my son is evil

Seriously, play New Super Mario Bros. Wii with him. He will fuck with you and make you die, and then giggle about it. And to make it worse, you can't be mad at him because then he will look at you with that huge grin and those 2 dimples. Evil I say!

I am so proud.

pure bladestone.. MINE

Gamers like me that are currently addicted to Demon's Souls are finding it difficult to farm an item called a Pure Bladestone. It is an item used for upgrading weapons, and you need it if you want to get a platinum trophy in the game. It is dropped by 2 baddies.. 1 black skeleton near the beginning of 4-2, and I guess the other one is a black phantom black skellie later on in the level.

I played offline so that I could take world 4 to pure black tendency without the server forcing it back up to white every time I entered the nexus. I did it so that I could kill black phantom Satsuki, and whack the primordial demon, and hopefully get the pure bladestone. I decided to start grinding on the first black skeleton since doing those 2 other things would have taken the world back up to white, and I didn't want that.

Now, a lot of gamers, especially on GAF have said that they have spent hours farming this thing. I figured I was in for it, since my luck with farming in games has never been very good... yeah I will not mention the 30+ hour wait for the Ancient Cyclops in Everquest.

I got it in 8 tries. It took less than a half hour.

I may get a platinum on this game after all.

heheh at&t

I just downloaded the last.fm app for my Droid and got a kick out of the AT&T wireless ad in the app.

portland got dumb

We had a freak snow storm last Tuesday night. I say freak because it was supposed to warm back up into the 40's that day, just as the rain was supposed to arrive. Well, it didn't, and we got snow. And then, Portland got really stupid.

Corinna woke me up a bit early to let me know that it had snowed and I may need to leave early. I did, and I-5 was fine until I got north of Woodburn and hit traffic, which never really died down. It normally takes me an hour to get to work. It took me a little over three.

I didn't actually see snow on the road until we got to Wilsonville, and there was not that much. In fact, there was not much at all through Portland. My tires only started sliding around once, and that says a lot since I am awful when driving through snow. The shoulder was lined with cars because people had been abandoning them. People leaving the freeway were trying to get back on because the roads were so backed up. My sister wrote on facebook that there were still traffic jams at 11pm.

There was no fucking reason for people to be driving that slow and stupid with so little snow on the road. Seriously, go slow and take it easy, but don't go 5mph when you can easily do 35!

New Years Resolution: Don't make any because you never do them anyway.

falling off the wagon

I was sober for over 3 years, and it felt good. Yes I would occasionally feel the urge to dive back in, but I would always remember what it was like, and I would keep it away. Most of the time it was easy, but then I would meet someone who was currently deep in it, and they would talk about it, and I would feel the pull, could hear it calling my name, could remember what it was like when it was good.

And it happened.. I invited it back into my life. Fell off the wagon as the saying goes.

I am talking of course about World of Warcraft.

Last week I received an email from Blizzard stating that in celebration of the games 5 year anniversary, they were giving inactive accounts a free week. Sooooo.... I reinstalled. My wife told my son to say goodbye to daddy for a week, and then told me there was no way I would just play for a week after I promised her I would not resubscribe.

I loaded the game, logged in, and saw an old friend, one I had not seen in a long time. My level 60 Warlock(I quit right before the first expansion was released). I then logged into the server, and of course found that none of the people I played with before were still around, and the ones that were would probably not remember me at all.

I also expected to log into a city, but found my character standing in the Eastern Plaguelands surrounded by undead. All my talents were reset and my inventory was loaded with stuff that I did not recognize. I decided a long time ago that if I did go back, I would start a new character since the game had changed so much since I was last on.

After spending a little time with the game, I do know that going back is not something I will be doing anytime soon. Games that do not have a pause button don't work for me anymore. I am going to uninstall it tomorrow and let the week expire, and then I am going to spend a few hours getting my ass kicked in Demon's Souls.

that green day song

I don't get it. I hear this "21 Guns" song on the few radio stations I listen to, and I can never figure out why it gets played so much. This song is awful. My opinion could be influenced by the fact that I have never liked Green Day, but fuck, this song makes me want to stab my ears with an icepick. It sounds less pleasant than what I imagine a howler monkey being raped by a hippo sounds like.

finally.. some good news...

All trials are settled tomorrow. What does that mean? It means I do not have to go to jury duty in the morning. YIPPEE!

This was the 4th time Marion County summoned me. The first time was when I was 19. I made it as far as the courtroom, but the jury was picked before they got to me. Second and third time was when I lived in Washington. Idiots.