My Day Off and a Game Vid

I took yesterday off for a few reasons. First, I had to go and renew my drivers license, which was exciting. Second, I had to wait for the Orkin guy to visit our house because my wife freaked out when I showed her the dead Black Widow I found on our deck. Third, I wanted to run out and get a few things at Best Buy/Circuit Shitty/wherever. Lastly, had I gone to work, I would've had to leave early because my wife had to pick up our son, take him to the pediatrician for his 1 yr old visit, and then leave to go to class well before I'd be home on a normal day.

The DMV Office

It started with the quintessential long line outside of the DMV office before the doors were opened. The officers inside stood around and laughed and shot the shit in the many minutes preceding precisely 08:00:00. Once the doors were opened, the chaos ensued. We were herded into two lines. Naturally, the line I was in was slowest because I just wouldn't be me if I didn't get in the slowest line at the grocery store or behind the 80 year old man driving 15 mph under the speed limit on a two lane road or, well, you get the idea. Despite being in the middle of the entire line, I was one of the last to get my slip with my sequence number.

I was sent to the waiting area of four rows of chairs in the back corner of the office. The chairs reminded me of those in my high school cafeteria. So I went to the back row in the corner and there were three empty seats to my left and a wall to my right. Wouldn't you know it, a big, loud, smelly bastard came in and sat right next to me. He immediately commenced to sneeze and cough. Great.

By now I'm pissed because I've got Bubba next to me, I'm probably going to catch whatever the hell he's got, and I forgot to bring my book that I'm reading. Then an officer comes over to us and asks if any of us speak Spanish. Okay, let me get this straight...I live in a state with one of the fastest growing Latino populations in the U.S. I'm in an office of employees dedicated to serving the people of NC, and you're asking us if we speak Spanish? Then the guy next to me says to no one in particular, "If you don't speak English, you don't get a license!" Oh boy. I'm pretty sure the woman and young girl in front of me are speaking Vietnamese...Bubba's staring at them with contempt.

After about an hour of waiting, which I thought was probably better than the average day, I got called to desk #5 and promptly took my eye test and identified some road signs, which oddly enough, some of them had actual text on them ("55 MPH", "Yield", "Stop"). Then they took my pick, gave me my drivers license, and probably chuckled quietly to themselves as I saw the worst picture of me ever taken on my card. Seriously, I look like a pervert or something.

The Orkin Man

Luckily, a very nice, very competent man visited my home to control pests. He didn't bother me much, had me quickly sign the forms, and explained things very well. My only complaint was that he was a heavy smoker, so he stunk up my kitchen, and his dentition was horrible. Being an employee of a dental school, I look at people's teeth probably more than the average person. I think his were being held in by calculus. Eh, as long as he's cool and does his job, I guess it shouldn't bother me.

Best Buy Then Circuit Shitty Then Sweety Then Home

So I wanted to get an S-video splitter and a back up battery for my cable modem and internet and phone routers. I thought S-video splitters were common. Wrong. No one carries them. Some guy in Best Buy tried to help me find one, but after a few minutes, I was certain he couldn't help me find my way to the front door. I found someone else who immediately said "We don't have that, sorry." and went to Circuit Shitty. I looked around there and after a minute or two was convinced they didn't have it either. Despite that, I asked a young woman who pointed me to the supervisor of the audio/video area. He could've played the part of Wormtail in Harry Potter without needing any makeup. Surprisingly, he told me he's never even seen an S-video splitter as if they didn't exist. Okay.

I then went to a place called Tweety, which is an audio/video store that caters somewhat to the "G's" that want super expensive stereo equipment installed in their $500 1989 Mercury Topaz. I normally wouldn't have gone there, but the guy at Best Buy said they'd have an S-splitter and I really wanted one. As soon as I walk in there, I'm identified as not being one of the people they like having in their store. A man in a nice suit walked up to me and without even looking at me, asked if I needed help. He was looking around the store sort of like a guitar player looks around the stage during a performance...you know the look, like something more important might be happening in his peripheral vision. I asked if they had what I wanted, and the guy actually turned around, started walking away, and then told me they didn't carry it. Thanks asswhipe.

Since I'm very introverted and feel zapped of energy when I'm around, you know, people, I had had about all I could stand and went home. It was nice to take some time, play guitar a bit, work on finishing up my tage, and screw around a bit on XBL.

That was my day.

And now, here it is, my blog vid. It's a 3v3 slayer game on Midship that ends 50-49 (MGK, Turmoil, and me vs. neks0ne, BlueStarNF, and Gettin Blunt3d). I will say that neks offered me a $1 to replay this match since he was having controller issues and replaced it with a new (and apparently functioning) one. I PM'd him and asked him to send me my buck via PayPal. He hasn't paid yet. ;) There are some good sticks in this one and it was a fun game. The one we replayed finished 42-50 in the other team's favor and I came in 6th place. I won't be posting that one. LOL.

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As always, criticism is welcome. Next time I'll post a game where I get destroyed so you can all have a good laugh. :D

Jared

EDIT: Apparently the video has no sound.  Sorry.  I messed up something, and none of my videos from last night have sound.  Sorry.