The End of a Morey Era

Well, I am back in Morey this year, but down a floor. I have found out that there is really no one from third floor still living there. Out of Nick, Josh, Alex, Matt, Gabe, Luke, Jordan, Aaron, Eric, Dave, Nino, Curt, Sean, Panama, Kyle, Jase, Heath, Brandon, and Tony only Curt remains. I really like Morey 316 as a room. It has a great position in the hall and a great view, but when I decided where to live I knew that if I put there it would not be the same. I have moved down a floor and I don't fell like I'm starting over necessarily, but I am enjoying it. College can be one of the most depressing times ever. It has so much change. You meet friends but you neglect to realize you've got at least 3 years of still seeing them at best. Even less when their older and even less when they move out. And then a surge of freshmen come in. Next year is going to be wierd.

On to College

Well, today was fun. They didn't want me in. They said I wasn't on the list. I am. All of my stuff is in here now and my room is awesome. My cable doesn't work yet so to pass time while I unpacked I watched The Empire Strikes Back. Infortunately, once I started I had to finish. I went over to Rachel's to see the rest of the Princess Bride and then watched the first part of Harry Potter. I showed them my goodies! Too many kinds of high. Water and gravity are now evil only when combined.

I shall call him...Mini-Wonka 

I am the Rulemaster!

(Those who don't really give a crap can go ahead and ignore this post like you've been ignoring the rest of this blog. Hehe!)
Last night at Dragon's Lair there was a Star Wars Miniature dispute that I was able to mediate. They were wondering if Sly Moore's Dominate ability works on enemy players and General Grievous.

Dominate (Replaces turn: Target non-Droid character takes an immediate turn, which does not count as one of your 2 activations this phase, even if it has already been activated this round; save 11. The target character cannot move this turn.)

OK, now it doesn't say anything about enemy players or anything but the rulebook contains additional information they couldn't list on a card. It says:

Dominate: Instead of taking its normal turn, this character can take control of a target non-Droid character, even one who has already been activated this round. (This does not count as an activation.) The target character takes a turn as though it were on the acting player’s squad but cannot move. It can resist this effect with a save of 11. Determine legal targets normally for enemy characters; any allied character in line of sight is a legal target.

Ah ha! "For enemy characters!" So that was settled. Now General Grievous, he counts as a Cyborg with both Droid and non-Droid attributes. Does this mean having droid attributes would not allow him to be targeted? Well, we go back to the trusty rulebook:

Cyborg: A Cyborg character counts as both a Droid and a non-Droid. This means it benefits from effects that target Droids (such as Repair) in addition to other kinds of effects (such as Heal). However, a Cyborg character is also vulnerable to harmful effects that don‚’t normally affect Droids (such as critical hits) as well as those that specify Droids only (such as Ion Gun 20). Cyborgs can be affected by commander effects.

Not a whole lot there but something caught my eye...Heal works. So I whip out the Polis Massa Medic card with Heal and it says:

Heal 10 (Replaces attacks: touch; remove 10 damage from a non-Droid character)

So if Heal works on Grievous becuase of his non-Droid attributes, therefore Dominate must work because of that same non-Droid status. Boo ya, nerds! Basically the point of Cyborg is to take advantage of both attributes and not be hindered by one or the other.

Chris Miller Funday 2005

Yesterday, the Class of 2003 went down to Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun. OK, let me see if I can get everybody: Me, Chris, Max, Kyle, Brandon, Zach, Eric, Ashley, Megan, Angie, Kayla, Steph, Kelly, and Sara B. were going. It started off well. Zach showed up with a hangover so that was fun to watch. Kyle drove the Millers' van, Brandon drove himself because he had to get to Des Moines afterwards, Steph drove her car, and Chris drove his car. I rode in the van with Kyle, Zach, Ashley, Megan, and Angie. We didn't get far into Iowa when Zach had to puke. He puked again in Missouri, then again outside the park. Good thing he was going on rides. In Missouri, we were going about 100 mph and suddenly a cop pulled out behind us. We're all thinking seatbelts when the cop passes us and goes for the car inbetween us and Steph. We were freaked. But it was fun.

