Microburst Snowstorm

It was snowing a good bit today and then it stopped. Just when I was leaving work it started up again, this time a little heavier than before. Half way home all of a sudden a thick sheet of hail/ freezing rain came down and the roads were COVERED and out of nowhere a bright flash was in the sky and I heard THUNDER! I have never ever seen lightning while it was snowing out, I was like WHAT THE FUCK in my car. Everyone was having a hard time on the road and I was a little nervous about making it back safely. Thankfully I did make it back and now my car is in the garage. Hopefully the roads will be clear for tomorrow.

Shane the Navi

Hahahaha I just photo-shopped myself into a Navi. Yep, that is me.

New Years, not much going on

This past week was really nice for me at work since it was a slow week. Most everybody has this week off anyway, so I worked from home most of the week. It was really just great. When I come back after the holidays it's going to be really busy for the remainder of the year though, so it will be interesting. I suppose my new years resolution is to give a lot of effort in learning more about my job so that I can become a valuable asset to the company.

With several days working at home and having New Years off and the weekend, I haven't really seen or talked to many people, and it kind of put me in a depressive mood.

According to Microsoft support my Xbox is on the way back from getting repaired, but the site won't tell me when I can expect it... which means they will probably try to deliver it while I'm at work of course. I've gone like a month and a half to 2 months without playing Modern Warfare 2 and I really want to get back into that.

I went out a few days ago and bought a variety of beers. It's kind of funny really, more than half of what's in my fridge is beer... I was reading a message board and someone was raving about authentic German beers and they were raving about Paulaner and any Hefe Weissbier in general, so I picked up Paulaner and Weihenstephaner and I already had a bunch of Blue Moon in the Fridge. I also bought a six pack of organic Coffee Porter made by Wolaver's. It turns out to be a very good beer, one that I hope isn't just a seasonal beer, which I think it is.

Update

Wow, ultra long time since i've last posted... Maybe I'm just losing interest, idk. I still plan on writing when I can and maybe even try to make the posts more interesting (lol).

I drove back to my Mom's place Tuesday night for Christmas. I left close to Midnight and the drive was about 7 hours X_X. Not a good idea considering I didn't take the nap I was planning on taking before-hand. Jamie called me up and wanted to hang out at the card shop down the street. Alan was with him and we played an interesting board game about building settlements and managing resources. Well anyway I think I barely made it through that drive to PA... I was so tired I considered looking up the nearest Walmart on my GPS to sleep in the parking lot over-night. I decided not to as it was very cold that night plus I didn't want to get mugged or something... plus I just wanted to get the drive over with.

Christmas was nice, since I was with my entire immediate family, which given the circumstances with my brother, will not happen very often at all. I was kind of a big spender at Christmas unfortunately (haha). I got my mom a digital camera because she left her nice camera on a plane... got my dad a bottle of scotch and a mind puzzle thing, my sister a Walmart gift card and a Twilight poster (my idea of a joke, but I'm not sure if my sister new that), and my brother 3 books that seemed interesting. Oh and my dog some treats o_O

I just got back home to my apartment. I left Saturday night, this time napping beforehand. However, I discovered my iPod wasn't charged, so I was without music the whole time since my radio doesn't work >.< Also there was very thick fog for about 100 miles and heavy rain the rest of the way, making the trip nearly 9 hours...


Didn't do much today, went out to the mall not sure what i was looking for... I want to get a PS3 soon, but I think I'll wait until next month. I have a desktop computer ordered from Dell and it'll be coming next month, but I think I may have made a bad choice on it. I looked at some reviews after I bought it (go figure) and it turns out not to be very good for gaming, so I plan on listing it on eBay to see how much i can get for it instead of taking the 15% restocking fee hit from Dell. Then I'll use the money to order a PC from either Cyberpower or Ibuypower.


Steelers are still in the playoff hunt! I'm sure they can win next week at Miami, but I'm not going to hold my breath right now, as they still need like 3 out of 4 of the other teams looking for a wild-card spot to lose their match-ups. Plus I can't see them really beating the Patriots or Indy right now, but maybe if Polamalu gets healthy for the post-season...

If you are still reading by now, lol, how was your Christmas/Holiday?

Friday Night

It was painful watching the Steelers lose to the Brownies on Thursday... wow their season really is over. At least my fantasy team made it to the playoffs. This week I have a bye since I am 1st place in standings, then I'll have a semi-finals match and hopefully a championship game after that.


There weren't many people at work Friday, mostly because my team was out skiing. I don't care for being cold, so it was nice since I left a little early at the end of the day. My friend Jamie had his birthday party at his girlfriend's house last night. It was a potluck dinner so I made a sweet potato casserole, one of my favorite dishes. Yum! We also played a group game where you have a card with a name on it and you have to give your team hints as to who it is. I forget the name of the game... but it was fun. My friend Adam from college came up for the party too, so it was nice seeing him again.

Here's the link to the casserole I made:
Recipe

This is War

Uh lets see. I probably shouldn't wait a week to update, as I'm probably missing a few things when I post. Last Friday I went to Omni Comics for Friday Night Magic. I went even though my friend Jamie was out of state and I usually go with him. I built a kind of crappy Green/Red deck that I managed to come in 4th with out of 16 people. Only won 1 pack... that's one complaint I have about the place I play at; the prize support kind of sucks.

Worked at home today since the landlord was suppose to come and replace some cracked windows, but he never showed up. They called and will probably come to replace them in a week. I don't really care since they are paying for heat, but I don't really want them going into my apartment when I'm not in it so I'm trying to work remotely when they come.

Dan called today (He's the judge at the place I play magic). He wanted to know if I was up for a draft today, so I said yeah and that's what I did tonight. I built a really strong Red/Black deck that was very aggressive, but I lost some key games out of sheer bad luck. First night that I didn't win anything... I guess I can't win them all /shrug.

I discovered that 30 Seconds to Mars, one of my favorite bands, released a new album today, called "This is War." I'm listening to it now for the first time, and I'm not really sure how I like it yet. I'll have a better opinion after I listen to it a couple of times, but I think they went a step down from the power of the previous album.

Xbox broke, Lady Gaga, and heat!

Past two days at work were so very boring. I find I spend more and more time just reading articles or Final Fantasy XI message boards. We're in a lull right now I think but work should pick up very quickly after Christmas, or so I hear.

My Xbox 360 broke... it won't recognize any disc in the tray, so it's either a problem with the lens or with the drive. I contacted Microsoft and I'm having it repaired/replaced for about a hundred bucks... Sucks, but it's something I just have to do. At least this one lasted me 2 years.

I finally got the heat in my apartment working, yay! I just had to hit the little reset button.. so now I know it won't be cold here anymore.

So now I'm watching the new Scrubs premiere, waiting for my xbox to get repaired, and figuring out how many months it will take me to get a new computer to play FFXI (I miss it so much!).

5 facts time:

1. I'm still eating the enormous amount of Halloween candy I bought over a month ago.
2. I put Christmas lights around the place and on my fake tree, although the ones on the tree went out already...
3. I think I'm addicted to Coke Zero.
4. I think I'm addicted to Lady Gaga. Downloaded her first CD recently and Bad Romance, so good.
5. My student loans just went into repayment status... FML. Called today and got a bunch of them graduated, so that will help.