I celebrated over the weekend with friends and family. Had a nice dinner with the family Friday night and then went out drinking/played some pool with my friends. It was nice since everyone I called actually showed up to hang with me.
I received some nice gifts too! From my loving wife I got five lift tickets to go snowboarding and a shirt from my favorite band Mono (Japanese post-rock). That alone made my day! But wait there is more. From my brother I got Dead Space which is awesome. Still haven't been able to play it since I am finishing up Resistance 2. I am definitely stoked to play some Resident Evil in space! Received a not one but two pairs of pants from my parents. My favorite kind of jeans to the 569 loose straight Levis. Then today in the mail I got a 2,000 Wii points card from my aunt which was definitely a surprise since I wasn't expecting anything but a card with a dollar inside. I went ahead and downloaded Secret of Mana. Left the other points in there since I have downloaded everything I wanted so far.
OK enough ranting about my awesome gifts! Saturday I went and saw Rise Against and Thrice. Really good sold out show! My wife loves Rise Against and I enjoy their music also. I thought Thrice played an awesome set and definitely sounded fricken sweet to my ears. Overall a very good concert and was happy my wife enjoy it a lot.
Now that I got my lift tickets ready and all my gear. IT NEEDS TO FLIPPIN SNOW on Mt. Hood some more. It received (wow my new favorite word I guess 'received', I guess I just really hate saying got since it really isn't a word) about 24 inches of snow this past week but then started raining again. I'm really hoping next week it will dump a few feet so I can finally get to snowboarding again!
A big thanks goes out to jt4mtb for making me an awesome Zelda banner! I really appreciate that took some time to make me a banner. If you give me your address I will send you some home baked cookies!! (made by my wife, there really good)
Alright some game notes from me.
-Resistance 2 is bigger and well not entirely better then Resistance 1. I definately enjoyed the single-player campaign of R2 but the charm and a few of the gameplay elements from R1 I enjoyed a lot more. (I will have better written impressions in another blog post)
-The only game left on my MUST BUY list is Valkyria Chronicles. Other then that I am picking up Mirrors Edge this week and received Dead Space as a B-day gift. There are some other games that I wouldn't mind picking up but not 1st priority
-I'm currently playing Devil May Cry on Hard, Zelda Majora's Mask and Wind Waker on the GC, Purchased Secret of Mana on the Virtual Console and will try to find some time to play, and will be playing some Dead Space probably over the weekend.
The Portland Trailblazers are on a 3-game winning streak and beat a tough Houston and Orlando team. Both stellar games. Hope the streak continues on Wednesday vs. the Miami Heat.
24: Exile will be airing November 23rd just 12 more days away!!
That about raps it up