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Get it. 
Then add me to your MSN: psychogears at hotmail dot com.
Seriously, I picked this title up when I woke up on Tuesday morning thinking it would be a fun little addition to my small X360 library (I am mostly a WoW or otherwise MMORPG player of late). Imagine my surprise when I looked at the clock as I took my first stretch break… 7 hours of playing. Didn’t even realize it.
Soul Calibur IV lets you customize your characters or create new ones… maybe you know this, maybe you don’t, but this is what was keeping me up. There’s a Story mode in the single player game, a short but sweet session of 5 matches where you go head to head against anywhere from one to four other characters, one at a time, and at least on the normal difficulty “easyness” balanced depending on how many fighers you square off against. Well I’m a sucker for any character creation process, so imagine my delight when I realized I could unlock 2 new weapons for each character after running them through a session of story mode… one seemingly a soul calibur or soul edge version of their weapon, and another weapon that I can only describe as a “fun weapon”. For example, Hilde wields a pike and a short sword… the fun weapon replaces the pike with one of those golf hole flags from the 18th hole, and the sword with a sheathed golf club. Epic. 
Other characters can be found weilding all sorts of weird items, from a basket and one of those dough roller things (Cassandra) to a giant squid (Nightmare) or a giant ear of corn (Yun-Seong). I want to take my modified Mitsurugi online… I gave him an afro and a practice kendo stick, and colored his vestments brown… he wouldn’t look too out of place as an extra on Saturday Night Fever.
Anyway, get it, and let me know your XBL handle so we can play. Laters.
Made this in 45 mins. Alvin.
-- AVShouter
function lib:AVShouter()
local tradechan, msg;
msg = nil;
if GetNumRaidMembers() == 0 then
-- starting AV raid
msg = "Starting AV Premade. Have Enabler, be 70, follow directions, and open quickly. PST";
elseif GetNumRaidMembers() < 40 then
-- filling open AV raid
local rl, rotable;
rotable = {};
for raidMember=1,GetNumRaidMembers(),1 do
name, rank = GetRaidRosterInfo(raidMember)
if rank == 2 then rl = name end;
if rank == 1 then table.insert(rotable, name) end;
end
msg = "LFM AV Premade ("..rl.."). Have Enabler, be 70, follow directions, and open quickly. "..(40-GetNumRaidMembers()).." spots remaining.";
msg = msg.." PST ";
msg = msg..rl;
for i, v in ipairs(rotable) do
if i == # rotable then
if i == 1 then
msg = msg.." or "..v;
else
msg = msg..", or "..v;
end
else
msg = msg..", "..v;
end;
end
msg = msg.." for invite.";
end
if msg then
SendChatMessage(msg,"CHANNEL" ,nil , GetChannelName("Trade - City"));
else
DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Raid is full dumbass.");
end
end
LibStub("AceConsole-3.0"):RegisterChatCommand("omavs", lib.AVShouter);
-- end AVShouter
Requires AceConsole-3.0 and LibStub
So. Today I went on base for something (I’m off today). That something didn’t happen and at this point is no longer relevant to the story I’m relaying.
After that, I went into the office to check my email. And…
I got my OTS class date!!!1!11!!one!limit of sin x over x as x goes to zero!!!1!1
YES! I’m (tentatively) signed up to be in training beginning 5 NOV 08. I was starting to think that this day would never come, but apparently and thankfully I was wrong. Alot of my plans for the next few months were up in the air because I didn’t have this date. Now I can plan some leave, plan my apartment stuff, plan where I’m sending all my shit, etc etc.
Unfortunately this means that I will not be able to be around for the holidays. OTS lasts 12 weeks, so this will take me all the way to early February 2009. Last year I took four days, and it seemed quite short as I didn’t have enough time to hang out with some friends back home. I am hoping to take a month off this time before I go, and it looks like I’ll be able to get a mail-in ballot sent to my parents’ home so I can even vote for our next president! GOD I’m so excited!
Anyway, for all 3-5 readers of my blog, I will probably be in town by early October or even late September. I’m going to take a real vacation, and I’ll be moving out of my apartment before I do this so I don’t even have to renew my lease agreement. Woo fucking hoo.
The next piece of news that I’m waiting for is… where am I going next? I put Los Angeles as my number one, Wright-Patterson in Ohio as my number two, and Hanscom in Massachusetts as number 3. As soon as I find out, you’ll find out.
Out!
-TJ
Well, I’ve recently started focusing on building up my social life now that I’m locked in for the next stage of my career. I figure I need to start dating or at least meeting and talking to girls so I can be less afraid of the initial contact.
So I get occasional emails from the different websites that hold my profile, and I get some from Cupid.com about their “predating” events (read pre-dating, and not PREDating, which is how I first read this word and thought of The Predator). I had been getting a couple, and finally I clicked on a link in one of these emails just to see what the event had in store. Well I looked at the form, then left it alone because I had to go to work, and I really wasn’t that interested in participating in something that could be seen on a subsequent documentary on We or Lifetime.
After I had visited and failed to follow through with this form, I started getting emails mentioning how I didn’t complete the form. I guess Cupid is pushing these predating events hard… normally you pay $35 to get into one of these.
Then I checked my mail this morning after work. I have a message here from a personal AOL account which I initially thought was spam, but opened it anyway. Apparently someone locally runs these events, and she actually got word that I looked at this form online. She made me an offer that was pretty good, and now I’m registered to go to one of these speed dating things at the Melting Pot next Tuesday. Apparently they’re overflowing with ladies and need men to equalize the ratio. We’ll see if that’s good or not.
Anyway, Kudos Cupid.com for hustling the honest way. Not by spam, fake ads, or numerical misrepresentation, but rather by providing a service and following up with customer support. Good Job.
-TJ
Forgot to mention, I’m now a Staff Sergeant.
“Sergeant Olaes”…. that’s gonna take some getting used to. I’ve been saying it over and over in my head since yesterday when I officially became Staff Sergeant Olaes. I’m not overly excited about it. I mean, it’s cool and all being the same rank as my first supervisor in just under 4 years, but for some reason I’m just kinda like “yep, here I am, what’s next?”
So yeah, now I’m Sergeant Olaes. I’ve been thinking about “Sergeant O” though, that has a nice ring to it.
-TJ
Tired greetings.
I’m trying to stay up and go to sleep at 6AM tomorrow… I’m rotating to nights and I always have problems for a week or so each time I make this switch. I’m sure gonna miss the sun. And having ready access to base facilities that are closed at night. Oh well.
Lately I’ve been buying food from the grocery like normal people instead of running to Wendy’s or something. Yeah, I’ve been pretty bad about my diet, I’ve been eating alot of crap. At least now I’m making myself some food for cheaper than going out and buying it, stuff like sandwiches and cereal, really basic, really boring, but really easy on my wallet.
Man, I gotta find some shit to do on my nights off. I don’t really want to stay home. I think I’ve been looking for that cafe that’s open all night for the past 2 years… some place I can go to and just chill and write apps on my laptop near other people. I like living alone but at the same time when I don’t know anyone in the area it gets really lonely.
-TJ