Stuff.

I'm sick. I don't know what with...a cold I guess. It sucks, of course. I watched TNA iMPACT! for the first time in a few weeks tonight, it was a really good show. Qualifying for both the Busch and the Nextel Cup races at Charlotte (I refuse to call it "Lowe's" Motor Speedway) this weekend was on, so I watched that too. Dave Blaney recently signed a deal with Busch team that will see him running no less than 5 races in that series the rest of this year. He practiced well in that car today and then qualified 14th for the Busch race. I wish his Nextel Cup car was running that well...

I download too much music. I can't wait until I have money so I can go buy all this stuff and free up some hardrive space. I downloaded KMFDM's and the Stone Temple Pilots' discography today. Erin has a 3-day weekend coming up (Saturday, Sunday, Monday). I think that is awesome. Work on my game is progressing great. It's still really hard. Probably not as hard as I make it out to be...I think its just that I sort of stopped using my brain to think critically for awhile and now its lazy. It likes sitting back and taking information in, it just doesnt like having to figure shit out. I'm trying to update my development blog more regularly now. I'm playing through Killer 7 again (thanks Wes). I'm also in the process of trying to get 100% completion on New Super Mario Bros. on DS (thanks Erin). I'm finding myself beating more games lately, something that, for awhile, was a real rarity. Not sure why. Just recently I've beaten Metal Gear Solid: the Twin Snakes, Gunstar Super Heroes, I've practically beaten NSMB, and I'll be finishing Killer 7 (8, actually) and P.N.03 (again--special ending I just found out about) pretty soon.

E3 came and went. I guess Super Mario Galaxy (Wii) was my game of the show. Other really cool stuff (for me) included Yoshi's Island 2 (DS) (though I later found out its not being internally developed =\), Hotel Dusk (DS), Lost Planet (360), Super Paper Mario (GC), Excite Truck (Wii), and probably lots of other stuff that I can't remember. Non-gameplay trailers don't count =P. I guess PSU was there too, but no one really covered because its been there the past 2 years and is now getting ready to come out. October is the US date I'm hearing. I guess that it. It's almost 3. I'm going to try and work on my game some more and then get some sleep.

Making games is hard.

See title.

Birthday stuff

Erin's birthday was on the 2nd of May. I didnt have alot of money, but was still able to get her some cool stuff. Basiclly how it went down was on her day off we went out and I just let her pick out stuff she wanted until I was out money. So, Erin's birthday haul from me included: a Princess Bride shirt, Brain Age (DS), The Truman show on DVD, 3 books, and the new Sims 2 expansion. I also suprised her with a dozen roses. I think she was happy, even though I really wanted to get her something more lavish. That's my fault. Next year...

365 days ago...

April 18th marked Erin and my 1 year anniversary since we started dating. We celebrated by going to Gatlinburg on Sunday night (April 16th) and staying until Tuesday (April 18th). We got a room with a jacuzzi, king size bed, and a fireplace (which wasnt alot of help in April). We did all kinds of fun stuff, but instead of writing about it I'll just post all the pictures I took with Erin's camera phone while we there...


The bed in our room...


...yes, thats a mirror on the ceiling.


The jacuzzi.


Fireplace...


The Sydney James Mountain Lodge, where we stayed. Yes, it is named after me.


The aquarium was far and away the coolest thing there. For some reason there were baby hammerhead sharks in the stingray pool. WHERE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO REACH IN THE WATER AND TOUCH THE STINGRAYS.


Pic of said pool.


This thing was bigger than it looks in this photo.


Fish.


Lots of fish.


Not so many fish.


Coolest part of the aquarium...


Surely they eat some of the smaller fish? They're sharks...


I was supposed to look distressed here but forgot.






Coolest fish there. The "Sea Dragon". I want one.


The Alamo Steakhouse, where we ate the second night. It was AWESOME. Also, coolest slogan ever: "So next time you dine out, Remember the Alamo." I will. I will...


Picture is kind of fuzzy, but the menu reads, "So good, we simply call it...THE STEAK." This, plus the kickass slogan, plus the fact that they serve Barq's Rootbeer made this place the coolest steakhouse ever, in my opinion. I actually had the 9slightly) cheaper New York strip steak.


For breakfast the last day, we went here. Best. Pancakes. Ever.


After checking out and eating breakfast on Tuesday we drove through the "Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail," which is basiclly just a 6-mile one-way drive through the mountains, and some really nice scenery. Took alot of pictures here; this one at an overlook.


Some pictures turned out blurry for some reason...this one is a working water-flume thing that still works. It was used back in the early 1900's to transport water into a nearby house for actual running water inside.


Better picture...


There were 3-4 house on the trail built by the first people to move into the area. These people were very, VERY short.




A guide said this was called "Thousand Drips Falls." They were not lying about the "drips" part.


After the motor trail thing we hung out in Pigeon Forge a little before driving back home. This is "Lost Treasure Golf" where we played mini-golf.

We did alot of other things I didnt take pictures of. We went to the Guiness World of Records Museum, Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum, Ripley's Haunted Adventure (which rocks!), to one of those Build-a-Bear places where Erin made a bear that I bought her (and where she later let me make one...a Panda in a karate gi), and we also had an old-time photo made. The best part though was not having anything to worry about for almost 3 days and getting to spend lots of time with Erin. Awesome trip.

Procrastination Station

So this is my first post in awhile. Between now and the last time I posted I've probably had 20 or more ideas, but for some reason or another I never went through with any of them. I still have a bunch of posts that I've meant to make for awhile in the back of my mind, so I'm going to try to start catching up now...