Post-Thanksgiving Catch-up

We had a GREAT Thanksgiving holiday, and it was good to see family that we don't see all that often. An added bonus was the ziploc bag of turkey that came home with me afterwards. It was a nice relaxing weekend, with not much going on except for showing some buddies the Xbox 360 Saturday night. I'm looking for a CD tonight, the soundtrack to Metropolis.



I think it would be a good soundtrack to play most Xbox games, actually, and I'll rip it into the box when I get my hands on it. As I type this, Lindsay's anchoring the 10pm show. I don't know why I'm telling you this, but I am.

The weekend wasn't all smiles. I found out Friday that ABC's Alias has been cancelled. I know it had been losing focus now that Lost is JJ's priority, but it's still sad to see it go. I think the plotline that clearly 'jumped the shark' was when they came across a girl in EXACTLY the same situation Sydney was in as the series began, but this chick basically 'got over it' in about 2 episodes.. something it took Sydney the entire first few seasons to come to terms with.

The 360 is still wowing me. I bought King Kong Saturday afternoon, and it's unique lack of any 'HUD' really helps suck you into the story and make you a part of it, instead of being constantly reminded that you're playing a game. The only other game I've ever known to do it is The Getaway.

That's about it. Thanks for checking in. More boring is coming, don't worry.

Setting it up

I'm now installing the extender stuff onto my MCE so I can connect to the Tree Sitty. This thing is gorgeous!

T-Minus 18 minutes

15 or so of us waiting until midnight.. Can't wait to get home!

Getting ready for 360

I've now moved my Xbox out of pole position to make way for tonight's purchase: my Xbox 360. Really, I'm mainly testing the photo ability of my phone now with the new Sprint-Nextel merge deal. Still have sketchy details about my new job responsibilities at the station. I know I'm going somewhere, I just have no good idea of exactly where. Blogging on the phone should be fun. Hope it works well.

It's My Birfday

I woke up this morning and opened my present from my sister, (who, btw, has an eBay store - come on now, buy some stuff). It's a sweet valour tracksuit. The pants may be a little big, but the jacket is just right. Can you have valour altered? I doubt it. Tonight I'll be dining at the Nagasaki Inn with my parents. It will be delicious, I'm sure of it. It's most likely my favorite place in town.

My favorite part of that review was "This place focuses on Japanese meals."

Lindsay got me True Crime: New York City for my birf. It has a street for street recreation of NYC, although the random, normally unidentifiable buildings are not accurate (ie Lindsay's sister's apartment building). But landmarks, subway stations, skyscrapers, etc., are perfect.

3 days until the Xbox 360 is out. It will most likely be nuts at retailers Monday night and Tuesday morning. But mine's preordered and paid for. I (better) just show up and walk out with mine.

Are you still reading this?

I asked my parents for the CDs to the new movie version of Rent, and I'm looking forward to hearing how similar/different the two versions will be with only one lead actor different (Rosario Dawson instead of Daphne Ruben Vega [sp?]). The movie is released the day before Thanksgiving, so I'll have some impressions up later this week!

Last thing: Wanna see the Superman teaser? Here's a CRAPPY and a NICE one just for you!

Tornado Madness

Today begins my concentrated effort to update my blog daily. This morning's been pretty nuts. Tornado warnings mean wall-to-wall coverage. That means we're streaming on www.news25.us. We do that a really funny way, using Windows Media Encoder. Last night, I spent about an hour trying to figure out how to set my XBOX 360's Universal Remote up with my TV (which, by the way, is SWEET). Before that, Craig and I played some head-to-head Mario Kart DS, from our couches. That was incredibly fun, but setting up and matchmaking could be a lot quicker. The other thing that was fun was creating a custom "emblem".