"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
Hey all.
So, things that happened since last post's downer ending...
I went to that place in Antioch and picked up two Allegro speakers for twenty bucks, as well as some records for cheap (best of Doobie Brothers rocks) and a Jimi Hendrix poster. I knew I should have been conserving my money, but walking in there was like a candy shop. My friend let me borrow his turntable since he bought one that I was eyeballing, as well as gave me a reciever that he has no plans for (he collects junk and forgotten treasures like a cobweb collects dust.) So I got that all set up in my computer room, and it sounds awesome.
I beat both Borderlands and Metal Gear Solid 4 pretty quickly. I'll go through Borderlands again to do every quest, but I'll probably do that only when I have a craving for blowing things up needlessly. Metal Gear Solid was a great game, but it wasted time that I will never get back. Hours upon hours of cutscenes. It was the first game to fill up a dual layer Blu Ray disc (almost 50gb, people) so it was graphically and cinematically pleasing, but Hideo Kokima has a tendency to believe that he's Tom Clancy.
I got a tipoff from a friend that a pizza place was hiring. I went down there and it's a cool little place. Almost no dining capabilities, it's mostly a delivery joint, and they needed somebody to take calls and do deliveries. I went there during my friend's hours, whom I haven't to face-to-face in a few years, so that was cool. I also think I have a good shot there. I'll ask the next time I go down there, which will be very soon, because I found the answer to not buying expensive PS3 games: renting.
Close by to the pizza place is Sky Video, and I always knew it was there, it just never clicked that I could rent games. I walked in on my way to apply and picked up Assasains Creed 2. Game rentals there are five bucks for three days, with a dollar twenty five added for each additional day. So I hammered through that sucker, and beat it in 14 game hours. Quite honestly, I was disappointed. It was more of the same as the first Assasains Creed, and it was a graphical let down after seeing something as detailed as MGS4. By no means am I saying it was a bad game, I'm just saying there wasn't much I could wrap my fingers around. There's a bunch of treasure hunting I could have done, towers to climb, contracts to do, but it's all pretty much the same after awhile. Oh well.
I picked up my last paycheck from Target on Friday. With it I paid registration for Acen. So that's a plus.
Friday through Sunday was the United States Canoe Association delegates meeting in Oak Brook, IL. I'm not a delegate, but I do want to know whats going on inside the organization firsthand. Plus, my aunt is the president and my paddling partner is at the center of most the debate that happened. So I went and helped out anyway I could prior to the meetings, and acted as recorder and tiller during the meetings (I counted votes/ballots.) The politics in the USCA are usually pretty petty and mind numbing, and more than once did I get the visual of myself running full sprint against a wall over and over again. Luckily, I only went to two out of the three meetings, because I had to ditch the Competition meeting to go meet Kimmeh, Bellpickle, Kat, and Kimmeh's aunt and uncle (cool folks) in Chicago at the Museum of Science and Industry. So far, this is my favorite pic:
"You stretched out my hat!"
"You shrunk mine!"
The museum was meh, because I've been there done that mostly, although that was the first time I went through the submarine. And the last; it's not meant for tall people. The tour guide made it better though, she was very good at her job.
The resteraunt, which has a weird name that I can't quite remember Ed something, was really cool. The waiters and waitresses were assholes, and I loved it. They had a "Eat and Leave" policy, and it was basically the fine grey area between 'no customer service' and 'lawsuit'.
Oh, and Kimmeh drew me an awesome picture of L, which I'm actually kinda afraid to hang anywhere because my parents would be wondering why I have a bishie portrait. But it's really cool; it's the first I've changed my avi in months.
Oh, and as for the college thing, I'm good to go. It's amazing how much I get done when I don't go through my parents' bullshit and just go straight to the source. My scholarship was from my Grandma, and the rules that she made only applied while she was alive. However, she did state that there is plenty of money in each recipient's inheritence to pay for any four year college. My uncle is in charge of all of this, so I basically showed my Mom and Dad the email he replied to me, and they went 'Ah.' They did make clear that this semester is the last straw. So, I scheduled only three music classes, and plan to transfer to Columbia in Chicago.
Unfortunately, I have a long track record of making plans that work in theory, but never take the effort to carry them out. I think I got this this time 'tho. We'll see.
And Fasterisk reminded me how good Bitches Brew is.
Feeling much better after the past week...
-Ryu
