Back to Work

Back in the office today. Not very productive. Lots of things happening at once but personal goals not being met.

Watched Fringe and The Mentalist. Mentalist has potential. More House than Psych but I was entertained and that is all I can ask...

Played more Lego Batman. Finished Story Mode. No going through and doing Free Play.

Sick Comic Day

Spent the day sitting on the couch trying to keep food inside me. Finally better in the afternoon.

Played Lego Batman.

Watched Eureka, Primeval, Entourage and other things that did not leave a mark.

Lego Dark Night

This post and the next two were done in the future for reasons that will come clear...

Worked from home. Got a ton done. Very productive.

Picked up Lego Batman at lunch. Either my second or third favorite Lego game depending if you call the complete saga a new game. Original Trillogy is still my favorite.

Cooked some burgers on the grill. One of them was under done but not very much so. But it aparently was enough to make sick starting at about 2 AM.

Watched Heroes and maybe other things. Kind of running togethor.

Stupid Street Date

Work was productive. Stinky did not stink today. Figures that he did not after I brought it to the attention of the Comtroller...

Finished Spider man Friend or Foe.

Crap forgot to mention the scary thing from yesterday. Heading home from George's, my passenger windshield wiper flew off. These were not new wipers so I have no idea why it happened but it did scare the crap out of me. Picked up a new blade today, so no repeat of this mornings driving in the mist with no wiper.

While I was at a fine retail establishment I noticed the tag for Lego Batman. I asked the clerk if they had any more. He went to the back and found one, but when he went to ring it up the computer would not let him...

I did end up picking up a larger 360 harddrive. Awesome side effect of the new drive is that the system is faster...

Watched True Blood, Entourage, Skins, HIMYM, and Big Bang Theory.

It's Jim Party and I won't blog if I don't want to

It was Jim 31st Birthday. Went to a bowling alley and George's. Did really well my first game but really crappy the second. Managed to unnaturally twist my elbow not bowling but standing in the lobby after bowling. Mrs. D makes good cake.

Played Disgaea 3 and Spider man Friend or Foe.

Watched a crap load of TV while deconstructing Lego sets. It has all kind of run together but I mostly got caught up on weekly series as of Saturday..

Pre Lego Part-a

Lazy day.

Played Spider-man Friend or Foe and Disgaea 3.

Watched Fringe, Burn Notice(2), Psych, Primeval, Best Week Ever, and a Code Monkey while deconstructing a bunch of Lego sets.

Jim brought Kendrix over and since they won't be here for the Lego Building Part-a, we built a bunch of sets. George came over after closing the Stop and joined us. There was one more set built but I parted it before I had the idea for the photo op.

That stinks...

I have a new co-worker that perfumes themselves... It is giving me a headache and I think I am alergic to it...

Went home early. I don't know how people with migranes get anything done. Felt better after leaving so played Incredible Hulk got pissed when it locked up again. I had recently saved at least. Started Spider-man Friend or Foe. Started out fun but is now kind of repetitive. Also Spider-man is not very spider like. Would be better as say a Daredevil game or least engine.

Watched Stargate Atlantis and True Blood. I am interested in True Blood. It starts slow but seems to be picking up nicely.

Paul Smash!

Played Incredible Hulk when I got home. My goal was to smash as much stuff as I could. I was very close to unlocking the achievement for destroying all the building in a section of New York when the game locked up... Almost two hours down the drain. I am actually not playing the game for achievments but there are a bunch of feats in the game that unlock special move and powers and almost every achievment is also a feat so if I want super ground pound I need to destroy a section of new york...

Watched Eureka (2 eps) and House while doing stuff on the pc. I really don't know why I like House as much as I do. The cases are so predictable every week and the lead is a jerk but it always seems to be the first of the watch while doing stuff programs...

Started on cleaning the spare room when I got the call that my guest cancelled. More Hulk for me...

Got Toys 3 and 4 in the Lego Batman Happy Meal toys. Looks like I missed 1 and 2...

Yummy Ice Cream

Went on a sales call in Bellevue. Stopped in Whole Foods for lunch and found Ben and Jerry's Cininum Bun Ice Cream. Still really tasty.

Hit the Stop for Comic Wednesday.

Went to Applebee's with Q. Went home and watched the final Wipeout of the Season, The Shield and Do Not Disturb. DND is my first cut of the year. The quality of the writers did not show through that pile of poo. I was also cheated by Wipeout... The synopsis on Tivo said the hosts were going to run the course. That was BS since the runs that were supposed to be the host were stunt people...And it was anouther clip show!!!!

Today was the 5 sesion of the 100 pushup challenge. It was the first day where I felt like I had nothing left in the tank at the end. I only managed 75 in five sets. That is a long way to go to get to 100 in one set...

