One Mouthy Broad

So I think it's probably time for a computer upgrade. Right now, I can't run Mass Effect 2 - although it's debatable whether it's on account of my processor not meeting the system requirements or it's some crazy game bug (there's an epic thread over on the bioboards where people are trying to sort that shit out). Still, if it were problems with just one game, I'd say to hell with it, but I've been noticing recently that my computer really does need some upgrades anyway, at least some more memory as well as a faster processor and motherboard.

But I'm wondering if it's time to just give up on PC gaming and buy an xbox.

On one hand, I've always played games on the computer. I like playing games on the computer. The one console I did buy (which admittedly was a long time ago), sat around gathering dust and I think I played like four games on it. I don't know that we'd actually play enough games to justify buying an xbox. On top of that, our television is a piece of crap, which is actually fine by me because I canceled cable on account that I really don't watch TV. The very few shows I do actually watch, I just torrent for free or are offered for free on the internet.

On the other hand, if I did buy a new TV and xbox, we could all play together and we'd have something better to watch DVDs on (although we don't do that much either). There's also the greater variety of games that would be available.

So tell me my nerdy gaming friends, should I just suck it up and pony up the extra cash to buy a TV and xbox?

First of all, I just want to thank everyone for their kind words on my last post. You're all pretty fabulous people.

So anyway, my crazy brother-in-law has this hobby which involves buying old surplus duce and a half army trucks from the government and fixing them up. He's recently discovered that other people are interested in buying them as well, and so he's set up a business where he buys the trucks from the government, fixes them up a bit and resells them to interested buyers. Last Friday, he needed people to help him drive these trucks about a hundred and fifty miles to the place where he's storing them. And since I couldn't pass up the opportunity to drive an Army truck (because seriously, when do civilians ever get a chance to do this?) I volunteered to drive.

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Okay. I will freely admit that I can be a completely insensitive bitch, but I really, really think that the hypersensitivity over peanut allergies is completely overblown hysteria and it's really starting to piss me off.

( Watch Pris lose her temper and totally overreact under the cut. )

I just had to explain to my five year old son the difference between Americans and Decepticons.

Sometimes being a parent is both hilarious and awesome.

Why are you so sexy? How can you make growing heirloom onions from seeds sound like a good idea, when I know damn well that it's a complete pain in the ass? How can you make it seem like I'll be missing out on something completely awesome if I don't grow my own bush beans this year, or try to grow at least four different kinds of salad greens? When did growing my own leeks become necessary?

If my spring crop of garlic and shallots grows even half of what I planted in the fall, I'm not going to have to worry about vampires for the rest of my life. Yet, here I am again, with the intention of doing a small garden this summer, but I just know that that's not going to happen. By the time I get done reading all of my seed catalogs and planning out my vegetable beds, I know I'm going to order too much stuff, just like I did last time. And now, instead of planning my garden to fit into the small amount of space that I have, I'm trying to figure out where I can build a couple of new raised beds in the spring so I can fit sugar snap peas and spinach in amongst all of the tomato plants.

It's probably a good thing that we just rent this house, otherwise I'd be trying to find spaces to cram in asparagus beds, rhubarb and more apple trees.

*cries*

Our television died last night. I'm guessing that it got tired of showing political coverage and committed seppuku. I can't say that I blame it.

Normally my husband and I would be happy since this would give us an excuse to buy a flat screen. But since it's quite likely that Tom's going to get laid off next month (again...gah), dropping a bunch of money on a brand new toy would probably be unwise. So we've decided to wait a few weeks and see if we like living without television.

This should be an entertaining experiment, since I haven't lived without a television since college.

...but now after being home for a couple of days, I finally have enough energy to whine about it.

So my mom has all these convoluted health problems, and she's been going to the Mayo Clinic for about three years now since no one else seems able to untangle what's specifically wrong with her at any given time.

( What I've been doing for over two weeks and how old people can even bigger babies than a four month old children. )

I'd always heard horror stories about people naming their children idiotic things, and I'd just recently reread Baby's Named a Bad Bad Thing thanks to midnight_hawk but I'd never quite witnessed this idiocy myself. However today I was tooling around over on a local mom message board when I ran across this post. I swear, I didn't make this shit up. I suspect you all will find this as sadly hilarious as I did. ( Read more... )

For my son, trains are like kiddie crack, so yesterday we took him to this model train expo convention.

( Cut for a ginormous photodump - dial up beware. )

We stumbled on entire city and train scape made from Legos.

( Click here to pass the boring family shots and go directly to the Lego awesome. )