I'm doing Scrabulous! And you?

I'm up to five games of scrabulous at the moment. I'm just about to lose the first game I started against Michelle from Sacto. She is crushing me with words like "Jeu," "Qi," "Quids" and "Gruyeres" (for 3w score...).

Tessa and I have had two tight games, I won the first and she pulled away in the second dirty-word filled game. I made: "Mafia soul, Scot "Squinter" Haze, gags at any metal rod come fir 'is anus!" from the words we played.

Josh H. and I are also a pretty even match. We're down to zero tiles left to draw from, and we're trading the lead after every play...

Josh F. is a bitch. I start out the game with six consonants and a Y as my only vowel, so I pass to Faux and let him know about my sucky hand. He says, "So sorry to hear that. Prepare to die." Lol.

And I started up a game with D-Tran, but I think he's a little scared to play me.

Observation week has been going well over in Ballard. Anna runs a tight ship, especially for being almost five months preggers. I've been observing, then rushing to my two classes, then rushing back to the school to observe more in the afternoon. My geography prof failed the entire class on our last essay test. After telling us he failed us all, he handed back papers and mine said, "Pass+" on it. What is a pass+?

Motorcycle trip with "Leia" is getting finalized. The ferries around Seattle have a sweet discount for motorcycles, so we might head over to the Olympic Hot Springs and make a long day-trip out of it. Other option is to head northeast into the Cascades and have the cabin to stop at if the weather sucks. I'm jonesing to do both, but we'll see what happens.

7 Things

BrainMC, thanks for reminding me that I should blog. I'm not going to continue on the chain of 7, but I will post seven things that have been fun over the last few days:

1) GUITAR HERO 3!!! ROOOOOCK!!! A group of seven of us rocked it good, and rocked it hard on Saturday night. I attempted my first "hard" song and got owned by the machine.

2) UPS vs. UPS Alumni game. We old timers won, barely. I guess last year the alumni team just crushed the UPS team, this time we won 15-13 I think. I didn't really play much of the game, I spent a lot of time playing soccer with Jerry and Jenny's 3-year old kid, or playing in the co-ed pickup game going on at the same time. I did get a hand block in the UPS/alumni game though!

3) Classes. My Geography and Math classes have been going pretty well. It sucks to take classes in the middle of the day, but so far I've been able to have it work OK for me. Next week starts the job-seeking process... we'll see how that works out.

4) Princess Leia. I don't think I mentioned that a mighty fine looking lady by the name of Susie dressed up as Princess Leia for the Hanford Howl frisbee tournament and decided to plop down in front of me in the hot tub. I didn't know her, but there were twenty other friendly frisbee people in the hot tub, so giving her a massage seemed like the nice thing to do, after a long day of frisbee. When I looked around facebook last week, I found a Disc NW group through Will's facebook, and found a picture of a Susie. The picture is of her in full motorcycle gear standing behind a new Kawasaki Ninja 250. I couldn't really tell if it was the same scantally clad Susie from the hot tub, but I took a shot and sent her a message. She replied on Sunday and I might finally have a friend to ride motorcycles with! And that friend is a sexy, ultimate-playing, Princess Leia look a like, BOOM!

5) I'm observing classes at Salmon Bay K-8 School this week. Anna, my sister's old high school and college friend, teaches at Salmon Bay and said I could mooch some observation hours from her class if I wanted. She's a pretty awesome teacher, and she has a wide range of classes. From her first class where 1/3 of the kids have some sort of learning disability, to Language Arts, to Social Studies and a 7-person study class for kids who don't work well with others. She caps off the day with a Journalism class of 7th and 8th graders, who put out a newspaper for the school and the community. Pretty cool stuff.

6) I might be heading down to Portland either this weekend or next. Andrew wants me to come down this weekend, but that might interfere with motorcycle plans. Or, the weather might be so crappy that I don't want to ride my motorcycle down to Portland--nor would I want to drive the Exploder down and pay $50 in gas. But Portland would be a blast, and he also has Guitar Hero 3... damn addictive game!

