spoiled chinese girl

• For absolutely no reason, I’ve been sniffling and sneezing all day. (Allergies??)
• Upon opening up my new printer, find out that the USB cable to hook it up to the computer isn’t included. (WTF?!)
• My dad’s car (that my mom was driving) died in the parking lot at her work, so it’s… still parked there.
• Of course, we just returned MY car to the dealership yesterday so we went from 3 cars to one in less than 24 hours!
• In checking my pockets before throwing my laundry into the wash, I somehow missed my mini 8gb thumb-drive. (Anyone know if it will survive the wash? It had the cap on (with relatively little moisture inside)
• I was just about to pop some popcorn and watch Buffy on my Xbox… when all the “entertainment” outlets in my room (for my TV, game consoles, cd player & the power bar for my laptop) all stopped working (shorted out?)

BAH!

On the plus side, I was able to tear my computer room completely apart and got my octopussies serving my workstation. All 10 outlets!!

1. Computer Monitor
2. Computer Tower
3. Speakers
4. Wireless Router
5. Cable Modem
6. USB Hub
7. 500gb External HDD
8. 1tb External HDD
9. Printer (that’s not plugged into anything)
10. VCR (that’s not plugged into anything)

(I miss doing lists)

Is surprisingly fun.

Songs that I could get at least four stars if not all five stars in Medium or Hard whilst sober, I could not for the life of me end up with more than three stars on easy.  Easy being only requiring the use of 3 buttons where Medium is four and Hard is all 5.

It was some of the funniest.

I wasn’t too drunk but my friend was super drunk and the only annoying thing was he kept playing the same one song for I swear, an hour straight, convinced he could get five stars on easy because it was on easy.  Not realizing just how much he’d been drinking.

It was a Friday night.  Rum and Cherry Coke purchased south of the border is quite interesting.

Had a bit of a guitar hero 2 date Tuesday night after yoga.  I needed to go to B’s house anyways to look for my blank DVD’s that I was going to use plus a minijack to minijack cable for some bootleg processes that I’ll be working on shortly.

And we had dinner.

And we watched TV

And we played guitar hero 2.  Together.

Awww…

I sound like a goof.  It wasn’t a date.  But it’s funny calling it a date.  I started playing first to try and get all the songs in the medium setting as 5 stars to unlock a new guitar.  Then after we finished eating we were playing random songs in the co-operative mode just to unlock different basses.  He kept taking lead guitar most of the time, leaving me generally with bass or rhythm guitar depending on the song.

It was amusing when there was one song (which I can’t remember) that was apparently super bass-heavy and I had to play most of it.

Next we will be doing the competition mode.  Sweet.

Alright, the Nintendo Wii.  It`s pretty cool and all that jazz, but it`s still a video game.  It still encourages kids (and adults) to sit inside and stare at a screen and not really be overtly social, unless it`s with other people who are also sitting inside staring at a screen and not being social.

And that`s about all there is to it.  You sit and you stare at a screen, you push buttons and you move a controller (or two) around.  I mean there`s MORE movement than a traditional game sure, since you have to move your arm and there`s more hand-eye coordination instead of just thumb-eye coordination, but it`s still an indoor game.

And the people who are touting the Wii as something to help kids be more active are… I`m sorry, off their rocker.  It`s no more active than an active gamer of any other sort, since they move the controllers around whether they need to or not (watch anyone really into a driving game, they`ll hold the controller like a steering wheel, knowing full well their turning means nothing)

You can cheat the Wii.  You can totally lay on a couch and play all the same games and figure out the movements as good as someone who is standing and pretending to do everything as if they were REALLY doing stuff.

The only game I have found that is physically exahusting that you can`t avoid being so is the Wii sports boxing game so far.  But I don`t own a wii and don`t play it a lot.

I mean, if you want your kids to be active, send them outside with a ball, or some wheels, and let them have fun.  And if you INSIST on keeping your kids indoors and staring at a screen, give them a game they can`t cheat at.  Like DDR.  Why has no one touted that DDR made people lose hundreds of pounds, yet the Wii is being touted as the new weight-loss thing?

Arrgh!

I was supposed to go to unicycle club on Thursday, and Phil was also supposed to take me lens shopping beforehand.  So after driving from work to my house to pick up my camera, the driving from my house to his house, I had been in the car just about an hour and a half.  Rush hour is not fun.  Even if it’s the beginning of rush hour.

But I call Phil when I was five minutes away from him, same as I always do, and he’s saying how we probably won’t make it to the store in time, which was closing in about half an hour and with traffic, and the store being across town, I agreed.

Only problem being he didn’t want to go to unicycle club because he wasn’t feeling too thrilled.  Which I understand, he’s under the weather.  Problem being he also wasn’t up to the idea of having visitors.  And I was by now passing by his building.

So he asked if I was still going to club, which I planned on going to, but when he said he didn’t want visitors I had nowhere to go.  I realized there were very few, mainly… no one, I could call to hang out with for two hours.

I had no intentions of hanging out with myself for two hours downtown before club started.  So I did what I would do in such a situation, drive in a wide circle, and start heading back.

Took me an hour to get back home.  2 and a half hour drive, for nothing.  Thrilling.  I had to put gas in my car at some point as well cuz it sucked not having gas.  Anyways, that was most of my night.  I ended up at Brandons playing Guitar Hero on my PS2, and falling asleep on the couch.