The Move, Colorado, Yellowstone, The Job

Colorado is a great place to be.

• In Ohio, there’s enough humidity for a fish to live on land. In Colorado Springs, there’s barely enough for a cactus to scrape by.
• In Ohio, temperatures regularly soar into the upper 90s during the summer, while Colorado Springs’s temperature varies between the upper 70′s (for overcast) to mid-80′s (sunny). In fact, most news reporters out here think that the upper 80′s with low humidity are real “scorchers.”
• Ohio has the Appalachians, which I’m not sure I’d want to go see; Colorado Springs has the Rockies, which I can see from my back porch.

Basically, I’m really enjoying our new locale. The move went well, with nary a hitch, and we actually got off fairly cheaply considering.

Colorado Springs

Made it safely to Colorado Springs two days ago, and almost completely unpacked . Will write more in a week or so after my family reunion and when internet is hooked up. WordPress editor is extremely clunky on iPhone.

Rock Band À La Carte

We had a fun little event today during our lunch break at the office. Rather than just going out to eat, we ordered pizza and went to my friend Dave’s house to play some Rock band.

Here’s a photo of up-and-coming band, featuring Steve “Red Drum” Fischer on the drums, Joe “Loud” Ferguson on vocals, Dave “This is how I do Star Power” Reed shredding on the guitar, and Matt “Groovin’” Groves strumming a mean bass line.

Personally, I played a little bass and guitar, and did quite a few vocals. I “sang” quite a few songs, including some like More Than A Feeling which are way out of my league. It should be noted that songs that are in my league don’t necessarily sound any better, but I at least feel like I give them good attempts (things like Reptilia and Dani California). We may be doing it again tomorrow as a “going away” type lunch for me, but I’m not sure — might just be a normal lunch.

Fallout 3

Most posts so far have been video game centric or at least partially related to video games, but with most of my things in boxes, there’s not a lot left for me to do other than play games or pack more. Anyway, I saw the Fallout 3 Collector’s Edition specialties and it’s convinced me to make the purchase:

 

While I don’t care much about the “Making of Fallout” CD (although I’ll probably take a look at it), that lunchbox is rad. It’s so infused with rad-ness that I’ll probably actually use it for lunch at my new job. The art book should also be great to look at, as I love the style of Pipboy. The bobblehead will also be great for a home or office desk.

Really looking forward to the game itself, as I immensely enjoyed Fallout and Fallout 2, and while Oblivion was a bit too open for me, the engine is top-notch and the merger of the two should be great. Everything I’ve heard so far sounds intriguing, and I hope they can pull it off for another great installment of the Brotherhood of Steel and mutant infested wastelands of the post-nuclear war US.

Weekend of Multimedia

I did quite a bit this weekend; or rather, I lackadaisically sat around my house and consumed others’ hard work. (I actually did pack a few boxes in preparation for my impending relocation to Colorado Springs, but that isn’t what I count as “doing something.”)

Things I did:

• Finished “On the Rain Slick Precipice of Darkness, Episode 1″ from Penny Arcade
• Played a large chunk of Half-Life 2 (after digging a controller and the game, along with Bio-Shock, out of an already-packed box)
• Watched Juno
• Watched The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Comic Books

I’ve enjoyed comics for a long time, with a pretty big Marvel bias. I was never really interested in DC comics when I was younger, although I like quite a few of their characters now and would read their books. I know a lot of people rally against Marvel and DC as being “mainstream,” but I grew up with the characters I liked, and still like them.

Recently, I’ve been reading the Civil War story arc from Marvel which concluded about a year ago (and started maybe two years ago). I read the first couple issues when they first came out, but then got pulled away, and now I’m playing catch-up — which is fine with me, because I actually like reading entire story arcs in one swoop without having to wait for the future issues. I read a lot of the trade paperbacks for that reason — they are a complete storyline in one convenient book, and I don’t collect them just to collect them, so I don’t miss having the physical comics.

Cosmos Devouring Frogs

What are they? Where do they come from?

That’s a good question, and I don’t really have an answer for you. I suppose they originally leapt from my imagination a few years ago when I was naming a shared iTunes library and needed a cool name. I often imagine them somewhat just floating in the space, and occasionally devouring entire cosmos in a single bite. A bite really isn’t the right term, though — it’s more like a snake sluggishly inhaling an egg, with its jaws unhinged and cavernous. That’s what they are in my head — they’re not malicious aliens from Omicron Persei VIII coming to destroy the Earth, although they may mistakenly swallow our galaxy in a harmless mistake.

However, this post isn’t really to clarify what cosmos devouring frogs are or are not. It’s mostly just to establish a post on this blog, and claim this as my space. See, I had a blog before — 50pixelsofevil.com — but I had it for the wrong reasons. I had it for other people, so that I could write or make money, or something…I’m not really sure at this point. But, suffice to say, I wasn’t writing for myself or about the things I wanted to write about, which is mostly just the daily going-ons of my life and the thoughts that emerge from my strange cranium (for instance, just yesterday, I was thinking my head would probably make a beautiful skull, although doubtful it would compare with something like Piltdown Man).

It’s also because writing things down helps your memory, and it will probably expand my vocabulary and improve my writing skills, as well. Additionally, this blog doesn’t have the stigma attached to the name that 50 Pixels of Evil did (despite being harmless). Nah, it just has Armageddon frogs.