Michael’s Ramblings

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Birthday’s, Work and being Sick…

Well I haven’t updated my blog in quite some time so I guess I should fill you in with what’s been happening. On Saturday the 15th of September Jo and I had our conjoined 23rd birthday parties at John’s Buddha Hut. We had a unique celebration for our circle of friends as all Video Games were banned by penalty of Death, and the entire night was focused around played Board games instead (I know, I know, it’s just one typing of gaming to another). It was pretty damn great, we dabbled into some new games like “The Analyst” which totally failed, and also into Absolute Balderdash which really took off. By the end of the night there was some, how can I put it, negative energies at the party, you know who you are… Overall though, I enjoyed myself, and continued to enjoy myself with HeroQuest the next morning. Oh! How could I forget, CAKE CLUB the next morning was pretty damn great, and that’s all I can say about it.

The following Tuesday was reclaimed to me as a day off, because we had moved too fast at work. I ended up spending the day with Shane, where I convinced him to buy a Samsung 40” 1080p LCD TV and he convinced me to buy an Xbox 360 HDDVD Player, fair trade I would say… Maybe… Regardless we had a great time researching what would be best and getting me addicted to HD DVD’s, which I bought ‘V for Vendetta’, ‘First Blood’, ‘First Blood - Part II’, ‘Rambo 3′, and ‘Total Recall’ all which look fantastic I might add.

Now this is where it all goes downhill. I come into work on Wednesday feeling a bit off, my throat feeling a bit raw. This was only further compounded by the fact that my arch nemesis at work would be supervising me today. I don’t hate her per se, but she just has little quirks that annoy the fuck out of me. The Gods of Work must have hated me that day because as we were split up into teams, and I was assigned with her. I do admit we got along okay, but there was always that tension between us, and by 12:30pm I was feeling like utter ass, so I told May I was going home. I felt quite bad for leaving actually, because we were so down on staff that week and she was so stressed out. At the end of that day though, I have to look out for myself.

Oh man, how did I forget about TF2?!? That’s right ladies and gents Team Fortress 2 BETA was released last week and everyone has been having an absolute blast with it. At the moment I am enjoying the Medic, Sniper, Spy, and Heavy the most out of all the classes, but I haven’t really put in much time with any class other than those just listed. Spy is getting used the most at the moment for the simple fact it seems to be so damn ‘hax’, I have no problem using it to get behind enemy lines and decimate their base. There is an annoying bug in the game that is affecting people across all hardware specs where they cannot run the game using max settings. If they do, soon into the game it will crash for no apparent reason. Valve have released two sets of bugs fixes meant to combat this situation but so far none have worked.

On the weekend I had James, Tristan, Brian and Mickey D over to play some board games, which quickly turned into TF2, followed by Pizza, followed by a VERY long game of Absolute Balderdash, which included such Dashes as “Male Erectile Fraud Clinic”, LOL! Sunday was filled with X-Files as I have now finished three seasons, and will be starting Season 4 quite soon, and later that evening John, Debari and Woodford came over where I showed them a bit of HDDVD and after Woodford left to ’study’ we started our viewing of the Evil Dead trilogy.

Which leads me to today, still being sick, but I will leave you with a nice video review of Bioshock!

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