Caught In The Whirlwind
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Snowy Weekend
Dec 22nd
This weekend was, on a whole…very good. And very snowy. We had two winter storms roll through the area this weekend. The first started on friday and made my drive home from work a little bit interesting. But it was made up for it later by the unveiling of my newest piece of artwork done by my friend (Wassy). I should get the print either end of this week or, more likely, beginning of next week and I really can't wait to see how that turned out. One of the coolest parts of it is that it's a digitally colored piece that doesn't have that overly digital look to it, and that usually translates really well when it gets printed. Really looking forward to seeing it, and I'm very thankful that she did it for me.
Saturday was going to be the day I went out to my friends for our regular weekend get-together deal but it ended up not happening so I spent the day basically screwing around. I'm nearing the end of my first playthrough of Chrono Trigger and I'm really enjoying it so far. I do think I will purchase it from gamefly so that I can keep my saved games for future playthroughs. There was also much gazing at the new art hotness through the day.
Sunday was snowstorm number 2. The plan was for me to head out for some hanging out with my friends in the afternoon once the worst of the storm had dumped it's stuff but due to some windshield wiper car related troubles they were having, I went out around 10 to help them fix the issue and provide some transportation for the purchasing of a new windshield wiper. That was kinda in the middle of the storm, but my Rogue handled the snow well (really, really like all wheel drive and traction control. Oh, and anti-lock breaks. How did I survive without you??) and I managed to get there with a delay of about 10-15 minutes.
After doing the shopping, the rest of the day was spent just hanging out. We watched some stuff on TV, I played a game of chess with Jay, had some spaghetti with a meat sauce… We also marveled at the total lack of quality of the people trying to clear snow from the parking lot. The worst bit was when they plowed half a sidewalk and left the gigantic pile of snow in the middle of it, blocking the rest of it. It was just a very good, very classic hanging out with your friends sort of day which is always welcome.
So all in all, on the weekend quality meter, I'd score this one as "very good"
Snow-geddon 07!!
Dec 16th
The northeast is currently in the midst of a the first real winter storm of the season. Lots of wind at the moment, blowing stuff around. Kinda normal for the area. But you would have thought the world was coming to an end yesterday.
I had to go grocery shopping and it was a madhouse. The had every cash register open and the lines to check out were still crazy long. Haven't these people ever been through a winter storm before? I was surprised that the laundry place wasn't that busy. I would have figured people would want to try to get that out of the way as well. I guess they were all grocery shopping.
I spent my last remaining day on earth (because we're all going to die in this snow storm of course) over at my friends house where we watched some Anime (more Fushigi Yugi) hung out and also played Trauma Center: New Blood on the Wii. Trauma center is really cool now since it has an actual co-op mode that works really well. There's some nerve wracking surgeries in this game now and it puts the two player option to good use. The difficulty may have been a little exaggerated due to the fact we were also drinking… The skin graft operation, in particular was very, very difficult.
In any case it was a good way to unwind after my stressful week. We'll probably keep playing the game Wednesday or this weekend (between my holiday festivities)
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