That is my life. Get over it.

I am not sure if I am ready for the semester to be over, but part of me is really glad it is ending. I did manage to have a job interview FINALLY. It was at the clothing store Ross, and I think it went rather well. I now have a second interview there on Monday with the head of the “Loss Prevention” guy for the area. So that would be cool if I finally got a job, and I think it should work around my school schedule just fine.

Also… Clash of the Titans comes out this next week. YES.

I also wasn’t sure what to throw up as a picture header for this post… so I just put a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.

Over the next several days, we did a lot of stuff in our nation’s capitol. We went up the Washington Monument. We visited many of the museums at the Smithsonian where I saw a bunch of fossils, The ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz. I also saw THE Star Spangled Banner (as in the one that was seen for the anthem). There was a bunch of cool stuff in the museums.

We also went to Mt. Vernon, and toured Washington’s house. That was pretty neat. Kris lined up a bunch of tours through our representative  Jim Matheson. We did get to meet him later in the week. He was a pretty nice dude.

Other tours included the White House (which is OLD), the Pentagon (Which was friggin awesome), and the Capital Building (Which I spent most of the time ogling the cute tour guide/intern). Toward the end of the week Kris and Kayla went off to Pennsylvania to visit family and my mom and I went south to the Williamsburg area.

Williamsburg was the biggest rip off I have ever seen. No joke. Jamestown and Yorktown were bother really interesting however. Around this time we went to 5 Guys… WORST BURGER EVER! No even kidding. I don’t think I will EVER go back to one again.

And that all led to us coming home. We were delayed getting on the plane to begin with. After we all finally got on, we were just ready to take off when the plan pulled off the runway. The captain came on and said someone had been very sick in the rear bathroom and we had to return to the gate. Like an hour and a half later we were finally taking off. The lady I was stuck sitting next to for this entire thing had some serious issues. She had like a twitch which led to her constantly elbowing me in the side. And she sat so it was impossible for me to sit back in the seat properly (I being a fairly large, wide shouldered man in a very small narrow airplane seat). It was TERRIBLE. Then the onboard Satellite cut out JUST as The Italian Job was starting on FX. It was a sad sad day. But we finally got home. And now I need to clean up my room and bathroom and deal with school again. LAME.

But it was a good trip anyway.

Today however, I had enough. I pulled my guitar out and tuned it. And I stumbled through. I totally suck again (I was never very good to begin with) and it was all REALLY painful. But I don’t want to stop again.

I’ve got a lot of work to do.

There were 2 points I had issues with:

1. The new ammo system. The idea that ammo would be used instead of overheating like the first game was a good one. The issue is that they rarely let you pick up ammo. There is apparently a shortage of ammo. I spent half of my missions unable to use certain weapons because I didn’t have any ammo left for them. “But Matt you must have just been wasting it.” No I wasn’t. This system REALLY REALLY REALLY needs to be worked out for Mass Effect 3.

2. The same issue I have with all Bioware games. The END BOSS. Seriously Bioware. WTF!?!?! Spamming minions to get to the final boss. Final boss is this seemingly huge enemy yet is the easiest thing to take down in the game. I didn’t even come close to dying during this “Epic Finale”. There were many points in this game where it was close and I barely made it out, and there were several where I actually died and had to go back.

There were also some nit picky things that bothered me such as the slow scanner for when you search for supplies on planets. But this was rather minor in the over all experience of the game. Even though if you want to survive the end you better upgrade your stuff. Because you or teammates will die.

This play through I lost two of my team. Tali (who I didn’t even want back from the first game. Never used her then never wanted to use her here.) and Mordin Solus who was actually an enjoyable character to interact with.

That is really the thing Bioware is good at. Story and characters. I found the squad mates you acquire in this game far more interesting then those in the first game. Even the returning members (Tali and Garrus) were interesting to deal with. Well not Tali. Seriously why did you bring her back Bioware?!?!

The starting members you get Miranda and Jacob were fun to deal with. Both were a lot more deep in character history then the two you started with in ME 1 (Kaiden and Ashley), and that holds true for every character in the game. Speaking of Ashley, that was a lame appearance in the game and same goes for Liara. Just because you can throw them in doesn’t mean you should Bioware. Also I should have been able to kill Udina. I wanted that in the first game. However I liked the larger roles Joker was given in parts of the game.

Two of the most interesting Characters were Legion and Thane. I wish you were able to pick up Legion earlier just to have more interactions with him. Thane should have been available earlier than he was as well. Thane was easily my favorite character in the game. He is the calm, reserved assassin and his species (The Drell) was really cool.

All said and done there was superb gameplay, story, voice acting and RPG elements to the game. It was still a massive upgrade from the first Mass Effect game, and I am really looking forward to seeing how Shepard manages to completely eradicate the Reapers in the next game. Which will be in like another 2 years… Hopefully sooner.

Mass Effect 2 is a must play

I woke up this morning with eye issues again. My stye had apparently gone away and this morning my eye was so swollen I could barely open it. I have also learned that my prescription on my glasses is REALLY outdated.

Then the Colts managed to pull it together and win the AFC Championship. This Vikings – Saints Game has been annoying. If Favre hadn’t thrown that football there with :15 to go they could have made a field goal. But no now it is annoying over time. Screw that. I don’t care anymore. I just can’t believe the Saints have done well enough to get this far.

I wish I could see out of my eye right now.

That is all