We got outside the park and we decided to eat, I think, beforehand so we turned around and went to Wendy's. Our van couldn't find everyone else because Zach was puking. We called and found out they went in anyways. We got our tickets after selling a few extras to some people. They said "Chris Miller Funday" hence the title of the post (and probably future gatherings). They went on the Boomerang while a few of us waited. Most of the group went to Oceans of Fun while Ashley, Megan, Angela, Eric, and I went to more rides. They went on the Mamba because I'm not too keen on rides overall. They make me yak. But I love being there. We then went on the Monsoon, one of the rides I actually go on. They then went on the Detonator and then we wondered around for a while until we got to the Spinning Dragons. The line was long so I took off toward the sugar. They had Wonka bars! You don't find those anywhere. We then went on the Viking Voyager, another I like, and then we chilled out. We got bored and went to Oceans of Fun. Megan and I didn't have suits so we just waited in the oppressive heat.

After a while, the whole group was ready to try Worlds of Fun. They wanted to go on Mamba but it was broke. They went on Detonator while I had my own thrill ride. I visited the Detonator gift shop and was looking at the glassware when one of the glass shelves above me broke shattering crap everywhere. I was so embarrassed. Luckily, they said it was OK as I said that I think I will leave the store now. Not my best moment. They then went on the ThunderHawk and hated it while I found a DDR Extreme game. They really wanted me to go on it so I played some chick from the park. That was fun and exhausting. It's been a while! They went on Spinning Dragons again and most of the group got tired. Some headed back to the cars while the others went on Boomerang again. We cranked the A/C and waited and navigated the most poorly designed lot ever. We then left and went to eat. They wanted Perkins but we brought them down to CiCi's. Brandon left for the army and we were off. Unfortunately, Kayla's car was off in the wrong direction. Glad I wasn't.

The drive back was fun and reminiscent. Zach was going about 80 mph and the group wanted to stop constantly but we kept going. They wanted us to stop for 30 minutes to catch up but we didn't. Almost into Nebraska, Zach has the great idea of passing a guy in a disappearing lane and then suddenly having to slow up to not hit a truck. In Omaha, Kyle wanted Zach to take I-680 North and cut the median to get to Center faster. He wasn't going to do that in the Millers' van so we took that to Pacific and got back to Center. We tried to get gas at Fantasy's but they were closed. The other called us at about the Platte River saying that they were at 160th and Center. No way. We went to Cubby's for gas and then headed back to Mead. We left gas money I had to get gas in may car. Christ showed up not too long after wanting to know how long we've been back. They must've totally sped bad. Oh well, that's the whole of it! I can't wait for the next one.

www.flickr.com swfanatic_2000's Worlds of Fun 2005 photoset

My iPod Experience

I thought it would be fun to get an iPod mini for this weekend and finally give in to one of my sever urges. I picked up a green 4GB iPod Mini from Best Buy and was somewhat happy due to the fact that I don't like shelling out $200. I got it home and installed it and the installer crapped out during the connection part. It gave me an error reporting alert. So I tried again, same thing. Error 1628! It was driving me nuts. I took it back yesterday and exchanged it for a new one. I opened it up and tried again. Same frickin' thing! I was getting angry. I installed it on the main computer and it went. It was all formatted so I installed the software only and tried to get it to run. Nope! It hate my computer. So I took it back to Best Buy all defeated and so now I'm up $200 and down one iPod urge.

If anyone knows how to solve this, let me know. Or if anyone knows how to install an iPod and then have it simply work with iTunes with little installation, please let me know...cough...cough...Oliva...

A Look at Windows Vista aka Longhorn

Check out this preview of the new Windows: http://www.pcnx.com/reviews/review.asp?reviewid=2005070003

Help Wanted

I'm looking for someone who can make me something out of metal. It doesn't have to be fancy metal but if I give them a small shape, I want them to make it for not a whole lot of money. Cools if it was in the Fremont/Omaha/Wayne/Norfolk/Sioux City area. I thought I knew someone in college who knew someone that make stuff out of metal. Does anyone know anyone?

Revenge of the Sith: Abridged

Hehehe: http://ter.air0day.com/?script=revengeofthesith

Time to Freak Out!

I'm so excited for many things! My high school class is going to hit Worlds of Fun at the beginning of August! I also found out that WSC is putting in a Starbucks in Conn. Oh yeah, there goes my meal plan. I was telling Nikki in my freshman year that they should put in a Starbucks here. My non-sensical ramblings have come to pass.

By the way, I miss you guys. I miss you guys so much. I really, really miss you guys. Seriously, you guys...miss ya!

Sorry about the brainfart, time to get some caffeine!

