The guy who does my titles is on strike.
This was a nice relaxing weekend, and I am happy for that. For one, it was incredibly gorgeous out today.. and apparently going to get even better tomorrow, sweet. Took a quite long walk around the area just scoping out businesses I may not've known about. Earlier in the weekend, Ren took some great initiative and got plane tickets for a mid-February visit, and interestingly saved a lot by buying in Canadian dollars. It made it pretty affordable, though I'll have to drive to Baltimore and pay the parking for those days, but meh, worth it! I also got to expose her to a bit to Watch Them Die, which I figured would be awesome for her given her disposition to bands like All Shall Perish and As Blood Runs Black. Great success! \m/ She even bought a ticket to Paganfest, so that will be an absolutely awesome concert, made better by a visit!
I beat Dark Cloud 2 earlier this week.. just a really great game overall. The ending/final confrontation wasn't exactly epic, but I had so much fun playing through the game, I can't complain. The dungeon crawling action was great, Spheda was fun (if wildly unpredictable at times), Georama was a pretty cool little thing to do, and I really enjoyed building up crazy powerful weapons. Hopefully if they do a sequel, they'll vastly streamline the whole Spectrumization/Synthesis system though, because if there's something that should've definitely happened, it would've been the option to spectrumize and synthesize things more than one at a time. Awesome game though, and I've transitioned right to a second awesome game: Super Paper Mario. Like Paper Mario 2 before it, it's provided me with everything from things that make me smile, to chuckle, to actually crack up with its dialog. Very creative and fun game, lookin' forward to going through it all~
When I get to work tomorrow, I expect the contract from the lawyer to be in my inbox, so that will get the ball rolling and make sure that Ren and I will know the path forward. It looks like I'll have to be letting family and select friends know to have their passports ready, since we'll be hoping to have the ceremony in Vancouver. Talking to a lawyer or two confirmed that getting the K-1 "Fiance Visa" would be a pretty bad idea in our case.. forcing us to wait for the U.S. immigration system to process everything before we could get married, then quickly putting a 90 day deadline on it too, yikes >_> And yes, I know we're not engaged yet, but with something this big and potentially volatile, no way I'm going to take it lightly or go in unprepared. Luckily it looks like Ren and her mom/family will be looking to take care of the ceremony things.. good for me since it'll let me focus on the numerous U.S. things to prepare.
It's an expensive, but good time here. Guess I'd better get my tenant to pay me, huh?
I beat Dark Cloud 2 earlier this week.. just a really great game overall. The ending/final confrontation wasn't exactly epic, but I had so much fun playing through the game, I can't complain. The dungeon crawling action was great, Spheda was fun (if wildly unpredictable at times), Georama was a pretty cool little thing to do, and I really enjoyed building up crazy powerful weapons. Hopefully if they do a sequel, they'll vastly streamline the whole Spectrumization/Synthesis system though, because if there's something that should've definitely happened, it would've been the option to spectrumize and synthesize things more than one at a time. Awesome game though, and I've transitioned right to a second awesome game: Super Paper Mario. Like Paper Mario 2 before it, it's provided me with everything from things that make me smile, to chuckle, to actually crack up with its dialog. Very creative and fun game, lookin' forward to going through it all~
When I get to work tomorrow, I expect the contract from the lawyer to be in my inbox, so that will get the ball rolling and make sure that Ren and I will know the path forward. It looks like I'll have to be letting family and select friends know to have their passports ready, since we'll be hoping to have the ceremony in Vancouver. Talking to a lawyer or two confirmed that getting the K-1 "Fiance Visa" would be a pretty bad idea in our case.. forcing us to wait for the U.S. immigration system to process everything before we could get married, then quickly putting a 90 day deadline on it too, yikes >_> And yes, I know we're not engaged yet, but with something this big and potentially volatile, no way I'm going to take it lightly or go in unprepared. Luckily it looks like Ren and her mom/family will be looking to take care of the ceremony things.. good for me since it'll let me focus on the numerous U.S. things to prepare.
It's an expensive, but good time here. Guess I'd better get my tenant to pay me, huh?