Ah summer is here. The smell of outdoor cookouts, the fireflies at night, and most importantly the time of conventions is upon us all. Oh convention season...the one time of year where I am not the biggest geek in the room. I'm in a place where it feels like Christmas/Halloween/my Birthday/my childhood have merged into one giant ball of rainbows and sunshine.
While Cons are filled with exhibits halls of fun it is important that you plan ahead and here are a few tips to make sure that you get the most fun out of your con other than standing in line. ^-^
Before you go
Make sure you have your badge/event tickets-Yes this does sound like a huge 'Duh'. However everyone has lost their cars keys and forgetting your badge is just like losing your car keys. You can only stare through the window of your car while standing in the rain. I had one friend that got halfway to the Con and realized he forgot his badge and event tickets and had to turn around and drive back home to get them. Thankfully his home and the Con were in the same state, but just imagine the grief he would have felt if he had flown across the country and realized what he had forgotten. If you do forget your badge or tickets, find out what the policy is about getting your badge and tickets replaced. Always save your online receipt so you can print it out at the hotel if needed.
Get your money at home (if you can)-Plan how much you wanna take with you and take it out of your ATM near home, don't wait till you reach the Con and take out your cash. While this sounds like another 'Duh' moment many people forget about the extra fees attached with using an ATM not in the network of the bank, plus the fees your bank will tack on. While using a credit card might seem like a good option in place of cash be aware that some vendors still might not take your card due to the fees they have to pay, plus losing your card can be worse than losing your cash. If you bring your card, leave it in your room and use it sparingly. Remember keep it secret, keep it safe.
A nice, big bag is a life saver-Swag is handed out like those Mardi Gras beads, but you don't have you show your ladies to get it. A nice backpack is helpful for holding all the free stuff your going to get. Plus you can keep all your snacks, money, and small buys in one place and not have to run back and forth to your room and hall.
While your there
Get an event catalog and plan accordingly-Most people will have their events picked out weeks before they go. However events are always changing, sometimes up to the minute before it starts. It is always a good idea to have other options lined up in case of last minute cancellations or in case the event is not what you expected and you want out...like a bad dinner date it's always a plus to have an out.
Walking the Exhibit Hall-Most Exhibit Halls are the size of a small city and can sometimes be overwhelming with the huge crowds. Take time to look over a map in the catalog and plan your routes accordingly. The bigger the display, the larger the crowds around it is a general rule so if it's something you really want to see be prepared for the mob. It's best to try to get into the hall early in the morning or later in the afternoon when people are getting lunch. Try to plan for at least a few hours in the hall if you really want to see everything.
Bring your own water and snacks-Food in the Exhibit Hall will break your budget quickly, plus most of the time it's really not that tasty. A small granola bar or trail mix can tide you over till lunch or dinner. A bottle of water is also very important. (We'll get back to that later)
Letting people know where you are-Maybe it's because I'm girl, but I always get the
safety lecture from my mother in law before my husband and I go. Despite the fact I'm a 26 year old adult and I'm always surrounded by large groups of people. She came close to flipping out when she found out I had walked back to the hotel room by myself at 1 a.m. after watching a movie in another hotel. I wasn't drinking, I wasn't alone and mostly importantly my husband knew where I was. He had no interest in seeing the movie with me, but agreed to meet me back in the room by 1 a.m. If I hadn't called him to let him know that my plans had changed he would have than been worried. It really doesn't mater what age or sex you are it is important to let others know where you are. That way if anything does happen people will know that something happened.
Get some sleep you have a long day ahead and have some breakfast too-Cons are really a non stop party that goes on for days. However getting even a few hours of sleep can make a huge difference. Many people will come home totally wiped out and sick for days due to lack of sleep. This disease is known as Con Crud, it's from lack of sleep and proper hydration and eating. A few bottles of water, a few hours of sleep and a good breakfast can make all the difference.
Have fun....but don't be an ass about it-You are a guest in the town where the event is being held. Being rude to the locals is a sure way to piss people off and give the rest of the people at the Con a bad name. I had one waitress complain about the rudeness of a group of people from a local sporting event and how much she enjoyed the gamers coming to town since we were polite and didn't cause her to much hassle. Understand that the locals are basically losing their town for the week you are there, they least you can do is be a decent person while there.
