Salad Sammich

CHRIIISSTMAAAAAAAAS!

It happend much quicker than I expected it to. I guess we’ve just been really distracted by rent/government stuff and terrible terrible dental pain.

But yeah, Christmas was fun this year :) I’ve still got a big pile of miscellanious candy left over, I think I’ve already destabilized my health enough today by eating nothing but sugary junk XD This stockpile will last a long while I think :P

Our old friend Davy (in the Navy 8D) came to visit us, and because of his excess income he bought us Super Smash Bros. Brawl! YAAAAAAAAAY! We showed our thanks by playing many many hours of co-op and regular matches with him. It’s awesome fun, we finally have a good reason to boot up the Wii now! Our online code is 1032-5242-8815 if anyone’s wondering :P

I also got an awesome iPod speaker mount thing from my parents, now I can use it as an alarm. My brother also got a rockin’ waffle iron from his girlfriend. WOO! WAFFLES! we can make waffles now :D no more square pancakes for us!

They also got me some great art books, one of which I’ve been wanting to buy for myself (and hence how my brother knew what to buy ). The former was a book on fantasy vehicles and the other one was fantasy landscapes/cityscapes. This is good, because currently my skills with vechicles and landscapes are crap :O

OOH also have  sweet new phone, one capable of actually accessing the internet without getting a gigantic bill :) It’s the Nokia E51, it’s got some great specs, I’ve spent a lot of time customizing the hell out of the apps :P

Sorry for not writing much until now, I’ve been a bit lazy

So anyway, Carrie and I are visiting the family back in Gympie for a while over easter :P We went to visit the new mall they have here. It felt so surreal to be inside an actual mall in my home town. The parents were gracious enough to buy me a Nintendo Wii for my birthday! (Which is on the 9th, btw ;) ) Wii Sports has kept me occupied (and sore) for quite a while now :D

My two main objectives for this month (apart from the ever-important University work) is to get my new website layout rolled out, and to complete this Javascript commission I got from another student. I’m annoyed at myself for procrastinating about the website layout, but I can’t bring myself to put together some decent eye candy to suit the swampy-gray-green colours.

Ohh, also, because of the increasingly large amount of Nintendo-related codes I have (and Nin’s annoying policy predicting more), I’m planning on adding a “my codes” section somewhere on the site :P

The Uni was having a Wii Sports Tourney at the campus today, and since it’s a) right down the road, and b) I haven’t tried the console out yet, I thought it was an awesome idea. I was nervous at first, but it was really quick to get into it and just let loose :P I stayed the whole time there, which was good, since they only had two Uni-owned Wiimotes there. That Wiimote I bought without a console doesn’t seem so stupid now. :P It was good to be able to make sure four-player fun was happening, and I got to create my own Mii as a reward. XD

I can’t wait to get the console, it really reminded me that games are supposed to about simple solid fun. Waving your arms around in a silly manner is surprisingly awesome. Perhaps it’s just the fact that there was a party-sized amount of people and a giant wall-sized projector screen involved, but it was enough to keep me entertained all day long. Granted, when I play it on my regular ordinary TV it might not be as grand, but I still want it :P

Enough said, I’ll be going there tomorrow for the second tourney. They need my extra Wiimote, right? XD

So yeah, I’ve been spending most of my free time lately reading pages upon pages of news. Maybe this is some latent symptom from my lack of book reading. I can’t help it, the Brisbane Library only just opened recently! Just for kicks, here’s the major snares:

• Engadget - If anything happens in the tech world, it’s here
• Joystiq - Like Engadget, but with more game
• Hack A Day - They like to hack stuff :P
• WiiNintendo - Wii-related news
• This Is Broken - Yay for finding faults with the world
• Jarkolicious - The yellow alien, co-founder of dA, and a swell blogger
• Starslip Crisis - Kris Straub’s daily sci-fi webcomic
• Halfpixel - Yet more Straub. That man has talent out the wazoo
• Penny-Arcade - Quality gamer webcomic
• Player Vs. Player - Quality not-quite-gamer webcomic
• Ctrl+Alt+Del - Yet another gamer webcomic
• and of course deviantART…

Automated news feeds can get addictive I tells ya!

I should probably stop being lazy and write something :P Here’s a wrap up of our holiday family outing. To save the front page from a flood of text I’ll hide the main bulk of it ;)
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