I've come to a conclusion this month: if anyone comes to visit me here in Vancouver, we need to go drinking with my brothers. Like, y'know how I like to tell stories, use clever language to tell them and such? Maybe you've even heard me tell a story in person or over voice chat?
I learned that from my brother Justin (the aniki [the policeman]). Amazing storyteller.
That said, last night I hit up a local pub with him, his best friend ("my number four son," as my mom likes to refer to him), and best friend's friend. Then the third and final brother met us there.
It was good times. But yeah, seriously, it's a family of storytellers. You'd love 'em all. So yeah, anyone who comes to Vancouver, we're goin' drinking so long you're 19!
What? I'm 24, I'm allowed to say things like this.
Ahhh . . . so aside from that, while I sit here at the computer waiting for the two cream ales and the vodka and Red Bull I had process, there's not a lot else to report. I e-mailed Ocean yesterday asking what's up. Nice to hear from producer-lady again, though she told me to check again in mid-August. Too bad, but what can you do, right?
Man . . . . . anyone wanna hire a free writer? I'll do it, y'know?
Other than that . . . Shadow', your pre-registration for Anime Evolution should be locked in now. Just gotta wait 'til it's fully processed and then you'll be good to go!
Ahh . . . I think I shall not play Metal Gear tonight. I think tonight is bedtime. Cheers.
[EDIT:] Forgot to mention . . . Red, Duo, your package arrived. Hehe . . . thanks!
"At last! My arm is complete!"
(Sweeney Todd)
Computer's back up and running! Oorah! Heh, guess I'd better start chopping at the . . . haha! At the SIXTY-TWO Fan Word submissions I've neglected all weekend.
This is gonn' be a busy Tuesday . . . guess I'd better not play as much Metal Gear Online today . . .
So while I'm working on that, I'll say that over the past weekend I went for some yum cha with my grandma, did a really quick kung-fu performance at Aberdeen Centre (the "asian mall" that wowed Adam last week), got ragged on by the podcasters a bit, registered Shadow' for Anime Evolution in August, and played a million billion hours of Metal Gear Online. Seriously, I think I'm having more fun with this than I did with Call of Duty 4 - something about hiding in a cardboard box as someone runs past, then ambushing and grabbing them, dragging them down to the ground, choking them out, and then stabbing them in the head just feels very satisfying . . .
So yeah, if anyone needs me, I'll be editing.
The important thing to take from this post: I'm back in business!
Computer place never did call me back, makes me a little worried and I have no idea what their weekend hours are like. I'll hafta call them Monday morning if there's still no word, I think.
Metal Gear Solid 4 was insane and I'm sad I've already played through it once. It was crazy intense, though, and I imagine there's plenty of room for replay. Also, I blame my not having my computer to mess around all weekend, so I had all the time in the world to play PS3 instead. Shameful, huh?
So that's me. I hope you're all doing well, and I'm reading your blogs even if I've less passion to comment as much over on this side of the desk.
Ahem . . .
. . . so remember how when Brawl came out and everyone got it right away and was gushing about it for the rest of the month and I could only just comment and go "wow, that sounds cool! I guess it's a good game indeed" and stuff since I would actually never go on to play Brawl until only about last May or so? And how I felt like I was totally missing out on something big because there was no Wii in the house yet?
Yeah, well . . .
. . . I'm about seven and a half hours into Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots now. Going by the "now playing" thing on the PS Network, so were a few of my other friends.
I'll call it even, even if no one else does.
Damn this has been a good year for games . . .
Gotta say, though, I'm really glad I picked this game up today. The computer's taking more than one day (makes me feel more and more worried the more I think about it), but I promise once it's back, captions and stuff up right away!
(Tonight's post comes courtesy of the mother's iMac on the opposite side of the desk!)
After the other night's Windows update, my computer needed to restart . . . never quite restarted all the way . . . sooooo now it's dead and won't boot up.
Granted, I'm sure something would have crapped up even without the Windows update involved, but alas, same difference in the end.
I may or may not commandeer this computer or a laptop for caption battles today . . . especially seeing as all the screencaps aren't on any other machines. As well, although there are 11 new Fan Words nominations to process (including what's likely to be an amazing FFVII fic by teh Kimmeh), I really don't want to go through those without Firefox and in-browser spellchecking. So hang tight, writers!
Here's hoping It'll be a fast process to get my machine back up and running today/tomorrow . . . heh, evidently much of my current life takes place there.
. . . I'm not sure if that's sad or not. Either way, no one expect to see me online for the next day or two, probably, savvy?
On the plus side of yesterday, I made Adam take public transportation to places beyond downtown Vancouver, effectively defended the honour and quality of Vancouver-based Chinese food, and gave a quick driving tour of my home city in New Westminster. All the while, we listened to the Sweeney Todd score in the car.
That was good times.