I hope that everyone has fun at the Con of their choice and to remember that is the most important thing. Just have fun with the people you come with, have fun with the people you meet and enjoy the time that your there. ^-^
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Building character in death
Brother Silence-As if killing the Bard impresses us. *The Gamers II-Dorkness Rising*
Nicole-Can we just kill him till we get a character we like?
Evil D-No, because it's the same person playing the character. My current Saturday Night Serenity Group. ^-^
I once had my brain removed from my body, placed into a Frankenstein like demon creature and than was let loose on my former party members. The DM wouldn't let me have control of the killing machine despite it having my brain and so I spent the last thirty minutes of the Cthulhu game trying to stack my D20 on top of each other. This was by far one of my most favorite character deaths.
In the past seven years since I've started playing RPG I have seen a few of my characters pass. Some were grand in nature like the brain removal or some were just shitty-like my dad killing my character and my husband's when we went to Gen-con and it was the final end game of that campaign. *Personally I believe he was just jealous that we had gone to Gen-con and this was his way of getting back at us...killing our characters and ending the game we had sat in for over a year when we weren't there to see it*
Character Death can be used a learning tool for both the players and the GM. Players learn what they like or dislike about the class they picked, how NPC's response to a character's race based on the setting of the world *Humans in lands run by goblins can lead to very fun deaths* How the way you play this character will change party interactions and how to find different ways to fit in with the group you have played in before. Most important they learn how to not get killed again.
GM's sometimes have used Character Death as a means to bring unruly players under control. My husband was once running a game in a campaign and had spent weeks creating the climax of the game and the rest of the party wanted to take time and explore the great big castle in the middle of nowhere and this player was in a hurry to finish so he just started rushing through the castle, kicking down doors and leaving the rest of the party behind. Sadly he kicked one door open that lead to room with no floor and a straight drop down to nothing from several stories up. This player had caused problems before and was taking away from the overall enjoyment of the game for the other players and so to end the issue his character was killed.
However, sometimes the death means nothing so nothing is learned and the player goes back to playing the exact character just with a different name but the same shitty disposition that lead to his character being killed a fireball mixed with a lighting bolt. Or shot up by a pack of Reavers.
Playing a character is an extension of one's self...it is a much cooler extension of one's self but it's still apart of you and when that little extension of yourself has rolled the last D10 you feel a little dishearten at the loss, but it's another chance to try of live another life,
Nicole-Can we just kill him till we get a character we like?
Evil D-No, because it's the same person playing the character. My current Saturday Night Serenity Group. ^-^
I once had my brain removed from my body, placed into a Frankenstein like demon creature and than was let loose on my former party members. The DM wouldn't let me have control of the killing machine despite it having my brain and so I spent the last thirty minutes of the Cthulhu game trying to stack my D20 on top of each other. This was by far one of my most favorite character deaths.
In the past seven years since I've started playing RPG I have seen a few of my characters pass. Some were grand in nature like the brain removal or some were just shitty-like my dad killing my character and my husband's when we went to Gen-con and it was the final end game of that campaign. *Personally I believe he was just jealous that we had gone to Gen-con and this was his way of getting back at us...killing our characters and ending the game we had sat in for over a year when we weren't there to see it*
Character Death can be used a learning tool for both the players and the GM. Players learn what they like or dislike about the class they picked, how NPC's response to a character's race based on the setting of the world *Humans in lands run by goblins can lead to very fun deaths* How the way you play this character will change party interactions and how to find different ways to fit in with the group you have played in before. Most important they learn how to not get killed again.
GM's sometimes have used Character Death as a means to bring unruly players under control. My husband was once running a game in a campaign and had spent weeks creating the climax of the game and the rest of the party wanted to take time and explore the great big castle in the middle of nowhere and this player was in a hurry to finish so he just started rushing through the castle, kicking down doors and leaving the rest of the party behind. Sadly he kicked one door open that lead to room with no floor and a straight drop down to nothing from several stories up. This player had caused problems before and was taking away from the overall enjoyment of the game for the other players and so to end the issue his character was killed.