Review of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"

I saw this movie a few hours ago and I thought it was fun. The crazy thing is, it felt like one big scary Michael Jackson fun time. It makes no reference at all, but it makes you feel like it. Anyways, I enjoyed this movie. The humor was odd and off the wall like Wonka and Johnny Depp served the part well. It's a nice departure from the 1971 musical. The Oompa Loompa songs are kinda funky but with a sense of Danny Elfman. This movie is enjoyable to all ages, but expect kids to be there. They will also from now on be frightened of squirrels. Never go to Wayne. This is short and simple, but I may add more.

My rating: 8 out of 10, not too shabby
DVD-worthy: yeah, not a bad buy

Peer Pressure Point

Yesterday I went to Dragon's Lair and was happy. The Rebel Storm reissue is here. I was pissed that people were pulling Vaders and Fetts while I kept getting duplicates. I bought a Grevious and Mara Jade with two boosters. I pulled Leia and IG-88, duplicates. I got rid of IG and got an Aerial Clone Trooper. I then was tempted into buying another booster. I pulled a probe droid. I have 3 now. I realized that they were super rare and worth the purchase of another booster. I already traded the other. In that booster I got a Sandtrooper on a Dewback. Not bad, not Vader/Fett/Obi-Wan. I traded in my Leia, a couple Royal Guards I got a while ago and my duplicate Typho for a discount on another booster. This one got me Chewbacca. I was happy I guess. One kid tried to trade my Jabba and IG for his Palpatine. I don't think so. He bought a booster by trading in Palpy and got Jabba anyways. I hope that remains there a while. I found out where I can get a Luke and Han if my luck holds out. I'm also hoping other places got those reissues because I'm going to want more.

I then went to Dave and Busters and hit the Jackpot on one of those spinning light things. I was waiting for 2 minutes for the machine to spew out all of my 650ish winnings. I got 974 total for like 1200 on my card. I think I'm going to save for something cool for my dorm room. I then went to Matt's and played some Episode III and watched Star Wars bloopers. All in all, mo money, still fun. Still tired of duplicates.

State of Total Fun-ness

Last night I ventured on to my comic book runs. I picked up a few Jedi and some peons during all that jazz. One of the games was willing to trade my Darth Vader for his Kit Fisto, Mace Windu, and Asajj Ventress. I really wanted to but the collector in me said no. I know there is another Vader a few weeks ago in LaVista I might be able to aqcuire for the trade. Let's see... Anyways, they close at 9 so I decided to pop over to Dave & Busters!!! Hehe, they carded me on the way in. I got my new card and had fun. I played Need for Speed Underground for a while. I wanted to play the DDR knockoff and Galaga but people were using them. So I decided to win some tickets. I got a shot glass and left some tickets on the card for a shirt or some fun stuff for my room eventually. You can win power tools starting at 13,000 tickets. Outrageous. Well they close at 1am but I wanted to see other things. I went to Barnes and Noble and found no more boosters but I picked up 3 books including Paradise Lost. Always wanted to read that.

Today I couldn't sleep for some reason so I had an early morning. This afternoon I attended Nick Vrba's wedding in Columbus which was nice. Tomorrow I may go to John C. Fremont Days or head into Omaha for more fun. We'll see.

Everyone take on the Medical Droid!

Well first I drove up to Hastings in Norfolk and looked for Nick to find out he left a few minutes ago. I called him for directions and bought 5 packs of Rebel Storm Miniatures. Nick showed up and we went to his unfurnished new apartment. That place was cool. It had an upstairs which had 3 more rooms. I found out later that he worked from 9pm to 9am but he let me stay overnight. I played KotOR and watched Ren & Stimpy and Clerks before sleeping. He came back and we watched Futurama and talked before I left for Wayne.

Rachel was waiting for me and I brought my Miniatures along to go to Sioux City. We picked up Jodie and Sam and along the way Jodie would some Miniatures on the dash. Here are some examples of a totally random battle against a Medical Droid and a Wookiee chorus line. We got to Target and got distracted by toys, school supplies, and Monty Python. We then went to Toys 'R' Us and got more distracted by toys. Sam got Star Wars Monopoly. We then went to Jo Ann's for fabric for conventions and I got some fleece for a blanket...a blanket...in summer...oh well. We then went to Walmart and got distracted again. Jodie was about to buy a little kid version of Luke and R2-D2. I love how the description is Ages 3-8 because at 8 it will be no more fun. We then went to Sam's Club and Rachel got a crap-load of water that took more than 10 minutes but we did see the Red Bull truck.

