Balls of fire

Played paintball yesterday...

It took me a whole day to post about this. Probably because I didn't know from where to start.

We had an amazing time. The playing field at PSI(http://www.paintstorm.ca/html/indoor.htm) is so much bigger and nicer than the one at Paintball Ottawa.

We had lunch at the St-Laurent Centre first. I was suprised that everybody came since I had the idea on Wednesday afternoon. Then we headed to the paintball place a little earlier than 6 o'clock. We had a good timing since we were the first group there.

The briefing was done by a guy nicknamed Big Dick (go figure). A 68 years old guy still playing paintball and ver friendly. We got our paintball marker, balls, jersey (we didn't have jersey at Ottawa Paintball). 2 young players were added to our group since they were alone (should have said to... man they were bad).

Even tho the team were created randomly, I found that we were pretty balanced. I think the total score was even.

Highlight of the game:

• I got shot in the head. 4 times !
• I killed Chris by bumping in the bunker he was hiding behind. Slided too fast and had to use the bunker to stop me...
• Denis had to leave at 7:00. He gave me his balls (yeah !).
• I almost won the 2 flags game. Got shot in the head...
• Simon killed 3 peoples while his gun was acting up. His electric hopper was not feeding at all. It was fixed using a simple piece of cardboard.
• Once again, I was unlucky enough to shoot a referee. At least he didn't thread to shoot me with his gun.

Now I'm really thinking of getting a paintball gun. I'm planning another game in a month-month and a half so we'll see then if I still want one.

And today I tried the new Sonic game for the Wii. Since I still didn't get my copy of the game, I'll review it later.

My knees still hurt... I don't even remember getting shot in the knees.

The Civil War has finally ended

My girlfriend was nice enough today to bring me to the Comic Book Shoppe (thank you baby, lova ya), so I could pick up the last number of Civil War.

I must say that I was kinda disappointed by the ending. I'm not going to spoil it in case somebody reading this has not read it yet. Let's just say the momentun that each issue was getting was brought to an abrupt stop that left me on my appetite.

I'm even considering picking up the next Marvel Events called Initiative. It's kinda the follow up of Civil War.

While I was there I always ordered a Gloomy Bear Coffee Mug. Expensive for a coffee mug (20$) but the mug has 2 design : one when the beverage in the mug is cold and another one when it'S hot. Pretty cool if you ask me. The girl at the counter was nice enough to show me the mug in a Preview Magazine. It's not like the other girl working there sometimes that doesn't seems to know anything...

Back to the Gloomy Bear. The more I see them the more I like them. I want another one but I don't feel like ordering it. But no shop has them curently (the Comic Book Shoppe is trying to get them so there's still hope).

Also got a small Masamune Shirow figurine to go in the display case. This one is a Shirow himself, the way he represent himself in his drawings. Kinda like a small metallic octopus. I like it, it's cute.

That's it folks !

And don't forget to check out my auction ! : http://search.ebay.ca/_W0QQsassZtenchi58QQhtZ-1

I have a love/hate relationship with 3 days weekend...

I work compress hours. This means once every 2 week, I get a day off. Being the wierd guy that I am, I chose the Monday of the pay week. As the weekend arrives just before those fateful Mondays, I make some plans. I always plan something for the Monday...

Monday morning comes and I get off the bed around noon and do fricking nothing !

I've been planning to call this windows place to see how much it would cost me to cut a tempered glass panel to finally complete my second arcade cabinet. It's been almost a year ! I also got to finish my bathroom. At least, this one will wait until spring. I want to change the damn window before I complete everything.

At there's the eternal struggle to keep my computer/game room in order. I've been selling a lot on eBay recently so that helps. I can't believe how much old PC games can be worth something. I'm getting a new computer desk soon and I'm hoping it will help getting some spaces back in there.

Back to the Mondays . I do love having half of my Mondays off, even tho I do nothing, I'm not getting any stress either. What I hate the most is getting back to work on Tuesday. This is the day I want the most to stay in bed. Everytime...

BTW, just typing this post made me do many things : I checked my arcade cabinet to verify if the CPS-2 battery was not dead (pretty important if you ask me), put 2 new auctions on eBay and start preparing my stuff for my tax report.

I should post more often.

On the side note, my coworker Pat got a Nintendo Wii during his paternity leave. Way to go Pat !

Worst game of poker ever

Out of the 16 players announced by my friend, we were 11.

One didn't even want to play and at least 3 others didn't even know the rules.

I finished fourth, because I wanted to go home.

On the bright side, as Benson said to me earlier, this made me forget about my car for a moment. I was so pissed of the way this game was played that I didn't think about my car.

So I'm off to bed... hoping that my next game of poker will not suck as much as this one.

Two post in one day ! Wow !

I've been playing Wii Play this afternoon . Even tho the games are simple they are really addictive.

The difficulty to get a gold medal on every of the 9 games can be so simple in somes yet unachievable on the others. Let's say the Ping Pong. Return the balls 100 times and you're done. Got it on the first time. Trying to pass around 50 levels of Find Mii seems impossible.

I said it before, this game should have been a system pack-in. The games were made for 2 players while Wii Sports can accommodate 4 players. While both games are great, finding a Wii owner with 4 remotes is not something you can accomplish every day (I do have 4 wiimotes). At least Wii Play game in a DVD case.

Also this week, we saw a new Channel appear on the Wii: The Voting Channel. I find it quite entertaining to see the opinion of the other Wii owner. My favorite part is when I get to know if my estimate of which option was the winner. I've been right the whole time (that means twice).

I have to go take a shower and then I have to play some poker. I'm gonna kick some ass tonight ! I'll post if I win something.

First post

Yeah first blog entry ever. Could not be latter than that.

At least I got something to write for my first entry...

Last night, while my car was parked in the street in freaking front of my house, my car was the receiving end of a hit and run. I don't even know at what time, my car sat there during close to 8 hours. Now I'm hoping I can have the front fender and bumper fixed instead of replaced.

In other news, I got a friendly poker tournament tonight. I say friendly yet I don't even know the name of half the people there. At least, this might change how crappy I feel because of the car.

By the way, I won't talk anymore about the car until something else happen to it. This is suppose to be a geek blog. Next time I'll post more about me (probably in a couple hours, just to make it look like I'm a busy guy.