7) I got a game of scrabulous in with Tessa last night in a rapid-fire format. Every time I refreshed the game she had already made her move. I was pretty sure I was playing against a robot. The game was super tight, and with my last two tiles, I made the word "Boa" to EXACTLY match her score. I thought we tied the game, but forgot that I get any points on the tiles she has remaining on her rack--so I ended up winning by... you guessed it, 7.

Hooked

As you can probably tell from the many youtubes, I am hooked on Team Fortress 2 right now. The game is amazing. Each class you play has a very unique feel to it, and I am nowhere near being good with any of the classes yet. I do enjoy playing the spy, sneaking around and stabbity-stabbing unsuspecting cartoony characters.

Besides the whole "not being able to shoot things" issue I am currently working on, the teamwork in the game is amazing. Today, Tyler and I played against a team that just whooped us. Some of it has to do with their skill being better than ours, but their teamwork was off the charts.

If you have the game, and are interested in playing with me, finding a friend on the game is easy. My handle is "Naixin" on steam, so just come find me so we can either duke it out, or work together and prove blue supremacy! If you don't have the game, it is a $30 download for just TF2, or $60 for the whole Orange Box collection, which I would suggest getting if you have $60 to spare, because it comes with a pretty neat "Portal" game.

Ichi doesn't seem to mind me playing, as long as he can still sit in my lap and give me pointers on my stalking technique.

Blue 4 life.

Choo! Choo!

Team Fortress 2!

So, I made an impulse buy when Tyler told me the Team Fortress 2 part of "Orange Box" was available for half the price of the full box-set... and I could download it digitally. I played the first team fortress game for the original half-life, but it had to have been a dozen years ago. This one has cartoon-like graphics, much like WoW, so it keeps the frame-rate high and the lag low--which is a necessity for first-person shooters.

Three videos:
1)Meet the Engineer
2)Meet the Soldier
3)Gameplay of me playing a Spy (Crystal Method song)

iPod Game Recap

1) Pearl Jam - Jeremy
2) Oh Shit - Pharcyde
3) Coldplay - Spies
4) Jack Johnson - Cookie Jar
5) Aesop Rock - The Yes and The Y'all
6) Ani DiFranco - Work your way out
7) The Stills - Changes Are No Good
8) Islands - Jogging Gorgeous Summer
9) Cake - Palm Of Your Hand
10) Built to Spill - Distopian Dream Girl

Do the Shuffle!

Na na na, nana na na na na!

From iam23skidoo (who is doing the pick'em league, and I also coincidentally just saw the Simpsons episode where Marge says "23 skidoo!" and runs off), who found it through Bad Blood and Amy.

Method: Post the first bit of lyrics from the first 10 songs your iPod plays randomly. Kudos if you recognize any without using Google.

Chris's method: Dumb it down and have my own fun with it. Instead of going with the prompt, because I have a lot of crappy, situational music, I took the first 10 lyrics I found funny, good or unique.

1) At home, drawing pictures, of mountain tops, with him on top. Lemon-yellow sun...

2) Oh shit, Oh shit, Oh shit (repeats) Oh... Little Sally Walker, sittin' in a saucer, Oh, how I tossed that ass up; Like a mission in the woods, Woody-wood Pecker would if he could, but I didn't want to pass it up. ((lol))

3) I awake to find no piece of mind. I said, "How do you live as a fugitive?"

4) I would turn on the TV, but it's so embarrassing, to see all the other people, I don't know what they mean, and it was magic at first, when they spoke without sound, but now this world is going to hurt... you'd better turn that thing down, turn it around.

5) Jiggy-jabberjaw vitamin idol primal rages, when Bible pages verse, tidal wave begun.

6) Lying on the floor, four stories high, in the corridor between the asphalt and the sky...

7) I wear the smile, I wear the laugh, out on the backstage changing hats. I am a weekday on weekends, I hate my best friends.

8) Woke up with rain on my head, couldn't dry off, so what should I do instead?

9) When the house was standing, you'd never have believed it.

10) Can you make it real? Make it more than will, more than just feel.

((I'll post answers later))