School… Oh Noez!
July 24, 2006
The winter holidays have finally come to an end. I got so much done, except none of it was stuff I wanted to do. I must admit, I spent the better part of my two weeks up a ladder helping Dad put polycarbonate sheeting up for our new pergola or on the roof pulling up tiles to put flashing underneath to stop leaks. I’m becoming quite the unplanned handyman. I still resent the fact that Dad insists on doing almost everything himself even though he has torn up cartilage in his knee. It kills him to do it and i’m seriously tired of watching him go around like he is Arnold Swartzinegger and than complaining he can’t walk or somthing like that. All things aside it was an interesting experience.
We also lashed out and bought a new lounge suite. This is very good since our old couch actually crunched every time you sat on it. Plus we have a gay pink chair that only has 3 wheels and is more brown than pink anymore. For a design-oriented guy like me it drives you insane. The good bit is that our new sofa is leather (unfortunately the crap el-cheapo type, not the nice natural semi-anilene stuff you see at the shops for 5 grand a chair).
I have New Super Mario Bros. on the brain. Understandable since I bought it at EB the pupil-free day before the holidays. I like it especially because is a faithful but innovative remake of the old classic that I grew up with. It brings back a lot of memorys because the first game I ever played (and the game that started my passion for gaming) was the Super Mario All Stars collection for the SNES. I also, on saturday, went to the Nintendo DS Connection tour at Garden City. That was awesome to go somewhere and actually find a game on WiFi or download play. I like it that Nintendo is finally starting to recognise Perth as an actual place on the map (apparently being the capital of Western Australia doesn’t mean much here…) and doing some stuff with us dudes on the west coast.
3 Days ago my dad bought a ViewSonic 19″ LCD with the money he made from taking photos. I don’t care because it’s on his computer but on the plus side i got his old Mag-View 19″ CRT. It’s geometetry is a bit crap though. I am now officially a deviantART subscriber and Beta tester. Wow! now if only i could figure out how to get a nice journal…
Sidenote: VistaFolders 2.0. The revolution amazing incredible… The… thing… that… is… coming
Ahhh. Sweet freedom. The school holidays came on friday and i’ve been living it up since. Actually, no I haven’t. I’ve been down with the sickness lately and I rekcon that bastard germ-monkey Azzam had something to do with it.
I finished Splinter-Cell Chaos Theory last week and that was pretty cool. The final level is awesome but the ending movie is a bit crap. I mean, you save the frikking world and all you get to see is Sam shooting a paper ball into a waste basket. The final part of Kokubo Shosho is really fun. General (SPOILERS!) Otomo goes kinda nuts and stabs himself after you catch him trying to cause World War 3. It kinda sucks because I want to play the co-op missions online but unless I have my game patched it won’t let me. That’s fine except for the fact that the patch breaks the computer. Oh well. It doesn’t really matter as it looks like my computer’s broken anyway (Does anybody have a problem where houses in the neighbourhood screen of sims 2 flash red?).
I also rented out The League of Gentlemen today and I recomend it to anyone who liked Little Briton or any stuff like that. It’s very sinister (Are you local?) and sometimes just plain weird. WATCH IT NOW OR I WILL DEVOUR YOUR SOUL!
And finally I saw the movie Cars today. Pixar FTW. ‘Nuff said
