ChewySmokey

Hoe hum diddly dumb, I've been almost completely ignoring my dA and FA profiles for the better part of an entire year. Needless to say, my inboxes were pretty damn full, so I have come to the conclusion that I follow/watch far too many people. Not that there is anything wrong with that, oh no sir, it's just that it takes hours to run through everything, even if I'm just abusing the subscription membership perk that is "preview through inbox". I recall a number of deviations somewhere in the vicinity of 4877, which only took about 5 hours (didn't want to miss a thing!) and I am now sitting at a mildly comfortable 450. As for my FA account, the number of submissions waiting to be looked at is somewhere about 10787.

I bought an Xbox 360 "slim" last week. Though my elite is running just fine, I want more hard drive space, so I figured getting a $300 console with a new controller and headset would be a better deal than dishing out $150 for a proprietary hard drive. Now I know what you're thinking, "but micro$oft made all xboxes compatible with USB hard drives, why not use them instead?" My answer, no, I don't want to rely on a large third-party storage unit to hold my games and data, at least not one larger than 8gb (gamer profiles, pics, avatar stuff, etc). Also, I saw a pretty convincing video from Rooster Teeth Productions where they did an experiment on the running and installing speeds of USB storage drives on an xbox and the large ones (500gb+ or something) were the slowest and the xbox warned them that it may cause problems. Besides, the real selling point for me was that it runs quieter (I didn't even realize my elite made noise until now) and gives off a lot less heat. I love it.

Besides that recent stuff, not much else is happening since school is pretty much over. I'm taking my anti-depressants like a good little boy, I've been seeing my councillor weekly and I haven't seen Lisa in over a week (she's a real trooper, I love her to bits and will support her in anyway I can... even if it means helping her get over me).

Toodles

Been busy with life. Quick recap:
-Worked full-time during for summer for SaskTel (4th summer) for a boss I've only had once for a month the summer prior. A couple weeks after my temp position was over I found out that she and 2 others were stealing from the company for the last 2 years... "Your numbers could have been better" my ass!
-After being in a committed relationship for 2 years and 4 months (1 year and 4 months of which we were engaged), Lisa and I are no longer together... happened at the end of august after a wedding trip (the irony is killing me) for a friend in Manitoba. Seeing as how we were best friends before the relationship and that the break-up wasn't a "hate" thing ("I'm not ready for any kind of relationship right now, who knows, we might come back together after my head clears" sort of break-up), we decided to stay good friends... with benefits (seriously, after being used to getting laid up to 3 times a week, how can anyone go back to nothing?). I'm hoping we get back together, but I'm not going to hang on by a string while she's away on an exchange program in England January to April.
-School is slowly going down the shitter, I'm behind in quite a bit, but nothing that can't be done... I had to talk to my councilor just for a reminder that my grades are important and that the shock of being single again was still interfering with my daily life.
-I am working at a grocerey store part-time; 6AM to 11AM, Monday to Friday, unloading the trucks and then stocking the dairy and juices.

I had attempted to keep up with my online profiles over the summer, but things piled up too quickly... for example, I have over 3200 deviations to look at and over 4300 submissions on FF to look at... christ on a cracker

Tagged by

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4
"chosis. Revving the engine up to a terrible high-pitched chat-"
(Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)

2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can. What do you reach?
My ethernet switch

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Hard to say, I play video games and watch movies more than watch actual television programming. The last show that I saw that sticks out the most would be Recess.

4. Without looking, guess what time it is:
lets see...I got home from Braiden's around 7:15AM and fed the dogs...7:30AM?

5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
7:30AM

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?
The fans in my Xbox 360.

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
15 minutes ago I was returning from Braiden's house, he borrowed my "Achievement Whore" (Avatar: The Last Air Bender: The Burning Earth) and I left him my copy of "Bubba Ho-Tep".

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
The half eaten white-chocolate rabbit on my desk.

9. What are you wearing?
a red shirt (thank god I'm not an extra in Star Trek) with a slogan only a pre-teen would find funny and greenish-brown cargo pants.

10. Did you dream last night?
Didn't dream because I have not slept yet (had to be up to drive my parents to the airport at 3:30AM, so I didn't bother sleeping). I can't even remember what the last dream I had was, but I bet it was sexy and full of guns.

11. When did you last laugh?
12 minutes ago when I fed the dogs, Lily is such a glutton.

12. What are on the walls of the room you are in?
2 calenders (one for gaming, the other for daily life), posters and shelves.

