Jedi_Kez's Blog - 2old2play

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I got the dreaded RROD on my Elite

It was bought in 2008, so at least I'm covered.

I'm away for a week now, so I won't even be able to send it for a week yet! Ug.... I don't know what I'm going to do... maybe see if I can borrow my bro's 360 when I get back next week.

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New ARG - frenziedwaters.com

This seems like a pretty cool ARG which has you finding very cool "aged" jars containing items relating to shark attacks. Seems to be a promotion for the upcoming Shark Week on the Discovery Channel.

Instead of reiterating what I already typed out, please see this forum topic in our Off Topic forums:

http://www.2old2play.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=56101

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Slurpee Capital of the World - again!

This is just crazy, apparently my city (Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada) is the Slurpee Capital of the World for the 10th straight year! (well according to 7-11 sales). Here's a news article from my local newspaper:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/10-years-of-brain-freeze-were-no-1-slurpee-sippers-again-50347352.html

quote: "Specific numbers aren't available, but Winnipeg sold 20 per cent more Slurpees than Calgary, which finished second. Southwest Detroit placed third."

What makes this extremely crazy is that Slurpee sales remain good throughout the year, including the winters where it is commonly as cold as -30'C (-22'F) and even as cold as -40'C (-40'F)! How do people even want to drink a slushy cold drink in those conditions? LOL.

I was a multi-visit per day patron of my local 7-11 in my high school days (it was a 5 min walk away from the school), but I was more of a Super Big Gulp guy rather than a Slurpee guy.

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Good DEED for the day

Just got back from donating blood! This is the 24th time I've done such a thing, one away from a milestone, lol! I think they give out a special pin at 15.

You know what gets me? After all these donations, I'm still nervous as hell when I am waiting there for the needle (more like straw!) to be inserted into my arm. It almost never hurts or feels uncomfortable, but still, there I am, shaking like a little puppy in a thunderstorm, lol. What's up with that?

I also do my best to never, ever, ever make eye contact with the needle again. I did that once, and I swear I seen clean through the hole to the other side. Thing looked like a straw. I told the nurse to hold on and give me a few seconds first, lol.

Tonight was supposed to be "arm" night at the gym with my bro... I think I will have to change that up to legs, don't want to start rebleeded all over the place. I'll have to also take it easy on the cardio afterwards too. They say not to do anything strenuous for 6 to 8 hours afterward... I'll be in that range when I go to the gym, so I "should" be okay.

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Thanks again for everybody who voted for my daughter in my previous posts. As it turns out, we did not win, in fact didn't even make the top 10. Oh well, next time!

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LAST DAY OF VOTING! PLEASE VOTE!

LAST DAY OF VOTING!

Last day I will be begging y'all for a vote!

Thanks everybody who voted so far! We appreciate it!.

Today is a new day of voting (DAY 14), meaning everybody can vote again!
If you want to continue helping out, please take a few seconds and vote again:

http://winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids?search=McKenna&commit=GO (click the red Vote button)

Also, it seems voting is browser cookie based and not IP-based, so you can vote on each of the web browsers you may have on you computer! (Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, etc). Wish I would have thought of that earlier! Would have added like 5x as many votes just from me alone!

I should find out tomorrow morning who the winner is. I will post when I find out!

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Vote [Day 14] for my daughter & Happy Easter

SECOND LAST DAY OF VOTING!

Thanks everybody who voted so far! We appreciate it!.

Today is a new day of voting (DAY 14), meaning everybody can vote again!
If you want to continue helping out, please take a few seconds and vote again:

http://winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids?search=McKenna&commit=GO (click the red Vote button)

Also, it seems voting is browser cookie based and not IP-based, so you can vote on each of the web browsers you may have on you computer! (Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, etc). Wish I would have thought of that earlier! Would have added like 5x as many votes just from me alone!

(Grand Prize: http://www.winnipegscoolestkid.com/prizes)

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Oh, and Happy Easter everybody! Hope you all have a fun one! Now off to steal a chocolate egg when my daughter ain't looking... *shifty eyes*

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Vote [Day 13] for my daughter & Spring Cleaning

Thanks everybody who voted so far! We appreciate it!.

Today is a new day of voting (DAY 13), meaning everybody can vote again!
If you want to continue helping out, please take a few seconds and vote again:

http://winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids?search=McKenna&commit=GO (click the red Vote button)

Also, it seems voting is browser cookie based and not IP-based, so you can vote on each of the web browsers you may have on you computer! (Firefox, IE, Chrome, Safari, etc). Wish I would have thought of that earlier! Would have added like 5x as many votes just from me alone!

