on The rIGht tracK
July 20, 2008
Okay, so Friday and today (Saturday).
Yesterday wasn’t too bad, though Raou took off and Pam got to leave a bit early, it wasn’t too bad since Art came in late and was out most of the day. After work, went to mom’s house (got gas beforehand which she yelled at me for, saying I was going to be however_many_minutes late because of it) for dinner. Went to the mall afterwards to get my haircut and lipstick for her, she then went to a department store (i think JC Penny’s) to get a watch battery changed [did you know they charge for that shit? $10...I guess however_much_for_the_battery + time]. After that, came back to her house, and then headed home. Last night wasn’t too exciting to talk about. Usually Friday nights involve fun drunken WoW action, but I knew noone was gonna be on, so I ended up starting something…
I started my ENTIRE SNES COLLECTION RUNDOWN project. I don’t know exactly if that’s what it’s going to be called but it’s a start. The basic idea is to play ever single SNES game I can find a rom for and play it for a bit, review what I’ve played, and make videos about it [in essence, playing ever single snes game]. I got 33 games done yesterday, giving me more than enough footage for at least 2-4 episodes. I don’t want the episodes to be too long, because I want to keep people’s attention, though I want to make them interesting enough that people would want to see the next one. I recorded a sort opening to the first ep (not like an opening for the show, per say, just an opening for the ep. I figure once I get enough episodes done, I can put together some sort of show opening with music and whatnot (and hopefully had a cool, catchy name for the stupid show lol).
Today was so…fucking…hot. It was like 102 degrees when I got into my car and stayed in the 90s until at least 4pm. All the party peoples came between what seemed 12 and 2pm, so I started getting ready to go SOMEWHERE and got the fuck up outta the house. Once out (with my camera equipment in the car), I decided I’d talk a bit to the camera for the first episode (as mentioned above) and maybe head to mom’s (she was suggesting I come over if I had nothing to do – no one to hang with =[ ). When I got there, she made some lunch, we talked about stuff like new movies (Watchmen looks yummy) and Terry. After a bit, we decided to head to BJs and look around. She got a new beach chair and some Gatorade, then I got some cereal and told her I'd go half on bread. She got some pound cake and I saw some delicious coconut shrimp (she said she'd buy it if I bought the pound cake).
We got home, she started making dinner and said we should play UpWords afterwards. After dinner, that's exactly what we did. She kept kept kept kept trying to make suggestions on how to play and just kept talking during my turn, it was driving me crazy, and I'm sure I was taking it too seriously, but at times I couldn't pay attention. I ended up winning with like 520-something points, which she said was up in the top 10 scores of their however_many_years of playing the game. So that was fun. Sometime after that I headed home.
On the way home, I stopped by the video game store (Game Stop? EB Games? I don't know who's who anymore). Place was pretty empty customer wise, 3 employees working seemed nice enough. Picked up Brain Age 2 and My Word Coach for DS and Cranium: Kabooki for the Wii. I didn't read much good for the Cranium for Wii game, but from what was positive about it, it seemed decent enough, and for $15, I couldn't pass it up. I think all those games together came to like $58, which was pretty good. I get home and (after saying goodnight to Diane and Harris), looked for my other DS games (which I don't have too many of - Final Fantasy 3, Animal Crossing, and Warioware). I couldn't find any of them (even though I know I've let Jewel borrow 2/3 of the games) OR my DS charger (which I know I've let her borrow as well). Both Carol and her say they gave them back, but when I ask where they put them, they still can't be found. Ugh, whatever.
So, I played some My Word Coach while having some lasagna. It's really enjoyable. Some of the things they want you to do include putting the missing letter in the box, matching the word to one of two definitions, and making certain words with scrabble type letters that fall into the screen. A while later, I played Brain Age 2. It seems to have more mini games to it, and might be a little more enjoyable (but it's different, word coach is more vocab where as brain age is more math and other random stuff [like piano]). I had fun playing it, both of the actually…good stuff. Tomorrow, we’ll try Cranium for Wii.
I want to start working on the first episode to the new show idea, but I’m so tired. Maybe if I at least get it started, I’ll be able to finish it tomorrow. Even if I don’t start, I think I’ll be able to finish tomorrow, and I need to add the voice over / extra scenes anyway when I can talk louder (too late atm). Maybe I’ll at least take the little bit of video off the camera and audio off the mic and toss them onto the hard drive I’ve been using for the project.
Nothing at all planned for tomorrow, and since I was already up north today with no word from Gavino, I’m sure he’ll call tomorrow asking if I want to hang…but I really don’t think I want to drive up there AGAIN, twice already this weekend…ugh, I don’t know…guess I’ll see…even though he didn’t call Fri night when he said he was going to. Good thing I sound like A LADY.
Night!