However, sometimes the death means nothing so nothing is learned and the player goes back to playing the exact character just with a different name but the same shitty disposition that lead to his character being killed a fireball mixed with a lighting bolt. Or shot up by a pack of Reavers.
Playing a character is an extension of one's self...it is a much cooler extension of one's self but it's still apart of you and when that little extension of yourself has rolled the last D10 you feel a little dishearten at the loss, but it's another chance to try of live another life,
Monday, November 1, 2010
Halloween Entainment
I'm a terrible person.
An awful human being.
Last night while passing out candy...I gave children the lesser chocolate candy because I wanted the Reese Pumpkins to myself. I should be ashamed of myself and visited by the ghosts of Halloween's past to learn a lesson of giving to children.
*eats a chocolate, peanut butter filled pumpkin of goodness and light*
Oh screw them they got plenty of good candy these are mine!!!!!!!
While I devour peanut butter goodness I thought I would share a few new geek things that made Halloween this year more enjoyable.
Watch this
Going to Pieces-The Rise and Fall of the Slasher film.
Yes it's a documentary...it's a documentary about horror movies. It starts with the classics like Psycho and goes all the way to Hostel. It explains how the big three why have today (Freddy, Jason and Michael) got started and all the other ones that followed. It also goes into the criticisms of causing violence and misogynist behavior despite the female being the last one standing. It has some great interviews from almost everyone in the horror business from Wes Carven, Greg Nicotero and even Mrs. Voorhees herself-Betsy Palmer
Dead Snow
A group of Norwegian medical students on Easter vacation head up to the mountains for the normal activities that lead to death in these in movies and meet death in the form of Nazi Zombies. They are the fast and smart zombie type which is not good for our heroes, but it's fun to see how awesome the death scenes are for both med student and zombie alike.
The movie is on Instant Netflix, rated MA and is subtitled however is it really hard to understand that blond girl A just got her head taken off by the zombie officer?
Read it
Hollywood Monster-A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams-By Robert Englund.
In the first ten pages Robert Englund admits the only reason he got into acting was so he could pick up chicks. I don't think he foresaw that he would be the guy most girls (myself included) were scared to death of and would make our parents leave the light on and check under the bed for.
Hollywood Monster is the tale of how the monster Freddy Krueger came to be by the man who played him from the start and all the roles and people he had the joy of shaping along the way. (Johnny Deep might have been in a band and Luke Skywalker might have been someone else if not for Freddy).
Seriously this is a great read and if you don't laugh at some of the pranks played while Robert was in his Freddy costume you have no sense of humor and my pity.
How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills
Think of this as the ultimate survival guide or just a refresher in common sense. Like how to not get killed while at summer camp or how to stop evil dolls and killer cars. It even has pictures and bullet points for people who want to live till the end but find reading a distraction while babysitting.
Listen up
We're Alive-A "Zombie" Story of Survival
I found this podcast while messing around on I-tunes looking for Halloween goodness. We're Alive is a told in the fashion of an old school radio drama that your grandparents used to listen to, but it's a survival horror drama.
Our story starts in L.A. with a group of reserve soldiers being called into to control some riots. The three who make it to the base: Michael, Angel, and Saul see what is really happening (damn zombies) and work quickly to find survivors and a secure location. It sort of follows the same line as The Walking Dead, of what happens after the zombie outbreak and how to survive and what to survive for. But since you're hearing it and not seeing it the story does a good job of creating characters you really feel for and the environment they have around them.
It is currently one it's second season, but I was able to download all the first season and listen to it in about three days. Each episode is about 13 to 30 minutes long with an update either every week or every two weeks.
So even though the scares are over it doesn't mean you still can't hear them.
*mmmmm chocolate pumpkins....so sad that you will soon be gone*
We're Alive website
http://www.zombiepodcast.com/The_Zombie_Podcast/WereAliveMain.html
Seriously...a really good book
http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Monster-Walk-Street-Dreams/dp/1439150486
I actually got this as a gift for the lady who did my hair for my wedding and she loves it.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Survive-Horror-Movie-Skills/dp/1594741794/ref=pd_sim_b_10
Dead Snow...Nazi Zombies
Going to Pieces-Not the best trailer but it gives you an overview
Happy All Saint's Day
An awful human being.