(Grand Prize: http://www.winnipegscoolestkid.com/prizes)

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Spring Cleaning

Yep, that's what I am doing with my 4-day weekend, cleaning the house. Damn it's like a family of pigs live in this place... I'm so going to need more than 4 days

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Vote [Day 12] for my daughter & I think I'm addicted

Thanks everybody who voted so far! We appreciate it!.

Today is a new day of voting (DAY 12), meaning everybody can vote again!
If you want to continue helping out, please take a few seconds and vote again:

http://winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids?search=McKenna&commit=GO (click the red Vote button)

(Grand Prize: http://www.winnipegscoolestkid.com/prizes)

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I think I'm addicted....

to the gym! Methinks that's a great addiction to have. I realised this last night when I was at the gym and ended up staying 3 times longer than I planned! I've only really started up the gym a week ago, but in the past 5 days I've gone 4 times (the other day I went out for a run). The last few nights I"ve also been sleeping like a baby, which is great cause I've been doing a lot of tossing and turning the past few months.

I actually keep my iPods at home when I go to the gym, instead I'm using my ancient Creative MuVo MP3 player (512MB), cause it has an FM tuner on it (Fuck you Apple for being so fucking stubborn on this). The FM tuner is important as there are TVs all over the gym that broadcast the sound over FM. So, if I'm there and there is a good show on, or a hockey game, I can now listen to it. If not listening to the TV, I tend to listen to some podio/podcast novels (currently: "7th Son Book One - Descent" by J.C. Hutchins). If you want some great novels to listen to, check out podiobooks.com! Scott Sigler and Hutchins are good, and I recommend them.

Speaking of the gym, I think I'll be heading over there shortly. I cannot think of a better way to get the Easter long weekend going! (I have both Friday, and Monday off, so a 4-day weekend for me)!

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Vote [Day 10] for my daughter & twitter client

Thanks everybody who voted so far! We appreciate it!.

Today is a new day of voting (DAY 10), meaning everybody can vote again!
If you want to continue helping out, please take a few seconds and vote again:

http://winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids?search=McKenna&commit=GO (click the red Vote button)

(Grand Prize: http://www.winnipegscoolestkid.com/prizes)

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In need of a better Twitter client (for the Mac)

I started out using Twirl, then moved on to TweetDeck. My problem with TweetDeck is it seems to start to fuck up my macbook after a while. I've tried redownloading it, and the same thing happens, my mac tends to start to slow down after leaving it up for a while. I already have this issue occasionally with Firefox, I don't need another application being a hog.

So, I am looking for a new client (for the Mac). Anybody have any suggestions? Or do I go back to Twirl? I recently heard about something called Seesmic (sp?). Might give that a try again.

Oh yeah, if you are interested in following me on Twitter (right now I'm more of a lurker than a poster though), you can find me at:
http://www.twitter.com/Jedi_Kez

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Vote [Day 9] for my daughter & fitness fun

Thanks everybody who voted so far! We appreciate it!.

Today is a new day of voting (DAY 9), meaning everybody can vote again!
If you want to continue helping out, please take a few seconds and vote again:

http://winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids?search=McKenna&commit=GO (click the red Vote button)

(Grand Prize: http://www.winnipegscoolestkid.com/prizes)

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My Nike+ avatar (nikeplus.nike.com)

Well I went and commited to the gym (Shapes) for a full year last night. My trial membership period was almost up, and I decided it is time to go full force into getting into some semblance of good health. This gym is slightly more expensive than my local YMCA, but it is so much bigger. Even when the parking lot is full, there is no problems getting on the equipment. Oh, and being open almost 24/7 is a good bonus too. I'll have to do a 5am workout some day.

Now I need to rag on my brother to sign back up so I don't have to go solo all the time. My sis goes too, but she tends to hang out on the woman's side and not the co-ed side. I need to get the wife interested... I wonder if I can my sis to rag on her to be her workout partner

I also started to run around my neighbourhood, damn does that need work. At this time I am really pushing it hard just to make a single kilometer without having to revert to fast walk speed. But, I have already started noticing some endurance progress, even after just a small handful of runs! I think my goal is to one day run a marathon. Probably won't be ready for that for a long time, maybe 2011. I'll definitely have to try a half-marathon first.

Last night was a gym night, I think tonight will be a run. It's sunny out and the path I run on is bone-dry (despite all this crappy white snow on the ground). Plus, my nike avatar just told me he turned into a couch potato, and that his legs could use some exercise, lol!

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Vote [Day 5] for my daughter and my avatar explained

Thanks everybody who voted so far! We appreciate it!.

