Good:
Will decided to buy an Xbox360. Despite our mutual hatred of the system. He just really, really wanted to play the Xbox GTAIV exclusives. So my Gamertag is mskweenie, add me. Even though a month from now I won't have Gold membership because we think that paying for Live is stupid. (Clearly the monetary situation has improved substantially, but I still need to get stuff together to try to sell.)
I am trying to play Dead Rising, but that shit is clunky as hale. Also, I am dying a lot. I thought I would like it because of the photography angle (it reminds me of Beyond Good and Evil sort of), but the clunkiness...Capcom, I am surprised.
------For the record, we still hate Xbox. I mean, no wireless card? Paying an extra $70-100 just for a little USB POS? It doesn't play Blu-Ray movies? You have to buy battery packs just to make the controllers rechargable? (I bought them for the Wii, but that was $30, included two, and has a cute little stand for the Wiimotes that lights up and everything. Totally worth it, IMO.) Um...why not include those capabilities with the freaking system? I mean, Sony did that, and it didn't work out for them, but I think Microsoft could do it and get away with it. Maybe an Elite Pro or something. I don't know. I think Microsoft should stick to making software, not hardware.
Bad:
One of the journalism profs Will tutors for was going to be part of a comedy open mic in Birmingham. So I got ready and we headed over there only to find that the open mic was completely sold out. We didn't think that would happen. The main show in the main room still had tickets open, but the open mic did not. What.
Good:
We decided that since we wouldn't be getting tickets and it was only like 7 pm that we should have a sushi dinner somewhere in Birmingham, followed by a movie at the Summit. We found a place, I got directions, and off we went.
Bad:
Apparently my iPhone was slightly off. Decided to input the address into my Garmin. Opened up the glovebox and...no Garmin. No iPod, either. Both have been stolen. What. That makes the second time this year that we've had a GPS unit and an iPod stolen from his truck. (He forgets to lock it sometimes. The first time they were both out in plain view, this time, not so much.) I am especially upset because these were both mine. My iPod had my name engraved on the back and barely worked (it was from September 2005 and has been through a war), but still. We don't think that calling the police will help this time (it didn't last time), so we're just going to complain to the rental office. Maybe they will install those gates that make white people automatically feel safer.
Maybe we should just park farther away. We live so close to the entrance that really, anyone could just take ten steps, yoink, and be gone in less than a minute on foot.
Good:
The restaurant was apparently just beyond a hill, so we couldn't see it.
Bad:
Every space in the parking lot is full, and it's not the hole-in-the-wall that we were expecting.
Good:
We decide to just go somewhere else. We stop at Hooters. Boobs.
Bad:
Our waitress most definitely will never be a Rhodes Scholar, forgot 50% of the things we asked from her, and the food tasted weird.
Good:
We saw Law Abiding Citizen, and while it won't be winning any Oscars, it was at least entertaining.
Bad:
The Hooters gave me food poisoning. Things decided that they wanted back out of me midway through the movie, and my tummy made one of the loudest rumbles ever. So loud that the girls a couple rows in front of us were all, "WTF was that?" I suffered from these ailments for the rest of the night.
...I guess everything kind of evened out, but that was my worst-ever Friday the 13th by far.
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