Current Ramblings
Wednesday, December 29, 2004
Rub it!
I know that last post kind of left people hanging, but I've had a lot on my hands since I got back home, and by that I specifically mean my DS and four new games (if you're including new GBA games), so I haven't really gotten a chance to post again. Sorry about that. I'll give some quick recapping now, because the New Year's party starts starting tomorrow. The flight home was blissfully uneventful, plus we got to fly out of a terminal in an excitingly Godforsaken part of Dulles. We also had to get a tow truck to yank my car out of the long-term lot with chains, since neither the weather nor the level of maintenance seemed to have improved since we left. I made a joke at work before I left about getting a bond referrendum on the ballot next fall to buy Columbus a fucking snowplow, but now that they've had a few days it seems less like a joke and more like something they might want to actually consider. Though to be fair it seems like specifically the neighborhood of Grandview here is the worst offender. Also, I haven't been actively sick (read: I haven't vomited) since I got back home, so I guess that could be considered "better", though my appetite still hasn't recovered and to be frank, my sense of smell suggests that my digestive system as a whole isn't quite at 100%. I don't really want to do a straight run-down of presents like a lot of my blogging friends have, especially since some of those gift-givers read my blog and I feel like the very order of the list will be analyzed as proof for or against my friendship, so I will touch on a couple major highlights and hope nobody is offended. There's the DS, of course, and Mario 64 DS and Megaman Zero 3 to go with it. I spent some Christmas money to add Feel the Magic and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories to that roster. It has a bit of a dead pixel, by which I mean it has a dead pixel, but it's only visible when the screen behind it is black, so I think I'm going to see if I can live with it. It's only noticable at all in Feel the Magic. Graham got me a new record player, a fancy actually new one that plays 78s and has a CD player and comes in a very tasteful wood cabinet. The old barely-functional $10 flea-market one is in the trash already. Graham's parents got me the Shaun of the Dead soundtrack from the UK, which is really neat in a way which I think deserves its own post, since it also brings up a lot of things I don't like about soundtrack albums in general these days that this one is absolutely the opposite of. For now I will just say it connects the music with the movie itself to a degree that is the antithesis of today's "inspired by" soundtracks. Also from them and from the UK was the Transformers: RiD DVD set, so I can finally see those episodes that were never shown in the States post-9/11 because Fox got sorta squeamish about massive property damage all of a sudden. One of the episode descriptions actually mentions that it was never aired in the US, which seems like an odd thing to bother mentioning on a UK release. Oh, and they also got me a nifty Invader Zim tee with long sleeves and a hood and GIR on the front, which I mostly mention in this brief recap because it looks unbearably good on me. And my parents did get me lots of nice things in addition to the DS, including the absolute coziest winter boots imaginable. And I got some yummy soaps from Windy, and a nice sweater with a matching hat from my sister, and that Dashboard Confessional CD a woman my age really shouldn't want from Walky, and Pokemon Box (OMG POKEMON BOX!) from Steve-o, and an Invader Zim picture-disk record and matching pen for the #wiigii! mailing list Secret Santa from Phil, and I think that about covers people who read this regularly. ;) Now I go try to get this girl in Feel the Magic to like me some more.
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