They make a Weighted Companion Cube plushie.

I want one for my car.

So that way my Weighted Companion Cube can always be with me. ;)

I miss my Weighted Companion Cube. :(

got my direct deposit set up!!! I can't believe i've been working at walmart since june 22 2005. i need out. maybe i should apply at circuit city or best buy see if i can get a few more $$ an hour and full-time. hmmm. that's if the military doesn't want me. looks like to pass bct i gotta run 2 miles in at least 17:36ish. that's definitely doable for me...least the temp is warming up a bit, need to get out there and push myself.

dude if you can't get down to back to back 8 minute miles I think you will end up as a desk jockey in whatever service you get into, no offense, imho, but I could do that when I was 10 years old and 3 1/2 feet tall................

if you have health issues and bad joints already it may not be the route you want to take.........something less strenous like firefighter may be more up your alley, last thing you wanna do is put in 2.5-6 years and get medically discharged and left on your ass

Man! Am I tired tonight!

Gonna try to stay up a bit longer though... don't want to wake up in the middle of the night again.

Slightly less productive day at work this time... didn't get a whole lot of anything done, now that I look back on it.

Didn't help that the air was totally toxic thanks to the sand-blasting guys stripping away 30+ years of floor paint right down to bare concrete.

Got out of the building ASAP and headed over to a different one for the day. Didn't do anything there either... but at least I wasn't coughing the whole time.

Lunch was OK.

Gonna eat now, and see if I can't stay up until 9 or 10 at least.

I have my doubts...

Fuel pump is going on my car.. that means no Xbox 360 for a while :(

Really tired of mooching off of people for rides when my car goes kaput.. and the dramatically appropriate time when I want to go home.

Walked the 1.5 miles home from work, and even biked 2 miles to the Curling club from home at OMG in the morning to get my car.

That sucks.

Had the day off, did some random stuff, played some Halo, did some GH3 co-op with some friends. Not much goin'.

Not tired, but not real interested in doing much right now.

dude if you can't get down to back to back 8 minute miles I think you will end up as a desk jockey in whatever service you get into, no offense, imho, but I could do that when I was 10 years old and 3 1/2 feet tall................

if you have health issues and bad joints already it may not be the route you want to take.........something less strenous like firefighter may be more up your alley, last thing you wanna do is put in 2.5-6 years and get medically discharged and left on your ass


doable as in, i can at LEAST pass that even with bronchitis. (that's one reason why i failed the run part of pt was freakin upper respiratory snot coming out my throat and nose while 1/2 way through the run, slowed me down a bunch) i wanna go in as 25b, information technology specialist. working on computers and tech stuff. i want to be able to pass the pt stuff before i even go to basic, this way i can improve upon it while i'm there. i can pass the pushup part right now.


edit:

just watched hamburger hill on tv, first time watching that movie. pretty messy. then played call of duty 4 til i got tired. 2am. time for bed.

Actually got a normal night's sleep. Just about 8 hours. w00t.

Of course, that means I'm now up at 4-in-the-am... but whatever...
At least I'm not rushing to get ready for work. Hopefully I can manage to stay up a bit after work tonight to do some stuff... I was in bed before 9 last night.

It's kinda sucking that I have this whole month with nights and weekends off... and have yet to be able to really take advantage of that fact thanks to my ultra-crappy sleep schedule.

Work was ok, didn't have alot to do. Again, slow season for retail until next fall. *sigh*

Gotta work in the AM. Payday tomorrow though, thank god.

Not much else. Probably need a vacation soon though.

Survived work. Pretty dull. Highlight of the entire day was backing up my entire iTunes library onto a co-worker's drive... so if anything goes wrong with mine (again...) I won't have to rip my entire CD library again.

Plus: he gets to bask in my superb taste in music. :dozey:

Been playing XBox pretty much since I got home... but haven't really been doing too well. Still pretty tired. Been sucking through a lot of levels of things I imagine I'm only going to have to go back and do again at some point.

I might go back and try a round of Halo 2 before I call it a night, though.

Maybe...

I'd probably be much better off doing some reading and crashing as early as possible.

But we'll see...

been tired most of today. went and got my check, deposited to the bank. last time i'll have to do that since i got my direct deposit set up. :) went out to restaurant w/my mom for breakfast, then out bowling, bowled 3 games, i did terrible, my strategy didn't work. under 100 every game. o well. watched 8 episodes of 24 season 1 with my dad, then came home. now i'm tired as ever and bored and the apartment is a complete mess and i have no idea where my sister is so i wrote her a email via myspace...

looks like tomorrow is going to be a ****ty day. rain+friday=shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit. but still am going bowling tomorrow night.

gotta go feed the cats, then i think i'm gonna put some AMC on and just crash on the futon. so much for playing video games. think i'll clean up the kitchen and the living room tomorrow morning. hopefully i'll wake up early enough.

