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Just A Lil Sumpin' Sumpin' to Say I'm Still Alive

Soo yea. I'm typing this from my new rental house as I mooch off of a neighbor's internet, waiting for my internet stuff to be sent to me via mail. Oh, wonderful.

Stuff is getting steadily put in its place. Yesterday I spent nearly all the money we accrued from getting married (you know, when people give you stuff for getting married and such. They call them "showers"...note the sarcasm).

We went and had a heyday buying groceries and furniture and all the stuff both big and small that was still needed for the house. Problem for me is, most of the aforementioned furniture was Target assemble-it-yourself stuff. It looks nice, don't get me wrong, but it's a pain in the butt. I finished one and got about four more major projects to go.

What makes it worse is that this furniture has to be completed so we can finish unloading the boxes. Stuff has to have somewhere to go! And this furniture is all there to provide us with storage space we didn't have previously.

Anywho, I got one week til school starts and no real time to relax. Sure, we have been sleeping in some, but that's not really my idea of relaxing.
I wanna just chill and watch movies and such.

Anyways, there's a little update for any concerned. I just happened to come back to see the new Gamespot, which I'm sure is old news by now. Looks pretty snazzy.

And for all the smartalecs out there, I'm still keeping some form of the Dark Knight review bottled up in the back of my mind :P. I have been so. freaking. busy. Day in and day out!

Latas!

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Now I'm Gone Again!

Yup, didn't last for long did it? Actually I'm only gone for...well...a day or two. Tomorrow, my wife and I are leaving her old home and moving the remaining stuff via our cars into our new home some good hours away. It's not huge but it is a considerable distance. Enough so to be very annoying. I can't see out of my rear-view mirror with all the stuff in my car. Bah.

Anyways, I may or may not have access to a computer tomorrow, but even less likely is internet access unless I can mooch off of a neighbor. Anyways, point is, wish me luck in my second move. The first one was just furniture, this is all the loose ends.

Unpacking will be a pain in the butt.
Especially after driving.
Oh well, I'm done complaining now...haha. I'm just ready to settle down is all :D

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I'm Back!

Just got back from the honeymoon today! The cruise was pretty amazing if I do say so myself! I still have to get my land legs back though...haha. Everywhere I go it feels like I'm swaying.

So anyways, I'm a little bit poorer now, but nothing major. Honeymoons can do that to ya. So it seems I have a lot of catching up to do! I'll read up on the blogs some tomorrow probably...right now I'm too tired. I had quite a bit of driving/riding to do today to get back to my wife's house unfortunately. We have to pack up her room and head out in the next couple of days. Hopefully it will all go smoothly.

Anyways, I'll post a couple pictures in a few days probably. Gotta do some Photoshop touching up first :D. Also, for any who are curious, the wedding went smoothly and everything fell into place as I had hoped. And now I've got a ring on my finger and all that good stuff.

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The Big Day

Well guys, it's finally here. I'll be getting married in less than six hours.

Everything seems to be on schedule, but I guess we'll see.

Anyways guys, just letting you all know you probably won't hear anything from me for about a week. I look forward to returning with some pictures and stories and such! Have a great week guys. I'll be trying not to pass out at the altar. Good stuff like that :D

See ya!

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Ideas, Anyone?

So it's the day before the wedding, and I still have to buy Groomsmen gifts. Anyone got any ideas for me? I know it's not as easy as that, just thought I would ask.

Also, good news is that everything tomorrow seems to be on track and I think it will all be done when the time comes. I just fear Murphy's Law...

Also on an unrelated note, anyone else have the same problem as me concerning Giant Bomb? I had like one day where I was hardcore editing stuff for points, but then after that I kind of lost my willpower to type essays or search for screenshots...
Maybe that's just me. Anyways I've all but given up on a Batman review for now...but if all goes well I'd like to try and get that out of the way tonight. I do want to, I just sound like I don't :D

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Two More Full Days...

And then I'm a married man. I just wish everything wasn't so stressful. It seems like everyone is on edge, including myself. This is supposed to be a really enjoyable time, but honestly I'm anxiously awaiting it all being over so I can relax...

Anyways, been busy all day today with planning and fixing stuff and had no time to write a Batman review...I might be able to tomorrow. I think I'll have some free time, but who knows? It's been really hectic, but I'll cram it in if I can.

Anyways, I'll keep it short and sweet. Gotta wake up early tomorrow anyways so I need to go to bed. Tomorrow is when all the family starts rollin into town. Should be interesting.

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Yea, So, I Finally Saw THAT Movie...You Know the One.

Yup, as you could hopefully guess from the title, I saw The Dark Knight today.

Hardcore.
Hardcore.

I'll be writing a review later, as I'm not really in the mood to right now. Not really sure when that is gonna go down cause I'm afraid of forgetting stuff...but to sum it up, I have mixed emotions about it. Mostly good, but some criticism. No flaming til I post my own score, alright? Hehe.

