Day After
No sleep last night.
Well, more like little sporadic bits of sleep here and there. Around 3am the maintainance man for the cheese factory my mom works at called the house. He got his days mixed up and thought mom hadn't had her surgery yet. That wasn't the problem. The problem was that apparently there had been a fire at the plant. I was too sleepy to ask what happened or how bad it was, so the rest of the might I had psydo-nightmares about the entire plant being burned to the ground.
Did I mention it was freezing cold? When I crawled into bed, had on two shirts, my robe, and even a pair of socks. Buried myself under the sheet, wool blanket, comforter, AND a down comforter.
Oh, and there was a storm. When I finally left the hospital it was all wet, but after I got home it started raining, then grew into a full blown Michigan spring storm. Lasted from about Midnight till 2:30-3am.
*sighs*
Its astonishing that BOTH of mom's knees were the two worst knees her doctor has ever seen. And, this is NOT a young doctor.
Today she did very well. Had a bout of bad nausea before I made it in. Got there in time for their group excersises. Mom really pushes herself. We ate lunch there then she fell back asleep shortly thereafter. That's when I ran to do errands, get american idol set up, etc.
Speaking of american idol...
Mom told me I had to tape this weeks shows for her. Yes, you read right... TAPE. As in.. VHS. Went to target for a few other things, they didn't have any. Went to best buy with little hope. Found a guy and told him "I have an impossible task for you" where in which he proved, while difficult, it was indeed not impossible. Got their last bunch. As in, they are not planning on getting anymore. Started to head to the casheir when I turned to the two guys who ended up helping me and said, "I already know the answer, but I gotta ask: Any Wii's?"
Their answer was a chours of "Yes".
My response: "YOU'RE SHITTING ME!!!!"
Apparently they were frustraited at the fact all their stock was going to the ebay resellers and just instituted a new "policy" of sorts. They are no longer putting them on the shelves. Ebayers simply won't ask a sales person "Can I get 10 wii's?" Personally I wouldn't mind seeing places to the whole "one per customer" thing. Sure, the bold few will work around it, but most won't bother.
Anyway, mine wasn't the last either. A guy heard my exclimations and came over to find out if it was indeed wii's. There was a guy and his son in front of me, the older one behind, and I got the impression there were even more in the back. So, anyone looking for a wii, go to your local best buy. I dunno if its just a decision that this local manager decided, or if its a chain policy now. Either way, support best buy and their effort to defeat the evil resellers (though I blame the people who buy the resold stuff cause if people didn't buy them, no one would resell).
That's what that voice post was about. Doesn't say "hello everyone", says "I got one!" Sorry for the crappy sound. *sighs*
So yesterday I got my wii, set it up and have it working with the wireless.Today I bought Endless Ocean and LOVE it. Beautiful music. Contols can be difficult at times. Perfect time eater. So relaxing. Was just what I needed. Why?
Well, time with mom was pretty good. she had a spot of pain, but not bad and the nausia wasn't back at all. She slept most the time. I left arounf 7:30ish to go make sure her american idol taped properly. My knees, feet, and head were all killing me. Between lack of sleep and the crazy MI weather, I'm suprised my head didn't explode.
Since I didn't want to really buy a game and end up hating it (when games were 15 bucks not much of an issue, but 50 doller games is nothing to sneeze at) I went over to the only rental place I knew of (blockbuster closed sometime after Nov). They didn't have Endless Ocean, even for sale. Frustraited I just said fuck it and left. Not having an account anymore, not sure if they would let me open one with an out of state addy. As I'm pulling out of the parking space, I notice a car pulling in, seemingly heading straight towards me. Stupid me am so focused on the incoming car... I failed to notice the car behind me. *sighs* Tapped the bumper. Didn't do any real damage to the old chrystler, but it slightly dented mom's bumper and left rubber residue. Gods I wish it had been MY car. I'm scared to death that Mom's gonna get in trouble for it.