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My thursday league Curling team placed first in it's shift. (8 shifts) Which means we are going to the interclub mens league playdowns at the end of march. Last year and the year before, I was on the winning championship team.

Out of over 100 teams that is not a small feat.

Good thing my Skip is the defending Senior national champ.

Somebody was watching this in the office yesterday... (probably totally ancient in Net-years... but made me LOL!)

*BEEP* (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AXPnH0C9UA)

:joy:

got the kitchen cleaned up. took me only 45 minutes to do the dishes and clean up the trash. not bad. I checked some of my bills and found that i don't owe last month's insurance, i thought for sure i did but i must have paid it. This makes me happy. lol so i'm off to go pay the cable bill. tonight going bowling w/some of my coworkers. work starts at 12 and ends at 9 tonight. trying to stay in a good mood mood.

doable as in, i can at LEAST pass that even with bronchitis. (that's one reason why i failed the run part of pt was freakin upper respiratory snot coming out my throat and nose while 1/2 way through the run, slowed me down a bunch) i wanna go in as 25b, information technology specialist. working on computers and tech stuff. i want to be able to pass the pt stuff before i even go to basic, this way i can improve upon it while i'm there. i can pass the pushup part right now.


edit:

just watched hamburger hill on tv, first time watching that movie. pretty messy. then played call of duty 4 til i got tired. 2am. time for bed.


goootcha gotcha..

yeah lung crap makes it hard to run :D

before I had some legal trouble(done in a month so I can get clearance again) I was 90% done with my paperwork......and my mom couldnt understand why I didnt want to do 25b stuff cuz thats what I do now. I just figure, if I have a job that lets me carry a gun, I might as well go for the one where I know I get to use it, 11 bang bang!

Fuel pump is going on my car.. that means no Xbox 360 for a while :(

Really tired of mooching off of people for rides when my car goes kaput.. and the dramatically appropriate time when I want to go home.

Walked the 1.5 miles home from work, and even biked 2 miles to the Curling club from home at OMG in the morning to get my car.

you order it yet K?


Going retail from teh dealer or what?

rockauto is dirt cheap! or ebay sometimes....save you alot of dough

goootcha gotcha..

yeah lung crap makes it hard to run :D

before I had some legal trouble(done in a month so I can get clearance again) I was 90% done with my paperwork......and my mom couldnt understand why I didnt want to do 25b stuff cuz thats what I do now. I just figure, if I have a job that lets me carry a gun, I might as well go for the one where I know I get to use it, 11 bang bang!

nice, i was considering 11b or 31b (military police), but figured that 25b is where i would fit in the best and i'd get all the certificates and stuff, that way at the end of my enlistment if i didn't want to reenlist, i'd have something other than walmart or pizza hut to fall back on.

you're going in the marines, right or are you going army?

my main thing with enlisting is, i'm considered 'prior service' with a reenlist code of 3 (uncharacterized), meaning i will need a waiver to get in. this is why i kinda need to be able to pass the PT stuff before going, better chance to get the waiver.

I was going to go Army.

Now....probably not. They had issues with getting me a medical waivor since I had surgery on my femur, and I dont want to do something 'normal' if I go.

Plus.....the fiance is not keen on the idea of me going to basic, coming back to get married and going off to training again. She really would be upset if I went infantry as well.

I have a very possible promotion coming in the next few weeks(so I was told) as well and taking a pay cut and leaving the new wife at home to play army sounds like a bad idea now. I think my recruiter is going to be annoyed...:)

Probably right about that. Oh well; he'll have to get over it... it's still a volunteer army, after all. :dozey:

Work was slow, but steady. Worked on cleaning up wire runs in the back of the monitor amp racks.

Took a long, late lunch. (Very good, by the way...)

Ahh... another week of worky goodness and fun behind us.

Need to tackle de-fleaing the house tomorrow, if I do nothing else.
Plus, I want to do some long, LONG overdue computer maintenance and rebuilds the next couple of days... so I might actually be offline most of the weekend.

I have family who wants one of my spare PCs for the kids to use as a homework/ web surfing machine. So I need to clean that up; re-OS it; and get it ready for travel.

Plus my main PC needs an OS refresh itself. Now that I have the XBox, I may not reinstall any games on this one... which means I can go back to the good soundcard I had that conflicted with my vid card durning 3D graphics-intensive games.
Make it a multimedia machine more than a gaming box (which it's really too old to do well, anyway.)

Fact: Call of Duty 4 is awesome.

Fact: On Bog, if I have a Sniper Rifle, I am unstoppable.

Fact: With out a mouse and Keyboard, I still suck at FPS on a console.

Fact: I need to finish the challenges... >.<

you order it yet K?


