Disney World here I come! :o)

Well the wifey made an executive decision today, and booked us and the munchkin on a Disney World trip for the end of June! (Or is it Disney Land? Well, whichever one is in Florida).

We were planning a road trip across western Canada, hitting up a bunch of places. However, we recently got a break on turning in our current car (wifey thought we'd owe a bunch on repairs, but they waived those repairs due to us getting another vehicle there). So, not having to spend the money on that, and taking into account the money we would have spent on the Western Canada road trip, she figured this was a good time to hit up Disney. Before the munckin is no longer a munchkin!

So, anybody have any suggestions on things I CANNOT MISS in Disney World/Orlando?

Posted by Jedi_Kez @ 4:45 pm EDT | Permalink | 8 Comments

Hands of Stone and Two Left Feet

Both qualities pertain to me, yet for some reason in the past week I have picked up both Guitar Hero 2 AND Dance Dance Revolution: whatchamacallit for the 360!

My fingers are far from dexterous, and I definitely dance like a white guy. So why did I buy these games?

Guitar Hero 2. I bought this mainly due to the buzz around this game. Seems everybody digs it. Also, I really dig Elite Beat Agents for the DS, so I figure this game will be just as enjoyable.

DDR: whatchamacallit. 2 reasons I bought this game as well. For exercise. To get my wife playing games too. She said she'd be interested in it, so here's hoping I can get her lazy ass away from the computer to get jiggy with it.

Do I regret any of these purchases? Hell No! At least not yet. I fumbled my way through Easy in GH2, then went into Medium. It started kicking my ass. I've since went back to Easy and began working on 5 star ratings. I'm almost done with that, so in 5 or so playing sessions, I've definitely shown major improvements. DDR2 - I really, really suck at this so far. If I am not getting the timings right, then I am fumbling trying to center myself back on the mat. I find myself getting off center quite frequently on the mat, which is annoying, and causes me to miss steps. I get the impression the packed-in pad is kinda crappy? Anybody know of a better pad? Preferably not one that will break the bank (so around 50 to 80 bucks I guess).

Oh, and go ahead and laugh at me playing DDR... I'm a big man, I'm okay with my wussy game purchase

Posted by Jedi_Kez @ 11:38 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

Car thieves in my city suck

If it isn't bad enough that car theft occurrences are insanely high here in Winnipeg, this past Friday a stolen car purposely ran down a 49 year old jogger! This was after the same car buzzed a handful of other joggers.

WTF?!?!

I hope these kids are found... actually I don't think it will make a difference, they'll get their little hands slapped and be back on the streets in no time. The Young Offenders Act is a joke, and it desperately needs to be amended so further steps can be done to keep punk ass car thieves off the streets, especially ones who try to run down pedestrians.

This better not be the new 'thing' that is 'cool' among car thieves in the city, or I'm moving!

Posted by Jedi_Kez @ 11:59 am EDT | Permalink | 2 Comments

Crackdown & Gears leads to lack of sleep

Played my team's (ARTofWARx2) final ladder match for Gears of War last night. Looks like we are going to end up 3rd (maybe 4th, depending on games today), which is pretty damn good! Oh yeah, first team to reach 10 wins! Yeah yeah, I know, we also played the most games - all the credit goes to Doscon our team leader, he did an awesome job finding us at least a couple of matches a week!

The ladder ends after today, then we get to play a tourny with the top 8 teams. This should be interesting. I hope we get to play the teams ahead of us, as I am curious to see how we'd fare!

I think I logged 2.5 to 3 hours of Gears last night. After the ladder match I logged off and did the dishes - if I would have left it any longer, then I'd have an even bigger pile to deal with the next day! Plus I needed to get up and stretch out a bit before I sat back down to some Crackdown addiction!

I ended up doing Crack(down) until 1:30 in the AM! Ack! I got into one of those situations where I was saying to myself: "okay, once I get my Firearms skill to 4 stars, I'm logging out". Of course once that happened, I said the same thing about Strength... then explosions! And would you know it? As I was leveling my Explosion skill I pretty much wiped out all the enemies around a gang boss, so it was now, let's kill this boss before bed. *sigh* addictions suck... it's a lot of fun while playing, but the next day at work just sucks!

So, here I am, just ate some lunch, read up on all the forums I check out here, and decided I needed to write a journal to keep me awake! I'm already made my way through 2 extra-large coffees from Timmies* - and I'll be getting a third in a little bit.

*Timmies in this situation refers to a very popular Coffee chain in Canada called "Tim Hortons". I was not talking about getting coffee from young, annoying, punk-ass, parents should beat sense into Timmies we encounter online gaming!



Posted by Jedi_Kez @ 2:05 pm EDT | Permalink | 3 Comments

My very first blog here!

Well I finally got around to setting up a blog title image as well as a background, which means I am finally going to start blogging here! I just never felt very comfortable doing so until I made it look a little nicer!

I'm actually really happy with the title image, it was so quick and easy to set up, I even found a font called Han Solo, which gives it a Star Wars-ish feel.

So, I guess I'll do a standard first blog and say a bit aboot me (yep, "aboot", I'm Canadian after all, eh?).

Personal
Name: Brian
Age: 29 (currently). Born in Aug '77, which means I will be the big 3-0 soon.
Birthplace: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, eh?
Current Residence: same as above - yeah, I never got outta my igloo much
Family: Married to Megan, who came with a kid (McKenna) and a cat (Moe), so I got myself an insta-family! Been married since July.
Job: DBA (DataBase Administrator). Take care of numerous Sybase and Microsoft SQL Servers, and a couple of Oracle databases for good measure. My employer is my province's public auto insurer.
Hobbies: Gaming (duh!), reading, browsing the web, movies (most genres), some television (like Lost, Heroes, BSG, and reality shows - my guilty pleasure).

Site-related info:
Clans: ARTofWAR (Gears of War clan - full of great people!).
Game Systems: Xbox360, Wii, DS Lite, DS (and I will never own a PS3 as I hate Sony), oh and a PC
Currently Playing: 360: Gears of War, Marvel Ultimate Alliance Wii: Rayman, VC games DS: Elite Beat Agents, Final Fantasy Advance VI (actually a GBA game).
Next games planning to buy: Wii Play, Crackdown
Joined Site: Aug 31, 2006 (and it was the best thing I ever did! Old Halo2 group fell apart, and couldn't handle the Timmies anymore!

Anyway, that's more then enough, and I need to go watch a few shows I have piled up on my DVR before I need to hit the sack! See you all soon!

Posted by Jedi_Kez @ 11:38 pm EDT | Permalink | 9 Comments