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Friday, October 16th, 2009
2:16 pm	A birthday and an anniversary. Today I turn 34 years old, however, it's a big anniversary for me as well. On my birthday when I turned just 4 years old, I was given my very first home video game system.  Pong. That's right. On this day, I have been an avid gamer for 30 years! People tout about the NES being old school.  In that case, I was wallowing in the tarpits that were there before the school was built. ;) Current Mood: GOOFY!! Current Music: "2 BA Master!" (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
10:01 am	HOW DID YOU GET POP-TART IN YOUR ARMPIT?! Someone once told me that when you become a parent you will find yourself saying things... Things that it seems no one would ever say. That one's from this morning! Current Mood: weird (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
11:44 pm	And lo, the Thousand Years of Darkness began... For on this day, the Second day of August, in the year of our Lord, 2009, Mordenheim did at last wrest full control of the GameStore from the clutches of the corporate masters. And the scammers cried out in agony... The entitlement whores did weep... and the thieves and beggars cowered in fear, for the impossible had happened. A disciple of the Gord slipped through the corporate bubble... and lo, hell on earth was sure to follow. The seas boiled, the skies baked, and returns on Opened New Games were denied! Anyhow, after seven years of hell it's finally made official. I'M FINALLY STORE MANAGER!  TRAINING COMPLETE AND HIT THE GROUND RUNNING!!!   PAAAAAAARTY MOOOOOOORE!!!!!!!!! Current Mood: excited (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009
1:34 pm	At last, at long, LONG last.... I FINALLY GOT MY PROMOTION TO STORE MANAGER!!!! WOOHOOO!!!  PARTY!!!!! *does the happy dance of joy!!!* PARTY!!!!!! Current Mood: rejuvenated Current Music: CARAMELDANSEN!!!!! (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
10:19 pm	Random ponderings and Fallout 3... Why is it if you have no money you're "broke", but if you're wealthy you're not "fixed"? If you had to choose is it better to deal with organized crime or random small-time criminals? Does anybody else see the darker side of pokemon?  It's almost kiddy cock-fighting!  No offense!  I loves my pokes! How does one recapture a lost muse? If you could commit one crime in your life without repercussion, what would you do? Do you see mankind more as a future power in the universal scheme of things, or a galactic virus that this planet will shake off like a bad case of fleas? If you could wish one fantasy creature into reality, what would it be? On to Fallout 3.  This is more for people who've played the game.  I think I broke radio announcer "3-Dawg" 's brain!  Here I ran around the wasteland, doing all these wonderful things for people, a real paragon of virtue.  Then one day, I couldn't take it anymore.  I rigged the bomb in Megaton, slaughtered the residents, looted the town, ran off to Tenpenny Tower, and pushed that big red button to wipe it off the map.  3-Dawg used to go on and on about how wonderful I was.  Now, he starts off saying how he's sick of hearing about me, and I turned from a poor starry eyed youth into a punk and wasteland wandering merc!  However, her immediately starts talking about the wonderful things I did after talking trash.  Very, very weird.... Might have to pay him a little visit... Fight the BAD fight... and Sign Off GNR once and for all...  MUAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!! Or maybe not...  I dunno...  I love being random and chaotic in this game! (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 21st, 2009
12:15 am	A Long Awaited and Much Needed Vacation!! The first real vacation of any length I've taken in YEARS...  And most of it will be spent cleaning house... Erf... Oh well, I'll still have another week of vacation days left for later in the summer. ;) In other news, my Pokemon starter collection is nearly complete, thanks to the generosity of a few customers and a bit of "pokemon poaching" from the traded in games before they were reformatted for sale. ;) Yeah, I'm a member of Team Rocket!  Poaching Pokes is what I do! Well, not really poaching so much as giving them a good home rather than watching them be deleted into oblivion... Oh well. ;) Current Mood: dorky Current Music: "When You're Evil", Voltaire (Comment on this)
Friday, May 8th, 2009
