Ah, cé la vie, Xbox Live chose tonight, of all nights, to have a service outage. In 2 years of playing Halo I've never had it happen to me before and it debuts right in the middle of the Buffista Halo Frag Fest.

Bum.

The remainder of the brutality before everything went pear-shaped...

The Players: The Sengir - Pete, Husband of Jilli ------- Baaaazibub - Paul, Husband of Plei

Noise Design - Sean K ------- Noise Design (G) - Miracleman

Noise Design 2 - Drew ------- Noise Design 2 (G) - Omnis

Sonus x Machina - Himself ------- Sonus x Machina (G) - His brother

Game 1

Game 2

Game 3 (A team game)

Game 4 In this last one, me & Paul put ourselves on moderate handicapping to balance the gameplay better.

:: sigh ::

My younger brother kicks my ass at Halo. And he told me he wasn't very good. To this I cry BS!!

Nice shooting all! Hopefully we can play again soonish, once the Microsuck servers have done with their little tantrum.

Sonus, I'm probably just fractionally below the average player on Halo. The competition on Live is tough.

The competition on Live is tough.

So I've noticed since I started playing. It's the only way I'm going to be able to improve.

So, funniest moment of the limited playing -

Walking up behind Sean and saying "Y'know, you really should pay attention to what's going on behind you." and then smacking him in the back of the head.

Best comic timing goes to Paul who ran me over and timed the high, jolly "Hi Pete!" perfectly so it blurted loudly from my Tv just as he was passing right over my downed body.

Yeah, I know, you had to be there. Btw, did you know Sean swears almost as much as Joe when he's being fragged?

Hi! It's three thirty in the morning, and I think I might have just figured out something I want To Do With My Life, At Least For Awhile.

::cue astonishment::

Frag in post? Adorkable, each and every one of ya'll.

Hi SA. So, what is it you want to Do With Your Life?

Spill.

The Empress and Princess and I have been watching The Devil Wears Prada and sipping a lovely dessert wine. The Princess took a brief break when she attempted to drink said wine (and then was very put out by Auntie Kristin's shrill, "Em, NO!" as I lunged towards her to swipe it out of her hands...I made her cry! BAD Auntie!).

Anyway, we're watching the end of the movie now. Em has forgiven me. For now.

I am glad the frag fest was a hit. It sounds like everyone had fun.

sj, you mean something more like this: [link] , than like this: [link] , right?

That's exactly the kind of thing I am looking for, Teppy, although maybe a little shorter, since I am so short, and preferably in black leather.

Sean, I would love the recipe for the goat cheese and fig quesadillas if you get the chance. We had a goat cheese and fig pizza at a restaurant recently, and it was one of the best things I ever tasted.

{{{Nora}}} I'm sorry the holidays were so difficult.

{{{Teppy}}} I don't think it makes you a bad girlfriend; you have to take care of yourself sometimes too. I didn't do nearly as much running around as you did for the holiday, and I am feeling kind of shredded too. I think after Christmas we should all be able to hide in caves for a week.

I went over to mom's so we could go get manicures, instead I picked up a present for TCG for our date-iversary and took at 3 hour nap. Tomorrow I should probably put the presents away and throw out the wrapping paper that is all over the floor, but for now more sleep.

The Devil Wears Prada is a great flick. Saw it last week between performances of ACC. It made me get all weepy.

Gotta go back to XBox Live and shoot my friends and coworkers now.