Livin it One Day at A Time

For this page to go live, so I can buy myself some stuff.

Like a poster.

And stuff

But after watching this.

So much worth it.

I need these, me thinks.

I am on my way to becoming a Rock-afire explosion fanatic

Tell me if this doesn’t strike fear.. er happiness into you.

Eddie are you ok, are you ok eddie?

Now, I’m a sucker for documentries of arcade related things. I’ve got “The King of Kong”, I’ve got “Tilt, the battle to save pinball”, and I have Xanadu

Now, I just saw this link, and I have to say, someone needs to get it for me. The actual band, or maybe just the dvd

Now, my parents never took me to a Showbiz Pizza, but anamatronics? How can you give that up?

More stuff to collect…

Final tally with the house

# of people with injured feet: 2
# of people who then had to go to the doctor: 1
# of people with injured knees: 1
# of people with bad backs: 1
# of days it took lowes to get me a backup fridge: 5
# of days to get unpacked: 1000
# of boxes that were not packed: 300
# of pinball machines moved: 12
# of pinball machines in basement: 1
# of arcade games moved: 5
# of arcade games going to basement: 0
# of people irritated by me: 100
# of hours it will take to get home theater set up: 10
# of wireless access points I found when I turned on the laptop: 11
# of hours till Batman: Dark Night: 16

I would like to thank all those who helped. This includes, but is not limited to

Jill
Tyson
Mom
Gordon
Julie
Yuri
Dad
Michael
Matt
Allan
Monica
Brian

If I can hobble over to store and get some cards and gifts, I’ll be sending them out to you. If I am lame, and don’t get to it soon. Just know it’s the thought that counts

I have fallen off the wagon. It used to be that I was in line to see every movie.. Now I hardly see any.. And I’ve resisted this summer’s hype.

I really have.

But this..

This…

Take a look at the first Six minutes of Batman: The Dark Knight

And tell me that ain’t beautiful.

Geek friends, we will be watching it on Thursday night, getting in line on Tuesday night. That’s how excited I am.

In other news, the house continues to be built. The painter painted the wrong color outside, blinds have been bought, appliances have been bought (some at 20% off) and I found some problems with the house, and pinball machines will be making their way from Utah.

Photos to come

So.

Casa De Chris is looking, well, like a house.

To give some background.. I live in an apartment currently. Some like to call it a dungeon, others just like to call it my man cave.. But recently I got the “Buy a house” bug again, and went looking.

My Realtor, Joe Prunty went with me as I checked out house after house.

After house.

I do think he figures I was crazy. I would look around a house, then go running into the basement.

Because, being the computer nerd I am, I have to live in the basement, and eat Ho-Ho’s and Hot Pockets.

Wait.

That’s not why I was looking.

In reality, I could do without the house.. Part of me, just doesn’t want to deal with all the work that involves getting a house. Alas, my two hobbies, Pinball and Home theater, are not conducive to living in a apartment. So, I was scoping out the basement at each house.

Then I found the little spec house. My own little spec of suburbia. It’s nice, but in reality, I’m just concerned about three things

1) My kitchen. Ohhh, gonna have a Dual Fuel Range, an Awesome Fridge, and some of the best washer and dryers I can find (Really, really thinking of getting a fridgidare front loader). Also going for the oval pot holder thingy, and lots and lots of outlets.
2) Basement room to put my pinball machines in. And the MAME Cabinet, and the video games. I think with the video games, I’m up to like 16 Pinball machines and 7 Video games. Ohh, My family will enjoy moving me.
3) Basement room for My Kick Butt Home Theater. Well. Initially, it won’t be that kick butt.. But I’m trying to figure a way to ceiling mount the projecter, then do some decorating. Like getting a guitar wall mount for my Rock Band guitar. You know, the non obsessive stuff.

If you have any questions, just leave them in the comments. I’ll do my best to answer.

If you want to send me some amazing type of housewarming gift, I’ll send you the new address