Last night while passing out candy...I gave children the lesser chocolate candy because I wanted the Reese Pumpkins to myself. I should be ashamed of myself and visited by the ghosts of Halloween's past to learn a lesson of giving to children.
*eats a chocolate, peanut butter filled pumpkin of goodness and light*
Oh screw them they got plenty of good candy these are mine!!!!!!!
While I devour peanut butter goodness I thought I would share a few new geek things that made Halloween this year more enjoyable.
Watch this
Going to Pieces-The Rise and Fall of the Slasher film.
Yes it's a documentary...it's a documentary about horror movies. It starts with the classics like Psycho and goes all the way to Hostel. It explains how the big three why have today (Freddy, Jason and Michael) got started and all the other ones that followed. It also goes into the criticisms of causing violence and misogynist behavior despite the female being the last one standing. It has some great interviews from almost everyone in the horror business from Wes Carven, Greg Nicotero and even Mrs. Voorhees herself-Betsy Palmer
Dead Snow
A group of Norwegian medical students on Easter vacation head up to the mountains for the normal activities that lead to death in these in movies and meet death in the form of Nazi Zombies. They are the fast and smart zombie type which is not good for our heroes, but it's fun to see how awesome the death scenes are for both med student and zombie alike.
The movie is on Instant Netflix, rated MA and is subtitled however is it really hard to understand that blond girl A just got her head taken off by the zombie officer?
Read it
Hollywood Monster-A Walk Down Elm Street with the Man of Your Dreams-By Robert Englund.
In the first ten pages Robert Englund admits the only reason he got into acting was so he could pick up chicks. I don't think he foresaw that he would be the guy most girls (myself included) were scared to death of and would make our parents leave the light on and check under the bed for.
Hollywood Monster is the tale of how the monster Freddy Krueger came to be by the man who played him from the start and all the roles and people he had the joy of shaping along the way. (Johnny Deep might have been in a band and Luke Skywalker might have been someone else if not for Freddy).
Seriously this is a great read and if you don't laugh at some of the pranks played while Robert was in his Freddy costume you have no sense of humor and my pity.
How to Survive a Horror Movie: All the Skills to Dodge the Kills
Think of this as the ultimate survival guide or just a refresher in common sense. Like how to not get killed while at summer camp or how to stop evil dolls and killer cars. It even has pictures and bullet points for people who want to live till the end but find reading a distraction while babysitting.
Listen up
We're Alive-A "Zombie" Story of Survival
I found this podcast while messing around on I-tunes looking for Halloween goodness. We're Alive is a told in the fashion of an old school radio drama that your grandparents used to listen to, but it's a survival horror drama.
Our story starts in L.A. with a group of reserve soldiers being called into to control some riots. The three who make it to the base: Michael, Angel, and Saul see what is really happening (damn zombies) and work quickly to find survivors and a secure location. It sort of follows the same line as The Walking Dead, of what happens after the zombie outbreak and how to survive and what to survive for. But since you're hearing it and not seeing it the story does a good job of creating characters you really feel for and the environment they have around them.
It is currently one it's second season, but I was able to download all the first season and listen to it in about three days. Each episode is about 13 to 30 minutes long with an update either every week or every two weeks.
So even though the scares are over it doesn't mean you still can't hear them.
*mmmmm chocolate pumpkins....so sad that you will soon be gone*
We're Alive website
http://www.zombiepodcast.com/The_Zombie_Podcast/WereAliveMain.html
Seriously...a really good book
http://www.amazon.com/Hollywood-Monster-Walk-Street-Dreams/dp/1439150486
I actually got this as a gift for the lady who did my hair for my wedding and she loves it.
http://www.amazon.com/How-Survive-Horror-Movie-Skills/dp/1594741794/ref=pd_sim_b_10
Dead Snow...Nazi Zombies
Going to Pieces-Not the best trailer but it gives you an overview
Happy All Saint's Day
Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Gamer chic wedding
So as stated in the last blog I am now a Mrs. I now fall into a new tax bracket, have a new last name and will now be the prime suspect should anything happen to the Mr, because I don't have a maid to pin it on.
