2 Bit Hacker

Another weekend past and time for an update on my wondrous life. It was an interesting weekend, with Delia dragging me to Manray on Friday night. She even managed to get me to put blue junk in my hair, as can be seen in the pictures. I was somewhat hesitant to go, but I ended up having a good time. The rest of the weekend was rather relaxing. Delia got me to pick up a card game called Apples to Apples from the Tower. We ended up playing it most of Saturday night, and for a good amount of time on Monday as well. Worth picking up.

Sunday I sat in on another session of darkenna’s D&D game. I’m going to be joining it with the next session. It seems a lot more thought out than most of the campaigns I’ve been in, so it should be a fun change of pace. I had been looking for a group to get into for a while now, and this seems like a good group of people.

In case you’re wondering about the subject of the post, I’ve decided to cancel my cable TV and TiVo subscription. I find that I’m not at home nearly enough to actually watch anything, and when I am home I have better things I should be doing. I figure the few shows that I do watch I can probably pick up online, or just wait till they’re available on DVD and get them via NetFlix. This does, however, make my TiVo somewhat useless, so if anyone is interested in buying a used AT&T-branded Series 2 (kindof) TiVo that’s been upgraded to 200 hours, let me know.

You are cautious in showing your true self to others.

Personal card games, tv

Monday, while killing some time waiting for the dinner group to form up, we wandered into the EB next to the restaurant. One of the better moves I’ve made in a while, as a search of the SNES pre-owned bin turned up Chrono Trigger, Super Metroid, and Final Fantasy III. I, of course, had to snatch up the first two immediately. Probably would have gotten the third as well, but I’ve already got it. So I think that pretty much completely my collection of best games ever for SNES. There were a lot of good games in that bin, I kindof wonder if someone just recently had to dump their collection.

Oh, and last night while killing time at the mall, I picked up Super Mario World for GBA. I’ve wasted enough time playing in on the console, making it portable will probably be dangerous.

Gaming gba, snes

Well, after stalling on my diet for a while, I’ve managed to pick it back up and for the past few days have been weighing in at under 300 pounds. Granted, only a couple pounds under, but it’s still a downward trend. Just need to keep this up. I’m sure it doesn’t sound to impressive to the normal people out there, but I’m happy about it.

Oh, and in true geek fashion, there are graphs. I don’t update them as often as I used to, since I can’t sync the new Clié at work. I’ll have to fix that.

Good news will come to you by mail.

Personal diet

Back at work after a most enjoyable weekend, and actually finding myself in a reasonably good mood at the office today, despite the fact that I spent at least part of my morning on the cold, wet, broken-glass-covered ground changing a flat tire on the Focus. Going to head out in a bit to get the tire checked out, hopefully it’s nothing major, as I really don’t feel like replacing another rim.

As for the weekend, Friday night was spent bowling with Amanda, Dan, Delia, Snood, Shadow, and Tim. We bowled two games, I did pretty poorly the first one, then threw 6 strikes in the second one. One of my better games, I think. Afterward, we made our way to Applebee’s for dinner, then the Milford crew went back to Milford and I went with Delia and Snood to Shadow’s house for a bit. Upon eventually returning to Manchester, we came to discover that Snood’s car was missing. A couple of phone calls revealed that it had been towed, which is fairly rare for my apartment place. So they ended up just crashing at my place (hooray for futon) and we got his car back in the morning. Never a dull moment.

Saturday was Delia’s concert with the Merrimack Community Chorus. It was a formal event, so I wasn’t so sure about going at first. Delia said I could just go in my normal work clothes, decent pants with one of my pocketed shirts. By the time I got home and was actually getting ready, I decided to don my suit for the event anyway. I think it was the first time I actually enjoyed getting dressed up for anything. The concert was quite good, and I’m looking forward to getting one of the recordings. Also looking forward to the next concert, which I intend to drag a couple of people along to.

