What a Wild Six Days

These past 6 days have been anything but normal. It started off the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday having to go to a web conference from 11 Am to 5 Pm and watch a PowerPoint presentation that I had a copy of in my hands. The main reason for me to be in that webinar was to learn about something that was only touched upon with an hour and a half before the conference ended (for those of you keeping track at home that’s 18 hours of webinar [no breaks or lunches] and only spending 1:30 minutes on it). Why was I there? Why did I have to put up with that? I could tell you, but I’m not going to. Anyway, I normally would have gotten off of work at 4 pm, but because of this conference, I was leaving at around 5:30 pm. It wasn’t the extra hour and half that was worrisome; it was the feeling of not being at home on time was what was weird.

I did manage, though, to get a new episode of Geezer Radio up for download.

If that weren’t enough, Saturday and Sunday was a blur of video games, a debacle in Dallas and sleeping from 6 pm Sunday until 6 am Monday. Let me explain further. My good friend (and probably best friend) SparkStalker and I participated in a 24 hour gaming marathon for pediatric cancer research which was called Extra Life and started by SarcasticGamer.com. I have written up a review on the whole event from our perspective and given it to the founder of Sarcastic Gamer in the hope that he puts it up his website, and if that doesn’t happen, then I will post it here.

But back to the point. Extra Life was fun and not as difficult of a task as I thought it would be. I had no problem staying up the full 24 hours. The only real problem both Spark and I had was defeating Halo 3 on Legendary. That’s right everyone. Spark and I played the entire game of Halo 3 on Legendary in one day! It was an accomplishment. I also played four acts of Gears of War on Insane to finish out the day. But I think the funniest thing that I heard that whole day was when I told Spark about me playing Viva Piñata, he responded with, “You and those (expletive deleted) piñata’s! I laughed for a good twenty minutes after I heard that.

The debacle in Dallas...I don’t want to talk about it except to say, I wish I were a hockey fan. But I’m not.

This week, though, I’ll be back on my regularly scheduled schedule...(does that make sense?)