Post number Two! I'm on a roll!

I think, for the most part, I'm going to do a daily journal entry type deal. Something that sums up the events of my day; As I said in my first post, I'm attempting to work on my memory here. Let's get cracking!

12.14.2008

I woke up around 11 this morning, and like I do every morning, went straight to my computer. Mostly, I only do this to make sure my anti-virus software (AVG; why pay for something when there's free software that works just as well?), is still up to date; I spend most of my free time in front of this thing. Other than that, I sign into AIM or update my status if I went away rather than signing off before sleep. After that, I called up my friend Josh, because we were supposed to be taking down the epic map of greatness, but were completely sidetracked with other things.

Before picking him up from his house, I hung out at home for a little bit with my parents and sister (it was her birthday, after all...). After that was all said and done, I left the house, went to Josh's, then headed off to Guitar Center to knock one more person off my Christmas shopping list. Then we went to Home Depot to finish said list all together (now I just have to wrap it all). After wandering around for maybe ten minutes, we were directed to the grill accessories, and then went to get in line. I picked the line I did for two reasons: it was reasonably short, and the cashier was kinda cute. Well, Josh and I were in line, mumbling to one another about something insignificant (probably about the cute cashier) , when the line next to us opened up and we were summoned. I left the line of the cutie, and joined the line of a black man about twice my size. He scanned my whole two items, then took my [damaged] debit card, and kept referring to me as "Big Dog" (like the clothing company?). I'm pretty certain he's one of those black men who likes the small white girls and was just cock-blocking me. What a jerk!

After Home Depot, we headed to McDonald's for lunch. It was about 40 degrees (maybe; my internal thermometer is shit), yet this couple, maybe a few years younger than myself walks in. The male looked extremely flamboyant, and the female was wearing extremely short shorts. What the hell was her problem?

Leave McDonald's; arrive back at my house once again. Rather than disassembling the epic map of greatness (pictured above), we got distracted with connecting my XBOX 360 to the internet for the first time in over 6 months to download some new songs for Rock Band. Easier said than done, that's for sure. My choices were A) Move the router from one room to another, therefore having to move it BACK, B) Move the XBOX to the other room, then have to move it back, which is just as annoying to do, C) Deal with no internet, or D) Make shit work. I wound up moving the router as far as it's cables would allow, connecting a 25 foot ethernet cable to it and running it across the hallway into my room, then movine my entire entertainment center about 3 feet away from the wall to make the internet connect to my XBOX. In retrospect, I realize now that I just made it harder than it should have been, because in the process, I actually unplugged the XBOX completely, and could have just relocated it temporarily. Oh well, I managed to download over 30 more songs to entertain myself with, so my collection is now a whopping 214 songs.

We then played a little bit of co-op, then I got bored with it and let Josh play single player while I dominated my phone in a game of Monopoly. After that, I took him home, had some more plans cancelled, came home and started on what you're looking at now.