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After finding the 13 Xbox 360 games with the
easiest achievements available, I promptly rented three of them for some achievement overload. As
mentioned previously the points do nothing but boost your nerd status, of which I felt mine was in need of boosting. The
Avatar game was just as easy as the video promised, boosting me up a full 1,000 points in 1 minute, giving me shivers. Fortunately
Stavos came over to not only clear the cobweb from my
Gnome Cam, but also to help me beat "Big Game Hunter" which started to devolve us both into toothless drunk rednecks. I'm still working on my third game, "Jumper", which seems to randomly hand out achievements, which is in line with the game genre of "button masher." In the end I should be close to 3,000 points cooler and on my way to nerdvana.
Today was another open track day at Waterford Hills. This time I brought my new
Aiptek 1080P Cam corder for some in-car video, and uploaded my second session both
before and
after my redneck camera mount got loose and fell over. As you can see, the camera has no image stabilization whatsoever, so it's only slightly improved from my
last attempt at in car video. Between my first and second session, while I was watching the course, I heard the sickening sound of crunching plastic and metal and ran over to find a Neon had hit the grass and
swerved into a wall. The damage was
pretty major having hit the wall doing close to 50, even
buckling the roof. Apparently accidents are common at open track days, but this being the first one I witnessed I made myself useful running around like an excited idiot until I got a hold of a broom to help clean up the debris.
It's odd. I thought that would be big news. I have searched all over the internet and there seems to be an absence of a certain ornithological piece. An article regarding mass awareness of a certain avian variety. Oh, have you not heard? It was my understanding that everyone had heard. Well if you have not I suggest clicking
this link.
With the anniversary of Lisas successful
capture of my assetts, it was decided we would
visit Mackinac island to celebrate. While not a big fan of an island that smells like horse poop, I did finally find a fudge I can tolerate thanks to the 17 fudge shops located there. It's cherry chocolate, and it made me into a confessed fudge packer. The rest of the island reminded me of a retirement home, save our tandem bicycle which reminded me of a 60's surf film. After initially visiting their corporate offices 2 hours away thanks to a navigation error, we also managed to make it to the
Shipwreck Museum and
Tahquamenon Falls, both easily the highlights of the trip.
Coming
almost yearly now, another
Google AdSense check arrived today. With Google on track to becoming the only profitable and surviving business in our coming post-apocolypse economy, it's comforting to know I have a reliable income from them. Hopefully Taco Bell won't charge any more for their food after they become the only remaining fast food restaurant and I can stretch my checks and metabolism into a dormant-stage survival mode until Sylvester Stallone gets unfrozen and shows us how to have sex again.
After the Cougar Whisperer fixed my alarm issue, the grinding noise I kept hearing got louder. Initially thinking it was a bearing, I finally
examined the wheel hubs and discovered my rear brakes had been
severely neglected. Having changed my front brakes 3 times, my stock rear pads had finally worn down to bare metal thanks to a caliper seize. My trip to get the rotors turned ended badly when both rotors flew off my motorcycle and into traffic, rolling to the curb behind me (well at least one did, for all I know the other one is lodged in somebodies radiator). Now the brakes responsible for 20% of my braking are
back to 100%, which by multiplication means I can now stop 2,000% better!
After a less than exciting day at our Garage Sale, we were visited by
Ron and Jen for operation Ron's Cougar Storage. On completion, and after a refill at Steak & Shake, my complaints about my malfunctioning alarm system on my car prompted a diagnosis from Ron. A quick internet search and 7 taps of my hood latch sensor later it was all better. The Cougar whisperer told me it was in a diagnostic mode the whole time, immune from battery resets. Only the tap sequence could save it from continuous alarm (annoying even with the fuse pulled). He also brought a successfully extended Wii sensor bar I
asked for earlier, requiring a jerky showing of The Love Guru over my less than reliable network connection as a thank you. I even had to call off the
L.A. ICE sting I had planned, especially now that he's on track to being less Canadian than me.
Today I was given a reason to live again,
Enorym 24/7! After
Enorym found the service, which re-broadcasts video from your internet-enabled phone, he quickly got over 30 viewers glued to their screens. The life of Enorym has eclipsed all other entertainment options and I predict it will soon replace all media broadcasts. Catch a glimpse of your future, a vegetable slave to the entertainment of Enorym. Highlights today include vehicle quality commentary, disturbing video download, call from a disgruntled customer and co-worker arrival. All with the constant "boss background noise."
Typically, the only gaming achievements I care about are my
Xbox achievements. Without them, my satisfaction of accomplishment would not exist and I simply would not play games. The points have no purpose other than bragging rights, but that's the only value needed for an obsessive compulsive nerd such as myself.
EternalOne likes to tell me Steam came out with achievements before Xbox, and tries to tempt me into playing, but his lies do not fool me. Today he finally gave up trying to get me to play, and instead made the smart move of offering up Marco to get them for me. The temptation was sufficient to surrender my account credentials and now I can say I have an achievement farming operation
in progress.
After reading various praises about
Seafoam, and watching their Pepridge Farms themed
how-to video, I decided to spend the $7 and give it a shot. My constantly excited neighbor decided to join me in the test for maximum smokification. While I'm not sure how well it actually cleaned my engine or did any of the other magic things it claims, it did make a nice
smoke show for the whole neighborhood to enjoy.
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