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first trip to the North American International Auto Show was today, and she was so excited it was a whole 15 minutes before she fell asleep.
The Senator and family also joined us for a double-family NAIAS outing, featuring Lexi and Lila holding hands for the majority of the event to make it harder to kidnap them.
While I already own the best car at the event (Focus ST) it was fun to look at all the loser cars trying to pretend they even came close. I did make a stop at the Lexus LFA to
honor it's multiplayer prowess in Forza Motorsport 5, but was disappointed when the rep informed me it wasn't really able to bounce cars into the ditch like it does so well in the game.
We hit the traditional stops, including the basement which was void of the typical electric car test driving leaving a sad empty space with a few parade items that somehow fit into new car purchases.
The toddlers survived a surprising 2 hours, which was more than enough time to see everything, so we were able to escape before the level 6 tantrums hit.
With the release of
Basemark OS II for Windows Phone,
a true cross-platform fanboy brag tool finally exists. I immediately
rated my Lumia 928 only to have it crushed
by the Senators
iPhone 5 and Myrns
iPhone 5S.
Fortunately someone already
posted a video of the Nexus 5 crushing both the iPhone 5 and my once yearned for Lumia 1520 so I had something
to throw back in their faces. My use of the word "crush" and "crushing" are of course appropriate because even 1 point of difference is enough to warrant a fanboy escalation (and I can always fall back on
"that isn't a perfect run, x factor was slowing it down!"
With no Kinect extension cord in sight for my new
Xbox One, it was time to take drastic action and order a mini-entertainment center. This involved rewiring my entire sound system, and purchasing a 50ft HDMI cable of questionable quality. Fortunately Lila was
more than willing to help me with the entertainment center assembly, and actually lined up the screws helped with the fasteners. I made sure to savor each moment as I'm sure it's only a few more years before she's utterly bored with helping me, preferring instead to talk exclusively to her comm implant. The end result was not as impressive as I had imagined, but much better than stringing the Xbox and Kinect in a line from the projection screen.
Today is the beginning of the coldest and snowiest week of the year, so naturally I wanted to bring Lila and Lucy to the new Dave and Busters that opened last month.
We tried to visit when Lisas parents were here, only to be greeted with a 2 hours minimum wait. Today we had no such delays, as everyone is deathly afraid of the snow
and decided to stay home. We made the most of the nearly empty arcade, with Lila bouncing from game to game before settling on the skiball machine where Lisa taught her the finer points of the game.
A stop at the "giant claw" machine yielded a full size basketball with the Detroit Lions logo on it, something even I know is a contradiction, but Lila didn't seem to care. 2 hours later, Lila was
finally showing her fatigure and Lucy was ready for something new. So ended our first and very likely least-busy visit to the new local Dave and Busters.
Christmas this year was
low key since I spent all my money on a new
TCL LE50UHDE5691 50in 4K Ultra LED LCD HDTV.
My old
plasma was finally showing it's age with the occasional 6 flashing lights of death instead of turning on, which most likely meant an expensive new ballast kit (I did still manage to craigst list it for $100 though).
We
entertained Lisas family this year, yielding me several achievements in Disney Infinity and Just Dance 2014 thanks to the power of
energetic cousins. Lila
thoroughly enjoyed the visit, and when they finally got sick of earning me
points I even took them for a trip to
jump zone.
With Lisa refusing to upgrade from her Lumia 800, I've obtained and sold both a
Lumia 900 and
Lumia 1520.
While I can't complain, her luddite ways have forced me to use a
SIM adapter trio to keep her SIM fitting in the 800.
Of course my only real frustration is new games (with achievements) coming out that require Windows Phone 8. They are constant reminders of how far behind my wife has fallen in the phone technowars.
After debating on an extra set of winter rims and tires for my Focus ST, I opted to keep the stock summer set despite the "YOU WILL DIE A HORRIBLE DEATH IN SNOW" warning that came with the car regarding them.
Today I captured the
reason for this warning, but with less than 6 months on the lease I can't bring myself to fix it. I'm now confident
this winter will be exceptionally harsh, and I'll be forced to buy new tires anyway when I turn in the car.
The longstanding gift one-upping between
Myrn and I left off with my gift of Battlefield 4 for X360, sealing his addiction to the series and
securing another squadmate in my colossal time wasting shooter. Interpreting my gift as something other than self-serving, Myrn decided to ship me some
fancy Mizuno running shoes and warned me a ninja would jump out and kill me if I tried to wear them in the snow.
I decided to call his bluff and sure enough, a ninja
jumped out and killed me when I wore them in the snow.
With my kidneys fresh recovered from Dorito and Mountain Dew overload, it was high time for another poor diet choice food to
tempt me with yet another free Xbox One. McDonalds stepped up to the challenge with
One Hot Holiday which
promises my chance to win an Xbox One. In reality, you win older games for Xbox 360 and random episodes of TV shows with the ever present tease of an Xbox One
or even possibly the Wolverine movie. Still, I can't complain about free games and decided to spread the holiday cheer by posting the codes up for the unwashed masses to
fight over.
Lisa and I arrived home tonight, and unbeknowest to us an owl was waiting for our garage to open.
He quickly took up residence in the rafters, judging us from above and stating in no uncertain terms he was planning to stay.
I immediately pumped up Lila about the owl in the garage, and took her out to meet this dangerous wild animal.
Despite her best efforts, Lila was unable to make enough noise to get the owl to peck her eyes out and left with what I'm sure will
be a life long impression.
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