Memorial Day, Beerfest, and the beginning of rock.

Memorial Day was a blast.

Alex, Nick and I drove up to San Luis Obispo on Friday night and went out to Frog 'n Peach to get a couple warm up brews for Saturday's festivities. In the morning we drove down to Avila Beach for Beerfest, and simple words cannot describe how glorious it was. The best thing I can say for it is that whatever you are imagining a Beer Festival to be like, your imagination would be pretty close to nailing what it was like. There were booths run by breweries you knew, some you had heard of, and some entirely off the wall ones. The booths ran as far as the eye could see! Alex took pictures, so I will not be proven false.

Saturday night we went out to dinner at Viene Vai, and Nick thought it would be a good idea to put wine in his stomach after a day of continuous beer drinking. He would regret it later when we watched Pan's Labyrinth to wind down the night.

On Sunday, went golfing with Alex and Brent. Laguna Lake greens fees have doubled in price in the last 4 years. Fuck them, that course isn't worth 10 bucks. Afterwards, went to Firestone and continued the tradition of ingesting the best Tri-Tip sandwiches the central coast has to offer.

Monday we drove home, we stopped at Chumash on the way and I won a decent chunk of cash playing poker, which pretty much paid for my....

NEW GUITAR. I just bought it a couple hours ago, and I can't wait to start playing it.

Oh, and work sucks after a 3 day weekend. Sunburns suck too.

Starcraft Secretary

So... since the two women that usually answer the phone aren't here today, I'm the acting phone picker-upper. Its fun to mess with people.

I also found this sweet music player: I'm pretty sure you'll know what they are really fast... and if you're just ignorant, Terran 2 and Terran 3 are definitely monster tracks. I'm going to repeat this stuff throughout the day.

http://www.battle.net/window.shtml

Massive Purging

I am in the process of purging myself of all my old shit.

What is "old shit"? Old shit is stuff you have that you do not use, and will not ever use in the future. For instance... all those clothes in the closet you don't wear anymore? Old shit. Track awards from high school and useless electronics from ages ago? Old shit. I have tons of it sitting around, and its time for it to go.

It is actually quite therapeutic to get rid of all this stuff. I am SO happy I'm doing it. Ah, the things you can get done when you're not playing Warcraft.

Call on Me

I know it's old, but someone sent me a link to the "Call on Me" music video. I forgot how damn catchy this song is. (Oh... the video is semi-nsfw)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhZV91xkThs

Sidenote

Trader Joe's has amazing Cinnamon bread. I had a piece at work just now and lets just say I might have to go home and change my pants.

The organic peanut butter is pretty amazing too. God bless Trader Joe's.



I have also made the decision to learn to play guitar (since I have a natural musical aptitude) to fill my time so I don't sit at the computer and websurf when I can't get onto my Warcraft account. It might be difficult to start a new instrument at the age of 23, but i certainly have the time in the evenings to explore it. Once you remove Warcraft, theres a pretty big hole to fill time-wise. I probably won't be able to put more than an hour or two into it a day, but I am really looking forward to it.

Beerfest

Yes, it exists: in San Luis Obispo, California THIS WEEKEND. And of course, I have a ticket. You had to buy them months in advance, because they are sold the fuck out. I'm looking forward to hanging out with friends from school, getting plastered, and then going golfing with the roommates the next day. Should be a blast.

More of a blast than, say.... Serpentshrine Cavern or Tempest Keep. OH SNAP!

An answer to a previous question

I need to procure myself a fresh copy of Starcraft 1 and play through it, maybe some practice matches on Battle.net. I haven't played an RTS game in a while, and when I did, I wasn't the best at it because I never practiced enough. The problem is my ADD totally kicks in during long games where you have to put a lot of effort into multiple fronts in order to succeed. My brain usually has fun for a little while, then decides it is too much work and says 'fuck it' and eventually i just send my whole army to obliteration just so i can grab a drink or watch TV.

It appears Starcraft 2 will be more of the same: more highly intensive brain-work. It's too bad I do that for a job most of the day, and I like something casual that I don't have to think too much about. This is why World of Warcraft fit me so well. I am going to see if my brain has changed and can now handle intense competitive Starcraft gameplay, but I figure it will probably be the same as the first one. I will spend tons of time on the Single Player Campaigns, not stopping until I beat the game. Then I will play online for a while, beating the people who are terrible and losing horribly to the Koreans. Then, I'll find a new game to play.

I'm hoping that Halo 3 Multiplayer is so good that I won't be tempted to leave it when Starcraft comes out, but we'll see. At least I will have access through my WoW guild to solid groups of pro-gamers to play with.