We met seven years ago through my father's D&D group and since that's how we met we figured that's what the 'theme' of the wedding should be. (I really wanna know who thought weddings needed a theme? Wasn't it enough that you were spending a shit ton of money on booze to make people get up and do the Chicken Dance?) So with that in mind we set out to create the nerdiest wedding possible.
Step One-Screw flower centerpieces
Everyone does flowers and they cost you almost more than the bar tab. However instead of a hangover you just have lots of dead flowers the next day that you either pitch or give to an old folks home. *Classy*
What we ended up doing was finding small wooden treasure boxes. My husband and father in law stained and painted them and we filled them chocolate coins, little Hershey treasures and sugar candy that looked like gems. So if they wanted to snack after the dinner and cake they still had some chocolate at the table. Plus people could take the box home and have something sort of useful unlike dozens of dying red roses. We put the chest on top of some Gaming paper that is normally used for doing in game battles. If anyone had wanted to run a game at there table all they needed was the minis because we also provided the dice and the pencils.
Step Two-Oh you gave us matches so I can burn this hell hole down.
Being gamers we knew the standard favors weren't going to wow anyone. (Oh boy you got us a heart shaped cork screw that will break the second time I use it) So we decided to get 6 sided dice with our names and the date of our reception along with the pencils that could be used after the wedding for our gamer friends. Even our non-gamer friends liked our pencil favors and they thought the dice favors really cool.
Step Three-Entertainment is key.
Gamers don't dance...well maybe after the bar is almost finished you may get them to do YMCA but it really just looks like a someone having a seizure on the dance floor. So with that in mind we had a game table set up off to the side so if people wanted to play board games we had them handy.
We also got some serious nerd music played. We needed a song for the garter toss and original my husband wanted this song from Star Trek.
However the DJ called me two days before the wedding and told me he couldn't find it anywhere...so what else could replace this...
Yes...yes I played Star Wars music at my wedding, people had to catch the garter to Duel of Fates. Other than playing Weird Al's-White and Nerdy I don't what else I could have done. Well wait I could have bought those light sabers and had people actually duel for the garter. But than I would of had to cut back on the bar and that wasn't happening.
Here are the sites were we got some of our wedding stuff
http://www.stainedglasscandy.com/Index.htm
These guys had the candy gems and they are FTW
https://www.writeonpencils.com
We got the pencils here.
http://www.chessex.com/
A true gamer would know to get dice here.
http://thejournalguy.com/index.html
Instead of a normal guest book we had our guest pass this a journal from table to table so they could also write messages.
http://www.dahou.com/Unfinishedbox.htm
I can't remember exactly where we got the boxes from but these guys seem to offer a similar design.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Mishaps always give you the best stories
It's Sunday night. My better half is downstairs playing Call of Duty-Modern Warfare 2, the cat is trying to find somewhere to sleep for the next 18 hours and I'm up here in my cozy sweater listening to Glee music.
Did I mention we've been married for over 48 hours now.
*Huge happy smile here complete with girly squeals*
On Friday September 24th 2010, myself, my better half, my parents, his parents and his older sister went to our local court house and decided to make seven years of gaming together a life long quest (and legal for tax purposes, health insurance and ownership of the house...retarded laws). At 4:30 p.m we promised to love, honor and cherish each other for better or worst, sickness and health, richer or poorer, till one of us runs out of hit points.
And I couldn't get his ring on. He had leftover Chinese for lunch and I couldn't get his ring on. We both laughed about it and I started giggling again when his mom dropped her camera batteries. I also came close to laughing during the vows because of comedian Nick Griffin. His bit about marriage came into my head when the clerk was asking me to take him in sickness and health and for richer or poorer.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! How sick and poor is this lady gonna get? Is she gonna be charging stuff and barfing!" Nick Griffin-Einstein and Love. When we were heading out to dinner I told him about almost laughing during vows because of that and he finished the punchline for me and started laughing.
