Busy

Well this is getting busy.

I have a business meeting today where I get marked as it were a class based on my appearance and my business card (which I had shipped to me earlier this week).  After that I plan to meet up with an English prof and go through my current novel and get his thoughts/suggestions on how I can move towards getting it eventually published after I've finished my first draft.  After that I have to do some group work then go home and get a good night of sleep in because if I don't wake up early and lobby hard for myself, I might not be the camera operator/director of photography for this 3 page script we're shooting that I really, REALLY want to be the one in charge of the camera for.

Then after that I have to do a presentation and then I'm finally done for reading break.

Or not really.

I have an Essay and I want to film an inspiration video during that time.  Plus friends want to do some sort of Let's Play thing.

University.  It gets you running.

I'd post more on the Escapist and stuff but I'm actually fighting the clock these days.  My relief valve right now is Pokemon, which I'm playing more than I have in the last 6 months.  Thank god for portable gaming and thank you guys for an awesome 3DS to do it on. :3

Cheers!

-Red

So I did that replay video thingy I menioned in the FG chat

And this is the result.  I'm reliably informed that the audio still dips down but I'm understandable throughout the whole thing so I suppose that's alright.

This is the first time I've put up content with the intention of making a little bit of a series out of it since my ill fated Pokemon Yellow LP back in the day.

I wonder how this will all pan out when I'm done my first 17 replays. o:

-Red

That was incredible.... Thank you.

You.

You all know who you are.

You are the people on the Internet I've befriended and have never done anything to deserve such a gift from.

Today I came home after a frustrating experience in Calgary.  After a great visit with my friend Marter (one of the first of you lovely Escapists I've bonded with) I discovered I had missed my flight.  I had to pay for a new ticket and sleep on a bench for 6 hours to wait for the next flight home.  On the way back I had a baby wailing in my ear and I had some pain in my left ear as the plane descended.  I made my way to the public transit system and then hauled my suitcase and carry-on bags up 5 blocks.

Not exactly fun but that's life.

What happened when I entered my room after visiting with my land lady erased all of that instantly.  Upon opening a plain cardboard box I came upon something that instantly humbled me.  I literally couldn't speak due to the surprise.

But let's back up a little bit.

Due to the persistence of one amazing individual by the name of xmbts on the Escapist, I finally gave in and surrendered my address to her.  She sent me a package which I couldn't receive due to custom fees my landlady refused to pay.  The package was to be returned to sender and when I explained what had happened to xmbts she quickly got a hold of the shipping company.  By the time that was sorted out I was flown out East to have a terrific Christmas holiday with my parents.

After ensuring the package would not be turned away by my landlady in my absence a second time by leaving a note mentioning it, I promptly forgot all about the package.  So when I entered the door and my landlady mentioned it (before launching into a long conversation about stuff I didn't care about but had to endure for the sake of being polite >_>) I remembered it and figured it would be something like a shirt or a maybe a poster...  I had no idea what it was going to be but I didn't expect THIS:

As xmbts will doubtless retell to you, I couldn't really coherently respond for a time.  Certainly all of the weariness of travel melted away but something else dawned on me after the initial shock slowly wore off.  I haven't felt this way about a present since 1999.  The Christmas morning I woke up as an 8 year old and found a Gameboy Color under the tree with a copy of Pokemon Yellow and Super Mario Bros. Deluxe was the last time I was hit with such a speechless, powerful joy in a split second. 

xmbts was quick to tell me that it wasn't all her.  That Maxieon and others were behind it too.  I have to tell you right now that I cannot possibly say thank you adequately enough to describe how I feel about this gift but I'll try anyway:

THANK YOU FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY POKEMON LOVING HEART!!!

That was the best Christmas present surprise that I've had in years.  I feel bad that I can't know of a way to repay you guys in a better way but I suppose I'll just have to say this in the meantime: I am never leaving the Escapist.  Ever.  I want to be friends and hopefully bring smiles to you guys for decades to come.  You people truly have started 2014 in an amazingly positive way for me and after a difficult 2013 I can think of no better therapy than to start playing more Pokemon.  I totally believed I was done with the series seeing as family would never gift it to me again and I wasn't going to buy anymore Pokemon games myself.  I suppose this means I'll be wearing hats and shuffling around in the grass for a long, long time!

Seeing as I have a lot of playing to do now (I still haven't started Black 2) I will have to wrap this up.  I don't want you guys to do anything like this for me again, I think you might give me a joyful heart attack!  

If you guys ever want to talk, just hit me up. 

I could not be more happy today to be a member of such an amazing fellowship of gamers.

Once again I'm speechless, I have no more words.

Thank you.

-Red

First post of the year

My blog is called ramblings for a reason.  I saw it and liked it. 

I DO WHAT I WANT!

-Red

Last night of the year in British Columbia

Well friends, I say goodbye to 2013 on the west coast.

The remarkably warm 6 degree Celsius evenings are due to be replaced by -21 degree Celsius (-30 with windchill c:) nights in my cozy little hometown in Saskatchewan.  Yeah, I'm about to experience Winter for the first time this year...

Well, it's been an interesting year on the coast.  One I will never forget.

I leave my gaming PC behind meaning I'll be reverting to my Gamecube and Gameboy games for a month.  So there's that.

See you guys on Steam in 2013!

-Red

Oh Youtube...

Taken from the comment section of this video.

Oh nothing to see here.  Just a 4894 word count MLP:FIM fanfic here.  No sexualized fan-spunk here people.  Move along.

My gawd Google.  I knew it was bad.  I knew it was hideous.  I knew it was one of the most disgusting places one could go to read human interaction.  BUT FOR F*CKS SAKES!  The old comment section didn't have FULL LENGTH FANFICTION IN IT!

If I have to choose the lesser of two evils, I'll have the angry and irrelevant video shouting again.  500 characters was not enough space to put a love story between two fictional cartoon horses in excrutiating detail.  I shielded my eyes as I copy pasted it into Word to find out the word count. 

Fix it.

Please.

Fix it.

You just know the trolls are going to use this more than they already are.  The first part of a comment will lure you into a false sense of security until you hit that "Expand this comment" button.  Then bam.  You're looking at whatever they want to troll you with.

I hope the content providers migrate to another site.

And now, the obligatory:

I use Firefox for a reason.  I don't like Google.

-Red

Older

I'm 22 now.

So yeah, that happened.  Also people I know from the Escapist are awesome and giving me games.

I'm... humbled.  Don't really feel I deserve them.

...

Doesn't mean I'm giving them back!

Thanks guys, you made me feel great today! ^.^

-Red