Words.
I'm on leave.
My smallpox is almost gone. The scab kind of melted into a bloody spot on my bandaid. Now I'm left with a divot in my skin that's like half-blood, half-yellow stuff. I think I'll still avoid touching it for a while. At least till the yellow stuff clears up. But the pox is gone!
My birthday is in five days. I don't know exactly what will occur but the gist of it is from 5pm - 9pm we'll be at Knight's Action Park and then we're going over to Chris's and it's going to be HUGE.
You are Kratos and you will murder the god of war.
And murder I did. I can't say the ending was any walk in the park but I died more trying to get through a couple of the traps in the game than I did finishing it. The ending is outstanding and utterly satisfying. I wasn't left with that "is that all!?" feeling once I finished it. Now I've unlocked Challenge of the Gods and God mode difficulty. But first I should get through Geist.
I'm totally impulsive. Geist sounded cool when I was working at gamestop a year and a half ago and now it's finally out. And if the multiplayer doesn't suck it'll be a good one for my birthday. Between Chris and I we have like 7 gamecube controllers so the xbox problem of not having enough controllers won't be a factor. Actually, now that I think about it, last time it was the gamecube that we didn't have enough controllers for. I guess I'll bring all of mine instead of just one this time.
And while I was a gamestop I found a Conan figure that looks like a roman centurion for $5 and they had the new Spawn repaints and (miraculously) one Redeemer 2 repaint left. The repaint isn't as cool as the original because it's all brown and black and that's kind of boring but it's still probably my favorite McFarlane's sculpt ever. They're both gracing the top of my entertainment center.
P.S. I'm no photographer and I'm using Katie's camera while she's not here.
Itch
My smallpox itches. A lot.
God of War for PS2 is an outstanding game. Take Rygar, soak it in blood, and beef up the fighting and you have God of War. This game is INSANE.
In Pieces
So today was ultra-exciting. We did our pre-deployment shots. I only needed three, smallpox, typhoid, and PPD. Smallpox was nothing but due to it's super-contagious and lethal nature it's the messiest of them. First, it's three stabs with a needle. No injection, just a needle covered in the stuff and jabbed into my left arm. Then they put a bandaid on it and gave me 16 more bandaids and some hand sanitizer. If I touch the skin around it, I have to immediately use the sanitizer, I need to change the bandaid daily, and I have to wash my clothes seperately from Katie's. Apparently it's going to look like an infection soon then scab over and then when the scab falls off I'll probably have a scar from it. Oh and I should be feeling like utter garbage in a couple days. Hooray for overseas vaccinations!
One down, right? Typhoid was next. It was like a regular shot in the arm but now my arm is REAL sore. But it was feeling a lot worse before we did some pushups to loosen up the muscles. Then it was time for PPD. The last one and I'm done. So I'm feeling alright and one of the medics from the smallpox table hasn't given a PPD vaccination before so I was going to be kind of a test subject. That's fine, there's nothing but medics everywhere and these are the guys saving lives so I don't mind. Well this is a weird kind of shot and he fucks it up a couple times before the girl giving the PPD shots takes over. Well I wasn't watching anything but after they were done they asked if I was alright, I guess I was looking shitty. So I say "yes, I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm not okay." as I feel my head rolling back and my eyes closing.
I come to and I'm on the floor. I can't feel my legs or arms and there's hands around my head but I can't really feel them. There's a hundred floating heads over me. I get "what's your name", "what day is it", "where are you" before the questions about how I'm feeling start up again. "I can't feel my legs" so they loosen up my boots and lift my feet. Then the feeling comes back and they've got a chair behind me so I sit up for a minute and get in the chair. I'm getting my pulse taken and blood pressure checked every three minutes. And then I'm feeling better so they let me finish up.
They said I was dehydrated and I needed food in me. Well yeah, if I knew I was going to do this today I probably would've prepared a little more. But that's okay, I didn't pass out till I was done with the shots and now I've got it done. They had to take some blood later but they made me lay down for that and it wasn't bad. And that's my exciting first experience with passing out.
So later back at the shop we find out that there's a new computer guy coming. He's the same rank as me but he's fresh out of school so I've got to bring him up to speed. This is good because now I won't be AS bogged down in work but I don't like working with people. I like having total control over my workload. Oh well. At least he's my subordinate until he proves he's better at this than I am.
Movie(s) and Game(s)
Tonight Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was on HBO. I wanted to see it ever since I saw the trailer. Why didn't I see it in the theater? Why didn't I buy the DVD the minute it was released? It was easily the best movie I've seen in quite a while. I think I even shed a tear. And Katie missed it.
And I found Project: Snowblind for PC for $15 at Hastings. And it's on DVD which is a bonus. All new games should come on DVD. There's no need for retarded disc swapping when the whole game fits on one DVD. The game's not perfect but it's enjoyable. The HUD and levels are very busy so it's hard to pay attention to anything but whoever's shooting at you. But it's on DVD so I win!
Obligatory brian-fest 23 spamming. September 3rd, Chris's place, late.
The Adventure
And by adventure I mean everytime I go out to teach Katie how to drive. She's not a bad driver! She just gets really nervous around any kind of traffic but I guess I did the same thing when I was learning how to drive too.
I totally don't have anything to say. I've been busting my ass all week and my back hurts and it sucks.
Less than a month till brian-fest 23. I think this might be the biggest brian-fest to date, seeing how Chris is throwing me a party and lots of people are supposedly attending.