Going retail from teh dealer or what?

rockauto is dirt cheap! or ebay sometimes....save you alot of dough

Oh god no, I know better then to go through a dealership.

I have a friend that owns an autoshop that has been around for over 30 years, he is working on it personally, and said he was going to find a deal on the parts since the labor is going to be the worst part

Fact: With out a mouse and Keyboard, I still suck at FPS on a console.
Word.

But I think I'm slowly getting better...

Fact: Call of Duty 4 is awesome.

Fact: On Bog, if I have a Sniper Rifle, I am unstoppable.

Fact: With out a mouse and Keyboard, I still suck at FPS on a console.

Fact: I need to finish the challenges... >.<


I TOLD YOU!! I mainly play team deathmatch hardcore. I was kicking ass in a game on overgrown with the m249, x3 frag grenades, sonic boom, and martyrdom.

Niner, could you make sure that Wildstar has mod privileges for all the XWA forums? I thought I had done that before, but my memory is crap.

I gave blood today. That is all.

Can I have some too?

(You really don't want to know why, though... )

The weather was way too nice to spend indoors today, so I ran a few errands in the morning, then went for a walk. Did that most of the afternoon,.. pretty much until sundown.

When I got home I fell asleep. Just woke up again. Might watch a movie now... or fire up a game or 2.

So much for all big plans I had for this weekend... but I thought the possibility for fresh air, sunshine, and outdoor exercise in January overrode all other pre-existing priorities, since it might be weeks, if not months, before I see another day like this around here when I actually have the time to enjoy it.

Oh yeah... and I'm NEVER going into my local Dunkin' Donuts on a weekend again! :mad:

They staff the place with a bunch of giggly teenage girls who spend all their time talking to each other or with every boy who comes into the place that there's no time left to pay actually attention to the little things like taking the orders of paying customers and getting those orders correct.

But it was probably all my fault,.. not checking what was actually in my bag or in my cup before I got home.

This wasn't the first time I've had this problem either. I guess you would have thought I would have learned my lesson before. :rolleyes:

But I have to pass the place on my way home. It's always so tempting.

...........
#&%( THE PATRIOTS

Indeed.

Watched "Blade Runner" (the original theatrical edition; with the voice-overs and the "happy" ending that so many people seem to hate, but is the only version of it I've seen that I actually like...) instead of the game, though.

I guess I just wasn't in the mood for football.

I had no doubts about the outcome of the game, anyway.

forget the pats... the Packers are on a roll and look like they could take it all. Even spotting the Seahawks 14 points in the first minutes they handed the hawks a beating

went bowling again. got drunk. went to dennys. work tomorrow 12-9. it's 3:15 right now.

Lookin' at the possibility of a stupid amount of snow here tomorrow.

Oh goodie. That always makes me happy. :rolleyes:

And I'm sure I'll have to try to get into work, too.

Yay.

Good luck ed!

Now that I'm more calm, I've looked at the Patriots.... They don't seem to tackle very well on defense. They are GOOD, but they don't seem to be able to make concrete hits. That I think will help ANY team.

The AFC Championship will probably be the Colts @ Foxbourogh, with the Colts now at 100%, it'll make it a harder for the Patriots to carry on.

I'll be on Xbox Live most of the day.... various games and such.

work is so boring.....lunch too short. -_-

So I've actually reached the point now where I'm too lazy to play video games. I just watch YouTube videos of people playing them instead. Let that sink in for a minute. I am too lazy to play video games. God help me :(

That's harsh. Seek professional help immediately.

I'm finding I get way too frustrated with games these days. If it's not easy for me right off the bat, my instinct is to call it quits and move to something else.

I used to spend days,.. that's goldurn literal DAYS fer chrissake... working on a sticking point in a game... to the exclusion of all else if needs be.

I don't know what happened to me...

I just give up, move onto another game, then go back the next day and usually i get through the part that's giving me a difficult time.

got to leave an hour early tonight. dead sunday.

found a nice spot that has better vid quality than youtube its called stage6.com

WOO HOO the giants beat the Cowboys... NFC championship goes is at the SNowy frozen tundra! and not at God's spitoon

Looks like it is going to be Packers vs Pats for the superbowl

Listening to some Survivor now.

Take your message to the streets tonight, Rebel Son
There's a restless voice that's calling you
Through the darkest night, fight the fight, Rebel Son
To yourself alone you must be true
Rebel Son...


God the 80's kicked ass. Anyone who disagrees is a Communist.

No argument here. And unlike many of you here... I can actually remember them.

Played Halo 2 most of the night. Then some Mass Effect.

(Kind of a shame the old XBox games don't register in the Gamercard at all... oh well...)

Did a big grocery shopping today. It was pretty needed... and I doubt I'll want to stop tomorrow if it turns as messy as predicted. Maybe up to a foot of snow in some places. Gack.

Watched Ratatouille after that. Really good.

