8:12 AM
The day starts with Gump on a rampage. I had him locked in the computer room over night because it’s the safest room in the house for him. He has a tendency to want to hide in a closet or somewhere where he can find total darkness when the world is pissing him off. In that regards we’re a lot a like.
Sadly, for him, there’s nothing like that in the computer room. One thing I’ve learned from all our years together is that his choices of pitch black places to hide usually make it impossible for anyone to reach him without major work. His most recent pre-injury spot was in the back of the far end of the closet in a tiny space where it seemed impossible for anything to fit in. Somehow he got in there and slept for a a while. When I needed to get him out for dinner time he took great delight in knowing that it would take me a half hour to empty the closet just to get him out.
Closets are closed now, just in case. He doesn’t like it. But I don’t care. He’s not getting his headgear stuck in anything on my watch.
Going down to evil Jim’s tomorrow to play some video games and probably to go see “Tomb Raider.” Kevin, Evil Jim and I have a cool friendship where half the time all we want to do is sit around and lounge. No need to go to the mall or to a bar or to a big production number about hanging out, the college-style hang out of playing video games, eating junk food and vegging from time to time is enough to take away the stresses of the work week.
Right now our game of choice is the Fire Pro Wrestling D game that I mentioned in a previous blog. I’m not going to kid you, the graphics are 2d and it looks like the old WWF Genesis Games mixed with Nintendo Pro Wrestling and the Arcade WWF Wrestling Challenge. The wrestlers are cartoonish but that’s a good thing. To make up for it there are about 1500 moves to make custom wrestlers with, and among them, Evil Jim takes great delight in the 700 or so that drop a guy directly on his head.
Yes, we’re geeky enough to make ourselves and our other friends in the game. In fact, the characters we end up playing are primary out of that pool of guys since we can customize them to do the moves we like. For the wrestling fans out there, Evil Jim’s favorite move is a Vader style short arm clothesline where he Irish whips the guy towards the rope then pulls the guy back into a clothesline. I don’t have a favorite move myself, I use about 6 different characters, and right now I’m still working on getting Robyn, Laura and Anne from Chat into the game.
Robyn’s pretty much finished now since she was so easy to do with the anime hair. I think she’s a mix of American pro wrestler (that’s a style in the game), and power wrestler. She does a lot of awesome little moves designed to make Evil Jim cringe since his massively powerful character is getting beat up by a cute little anime girl.
While I’m going off, there’s a reason we have the skill setting at “1.” I don’t know if the people of Japan have massively great reflexes and timing, but anything more than “1” for skill setting on this game and the computer is guaranteed to kick your butt. Not only kick your butt, kick your butt in such a way that you look at someone or something to blame for it so you can make a little scene while quietly putting the game level back to 1.
Such is life. It’s silly, but it’s mine.
Out again,
k9