It's been a while since I said anything here, hasn't it?

Well, for starters I'm in my new place now. It's pretty sweet. I have a big-ass garage which rocks hard. I've got my truck, motorcycle, girlfriend's car, seating area for drinking, weight bench, refrigerator, and beer-pong table. Yeah, it's that big. It's probably my favorite room in this whole place.

I'm in my fifth quarter of school now, more than halfway to my Associates degree. Which makes me feel kinda lazy considering I graduated High School over 5 years ago. Oh well, at least I'm gonna get it, unlike most of my friends. School's going pretty good too, I finished up my Animation-1 final the other night. It's pretty sweet. I'll probably upload it here in a couple days.

I get to go to Seattle tonight. I'll be gone until Sunday night for a friends wedding. This'll be number 4 for me with number 5 coming next month. Is everyone else's friends getting married? Does it annoy the crap out of you too?

I almost got arrested last night. My friends motorcycle was getting towed 'cause he doesn't have his license and the cop wouldn't let me ride it instead. I drove my truck to where my friend was and was gonna let him drive my truck so I could rise his bike out of there. That cop was a jerk. After I argued with him about how he's a State Parks Officer instead of a real cop he threatened to have me arrested for interference. I called him on his BS and he threatened to increase the charges on my friend. I told him what I thought of him and we left. My buddy's getting his bike out of the impound as I type this.

As far as gaming goes, I'm not doing as much as I used to. I totally played through Tales of Symphonia twice so I could get ready for Tales of Symphonia 2. I'm super-stoaked for it. I also started a new game on Jeanne D'Arc for the PSP. It's awesome if you're into Strategy RPG's. I also got FFIV for the DS when it came out. That game totally rocks. It's still kinda hard, but i dig it. I'm stuck on Rubicante right now. If anyone knows what I'm talking about, any advice would be appreciated.

I had my first home SSBB tournament a little while ago. I rocked it with Lucario and took out two other combatants before losing a life. We play 5-stock. Then it was one-on-one with my friend and Link. It was tough, he's good, but I'm better. I can't play online because my Wii never gets any online matches. I'll sit in the waiting room with the punching bag forever. I can play people with friend codes, though.

My best friend is getting discharged from the Air Force in a few weeks. He got busted for a DUI by the MPs while coming onto Base. Not good. On the bright side, he won't be stuck across the country anymore.

Eric Clapton just came on the radio. Sweet. Layla's one of the coolest songs ever. The original, not the acoustic.

What else . . . I played through all the Metroid Primes in one weekend not too long ago. Took a total of 18 hours and change. I wasn't doing a speed-run or anything, I just really dig the story. I also got stuck on No More Heroes. I'm at the number 2 ranked boss-chick and she keeps beating the bejeezus out of me. It's still fun though.

I'll put up some pictures of what it's like out here and what I've been up to (just in case you're interested) and hopefully get back in touch with some of you guys.

And now the Blog Joke;

Two idiots are sitting in a clinic waiting room.
One idiot is crying, the other idiot asks him why he is crying.
He says he came in for a blood test.
"So are you afraid?" The idiot asks.
"No. For the blood test, they cut my finger."
The other moron starts crying profusely and
says "I came for a urin test."

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

That is all.

That's how you'd spell the noise Arnold makes whenever he's yelling or grunting a'la Total Recall or Predator.

So I spoke before about finally getting a promotion within my company, one that comes with a pay-raise and a free apartment. Well, one delay after the other has me actually moving to that position a whole 3 months after I get the notice. The facility I'll be managing is subject to approval by The County of El Dorado Hills in california and I've never met a more anal bunch of people in my life. It's coming along, slowly, but it'll be here someday, I hope.

I've got another SSBB tournament coming up on the 26th. It's for the release party of Mario Kart Wii. You'd think they'd play Mario Kart, but they know that Brawl is still going to be more popular than any racing game ever. I'm still going to pick up a copy of it though. It comes with a steering wheel and all that for the Wii, which is awesome. I've got teh internets at home again, so I may just start playing some online games for the sole purpose of beating someone other than my friends. That means YOU!

I just got a call from some number I don't know and the message they left on my voice mail was from someone I didn't recognize asking me to call someone I don't know at a number they didn't just call me from. I called the number they asked and the voice mail on that end didn't give me a name of the person I just called. Friggin' weird.

Ooh, I almost forgot. CRISIS CORE RULES! And school sux.

Later.

I've been waiting for almost 15 minutes for a match online and it's not happening. If there's anyone else with the same problem when they try to Brawl online, feel free to add me to your friends list. I'll more than likely accept.

My code is 1805-1955-2624
My name is YETI

Lost in the second round.

Stupid Wiimotes.

Saturday at midnight Gamestop will be having a release party for SSBB. But before that they'll be hosting a SSBB tournament where the winner goes to district > regional > national and whoever takes the cake gets 5K and every nintendo game ever made. At least that's what the guy at the counter told me.

Seeing as I've never been beaten more than a few times I stand a pretty good chance of winning this weekend.

Wish me luck.

theYETI

Finally got my promotion, comes with a free apartment and a pay raise, I move in about two weeks.

Yay me!

So Monday night's my Interactive Communications Design class, basically it's a class on Flash, and we've been given our deadline for the finished project we're supposed to be working on. Trouble is, I haven't started a project, or even decided what I'm gonna do. That's where you come in. I'm opening this up for suggestions as to what to do. I could make a banner with popout menus, a sprite movie with Mario fighting Sonic or something, or I could make something else.

A great site for Flash work is www.newgrounds.com There's all-kinds of stuff on there that people have made with Flash, but I'm not exactly inspired by any of it. I'm a huge procrastinator and I don't want to mess this up.

Help.

Thanks.

Where's the time gone. Oh yeah, it went that way.

Now it's 2008, and nothing's changed, except that I hear minimum wage in California'a going up. Doesn't help me at all, but it's nice to hear. I'm still at my job managing a storage facility, living at home, not making enough money, but it's OK, things may change soon. If they don't, oh well. I joined a gym a few months ago and I like that. I go every day for at least an hour and I'm finally getting some results. I don't do any cardio because I hate running, but I'll hit the eliptical once in a while.

But, since this a gaming site I'll get to what we're all here for. Christmas wasn't too long ago, that's when I get most of my games because I don't make enough money to buy them myself. I got a few cool ones too, like both the LEGO Star Wars games on XBOX. I've already borrowed and beaten them, but they're pretty fun so I asked for them. I've already beaten them again, except I have enough time to get 100% completion now. I missed out on Soul Caliber 3 so I got that one, it's more of the same with a little more thrown in, which is always nice, I dig Soul Caliber games. I also got season 4 of Samurai Jack, I don't have any of the other seasons yet, but that will change soon.

I also got Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings for the DS, so that means I'll have to go back and finish FF12 on the PS2. Even if the stories don't completely rely on each other I still have to go about chronilogically. It's sortof an OCD thing of mine. Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker is fun, it requires a ton of level grinding, but I don't mind grining so it works out. The world is actually pretty big for a handheld game, and I'm only a few hours into it.

The best, however, I've saved for last. At about the third present I opened my sister handed me the one she got me and it definitely should've waited until last. Underneath the wrapping paper was Metroid Prime 3. That meant I knew what one of the other gifts was. Yup, I finally got a Wii. I've been playing MP3 and Wii sports almost every day. I got a few games on the virtual console as well. It rocks hard.

Hope everyone's holidays went great, I'll see you all around.