Bucky O'Hare...and three others, whose titles escape me. I'll need to look them up when I get home. Anyhow, it was great. David bought 16 games or so, taking the quantity over quality approace (mine bill still came out to be higher). We head over to Sonic to get the ritualistic Route 44s, eagerly anticipating our new games. His AC adapter is in Houston (where he is working during the summer), so I go grab mine only to discover that it is shot! I don't know what we did to the Nintendo gods, but clearly they were pissed. We immediately head back to Rhino to get an adapter and pick up a used Sega one (since they work for Nintendos). We get back home, discover it's a Sega 2 AC adapter. Boy do those Nintendo gods have it out for us. So we head up to F/X at the mall, hoping that they have a used AC adapter. We had also been told that Radio Shack sold them still, but apparently that was no longer true so we head into F/X, where I buy Gremlins 2 and a new AC adapter. I even got an official Nintendo sleeve for Gremlins they like us so much. Finally, we get back and play all of the games. Most of my games were a blast (especially Captain America and Gremlins 2) while most of David's games sucked. I guess he's banking on people admiring his collection from afar, where the titles are indistinguishable. We decide that the Nintendos aren't working as well as we'd like so we head back to Rhino where I pick up one of the crazy new Nintendos, the one that is set up for the fancy wireless controllers. Messiah something. We get it back, it's great. We of course pop in Super Mario Brothers for the inagural run and decide to go to the negative world since niehter of us had. Then we get Gradius to work (one of the few good ones Dave picked up...only because he saw it before me) which we'd been having the most trouble with. We're playing around, having a jolly good time and I decide to pop in some Castlevania III. Won't work. Dick around with it for a long time and finally give up and go to the trusty old internet. Turns out Castlevania III doesn't run on it. Color me pissed. We look into it, and there's a dozen or so NES games that don't work right, and we have most of them. I grumble a lot and curse my luck. The next day I take it back and explain the situation and they happily refund me (in Rhino Bucks, of course). Not wanting to have store credit left, I do the obvious thing and pony up for a DS Lite. No games at this point since it runs GBA games (and they look way better on the DS Lite than the SP, by the way). I also take this opportunity to pick up some more Nintendo games; Iron Sword, Faxanadu, and Astyanax. A few days later I, of course, went out and picked up the new Mario Brothers for the DS. It is quite fun but way to short. Also, because they don't give me a completion percentage or anything I can rest easy at night without getting 100% and will probably trade it in for Super Princess Peach here soon.
Shit, that took forever. Fortunately, I expect it to be longer than the whole rest of my post. Let's see, next is someone tried to break into my truck. On some Tuesday last month one of the other COBOL programmers came in and said somebody had tried to break into his truck in the parking lot at work the day before (it started to rattle when he left work that day). Fastforward to that Friday, I'm going to unlock the passenger side door and notice my lock is busted. My guess is that it had been like that since Monday, but since it didn't rattle and I had no reason to unlock that door I never noticed. Turns out our trucks are at the top of the stolen vehicle lists, and they punched our locks in with a screw driver, but were unable to get in the rest of the way. To make matters worse, the next Monday my phone dropped signal and never got it again. Turns out my phone just stopped communicating, so I had to get it fixed. No problem, except it's a Motorola with Alltel and the closest service center is in Houston. Not wanting to go down there and have them tell me they'd have it the next day I mail it home and my parents get it taken care of and now I have a new phone (about a week later, that is). Finally, last week we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for $0.35 wings night since one of the guys was transfering to Houston at the end of the week. The service was absolutely attrocious. It took the waitress forever to take away the bones from the group before us and it seems she had an aversion to removing empty glasses from our table. The wings were pretty ordinary, but then again I'm not crazy about wings...so much work. On top of that, my second gin and tonic tasted like it was made with Sprite instead of tonic. Not wanting to be without a drink for the wings, and knowing how awful the waitress was, I toughed it out. I switched to beer though, not wanting to risk another gin and sprite. However, they did, for some unknown reason, only charge us $0.25 a wing, so I don't hate them quite as much. It would have definitely been worth an extra $0.10 per wing to have a competent waitress, though.
First the basics. I'm alive and well. Work is going pretty well. Have expanded my Nintendo library. Someone tried to break into my truck. My phone stopped working. The Buffalo Wild Wings here sucks copious amounts of ass.
I suppose I should expand on those things now. Or perhaps it can be a sort of teaser trailer for things to come in the next week or so... You're lucky I'm at work and don't have cool things to do that would distract me.