We had a very nice wedding over the course of two days, however it was filled with all sorts of mishaps. The perfect wedding is I believe what Frank McCourt said about happy childhoods not worth your while. See mishaps like unhappy childhoods give you the best stories to tell. Everyone will talk about what happened for years because it was memorable. However, you want it to be memorable for the right reasons. You want people to remember that the DJ messed up your first dance. (Like he did with us last night). What you don't want them to remember is you throwing a hissy fit on the dance floor recreating Eric Cartman's swear rant. (I didn't do that...I was worried that he was pulling out our Rick Roll too soon when the song skipped) And the songs skipped for the rest of the night even after the Rick Roll.
The past couple of months leading up to the wedding have been memorable for all sorts of reasons, some very good and some very bad. While planning this a person who I considered a dear friend and helped any time she needed it turned into a complete and total bitch and decided that ten years of friendship was not worth a damn thing and refused to come to my wedding. On the other hand I've forged new friendships with some of the coolest ladies I will ever have the pleasure of meeting. We've gained a new family...some of them we wish we could shoo out but I guess we have to keep them since we didn't get a gift receipt to take them back to Families R Us.
And throughout all the mishaps big and small, I got my husband and he is always the best part of all my stories!
Did I mention we've been married for over 48 hours now.
*Huge happy smile here complete with girly squeals*
On Friday September 24th 2010, myself, my better half, my parents, his parents and his older sister went to our local court house and decided to make seven years of gaming together a life long quest (and legal for tax purposes, health insurance and ownership of the house...retarded laws). At 4:30 p.m we promised to love, honor and cherish each other for better or worst, sickness and health, richer or poorer, till one of us runs out of hit points.
And I couldn't get his ring on. He had leftover Chinese for lunch and I couldn't get his ring on. We both laughed about it and I started giggling again when his mom dropped her camera batteries. I also came close to laughing during the vows because of comedian Nick Griffin. His bit about marriage came into my head when the clerk was asking me to take him in sickness and health and for richer or poorer.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! How sick and poor is this lady gonna get? Is she gonna be charging stuff and barfing!" Nick Griffin-Einstein and Love. When we were heading out to dinner I told him about almost laughing during vows because of that and he finished the punchline for me and started laughing.
We had a very nice wedding over the course of two days, however it was filled with all sorts of mishaps. The perfect wedding is I believe what Frank McCourt said about happy childhoods not worth your while. See mishaps like unhappy childhoods give you the best stories to tell. Everyone will talk about what happened for years because it was memorable. However, you want it to be memorable for the right reasons. You want people to remember that the DJ messed up your first dance. (Like he did with us last night). What you don't want them to remember is you throwing a hissy fit on the dance floor recreating Eric Cartman's swear rant. (I didn't do that...I was worried that he was pulling out our Rick Roll too soon when the song skipped) And the songs skipped for the rest of the night even after the Rick Roll.
The past couple of months leading up to the wedding have been memorable for all sorts of reasons, some very good and some very bad. While planning this a person who I considered a dear friend and helped any time she needed it turned into a complete and total bitch and decided that ten years of friendship was not worth a damn thing and refused to come to my wedding. On the other hand I've forged new friendships with some of the coolest ladies I will ever have the pleasure of meeting. We've gained a new family...some of them we wish we could shoo out but I guess we have to keep them since we didn't get a gift receipt to take them back to Families R Us.
And throughout all the mishaps big and small, I got my husband and he is always the best part of all my stories!
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Playing Sims does not prepare you for homeownership.
*Looks over at unpacked boxes and sighs*
*Looks at bare floors and carpet tacks and groans*
*Looks at wallpaper, over paint, over wallpaper, over textured wall, over more wallpaper and goes into murderous rage and starts trying to find the former owners of the house to kill them in a way that would make a CSI go 'What the hell?'
My fiancee and I became homeowners a few weeks ago and are still in the process of fixing the place up. I just finished screwing in face plates a few minutes ago and my better half is showing a cherry tree who's the boss. *I think he's winning due to the pile of branches and grunting*
At times though I wonder what we got myself into with this 30 year purchase. Yeah it shows that we're responsible adults with good credit. But it is also a soul sucking thing that months of Sims playing did not prepare me for.