11:30 pm	Pokemon and God Hand OKay, my quest to at least collect all of the starters continues.  I have managed to snag the other two Diamond and Pearl starters (including a Japanese Piplup, kewl. ;)), along with Treeko, Torchik, and mudkips..  (I heard you like...?)  So, six down, six to go!  YAY! =^.^= Also, stopped in at another GameStop today and picked up the game God Hand for about 13 bucks.  If you like arcade-style beat-em-ups and insane humour..  PICK THIS ONE UP! The setting and art direction is a blatant parody of Fist of the North Star, at least in the beginning.  The storyline and characters are so over the top and ridiculous that you can get the lead character killed by laughing too hard.  If you want to take a break between stages, you can relax with a little Blackjack or Video Poker.  Mini-challengeds everywhere, including a "Destroy the Car within the time limit" challenge like Street Fighter, but in 3-d.  It's like Devil May Cry, Double Dragon, and Earhtworm Jim had this weird mutant offspring! Even a GIANT ENEMY CRAB before it was funny. ;) Anyway, the trailer shows it better than I can explain.. Watch, and feel your brain break... Oh yeah...  And it's hard... REAL hard... OLD-SCHOOL-THROW-YOUR-CONTROLLER-ON-THE-FLOOR-AND-SET-IT-ON-FIRE hard... Until you learn the patterns... ;) Old school all the way.. =^.^= Current Mood: silly Current Music: The blatant Hawaii 5-0 ripoff from God Hand (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
11:02 pm	2BA Gym Leader.... My mind keeps floating to weird places today... For example, if you were to be a Gym Leader in the Pokemon universe, what type of Pokemon would you train? Also, which ones in particular? Personally, I think I would be a Dark-type trainer... Houndoom Espeon Mightyena Honchcrow, with Crobat and Marowak to spice things up. ;) What about you guys? Current Mood: curious Current Music: "Pokemon Theme", Jason Paige (Comment on this)
Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
4:00 pm	Your Window... LOCKED, BOLTED, AND NAILED SHUT! CRAP! It turns out that the DS wi-fi dongle only works if you have a PC that's connected DIRECTLY to a modem.  NO WIRED ROUTERS WHATSOEVER! I contacted Nintendo's tech support for help.  What was their response? "Yeah, you need to go buy a wireless router." Whiskey Tango FOXTROT?!?!?! SOOOOOO glad I didn't buy a Wii... If I didn't love Pokemon so much, I'd march right down to the store and trade in every piece of Nintendo hardware and software I own.  I am SO angry with them right now!! ARGH!!! Current Mood: enraged Current Music: The steady beat of my blood thumping through my temples... (12 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, April 27th, 2009
1:30 pm	Your Window To The World.... FINALLY got a wi-fi dongle running correctly! If anyone out there wants to exchange Pokemon friend codes for trading, just reply here or PM me! Current Mood: excited (Comment on this)
Sunday, April 26th, 2009
11:21 pm	AT LAST!!! I FINALLY got the National Dex in Pokemon Diamond yesterday! Now I can finally start bringing some of my old, dear friends into the game... Heh, got it at around 11:00 last night, kinda neat it was the same day as the NPLU's 10th anniversary! www.ashido.com/nplu/ Thank you, Zarla, for rekindling my love of Pokemon, and helping me to remember some old and dear friends. I really miss Stretch, my Arbok, and my Raticate, Chewie... Both of them were a blast to play with and nobody ever thought they were any good.  They were great for me, though. Sadly, they're now sealed forever in their old GB cartridges, unable to move ahead, frozen in time... But I know they're always there, in my memories. *blinks and rubs an eye* Got sappy over my old pokemon...  Heh...  Maybe I should write about them some day... Current Mood: nostalgic Current Music: "The Time Has Come", 2BA Master (Comment on this)
Saturday, April 25th, 2009
10:20 pm	Of Bad Headaches and Loud Parties. I have one, the neighbors are having the other... Guess who is having which... Ooog..  Just going to bed now, I think.... Might get on MSN if I wake up later... Trying to get back in touch with friends on the 'net after a looooong time gone... Current Mood: grumpy Current Music: Crappy oompah music from next door (Comment on this)
Friday, April 24th, 2009
11:02 pm	The Case of the Exploding Customer! Well, today was… interesting to say the least. I got to see a customer have a complete and absolute meltdown.  Over game trade-ins. You see, a customer came in today, wanting to trade in several games and get store credit on a card.  Nothing really suspicious so far. However, all of the games he has look like they’ve just been opened…  like.. five minutes ago.  Any gamer will attest there’s nothing like the smell of a freshly opened disc, and that scent goes away FAST. But, he has games over various systems.  Ps3, ps2, Wii and 360.  Everything should be okay, right?  Let’s see here… the titles were“Guitar Hero World Tour”, “Guitar Hero World Tour”, “Guitar Hero World Tour”, and “Guitar Hero World Tour”. Hmmm…. Okay, so my store manager tells him that he can’t do the trade because the corporate office would see it as “suspicious”. Customer goes from zero to asshole in 3 seconds.  He starts screaming about how he’s never been so insulted, and that corporate wasn’t there and didn’t decide it was suspicious, HE did, meaning my manager.  