Go Spritle Racer Go

Still feels weird going to get lunch by self...

Got my Google Reader to zero for the first time since before DragonCon durring lunch. Not all were read because I did some feed trimming.

Dropped off some blankets and pillows to Goodwill.

Picked up the Speed Racer BluRay. Still amazing but if you missed it in the theater you missed out. I also really liked the special features.

Played some Disgaea 3 and Incredible Hulk. Got a remote sensor bar so I can now Wii again. I predict some Boom Blox in my future.

Going to read some Wolverine Lifeblood and then hopefully get some sleep.

Operation Monday

Scott was back for a couple of hours... We had some Teriyaki...

Went to the stopp and played some Magic with George.

Came home and finished Mass Effect. Then started cleaning for when the cleaning lady comes tomorrow.

Watched Entourage, Skins, Primeval, and Weeds.

Week two of the pushup challenge is underway. Seems to be working...

11:30 and I am not tired in the least. Will start reading Wolverine Lifeblood again now that I am caught up on comics again.

Squish

Got up way early to take Drew to the airport.

Came home and started laundry.

Headed into the office for a few hours to work on the busted server. Thankfully had Scott's help or I would still be there.

Played Mass Effect and Disgaea 3. Watched Stargate Atlantis, BWE and Privleged. I enjoyed Privleged. I am definatly leaning toward the keeper for this one.

Paulapaloza - day 2

Drew and I are both early risers so we were both up and around much too early. We headed out and stoped at the office to see Beau. I got stuck looking at a server issue while they caught up. Drew and I then headed to the Lego Store to pick up the new key chains. I then took Drew to Qdoba before heading to my place to get picked up by 1.0.

Our first stop was the Freemont Troll. Drew is going to send me a picture of me picking the Troll's nose...

Next we met up with the Posse and hit the SciFi Museum. Not as cool as the Museum of my minds eye but much cooler then I had been lead to believe by others...

We then all headed over to the Melting Pot for a three hour meal that was quite yummy.

We then all rallied to George's where we had Rock Band and Ice Cream Cake. I got three talking cards two of which were the same Homer Simpsons phrase I was quite fun to open them at the same time.

No gaming today but I did manage to rip the tongue of my relativly new shoes. Just as I had managed to break them.

Paulapaloza - day 1

This post and the next have been time delayed for reasons that will become clear.

I have good friends...

Today my friends started a two day celebration of my birthday. The theme was doing things on my 101 list.

I left work early so that I could get some cleaning and gaming done before 2.0 picked me up for my secret celebration. Played Mass Effect and Disgaea 3 and watched Do Not Destirb and Wipeout while straighting up around the place. I finally got the kitchen table back together.

2.0 arrived with E and 1.0 and the four of us headed down south to Key Arena where Todd had scored us some tickets to the Storm final home game of the season. After that we headed to a pub resteraunt where I had some really good Prime Rib. George took me home where I was shocked to find Drew waiting in front of my place. MA George Drew and I went inside and chatted for a couple of hours before heading to bed.

Best Birthday in Two Decades

Great day!!!

Had Steak and Prawns for lunch. Toured a pasta plant in preperation for my next project. They gave me 20 pounds of pasta that was made yesterday.

Talk to the nieces for a while.

Played some Mass Effect until I joined 1.0 for dinner at Qdoba. Later had Ice Cream with 1.0 and Q.

Talked to lots of people and got lots of text message.

Cheated Death Again

Aparently today was just a startup test for the Large Hardron Collider, so no mini black holes were even possible today... Guess I should not have goofed off so much yesterday.

Made some progress on a work project. That must mean that I won't get to touch it again for at least a week.

Played more Mass Effect.

Watched The Shield, Entourage and Weeds.

Enjoyed my comic Wednesday. Discovered something with George that I will talk about when I have time to do it. All I have to save is Damn You George!!! Stop dragging me in.

I should mention that I hate Steve Jobs. Just as my return window closes he anounces a new iPod Touch. Don't get me wrong I love my Touch I would just like to have saved 100 dollars and had an external volume control.

Last Day On Earth?

If those pesky science geeks end up making a mini black hole tomorrow then today was my last one. Not surprisingly it was a lot like most of my days..

Played some Mass Effect and Disgaea 3. Cleaned the spare room while watching Mad Men and a Code Monkey. I really need to get my shit organized and make some where shit goes plans...

Nine Months Later...

