It is now April 1st and spring officially started almost two weeks ago. You'd think that the weather would begin to warm up and the grass would turn green again, right? Well Mother Nature decided to pull an early April Fool's joke on everyone up here in Minnesota yesterday. From about 7:00 A.M. yesterday till the wee hours this morning, it has been snowing non-stop (we got 5 - 7 inches total). It wasn't light snow either. The snow was wet, thick and slushy. What made it worse was that the wind was blowing pretty hard and visibility was almost zero.
The drive home from work yesterday was horrendous. With the constant blowing snow, you could only see about 3 or 4 cars in front of you on the freeway. Beyond that distance was nothingness. All you could see was a grayish-white fogginess, much like the mist in the 2007 film, The Mist. I got this eerie feeling that I was about to drive into another dimension and end up in Xen or something (good thing I have a crowbar in my trunk:P). It was very weird. I feel very lucky I wasn't in a car accident. If anyone had to slam on their brakes in front of me, there would have been a massive 50 car pile up on the freeway.
I'm still waiting on a few gifts that my friends are sending me for my birthday, but I can tell you what I got so far. I received $50 cash from my grandma and a $25 gift card to Best Buy from a friend, which I used to buy some anime box sets that were on sale this week. I picked up the Elfen Leid thinpack, the Neon Genesis Evangelion platinum thinpack and the Mars Daybreak box set. All that was around $69. Pretty good deal I'd say. I received the 2 disc Aliens DVD to complete the Alien Quadrilogy, a couple volumes of the Welcome to the N.H.K. manga and Twisted Metal Head-On: Extra Twisted Edition on PS2 from my girlfriend.
Man, Twisted Metal Head-On is an absolute blast. As David Jaffe said in the history of Twisted Metal documentary (it is bonus content on the disc), Head-On is what Twisted Metal 3 should have been. He's exactly right. It feels like Twisted Metal 2, only better. I'm one of those Twisted Metal fans that despises TM:III and 4 and I don't consider them part of the series. Although they are decent games, they aren't good Twisted Metal games. (you can read the wikipedia entries on those to see why those games aren't highly regarded in the TM fanbase.) Unlike TM:Black, Head-On gets the difficulty just right. Blowing up cars with rocket launchers and machine guns has never been better.