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Video from the QAC Holiday Open House
Posted on December 18, 2010 by Ching under Games.
Here is the video clip from the QAC holiday open house, as promised. There was some kind of delay and I didn’t get the video in my email until today. Anyway, I always deliver on my promises so here you go. Enjoy!
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Giving RedBox a Shot
Posted on November 26, 2010 by Ching under Games, Movies, Sex.
Though we’d been loyal Netflix customers for over six years now, Brian finally broke down and decided to give RedBox a try. I’d been wanting to try RedBox for a while now, but Brian was completely against the idea. He’s very guarded when it comes to giving companies his credit card information.
Anyway, he wanted to set up a “play date” with Jay the other day and figured he couple pick up Eat Pray Love
After Jay left, Brian continued to play some more. After another couple of hours of it, I got pretty bored so I ended surfing to Brian’s favorite web site. That pretty much put a stop to video-game-playing for the evening. LOL.
All I can say is, this has been a pretty amazing week! 😉
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Are You Ready for Halloween?
Posted on October 28, 2010 by Ching under Games, Life.
BRIAN: How are you doing the candy?
ME: I figured I’d just let the kids grab candy from the candy bowl.
BRIAN: I wouldn’t do that. They’ll grab a lot and your candy won’t last.
ME: You can be in charge of doling out the candy then.
BRIAN: Haven’t you ever been trick or treating?
ME: No. I grew up in the Philippines remember? We didn’t do any of that when I was growing up.
BRIAN: What did you do for Halloween then?
ME: We went to the cemetery and partied for kalag-kalag.
BRIAN: I like that idea better.
ME: I know. We are cooler than you guys.
I’m kidding. I’m really a big dork. I’m way, way, way nerdier than Brian.
For instance, today when we stopped by Cox Communications to pick up some free passes to Poltergeist on Saturday from @Cox_Will I was really excited because I didn’t just get to meet @Cox_Will for the first time, I also got to meet Joey Shirt.
ME: You’ll never believe who I just met. That was Joey Shirt! He’s @Cox_Will‘s supervisor.
BRIAN: Who?
ME: Joey Shirt! (Brian still had this baffled look on this face.) He used to play with us on Ogame. He played on Red Hot Pawn also. I will never forget him because the first time we played chess together on Red Hot Pawn I checkmated him in six moves.
(I couldn’t beat him anymore after that. I think I just took him by surprise because he didn’t expect me to actually know how to play. He probably underestimated me and was playing too easy.)
BRIAN: What department was he in?
ME: He was in tech support at the time, I think.
BRIAN: That explains it. I didn’t really get to see those guys.
The sad thing is that I think I remember more people from Cox Communications than Brian did — and he’s he one who actually worked there! LOL.
There was a period of two months in 2005 when I was completely consumed by Ogame. I ended up joining the Cable Mafia through Brian and actually leveled up faster than him. Anyway, I got to play with a lot of the Cox folks through that game and found out that some of them played chess also — which is how I ended up on Red Hot Pawn. It’s a convenient way to play chess with other people online.
I find it amusing that I remember all of these people from five years ago that I’d never even met in real life. I just know them through their game handles. I didn’t even know real names. So five years later, I finally get to meet Joey Shirt. And we wouldn’t even have met if it weren’t for @Cox_Will.
This made me realize a couple of things: I’m really, really nerdy and it’s a small, small world! I guess we all already knew that I’m a nerd, but it dawned on me that I’m way nerdier than I originally thought. =P
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Game Night, Anyone?
Posted on October 23, 2010 by Ching under Games.
These are just a few of the board games that we own. The rest of them couldn’t fit in the storage ottoman. What about you guys? What are your favorite board games? It’s been a while since I’ve been to a game night tweet up. We should do one real soon!
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Ching’s 1st Time at Putt-Putt
Posted on August 1, 2010 by Ching under Date Ideas, Games, Things to Do.
I’m experiencing a lot of firsts in my 30s. I won’t list everything that I’ve done for the first time, because I’ll just bore you to death. Suffice it to say, I’m feeling and experiencing things I’ve never experienced before. And I thought my life would get more and more dull as the years pass. Definitely not the case.
A few years ago I got to experience going to the drive-in for the first time. It was a really neat experience. I’ve decided that I really like going to the drive-in. Athough, I find that I have to ignore all the other people because some people are strange.
The other night while we were there we saw a hefty woman wearing a cami and lounge pants. This wouldn’t have been so bad if her cami covered her stomach, but the cami proved to be too short and looked like a half-top on her. Her large belly was hanging out and made her stick out like a sore thumb. She could not be missed in the sea of people. Brian pointed her out to me when she walked by our car to go to the concession stand. I had to look away out of embarrassment. I was embarrassed for her. I would have wrapped up in a blanket or something.
“Maybe she’s pregnant,” I told Brian.
“That woman is not pregnant!” he insisted. “Maybe she was pregnant at some point. She definitely isn’t right now.”
Naturally, when Cory and April, and Jay and Becca showed up, they all pointed her out as well. You couldn’t miss her. It makes me think that if we started a People of Starlite web site, it would be serious competition for peopleofwalmart.com. LOL. I think the drive-in customer demographic is same as that of the Kansas State Fair. No offense to all the normal people who go to both events. Just sayin’…
Brian loves people watching. I think that is his favorite part of going to the drive-in. I like it for the value. You can’t beat three movies for $8. And, with the air mattress and several pillows, I can be completely comfortable. I know of only one place where you can lie down (somewhat) during the movie — the Director’s Suite at Old Town Warren. Also, the temperature was absolutely perfect the other night. We didn’t even need our blankets (we brought several because we’re nerds).
Anyway, I really wanted to tell you about my first putt-putt experience. It was still really hot at 5 PM but we had a lot of fun. Chad met us there so the three of us hung out (Jay and Becca couldn’t make it). As luck would have it, the Sheriff’s Department was doing a fundraiser: unlimited rides and miniature golf until 10 PM for $15 per person. What a deal! The only things excluded were the driving range, the batting cage, and arcade games.
Brian, Chad and I got to play both courses of miniature golf, ride go karts, and bumper boats. It would have cost a lot more to do all of those activities. I totally sucked at putt-putt, but it was so much fun. All though I came in last every time (Brian won the first round and Chad won the second), I would go again. Practice makes perfect, right?
Since it was still hot outside and we were hungry, we decided to take a dinner break at Fox & Hound. After dinner we returned for more putt-putt. The temperature had dropped some so it wasn’t as hot, but the mosquitoes were out. I got ate up pretty bad. Here are some of the pictures that we took yesterday.
By 9 PM we decided to call it quits and head back to our place for RB2. We evetually got bored with RB2 and moved on to Tekken, but Brian and Chad quickly got tired of me kicking their butts and wouldn’t let me play with them anymore. =P
Anyway, putt-putt was pretty fun. I’d probably go again before summer is over. All in all, I had a fantastic Saturday.
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