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Happy Endings

April 21, 2011 Family / Food / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011 / Television
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Just fin­ished the first class in the NERT course. (More on that later.)

As I walked to the bus stop, I made an impromptu detour at Bi-​Rite Cream­ery, which I had not been back to since Chi Ba and Mike E came to town. Tried the Cof­fee Sun­dae this time, and it was awe­some. I’m a sucker for tof­fee bits. A happy end­ing to a good day.

Oh, and speak­ing of happy end­ings, any­one watch that new show? It’s a new sit­com about a group of young friends. (In fact, the girls seem to have a 1 – 1 cor­re­spon­dence to the girls of Friends.) The twist is that this show starts with Rachel leav­ing Ross at the altar. I picked it up for Elisha Cuth­bert, but the chick from Scrubs is also pretty good. Daman Wayans seems so mel­low, it’s weird. The other folks don’t stand out much to me one way or another.

Racketeer

April 21, 2011 Cars / Family / Games / Internet / Pictures / Post-A-Day 2011 / Travel / Video Games / Videos
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A few years ago, my mom’s side of the fam­ily had a larger than usual fam­ily reunion in order to cel­e­brate my great-uncle’s 80th birth­day. The older cousins (of which I am the youngest) planned a cousins-​only out­ing so the adults could have a week­end with­out kids underfoot.

Orig­i­nally, the plan was to bor­row some cars and car­a­van to Wis­con­sin Dells, a resort town about four hours away known for its many water parks. While research­ing places to stay, I found out about Great Wolf Lodge, which has a game called Mag­iQuest. The web­site and reviews made me think of an extended “Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters” type of Dis­ney ride, but fantasy-​themed. Penny Arcade just described it as “if they had RFID at Hog­warts.” My cousins would have loved it. (Hell, I’d prob­a­bly get a kick out of it as well.)

How­ever, Penny Arcade went on to reveal a darker side to this game:

Appar­ently, the peo­ple who run Mag­iQuest have been play­ing some Recettear. I have noth­ing against them try­ing to turn a lit­tle more profit, but I really hope they aren’t push­ing upsales on kids like this.

Any­way, we ended up not going because of time con­straints, and went to Water Park of Amer­ica (so named because of its prox­im­ity to the Mall of Amer­ica) for a sigle day instead. Still a lot of fun, though! I got to try FlowRider, their indoor surf­ing thing:

Maybe we’ll try for Mag­iQuest again this sum­mer. This year won’t be quite as big, but a good num­ber of the cousins will find them­selves in Min­nesota again.

Incom­ing search terms:

  • penny arcade about magiquest

Stealth Mode Disengaged

April 5, 2011 Cars / Family / Friends / Post-A-Day 2011
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Wow, I’ve been under the radar for almost a week! Sorry, every­one. I’ll try to make up for it this week.

I went back to Davis/​Sac last Thurs­day to do some car work. Unfor­tu­nately, it took longer than expected, and I ended up not com­ing back to SF until Mon­day morn­ing. While there, I was on Gio Linh’s net­book and tried to avoid spend­ing time on it.

Back on the car front, we did not fin­ish every­thing I had hoped to get done. How­ever, I do have power win­dows and power locks now! Thanks to Eddie C and Sum for look­ing out for me and get­ting this upgrade for me (and for free)! Sum even did the whole swap for me and let me use his wifi to work.

How­ever, Dong Ha was dis­ap­pointed to hear about my upgrade. Appar­ently, she thought that my car only had one win­dow crank that was shared across all four win­dows. (I actu­ally had all four cranks, it’s just that they don’t stay on, so they were usu­ally sit­ting on the car floor. I kept one crank in the arm­rest area to have quick access for toll booths and drive-​throughs.) Dong Ha told me she had planned to get me four Bedaz­zled cranks for my birth­day. What a shame. Maybe she can bedaz­zle the new switches.

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