Weekend of June 6th, 2014

Well, Friday started out crazy.  If you have seen that some crazy nut tried to shoot up a courthouse in Georgia, then you've seen my local news.  Looks like he had big plans, but made it about 5 foot instead.  My town isn't segmented like some other cities, the jail is a walk from the courthouse, so is all the police deparment... including the SWAT team.  See, the SWAT team was geared up and ready to move, they never said for what, but I suspect a training exercise or something... within 40 seconds SWAT was there, and all the cops that are stationed throughout the courthouse area was already shooting the guy up.  An officer was shot in the leg but he's expected to be fine.  My mother knew the officer, and I probably met him a time or two myself while I worked at the theater(the cops work there on semi-duty on the weekends).

Playing though Shadow of the Colossus, I refuse to look up any info on the puzzles.  Actually, I kind of resent that they give you hints while you're fighting them and there's no way to turn them off.  The entire fun for me is in the puzzle, not in the doing.  I'm confident I can achieve whatever they ask when it comes to skill and mechanics, the "fun" is figuring out what I"m supposed to do.  Anyway, to further this point, some people would hate the ones you get stuck on.  I've had a couple that took maybe 30 mins to an hour for me to get right, and one that actually I stopped and finished the next day.  Those have been my favorites, the ones that challenged me.

I figured out my "unique" thing I want to do with my computer when I build it.  I wanted to have some sort of mod to it and learn how to do some new things.  I loved my old computer case from my last computer build.  It was big, it was massive, it looked like a transformer.  Thing is, it was a MESS on the inside.  There was basically zero way you could do cable management and have it look good, even with cable extensions.  No really.  I looked it up online to see if anyone ever made anything impressive with that model.  The best mod, to tell the truth, was a solid panel instead of a window so you didn't have to see inside the thing.  I want to do something I'm proud of this time around.  My concept will even work if I have a mini-LAN/media center PC, they'll work together and look neat.  When I'm closer to it being a reality, I'll have a lot of updates.

Sunday I made reuben egg rolls.  Its weird how, there is almost no way a kid would ever like the taste of a reuben, but when you get older, you want them to be more tangy, disgustingly pungent and filled with more and more sauerkraut.  I had corned beef, swiss and the kraut inside the eggrolls, then made 1,000 island dipping sauce for them.  They were baked instead of fried, and still came out well.  Having the cheese on the layer closest to the wrapper made all the difference.

Stuff this week:

I should be finishing up Shadow of the Colossus, so I'll be making a post-mortem about that.  Also finished Attack on Titan.  Thirdly finished, me and my girl finished the last of David Tennant's tenure as The Doctor.  So I should have posts on all that eventually in the next week or so.  Oh and Sony's E3 press conference is pretty much the only one I watch, so I'll have notes taken and a big write up about my thoughts on that.