They say that "when it rains, it pours" but they neglect to tell you that when it pours, it pours daggers. What a surprise filled week this was...The fact that I am online and typing this can only be considered a miracle. Earlier in the week, I was curious as to why my anti-virus software had decided to delete my Firefox browser from my computer. But that was nothing compared to the fun of actually watching it delete my audio software and then delete ITSELF while I sat there. That's when the computer really started to explode, giving me error messages every seven seconds, while at the same time losing my ability to right click or install anything. I could probably purge this computer for the THIRD time in three years and get it fixed, but I decided to gcycle(http://www.gcycle.org/) it, in a thought process that can only be described as FUCK GATEWAY. So, given the fact that I need a computer right now, I went out and dropped over a grand on a computer today. I probably didn't need to spend that much, but I decided that there are two types of computers in this world: those that can run Crysis, and those that can not... I chose the former.
So what if the fucking computer broke, I thought.... I'll just give the XBOX a little love. With the exception of the couple days after 'Tom Clancy's R6: Vegas 2' came out, I haven't touched my XBOX360 in like two months. Well, it turns out the old girl needed a little more attention, because she bit the fucking dust the same day as the computer. I considered just getting out of gaming altogether, but there's still a few games coming out that I would like to check out. I'll contact Microsoft and they'll mail me an XBOX coffin, so I can send it away to get fixed in the next month or so. What is cool about the past two months without XBOX, is that I figured out that I don't have to be an achievement-point whore any longer. I've really decided to scale back my gaming a considerable amount. Nick and I have been hanging out a lot, and we've been playing a lot of good games lately... mostly old stuff from the Sega Saturn era, and random original XBOX & arcade games. I forgot how much fun gaming used to be before achievements. I vow to no longer play games that aren't really fun for the sake of a meaningless score, and that should cut the amount of games I play from 900 a year to like 6. Gaming has always been an important part of my life and I would never change that, but I don't get paid to review games and I should stop acting like I do. Besides, there are better ways to spend my time... like learning to hit harder.
Speaking of getting paid, my MLB job seems absolutely awful thus far. I think I'll save a full-on rant for when I've been there a little longer, but the first impressions are not favorable. I would compare it to going on a first date with a one-armed prostitute with an annoying laugh... maybe there's a heart of gold in her, but it's not likely. For now, it's a paycheck and a character test to not walk out.
I hung out with Joe Vergara, drummer supreme, tonight and it was good to see him again. In further proof that nearly all women are condemnable, he broke up with his girlfriend too this month. I thought Spring was when people were supposed to fall in love... what is this mess?
But in what is possibly the worst news... Nick's gecko, Nacho, seems to be suffering and he figured out that he has to euthanize him. I can't say I necessarily understood when Nick decided to be the reptile man, and bought these geckos and their thousand dollar gecko mansions... but I feel for the dude. Nick is a good person and he took awesome care of these geckos, and it's just shit luck that the little guy isn't growing. If you really love animals, losing a pet is the most impossible thing to deal with aside from losing a person. The most humane way to do it, that we found, is to freeze him. The only humor to be taken from this, was Joe Vergara's analysis of "wait... isn't that cold?" ...Classic.
I've been in the emo-tastic rut before, just like everyone else, but I just can't break out of it tonight. It just does NOT seem to stop pouring right now. I remember that there is always a positive to be found, but then I stumble across things like this http://hiphopchessfederation.org/
Eventually the terrible things are going to stop happening..... right?
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