Christmas Party

Tonight's one of the nights I dread all year long - party at my wife's boss's house.  As much as I threaten to introduce myself as "Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger" or fake illness or drink myself into a coma, my wife still insists that I have to go.  I don't like the people in her lab.  They're the kind of people that you can have a conversation with and yet, when it's over, you never really felt like you were acknowledged in any way whatsoever.  There are a couple that are nice, but they're actually friends of ours, so it's unnecessary to attend a lame party to hang out with them.  That's the good news, I suppose.  My buddy Adam will be there and I should be able to throw down enough beers to render everyone else tolerable.  At least I'm off work tomorrow, so that's something to look forward to...that, and the party ending.

We're leaving for PA on Friday night.  Usually we break up our drive by stopping at my wife's aunt's home north of Balitmore and spending the night there.  However, I'm thinking about heading up VA-17 to I-81, making the entire trip all at once, and avoiding DC.  I figure that since Christmas is Monday, the world will be on I-95 on Friday night.  Thanksgiving was an absolute nightmare traffic-wise the Tuesday before turkey day, so I'd prefer to not experience that unpleasantness again.  Of course, Amy's worried that this will upset her aunt, but I'm sorry.  Oh yeah, I'm taking my XBox 360 up there.  Amy asked me if I was taking it, which, strategically, is a mistake since posing the question implies permission.  :D

Oh yeah, yesterday we're driving to Southern Season and about a mile or so from my house we see a crime scene unit, several police officers, and law enforcement vehicles outside of this house.  Apparently, four men posed as police officers, invaded the house, handcuffed the occupants, put plastic bags over their heads, and got to stealing stuff.  The word is that it was drug related and the perpetrators knew the occupants of the home, but I'm still waiting to find out.  I'm glad they caught the guys because I'm always nervous when someone knocks on my door.  The world's not a safe place and I don't have an eye hole in my door.  Usually I just yell "who is it?".  If police come to my door, I might just call 911 to find out if it's really the authorities.

Had some fun customs last night with Shawntomitall, Bioslayer, Rebirth, Torn, Psybertech (Bioslayer's brother), MrWhite, and Stridog.  I think we did a good job to keep the teams well-balanced.  I'm happy to see my assists per game is rising.  I think VoD has really helped out with showing me how to keep active, not chase, and establish strategic positions on the map.  I was hoping to upload a CTF Midship game that I unfortunately had to end early because Mr White dropped out.  The game went almost 9.5 minutes and I had 13 kills, 12 deaths, and 16 assists.  After every game, I look at assists, shots fired, and shots hit.  I've consistently been in the top of THC and custom games with shots fired and hit.  I'd like to get my hit % up a little, but that's hard to judge since I'll often fire off multiple bursts in the hopes of landing just one of them.  Oh well.

Here's an oddball game on Lockout we played last night.  Sort of a messy game but it was fun and a close one.  Enjoy.

Jared