Ran into the store, talked to the car owner, who really didn't care since it didn't do any damage. I still am kicking myself for not leaving my cell number 'just in case'. Better than then him suddenly trying to contact mom. Doubt anything will come of it anyway. Shouldn't take much to get the dent out anyway. Just.. gah.
Even more frustraited, I make my way towards the house and detour to best buy (it is literally on the way). Endless Ocean is 30 bucks, Smash Brothers is 50... hmmm... lemme see... Yeah, got endless ocean.
Came home, almost 8:30, and American Idol is STILL going on. Its their funraiser thing. Growling, I go to get on the puter to make the donation mom asked me to, only to find that the CD rack with all her CDs had tipped over while I was away.
Move the rack, put back the CDs, make the donation, though I can't find my cell phone in my bag. While I'm looking for it, notice during a commercial break that the VCR had stopped recording. I stick endless ocean in, but while I'm trying to figure out how to get the Wii to display (switching to line 2 with a button buried in the remote), I notice that although the VCR did what I told it to, American Idol was STILL GOING ON!!! GAH! I make the mad rush to get it recording again. Would you believe I had just rewound it? Thankfully it was some girl's rock/country performance, and it only clipped the first half of it. Oh.. and THEN.. Right at the end, just as Maria Carey is comming on stage, the tape gets to the end and starts to rewind. I had forgotten to put it in EP mode. FuckinA. Another mad rush to put a new tape in. I hope mom doesn't mind too much. I didn't care for the song anyway. She'll love the fact I got what was important: the closing performance of the idol finalist singing a "praise and worship" song. I'm temped to install itunes on mom's computer just to buy that song for her. Its one of her favs too. That's twice now that they have had christian themes going on. Dolly Parton and her song when she 'mentored' last week, then this. Flat out suprised me.
Anyway.. the best thing was, right after I got Idol retaping the first time.. Robin Williams came out. He's such a good comedian. Had me in near tears. Just what I needed.
After all the taping was done, Finally got into my game. So much fun. I'll 'review' it later.
Crashing now. Should have 3 hours ago. Once again gotta get up early, and its fucking cold out (barely above 30 right now I think).
Night peeps.
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Well, more like little sporadic bits of sleep here and there. Around 3am the maintainance man for the cheese factory my mom works at called the house. He got his days mixed up and thought mom hadn't had her surgery yet. That wasn't the problem. The problem was that apparently there had been a fire at the plant. I was too sleepy to ask what happened or how bad it was, so the rest of the might I had psydo-nightmares about the entire plant being burned to the ground.
Did I mention it was freezing cold? When I crawled into bed, had on two shirts, my robe, and even a pair of socks. Buried myself under the sheet, wool blanket, comforter, AND a down comforter.
Oh, and there was a storm. When I finally left the hospital it was all wet, but after I got home it started raining, then grew into a full blown Michigan spring storm. Lasted from about Midnight till 2:30-3am.
*sighs*
Its astonishing that BOTH of mom's knees were the two worst knees her doctor has ever seen. And, this is NOT a young doctor.
Today she did very well. Had a bout of bad nausea before I made it in. Got there in time for their group excersises. Mom really pushes herself. We ate lunch there then she fell back asleep shortly thereafter. That's when I ran to do errands, get american idol set up, etc.
Speaking of american idol...
Mom told me I had to tape this weeks shows for her. Yes, you read right... TAPE. As in.. VHS. Went to target for a few other things, they didn't have any. Went to best buy with little hope. Found a guy and told him "I have an impossible task for you" where in which he proved, while difficult, it was indeed not impossible. Got their last bunch. As in, they are not planning on getting anymore. Started to head to the casheir when I turned to the two guys who ended up helping me and said, "I already know the answer, but I gotta ask: Any Wii's?"
Their answer was a chours of "Yes".
My response: "YOU'RE SHITTING ME!!!!"
Apparently they were frustraited at the fact all their stock was going to the ebay resellers and just instituted a new "policy" of sorts. They are no longer putting them on the shelves. Ebayers simply won't ask a sales person "Can I get 10 wii's?" Personally I wouldn't mind seeing places to the whole "one per customer" thing. Sure, the bold few will work around it, but most won't bother.
