Narzack

Though it did its damnedest, Twitch didn’t ruin the SWARMiversary, after all. The final night was some episodes of Golden Boy, Bulletstorm Booze and Giveaway, and then Super Mario World with Skype-ins.  We had some drops while playing Golden Boy, and resolved that if it got too bad during Bulletstorm, we’d just have a massive Ventrilo session and drink all night.  As it turns out, Haley discovered that the final DotA match was at 11, so we simply powered through and waited until after the stupid tournament to do our drawing for the Golden Boy cell.  As it turns out, Lazz won, which is really great, he’s been around for a long time, he LOVES Kintaro(and Noises Off, incidentally.  Kid must have good taste.), and I think he deserves it.

We played Bulletstorm for a little while and then switched over to Super Mario World for some quick ten-minute mods, and SWARMie call-ins.  We just chatted a bit and asked them for their favorite memories.  It was really sweet.  I have to say, I’m a fan of the SWARM.  They’re all good people.  They make casting fun. 

Then, Saturday, we went to the Castle for Taina’s 21^st.  Haley corseted her up and let her wear a little top hat.  She even got Taina a little glowing badge that said something about her being 21.  So, she got into the Castle for free, which is a nice thing, I think, for a club to do. 

ACTUALLY, the first fifty people got in free as well.  I was the 53^rd.  Valentine was the first one who had to pay.  Chris and Andrea got in for free.  So, we chilled out a little bit, I had a pretty weak rum and coke, saw the Senator(some old dude who wears lingerie and apparently had a boner), and generally just relaxed and enjoyed the music.  Poor Taina, though, had woken up at 2am that day and had eaten very little, so the drinks she rather quickly consumed did her no favors.  We ended up having to leave early, and headed back to the house.  I convinced Chris to stick around a little and play some awesome Mortal Kombat.  After that, I killed my leftovers from a few days before and slept.

Sunday, I wasted most of the day playing Minecraft.  Curse you, bitch goddess of Minecraft for seducing me yet again!  It’s just so much fun, got that addicting thing happening for it.

Ended the night finishing off Always Sunny with Haley, and then I watched Battleship.  That movie is actually pretty shockingly good, I found.  It’s pretty funny, looks cool, has lots of explosions and neat sci-fi stuff and has tons of references to the game, which I wasn’t even counting on.  Awesome big things like them hunting the aliens on a giant improvised Battleship board, and really nifty little things like the explosives the aliens fire being the little red pieces from the game.  That just delighted me to no end.  I kept pausing the movie and running back to tell Haley all about it, most likely boring her to tears.  There was a fair bit of clichéd stuff in it, but I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would.

And, of course, I’m still chipping away at my urban fantasy story.  I realized that while, yes, I am able to write again, which is thrilling for me, what I’m writing isn’t any good.  I keep rereading the story and find myself just kind of unhappy with how it reads.  I suppose I just need to keep trying and resist that ever-present urge to give up.  The only way to get better is to continue writing.  But, compared to what I did years ago, I have a long way to go.  So it goes.  Only way is up.