The rantings and ravings of a sane man

1. Pumpkin beer is as good as it sounds, order it more.

2. For people watchin -> Drunk people at concerts > Drunk people in bars.

3. You can make it through a day of work with only 3 hours of sleep.

3-1. But dont do it very often.

4. Apologize to Ryne Sandberg for how dumb the Cubs are.

5. Tell Tom Ricketts that Jim Hendy should not be in charge of this team anymore.

6. Make a checklist for Vegas cause you are an idiot and forget to bring vital things.

7. I hate ESPN’s bias more and more every time I watch Sportscenter. 

8. When I have a kid, he/she will only play video games online with me by him/her cause holy crap kids these days online have trash mouths and I blame parents.

D. Where did that D come from? I think I was trying to be cool and maybe succeeded?

10. …..

11. Buy more Goose Island, you are on your last one.

In the past month and a half I have put just under 3,000 miles on my car. Way too much driving :( But this weekend I get to sit in my apartment and do nothing! Except clean, this place was looking pretty bad.

So after ordering Halo:Reach the week it came out, the disc I got didnt work so I had to send that back and just got a working one last week and I had been too busy to really play it. So last night and this morning I beat the campaign. The campaign was awesome, makes me want to now play Halo, then 2 and 3 in order. Such a fun story line. Looking forward to checking out all the multiplayer stuff because that is what sold me on the Halo series. I remember playing the first one never having heard of it before and being amazed at how far FPS games had come. Of course the next week I went and bought an Xbox, and the rest is history. Wow, I am sorry. That was a lame way to end that sentence.

So the girlfriend and I decided to throw caution/money to the wind and go to vegas for the Great Urban Race Nationals. I think its going to be a whole different ballgame than the Normal one since there will be public transportation and that will change things a lot. Also we dont have nearly the same knowledge about Vegas as we do Blo-No. But hopefully we can figure the clues out.

Worked till 9:00PM on Wednesday night, that was weird. Tiring. Eventful. But it all helped out in the end as our demo went pretty well.

Need to find a good bar in the St. Charles area to catch the Hawks games after work. Only been getting to see chunks and pieces of them and I want to catch it all. Also Hossa is a man.

Well this took too long, I need to go play some Halo :)

This weekend was a busy fun weekend. A different homecoming from the norm but I still had a good time.

But the big fun was Sunday! Rachel and I participated in The Great Urban Race starting at Fat Jacks in Bloomington-Normal. We got 12 clues of places to go in Bloomington and Normal and we had to solve them and do certain things at the locations. Going into it I thought we could do pretty well. Our goal was to get into the top 25 because they get a free entry into the Vegas championships Nov. 5th weekend.

So Rachel’s idea of solving all the clues(ok almost all) was a great idea. We rocked out all the clues in Downtown Bloomington then we started to head down Main Street to get to Normal and had to make a stop at IWU campus so I could spin and get really dizzy. We ended up having to go all the way out to Anderson Park. Mapping it out came out to just a bit short of 7 miles. I would say we ran almost at least 5.5 miles. As we came towards the finish line there were two girls who were right in front of us and were able to out sprint us. Crossing there were almost no people, I was confused as to where everyone was. Then as we were getting our clue answer checked we were informed that we were in 2nd place since the team that finished overall first had a penalty and got 30 min added to their time. CRAZY! Could not believe we got 2nd.

Now we just have to see if we can find the money to make the trip to vegas… Would be an awesome trip!

Work has been crazy the last two weeks. I just signed my employment sheet today. Yay for actually being employed! Doing a lot of time sensitive and important work in the next month. I am scared and excited at the same time. I am just happy I work with so many really smart guys.

That is all i got for now. Oh wait. GO HAWKS!

Well it looks like its time to start putting my head out on paper…Interwebs…whatever you would call this. I know you will all want me to write like all the time because of how awesome I am. Ill try :)

Finally started Halo Reach since a working disk finally got to my place. Holy crap the game looks nice and the first 2 missions were sufficiently fun. Excited to check out the multiplayer as well, that is of course if I can pull myself away from Minecraft…

Ill have a nice long post sometime soon about how amazing Minecraft is. It deserves its only post :)

Watched RIP: A Remix Manifesto tonight. You can buy it/check it out here. Its a really good look at the copyright discussion. I obviously lean towards the way the movie does. But I would be interested in anyone’s opinion that is the other way.

MLB Playoffs? Sorry just dont have me captured this year. I will watch the Halladay/Lincecum game but otherwise idk I am just not interested in the teams or players this year. Also, NL Central lets stop sucking.

TV right now is too intense for me! So many shows to catch up on… I should go do that now.