My manager actually tries to apologise and explain the situation to him, but the customer will have none of it!  “Do YOU have all the systems?!” he spouts, trying to make his point. “Well, yeah, but why would I buy the same game for all of them?” Here he just stammered and hemmed and hawed for a good twenty seconds before finally belting out, “WELL DO YOU HAVE FOUR KIDS?!?!” Maybe it was just me, but that seemed like one loooooooong pause there. Anyway it ended up with the guy demanding our corporate number, him telling my manager to stick his apology up his ass, and us calling the other stores in the area to warn them about this idiot. Now I would think that most folks in this situation would listen to the reasoning, accept the apology, and either ask what they COULD do or go somewhere else. Also, I saw that there were several cases on cheapass gamer lately where people were trying to sell loaded cards of trade in credit for cash at 1/3 or 1/2 of their value.  Makes you wonder….. Current Mood: amused Current Music: "I Can Go the Distance", Disney's "Hercules" (3 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
9:06 pm	I Wanna Live Somewhere.... With more than two friggin' seasons..... Last week it was cool enough here that I had to run the heater at night, and today it's so hot I had to run the AC all day! *grumble-grump-snrls* Current Mood: grumpy Current Music: "Drunk Again", Reel Big Fish (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
10:26 pm	Frustration and exhaustion... Ten days straight without a day off... Ten days of stress and idiocy with nobody at fault. I just have this free-floating funk right now that I can't even burn off through gaming because I don't have anyone to project my frustrations onto... Nobody is at fault. My store manager has a pretty badly injured back and can't work right now, so I have to fill in.  However, I am an hourly employee and cannot go over 40 hours.  Also, I am one of only two key holders in the store, meaning we both have to be there every..  single... day right now... The SM is feeling better and should be back to work next week.  I want to stress that I'm not mad at anyone....  Not him, he's in a TON of pain.. I KNOW what a bad back injury feels like...  Not my co-workers, they've all pulled together admirably and followed my directions well...  Not even corporate, because at this time, I can understand cutting out on overtime unless there is absolutely no other alternative. All that I hope now is that my rising to the occasion this time will finally lead to getting my own store..  I've been trying for years now and they keep bringing people in from outside or giving stores to less qualified people.  Hopefully this time I have finally proven myself.. If not...  I just don't know what else I can do.  Just keep plugging away one rung below the top of the ladder.. I dunno..  kind of rambling now, but I just needed to get a few things out I suppose. Lyanna noticed that I haven't been doing anything creative lately.  No writing, no singing, no music playing, just sitting and re-watching old videos or replaying games I beat years ago.  Mainly I think it's just to reset my brain.  With no time off, if I let my mind wander as I am wont to do while writing, it always wanders back to work... Just a random aside, has anyone else noticed that the party of heroes in FFV is the biggest group of total failures in the history of games?  They fail at EVERY task they set out on! So I just fill my brain with old videos and games to push it out of my mind I suppose.  Even that's not working so well now, though..  I can be in the middle of reading something and my brain is straight back on work... You know, after the manager comes back... I think I really need a vacation.... Current Mood: exhausted Current Music: Overworld Theme, FFV (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, December 1st, 2008
10:28 pm	My Rainbow. Stolen from susandeer : Very interesting.  The total opposite of Sue Deer.  Maybe artists and authors are more different than I thought. =^.^= Your rainbow is shaded black.               What is says about you: You are a powerful person. You appreciate mystery. You may meet people who are afraid of you. Find the colors of your rainbow at spacefem.com. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
