Sunday, February 29, 2004
The weekend in short...
The drunk at Steve's almost didn't happen because Stevie ended up in the emergency room after he neatly chopped the tip of his thumb off. Thankfully, they didn't medicate him and he was still ready, eager and able to have people over, so Rawl and I caught up with him and Steve's bro a bit later than originally intended. We drank beer all night, chatted and played a little bit of PS2. At 6:30 Saturday morning, Rawl and I headed out.
Saturday afternoon, I took a quick trip over to my parents' place. Ken and Dorothy (my mother's sister and her husband) had driven down to visit for the afternoon, so I stopped by for about an hour-and-a-half. After getting home, I got ready to head over to Casa De Law. When I got there, we popped copies of Halo into the two Xboxes and set up some system link deathmatches. I'm happy to announce I kicked some serious ass and almost always came out on top. Even when I didn't outright rule during a match, I don't think I ever really dropped lower than second place (okay, maybe to third once). After everyone tired of me whoopin' ass, we flipped on Conan the Barbarian and watched it. I was a little unimpressed with the image quality. It was clear they hadn't really cleaned up the print at all. You could see all the dust flakes, bits of dirt and hair throughout the movie. Damn cheapass DVD producers.
I got home from The Law's at about 1:00 a.m., got some shut-eye and then got up early to head downtown with Logan to the Toronto ComiCon. We met up with Tom, grabbed a coffee from the Timothy's in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and then went to wait for the convention to open. ComiCon was being held in a conference room in the north hall, and it was mostly filled with comic book vendors (duh!), but also a few memorabilia merchants and some shady types selling bootleg DVDs of everything from old B-movies to the Star Wars Holiday Special. As it turns out, none of us bought any comic books (I had hoped someone would have the first trade paperback of Cerebus, but no luck there), but Logan and I both picked up some bootleg DVDs. I was quite happy to find a DVD that had all of the old Simpsons shorts from the Tracy Ulmann (spelling?) show. I just finished watching it a little while ago, and while the quality gets a little shaky from time to time, it was still kind of fun to watch all those old shorts.
So that was my weekend.
The drunk at Steve's almost didn't happen because Stevie ended up in the emergency room after he neatly chopped the tip of his thumb off. Thankfully, they didn't medicate him and he was still ready, eager and able to have people over, so Rawl and I caught up with him and Steve's bro a bit later than originally intended. We drank beer all night, chatted and played a little bit of PS2. At 6:30 Saturday morning, Rawl and I headed out.
Saturday afternoon, I took a quick trip over to my parents' place. Ken and Dorothy (my mother's sister and her husband) had driven down to visit for the afternoon, so I stopped by for about an hour-and-a-half. After getting home, I got ready to head over to Casa De Law. When I got there, we popped copies of Halo into the two Xboxes and set up some system link deathmatches. I'm happy to announce I kicked some serious ass and almost always came out on top. Even when I didn't outright rule during a match, I don't think I ever really dropped lower than second place (okay, maybe to third once). After everyone tired of me whoopin' ass, we flipped on Conan the Barbarian and watched it. I was a little unimpressed with the image quality. It was clear they hadn't really cleaned up the print at all. You could see all the dust flakes, bits of dirt and hair throughout the movie. Damn cheapass DVD producers.
I got home from The Law's at about 1:00 a.m., got some shut-eye and then got up early to head downtown with Logan to the Toronto ComiCon. We met up with Tom, grabbed a coffee from the Timothy's in the Metro Toronto Convention Centre and then went to wait for the convention to open. ComiCon was being held in a conference room in the north hall, and it was mostly filled with comic book vendors (duh!), but also a few memorabilia merchants and some shady types selling bootleg DVDs of everything from old B-movies to the Star Wars Holiday Special. As it turns out, none of us bought any comic books (I had hoped someone would have the first trade paperback of Cerebus, but no luck there), but Logan and I both picked up some bootleg DVDs. I was quite happy to find a DVD that had all of the old Simpsons shorts from the Tracy Ulmann (spelling?) show. I just finished watching it a little while ago, and while the quality gets a little shaky from time to time, it was still kind of fun to watch all those old shorts.
So that was my weekend.
// posted by Chris @ 5:46 PM 
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