IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN!

You know you're a gamer when... Part II

-Your mom tells you that you need to have "female interaction" this summer.
-As you see someone run by, you think to yourself, "man that guy has good AGL!"
-You get overcharged for something at a store and yell "Hax!"
-The biggest crisis for the day is deciding which game to play
-Whenever you meet someone named Zelda, you think, "how unoriginal."
-No one gets most of your jokes.
-When people do get your jokes, they laugh nervously and look at you as if you were an alien.
-You pledge to get out and do something this summer, this year, this month...and wake up in front of a PC in a darkened room in the middle of the night.
-You play games day and night, but still manage not to have any [game].

I'll try to replace the crappy ones with good ones later (maybe I should just make a new list...)

Flaming Creosote

I see that Jack has changed my profile thingy to "gotta catch a girlfriend!" Clever, but you will pay, oh, yes you will.

I got back from Florida okay after having to sit next to a baby for 2 hours of my 5-hour flight. Silly mother, seats are for babies that are as big as yours was.

I am preparing for the STP this weekend. This week has not been particularly eventful, although I did manage to see Transformers with Orion, Steven, and Emily (oh, David, in case you didn't get the memo, you were replaced by a chick. Sorry, we just figured that, you know, maybe she wouldn't run in with her shotgun when we needed her to heal. Plus she talks about penises way less than you).

After the STP, my only hangup is jazz camp, which begins on the 29th and goes until the 6th of August or so.

WE MUST PLAY DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS.
I know Steven is around all summer. After Orion gets back we are all good, I think, as soon as I get back. I'm ready to play. I have been studying.

"Why did I delay? I thought that the journey would be too long, and that I had not the time nor energy to complete it. I was wrong on all three counts."

Flovida Stage 7

Woke up late again today. Blueberry muffins for breakfast!
Keir took Rich to the car rental place and I played the piano. For a long time. It was really fun. They got home and I went for a jog. I did all right. We went for a swim and it was very good for a while. We got some lunch at Jimmy John's, a really good sub shop that Zach Newkirk, one of his good friends, works at. It was delicious. We went back and played some vgs and watched some tv and just did general shit.

D: "Why would you spend money to send people virtual shit?"
Keir: "Heeeheeehee, people are morons. Probably only Asian girls who take Facebook way too seriously."

"I am not a loser! And I'll prove it to you by challenging you to a children's card game!" -Joey

So now we are here dicking around at 12:31am. We are getting up early tomorrow and flying for extended periods of time. Then I am engaging in strenuous physical activity. But I demand to do it while tired!
TOday we visited the bat house here at the University of Florida. We waited, and waited, and then suddenly legions of bats flew out! It was pretty sweet.

That about wraps up my trip to Gainesville, Florida. I saw new sights, made some new friends, and got to hang with an old bud. Excellent.

Flovida Stage 6

What is up with all these phallic housing arrangments?!

Keir: "I wonder if we'll see an '8 equals sign capital D' community."



I had a really hard time sleeping last night. I kept thinking about video games and more important things, like Starcraft. Wait...

We woke up late. AGAIN. This time we went to see the Devil's Millhopper, and it was open. It rained hard while we climbed down the winding walkway into the bottom of the sinkhole. It's a pretty big sinkhole just in the middle of the ground. It was cool, but less amazing since I come from a place where the total elevation gain/loss over a mile is more than 10 feet. "Floridians's ears are popping because they've never been that far down before." (Keir). That was cool. AFter that, we tried to edit our music video but we failed because Keir did not have the right cords. Instead, we played video games with Richard, a real loser whom I like for some reason. It was fun. I pwned at Medal of Honor and Super Smash Brothers.
We visited some neighborhood people for fireworks tonight. It was fun. These people live in an uber-rich, gated community. Keir had to type in a combination on a keypad, which opened the gate after a dull metallic beep (like it was directly out of Resident Evil). These people are RICH RICH. We think that the Innis Arden people are rich. These people live in a MANSION. Two floors; the second floor is like twenty or thirty feet up. Marble floors. Their living area looked like a hotel lobby, the kind of hotel lobby that you never see because that type of hotel is too expensive for you. After that, it was stupid rich boys dicking around with fireworks; what can I say? We stayed around for the big ones and then got the hell out of there.


This is sad.

Flovida Stage 5

WTF?!?
It was purely happenstance that we, er, happened upon the db Racquet Club. We were originally looking for the Devil Millhopper sinkhole.


