25 to Life...

Last update I said I was going bowling and straight to Ohio.  Well, I really, really suck at bowling.  I got one strike in two games played.  Yeah, it was quite bad.  On the car ride to Ohio, nothing much happened.  I was completely and for some unknown reason entertained by the Garmin GPS thing my grandpa bought.  It talked out the directions and was quite amusing.  Why?  I have no idea.

Anyway, we get to Ohio and check in to the room which had one huge bed.  My grandpa suggested that I sleep in between him and grandma.  That was funny. Well, at least to us.  We got a room with 2 beds in the end.  Then my relatives and brother arrive and we all go out to dinner.  I tried sauerkraut balls (deep fried sauerkraut in ball form) and they were nasty.  Of course I eat 2 just to make sure.  We go back to the hotel room, watch TV, go to sleep blah, blah, blah.

We get up at like 7:00am shower, eat breakfast, get lost going to Derby Downs.  We arrive in time for the parade of participants and other such fanfare.  My one cousin, somehow has a girl as, we called her, "arm candy" parading down the track.  I laughed.  Oh, my butt may be on the Discovery channel in the future as I was leaning against the fence looking up track and lo and behold, a Discovery channel camera man.

My cousin (younger sister of "Superpimp") goes and looses in the first round.  Everyone is disappointed.  Superpimp goes down later, and wins his heat!  We (a whole group of friends my relatives have made over the years) go nuts.  He goes on to win round 2 and secure a spot in the top 9.  In the ends up finishing 7th overall and all are excited.

On the way home I got to finally eat at a Quaker Steak & Lube.  Good stuff.  And, and as a bonus, one will be opening here in Buffalo in November.  Good weekend overall.  Most fun I’ve had in a while.

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I beat The World Ends With You 2 or so weeks ago.  Fun little game.  Pick it up if you have a DS.  I’m currently working on Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis.  It’s a 2-D sprite based RPG, which I guess I’m a sucker for.  After that, it’s on to .hack//G.U. Volume 3.  Found it used at random while on my lunch break and bought it right there.

Work is going fine.  Everything is slowly coming together in my brain and days just fly by.  I, and my co-worker, did some major slacking last week as the manager was on vacation.  Still got work doe, just not as fast as usual.