I finally got climbing last weekend… man it was good… sooooo goooooood. Me, Gumby and Cat5 wandered out to Squamish Saturday morning (nice and early) and hit the rock. My first climb (a 5.8/5.9 with a .10a start) I did great at, ditto with Who Needs Bolts and Who Needs Pro (.10a and .10c (I think)) were also awsome, even though I left a fair amount of shoe rubber on the latter 🙂 Hit The Zip before lunch (which turned out to be the end of the day due to time restrictions (heading to dinner at momanddads)). I loooooove the Zip… such an awsome crack (5.10a). Almost as nice as Clean Crack. Anyway, it was a great day and I got home tired and sore, with some nice scraps on my knuckles to show that I had actually been sinking some good hand jams!
“There’s a million soldiers who’d follow you to the end of the universe”“I don’t want to go to the end of the universe.”
— Alai and Ender, Enders Game. [archive.org link]
Yup, finished it, hopefully getting the second one tomorrow at lunch (unless D makes me run again). Awsome book, loved it. I was expecting the ending but didn’t know when they’d do it (if you read the book you’d understand). Thanks to Cat5 for the lend.
Yea, I ran again today. It was nice when we left but about halfway through it started sprinkling… then pouring, then hailing…. gotta love BC weather eh? It could have been worse though, about an hour after we got back (I actually didn’t go as far as D did on the “normal” run, and felt better for it I think…. actually had some gumption left at the end, even though I didn’t run the whole way (something to work towards, as well as better shoes)) it started hailing like all get out. I mean hailing. I would not have wanted to have been out there driving, much less running unprotected!
To whoever is DOSing my system, bugger off before I find you and kill you with a salmon ok?
Oh, I bought a computer game. A windows game no less. Black and White [archive.org link]. I warezed a copy first of course, to see how good it was, and oh man it’s fun, and good too. The AI for the creatures rocks, and my current games (Carl the monkey and Ned the Tiger) are doing awsome. What better game than to be a god? For details about the game see the following creature stories and screenshots [archive.org link].
It’s like crack, I swear. Training a computerized creature to learn is addictive in some way. And you really do get attached to the little buggers, even when they eat people or poop in peoples houses. Oh, and don’t try to teach them horse tossing, it’s just not worth it. Every now and then Carl will wander away from my Village, grab a horse, chuck it down towards the beach, and then wander back… it’s hilarious!
I almost didn’t get the game. You see, we all decided we liked the game enough to buy it, so when driving home we started calling the places around town to see how much it was. The first place was Future Shop and the conversation went something like this:
Future Shop: Hello how can I direct your call?
Arc: Computers, but please don’t make me wait on hold too long.
FS: [3 hours of holding followed by a redirection back to the front desk]
FS: Hi there, you were holding for?
A: Computers, but I don’t want to wa…
FS: [hold music for another 3 hours]
A: [mutter]
FS: Hi there, I’ll try them again.
A: …
FS: [more, you guessed it, hold music]
FS: You were holding for?
A: Computers, but maybe you can help me!
FS: Certainly Sir
A: I’m looking to see what the price of the computer game Black and White
FS: One moment please.
FS: [a few seconds of hold music]
A: [sings along with the muzac]
FS: The price is $59.99 with a $20 rebate.
A: That’s great!
FS: But we’re all out at the moment.
A: Oh, that sucks, when do you expect more in?
FS: Wednesday
A: Isn’t today wednesday? [Editors note: it was actually tuesday, but my mine was broken… however, she didn’t seem to notice]
FS: Yes sir, I meant next wednesday.
A: Ok, thankyou
A: [punch “End” key and curse]
So we went everywhere else (we couldn’t get another store on the phone) but everyone was closed, so we finally, just for fun, went to future shop. Well, lo and behold, there were gobs of Black and White (which comes in a really cool two sided box too) sitting right in the “New” section of the computer games. I mentioned this to the guy who sold me mine and he kinda muttered. When asked if he cared he replied “no, not really, I’m not supposed to be here today anyway.” Not sure if he was trying to get that “working man comoradory” going with me or he was just a non-caring Future Shop weenie.
Moral of the story is not to believe Future Shop about anything 🙂