das spooken de voershgt

The doctors said I most probably had strep throat - the quick test came back negative, but she said it was classic strep throat. Started on antibiotics and it has gotten better, so it’s responding to the treatment whatever it may be. I’m taking it real easy, eating mostly soups. Well, drinking soups. Who eats a liquid anyhow? Nothing exciting to report, as I’ve not moved far from the bed, computer, or TV (don’t watch it, just play video games sometimes).

I’ve gotten a growing feeling of apathy though, I haven’t felt like doing anything, and anything I could do doesn’t feel that appealing. I’m sure it’s just because of my current lazy state though. I’m still maintaining the blog, so that’s something… right?

I promise one of these days I’ll start uploading some fresh photos. Just got to find something to shoot… nothing interesting when you’re in bed all day ;p

The bigger something becomes, and the more people who participate, the more apparent it becomes that there are too many idiots in the world. The Internet is one example. Another would be roads. When there are a few cars, it’s alright… but as soon as there is heavy traffic it seems that the collective intelligence drops dramatically.

Today Nadia and I went for a drive. We intended to go shopping, but after a few close calls in heavy traffic we decided to quit while we had our heads and go back home - before night fell and the full moon came out. One woman, at a t-intersection, cut us off and nearly had us  t-bone her. Okay. So she’s a bad driver perhaps? I dunno, but what makes it a great moment is the stupid expressions on their faces. I don’t mean rabbit in the headlights faces, I mean oblivious rabbit munching on a carrot in the middle of a NASCAR race.

Mmmm. Yummy carrot. hom nom nom nom nom.

We avoided at least three accidents - that I know of. The first one, the woman at the t-intersection, looked like she considered herself royalty. I’d imagine if we had hit her she’d have blamed us for it. Damn soccer moms.
Next, while trying to change lanes, the car behind us in the lane we wanted to change into sped up to close the gap - and I mean, really sped up, because the gap was quite generous. Then, when they nearly cause an accident and I shit my pants, they honk their horn at us. She changed lanes and overtook us, which was nice of her - let us know she was special enough to be talking on the phone while driving. It also gave us a good look at the damage on her front bumper bar, where it was apparent she’d done something like this before. And by that I mean speeding up, changing lanes, honking on horns, talking on phones and picking up plurals somewhere in that sentence.

…sometimes I wonder how people get their drivers licence. Or, to put it another way, sometimes I wish natural selection could work a little faster.

Gotta remember to start taking a camera out and about with us so I can document things.

Until next time!

Last night I booted up the xbox 360 to play a new demo that had been made available online (Burnout Paradise) but somehow I ended up playing Halo 3 multiplayer and… well, that was the end of that. I stayed up all night playing against people around the world (Ireland, Scotland, England, America obviously, and I suspect one of the European countries). You can talk to the players while you wait for the game to load, and to your team once you’re playing - it was interesting to talk to people from around the world. One guy was sneaking onto his sons 360 while he was asleep so he could practice and get good enough to beat him lol. I played with/against him a lot, he’ll need to practice a lot more ;p

I woke up to Clad and the kids annoying the crap out of me to get out of bed and set up the Nintendo Wii because they wanted to play bowling and didn’t know how to set it up. Well. You plug the yellow cable into the yellow hole. The red cable into the red hole. And the white cable? That goes into the white hole. Then you press the ‘on’ button. It’s an IQ test you see…

I don’t like it when people try waking me up by yelling at me, telling me off… etc. It just puts me in a bad mood for the day.

I think I’ll play a bit more Halo 3 now ;p

While driving around town for the vitamins Clad was saying we should do something, and we said we should get UNO. Yousef didn’t like the idea at all, he was in a bad mood over being dragged away from his Matrix game - but boy did things turn around when we got home and started playing. He wouldn’t give up, always wanting to play just one more game. Probably because I kept winning

We  started off playing with four of us, Nadia, Clad, Yasmeen, Yousef and myself (okay, that’s five. I can’t count), but then Clad’s boyfriend (Nich - yes, his name is Nick but he spells it Nich. No, he’s not German, he’s Brazillian) called, so it was just the four of us. When Yasmeen won, she left. Quit while you’re ahead eh? Then with the three of us, we would alternate between three players and one on one (me and Yousef) - and I one game after game, which drove him to keep playing one more game to try and beat me. It was fun - and no cockroaches! (but we bought a second deck just in case, lol)

These new cards are about half the thickness of our old ones, and they’re very shiny and slippery. I guess we have to play with them a bunch more to roughen them up, but the thickness (well, thin-ness really) is a bit annoying. Ho-hum, the game still works, so who’s complaining?

I’ve been looking for an online version so maybe we can play against eachother, I’ll let you know if I find anything.

Two (well, three if you include the photo) posts in one day! New record!