10:24 pm	Your Own OST MEME!!! Stolen shamelessly from kazegin_shingo , another of his Journals, anyhoo.... This is pretty involved, but SOOOO worth it! 1. Open your music library. 2. Put it on shuffle. 3. Press play. 4. For every question, type the song that's playing. 5. When you go to a new question, press the next button. 6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool. 7. ??? 8. PROFIT! Songs: Opening Credits: Profiction, Systemaniac:  Ninja Gaiden Ninjitsu Groove, OCRemix (Odd, but friggin' RAWKS!) Waking Up: Phantom of the Opera OST:  Learn to be Lonely (Works for back when I was a kid) First Day At School: Tekcoh_top:  Final Fantasy 10, How Much Longer, OCRemix  (Okay, that title is TOO good for this one...) Falling In love: Lilian Garcia:  You Just Don't Know Me At All (WTF?!) Fight Song: Brand New Sin:  Crank it Up (Slow, hard and heavy, just how I used to fight!) Breaking Up: Clay Walker:  Chain of Love (She broke my heart, but that was alright.  So long as she was happy.) Prom: Ghetto Lee Lewis:  Dragon Warrior Thou Art A DJ OCRemix  (Yeah, so much of my life was game-centric, sue me! :P) Life's OK: James A. Johnston:  Deadly Game  (Yeah, life was definitely NOT OK!!!) Mental Breakdown: Castlevania:  Symphony of the Night OST:  Dance of Pales (Beautiful insanity!!!  MUAHAHAHAHA!!!) Driving: James A. Johnston:  Fight  (I used to be one HELL of an aggressive driver, so I guess this works!) Flashback: Game Over:  Punch out, Little Mac's Confession OCRemix  (Yeah, I had a lot of regrets...) Getting Back Together: deim0s:  FF7 An Answered Cry OCRemix  (Pretty, but serious..  Fitting...) Wedding: FF7 OST:  Aerith's Theme  (I swear to you I am NOT fiddling with these!!!) Birth of Child: Xentinel:  Zelda Essential Links OCRemix  (Yeah, my boy, a new twist on a hardcore classic!) Final Battle: Phantom of the Opera OST:  Overture  (DAAAAAAAAMN!) Death Scene: James George:  Wild Arms Visions of Kin OCRemix  (Very pretty, but more hopeful than sad.  A look to the future I suppose) Funeral Song: Original Pokemon album:  We Have to Say Goodbye  (I don't give a damn if it fits so eerily.. I forgot I had this damn thing on my HD...  So embarrassing) End Credits: Kenji Ito:  Saga Frontier, The Castle of Everlasting Night  (Heavy and ominous..  What, am I going to rise from the grave for a sequel or something???) Well, there we go.. Some almost fit too good..  and some of it is downright embarrassing...  WAY too many game themes, though... Now it's your turn!  I look forward to seeing your OST's, just reply below if you do it! (Comment on this)
Friday, September 12th, 2008
12:01 pm	Ready for one wild ride. Everyone is safe and together down here in Houston as we prepare for hurricane Ike to go straight over our heads.  As soon as everything is restored I will be sure to post here to let everyone know that we made it through alright. Until I see you again, farewell and fair travels. Current Mood: Prepared (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
8:26 am	Metal Gear Solid 4: Low Humor.. But still VERY funny... Early on in the game there is a spot where you can hop up next to two statues on a rectangular block.  The middle statue sort of resembles the Statue of David.  Well, using the octo-camo and pressing the action button, Snake poses as one of the statues.  However his hand is covering the statue's private parts. Now, I was just messing with this, checking it out from different angles.  However, a soldier came by and I suddenly froze in my pose... The statue's "private part" snapped right off and rolled out in front of a very bewildered soldier!! Ended up getting poor Snake killed because I was laughing so hard! Ah well...  Fun times, Kojima, fun times... Current Mood: amused Current Music: "Snake Eater", MGS3 (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 19th, 2008
7:25 am	For our resident wine-lovin' bug! Stolen unashamedly from Eric Idle, with love for unclekage! WINE EXPERT: A lot of people in this country pooh-pooh Australian table wines. This is a pity as many fine Australian wines appeal not only to the Australian palate but also to the cognoscenti of Great Britain. Black Stump Bordeaux is rightly praised as a peppermint flavoured Burgundy, whilst a good Sydney Syrup can rank with any of the world's best sugary wines. Château Blue, too, has won many prizes; not least for its taste, and its lingering afterburn. Old Smokey 1968 has been compared favourably to a Welsh claret, whilst the Australian Wino Society thoroughly recommends a 1970 Coq du Rod Laver, which, believe me, has a kick on it like a mule: eight bottles of this and you're really finished. At the opening of the Sydney Bridge Club, they were fishing them out of the main sewers every half an hour. Of the sparkling wines, the most famous is Perth Pink. This is a bottle with a message in, and the message is 'beware'. This is not a wine for drinking, this is a wine for laying down and avoiding. Another good fighting wine is Melbourne Old-and-Yellow, which is particularly heavy and should be used only for hand-to-hand combat. Quite the reverse is true of Château Chunder, which is an appellation contrôlée, specially grown for those keen on regurgitation; a fine wine which really opens up the sluices at both ends. Real emetic fans will also go for a Hobart Muddy, and a prize winning Cuivre Reserve Château Bottled Nuit San Wogga Wogga, which has a bouquet like an aborigine's armpit. Just spreading a little laughter to others on a grey, gloomy day! Current Mood: amused Current Music: Raindrops on the roof (1 Comment |Comment on this)