Today is a new day of voting (day 5), meaning everybody can vote again!
If you want to continue helping out, please take a few seconds and vote again:

http://www.winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids/321 (takes you to my daughter's page, click vote)
http://www.winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids/vote/321 (cast the vote directly with this link, saves you 1 click!).
http://winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids?search=McKenna&commit=GO (if the above two aren't working)

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Avatar Explained

Those of you not in my main gaming clan (ARTofWAR) may have noticed my colorful avatar (shit, even color blind people probably get blinded by it, lol) and wondered WTF is wrong with me. Well it's not that I am gay, I like me the women-folk, and have no desire for another man's twig and berries The avatar is an inside joke that got out of hand in the ARTofWAR clan forums. When the New Xbox Experience (NXE) came out, and we all got these fancy new avatars, I decided it was a happy time and I showed that by grabbing a pic of my avatar and putting that bright rainbow in the background. You see I had to do this. The avatar thing was hotly discussed everywhere, with most people saying it's dump and retarded and it should all stay on the Wii. I just had to do the rainbow thing, cause that's how I roll.

It was an instant hit. Tons of remarks about my sexuality, and the only way it would be more gay is if it had butterflies and unicorns. So, of course, I added butterflies! The only reason there isn't a unicorn is I don't really think there is room. But if there was, it would have to be "Charlie the Unicorn" (search on youtube for the vids), or his pink or blue unicorn buddies from the videos.

This avatar change led to lovely nicknames from my clanmates like "Rainbow Bright", "Rainbow Warrior", "Rainbow Kez", basically anything to do with rainbows. I get constant abuse and teasing from my clanmates. But I know that is because they truly love me. We all tease the ones we love, that's just how this shit works. I could change it back to a less colorful, less gay avatar, but really, where is the fun in that?

*Disclaimer: even though I am not gay, I have no issues with anybody who is. It's your choice who you want to be with, and I fully support you. I apologize if the usage of the term "gay" in this blog was offensive to anybody

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Vote (again) for my daughter [Day 4] and sore back

Thanks everybody who voted so far! We appreciate it!.

Today is a new day of voting (day 4), meaning everybody can vote again!
If you want to continue helping out, please take a few seconds and vote again:

http://www.winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids/321 (takes you to my daughter's page, click vote)
http://www.winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids/vote/321 (cast the vote directly with this link, saves you 1 click!).

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Today my back is sore, and it's all the snows fault. It isn't super bad, just a small pain, but I'm a guy, and guys like to whine when sick/hurt . The snow was wet and heavy and a lot of it. I even shoveled the snow off the street infront of my driveway. Why did I do all that? Lessoned learned I guess. AND, there's a chance of snow today/tonight.

I just want the snow to clear up so I can get back into, uhm, starting my running routine. I may go tonight anyway, the path by my house is higher than the ground, and asphalt, so it should be fairly clear and not full of dangerous ice/slush. I should also take the time to calibrate my Nike+ setup too, I noticed it was a little off on my first run/walk I did like a week ago now.

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Vote for my daughter and weather sux

Hey all, my sister-in-law signed my daughter up for a contest with a local radio station, which is based off internet voting.

So, this is where I need ALL OF YOU to help... follow the below link and hit the "Vote" button once per day, that's it!
http://winnipegscoolestkid.com/kids/321

No need to register or anything, just go to the site and click once, that's all I ask! Shit, I think even Lusetti could figure out how to do that

Voting runs from Mar 30 to Apr 13, so if you can vote daily that would be super duper awesome!

Thanks all!

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Damn, what the fuck Mother Nature. 2 weeks ago almost all our snow was gone here in Winterpeg. Now in the past week you deciding to shit white stuff all over us. I really enjoy having to shovel on APRIL FIRST! This is a sad, sad April's Fool joke you cold-hearted bitch. Now I think we have more snow on the ground then we got all fricken winter. This was the worst winter evar!

I wish Global Warming would happen faster

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Weird Winnipeg Weather

How's this for crazy weather?

This morning it was -50'C (with windchill), and 4 days from now it is supposed to be +2'C!!!

That's -58'F to +36'F for all ya yanks!

We get all kind of extreme and funky weather here

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Christmas Concert - thumbs down :o(

So last night was the daughter's Christmas Concert.

I must say, it was not very good, not very good at all. (Thankfully it was only 1 hour).

I know that seems a mean thing to say, but the concert last year was LEAGUES better! EXPONENTIALLY so! Half way through this year's concert I asked the wife if the school had a new music teacher, she said "yeah". I said "it shows".

Last year's concert was so much more energetic, and entertaining, and interesting. I thought every single song sung (and play acted out) was great last year. This year there was no energy. The bulk of the program the poor kids just basically stood around, looked bored, and sang their songs. Occasionally, some groups were doing some 'dance' moves - but that was basically shacking their hands around. There was only one song the entire night that was 'good' and interesting.

It simply amazed how much difference a single teacher can make. I'm saddened that the music teacher from last year is gone... I can only hope the new one gets better by next year's concert!

On an unrelated note, I'm feeling pretty crappy today... this better pass by fast! I don't want to be sick during xmas!

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