Today was a good day. We had planned to go to THe SPrings, some thing where you pay an exorbitant amount of money for a fleeting experience, but we decided not to. We instead visited a sinkhole, which turned out to be closed (it is a state park). We happened upon the db Racquet Club and another qp-themed housing community. Strange much? We journeyed to an awesome botanical garden with plants from all over the world, and we ended up seeing four armadillos at once. After that, we returned and watched "Father Ted," a show about three Irish priests. It is very funny.
Tonight we went out with some of Keir's friends and set off fireworks. It was fun and dangerous.

Flovida Stage 4

We woke up very late this morning. Keir took me to the University of Florida to see Lake Alice, where we sought to see an alligator. We did indeed. We spotted no less than three alligators and five turtles, as well as a myriad conglomeration of birds, lizards, and arthropods (spiders and insects). It was an alien place. I felt like we were in the Jurassic as we walked through the humid forest, pushing aside great fronds and dodging gigantic ant mounds.
After that we went to see the FLORIDA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, although I doubt that it is the only one in Florida.It has a fantastic Lepidoptera (butterfly) exhibit, since Florida is THE place to go if you want to study butterflies (or biology, for that matter) in the United States. It also featured the Megalodon, a gigantic shark that was perhaps one hundred feet long (and included a section that showed where the Megalodon has been referenced--DnD Monster Book fan service!!!!!!). That took quite a while. When we got home, we purchased a flag to stomp on the street and we filmed ourselves stomping it (the flag). It will be an integral part of our music video, Nerds Gone Wild 2.5. At 7, a bunch of guys came over for poker. You all should have seen it. I pwned that game as if it was a turtling Zerg nooblet and I was, well, me. I was in the lead (or very close) up until people started leaving. Then I lost interest and my uber-bluffing skills declined. I did beat out a very buff farmboy though.
Keir's friends are cool and I'm having an awesome time. This is a good trip. Tomorrow we will hit one of Florida's infamous springs and raft down it. On Wednesday, we shall journey to Richard's house and edit our music video there, and then we will assist him in shooting off his fireworks later that night.

Memo: The rocks that I noted yesterday prove, upon further inspection, to be of volcanic origin. I cannot remember which type; IPS was long ago.

Flovida Stage 3

Picture that I made on Keir's computer when I was bored.


I shall now detail my observances of the flora, fauna, and minerals of West Gainesville.

On Friday I was lucky enough to spot an armadillo on someone's lawn. It seems that they take the place of opossums down here (i.e. many are on the side of the road).
There are also many small lizards that walk around and can be found outside the house, on the pavement, etc. Tiny frogs are constantly jumping out from underfoot, at least at nighttime. Keir assures me that we will get the chance to see an alligator before I leave. I have not been able to observe many species of insects (or any at all) because during the day it is blistering hot.
The grass here looks like crabgrass. Keir assures me that it is in fact the grass that you want and not a weed-like thing such as the crabgrass we have at home. Its blades are thicker, wider, and taller, and there are fewer blades to each square foot of grass. This leads me to believe that the larger blades take advantage of the sunlight here. Most trees that I have observed are deciduous. Some are tropical coconut-looking palm tree look-alikes. It is novel and strange to see flat roads stretch for miles alongside carefully manicured patches of grass and dark patches of deciduous forest.
We saw some rocks by darkness today. I did not have a chance to examine them. It looked as if they were of volcanic origin. More tomorrow.

Today we slept late, 10:40. Played some Rogue Leader, which we are now stuck on. We began the filming of Nerds Gone Wild 2.5, a film to rival the other two. Muhahahahaha.
We did this for quite some time. After, Ishan, one of Keir's good friends (and now one of mine) came over and hung out for a while. He is a very good guy. Many of his mannerisms are similar to mine.
We left for Moe's, a local Mexican restaurant, at about 6:20 today. I was able to meet three more of Keir's friends: Richard, Zach, and Kristin. They are all nice, except for Richard. He is a loser.
We have nearly finished filming for the music video and are now retiring for the night. Ironic that back home I would never consider going to sleep this early. Usually we've gone to sleep around 1 Florida time.

Tomorrow is the grand poker party at Keir's house. Tuesday, perhaps a chance to go to some lakes and see some gators, or perhaps more hanging out with people. Wednesday, Richard's great illegal fireworks display, which will hopefully not cost me an appendage. Thursday, last-minute finishings up of things, perhaps with a visit to the "gardens" or some other place fun.

Signing off,