I'm not a big fan of attention or fuss, so this birthday was a good one. Stephanie and I joined the local happy hour group from work, along with some folks from the guild who happened to be in town, and I got a tequila sunrise (meh), a shot of birthday cake (mmm), and a shot of patron tequila (surprisingly shootable). And, we ran a Wrath of the ( Read more... )

Reading Coin Heaven this morning, I'm sorely tempted to buy Super Mario World off of Virtual Console. Super Mario Bros. might have been my introduction to video games, and Mario Bros. might have been the first Mario game I played regularly, but Super Mario World was the first game I conquered, finding every single secret, passing every exit, ( Read more... )

It's been a busy week, as usual. Tuesday evening Katy (recently back in the States from Morocco) came by to visit. Now Stephanie has met all of the really important people in my life with whom I have stayed in regular contact. (Am I missing anyone ( Read more... )

Steph went with me and my parents to the Mallory Family Reunion. That can only be so much fun in itself even if you're a full-blood Mallory, so I was glad to see that Stephanie seemed to enjoy it, just a little ( Read more... )

So, Mom suggested I go to the library and pick up Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone on audio to read on the way to and from Dexter. Thinking it to be a very good idea, I went to the public library to pick it up while Mom and Dad were packing. The following conversation occured during checkout:

Librarian: *scans card, glances at computer* ( Read more... )

Yep. Finished it. Ready for Book 7.

Goodness. I'm terrified of wandering into anybody's LJ-Cuts until I'm finished with Harry Potter. How come everybody is so keen to brag about the ending? *sob sob* In other HP news, Mom is now interested in getting the first book on CD to listen to as we go down to the Family Reunion this next weekend ( Read more... )

Pretty! Pretty! Pretty!Well, I found a freeze glitch in Wind Waker and my last save point was an hour and a half (and a dungeon and a plot point) back. Bleagh. Funny thing is, I think I've hit this glitch before. (Don't approach the huge boulder on an island if you don't have the means to pick it up. Game doesn't like that ( Read more... )

I'm already planning on going to Barnes and Noble with Katy and Co. to pick up the new Harry Potter book, but I got an email at work and I must say the MU bookstore gets an A for EffortToday I dreamt I woke up, got on the internet, and one of my friends had made a cryptic, one sentence LJ post. I forget the poster or the sentence, but seriously, I ( Read more... )

I finished Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides last night. I must say, "I didn't Get it." I suppose I found it rather disturbing and depressing, as any story about suicides should be, but it wasn't so much because of the girls' deaths as because of the collective narrators' obsession with them ( Read more... )