Costumes
After work I biked to
The Party Bazaar just down the street to see if I could find something to wear today. After some searching and checking out some candy for my
eyes, I spyed a costume called "The Well Hung Man", which is basically a suicide by hanging thing, as well as a
delicious pun. I guess one could argue that I
need no costume in this case, but that's just stereotypical of a guy to
stroke his own
ego. Heh. Moving on. The package was open, so I asked the guy at the counter if that's normal. It's not. And the noose and rope for tying the wrists was gone. It was their last one. They had a spare noose, though, but no wrist rope, so I got it for $35 off, but the noose was $20, so whatever. I picked up some fake blood for slit wrists, as well. On top of that, there's a Home Depot not to far for my wrist rope. So I trekked over there with a tight fit for my
aforementioned backpack, as while it wasn't going anywhere, my recent acquisition was poking out of the top and it was rather heavy.
At Home Depot, a cool twenty-something guy named Johann hooked me up with 3' of rope for like, $1.01, after tax. So I grabbed a bite at Harvey's, after I had them put the rope
on the grill for a few seconds to singe it together, as Johann couldn't get the heat cutter to work. The nylon melted a bit, but another quick cut and it'll look really good. One Double Hamburger Combo later and I was off back home. It was suddenly exceptionally cold outside, and I had a big hill to pedal up that I wasn't quite
exuberant about. While taking a shortcut, I came across a taxi-minivan, and was thinking, "Screw this, I'll just take the taxi." And so I did, and $6.25 later I was home and STILL under the list price for the costume.
Here's the unique spin for my costume, rather than the supplied shirt, I'll be wearing this one:
Problem Exists Between Keyboard And Chair
So, I'll be a suicidal tech support employee who couldn't handle the imbecility on the other line. And while I don't work with Tech support, I do occasionally have to deal with clients who know
just enough to be
dangerous. Anyway, I'll post pics of me in full costume tomorrow or Thursday.
Community
I plopped in some UNO, and was subjected to a
Hentai movie (it's wikipedia, but has a thumbnail that may be
NSFW), thanks, NEG. You're lucky you're on my friends list and a cool cat. I caught up with
Ninjafish, and in true KD Style™, talked without breathing for 5 minutes straight in private chat for a bit. He appears to be kinda
starstruck by the whole experience. And he's absolutely right, I
did have to go to go talk to
Bastelyon in video chat. And what did he have to say? Well, something so
TOTALLY AWESOME that I can't even talk about it.
Yet. When I get the green light, I'll post up a storm. Or something.
What I can talk about is what's
not going to happen. Way back in September, when Bastelyon and I first Private and Video chatted, we talked about throwing a party on November 22nd for my completing a year's streak, and stuff. As time went on though, it was obvious that the Xbox Team was going to be very busy with all the
holiday hub-bub and the attendees wouldn't be as spectacular as originally planned. The
subject-that-can-not-be-mentioned easily makes up for it, especially since it's before the 22nd, and Tony and I were bouncing off some other dates that could be worth throwing a party for.
Carnage
After my exciting chat with Bastelyon, I saw that
K4rn4ge was online, you may have
heard of him before, I think he had a high score in game where you
wage war against
geometric shapes but the name escapes me. I think it's called "
The Bus That Couldn't Slow Down". Anyway, I wanted to talk to him about what just happened. He said he was just about to pop in Saints Row since there was a supposed Software Update for the multiplayer and if I got it we should play. So I throw it in, and we hop in a room and chat about this site and my clan's
Gears of War division. He may come on board as another member of the KD Entourage, and put in his two cents on whatever he feels like.
So we did some co-op and he and I worked together to
unlock an achievement, which was a lot of fun (the playing co-op, the achievement was icing on the proverbial cake). After that we played Frogger to get the Co-Op Brilliance achievement, which we did with no problem, and we had an interesting side affect, when he completed Level 5 and the game ended, I got that achievement as well, which was cool, I guess, but I wanted to do it myself since I only made it to the end of Level 4 that game. Oh well, still fun times though.
Calgary
GeekesS and I proceeded to video chat into the night, talking about PAX '07, helping her find her cell by calling it while she rummaged through the room. Anytime I got her voicemail I'd leave a message like "I'm watching you!" in a stalker-esque voice, or "I think you're hotter than
Rosie O'Donnell", since
her Halloween costume this year is Betty Rubble, whom I was able to guess by only seeing the wig. We shot the breeze till a little past midnight, where she went to bed, and I went to download
Ultimate MK3, and get an
8 G achievement before the update at 2 AM, as a precaution should anything go
awry. There's a category that still doesn't have any posts associated with it, I'll let you do
math.
Chaos
This morning I got up and downloaded the update, as soon as the console reboot. There was a collision between a fan and
feces (read: baby mice, for you Donnie Darko buffs). The screen was blinking in and out, and the image was white, over exposed and grainy. Not good. The best way to describe it would be if I were a spy in nightvision in SC:DA multiplayer, and I got hit with a
flashbang (that actually blinded spies). In a slight panic, I switched the HD/AV cable to TV, which worked, then I browsed around, and switched back to HDTV. It came up
really good. Gave me a brief scare, though. It also shows why I'll always get an achievement before any Dash Updates or Server Maintenance, if possible. You never know how a system wide patch is going to do to your console. Especially since mine is still the
original Xbox 360 I got at launch, with little to no hiccups, aside from games known to freeze. This may have been an issue with the TV handling the system's reboot.
Candy
My current
obsession when it comes to treats would be
Läkerol Cassis Pastilles. The Cassis would imply that they are Blackcurrant flavoured, and they are addictive and so tasty.
IKEA has them in stock, and you get a discount if you buy them by the 24 pack.
Oh My!
Trivia about IKEA and me. When I was a really little I went to South Korea and stayed with my grandparents, while my Mom, Dad and sister went to Thailand (where my dad was born). The reason why I'm very
caucasian is that my grandparents were Missionaries, and my dad was born while they were
on the job just outside of Bangkok. In any case, South Korea was definitely in my vocabulary when I was 3 and 4 because of my grandparents working there, so I always called IKEA I-Korea. I guess since
1998 that would be spelled
iKorea