It occurred to me while watching the movie that if I get a high def TV soon, that I'll be wanting to watch all my DVDs all over again on the nice screen. Not that my current TV is a slouch, (the image is actually fairly nice...) but it's standard aspect... so that everything is letterboxed.

As soon as I go HD though... I predict many, many nights re-watching my entire movie collection.

Better stock up on popcorn. :dozey:

EDIT:
Word just came down via e-mail: Work is closed tomorrow.

That's a relief. Yay! More time for games!

:joy:

I'll probably be the 2nd on the scene at work tomorrow. it's going to be boring, guaranteed. well except for the drive in, that's always fun.

I was looking up the dev diaries on Fable 2. I'm now all excited for it. Can't wait to play that. :D


I just watched the movie 'World Trade Center' it was weird.

Ed: Your standard Def movies on your new HD tv will look like crap. TRUST ME. If you want to watch your old collection, nab a 1080P Upconvert DVD player so they don't look completley bad. And consider getting either a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player. Though I'd wait until the format war is over.

Call of Duty 4 is getting the most screen time now. Moving up the ranks quickly, and actually I've stopped completley sucking. I'm halfway decent. Still not uber.

Though I'm still fairly deadly with a Sniper Rifle, my close quarters combat with my M16 is getting better. I love that gun. ;)

you better be playing on hard core. :p

i decided to take a break today and not play it. i have tuesday and wednesday off so i'll be on tomorrow (monday) night probably.

Ed: Your standard Def movies on your new HD tv will look like crap. TRUST ME. If you want to watch your old collection, nab a 1080P Upconvert DVD player so they don't look completley bad. And consider getting either a Blu-Ray or HD-DVD player. Though I'd wait until the format war is over.
All signs point to Blu-Ray being the unofficial winner at this point... but yeah, I'm sure I'll wait a bit on that anyway.

One thing at a time. Can't afford to replace the whole signal chain at once. It would be nice, but until I hit the lottery, kind of impossible.

I dunno... hard to believe that it will look worse than it does now... I'm going composite out of the player through the receiver, into the TV. About as lo-fi as an image signal can get. The TV doesn't take s-vid or component ins, so this was the only solution... other than into the co-ax input, which looked even worse.

My guess is that going component out of player straight into a widescreen TV is going to be a visual improvement over that right off the bat... but I guess I'll have to see it for myself. Obviously, I'm going to have to upscale...

Eventually the whole path will be high-def... but this year if I can just get myself the TVs it will be a start.

I'll be wanting to replace the surround receivers eventually too, to accept HDMI inputs. I'll keep the speakers, though...

Don't think my cable company offers a box with HDMI output yet, though... or at least they didn't as of the middle of last year when my boss upgraded to hi-def on his TV. So that will have to be component out as well...

This is just the livingroom set I'm thinking about... the cellar setup will probably just be primarily a gaming rig... I almost never watch TV down there anymore. If I watch a DVD there, it will probably be through the XBox anyway... which will be HDMI in.

Trust me... any upgrade I do down there will be a VAST improvement. That TV is probably close to 20 years old, was a cheap basic model to begin with, and ONLY accepts co-ax in. Right now, everything is going composite into the receiver, then co-ax through the VCR, into the TV.

It's already a blurry image, even for standard def. Couldn't possibly look worse than it does now.

Edlib, I see you have Oblivion. Good game. Once you get going in that game, it's hard to shut it off.

Yeah... looks deep. Mass Effect is very similar. Huge worlds to explore. Could probably spend months on this one game if I wanted to...

There's an expansion to Oblivion too, isn't there? I can't imagine... I only wish I had that kind of time.

Well, I'm at work now, working. Just...doing some work. Yeah.

Didn't bother even making an attempt to get to bowling practice today because of the snow, even though it seemed to stop or at least taper off a lot by the time I usually leave my apartment. I figured the buses may have been on a snow schedule. Next Monday's a holiday, so bowling won't be half-price then. I may bowl anyway, though, just to stay sharp. I'll just pretend I practiced today for gift card purposes.

Anything High Def you want to stop using Composite Cables and go straight for Monster HDMI cables. For realz. Audio you're better served with a Fiber Optic or Digital Coax.

Yes, most High Def boxes do have HDMI Output. Yes, most 5.1 recivers have 2 HDMI in with 1 HDMI out to the TV, and a Digital Coax or Fiber Optic in. Yes, they are about 3-4 HUNDRED dollars.

Get Monster Cables. Let nobody tell you different.

The reason Standerd Def looks bad on High Def T.V's is because the TV's are designed soley for High Def, and thus, Standerd Def suffers. Standered Def doesn't have the resolution of High Def, so the TV has to fill in the gaps so to speak, so your image looks like a pixilated blur. It's watchable.... but I don't like it personally.