The Ravings of Demented Rabbits

Adventures In the Big City

Yes Whir, I do update every so often.

So we, and by we I mean me, Cole/Clyos, and his brother, went up to Corvallis yesterday. Checked out the apartment their going to be getting. Funny place. I can't quite stand on my toes and touch the ceiling with my head, but it's close. Plus every room has a distinctly different style - shingle walls, fake brick, wood panels... very amusing. Gas stove from like the 40s. But cheap. And large. Can't ask for much more. And it's just them. I predict hanging out over there a bunch.

Went to the bookstore, too, which made my wallet $274 lighter after I got my books for school. I am going to be way, WAY into reading this year. Boldly going where no reading has gone before, and the like. Exploring the vast new frontiers of reading. One small book for author, one giant reading list for studentkind, sort of a thing. Aeeyah. Corvallis, we have a problem.

I got amazed looks from the cashier and the cute girl at the counter, however, which makes it all worthwhile in the end, I suppose. Maybe.

So then we came back, and on the way back, this bee somehow got into the car, into the back seat, behind the seat and down my back, where it kindly stung me. That was interesting. I haven't actually been stung in about 10 years. Doesn't hurt nearly as bad as I remembered, actually. But I now have this nice red lump on my back. Whee.

But then we played a lot of Battletech. Giant Robot Games, the Revenge. We played, I think, for something like 12 hours. 1v1v1 random draw, random placement. Lots of good moments, including the massive amounts of head shots, charging like fiends, Mecha Inferno on the vast forests, the DFA that knocked a mech off of a level 4 hill much to the hurt of the mech that was on said hill, and RACzilla, the Awesome with 3 RAC 5s and a sword.

"RACzilla opens up on you, and hits with 1...2...3 full auto RACs! For...3...4...5...12 shots! You take A Lot Of Damage!"

"Ow."

Good times. Good times.

Going for the flashback a bit now...

Watched Apollo 13 the other day for something to do. Good movie. First time I had seen it since it came out on video the first time, so it was a rewatch, but an old one. Very good movie, but not one you can really watch more than once every few years.

Acquired and played Mechcommander 2 the last couple of days, too. Very fun, as is the wont of the MC series, though I'm slightly amused at how they feel the need to throw Clantech into Inner Sphere games all the time. This. Mechwarrior 4. Ah well. They're fun, so what the hell.

Played some more Ultima 7, too. Fear me, for I am the scourge of random bandit camps in the woods where they hide the magic breastplate. Raaarg.

One of these days I'm going to finish my HRE writeup, too.

Posted by Dwip at September 5, 2003 4:03 PM