| Guild!

Aeryk! Before you cancel your sub, make sure to login and promote me to guild leader. Our proud guild must not go rudderless during your time away.

My sub already reupped so I'm in for at least another month! I might take a break when Mass Effect III comes out, but I'll probably come back after that. There are still a couple Sith what need killin'.

Yeah, I canceled my Star Wars. Don't regret getting it because I enjoyed the time I played it. But I really don't have the time to play it now, so it would be a waste of money to keep the sub current. Maybe after the wedding I'll revisit the game.

We're not going to Maui anymore but to Kauai! I still would love to go to Maui someday, but we decided on Kauai because it seemed to be more I style with tons of outdoorsy stuff to do. We got a sweet condo so we're super excited.

| Probably Cancelling SWTOR

Anyone else going to renew their subscription?

| Hidden Treasures

Going through the old boxes in the closet is always a mixed bag. On the one hand: dust, tons of useless crap, failed projects, misguided purchases and falling skull-crushing boxes. In the other hand: gems of nostalgia and comedy.

I personally love finding old character sheets. Those are guaranteed to have some real gems in them.

D>M>

Thanks Aeryk! Had a great time at your wedding. :)

Coincidentally, I am going through some of the boxes of old shit we still have in the apartment. I will trade you some of your fine gems for some of mine:

- 2nd edition AD&D miniatures rules system: "BATTLESYSTEM!"
- Various D&D adventures I wrote on my Apple //c, printed on dot matrix paper (with the dot matrix strips still on the sides)
- Modules for the Ghostbusters RPG
- My original copy of Bard's Tale I
- Paul's copy of Bard's Tale III.

Also I used to make up my own Infocom-style text adventures by drawing maps and writing out room descriptions, walkthroughs and "Invisiclues" for them. There is one in this box as well. Let's take a random sample:

Ack! The stairs crumbled under me!
1. You can't stop this.
2. You don't even have a Tuffie (TM) Jet Pak. How sloppy.
3. Stop your fall.
4. How about the handrail?
5. GRAB THE HANDRAIL. UP.

... That's some great puzzle and clue design there, chief. I think I may need a few drinks, myself.

| Don't get me wrong

I love me some Jean-Ralphio. Just not sure I could handle TWO REAL LIFE John-Ralphios in a podcast :)

ANd I'm fairly drunk right now - not a good week at work.

I did find a thank you card that we never sent to Denis for our wedding, and for all i know none of you got one either, so let me take a moment and thank you all for attending my wedding 8 years ago - thanks pals!

I also found some old tax returns and bank account statements. Wow, things were better for me before the bottom fell out of real estate and I was too inexperienced to see it coming!

And I found a grip of old rock show ticket stubs - Iron Maiden, Fear, Anthrax, NOFX, Public Enemy, Napalm Death, Pantera, White Zombie - dayaaaaam, son! I was rocking some dope show while in HIGH SCHOOL!

Found the master recording for Routine Riot - no doubt priceless when those guys make it big!

I also found a demo tape that Horse the Band sent Medical Records in 2000. They actually made something of themselves, good for them!

Found my SE/30 HDD that I KNOW doesn't work, but I'm gonna stick in the freezer for a bit to see if MAYBE it will boot... because I also found a replacement SE/30 I picked up for like $50 somewhere along the way!

Shitty, late run, 2nd edition adventures anyone? Anyone? Totally have the Barbarian handbook, anyone? No? How about those shitty tactics books? No? Old Dungeon magazines? No? Well then, I KNOW you'll love to get your hands on the Spycraft RPG! Right guys?

Crap. Need to sober up because Leslie's pickin' up the boy from a friends house and then we are going to dinner - IN PUBLIC. So weird my kid totally got picked up by Yashar's mom after school, he's like playing with other kids after school at their house! I remember doing that at Matt Walkers house a long time ago...

Gotta go. PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST!

Can you tell I have been going through some garage boxes?

| Jean-Ralphio Is Spider-Man

Since I know Aeryk's a fan.

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| That skit

Hilarious. And, I think it finally explains what you are up to in the bathroom.

In other news: POOP EVERYWHERE MY GOD

| The State

I remember watching the show before MTV really went down the toilet. This one is my very favoritest. I try to model my life off this.

Aaah yeahhhh...

| My Day

Well, I'm already exhausted. The wife went back to work today so I looked after the baby. Unfortunately she STILL will not take a bottle so the day was basically:
- Crank up the white noise
- Try to give the baby a bottle
- Fail
- Hysterics ensue
- Calm baby

Repeat until baby falls asleep after 6 hours. Fuck!!!

I managed to sneak in an episode of Party Down. I get so embarrassed for the characters during that show that I can't watch it all the way through. Did not manage to sneak in: shower, drink any water, or poop.

This is pretty neat... Tim Schafer is the author of a lot of good back-in-the-day Lucasarts adventures, such as Day of the Tentacle, Grim Fandango and Full "I Ain't Puttin' My Lips On That" Throttle. His studio did Brutal Legend and has done some other cool stuff (like a Sesame Street game for Kinect that I wish my kid was old enough to appreciate!). Anyway, he put up a kickstarter for a classic point n' click text adventure with the goal of getting $450k in a month. Well it hit that in less than 9 hours, and is close to a million after like a day. Pretty awesome that they can go direct to customers and skip the traditional publisher model on this one. I threw in $15, I like adventure games!

I started watching Alcatraz (JJ Abram's new show) and I really like it. Some mystery/science fiction-y/JJ Abrams-ish twists, but nowhere near as convoluted at Lost was. Don't get me wrong, I liked Lost, and stayed with it until the end, but it was way confusing sometimes. The premise is this: Alcatraz shut down in the early 60's because the facility was falling apart and it was too expensive to do the upkeep. But what really happened was that all the guards and inmates one night mysteriously vanished. The inmates and guards are reappearing present day, wreaking havoc on San Francisco, only they haven't aged a day. They are being sent back by, and are carrying out the vendetta of, some unseen force or person. I don't know if I am doing it justice, but it is really good and intense.

Also, An Idiot Abroad is good. Ricky Gervais and his friend send his dim witted cohort to spots around the world and then goof on him. It is really funny. It's on the Science Channel, which I don't get, but TGFi (Thank God For iTunes) and gift cards from students!

EDIT: Check out this clip of the show. So funny (to me).

| Re: Dexter

We watched the first season DESPITE the ridiculously over-the-top detective that 'had his eye on Dexter'. He almost made it unwatchable, seriously. I couldn't stand the Australio-English chick in the second series, but we made it through to the end of that one, then stopped on disk 1 of season 3 (I think) - totally lost interest.

It was a fun ride, with a nice dash of anxiety, mystery, and twisted gore, but I think 2 seasons of the same premise were enough for us.

Party Down: We started this one last night and it is great! Thanks for the Pro-Tip, jr0n! The aspiring buffet chain owner (Souper Crackers?) was from a Canadien comedy troupe in like the early 90's? I think it might have actually been Kids in the Hall? I just remember his catch phrase from one of the skits "I'm gonna dip my BALLS in it!" (and he had two red balls in his hands. WTF). The Freaks and Geeks guy is just a terrible actor - he totally seems like a college-level theatre actor that got lucky as a kid on Freaks. Best scene from that entire series is when he was talking to himself on Halloween dressed up as the bionic woman.

EDIT: It was The State, on MTV. Here's a taste.

Aaaaaand here's the bionic woman.

Did you guys ever watch Dexter? The first 2 seasons were really good. Or Six Feet Under?