Street Racers and Poke Battles

This past week has been an interesting one. Started out with a Karaoke adventure that ended prematurely because I started feeling really ill and also included the room randomly clearing whenever a new Pokemon was announced to be running around outside. So far a number of friends have been out late every night doing laps around the major Pokemon areas, one of them out until 3am with about 100 other people. Then, since there's a gym literally in front of my house (but unfortunately not close enough to access which would have been GREAT for trolling), we've had the daytime horde of children and teens fighting over it. Then between...let's say 10pm and 2am we get cycle of small strike teams that will either walk or spontaneously jump out of cars to come take the gym and then just disappear into the night. The cycle is usually Yellow > Red > Really strong Blue > Weak Yellow. Last night it stayed blue. Not that I'm monitoring it or anything. But literally anything anyone says in the middle of the park is amplified and echoes because the houses are in a semi-circle around it.

Oh and then a couple nights ago I was woken up at 3am by street racers when one of them (a beige/brown truck...like actually a truck...street racing) didn't realize the road ended and promptly slammed on their brakes to stop. Doesn't really work when you're going 120km/h+ in a 50km/h zone, so I woke up to tires squealing, then a crunch, then more squealing, then some engines revving, then one final squeal. Eight minutes later the police show up and one of the neighbours goes out to talk very loudly to them (not that the entire block wasn't already awake. Went outside to assess the damage the next day and well...

This is the fourth time this has happened in some form. This wasn't the worst though cause the truck drove away with its two buddies. The worst was when a couple of high teenagers were speeding, didn't realize the road ended and crashed through the park to hit a tree on the other side. No one has been seriously injured yet, but it'll likely happen eventually. I mean singing lady is out there at 5am a lot.

Today's theme for Soundtrack Not Thursday is stuff people have been trying to get me to watch and I just haven't had time for yet:

Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood - Chris and Amy both say this is good and encourage me to watch it. I binge-watched the original series when I was a teenager after a high school friend died. No idea why I did that to myself, but it wasn't bad. Apparently this series is better.

Walking Dead (Vol 1) - Nope still haven't watched any, much to a lot of people's surprise and disgust. What? Zombies just don't really interest me. Yes, I know it's more than that etc etc.

Daredevil Season 2 - Watched the first season, but haven't gotten around to the second season. Still waiting for Jessica Jones season 2.

Also if you would like to see one of the most anguishing moments I have ever experienced in a game. Enjoy.

PS - If anyone is wondering, I'm Instinct. I think the dodgeball Pokemon group (this is kinda hilarious when you think about it) are all in denial because they keep telling me to take the gym in front of my house for Valor. And I'm like sure...for "Valor." I'm literally the only one in that crew on team yellow. 90% of them are Valor and the rest (like 3 people) are on Mystic.

PSS - Pro tip: Put your coffee down before you try to catch Pokemon.

PSSS - With the coffee incident, the two times I've fallen up the stairs with drinks and the spill of an entire glass of lemonade all over my desk, I feel there is a sippy cup for me in my future.

PSSSS - You both scary and hilarious America.

A Little Dizzy...and Soundtrack Not Thursday

Yeah, so let me tell you a story about my Thursday.

I woke up yesterday and the room wouldn't stop spinning, so I stayed in bed for about another 10 minutes until I felt like I could actually sit up without falling back over. I had some crazy vertigo, so I decided I should get it checked out at the doctor. I drove myself over there (in hindsight...probably not the best plan) and waited a good hour and a half to see a doctor. And I nearly went insane. There was this fellow who wouldn't stop calling the office over and over and the poor woman at the desk got so frustrated she just left him on hold. And then he stayed on hold. For ten minutes. It beeped constantly. For ten minutes. Add a couple of loud children playing with car keys and nothing to do but listen to crummy country songs about being abducted by aliens (seriously) and you'll understand how I began my murderous rampage.

Okay that didn't happen obviously (the rocket launcher on order was NEVER DELIVERED ALEX), but I got in there, was made to wait longer because there was an emergency (which is fair enough) and was out of there within five minutes after a diagnosis of an inner ear infection. I cannot do anything about an inner ear infection, but wait for it to get better. At least when you hear me complain about my ear hurting in the Half Life 2 videos, we now all know why it was hurting. This should not affect my LPs, but it will take about 2-3 weeks to get fully better. On my way out of the office there was this massive car crash in the intersection...which is like a 50km/hr zone so I have no idea how these people managed to completely total both cars. One had t-boned the other I think. Hopefully both parties are all right, but seriously one of them had to have been going at least 30 over the speed limit. In a residential area.

Like seriously. How am I going to be a bad influence if you're smushing all the corruptible young minds?

I was already extremely late for work at this point, having emailed my coworkers to tell them what was going on. I drove myself to the office (which I'm not really supposed to do with vertigo tee hee) and arrived to find out that I had left all my things at home aside from my phone and wallet. I freaked out for a good couple minutes in the parking lot before I just shrugged and went inside. I quickly ran upstairs to get to a team meeting. I entered through the door and everyone was standing there with glasses of sparkling wine and within seconds I'm handed a glass. Apparently the meeting was to celebrate the launch of one of our communities (which I'm not allowed to talk about quite yet, but I will in a few days). So yeah I was essentially late for a party. I was super happy because I had no lunch with me and suddenly, SANDWICHES. I spent the remainder of the afternoon on a loaner laptop trying to get something useful out of google documents.

And the point to this whole story is that there was no soundtrack Thursday yesterday, so that will be happening today. Yay.

I'm going to make it a Jesper Kyd day.

Assassin's Creed 2 - Actually one of my all-time favourite soundtracks.

Hitman 4: Blood Money - Haven't played the Hitman games. Michael has played a few. Still, I am very familiar with the soundtrack. I used the first track in the compilation to inspire part of a story.

It's cold in here again. Good thing I didn't take my blanket home.

QUICK LUNCH BREAK SONG

AND ANOTHER ONE

Okay. I love Miracle of Sound.

Borderlands 2 - Haven't played this one yet either. I have been told that I should. Just another one to add to the list...

Darksiders 2 - The Literal Trailer for this is probably one of my favourite things ever. Watched an LP of the game and it looked pretty bad. Mesk you would vomit reading the comments on this video.


Not much to tell you about LPs at this point. May be working on another project with Voyeur playing Neverwinter Nights. If that happens, you will see what my face looks like when I play video games. I apologize for all the screens I break in advance.