The Blogtastic Blogfest That Is Getmeoutofthis.net!

So I saw the Producers tonight, and it was as wonderful as always live. They did a really good job with obviously less people and money than the last time I saw a touring show of the Producers. It was a good time all around with my family. Huzzah.

I have also managed to ebay up a copy of the out of print board game Betrayal at House on the Hill, which, from what I hear, is both flawed and COMPLETELY AWESOME. So I’m looking forward to playing that with everyone. From everything I’ve heard, I think it’s perfect for my group of friends.

Also, apparently Brer is offline for a few days due to some silly something on his school network? And I wanted to ramble about how flawed it all seems. Apparently the college got some blanket “these people are downloading music!” shit, and so they apparently just randomly shut people’s connections down. Brer now has to pay THEM money to check his computer for “bad stuff” before he can have his computer back. This is insanely stupid because one, they have no real proof, and have said so, and two, anyone actually doing anything illegal and thus is smart enough to, say, use a bit torrent client is smart enough to TAKE THE DAMN STUFF OFF OF THE COMPUTER BEFORE IT’S CHECKED. It’s not like they raided his room or anything. He just has to take the PC down to the computer center sometime and pay “it’d be really bad if you lost your connection…” threat money if he wants his connection back. Anyway, it’s really stupid, and I’m sad to not have Brer for awhile, but at least it shouldn’t cause anything more than an annoyance for him. I’ll call him tomorrow for more of an update, I learned all this while at dinner with my family in a noisy restaurant, so we didn’t have much time to talk.

Also Also, Rez HD is pretty sweet. I really suck at it, but I totally buy the whole “Synthaseia” thing. It’s quite an experience. Who knows how long it’s going to take me to beat all 5 levels, though. I managed to get through the first two today.

What other short update can I ramble about… oh, right. My phone. I finally updated my phone’s firmware today, after Jonathan was all complaining at me that mom couldn’t call me to look up a word online? I’m just a reference tool a lot of the time, because they know I’m on the internet and can look anything up. Anyway, I finally updated it, even though I didn’t have the cable it said I needed. It all worked fine, though. Hopefully it won’t crash as much now, and it added these nice little “mute” and “speakerphone” buttons which are a TON more useful than how I used to have to do it. Also, it gave me this free Sudoku game, which was nice. I like the interface in Brain Age better, but it’s pretty capable.

I tried to get my mother to play Picross DS today. She keeps actually liking the random games I throw her way… she keeps playing Bookworm Adventures because it “helps her brain.” So I keep trying to throw more of what I own that’s along those same lines at her, and I really love Picross. I think she was okay on the concept, but I have a feeling it’s going to be too complicated for her. We’ll see. She got distracted and didn’t get through the tutorial.

Rapid Fire Ramblings is a good name for this sort of blog post. Maybe I should use that, like how I sort of stumbled into and kept “Review Extravaganza Xday” and such.