We went back to Rachel's after dropping Jodie off for Norfolk and watched Enterprise and made the blanket. Sam was passing out. After a while I returned to Norfolk to my huge hotel room. It was at Norfolk Lodges and Suites and we had a suite. It had a main room and a separate bedroom with a full kitchen and another room upstairs. Well, I suppose that's it until I got see Batman Begins again with Jodie before heading home.

Review of "Batman Begins"

I finally got to see this movie! I had to settle on seeing it in Fremont, but now I want to go to Omaha and see it. This movie was absolutely awesome. I had doubts way at first when they were talking about doing the Scarecrow and Ra's Al-Ghul because tehy are not the villians you think ofwhen it comes to Batman. Now I understand why they were chosen. They best tackle this part of Batman's story and they are so real in the best sense of the word. There was a paranoid message boarder I foud the other day that said people are going to start believeing that there could be a real Batman because of how this movie plays it. I like the subtle and not so subtle cues at a sequel and the possiblity for returning characters.

On another note, I really like how they did the Scarecrow. He's freaky and as Nick put it, "You wouldn't want to meet him in a dark alley." Mr. Nick did say he say this with comic book freak Heath and said that Heath loved it. This coming from the guy who has a list of critiques about the new Superman outfit.

Oh well, if you love movies go see this
My Rating: 9 out of 10, seriously, that good
DVD-worthy: Midnight pickup

Dave & Busters

I was reading the Omaha World-Herald at lunch today and noticed that a Dave & Busters is opening soon at 132nd and Center. If you've never heard of this place they have food and tons of video games for adults. No, not adult games, it's jest themed for adults. Anyways, I went to one in Chicago back in 1999 and I looked around and found my old card to play the games. I was excited until it said it would only work at the issuing store at Clark Street @ Oak in Chicago. Oh well, I was the 7,870,706th person to get a card there. So, I'll put this back into storage for another 6 years and see if it still works then! Until then, I can't wait to see what it's going to be like in Omaha.

Comic Book Store Run

Yesterday I ventured into the deep sections of Omaha to find some unique Miniatures. I went to Coliseum Gaming & Collectibles in La Vista and they really had nothing I was looking for. I then went to Ground Zero Comics at 50th and L and found some great but few Miniatures. I got a Princess Leia, 4-LOM, IG-88, and some fringe for a scenario I'm planning. I went up to Krypton Comics and bought my super-articulated Darth Vader figure from their huge wall of Star Wars. I saw Jen there and we talked about many things including how comic book stores really don't want business. You can look over the same product behind glass for an hour and they don't perceive it. Anyways, I went to Dragon's Lair and got another destroyer and some extra fringe and a booster. The booster had 3 of the ones I just bought. That's OK though, I guess.

Anyways, next weekend I'm heading up to Norfolk and Wayne. If anyone wants to do anything, let me know soon or I may call some people. I do want to go to Hastings and maybe a comic store there, but I'm up for anything including Felicity marathons to do during that weekend.

At the River

Last night, we went to Rick's Cafe Boatyard place-thing down by the Missouri and that was cool. I don't get to bring my spycam around too much due to security at work so I went a little nuts that night.

The Missouri from the restaurant:


Downtown O:


ConAgra geyser:


Almost news backdrop-worthy:

Top 11 Rejected Star Wars TV Shows

11.	The Fresh Princess of Na-Boo
10.	Two Guys, a Girl and a Wookiee
9.	Darth Trump's "The Padawan"
8.	Touched by a Sith Lord
7.	Star Wars: The Next Generation
6.	Extreme Makeover: Death Star Edition
5.	Survivor: Hoth
4.	Emperor Palpatine Controls the Universe
3.	Everybody Hates Anakin
2.	That Long Long Time Ago's Show
1.	Queer Eye for the Jedi

Why I don't want to be connected

I consistently get these emails from people wanting me to join some online community thing at hi5.com and it scanned my Hotmail and found emails. It sent an invitation email to everyone on that list. If you got one of those emails, disregard it or join it or whatever. I didn't mean to send it. If it had said, "We will invite your friends via email" or something to that effect, I would not have sent it. I don't work that way. If you want to be connected with me, bookmark this page. I don't need another login to some crap I won't use.