Weekend

Well, it's a little after 10 (as I start this post) on Sunday which only means one thing.

The weekend is over. *sigh*

Well, almost over. Before the end of the weekend I thought I'd post real quick.

So the weekend was pretty boring and I'm okay with that. Boring means relatively cheap. And after last weekend (a three day bender in Pittsburgh (I told you the whole city was a distraction to me)) a cheap, boring weekend is all right with me.

A good amount of the weekend was spent with my lovely Macbook Air. I successfully loaded World of Warcraft but after taking a bit of a break from it (read that as "after not playing for a couple weeks...") I forgot how to play. Well, it's not that I forgot how to play so much as I need to relearn my strategy and keyboard layout. Playing without a mouse and extra keypad (yes, I bought an extra keypad just to play WoW) is something new to me not to mention playing with only one mouse button is going to be an interesting. For those of you who don't play, if you've ever wanted to play you can get the original version (without the expansion) for only $10 at Circuit City. Really, though, if you're new to World of Warcraft the Battle Chest (that includes the expansion) is $40 which is the same as getting the discounted WoW and the expansion.... so, yeah.

I have learned a good deal about my Mac though. Keyboard shortcuts are coming along. The biggest help was learning that the Apple key is the equivalent to the Control key on a windows machine. Also, the Control key on the Mac is the Alt key. The Mac Option key? I'm not really sure. It's got a mix on Control and a random extra key for more shortcut. Trying to re-memorize keyboard shortcuts has been tough and frustrating. I'm pushing one combination of keys thinking it does one thing but instead it does something else (I can't say how many times I've disabled the shortcuts to the Dashboard and Expose....). Even with all the setbacks, progress is being made and I love my Mac (I'm using it right now to type this up!).

A good part of weekend was spent with a friend playing video games. We rented Tony Hawk: Proving Ground for the the Wii. First, I'd like to let everyone know that this was the first time I have rented ANYTHING from a Blockbuster in, oh, FIVE YEARS! Don't ask me why, I just never get to Blockbuster. Well, it cost almost $10 to rent it (I think it was about $8, I don't remember because I didn't pay (Thanks, Friend!)) which blew my mind. I almost said "I remember when you could rent a game for under $5 but stopped myself. Then the clerk said something that caught me by surprise. "The game is due back next Sunday." I almost shat myself. A whole week to play a game?! All of a sudden that $10 price tag wasn't so bad. I may have to frequent that establishment more often to feed my game addiction. Beats buying them, new or used.

Now, back to the game. I haven't touched a Tony Hawk game since Tony Hawk 2 for the Dreamcast (yes, you read that right, Dreamcast). It's not that they weren't fun before, they just seemed a little monotonous. Go up a ramp, press a bunch of random buttons, get a butt load of points, the end. This game was different though. Sure, you still had the jumps, button smashing, butt loads of points, but it didn't end there! The one player mode had a bunch of different stories to go through to progress. There were specific tasks that needed to be completed including building one where you had to build your own trick park for a demo. Actually pretty challenging and a good time figuring out how and what to build to maximize your points. With the time I've got I may actually see how far I can get.

And with that ends my weekend. It's not almost 11 and I have to prepare for another wonderful week at work. If all things go as usual I expect a good deal of updates while I'm at work.... We shall see.

Buenos Noches

-Michael

Current WIi Game: Tony Hawk: Proving Ground (Super Paper Mario is on the back burner until I have to return this)
Current 360 Game: Guitar Hero 3
Currently Watching: 100 Most Outrageous Moments (yeah, I'm lame)
Currently Wanting: A longer weekend
Currently Ashamed that: I haven't been to the gym in almost a week
Currently Happy that: the Pens are #1 in their Division
Currently Feeling: Hungry