Yes, I had an extra long weekend, that was forced by my employers saying I still had 14 personal hours I had to use before November 1 that don't carry over until next year like my vacation hours do. The weekend flew by a bit faster than I expected, but I guess I accomplished a lot. I watched about six flicks or so. I got three of them reviewed in my previous entry. I also typed up a new review, I'm slowly starting to knock out reviews from my own personal collection I bought over the past couple months. First one up, Test Drive: Eve of Destruction . Oddly enough, it got rejected when I tried to get it up on GameFAQs. I believe that's the first review I ever got rejected on there, reason: content. If it had to be anything, it had to be probably one of the sentences I use to describe the announcer in the game, it made it into my final draft on VGpub, so why don't you check out there. I even toned it down and resubmitted it, but it still shows it waiting in the que. Thing that is also puzzling me is that questionable comment I made was about 2/3's into a nearly 1800 word review. How did the mod's catch it when they let a lot of the other 372 word wonders filled with countless spelling and grammatical errors get posted almost daily.
Anywho, on my first day off it was my sister, Ann's 20th B-day. She was still living in Arkansas last year for her last b-day, so I got her a lil more expensive gift in the form of Simpsons 4th DVD set. We all went out to eat at Paradiso, blew another $10 there cuz everyone love's getting their free crappy b-day meal there. After the meal, we saw Cellular at the theater. That was a lot better than I thought, pretty suspensful stuff with lots of action to keep your blood pumping. I think I might get the DVD depending on the amount of extra content they add to it. On Thursday I attended this wine tasting event at a liquor shop with my dad. I tried about 30 different types of wines, wine's not really my thing as I only really liked one, something with the word 'moscotto' in it. My dad loves it as he stocked up for the year, according to him anyways, and got literally two dozen bottles. I also caught the new Dream Job that day, that one dude is nearly a freaking midget. Almost looks like Mr. Coleman himself.
On Friday, Joe and Chris came over and we played that new X-Men Legends game. It's actually pretty addicting, we played it for about 3 hours straight. Game is like a hybrid of Dark Alliance in the X-Men universe, and leveling up your X-Men is a fun process as you learn new powers and whatnot. My only qualm with it is the camera can get a bit faulty at times. After some gaming we watched the Day after Tomorrow. Not too shabby for a Natural Disaster movie. It's right up there with Deep Impact and Twister. On Saturday I went to the UND football game with Jane, Shawn, and Adrian, second one this season so far. They demolished Duluth in a 26-0 shutout. Afterwards Chris and Steve came over and we played a bit more of X-Men Legends for a few more hours. Chris bought the game, but I guess the game isn't memory unit compatible so he can't transfer the save from my Xbox to his memory card so we had no choice but to continue the game at my place. Kind of weird to see a lot of these newer Xbox games skimp out on memory unit support when they dont take up too many blocks as it is on the hard drive.
Sunday was NFL fun...........in mourning another loss for the 49ers. They faced the undefeated Jets so I didn't get my hopes up for them, I started to as they started off with a 14-0 lead. However that lead was quickly demolished after halftime as they were shutout for the rest of the game and lost 22-14. Barlow had a decent day, defenses finally caught onto Eric Johnson being Rattay's main target and double teamed him a lot and limited to only 4 catches for about 25 yards. Went over to Corey's later that night and watched the Vikes beat his Saints in a shootout with the Vikes coming out on top 38-31. I just wonder how the hell do the Vikes continue to stomp when they lose main guys like Bennett, and now Moss. Moss will prolly only be out for 2 weeks, maybe one if that with his pulled hamstring I believe.
Phew, what another long entry.......until next time.