Well, let's see ... I need to update. Jeez, was it really just last week we were in Atlanta? Feels like it's been two weeks. Anyway, I've kind of had a crazy week. First of all, I shot about a roll of film in Atlanta, and I haven't made any prints yet, but I did make prints from the roll I shot after that. It was a roll of Grant dressed in fatigues and face paint. There are a bunch of good pics, but check out barrel of a gun and hiding. Pretty nifty, and I'm in the middle of handcoloring barrel. I think those pictures shout "I'm a badass" but Grant doesn't seem to think so. Or else he just won't admit that he really is a badass.
Let's see. Thursday night I go buy Mech Assault so I can play it on XBox Live which unofficially, for beta testers like myself, released thursday instead of friday. We start out playing a little Mech Assault locally, then get online and get WHOOPED. So Jim moves to NFL Fever 2003, where we play all night and wind up 22nd on the five minute quarter ladder. Friday night I play Live all night and at the end of the evening Jim was 2nd on the Fever ladder and I was like 415 on the Mech Assault (pretty good considering I started out at 3000). Problem with Mech Assault is if you're decent enought to get first or second place every match (which right now I am, simply because everyone else is still bad) then you can climb the ladders just by playing, you don't even have to do extremely well as long as you get more kills than deaths. But the problem is that you turn off the game and come back in two or three hours and your spot has gone from 400 to 500 just because you haven't been playing and that many people have no lives. So I don't see myself ever getting above 5 or 600 simply because I have to maintain a life. I went from 600 yesterday to 900 this morning just because I wasn't playing all night non-stop like the other 900 people ahead of me. Pathetic. But perhaps I'm just making excuses for myself. People are good, damn good, but it's because they haven't left the XBox since noon thursday, and therefore haven't slept or showered since then either.
So anyway, some stuff happens to the Fever ladder so that Jimmy gets knocked down to like 49th, so he keeps playing and jumps back up to 3 last night, 2 this morning, and after a few more games he's number 1. Number one out of some 10,000 people. Although, he's been at practice all day, so he's probably dropped down to three. The thing is that, Xbox Live is so new right now, everyone wants to play it, including us. But eventually we'll get tired of it or just too busy, and we'll lose our spots and those people who live in thier mother's basements and leave the house once a year will keep climbing further and further to first place. Sadly, the ladders are incredibly weighed by the number of games you've played (successfully).
Anyway, yesterday we went to Friday's, and had the worst waiter. I got us some free potato skins because of my Friday's card, and turns out that they don't just give you a free appetizer it's a free 8 dollars towards an appetizer. So the skins were only 6.87 or something like that, and so I actually got an additional dollar or so off my buger. I ate cheap last night. With tip, 8.00 dollars even. But then harry potter at 11:45 for 7.50 wasn't cheap. But yeah, we go back to paul's house and play trivial persuit, and joanna plays piano, and then eventually it's 11:15 and we drop off the kids and paul and I go see Harry Potter 2. Very good, and it certainly met up to the first one, I have no idea what critics were talking about. Now I can't wait for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. That'll be immensly exciting.
I've been working on college apps this weekend, which is a step for me. I've got a decent list of about 8 schools, and I just have to find one or two more backups. I'd really like them to be out of state if at all possible, but then I wonder why I really have to be like that.
My bank account is getting low. 298 dollars. I've decided to sell off my digital camcorder on ebay. If I get 700 dollars I'll be satisfied, 800 I'll be happy, and anything above that I'll be very thrilled. It's got a ton of extra accessories (carrying case, bag, extended 10 hour
(150 dollar) battery, + more) plus a four year warranty, and the camera with nothing extra and a 90 day warranty is 1000 dollars. So selling it off mint condition (I wish I could call it new but I opened it) and with all those accessories for 800 would be a STEAL for anyone in the market looking for one. And besides, I paid 1000 for the total package because of my discount. It all retailed over 1500. What would I do with the money? Buy a regular camera. Like a decent one (3-400) with an awesome lense or two (2-300 x 2). I'd actually use a still manual camera, whereas the camcorder I just don't have time to think out some form of movie to shoot.
Anyway, that's what I've been thinking about.
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