Master Sarge
Sundays… Normally a day to poke around the house… make breakfast… maybe do some laundry…
Not now it seems…. Halo2 is a sucking vortex of time, energy. (and stupid fun).
I’d blog but my thumbs are still aching from clocking an embarrassing amount of time yesterday running around and shooting people in a virtual environment….. and… I have no clean underwear this morning.
the gypsy rig
The impending garage sale is tomorrow… The house looks like we just moved in.. Boxes and crap everywhere.
Yesterday was XboxLIVE night… Thin crowd… sinnabor and bleepkeeper. The only game we’re good at, Mech, they don’t like to play – but hey – interactive fun is interactive fun weather your kickin’ ass or the ass kick-ee.
While I was on the road yesterday, I popped into my the local Radio-Smack and picked up a bag of adapters. In order to broadcast com chatter to speakers so everyone can hear, (and if you don’t want to screw with soddering connections) –
*this set up is for use with amplified computer speakers with a 1/8″ (Mini) stereo jack.
total cost – $21.48
Few and far between are ye who know I worked there for five years through high school and the first part of college.
I used to be embarrassed about my tenure at the texas-based, leather goods trader turned gizmo peddler. I mean,… come on.. It’s fucking Radio Shack. How geeky is that?
But when you consider the occupation options for 16 year olds. A smidge over minimum wage plus a modest commission was a great job. Sure I had to wear a necktie and dressy clothes, (the perfect opportunity to flex my then tragic late-80′s sense of fashion… ChessKing anyone? Anyone?)…. Sure I had to pass out battery-club cards… But it was all worthwhile when I’d land that sale of “the new HANDHELD cellular phone! Only $1400 and just a little bigger than a brick!â€.
There’s an odd place for Radio Shack in our contemporary consumer culture. Still to this day, (although it seems less so) – if you have an odd connection puzzle, rest assured you can stop in and get expert advice from guys who need to get a girlfriend.
I too was one of these advice dispensing, diagram drawing, geeks… (Except I didn’t “want†a girlfriend).
Sales experience, above all I think, is really the best thing a young person can get. Regardless of your life path, (at least in our culture), “Sales†touches everything you do…
Even a fancy-schmansy blog is really a form of sales.. If I had a blog, I’d be in-theory selling you on the concept, (the package) which I would portray as my life and thoughts.
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mojo kickin booty with running monkey commentary
With some persuasion, (read as screaming on the telephone), we got the home warranty folks to dispatch someone to come look at the AC unit today instead of next week. We’ll see what today resolves.
sinnabor has set us up with XBox Liveâ„¢ kit so we may join the Thursday LiveJournal XBL Fun. Despite a rather tedious and nosy set up process, I was crashing into telephone poles and generally getting stomped like a nark at a biker rally in Midtown Madness in no time.
I sometimes can’t believe how far game consoles have come. I can still CLEARLY remember my parents bringing home an ODYSSEY2 and damn near peeing myself.
A trip to Radio Shack is in order to rig an adapter so the the com chatter can be broadcast over a speaker allowing all three of us to listen in.
We had fun despite the eighty some odd degree holding temperature in the house. Thankfully XBL only supports voice chat and not video – otherwise we would have mortified our opponents with the spectacle which was the three of us sitting around sweat covered in swimming trunks and wet washcloths draped on various parts of our bodies.
It’s amazing the nice folks you meet on LiveJournal…. well – you know, if you have an account and everything.
which I don’t.