We came, we saw, we came back with cool swag.
Snippets of our PAX experience:
To say it was epic would be the understatement of the year!
But the highlight was when I fragged Missy from PMS Clan! Patriot Memory had a challenge: get a positive score in a one-on-one Quake Live match against her to win a big prize. And this was no small challenge! She was hitting rail shots from across the map (without zooming in) and racking up tons of gauntlet humiliation kills. Over the entire weekend only one attendee got a frag on her: me! I didn’t win the big prize pack but I got a t-shirt and a flash drive since I was the only one to even frag her once.
Look out, whippersnappers: grampa’s still got game!
Had an epic time at PAX this past weekend! For those who were there, you are all pirates. For those who weren’t there, next year you’ve got to go.
And now to kick off the epic documentation of this year’s PAX, I bring you the cosplayers.
Penny Arcade Expo coming up this weekend! If you’ll be around Seattle, get ahold of me and we’ll hang out.
Hot tub is wired! Except now that we have electricity it’s apparent that one of the pumps is frozen up. Total damage between $100-250 to fix. The cost-overruns on this project put the Iraq reconstruction efforts to shame. I’m thinking it might be cheapest at this point to just fill it with pennies and swim in them Scrooge McDuck style.
Installed an anti-virus update and now Windows is blue-screening every 10 minutes. Time to re-re-re-re-re-re-reinstall Windows. Again.
How many months later and I’m STILL stuck on The World Ends With You for the DS. This one’s getting my Game of the Year nod. Addictively simple gameplay, surprisingly catchy storyline, and loads of “gotta catch ‘em all” quests.
Been busy at work and have been putting some serious energy into house projects. So glad it’s a four day weekend coming up.
Can’t say I’m excited that Obama’s picked Joe “DRM” Biden for veep. If DRM doesn’t mean anything to you, he’s probably as good of a choice as anybody. I like Obama’s charisma, leadership style, choice of advisors, and most of his policies, but some of his choices irk me. More and more I’m wishing there was a “none of the above” option on the ballot and if it won we would get a new election with new candidates.
The setup
So I’ve always wanted to name my spawn after a number. I think that “Five” just has a nice, pleasant feminine ring to it. Granted, this was years before Battlestar Galactica took my idea and popularized it, but I still like it. The lady thinks it is a terrible idea.
The hook
The current name we’ve been tossing around is “Veronica.” As part of our name-hunt we’ve vetted each name for the inevitable fifth-grade teasing options (reasonably clean) as well as the possible nick-names. Veronica could shorten pretty easily to “V” which I think is a neat diminuitive.
The punchline
Now here’s the kicker: V is the Roman numeral for five. I think we’ve got a winner!
Behold, the first images of our daughter *INSERT NAME HERE*
The following conversation is real, only the names were changed to protect the innocent:
Me: “So I thought I’d broken my toe wakeboarding, but turns out it was only sprained.”
M*tt: “Wait, how’d you sprain your toe playing the PlayStation?”
Me: “No, I was wakeboa…wait a minute…”
M*tt: *impish grin*
Me: *fist of doom to the face, dealing 99,999 damage*
See below for photographic documentary evidence that I was in fact on the river.
Your pleas were heard by the lady. Behold, the bump!
Now, to settle on a name. Hadley, Inara, Francesca, Isabella, and X are leading the pack. So far we’ve discarded roughly 30,000 (yes, thousand) other options.
Milestone: bought gas today and it cost over $50. The world is ending!