Gourry's Journal

Thank you for your service.

And thank you for doing something I can never do.

You will be remembered.

You will be honored.

You will be missed.

60.Finish Medieval Conquest

Finished it and wondered why I even put it on the list to begin with. It's a One shot game, little replay value, and it's going to the first person who wants it. Don't get me wrong, it's fun. But I highly doubt I will ever play it again.

Now, to finish 53. I've gotten three-quarters through the game, and haven't felt the urge to follow through.

Must. finish. 53.

97.Finish Noble House game review

Gah, that one was on the list because I 3/4 of the way finished the review and then suddenly, I lost interest. This was one way to get me to finish it.

Great, I just stepped on an Eldar figure and mangled its arms beyond reasoning. Shit.

4.Pay off Target

Yes, I have crawled from underneath the rock where I live to gaze around.

Work's been keeping me busy.

Had a remarkably good time in California for my brother in law's wedding (with some minor, unnecessary drama).

Noah thinks 1st Grade is "awesome" and tells me, "I won't let you down, Dad."

My boy.

This weekend, I plan on taking him to see G.I. Joe. He's been bugging me to see it. Am I expecting Oscar grade material? Absolutely not, considering the subject material. Am I going to be entertained? Probably.
Will the boy be? Yes. He screeches, "OH NOES!" at the t.v. when something bad happens in Avatar.

His favorite expression though is a line from Iron Man: Armored Adventures.

"You've got one option. Get out of the armor and RUN!"

The other night, my son came to me with a jar of Peter Pan peanut butter that I had purchased at the store.

"Dad, can you open this? I want some peanut butter and a spoon."

You see, I got my son hooked on PB right out of the jar. When I was little, I never used to do it. Now, that my sophisticated palate has matured, it's high cuisine.

So, I pop the jar, give him a spoon, and he goes off on his merry way. When he was finished, he put the top back on, put the spoon in the sink, and went back to playing with his toys.

Yesterday, my wife called me to pick up some milk on my way home. She had this to tell me:

"You know what your son told me today?"

"No, what?"

"Well, we had one of his Christmas chocolate snowflakes in the freezer. So, I took it out and started eating it. Your son saw it and wanted a bite. When he saw the crispies in the chocolate, he thought they were nuts. He said to me, 'Nuts are for squirrels, I don't want that!'."

ME LAUGHING

"I told him, 'Son, you eat peanut butter out of the jar! What do you think that is?'"

ME LAUGHING HARDER

I love my son, he makes me laugh.

22.Replay Fallout

Yep. Finished my perennial favorite game tonight. On the plus side, I finished it without POWER ARMOR. That surprised the shite out of me. I also did some things different and got through without a lot of combat at the end. Still, a lot of bad endings, though.

Haven't done much as of late. Work's a bitch right now, we have a case coming up for trial in Texas. Boy, that's going to be fun come Mid-June... I've been fooling around with some board games, playing a lot of The Ship (I mean A LOT).

Put Guild Wars: Factions on my PC. It's nice and all, but I don't see myself really playing a lot of it, unless I'm with friends. The Hoi Polloi on the RPG severs suck ass and couldn't role-play to save their life.

If you're looking for me, my name is Yang Zhi.

1. Locate suitable floor/ceiling matchup

2. Pop portals above first and then below you.

3. Fall

4. Fall, fall, fall.

5. Keep falling.

6. Look at watch and realize you're late for work.

7. Turn off monitor, while still falling.

8. Take shower.

9. Get dressed.

10. Return to computer and turn monitor back on.

11. Check Achievements

12. Profit.

64.Dig up palm bush
65.Plant tree

The damn palm bush didn't go down without a fight. The damn plant nicked the crap out of my shins while I was trying to dig it up yesterday. But, up it came and now it currently resides alongside the house, waiting for my mother in law to pick it up and take it away. Dragging the thing was like dragging a dead body. Damn, that thing was heavy.

In its place is an apricot tree sapling. In two years, the front lawn will have some nice shade.

That's one thing I missed about my old home growing up. I loved the fact that we had a tree in front of our bay windows. Then, my parents had it cut down and they never replaced it. Totally sucked. I guess it's my turn to replace that tree that was cut down so long ago.

87.Make a homemade pizza

Work's been keeping me busy for the past three weeks. Not much to say other than that.

Majel Roddenberry has died of leukemia in Bel-Air, California. She was 76.

*wasn't much of a ST fan, but still it sucks to see her go*

-Fallout 3, a CRPG game which is getting raped by Bethesda, in a horrible, horrible way.

-Vats Combat, a system in Fallout 3 which resembles bullet time.

Fuck you, Bethesda. Fuck you for ruining one of the best game series of all time.

This, this is just fucking spiffy.

BATON ROUGE -- The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Secretary of State Jay Dardenne's decision to not allow the Libertarian Party candidate on the presidential ballot in Louisiana because the party failed to meet the required deadline.
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The court denied a request for a stay filed by the Libertarian Party, thereby upholding Dardenne's decision that the party had not filed its qualifying papers in a timely manner.

"Don't be too proud of this Economic terror you've constructed. The ability to destroy an economy is insignificant next to the power of the Frank."

"I felt a great disturbance in the economy, as if 300+ millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced."

Thank you, Rep. Scalise and Sen. Vitter for voting against this bill, which was tantamount to rearranging deck chairs on a sinking ship, but instead of examining the vessel completely to see where it needed to be fixed, it just added a crapload more passengers to it in the form of fucking earmarks.

A lesser thank you to Rep. $ Bill Jefferson and Sen. Landrieu. Your vote on this matter was more of avoiding the political kiss o' death to your re-election bid this year than anything else.

WE ARE STILL NOT OK
8.29.05

Nothing fills me more with joy than hearing and seeing my son smile and giggle while he's asleep. He did that again this morning. Must have been a really cool dream. I keep thinking, "Don't ever lose that, son."


And nothing causes me to roll my eyes more than this bumper sticker I saw on the ride in this morning:

"Breastfeeding, Sling Wearing, Cloth Diapering Earth Momma"

The bumper sticker was on an SUV.

My cluelessness: Let Me Show You It.

Hope you enjoy saying the seven dirty words you can't say on television in Heaven to your heart's content.

George Carlin
1937-2008

Yes!


McKellen and Serkis are on board for The Hobbit.

*does Happy Gourry Dance*

Now, who's going to play Bilbo or are they going to tape back Ian Holm's face again?  Personally, give me the tape.  Ian, come here.  This won't hurt until after the shooting.

Happy Birthday, billijean!

OMG WE LUV YOUZE!