alabama_old_fart's blog

When I joined 2old2play back in '05, I was looking for a clan to join.  Found Art of War and played a lot of Gears of War.  A LOT.  Recently, several of us have started playing it again about once a week.  Now, I'm decent at most video games.  I'm a rhythm player and once I find it, I do pretty well.  Not gears.  I suck so bad at this game.  Can't snipe, can't hit anything with a torque bow, my boomshots seem to cotton candy, and nades blow up my team mates as much as they do the enemy.  Despise shotty circles, win one out of 50 consistently.  Can use the pistol, but they seem to have done

At the insistence of one of my clan mates and as a way to pump up Art of War, I signed up for this tournament.  Normally, I avoid these things as I tend to fold like a lawn chair, but hope springs eternal and maybe this time is the charm.  Anyway, one of the things for the draft was to post your k/d and accuracy.  Funny thing, almost every person's k/d is over 1.  Who the heck is everybody killing?  Are there that many bad Timmy's?  Or, I have heard stories of 2old2play people sitting in a corner and shooting people as they walk by.  Haven't witnessed this since we shamed some people for it

At the insistence of one of my clan mates and as a way to pump up Art of War, I signed up for this tournament.  Normally, I avoid these things as I tend to fold like a lawn chair, but hope springs eternal and maybe this time is the charm.  Anyway, one of the things for the draft was to post your k/d and accuracy.  Funny thing, almost every person's k/d is over 1.  Who the heck is everybody killing?  Are there that many bad Timmy's?  Or, I have heard stories of 2old2play people sitting in a corner and shooting people as they walk by.  Haven't witnessed this since we shamed some people for it

Was playing CoD:MW last night with my buds and jumped into a room with another 6 playing as a group.  They were talking about a Weird Al song and one of them said, "That's before these kid's time".    I got to thinking, does everybody older than 14 fall into the trap of thinking every other player is a timmy?  They had us muted so they didn't hear my protestations of old age.  I'm only 7 years younger than Weird Al so  I bet he didn't make any songs before I came along.  It has been a mixed bag having to listen to timmy lately.  The almost continuous use of the n word bothers the hell out o

Was playing CoD:MW last night with my buds and jumped into a room with another 6 playing as a group.  They were talking about a Weird Al song and one of them said, "That's before these kid's time".    I got to thinking, does everybody older than 14 fall into the trap of thinking every other player is a timmy?  They had us muted so they didn't hear my protestations of old age.  I'm only 7 years younger than Weird Al so  I bet he didn't make any songs before I came along.  It has been a mixed bag having to listen to timmy lately.  The almost continuous use of the n word bothers the hell out o

I was playing the other night with some of my clan mates and I told one of the AOW "Tarts" she had a nice set of getaway sticks.  Out of the five people playing, nobody knew what I was talking about.  It took 2 more people joining until finally one of the 3 older than me knew what that meant.  Since then I've asked everybody and only 2 people knew it immediately and a couple more knew once they thought about it.  Has nobody watched Mickey Spillane?  Any of the old gumshoe movies?  I'm not a big fan, but I have sat down and watched a few, the ones where the private dick is in his office smok

I was playing the other night with some of my clan mates and I told one of the AOW "Tarts" she had a nice set of getaway sticks.  Out of the five people playing, nobody knew what I was talking about.  It took 2 more people joining until finally one of the 3 older than me knew what that meant.  Since then I've asked everybody and only 2 people knew it immediately and a couple more knew once they thought about it.  Has nobody watched Mickey Spillane?  Any of the old gumshoe movies?  I'm not a big fan, but I have sat down and watched a few, the ones where the private dick is in his office smok

Love killing me some undead Imperial army!!!  Have played this so much lately that I have started playing by myself.  Made it level 6 all by my lonesome, thank you.  However, an unfortunate nickname has arisen during this playtime, "on your back bama".  For some reason, I tend to go down quite a bit.  I'd like to blame my teammates, but I don't think I can.  Can you really blame holding a grenade too long on your team?  Yes, if they're whoring points and you're desperate for speed cola or juggernaut soda and need the money.  Last night, I got my retribution.  In 20 rounds, I was the last on

Love killing me some undead Imperial army!!!  Have played this so much lately that I have started playing by myself.  Made it level 6 all by my lonesome, thank you.  However, an unfortunate nickname has arisen during this playtime, "on your back bama".  For some reason, I tend to go down quite a bit.  I'd like to blame my teammates, but I don't think I can.  Can you really blame holding a grenade too long on your team?  Yes, if they're whoring points and you're desperate for speed cola or juggernaut soda and need the money.  Last night, I got my retribution.  In 20 rounds, I was the last on

So here's the thing.  I was playing last night and talking with an Italian friend of mine.  She was telling me of a cooking class she taught in an area that is definitely not known for its ethnic cooking (or ethnicity of any kind).  She said it went fine until they started asking her if they could substitute some of the ingredients for others.  Now, I enjoy cooking although some of my methods could be called into question, not to mention some of my combinations (taco spaghetti, my easy bake chicken parm).  I've been making a lasagna recipe for 17 years that I got out of a Good Housekeeping