As I stated above, I have expanded my Nintendo library. This recent expansion began with an innocent enough trip to Rhino Games, the new used video game store in town. Turns out they'd just gotten quite a shipment of NES games in. That, coupled with their buy two get one free policy and peer pressure left little hope for me. The games I bought where Captain America something or other, Captain Planet something or other, Bucky O'Hare...and three others, whose titles escape me. I'll need to look them up when I get home. Anyhow, it was great. David bought 16 games or so, taking the quantity over quality approace (mine bill still came out to be higher). We head over to Sonic to get the ritualistic Route 44s, eagerly anticipating our new games. His AC adapter is in Houston (where he is working during the summer), so I go grab mine only to discover that it is shot! I don't know what we did to the Nintendo gods, but clearly they were pissed. We immediately head back to Rhino to get an adapter and pick up a used Sega one (since they work for Nintendos). We get back home, discover it's a Sega 2 AC adapter. Boy do those Nintendo gods have it out for us. So we head up to F/X at the mall, hoping that they have a used AC adapter. We had also been told that Radio Shack sold them still, but apparently that was no longer true so we head into F/X, where I buy Gremlins 2 and a new AC adapter. I even got an official Nintendo sleeve for Gremlins they like us so much. Finally, we get back and play all of the games. Most of my games were a blast (especially Captain America and Gremlins 2) while most of David's games sucked. I guess he's banking on people admiring his collection from afar, where the titles are indistinguishable. We decide that the Nintendos aren't working as well as we'd like so we head back to Rhino where I pick up one of the crazy new Nintendos, the one that is set up for the fancy wireless controllers. Messiah something. We get it back, it's great. We of course pop in Super Mario Brothers for the inagural run and decide to go to the negative world since niehter of us had. Then we get Gradius to work (one of the few good ones Dave picked up...only because he saw it before me) which we'd been having the most trouble with. We're playing around, having a jolly good time and I decide to pop in some Castlevania III. Won't work. Dick around with it for a long time and finally give up and go to the trusty old internet. Turns out Castlevania III doesn't run on it. Color me pissed. We look into it, and there's a dozen or so NES games that don't work right, and we have most of them. I grumble a lot and curse my luck. The next day I take it back and explain the situation and they happily refund me (in Rhino Bucks, of course). Not wanting to have store credit left, I do the obvious thing and pony up for a DS Lite. No games at this point since it runs GBA games (and they look way better on the DS Lite than the SP, by the way). I also take this opportunity to pick up some more Nintendo games; Iron Sword, Faxanadu, and Astyanax. A few days later I, of course, went out and picked up the new Mario Brothers for the DS. It is quite fun but way to short. Also, because they don't give me a completion percentage or anything I can rest easy at night without getting 100% and will probably trade it in for Super Princess Peach here soon.
Shit, that took forever. Fortunately, I expect it to be longer than the whole rest of my post. Let's see, next is someone tried to break into my truck. On some Tuesday last month one of the other COBOL programmers came in and said somebody had tried to break into his truck in the parking lot at work the day before (it started to rattle when he left work that day). Fastforward to that Friday, I'm going to unlock the passenger side door and notice my lock is busted. My guess is that it had been like that since Monday, but since it didn't rattle and I had no reason to unlock that door I never noticed. Turns out our trucks are at the top of the stolen vehicle lists, and they punched our locks in with a screw driver, but were unable to get in the rest of the way. To make matters worse, the next Monday my phone dropped signal and never got it again. Turns out my phone just stopped communicating, so I had to get it fixed. No problem, except it's a Motorola with Alltel and the closest service center is in Houston. Not wanting to go down there and have them tell me they'd have it the next day I mail it home and my parents get it taken care of and now I have a new phone (about a week later, that is). Finally, last week we went to Buffalo Wild Wings for $0.35 wings night since one of the guys was transfering to Houston at the end of the week. The service was absolutely attrocious. It took the waitress forever to take away the bones from the group before us and it seems she had an aversion to removing empty glasses from our table. The wings were pretty ordinary, but then again I'm not crazy about wings...so much work. On top of that, my second gin and tonic tasted like it was made with Sprite instead of tonic. Not wanting to be without a drink for the wings, and knowing how awful the waitress was, I toughed it out. I switched to beer though, not wanting to risk another gin and sprite. However, they did, for some unknown reason, only charge us $0.25 a wing, so I don't hate them quite as much. It would have definitely been worth an extra $0.10 per wing to have a competent waitress, though.