Monthly Archive for April, 2008

Mario Kart Wiiiiiiiiiiii!

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Friends Code for BigCat:
5284-1809-7406

Let’s do this BIATCHS!!!!

Lightening can strike twice in the same place

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Current Mood: (frustrated) frustrated

So while I was diligently planning my security system and working out ways to fund it someone (meaning the same person as before) broke into my house again and re-stole all the stuff that was just re-bought to replace the other stolen things.

This includes: The new wii, all the games, the new laptop, and about 2/3 or 3/4 of our DVDs.

This time, no broken window. Oh no, the entire front door was kicked in, now necessitating my front door being boarded up. This incident comes complete with a new round of me paying the deductible, and getting more insurance company checks.

The ironic part, the check for the window repair and the depreciation value of the wii arrived yesterday.

It is no longer a matter of figuring out how to pay for a security system, it is just where we are willing to put the debt required to buy the thing or to build it.

Needless to say, we are more than a little upset today. I had to bail from work before 2pm, and having been through the process once before we were able to make all the calls and get things boarded up before 7pm. The CSI people came out and fingerprinted the crap out of my house this time. And the guy pulled out all my AV stuff from the TV stand this time in order to pull out my ipod dock along with the Wii.

I was fortunately able to use this as an excuse to properly re-route and cable tie all the system wiring, and make it all look really clean.

Again, I feel super blessed that no one was hurt, and that the police have responded really well to this break-in. I’m also very happy that this time I properly installed the lojack software on the laptop so if it connects to the internet we should be able to find it.

So anyway, if I’m not participating in much this weekend or for the next week or so, that is why.

New TV and Wii

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My new Samsung LCD HDTV arrived last Thursday, and it is now set up (roughly, I need to get the cables organized in the back) Pictures below:
Vain TV pictures )
I also managed to get out and buy a new Wii finally (it only took three stores, ending at a Toys R Us).

New Friends Code for the Wii System:
0116 6635 7274 9982

And I bought Super Smash Brothers Brawl, Metroid Prime 3, Guitar Hero 3, and pre-ordered Mario Kart.

I also got a points card and directly downloaded the internet browser and Mario Kart 64 (which handles funny relative to the old one…maybe it was my MKDD that is messing up my ‘feel’, but it feels different to me w/ the gamecube controller on the Wii).

SSBB Friends Code (Why do they need one for the game and the system…this seems dumb):
2320-6156-4256

Anyway, despite my hatred for all things Smash Brothers, the game looks pretty tight and in general there are a lot of people who aren’t like me, and I need a good party game to compliment / offset Mario Kart when it comes out.