What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[MrPopo]

The lack of anything to do currently is quite aggravating though.

Video games will always be there for you!

Mario doesn't judge you. He loves you just the way you are.

[Forlorn Drifter]

That's true. I just get a feeling like I should be going out and doing stuff when I'm at school instead of sitting around playing games. I should be out looking for girls or shooting the shit or drinking or doing drugs or rushing a frat or something.

Not that I'd do the last two, but...

[KalessinDB]

@Repo: Man, that picture of her is the only halfway decent one I was able to find. I mean, I know a drag queen isn't necessarily going to be conventionally attractive to a hetero male, but she's not one of the better ones I've seen. Very nice likeness in SC5 though, you definitely hit it.

Ticked: My WiiU tablet wouldn't power up (or even show as charging) today.

Smile: It took 45 seconds of googling to find a fix (try holding the power button as you plug it in). Don't know why it did that, but I haven't really given it much love in a couple weeks/months so that might explain it. It's now doing just fine.

[Luke]

Frown: Rust. My Weber charcoal grill of over ten years needs to go. This has caused a domino effect.

Broke the news to my wife that we need a new grill, and it quickly escalated from "new grill" to new "grill station", new "patio furniture", plus new landscaping.

So now we're thinking about making a separate brick or stone patio, moving our current deck furniture to the patio, and purchasing new outdoor furniture for the deck.

All I want to do is lay down some slate in a corner of my yard and put the new grill on it. Simple, cheap, easy. I don't want a complete backyard makeover. And if we plan on dropping major coin, I'd rather level the deck and start with a new patio rather than have a deck and patio.

Sometimes I miss renting. Rarely, but sometimes.

[BoneSnapDeez]

Broke the news to my wife that we need a new grill, and it quickly escalated from "new grill" to new "grill station", new "patio furniture", plus new landscaping.

Over here I'm doing new outside steps, new gutters, some chimney work, and painting the house.

Problem with Maine is that so much is weather-dependent. I also want some new fencing but I know I won't be able to squeeze that in before the snow falls.

[Luke]

Broke the news to my wife that we need a new grill, and it quickly escalated from "new grill" to new "grill station", new "patio furniture", plus new landscaping.

I also want some new fencing but I know I won't be able to squeeze that in before the snow falls.

Ya know I have to give credit to my wife for never keeping anything, even buying a grill, mundane. It's always "I wanna do this, and this, and this, and this, and then let's do this and this!" with her, which I don't mind at all. It's weird though turning a house into an investment when you don't plan on selling it.

[MrPopo]

Broke the news to my wife that we need a new grill, and it quickly escalated from "new grill" to new "grill station", new "patio furniture", plus new landscaping.

I also want some new fencing but I know I won't be able to squeeze that in before the snow falls.

Ya know I have to give credit to my wife for never keeping anything, even buying a grill, mundane. It's always "I wanna do this, and this, and this, and this, and then let's do this and this!" with her, which I don't mind at all. It's weird though turning a house into an investment when you don't plan on selling it.

There's a simple joy in having nice things.

[REPO Man]

@Repo: Man, that picture of her is the only halfway decent one I was able to find. I mean, I know a drag queen isn't necessarily going to be conventionally attractive to a hetero male, but she's not one of the better ones I've seen. Very nice likeness in SC5 though, you definitely hit it.

Thanks.

Better than my attempt to recreate Sharon Needles in Soul Calibur 4:



On the "TDC Road Show Trip" front:

Not so good. My friend couldn't get the day off and roughly a couple of days after my uncle offered to drive me, he told me he couldn't. It turns out he thought that Winston-Salem was at most 4 hours away, but when he discovered it was up to 6 hours away (and 700 miles both ways), he changed his mind.

Now I've gotta go by Greyhound, which is roughly $116 for a round trip ticket if purchased in advance. The nearest station is 2 and a half hours away, and there's nothing leaving Thursday evening that I could take after work. There's a bus leaving Friday morning, but I wouldn't get to Winston-Salem until 5:35pm. Thankfully the theater is about 9 minutes away on foot, but pretty much every motel nearby is charging a considerable sum. If I had a car or their bus system was slightly better or I budgeted for taxis, then I could stay a bit farther away for less money.

But the cheaper places (which would be half as much as what I seem to find) are STILL close to an hour away. And once I get off the bus I'd still need to walk to the motel and check in. And then, worst case scenario, my room wouldn't be ready yet and I'd have to wait. And considering that the event starts at 8pm and I'd need to get dinner beforehand, it would basically throw everything out of whack.

And that's all assuming the bus ends up arriving on time!

Granted I COULD ask for Thursday off, but it's already two weeks away and I'm already losing a day from asking for Friday off, and the next week I'm losing Monday (and possibly Tuesday) because the restaurant will be closed for the sixth to the eighth (if not the seventh) of September.

[MrPopo]

For a little more money you could hop the Greyhound to NYC.

[REPO Man]

I'd love to but I didn't buy my ticket to the road show's NYC stop.

I wish I could, and not just because it's more time to raise funds. It's also because Alleluia: The Devil's Carnival stars Marc Senter (The Scorpion) and Emilie Autumn (The Painted Doll/June) will be there.