Couple of things.

Last week the local EB Games finally got my Street Fighter IV SE Fight Stick in stock.  After a few months of waiting I can finally give my thumb blister a break.  After using it for the weekend I'm pretty happy with it so far.  While there have been widespread talk about how the thing is very prone to break, I'm hoping that mine will avoid those problems.  To remedy this, I hope to mash on this thing as much as possible this week.  =)  We can call it "scientific testing".  I'm still getting used to using an arcade stick.  It's a little harder for me to pull off Hadoukens but playing the charge characters (ie: Guile, Chun-Li, etc) is a LOT easier.  And with my fight stick I finally won my first online match!  My record now stands at 1-13.  If you're considering getting this game, I'd highly recommend getting a fight stick of some kind whether it be the Hori HRAP or a Mad Catz Fight Stick.

Hmm..what else has happened in the past couple weeks?  Went out for a friends birthday at Lucky 13 Dance Club and had a blast there.  Unfortunately I opted not to bring my camera so the only ones around are on Facebook.  Possibly the best part of the night was my introduction to SteelWheels.  Basically a crazy after-hours pizza place run by a Korean cowboy, SteelWheels serves up some of the most eclectic food I've ever tasted.  Bulgoki(sp?) and kimchee pizza, stir fried kimchee and tofu, this stuff is just so awesome.

The funniest thing that happened there was when I was inadvertantly doused with half the contents of a water bottle.  Now to be clear, I'm not one to be confrontational and get "pissed off" when something like this happens.  I tend to just laugh it off and HOPE that it was an accident.  In this case it was.  Some drunk girl was apparently having a water fight with her sister and I was just caught in the crossfire.  The scary part of all this was when she came back about 15 minutes later to apologize.  With her dirty, soaked sleeve she started to wipe my face.  All I could do was sit there while my friends were busy laughing their asses off.  Haha, all in good fun and hey, it makes for a good time spent with friends.

This past weekend has been an interesting experience.  Friday was spent at the Talib Kweli concert at Ed's.  The main draw for myself though was to support The Greater Good. Check out their site to download the FREE sampler CD!

I spent Saturday continuing to plan my trip to Japan.  Even booked my ticket (wallet says ouch).  With that key piece bought, I'm pretty darn excited about going and am spending a lot of time looking up cool places to visit.  Any ideas?  Drop me a comment.  One of my decisions will have to be whether or not I'm taking my laptop.  It'd be nice to have access to blogs, emails and photo dumps but it'd be another 4-5 lb's I will have to constantly worry about.

Also made my decision to place an order for a new Nikon D90 and the Nikkor 18-200 DX VR Lens.  Pretty psyched to be finally upgrading to a full DSLR!  Although this is another huge blow to the pocketbook I can't wait to snap some great pictures of Japan!

Final note: I'll be in Calgary this Friday for an Interview that I'm pretty excited about.  The opprotunity is pretty  much my only "bite" that I've had in a couple months and it's for one of the jobs that I was quite interested in.  Please wish me luck as if I don't get this job, I really have no idea what I'm going to do with myself.

So that about sums up my past 2 weeks, sorry for the extreme abruptness and terrible flow of this post but I've been pretty busy!  Hopefully I'll get back to regular sized blog posts pretty soon.

PS: Valkyria Chronicles is AWESOME.

I am never allowed to take a break ever again.