Who knows? I may write it right after I finish this blog. Maybe not. I dunno. Mostly due to the fact that I have no idea what I'm going to end up doing, thanks to wedding planning last-minute stuff and such. Just letting anyone who cares to read yet more on The Dark Knight that I'll be posting a review pretty soon.

In other news, I got a Zune. Got one of those slightly older 30gb versions used, saved 100+ bucks, and it seems to work fine. Still gotta test out the battery though. I also put down a subscription to the Zune Pass, which so far seems like an AMAZING feature. Anyone know if there are any catches? Also, if you cancel service for a month or something, does all your downloaded music get erased or just simply locked (or some equivalent)?
Yup. That's the one.
Yup. That's the one.

Anyways, regardless, the service has not disappointed yet as I've been able to download countless albums I was always too scared to buy on iTunes because I didn't want to dislike them and waste $10. Now, I can download anything and everything that even remotely interests me for "free"! I hope I'm not just naive and they are actually screwing me over without me knowing it...haha. Well, give me a heads-up if they are :D.

That's all for now! I'll probably be starting on the review soon, but first I have to catch up on my episodes of The Mole...
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Finally, a New Game

Yup! It's been a while since I got GTA IV and now I finally have a new game!

My fiance gave me Scene It? Lights, Camera, Action as part of my wedding gift. While it is most definitely not for the hardcore among us, I'm really glad I got it! Finally a game I can play with her on a consistent basis! We've played it a few times already, and I've also discovered this is also a game that she can beat me in. Often.

Oh, the simplicity of Scene It.
Oh, the simplicity of Scene It.

The only problem is that I get frustrated easily when I don't know a lot of the answers. But I guess I'll learn by playing it. Losing isn't as big of a deal to me as being dumbfounded by a lot of the trivia.
Multiplayer goodness in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance
Multiplayer goodness in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance

I'm also thinking of getting Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. It'd only cost me about $10 or so to buy used, and I've been wanting to get it for a while. I have some other money I'm "allowed" to spend, but I might just save it for those first couple weeks in November. I mean, seriously, all the publishers are smoking. I know that at least Mirror's Edge, Left 4 Dead, Gears of War 2, and The Last Remnant come out in the first two weeks of November, and in October, Rock Band 2, Fallout 3, Midnight Club: Los Angeles, Saints Row 2, Fifa Soccer 09, Tom Clancy's EndWar, Fable II, Dead Space, and Far Cry 2 all come out.

I think my head is going to explode. I need GameFly. Or something just like it. Now.

Those games are not all must-haves for me, per se, but I'm very interested in all of them and would like to play them all. I know it sounds bad, but I kind of can't wait to see the reviews to see which games rate poorly so I can take some off my list ungrudgingly...
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One Week...

Well guys, one week from yesterday (today being Sunday at 1:05 a.m.) I'll be a married man.

Next Saturday is the big day.

Wish me luck preparing and finalizing everything. The groomsmen still lack gifts and pants. O.o

I think I'm more nervous about finalizing everything than I am about actually standing up at the altar...

I know I've already mentioned all this before, but what can I say? I took a six hour drive to my fiance's parents' house today and it's all kind of settling in that this is actually going to happen.

And no, I couldn't possibly make more paragraphs to try and add to the dramatic effect of this blog.

Ok, so maybe I can...

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Sir, You Have Been Compromised

So yea. I was going to post a blog last night rather than today, but I had a minor hiccup.

By which I mean I was flipping out.

Why? Because someone hijacked my eBay account. And I had to sort it out with customer service. Apparently, some third party came into my account and listed a Tractor up for sale. I found out about this when someone sent me an email saying I was a fraud and committing a felony.

As you can imagine, my reaction to that was...not positive. Now, here's where things just get plain weird. Shortly after contacting customer support, they asked me what the item number was. Well, I gave them one and they couldn't find the item. Turns out the item number changed every time I refreshed the page. What the crap?!

Also, within the listing, potential buyers were instructed to email the seller via a separate email address, as he "could not be reached" by using the "contact seller" option provided by eBay. What's worse, it had some sob story about how he was selling it because it was a gift for his brother, but his brother recently passed away and he has no desire to continually be reminded of his brother's presence. Hah.

Luckily, eBay's security team figured it out for me, removed the listing, and credited me with any fees associated with the auction. However, they severely pissed me off. They simply refused (weren't allowed) to tell me if the listing was made from my own home computer. I desperately wanted to know this to see if it was a virus! But they just wouldn't tell me. What the freaking crap?! Geez. So basically, I'm really paranoid right now. I feel like everything I do has been monitored, and things like my email and bank account have had their security compromised.

Ugh. This really sucks.

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