Monster Truck Rally!
We went back to SWK for my nephews’ birthdays. It was lots of fun. They decided that instead of a pizza party they were going to go to the Monster Trucks at the arena. Wise choice!
I really hate our digital camera. Unless you’re in direct sunlight or your subject is completely still, the pictures are just a blurry mess. I’ve seen cellphone cameras that take better pictures.
At any rate it was alot of fun! I haven’t seen monster trucks since I was probably 12 years old. I don’t know if they’ve changed much. I’d assume they’re a bit more sophisticated now. We got to get pretty up close to them. They look pretty intense. A lot more sophisticated and heavy duty than your average hauler.
There’s a lot of similarities between the monster truck circuit and the pro-wrestling circuit. They both have over the top stories and weird fans. Of course any time you go to see monster trucks you gotta know if “Bigfoot” is going to be there. And he was… technically. I did a little research and apparently there have been 18 trucks that have been “official” Bigfoot trucks. We saw Bigfoot #16. Was probably the nicest put together truck, but the driver just didn’t have the gusto.
The real bad ass was a 68 Mustang called “Ghost Ryder”. This guy was balls to the wall all the time!
All in all it was awesome. I just let myself act like a kid again. The nephews had a blast and all the parents did too! Sadly there were some classy cars crushed that day. Some looked a little too much like mine!
Luke on his own two feet.
He’s now gotten to the point he can pull himself up. Sometimes he gets in a position like this and he can’t quite figure out how to get back down.
I took these pictures after he’d been playing and playing for a couple hours in the living room, and by the time I got to the last one or two pictures, he was so tired he just had to cry about it. Hehe. What a cutie.
So much slobber!
Sorry, Mom
All these toys WERE in the little toy box. Sorry, Mom for every time I did this. Haha!
03.6.12Podcasterrific
I was a batchelor over the weekend while Andrea and Luke were out of town. I talk about that. Skip the first few minutes if you don’t want to hear me complain about work. I would recommend it.
Roots
Okay, so this picture is not what it seems at first glance. While I did get a picture of him holding the controller perfect (complete coincidince) I didn’t get that AND the screen in the same shot. So this is some fancy Photochop scripting to make it work.
It was pretty fun. I was sitting there listening to the podcast music and decided to pull out the game from the mystery song. We were playing that for a while and then switched to Galaga. Andrea and I had fun challenging each other’s scores. I remember Mom could get perfect scores on the “Challenging Stages” in between the levels. We didn’t do that good! Hehe.
It was a night of good old school fun!
02.20.12Weekend is Over
Well it was a good weekend all things considered. I had planned on not leaving the house at all, but that didn’t work out as I got called to do a computer sidejob. Seems a computer all on its own reset itself back to the factory default, wiping out everything. I’ve never heard of a system recovery being done automatically, but I guess with computers you never rule anything out. Tough I’m often more inclined to believe computers do what you tell them to, which may not always coneincide with what you want them to do.
I did re-affirm one of my long standing beliefs though. Never delete your e-mail. Ever. I dug up an e-mail from 20 some months ago that I had when I’d worked on this same computer before. And without that I’d have been on the phone with software vendors trying to get keys back. Because no one saves any documentation with their computer! Nay, that would be foolish.
At any rate, that was the only real hiccup on the weekend. Andrea, Luke and I just chilled here at the house mostly and played a lot of Guild Wars. We didn’t get everything vanquished that we had hoped, but we probably got 3/4 of the way in. Andrea’s been logged in for over two days now, and if mine hadn’t crashed mine would have too.
There were some casualties over the weekend though. My old reliable SOCOM headset finally bit the dust. That thing gave me a decade of reliable and quality service and was almost never used for the game SOCOM. I’ll be sad to see it go, but maybe I can use this as an excuse to get a new microphone.
So here’s some screens from the weekend of vanquishing. Be sure to click read more if you want to see them all!
Luke Loves to Laugh
Sometimes when you’re a baby… everything is funny.
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02.13.12What a good lookin’ guy.
6 Months Old. Must have got all his good looks from Momma. I know he didn’t get them from me!
I’m taking it easy.
It’s weird. This past week hasn’t been too crazy, but sitting here this morning relaxing, it sure feels like it has. Honestly the weekend is going to be more crazy than my week, but I think I’m going to combat that by just going with the flow.
We are getting Luke to the photography studio (AKA JC Penny) to get some professional pictures taken. One of these days I’m going to save up and get me a nice DSLR camera and just take my own pictures. A gal I work with got one last year for Christmas, and it’s amazing the quality those things can produce in conditions that the little point and shoot can’t handle. But alas, it’s lower on the list of priorities. Of course I’ll be sharing the pictures of Luke once we get them. To get your complete fill of Lucas pictures, just follow Andrea on Facebook!
I wish I had time to play some Skyward Sword this weekend. That’s not going to be in the cards, but I will be keeping my 3DS handy and I hope to knock out Super Mario 3D land. I’m having to go back to some of the early levels and get star coins that I missed so I can progress into some of the later levels. Apparently there’s a toll on Princess saving plumbers in the Mushroom Kingdom.
Final Fantasy XIII-2 came out a week or two ago and that will probably be the next game I get after I beat Zelda and Mario. I’m not in a huge hurry because I still have a decent backlog of games to work on, plus all the old games that I always keep going back to. It’s not like I really need another new game right now. I have found that I really can only handle keeping up with one system it seems. I remember back in the college days when I had the Gamecube, PS2 and the Xbox, there was just not enough time, let alone enough money, to keep up with all the great games that come out. You just have to let some of them go. Hopefully XIII-2 doesn’t become one of those games.
Time to get this weekend rolling!
01.31.12I think we found Nemo.
