Where Have You Been

Well hello again my loyal readers, all three of you, I have been on a bit busy as of late. With what you may be wondering (Jon you already know)? Well seeing how I have a lack of a social life right now, I have been working on a major project and playing Half Life 2 for the PC. That's right, my puter aint broke no more! YAY! The new Mobo came last Monday, Jon put it in and it works like a charm, so far, I'm keeping my fingers crossed! Now back to my project. Ok, its not so major, its just remodeling my little bro's old room. Speaking of him, he's thinking of coming back home. Tough noodles though, the Monmothma AKA my Mom says; he gets the room in the basement next to the chain smoking chimney that is my dad. That's right Andrew the cone of evil is calling you. You're restless and you don't understand why? Return, it calls out to you....Your presence is needed! Eh sanity is over rated.

Work on the room has gone rather smoothly, My other bro Jon came out last week and stayed for a couple of days. We ripped up the carpet, painted the walls, and all that's left is to put down the floor. Work would have gone faster ,but Jon has to stop for smoke breaks every five minutes! The original paint for the room was a mint/pond scumy green. My mother decided it was to plain and transformed it into, what can best be described as a tie-died Easter egg! I'll get pics up soon, I promise this time, no more excuses. All I have to do is get some decent batteries. Maybe I'll buy the correct batteries for the damn camera, use them, then rap them up as a Christmas gift for my old man, then take the camera for my own. Gwaaahaaa ha haa haaa! That's my evil laugh. Speaking of evil and Christmas, the two go hand-in-hand, I'm too broke to give decent gifts this year. Besides the parents don't want to get a tree, so whats the point. Ba Humbug I say.

Now on to Thanksgiving. It was rather uneventful, and I didn't have to work. First time in five years. We had a small too moderate turkey breast, I think we all hate dark meat, except for dingus AKA my little Bro Andrew. Who, I might add, doesn't like tomatoes or medium rare steak? Why is that so strange, because everyone else in my family does. I think Roosevelt said it best "never trust a man that doesn't like tomatoes!" Andrew just has to be different. After we ate, we did the Family tradition and went and saw a movie, we usually do this before we eat, but Jon and I didn't wake up until 4ish, when dinner was ready. Anyways we saw National treasure, A history lesson infused with adventure. I give the movie two stars out of four. Take the Goonies, my favorite movie, make the Character old, change the fratellies, never mind leave them the same, add Ben Franklin and the forefathers, stir and you have National Treasure. I found the movie a tad boring and unfunny, but my parent's like it a lot. I found the acting to be poor and the script to fast paced with one liners of history to explain and move the plot along. The climax of the movie is rather anticlimactic, enough said.

Moving along, Half Life 2. Now I never played the first one through all the way, so I was a little in the dark on the story. Still, this game leaves nothing out, not even the kitchen sink, literally. It also looks amazing on my PC, effects all the way up and running 128 frames per second. How do I know that, the stupid program/server, Steam, you have to load up to play the game, ran a diagnostic and told me. Stuff I always wanted to know. Heres another odd thing about the game, you have to Steam logged on in the background to play, even if your not playing Counter Strike online. That's Half Life 2's Online team mode. Now to game play, the game never got boring to me. Its levels are amazingly designed. You can interact with almost anything too. My biggest complaint were the load times. Even on my high end PC it took forever to load up the next segment of every level. Also, switching between weapons, is down right annoying, especially when you get them all. On many occasions I found myself bumbling for the right one in the midst of a fire fight. PC gamer said it was the best game ever, But I beg to differ. The crafting of the game is painstakingly obvious, unlike Halo 2, but it still falls a little short for my taste. Overall I give it a 94%, just because of its innovation in game play, the story needs work, and seeing how it leaves a giant hole, Literally, in the plot at the end, I look forward to Half Life 3, when it comes out in another five years.