And I finally have a game I want for the PS3. Picked up Disgaea 3 today. I really enjoyed the first two on the PS2 and had been looking forward to this release but had not been paying attention to the release date. So when I found one copy at Best Buy today I could not resist. I did save the reciept if it is needed... I am only about 20 minutes in to the game but I am slightly disapointed in the look of the game. I have not found anything in the game that could not have been done on the PS2. That being said the humor and gameplay seem to be intact so I really have nothing to complain about.

Played some Mass Effect. Hit a wall and was able to get around it. The combat has been very easy for the last couple of hours so I was kind of surprised when the difficulty jumped up. It took me a couple attempts but I was able to get past the trap and had fun doing it.

Watched Psych and Terminator: SCC. Also watched an episode of Exo Squad from the DVD set I picked up in Atlanta. The first episode is kind of disjointed but it still stands up better then a lot of my old favorites.

Started the 100 pushup challenge again. My previous attemt was interupted by cons, sars and work...

I swear this is not Tom's Blog

Got up this morning and found this on the patio at my parents place.

After breakfast and conversation, we headed to White Samon/Bingem to see where my mom works. Afterwards we went to the Huckelberry Festival. I was disapointed in the lack of Huckelberries at their own festival. Just one booth with Pie and T-shirts. We went across the way to Solstace Pizza for some really good pizza with salmon and Sour Creame. Was much better than it sounds. Stopped at Dickey's fruit stand to get some Peaches for Mom and some Huckelberries for Q.

Headed home while stopping at many Wal-Marts (exclusive Lego set), Targets (JLU figures) and Best Buy (gift for Mom).

Traded Huckelberries for an invite to the Nelson family dinner.

Played some Mass Effect and watched Skins.

Catching up on some trades from the last two weeks...

And the Sky was Full of Stars

Made the long trek to Oregon to spend the weekend with the 'rents.

Things I noticed on the trip:
- The Great Wolf Lodge is new and HUGE. The water slide looks fun.
- Centralia has really boomed West of the freeway. When I lived there there wasn't crap to do one the West side.
- There are a crap load of different Energy Drinks (3 refrigerator cases) for sale but no one carries Barqs.

Spent some time fixing the entertainment components. DVDs now in 5.1 Your welcome Mom.

I have NO cell service at all but they do have a wi-fi connection so I can still send this missive to Blogger. Is strange being disconnected from world, not that anyone ever calls me. :)

Watched Definitely Maybe. A little slow and cutesy but overall a good flick.

More things I forgot to mention... Started Wolverine: Lifeblood on Tuesday. Good story but not tied into continuity at all. It is if Wolverine had never joined the Xmen. Plus he had claws in WWII. Also watched The Perfect Storm on the plane on Wednesday.

Come in to my World

Got up way to early to help in the falling apart plant. Determined that it was not my fault and helped them find the culprit.

Changed the oil in the car.

Played a bunch of Mass Effect.

Cleaned up while watching Eragon (kind of ass) and Stargate Atlantis. In the cleaning I hooked up the cable box again and watched the end of BloodCopy. Now ready to watch Tru Blood.

Spent some time flipping through the onDemand videos to find a really cool one that I saw in Atlanta. Found it and will post on main blog when I get a chance.

Forgot to mention watching the Avengers Next DVD on Tuesday. Some cool stuff but overall I felt it scued a bit young for me... But then I am really old.

Comic Thursday

Sideview of cake from yesterday. Had to head out to a things falling apart call at work...

Comic Thursday :)

Watched Primeval and Mad Men.

Played some Mass Effect.

Just read comics and went to bed early for early am trip to falling apart plant...

Back in the office

First time back in the office in about two weeks and there was cake. Not for me being back but just in general. The awesomeness was that it was shaped like a hamburger and fries.

Non-comic wednesday :(

Watched the first episode of the final season of the Shield and the latest Skins.

Played some Team Fortress II with the guys.

Dragon Slain

Returned home on AirTran (still a real airline) Was almost late. Picked up by Jim. Had some Red Robin. Picked up comics from last week. Watched Middleman and went to bed early.

Live from the corner of Peachtree and Peachtree

It seems like every street in Atlanta is named Peachtree. As you can tell they even meet up sometimes.

Today was the final day of DragonCon. I did not have much work to do so I was able to spend some time exploring the con rooms. Overall I was kind of disapointed. There was not much going on. I guess panels and side events are what make Dragon special...

After the con, Froggy took is all out to dinner. The Sushi was very good. Afterwords we went to the bar in the Hyatt and bs'ed until the bar closed. Heard an interesting story about the hottie from yesterday.

Had an other interesting cab ride back to the hotel. Turns out our cabby was drunk off his ass and weaving all over the road but I failed to notice since I was behind the driver and talking with th girls... Afterward they told me and I kind of freaked out. I so wish that I had known so that I could have gotten the cab number. I hope he did not hurt anyone.