I'm going to assert total dominance over the term: Event Log. It is presently under jurisdiction of Windows, so here's hoping I can change that, even by just a little. And if you're wondering what the hell I'm talking about, it's just a little SEO thing. Never you mind.
For my first Event Log, I would like to explain how I'm going to run things. I won't start my event logs until the day after. Although I'm writing this on the eleventh, it's going to be about the tenth. I can't write about a day until I've completed it. I'm still going to refer to "today" as "yesterday" because it might as well be. It ain't tomorrow until I sleep. With that said, here are the sordid details of my day:
Today was a friend's birthday. Let's call him P. We went out to watch The Wolf of Wall Street and ate at Oggi's. My friend expressed mock disgust at the scene in the movie when Belfort describes how to screw people out of their money. Having watched Wall Street and Boiler Room, I was not surprised at the exceptional level of sleaze present in the 80's era of excess. The movie entertaining through to the end. Not the most important film I've seen (that honor goes to 12 Years a Slave), but certainly one of the most fun.
At Oggi's, we conversed about how awesome it is to live in Orange County and how people throughout the world know of our reputation. My friend's anecdotal support of this global reputation is gleaned from their online interaction with gaming buddies, and birthday boy used the same argument for Orange County's prestige to shit on Texas. "I have not heard good things about Texas."
Then we talked about places we would like to visit. My friend R commented that there's a "smell" in NYC. The topic of conversation went to cabs and we remarked on the differences between California and New York. R brought up an interesting app that connects drivers with people who need rides, and called the whole enterprise "sketchy." Apparently, taxi companies are pushing for regulation because they don't need more competitors.
Since we were on the subject of traveling, I brought up the idea of Vegas like I always do. Even though we've been 21 and older for the last three years, we still have not, to this day, gone to Vegas together, which I find to be a total travesty. There's really no excuse for this state of present affairs. Okay, so some of us have been in school, broke, with no job, or a combination of all three, but that's no excuse! We still haven't had our definitive Vegas trip.
P easily gets addicted to gambling and he talked about some of the losses his bad habit sustained. They numbered in the thousands. I'm risk adverse, and I feel more pain than pleasure gambling, so it's not really a concern for me. R has never gone to Vegas with friends, so he has to give gambling a shot just because that's what you do when you're in Vegas. For me, I just want to visit the Mandarin Bar, which is quite possibly the classiest bar on this side of the country.
This might be the year. I'm feeling it. It could be the set-up for the most legendary weekend of our lives.
Maybe.
But before R and I went out with the birthday boy to watch Wolf of Wall Street, I witnessed an amazing blindfolded run of Mike Tyson's Punchout and Super Punchout on Awesome Games Done Quick 2014. Definitely a highlight of an amazing charity run. Watch it, people. It's for a great cause. They've already raised over $500,000 for the prevention of cancer, and they did this by just playing games. Who says you can't achieve anything by playing games all day?
There's a little more that happened today but anything I do online might as well be grouped under the umbrella of "doing shit on the computer." I don't need to tell you that I made a post on tumblr because you probably already read it. I originally intended to make another post, but this one seized me because I remember reading a writer say in his author's notes how hard it was to write a character smarter than himself, which I call absolute bullshit on because that's impossible for reasons stated in my tumblr post. Have some faith in yourself, son.
At night, I watched the latest of Chris Smoove's NBA 2K14 videos. They were entertaining as always. It reminded me to check in on the NBA 2K14 app. I haven't played the game on the PS4 for a while, so I've built up about 13K in VC. I don't know where I'm going to allocate those points, but it doesn't really matter since my character, Jo Matto, is easily the best player in the game having scored 80+ points in back-to-back games. I'd like to see you break that record, Kobe.
I'll finish out this day by watching some more AGDQ2014. Right now, it's four guys playing some GoldeneEye multiplayer.
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