So, since my last posting, many more things have happened.
The obviously good is that my friend Billie has been to the baby making doctor (that's a thing, right?) and my little god child is a beautiful and healthy GIRL and will be coming in late September! Yay! (I was holding out for a velociraptor, but you know what they say about making plans... That you probably should not make plans... or... something. I'm bad at these things.) Little Leroy is safe and healthy and feisty and was pretty much the coolest thing I've seen in a doctor's office ever. So needless to say, I'm very excited for that.
In other good news, I'm in a wedding in September for my childhood best friend and former roommate Shepherd and her boyfriend (well, fiance, now) Tyke. So muchos congratulationadores to them as well!
Playing catch-up, my oldy-sixth birthday came and went. I fell out of a (very slowly) moving car, got extraordinarily intoxicated and got to see many of my peoples. Also, there was hummus and falafel. Good times.
In frustrating news, my beloved vehicle Leopole has been having radiator issues and I've just had the radiator replaced. And then, due to the improved pressure in the radiator, the radiator hose sprung about 4 leaks. Sigh. A trip to the auto parts store is in my future if I want to continue to be able to use my car. Thank god for heat shrink and duct tape and my fantastical roomie Quickie. A true life-saver and all around fantastical person, that boy is.
But, there is much to look forward to this fall, what with the impending tyke-shepster stravaganza and the emergence of the leroy-ciraptor. And, as if that weren't enough awesomeness, my friend Jimitri will be travelling home from Senegal to attend the wedding! I haven't seen him in 15 months, as he's been with the peace corps in Senegal since march '11. And I miss him horribly. So I'm ridiculously excited to see him. (And feed him cheeseburgers. And limes. Scurvy, man. Scurvy.)
But in the most recent downturn of events, in replaying my oh-so-beloved LoZ:TP, I fell victim to a horrible error in saving decisions and got stuck in the sky cannon room glitch. Sigh. (Real noise made: NERDRAGERANTSCREECHHHHHHH!!!!!!!) Essentially, in English, what that means is, I was in this part of the game with a sky cannon in it. A room, if you will. And in the early versions of this game, if you save while in this room, before talking to a certain guy, you will get stuck in this room. FOR-EV-ER. And that wouldn't be the worst thing ever, except that it's a room that you get to at about 4/5ths of the way through the whole game. And I was playing a completion round. So All my sidequests that I worked my tail off on? Gone. The awful king bulbin fights and the damned wagon ride run that I HATE DOING? I have to do them over. Because the only option now? Delete my game. It's a game, I get that. BUT I SPENT A LONG TIME ON IT. So this is disheartening, to say the least. To fall for one of the most classic blunders of all time! The first of which is: Never get involved in a land war in Asia. And only slightly less well known is to never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. But only slightly less well known than that is this: NEVER, EVER SAVE YOUR GAME IN THE SKY CANNON ROOM WITHOUT TALKING TO SHAD FIRST. (Only slightly less well known than that is that the cake is a lie.) So needless to say, I'm a wee bit peeved. (NERDRANTRAGESCREECHHHHHHH!!!!!!!)
So, barring any more disasters, the rest of the year is shaping up nicely. Here's hoping for the best!
Peace & Crackers, folks.
--Alamo
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