- Fourth night in a row I've been up til midnight. This game, people! I finally had to shut it off when I realized they were asking me to fly stuff. "Stuff" being Leonardo DaVinci's bat-looking glider thing. Also, there's a bunch of puzzles that I'm not awake enough to handle involving the Templars throughout history that has some pretty creepy stuff involved.

Did I mention I fucking LOVE this game?

- Did a bit of writing at work today, but dunno how much of it I'm actually going to keep. Was quite tired and quite out of it and quite frankly this is the part of the chapter where I can't be either.

- This weekend should find time for me. NO WAY I'm playing that game ALL day tomorrow. I'm telling myself that the chapter WILL be done and posted before I leave for Chicago next Saturday. In that time I have to do laundry at my parents place Sunday, a get-together with a friend Tuesday night, Thanksgiving Thursday, a half-assed work day Friday, and Black Friday/Sociologist's Holiday Friday night at the MOA. I think it can still be done.

- Boss got us all together this afternoon to figure out vacation days for the rest of the year. I had already called Dec 28, cuz I could. And I had one more day to schedule. So, why not, Dec 29th. Five Day Christmas Weekend! Two day work week to finish up the year!

- Oh, we looked at the 2010 calendar, as well. Did you know there are two "floating" holidays next year? 4th of July's a Sunday, Christmas is a Saturday. Oh, and Halloween's a Sunday, too. As far as I know, we're not closing for "Observational" holidays, but I suppose time will tell...

A big part of Assassin's Creed II is earning more money by rebuilding your town! This is awesome!

Your nerves get worked when you're keeping your eyes and ears open for the UPS truck, but you're on a street where a UPS-truck-sounding bus drives by every fifteen minutes or so.

AC2 is in my possession. So is Star Trek. My living room is cleaner than it has been (although I still have a LONG way to go before my tree shows up December 5th). It's my last day of vacation, and I'm off to write.

Title: A Day in the Life
Author: kanedax
Spoilers: X3, Previous Chapters
Rating: R for language, nudity, and sexual suggestion
Summary: Life settles in...
Notes: As with previous postings, this is not a new chapter, but simply a re-write of the original chapter, which can be found here.
I don't own these characters. They belong to Marvel, Disney, and 20th Century Fox.


( A Day in the Life (New Mutants 1.2, Chapter 7) )

Finishing up day three of my four-day weekend, I drove up to Duluth again. Got some different stuff done this time than I had in May, especially since I wasn't doing any research for Chapters 16 and 23 this time around.

Took the scenic route. I went to school for four friggin' years up there, and I NEVER took the scenic highway, as we were always either driving at night or in a hurry to get back or driving at night while in a hurry to get back.

It definitely has its ups and downs, including one GREAT scenic overlook. But it's also not the drive you want to make your first time ever to Duluth, since it kinda takes you straight onto Superior St. as opposed to bringing you down the hill, denying you the view of the city from the top. But it was a nice change of pace, nonetheless.

Also hit Leif Erickson Park, Fitgers, and drove over the Blatnik & College Kids' Favorite Name Bong Bridge into Superior, WI. Hadn't been there very much even when I was going to school there, and it's definitely The Wrong Side of the Tracks. Man, Soup Town's depressing.

Tomorrow, HOPEFULLY my XBox comes back. Cuz I wanna play Assassin's Creed, dammit!

Microsoft just shipped out my XBox today.

Assassin's Creed II arrives Tuesday.

Which gets here first? Oooooh, the anticipation.

JJ Abrams isn't doing the Dark Tower movies/series anymore.

Disappointing, as I'd love to see what he would have done with it.  But at least I can appreciate his reason:  He's terrified to screw it up.

Title: An Unexpected Mission (The New Mutants 1.2, Chapter 6)
Author: kanedax
Spoilers: X3, Previous Chapters
Rating: PG13 for language and suggested nudity
Summary: A New Mutant gets his first taste of life as an X-Man
Notes: The original version of this chapter can be found here.
I don't own these characters. They belong to Marvel Comics, Disney, and 20th Century Fox.


( An Unexpected Mission (New Mutants 1.2, Chapter 6) )

Title: Dualkey (After the Flaw: Oligarchy, Chapter 37)
Author: kanedax
Rating: PG13 for language and violence
Spoilers: Previous Chapters
Summary: The Ministry counters
Notes: Another chapter that, due to length, had to go over to Dreamwidth.
I own these characters. The others belong to JK Rowling.

Dualkey (After the Flaw: Oligarchy, Chapter 37)

Today:

- Drove to the car donation site to get rid of my Ford Rustbucket.  (*sob*)
- Walked the 18 blocks to Dinkytown
- Had my first Burrito Loco
- Bused to Uptown
- Bought Almost Famous, Tombstone, and A History of Violence for about 18 bucks.
- Bused to downtown Hopkins
- Picked up Batman: RIP from the library
- Walked home from there
- FINISHED CHAPTER
- Played Super Swing Golf
- Saw Landscape of the Body (Weird.  Good, but weird).
- Oh, did I mention FINISHED CHAPTER?

Sunday I'm getting together with a guy from the show and his wife to bum around the MOA and see The Men Who Stare at Goats.  Chapter will be posted either before or after that, as I'm not getting together with them until sometime before 2.

Next chapter...  I can see just as much time before that one is posted.  There's not much for me to do in it, but what I need to do is stuff that I haven't structured out AT ALL.  So a little outlining's in the cards first.

The Twins traded Go-Go to the Brewers for JJ Hardy!

Holy crap!

Welcome to the Hotstove!

Am I the only one unable to sign into Hotmail?

There's a car in my parking space where my old car used to sit.

On one hand, no more manual transmission, no more 30 mpg (I think), and no more headlights that go "VWIP."

On the other hand, no more plumes of exhaust kicking up in the morning, no more struts hanging off the back, no more rust falling off in bunches.

I've upgraded about 8 years (95 to 03) and about 100,000 miles (170,000 to 70,000).

I can drive to Duluth next weekend in my own damn car instead of renting one.

Well, I suppose it's a right of passage for all XBox 360 owners:

I got my first Red Ring of Death.

3-lighter, which means it's still under warranty.  I'm shipping it out tomorrow.  If I'm lucky I'll get it back by Thanksgiving.

Perfect timing, just in time to NOT play Assassin's Creed II.

Ah, well...  now that the show's over, and my 360's in stasis, it'll give me more time to write or Wii or clean or PS2 or whatever.

BTW, did I mention I have a "new" car coming my way tomorrow?  WOO!