Triumphant return

So it's been a while. Get off my back.

Today is one of the first days in a while where I have had no work, no classes, and nothing to do. So let me update you on all that's been going on since the last time I posted here. Oh, and I’ve decided that I’m going to be using real names from now on, just because I like it more that way. Hi, I’m Greg. I’ll be editing the older posts to reflect this change (and so you know who everybody is) later on, but at the moment I can’t be buggered.

I have had some busy days, some fun days, and some weird days, but life continues to be good, as always. I think my two greatest "personal pride" moments were getting the best score on my psychology midterm of anyone else in my class, and having somebody I was checking for at work tell me that they like how I was doing my job so much that they were going to write me up a recommendation to my bosses. And some funny stuff happened at work, too; for example, a guy came in with his wife and had his fly down. I couldn’t bring myself to tell him, so I don’t know if he ever figured that one out. And there was also the time that I greeted a customer and, in the process, accidentally faked an (apparently very convincing) Irish accent and then had to hold it up throughout the order so that I didn’t look like TOO much of a weirdo.

There’ve also been a couple of things worth ranting about, but aside from my persistent irritation about Microsoft’s irreversible “upgrade” to the Zune software, I can’t think of any at the moment, so those’ll have to wait for another post.

Other stuff: Augusta finally got her nose pierced over the weekend. I admit, it doesn’t look hideous like I anticipated – I suppose I’ll grow to appreciate it. And she seems to be quite happy with it, of course, so I guess it’s a winner. She and I have also worked up to the last level of Halo 3 in co-op mode, now – hopefully we’ll beat the game the next time I’m over there. She’s already beaten it herself, of course, but still, I wanna see. Blowing up 343 Guilty Spark and hearing the noise he made as he died… Oh, what a satisfying experience.

Also, David and I finally got our Wii about two weeks ago! And of course, you all know what that means… yes, we have Super Smash Bros. Brawl! Happyhappyhappy. We bought it the morning of the day it came out – two days ago – and already we’ve beaten Subspace Emissary completely in co-op, and unlocked every character but one: the Wind Waker version of Link. Actually, both of us have reached the point where we could have unlocked him, but he’s a little bastard and we keep losing to him in the Challenger Approaching match.

The game as a whole is awesome, though; Ganondorf is back and better than ever, baby! You have no idea how happy that makes me. He’s similar enough to how he played in Melee that I still know how he works and don’t have to re-learn him, but his moves have all been tweaked subtly to add 700% more kickass coolness to every facet of his existence. And there’re plenty of other characters that I simply love; I enjoy playing as Meta Knight just as much as I anticipated (so cool), Samus is shinier than ever before, and King Dedede, Wolf O’Donnell, Sonic, and R.O.B. are all pretty damn good (and cool, of course), as well. Oh, and Snake. God, Snake. He’s friggin’ hilarious. Where another character picks up a food item and quietly eats it, Snake adds a wonderfully-delivered “tastyyyy.” And you have to remember that this is in his deep, gravelly, very masculine voice. Everything he says is gold.

Oh, and my laptop seems to be dying. That’s a little upsetting. All of a sudden, Cobalt has decided that if you move it physically – even just a little bit – it’ll cut power to itself and turn off immediately. Hopefully that can be fixed. Although if it can’t be… graduation present, parents?

That’s all the major stuff I can think about at the moment. I’m sure I’ll think of more later, but that’s what new posts are for, right? Now that we’re all caught up, hopefully we’ll go back to some regularity here.