Relaxation

Tonight while my wife takes the kiddos out looking for little treats, I'm going to turn the porch light off, grab a cold beer and a bag of Corn Nuts, and watch the World Series. Can it get any better?

Come Get Some!

I received an email yesterday inviting me to be part of the public beta testing for 8-player online co-op and up-to-60-player competitive multiplayer for Resistance 2 on the PS3. Awesome! It was a little over 2GB to download so no playing last night. Hopefully time will allow this weekend for me to give some thirteen year old the pleasure of using me for target practice. Toto, I've a feeling we're not in DOOM or Duke anymore. So when are you joining me??

Damn That Hurts!

I'm sitting at my desk opening some junk mail from yesterday and not really paying much attention to what I'm doing. As I pull the medium stock paper out of the envelope...slice! Paper cut in the webbing between my thumb and index finger. After applying some Kleenex to stop the bleeding the pain sets in. And the cut is in a location that I know from past experience will continue to bother me the rest of the day because every time I use my hand the cut will reopen. I shrug it off and start to open the next envelope and...slice! Paper cut within a paper cut. I think I will call it a day. I wonder if I could get workman's comp?

Surrender Michigan?!?

Artwork by Zina Saunders

Death Magnetic

Metallica rocks!

Or is it just because I wanted something better than St. Anger? Seriously, I think it's on par with ReLoad but not the Black Album.

What The Hell Is That?

Last night we watched an episode of Destination Truth the DVR recorded on Wednesday night. After the debate of course. I've never watched the show before but this episode had a piece about Aokigahara, the haunted forest in Japan, which tweaked my interest.

So these "researchers" go to the forest and at nightfall take off in different directions to look for ghosts. Of course they all get lost but after the commercial break all is fine. One of them did find what appeared to be an abandoned camp site so the group returns there under the premise that whoever was there must have died or killed them self there. The scientific method is hard at work here, friends.

Strange things occur and their instruments detect anomalies. That's when one of them calls out for the ghost to appear before them...in English. Granted, a lot of Japanese speak a little English but I thought the chances were pretty slim that the ghost was fluent in English. Unless all things including language become known once you pass into the next world. Chuckle.

The group did record some video of something that looked like a ghost and they did think they encountered ghosts on the trail but the jury is still out. They then went to the Philippines in search of some shape-shifting, hairy, ghoul.