Phew! That was a good weekend.

Friday night we went over to a friend’s for random drinking and talking, although we down to the local pub after that. I’d forgotten how much I hate the pubs that are packed full and have obnoxiously loud music where you can’t actually have a proper conversation without shredding your throat shoating.

Last night everyone came around to mine for drinking and Rock Band, as my roommates were both out. Great fun was had by all! And I’m actually not nearly as bad on the drums as I thought I was, although I have zero hand-foot co-ordination. I can do easy difficulty on the drums pretty well, but medium adds a whole lot more foot pedal and I can just can’t get the hang of it. Hand-eye, no worries, but hand-foot? Fuhgeddaboudit.

gypocalypse came over this evening to pick up his Rock Band stuff, and we were playing some Guitar Hero World Tour. We unlocked the three Tool songs (Schism, Parabola, and Vicarious)… holy. Fucking. Shit. They are INSANE, and I was only playing on medium! My hand totally cramped up by the end of it.

Once kungfupolarbear is here we are totally having regular Rock Band-slash-World Tour nights at my house! It will be excellent.

I am really looking forward to going back to Boston!

scarydan mentioned he’d seen a show at what I’m fairly sure is the theater kungfupolarbear and I saw Pineapple Express in when I was visiting (Brattle Theater, for those wondering). I’ve been looking around on Google Maps and looking at all the places we visited and going through the street view in the area around kungfupolarbear‘s house. I can’t wait to see everyone there again too. 🙂

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Some Lily!

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She has an unholy obsession with Shrek 2 at the moment. Thankfully my copy is digital… no wearing out VHS tapes like we used to when we were kids!

I was talking to a colleague at work yesterday, the topic got onto our early forays onto the internet, and I realised that I’ve been VirtualWolf online for very close to ten years now.

I went looking through a folder of old files from years ago (I have a school assignment from 1994!) for the first references to my current nick. The very earliest website I still have is from March 1998, although I’m sure I had a couple of ones before that, I just must not have saved them. My nick back then was “DevlinSlayer” (I was a huge Marathon Trilogy fan, the “Devlin” part was taken from a total conversion called Marathon Evil). It seems “VirtualWolf” didn’t come about until somewhere between the end of 1998 and March-ish 1999.

I’m amazed it’s been ten years, that’s crazy.