Anyway, mine wasn't the last either. A guy heard my exclimations and came over to find out if it was indeed wii's. There was a guy and his son in front of me, the older one behind, and I got the impression there were even more in the back. So, anyone looking for a wii, go to your local best buy. I dunno if its just a decision that this local manager decided, or if its a chain policy now. Either way, support best buy and their effort to defeat the evil resellers (though I blame the people who buy the resold stuff cause if people didn't buy them, no one would resell).
That's what that voice post was about. Doesn't say "hello everyone", says "I got one!" Sorry for the crappy sound. *sighs*
So yesterday I got my wii, set it up and have it working with the wireless.Today I bought Endless Ocean and LOVE it. Beautiful music. Contols can be difficult at times. Perfect time eater. So relaxing. Was just what I needed. Why?
Well, time with mom was pretty good. she had a spot of pain, but not bad and the nausia wasn't back at all. She slept most the time. I left arounf 7:30ish to go make sure her american idol taped properly. My knees, feet, and head were all killing me. Between lack of sleep and the crazy MI weather, I'm suprised my head didn't explode.
Since I didn't want to really buy a game and end up hating it (when games were 15 bucks not much of an issue, but 50 doller games is nothing to sneeze at) I went over to the only rental place I knew of (blockbuster closed sometime after Nov). They didn't have Endless Ocean, even for sale. Frustraited I just said fuck it and left. Not having an account anymore, not sure if they would let me open one with an out of state addy. As I'm pulling out of the parking space, I notice a car pulling in, seemingly heading straight towards me. Stupid me am so focused on the incoming car... I failed to notice the car behind me. *sighs* Tapped the bumper. Didn't do any real damage to the old chrystler, but it slightly dented mom's bumper and left rubber residue. Gods I wish it had been MY car. I'm scared to death that Mom's gonna get in trouble for it.
Ran into the store, talked to the car owner, who really didn't care since it didn't do any damage. I still am kicking myself for not leaving my cell number 'just in case'. Better than then him suddenly trying to contact mom. Doubt anything will come of it anyway. Shouldn't take much to get the dent out anyway. Just.. gah.
Even more frustraited, I make my way towards the house and detour to best buy (it is literally on the way). Endless Ocean is 30 bucks, Smash Brothers is 50... hmmm... lemme see... Yeah, got endless ocean.
Came home, almost 8:30, and American Idol is STILL going on. Its their funraiser thing. Growling, I go to get on the puter to make the donation mom asked me to, only to find that the CD rack with all her CDs had tipped over while I was away.
Move the rack, put back the CDs, make the donation, though I can't find my cell phone in my bag. While I'm looking for it, notice during a commercial break that the VCR had stopped recording. I stick endless ocean in, but while I'm trying to figure out how to get the Wii to display (switching to line 2 with a button buried in the remote), I notice that although the VCR did what I told it to, American Idol was STILL GOING ON!!! GAH! I make the mad rush to get it recording again. Would you believe I had just rewound it? Thankfully it was some girl's rock/country performance, and it only clipped the first half of it. Oh.. and THEN.. Right at the end, just as Maria Carey is comming on stage, the tape gets to the end and starts to rewind. I had forgotten to put it in EP mode. FuckinA. Another mad rush to put a new tape in. I hope mom doesn't mind too much. I didn't care for the song anyway. She'll love the fact I got what was important: the closing performance of the idol finalist singing a "praise and worship" song. I'm temped to install itunes on mom's computer just to buy that song for her. Its one of her favs too. That's twice now that they have had christian themes going on. Dolly Parton and her song when she 'mentored' last week, then this. Flat out suprised me.
Anyway.. the best thing was, right after I got Idol retaping the first time.. Robin Williams came out. He's such a good comedian. Had me in near tears. Just what I needed.
After all the taping was done, Finally got into my game. So much fun. I'll 'review' it later.
Crashing now. Should have 3 hours ago. Once again gotta get up early, and its fucking cold out (barely above 30 right now I think).
Night peeps.
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