On Sunday, I went with Delia to the mall, where she got a Hello Kitty pirate tshirt. I think it looks pretty cool. I’ll have to get a picture when she wears it. After that I tagged along for a meeting at Denny’s, which was apparently much smaller and less eventful than these meetings typically are. Afterward, we wandered over to Headlines, where Delia got a piece of jewelry that I have to keep away from her for a while. She doesn’t want too many people to know about it, so I’ll just be vague about it. From there we went to sit in on a D&D session with Shadow and Angel, which was vaguely interesting. I had very little idea what was currently going on, since they were in the middle of what sounded like a fairly complicated adventure. I think I might ask if I can join up with that group though, I miss playing, and it really doesn’t seem like Kris’s campaign is going anywhere.

So, that’s about it for my weekend. I’ve got some other ideas floating around in my head, but I’ll write them down later, I think.

Personal d&d, Friends

In a moment that it probably takes a true geek to truely appreciate, something caught my eye on the wall at the local T.G.I. Friday’s. We were there last night, far too late (they were probably closed by this point) when I was just looking around and was surprised to spot among the rest of the junk screwed to the wall, a Commodore 64. We, of course, had to go over and poke at it.

I do somewhat wonder how those restaurants get their decorations. Are there companies that specialize in selling old junk to that sort of theme restaurant? There seem to be enough places that decorate that way these days.

Geek Stuff

You will always be surrounded by true friends.

While I was updating some old posts to use the new fortune cookie banner thing, I ran across this fortune and it’s associated comment. What with Andrea getting in touch with me again recently, it makes me think. She probably thinks I’m quite the jackass at this point, but do I really care what she thinks of me anymore?

You will always have good luck in your personal affairs.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAAHAHHAAH

Ahem. cough yeah.

Anyway, those of you who read my home page, rather than the LiveJournal copy of it, might notice that fortune cookies now have a little fortune cookie icon with them. I think it looks neat. No idea if it’s actually showing up in Internet Explorer though.

Random Junk

So, I’ve been pretty busy this past week, too busy to post anything apparently. For the most part I’ve been up to no good, hanging out with Delia a lot, Dan and Tim a bit as well. Evil Dave is back in town for this week, spent some time with him over the weekend as well. Most of last week is a blur, though I do remember staying up all night on Wednesday, hanging out with Delia, Shadow, and Tom at Denny’s for far too long, then deciding there wasn’t enough time to sleep and go to work, so we just stayed up for an extra hour and then I went to work. It was an interesting night.

Oh yes, and Thursday, while Ben, Dan, Delia, Tim and I were enjoying a pizza at the local Pizza Hut (no longer in Milford, as that one has shut down) someone driving what I can only guess to be a rather large truck backed into my Focus. I now have a nice dent in the panel above the driver’s side rear wheel. It could be worse, there’s nothing broken, just a big dent. I should probably see about having it pulled.

Friday I hung out at JLC with Dan, supposedly for an upgrade, though nothing terrible upgrade-like happened. Saturday, Dan, Delia, and I went geocaching, finding one of the caches that Big Dave and I tried for before but could not find. Delia made quick work of it, finding the second point and the final cache with little help from Dan or I. We tried for a second cache but gave up, deciding it was too cold for us to continue.

Sunday, Dave and I had planned on going to see Big Fish, and ending up stealing Delia to go with us. Upon arriving at the theater however, the showtime was gone; either sold out or just gone, I don’t know. So we decided after some debate to see The Passion of the Christ instead (it was either that or Along Came Polly “at least we don’t have to watch the previews for it anymore”.) Not being the religious sort, I’m not too opinionated about the movie. Yeah, it was bloody, but assuming these are even close to the events described in the Bible, then they should be bloody. Overall, I thought it was fairly well done, and it probably worth seeing, though I don’t think I’d bother renting it to see again any time soon.

Wise men learn more from fools, than fools from the wise.

Random Junk