Mini-cation Here I Come!

Once again, I'm up later than I'd like to be, and I'm doing something that's only going to make it worse. But I need to keep doing this so I get in the habit, and I get better. The ball keeps on rolling kids!

I finished up Brutal Legend last night. ... AND I CAN'T WAIT to play it again. I actually wanted to reboot it and hit New Game, but it was 2:30 AM by the time I finished the finale (and a nice little achievement gem). I'm serious too, all I want to do is play this game again but I'm going to hold off. As promised, I rented Smackdown 2010 last night, and I need to be playing some of that.

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After I get my memory card back from Patrick. Ah hell, I just realized that. I went over to his house today to do a nice trade of Rock Band Metal Track Pack for a 1600 Point card. I brought along my memory card because I thought we would end up playing some Rock Band. I wanted to show off a creation of mine that is still in progress. We didn't play Rock Band, but we did play Smackdown. He bought a copy. I put my memory card in there, presumably to save some sort of data to it, and I totally left it there.

Just in case you were wondering, we only played two matches. A Backstage brawl where John Morisson (Pat) knocked out Evan Bourne (Me). Then there was a Championship scramble that ended with a successful defense by time out. We didn't do an actual one on one match, sorry folks.

I will have plenty of time tomorrow to get better at this game though. For some reason, my skills lack at the beginning of every new game. Presumably because of lack of practice. I'm sure when 2011 comes out I'll suck again though. But I've got plenty of stuff to keep my interest tomorrow. I was going to do some comic organizing and make sure that what I haven't read is everything that I want to read. In other words, I want to fill potential holes in the series that I regularly read. But it doesn't look too likely that will happen since it's supposed to rain tomorrow. I ain't walking to Kyle's and back with comics and a cardboard box in the rain. That's just be a complete waste. At least I'll be able to figure out what I might need and order them to my liking.

Tomorrow night should be great though, even if it is raining. LUDO is going to rock the crap out of the Pagaent tomorrow. I know it's only been about 5 months, but it feels like I haven't seen them in a really long time. I guess when you like a band that much and have seen them so many times that it feels longer. They also don't have a Christmas show planned this year, so it'll be longer before I see them again. I think ditching the Christmas show is for the best. When I went to the show in 2007 it was a whole big deal. There was a chair on the side of the stage for Santa Claus, who sat there the entire set. The set looked completely awesome. They had people handing out hot cocoa to people waiting in line. It just felt so much better. Last year it seemed like they bought a couple blow up Christmas stuff from Wal-Mart and had a space to get a picture with Santa. It just wasn't as special last year. Maybe I just had high hopes from the awesome experience I had the prior year.

But this concert will be held to some high expectations as well. They're going to be doing the entire CD Broken Bride on stage. I really love the crap out of this CD. It's like a 30-minute movie for your ears, and it's just such an awesome disc! I could go into detail, since I thought up a bunch of points of why I like it during my morning walk, but I'm way too tired to stay up that long singing their praises. If you have one of these shows coming close to you, I suggest you go. Plus, I hear you can pick up Broken Bride in stores. That'd be so much more convenient than having to pick one up at the show. Then you can listen ahead of time and be prepared for the epic tale that you'll be hearing.

Seriously, it's going to be great. And the best thing is that it's basically how I officially kick off my mini-cation! I've got the next four days off. FOUR DAYS! I'm jacked about that alone. But it's only a good vacation if you go somewhere, so we're gonna head up to Chicago and hob-nob around there for a day. Catch some Halloween fireworks, which still doesn't make a lick of sense to me, but whatever the hell works for them I guess. I need to do some searching online and see if there's a good Halloween store in downtown Chi-town. I'm still costume-less, and I can't stand it. At least last year at this time I knew what I was going to be.

We'll see what happens though. I'm sure it'll be great.
-Daniel