Christmas Eve and other such Tales............

i know it has been a while .......opps
well with christmas finally come and gone and new year's eve aproaching finally some breathing room :-)

kids made out like a bandit at christmas but what did you expect??

it's all about the kids .........always :-D

let's see what did they get ??

Nintedo DS Lite (2) one for each
Wii games
mario galaxy
mario olympics
AMF bowling ( my fav)
winter sports

360 Games
COD4 (second copy)
Scene It: LCA
guitar hero 2
guitar hero 3 with les paul wireless controller

a new drum kit

monoply and life electronic versions ( try cheating with these you pooperheads!)

tons of nerf toys like the crossbow and super shooter (now i feel bad for my cats)

tons of DVD's (HD versions of course)

a new Onkyo 7.1 Reciever (to go with the new HDTV josh got for his birthday)

messanger kits, stereo headphones for the 360 and new controllers ( old ones were dying)

and much more :-)

i got my wife a new deep fryer and she loves it..... i got the comercial version not the crap you find in the stores it holds like 3 gallons of oil and damn it cooks awesome .........

however draining it and filtering it is a pain in the butt along with me having to add a new plug in the kitchen just for it :-(

and even with me being sick i managed to squeeze out CSI: Hard Evidence and start F4: ROTSS and Scene It:LCA ....nice

CSI is now bumping off king kong and tmnt as the worst games i have ever played..........the interface sucked massivly, the graphics were worse than my origional nintendo,and the gameplay can and will actually put you to sleep... still it is a doable 1K and will take between 9 to 12 hours to finish ..............thank god F4 is actually fun because CSI seroiusly almost killed all my movitavtion for playing .............

well that's all for now since i am sick as a dog we will try again later .................

thoughts on mantown and how it relates to gaming

Mantown was invented by the hillman morning show on WAAF 107.3 in Boston,MA in 1990 i believe.
it started out as something sweet and simple being that a man needs his personal space to sit, screw off and not be bothered when needed to play games, shoot the s**t with the guys, watch sports and generally wind down.

generally women are not allowed unless the following conditions exist:

1) she is bring him dinner or more importantly a beer ( or 2 or 3 ...LOL)

2) she is "taking care of him ;-) ummmm fill in the blanks, OK??

3) a back or massage is nice too :-)

the rules are just as simple:

a) Thou shall not nag.......ever!
b) never interrupt a baseball/football or other important sports game
c) NO WHINING !!!
d) thou shall not ever interrupt a match or any important video game session ......EVER!!
e) unless the conversation involves videos,beer,sports,home depot/lowes,fishing,umm interesting videos or other subjects important to us MEN forget it.
f) bringing snacks/pretzels.slim jims are a way to get on our good side :-)
g) farting,burping and swearing is not only acceptable but necessary
so is scratching your arse and/or balls .......

for more rules and information go to www.waaf.com go to the hillman morning show link and look to Mantown links and information.

my particular mantown has two sections
upstairs which was converted from a coal storage and ice room to house my video game collection, dart board ( yes i play) 34" hdtv with Hdtv cable box, X-Box 360,gamecube and Onkyo 400 Watt 7.1 DTS reciever.
Downstairs is my workshop complete with my own refrig for my bevies,server system to run the house network,pool table,foosball table, air hockey table, workout center with speed bag and 300 LB punching bag and soon a fully functioning skeet lane and basketball mini hoop system.

my next idea down here in the basement is to add arcade pinball machines down here.

so that pretty much sums up mantown...... and yes we need our space and piece while we tear up and mutilate the latest video game without distractions .........

a typical saturday .............

today was a awesome day ..........
i was up until 3 am having a blast with COD4 then slept in until 8 this morning ........i needed some sleep to make up for the 30 hours i worked fri and thursday ...........grrrrrrrr !!
we went on a trip to springfield tonight taking my wife's bus company employees and families in the brand new ( yes less than 1,000 miles) bus Limo to springfield tonight checking out the holiday light show they have in a city park that has over 2,500 acres of land all decked out in lights :-)
it was a blast and yes we had all the toys on board~~ internet,sat radio,DVD video with 10 screens, climate control,sat navagation, heated leather seating and a bathroom too
holy crap screw driving trailers i want this job!!!
well time to take a breather and get ready for another foot of snow or rain depending on which channel or weatherman/woman you watch on the T.V.well at least it is the weekend and i do not have to work tommorrow ???

My X-box 360 Blog ......and other such Nonsense

I started this blog and registered here because a (what I consider Awesome) gamer also has his blog here.

Since I will be reading his updates on a daily basis why not create one of my own as well?

The premise of this is very simple...... Us Gamer Dad's have rights and needs too..

1) the ability to game without our Wife's/Girlfriends/(in)Significant Others driving us insane.

A good example of this would be i am in a ranked match in Halo 3 and trying to further my rank up to Spartan Officer.... just as the match is going well and i am kicking arse , my wife walks into my Mantown ( more on mantown another day ) and starts to nag me and stands in front of my HDTV thus ruining my chances of winning the match.

2) My sons ( or daughters of you have them) disrupting you in the middle of game play.

I LOVE MY KIDS TO DEATH however never mess with me when i am deep into Rainbow Six Vegas, any Splinter Cell, Any Call Of Duty or Ghost Recon Game. ever . period.!!

3) Serious Pet Peeve..... you just sign into XBL and what happens?

your family,friends and even buddies call you that instant before the Dashboard has even loaded and asks " Hey Dude, What's Up?"

my usual response : I dunno, i decided to play the dashboard so i could get calls and load (whatever game you are into at that time) and just look at it instead of getting any playing time whatsoever in.

this can become a serious issue when you have a blog at 360voice.com and you are trying to keep a 300+ day streak going.

thank god for arcade titles for those times you absolutely cannot avoid on of these pitfalls and can squeeze like 15 to 20 minutes in the day :-)

So i say we need our own space here and there so we too can get points and achievements like everyone else .