2009

So Vermont has made it legal for two men or two women to get married. This of course comes after Iowa decided the same thing last week. I am all for gay rights, afterall if a man and woman can go to Vegas never meet before a drunken night and get married, then shouldn’t gay people have the same freedom? If it were up to me then gays would be allowed to be married in every state under federal law. I would actually give tax credits to gay people who get married in Texas, but maybe that is because I don’t like Texas, aside from the express lane to the death penalty. Afterall they did give us George W. Bush for eight years.

I am a few days ahead with the TGP. I’ve also randomized the updates so I just fill in a bunch and it is then randomized at midnight.

I’ve also began another round of the Girl of the Moment. So far I have three entries, which is pretty good, I just hope we have much more of a response when it comes to voting.

In other news I filled out the Fafsa. I suppose I am going back to school, not really sure yet. I need to go to Nassau and check out the classes and I suppose talk to a counselor. I think I am going to do that sometime next week. Who knows, I may be going to Nassau in the Fall. I am also going to apply to NYIT. I doubt I will be able to afford that though.

There are reports that the Wolverine movie was leaked onto the web. While I haven’t seen it, I have read the an in depth synopsis. The developers claim that the movie will not be horrible, but the fanboys say that the movie is horrible. From what I’ve read it won’t be as bad as X-Men 3 or Spiderman 3, but it will be bad at certain points during the movie.

I won’t give anything away, I will just say that if they release the movie as is, it will be bad. It sucks because I thought they would have learned their lesson with X-Men 3. It looks like we may have to see if Hugh Jackman will and live up to his word and bow out of the X-Men franchise like he said he would if the fans didn’t like X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

So after a couple hours trying to figure out if my microSD card was working, I finally figured it out. It will not work with the camera attached to the computer, or the SD card plugged directly into the computer. What I have to do is plug it into my printer and then go to the allotted drive on the computer that is mapped to the printer. Unfortunately the pictures are much smaller than I thought they would be.

I found pictures of Lucy, Krissy, and me on the camera. That kind of caught me off guard. They are from Halloween, I thought Kris deleted them, but I guess not. It seems just like yesterday that we were hanging out around the fire pit, still can’t believe she’s gone.

I went to the Nets game last night with my brother, sister in law and nephew. I will hopefully have pictures up sometime soon, but right now I don’t feel like hooking up my phone or the camera to the computer. The game sucked, Nets once Nets got down in the first quarter, it didn’t get any better. The seats we were in were amazing, and because of the seats and who owned them, we got special treatment and free food. We got to go under the bleachers to where the Nets Dancers locker room was and eat at a free buffet. Nothing beats free food and beer.

Before we got to the game I was playing my brother’s 360. Now I have played Call of Duty and Call of Duty 2 before, and didn’t really like them. Call of Duty: World at War, was really different from those games and I can see how people like it and Call of Duty 4. I can’t afford to pick up any game right now, I can’t even afford to pay the Xbox Live bill, but when I have some extra cash I may pick up a Call of Duty game, even if I have to wait until November for Modern Warfare 2. I just hope they have the zombies game play with it.

XBox Live Arcade has tons of great games that you can download and play. No games peak my interest more than the ones that are remakes of games I loved as a kid. Here are some of the great games of yesteryear that I would love to see on the Xbox Live Arcade at some point in time.

Sonic and Knuckles- Sega Genesis’s sequel to Sonic the Hedgehog 3 that enabled lock on technology so that Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles could be played as one long game. Together, the two games created one of the best Sonic game for the system.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time- The sequel to the TMNT arcade game that was later ported to the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis. We already have the original arcade game, why not the sequel?

X-Men Arcade Game- Six players simultaneously playing on a dual CRT ultra wide cabinet that was usually filled with players and spectators. It was hard to ever get close to the cabinet to watch the game, let alone play it.

Simpsons Arcade Game- Another game that was hard to get near in the 80’s and early 90’s. The game played much like the Ninja Turtles games, but two players had special abilities if the characters and situations were right.

Toejam and Earl- I’m not sure how popular this game was, but I remember playing it with my brother on the Sega Genesis. It was one of those games that just seemed stupid if you were playing it alone, but when playing with someone else, the split screen technology and open world was a crazy amount of fun for both. Just try and avoid the sequels.

Willy Beamish- This game puts you in the life of a nine year old whose just starting summer vacation. You have to solve puzzles and not annoy adults, otherwise they will ship you off to military school.

Sam and Max Hit the Road- With Sam and Max Season 1 coming to XBLA, it just seems like that Sam and Max Hit the Road would be the obvious predecessor.

What games would you like to see on the XBox Live Arcade?

One of my many, many goals in life is to attend the biggest electronics show in America, at least what used to be the biggest and what appears to be returning to its former glory. I am of course talking about none other than E3. What is E3? It stands for the Electronics Entertainment Expo and it showcases the latest upcoming video games, gadgets, and hardware. Whenever Nintendo or Sony have something big to announce, they usually do it at E3. Microsoft announced Halo 3 at E3 a few years ago. E3 is where I want to be.

Why am I not going? Well it isn’t open to the public. Those who are fortunate enough to go, are hand picked.Lindsay received her registration card in the mail (she went a few years back). Tim also received an invitation to attend. I think I may try and make this blog more technology based, or maybe add more of a technology aspect to the site in some way, this way it might peak some more interest, though that has been on my to do list for a while now. I guess only time will tell what happens huh?

We found out yesterday that the bump that they removed from Bella’s stomach wasn’t a cyst, but was in fact cancer. The vet says he thinks he got it all, but we have to keep an eye on her and see if she gets anymore growths and take her for regular visits. I guess all we can do is work to be able to afford it and watch and wait. I hate the feeling of being helpless though.

Krissy and I headed out to dinner last night, seeing as how we hadn’t been out in a while and it was St. Patrick’s Day. We went to Friendly’s, not someplace I could get a beer, but it was still nice all the same. Maybe this weekend we can go out to someplace with a bar or something, I just want to get my drink on, though I might need to get it on while watching Lost tonight.

I brought Bella home after the surgery yesterday around 4PM. She is in a lot of pain and has a bandage around her stomach. She is supposed to have limited activity, but when I try and pick her up she cries out in pain, no matter which way I do it, so when I bring her out to pee I walk slowly down the stairs with her. I need to bring her to the vet again today to have them look at her wound, so getting her in the car might be tricky. I was thinking about trying to get her in a laundry basket and using that to carry her. Yea, I am that desperate.

Bella is having surgery on Thursday to get a lump removed from her stomach. The surgery is less money than we expected it to be, but it is still expensive so we are both working our asses off to try and get as much as we can before Friday. In theory we have enough money to cover it, but we’d also like to be able to survive without giving away all of our money.

Needless to say any non necessary purchase is put on hold until further notice, so that means no Halo Wars or Resident Evil 5 for a while. Hopefully I will have at least one, if not both before the Ghostbusters game comes out in June. The surgery has also put off a RAM upgrade , and a possible Wacom tablet purchase.

I think it would be best if I had a pen to go over the lines, as a mouse is very limiting. Anyway, this is the beginning, it may very be where I stop and not do this anymore until I buy a tablet. Who knows when that will be though?

So here is my Superman sketch. Over the next few days (or whenever I have time) I am going to be posting updates to it and making it more digitally enhanced. Don’t be surprised though if you see some sketches in between me actually updating this sketch.