14. What do you think of this quiz?
"meh"

15. What is the last film you saw?
Bubba Ho-Tep before I gave it to Braiden.

16. If you became a multi-millionaire overnight, what would you buy?
A DSi, my "pimped out" PC and some beef jerky...damn I could go for some of that right about now.

17. Tell me something about you that I don't know about.
I have a Vault-Tec Pipboy Bobble Head of my very own.

18. If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what
would you do?
I would make it illegal, and punishable by castration, to have the sounds of emergency sirens, car horns and screeching tires/brakes to be played over the radio...I mean, come on, I freak out thinking its real every time I'm driving.

19. Do you like to dance?
No.

20. George Bush:
I don't give a damn.

21. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
I want to name her Samantha, but Lisa doesn't like it because it sounds like a fat girl's name to her.

22. Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call him?
something beginning with the letter D

23. Would you ever consider living abroad?
Australia

25.Tag 7 people who must also do this in THEIR journal:
No
No
No
No
No
No
if he feels like it.


For something completely unrelated, my friend, Braiden, showed me his DSi and I was very impressed with the features and now want one of my own...in a colour other than black and cyan.

I'm not only talking about Valentines Day, but "Family Day" this Monday. I'm guessing its some random holiday the government made up, I don't know, but what I do know is I work it and get stat pay

My second Valentines Day with Lisa almost went off without a hitch. We met up around 130 and went down town to kill some time before heading off to Applebees (they just opened up about a month ago, but the bastards aren't taking reservations until March). I found a really good deal on a Rock Band bundle for the 360 at HMV, "50% off February 13-15". What luck, eh? One set back was trying to open the car trunk, the damn thing's lock is now jammed, so we had to put it in the back seat, drive home, dump it off, and drive aaaaall the way back and to the east end to Applebees by 445 instead of the intended 415...there were a lot of people there, and a lot more waiting for a table to open up, so Lisa and I were all like "screw this" and went to Tony Roma's...in the south end, then back to the north end for DQ and a movie at home, I swear I wasted a good quarter of a tank.

We watch half of Fiddler on the Roof (I pretend to hate it, but Tevye cracks me up). Then an hour or 2 of unmentionable activities, and we crashed around 1130. Next thing I knew, it was 2 AM and had to drive her home.

Upon returning home, I played a combination of Rock Band and CoD4 (I swear, the mediocrity of CoD5's multiplayer is  blunt that I would have sold it by now if it weren't for Nazi Zombie mode and the fun, but short, campaign) into the wee hours of the morning...I started typing this around 9.

As for other miscellaneous news:
-I may be getting my summer student position at SaskTel again, as they have asked for unofficial transcripts and have called me a few times.
-Went out with some work friends to Brewsters after work, it was awesome; 3 hours of random stories and decent food.
-I am having a bitch of a time trying to contact my online instructor, he has not responded at all and I am stuck on several assignments.

Bonjour!

Leading up to christmas, my department became flooded with people everyday, asking the usual questions; "Do you have any Wii's or Wii Fit?", "Do you have any digital photo frames?", etc. To my surprise, it was not really all that busy on christmas eve, but it was steady.

Long story short, christmas kicked ass! I was given a lot cool things (i.e. The Dark Knight SE, World War Z, Left 4 Dead, slippers, a lot of tools, etc) and I was able to bond with family members both on my side of the family and Lisa's.

Around 6:00 boxing day morning, my Dad and I headed out to on a mission to Best Buy; he was after a 1 TB external hard drive and I was after a co[y of Call of Duty: World at War for the XBox 360 at 33% off ($59.99 to $39.99). We arrived around 6:20 and the place was packed (as expected). I found a copy (one out of five remaining) and made my way to the back of the line. The line stretched from the cashiers at the entrance all around the store to about 10m from the entrance...the back of the line was designated by an employee holding a star shaped balloon. After about five minutes, I looked behind me there was Dad with his Hard Drive. The line moved surprisingly fast and we were out of there by 7.

I started work boxing day morning at 10. I was expecting a lot of returns because I think I gave a lot of people the wrong information for some gifts, but we only had 4 returns and shit-load of sales on TVs and video games. I think one cash register had over $4200 in debit transaction alone! It was a good day. After work around 4, I went back to Best Buy and bought the Team America: World Police soundtrack and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back DVD.