Random Thursday Thoughts

Okay, the title is completely misleading. I don’t really have any random thoughts today other then, “I love hot sauce.”

 

We were playing some custom games last night on Halo and a couple of funny things happened. The game type we were playing was shotguns, but you can only shoot from the back of a mongoose. You can also throw grenades while on the mongoose and you can use any of the equipment. Twice, Rendara had grav lift mishaps. The teams were Malephar and me against Rendara and Skorza. We were on Rat’s Nest and were racing toward Rendara. Rendara was on foot and pretty much defenseless. As we got closer she tossed a grav lift toward us and jumped backward. We hit the grav lift at full throttle and smacked into Rendara. It didn’t kill her, but it took her shields completely down and I was able to finish her off with one shot as she tried to run away. Later on in the same game, Rendara was hiding behind a cement barricade. We were driving around looking for her and she decided to throw a grav lift as we went past. Not only did she throw it way to early, she basically threw it right at her feet. The result was the barricade lifted into the air revealing a crouching Rendara. What made it even funnier is that she tried to crouch walk to get away.

 

After we watched that clip several times, we re-watched an old clip from back when Halo 3 first came out. Rendara was standing at the main lift on Construct and decided to try and throw a sticky grenade down the shaft. The sticky did a loopty-loo inside the lift, came back, and stuck her in the shoulder.

 

Weird story of the day:

It was New Year's Eve, after all, and people may be in altered states where they see lots of strange things. But three groups of San Diegans swear they were sober enough to report seeing strange orange-yellow lights in the sky about 30 minutes after midnight. And the National UFO Reporting Center said Tuesday it got enough "similar reports from across the country" to warrant a follow-up investigation. Ryan Keegan and his wife, Rachael, were leaving a friend's party at their apartment complex in Bay Park about 12:30 a.m. when they saw the unidentified objects. They went in and got their friends and took pictures with a cell-phone camera. "We saw four orange lights in a square and right behind there were three orange lights in a triangle," said Keegan, who is in the home-financing business and whose wife is a kindergarten teacher. "There was no sound, no flashing lights, no vapor trail, just solid lights." They continued to watch the sky and Keegan said the group saw four more lights appear about 12:45 a.m. The lights traveled east to west, then disappeared in the sky over La Jolla. Keegan said he and his friends had been drinking, "but we weren't drunk being that it was Near Year's." About the time same in Pacific Beach, Dustin Gannon, an amateur astronomer, said he and about a dozen friends saw the lights from the backyard of his home.

Gannon described them as nine red dots that traveled across the sky for about seven minutes. About a half-hour later, the group saw four red dots. They captured the images on video. "We're still a little freaked out," he said. "It was really crazy. It wasn't fireworks."