I'm going to create a new Sims game after this called-Sims: Foreclosure. Your Sim no longer gets a nice, clean, move in ready house...oh no...they get a house where they have to fix stuff that the former owners left behind due to a messy divorce. *At least that's what the neighbor told us*
Like dog stained carpet and the joys of having to rip out the carpet and padding because the former owners let their pets do whatever pets do in the house and all over the house. You also have to work with the fact they put in a crooked wall in your basement mud room, that they had some crazy cable/wiring thing going on all over the house, and that they put wallpaper over wallpaper in more than one room and well they just sucked in general. My fiancee and I agree-we've never met the former owners, but we both hate them and we're glad that their marriage ended in divorce and bankruptcy.
But once all the work is done you have something really awesome to show for it. Like once you get the wallpaper down, the carpet ripped up and the face plates back on it's yours...all yours and it is an awesome feeling. If I wanna re paint a room, I can I don't have to ask the landlord for permission. If I want new trees and flowers....guess what I can have them now. I now reenact that famous Eddie Murphy drunk dad from the barbecue in my kitchen.
"It's my house and if you don't like it you can get the fuck out!"
We still want to murder the former owners for the wallpaper nightmare but we're happy to have a house that will be the site for many game sessions for years to come.
*Looks at bare floors and carpet tacks and groans*
*Looks at wallpaper, over paint, over wallpaper, over textured wall, over more wallpaper and goes into murderous rage and starts trying to find the former owners of the house to kill them in a way that would make a CSI go 'What the hell?'
My fiancee and I became homeowners a few weeks ago and are still in the process of fixing the place up. I just finished screwing in face plates a few minutes ago and my better half is showing a cherry tree who's the boss. *I think he's winning due to the pile of branches and grunting*
At times though I wonder what we got myself into with this 30 year purchase. Yeah it shows that we're responsible adults with good credit. But it is also a soul sucking thing that months of Sims playing did not prepare me for.
I'm going to create a new Sims game after this called-Sims: Foreclosure. Your Sim no longer gets a nice, clean, move in ready house...oh no...they get a house where they have to fix stuff that the former owners left behind due to a messy divorce. *At least that's what the neighbor told us*
Like dog stained carpet and the joys of having to rip out the carpet and padding because the former owners let their pets do whatever pets do in the house and all over the house. You also have to work with the fact they put in a crooked wall in your basement mud room, that they had some crazy cable/wiring thing going on all over the house, and that they put wallpaper over wallpaper in more than one room and well they just sucked in general. My fiancee and I agree-we've never met the former owners, but we both hate them and we're glad that their marriage ended in divorce and bankruptcy.
But once all the work is done you have something really awesome to show for it. Like once you get the wallpaper down, the carpet ripped up and the face plates back on it's yours...all yours and it is an awesome feeling. If I wanna re paint a room, I can I don't have to ask the landlord for permission. If I want new trees and flowers....guess what I can have them now. I now reenact that famous Eddie Murphy drunk dad from the barbecue in my kitchen.
"It's my house and if you don't like it you can get the fuck out!"
We still want to murder the former owners for the wallpaper nightmare but we're happy to have a house that will be the site for many game sessions for years to come.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
I think Law & Order did this once...
In the criminal justice system all accused are entitled to a trial by a jury of their peers. However in most cases, the accused and the jurors would never be friends or even causal acquaintances. In fact, the jurors all ready hate the accused because if it wasn't for them doing something stupid the jurors wouldn't be here they would be at home with friends or at work with the causal acquaintances. These are their stories.
*Dun dun*
So I'm trying to move into a new house and pack up the old one when I find a jury questionnaire in my mailbox and the first thought that goes through my head is that I need to find someone who owns a Star Trek Uniform so that I may wear it when and if I get called in for more questioning. I know it's my civic duty to be on a jury, but considering I just paid Uncle Sam $300 for income taxes I'm not feeling very civic right now.
