June 2008

The few weeks without my Xbox 360 has me playing my Wii a lot more. Now they say all you need to do with a Wii is move your wrist, especially when playing the tennis game, but I swing my whole arm and really get into it. If Krissy and I go at it full force it can get very tiring and that is just playing a game. If it were real tennis with running and actually hitting a real ball then I don’t think we would be able to last ten minutes.

We watched a couple of tennis matches on television since getting back into the Wii Sports. It doesn’t look easy what they do, and only the best of them go on to Wimbledon. Maybe one day I will be able to get to Wimbledon, not by playing of course, but by buying Wimbledon tickets. Of course by playing would be cool too, but with my knee, I don’t think I could ever play one match as good as they do, let alone a whole bunch of games. Like I said though maybe one day we will go and watch Wimbledon live and when that day comes I will be sure to write about it here.

My 360 showed up yesterday, and late last night (early this morning) I plugged it in just to play some Halo. I had been playing Grand Theft Auto so much before I sent it back that I felt that I needed to go back to my XBox roots and put in some time on Halo 3. Plus it doesn’t help that I had been watching Red Vs Blue and trying to think of ways to have my own Machinima series. Maybe one day when you come here you’ll see a video of a new internet series, but for right now I don’t know. It isn’t that I have no ideas, it is that I don’t have the time right now to put them all down and try and figure out if each one would work and if they could be strewn together for a series.

That is a picture of Mary McCormack as Mary Shannon in USA Network’s new original series In Plain Sight. The show is about two marshals who enlist people in the witness protection program and help them with their new life and leaving their old life behind. It is called In Plain Sight because where better to hide someone than right in the middle of where a busy city? A spy is taught to hide in the most inconspicuous place possible, right in front of people. The picture I put up above is somewhere on their website, see if you can find it. It is right in front of your eyes so let’s see if you can find it easily or if it takes you a minute or two.

I think it is the lack of an Xbox that is making me want to play video games so bad that a PS3 doesn’t look that bad. I mean I know I would play Metal Gear Solid 4 and Warhawk on it, possibly Unreal Tournament if it doesn’t come out for the XBox soon, but other than that there aren’t any other games I would play. Of course I could always use it for Blu-Ray DVDs, I would just need to replace some of my favorite movies with Blu-Ray versions.

The more I see anime and manga, the more I get into it. In high school I didn’t really understand the appeal of it at all, and now I can kind of see why so many people like it. I might go to my first anime premiere for Bleach the Movie on either June 11th or 12th in Salisbury Maryland. If I wanted to see it in Delaware I would need to travel up to Newark, but with the price of gas outweighing the price of tax I would go over to Maryland.

The main character in Bleach is Bleach which translates to “First Guardian” or “He who protects”. If I could choose a name I would probably choose something that translates to The Irish One or He who is Irish. I don’t know what the Japanese Manga translation would be though.

My 360 will be back in my hands on Tuesday. I am assuming that it is fixed, they didn’t say anything on their site about it not being covered, but I guess I will know for sure on Tuesday. I just know that I can’t wait to kill people in Grand Theft Auto 4 again. If I had it this weekend I would be on Bungie playing the Double XP Rocket Weekend.

I missed the first episode of USA Network’s new original series In Plain Sight, I really wanted to see it though because the main character, Mary is misunderstood about what she does. Her mother and sister both think that she just sits around the court house all day with her partner, when that is clearly not the case. My mother thinks all I do is play video games all day. I don’t know why she thinks that, I work my ass off, just like Mary does in the show. I guess what Will Smith said is true, parents just don’t understand.

Obama won the democratic national party nominee. It is reporting that Clinton will suspend her campaign on Saturday and official endorse Obama thereafter. I hope the candidates are smart enough to team up together with Clinton in the Vice Presidential seat for the November election. With an Obame-Clinton ticket, I don’t think John Mccain could win, unless of course if he had someone like Bill Clinton or Oprah for his Vice President, but that would never happen. Maybe he will just commit political suicide by having Rice or Powell as his Vice President. Of course that is assuming that he lives until November, shouldn’t men his age be in nursing homes?

I grew up in NJ so I know that there are a ton of Things to do in New Jersey. You could go to one of the all night diners that are all over the state, or head on over to Seaside Heights, or Wildwood if you are looking for an amusement park on the beach. If you are in northern NJ then you may want to just go to the Keansberg amusement park instead of traveling all the way south for something like Wildwood, though Morey’s Piers is a great place for a New Jersey Vacation.

Wildwood has a lot of stuff that happens every year, this year the Radio Disney Summer Concert series will be appearing there. Besides that though, Wildwood events are known throughout the state, bringing people down no matter how far north you live. A lot of the Wildwood nj hotels are packed all summer, so if you are thinking about going then you might want to book already.

Wildwood is also the place that seniors go when Prom lets out, that is kind of the unofficial start to the Wildwood vacation season, I think that high school graduates go down there too, but I am not too sure on that one. After I graduated all I wanted to do was relax, not go down partying. That was for the next night.

In this world with so many different ways of making money without working, it is good when you have Asset Tracking Software working for you. Good tracking software will do the legwork for you, this way you don’t need to go out and research things like corporate real estate or cell towers. Having everything in one place means that you can have more time for the things that matter, like marketing. I love anything that will improve productivity like that.

I am writing a Paypal IPN script for a client, but so far it isn’t working. I haven’t been able to get the testing server working so I need to use Krissy’s Paypal account to test sending money. I didn’t realize that it also worked when money was being refunded, that is a useful tool too, maybe I can incorporate something where it will update the customer’s account, though I really don’t know if it could be that simple, but you never know right?