I'm think I should bring this blog in has proof that I'm not the person they want on a jury. I'm not sure why I'm feeling so hateful about serving on a jury. Maybe it's because I'm moving and I don't have the time to sit a room and listen to why so and so thought robbing the store sounded like a good idea. Maybe I'm stressed about missing work, we have jury pay, but it won't help me catch up on what I need to do and it makes other fall behind. Maybe I'm worried I'll be the hold out- the juror who feels the accused is really not guilty and I've seen what happens to hold out jurors on CSI...
Maybe it was the lack of creativity with the questionnaire that really got to me.
Seriously....they ask you in English if you understand English. My fiancee is a buzzkill about certain things and lying on the questionnaire about my language skills was one of the things he was being a drag about. He also would not let me lie about my car insurance status or where I worked. I had wanted to answer that not only did I speak English I also speak: Japanese, Jive, and L33T. I don't have car insurance right now due to my job on the Death Star translating Jive I don't need to commute.
I feel the need to tell them they are not getting a good diverse jury pool with such lackluster questions. Here are a few questions I feel they need to ask before asking anyone to serve on a jury.
Do you look forward to the zombie doomsday scenario just so you can legally kill people you hate after they become one of the undead?
Do you watch countless hours of crime TV? If so, which shows and do you feel that these show have prepared you for getting away with murder?
Which ending caused you more feelings of rage-The ending of Harry Potter or the ending of Lost? Please explain why.
Do you feel that making prisoners read or watch anything Twilight related is cruel and unusual punishment?
Yes I feel that we could get a unique jury pool from these questions. If not at least the jurors would get some sort of laugh considering what they are about to go though.
Oh well....I'm sure if I get picked I could always turn the exp into CSI fanfiction...unless I'm killed for being the hold out juror.
This will be my last blog at my current home, after we move and get settled I plan to pick this up again.
Till than
Reggie
*Dun dun*
So I'm trying to move into a new house and pack up the old one when I find a jury questionnaire in my mailbox and the first thought that goes through my head is that I need to find someone who owns a Star Trek Uniform so that I may wear it when and if I get called in for more questioning. I know it's my civic duty to be on a jury, but considering I just paid Uncle Sam $300 for income taxes I'm not feeling very civic right now.
I'm think I should bring this blog in has proof that I'm not the person they want on a jury. I'm not sure why I'm feeling so hateful about serving on a jury. Maybe it's because I'm moving and I don't have the time to sit a room and listen to why so and so thought robbing the store sounded like a good idea. Maybe I'm stressed about missing work, we have jury pay, but it won't help me catch up on what I need to do and it makes other fall behind. Maybe I'm worried I'll be the hold out- the juror who feels the accused is really not guilty and I've seen what happens to hold out jurors on CSI...
Maybe it was the lack of creativity with the questionnaire that really got to me.
Seriously....they ask you in English if you understand English. My fiancee is a buzzkill about certain things and lying on the questionnaire about my language skills was one of the things he was being a drag about. He also would not let me lie about my car insurance status or where I worked. I had wanted to answer that not only did I speak English I also speak: Japanese, Jive, and L33T. I don't have car insurance right now due to my job on the Death Star translating Jive I don't need to commute.
I feel the need to tell them they are not getting a good diverse jury pool with such lackluster questions. Here are a few questions I feel they need to ask before asking anyone to serve on a jury.
Do you look forward to the zombie doomsday scenario just so you can legally kill people you hate after they become one of the undead?
Do you watch countless hours of crime TV? If so, which shows and do you feel that these show have prepared you for getting away with murder?
Which ending caused you more feelings of rage-The ending of Harry Potter or the ending of Lost? Please explain why.
Do you feel that making prisoners read or watch anything Twilight related is cruel and unusual punishment?
Yes I feel that we could get a unique jury pool from these questions. If not at least the jurors would get some sort of laugh considering what they are about to go though.
Oh well....I'm sure if I get picked I could always turn the exp into CSI fanfiction...unless I'm killed for being the hold out juror.
This will be my last blog at my current home, after we move and get settled I plan to pick this up again.
Till than
Reggie
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