Paradise trophies in a galaxy far, far away

I spent pretty much the entire day yesterday playing Burnout Paradise from the beginning to earn trophies. I felt MUCH better about having to do this once I realized that I could just copy my save game to a memory card, start over, get the trophies, then reload my original save file and be right [...]

The drama is over (at least with work)

DFAS threw me two huge curve balls this week. Turns out that if they review your security/background check form and don’t see any immediate red flags, they can give you a waiver of some kind so you can start working right away and they will finish the background check while you’re working. That’s [...]

The monkey wrench I was afraid of

This is a late post but whatever.
Well, I was afraid of this. I received an email today (Sept 15th) from DFAS with a tentative job offer, pending a “security investigation.”
Here’s the problem; the email included a salary and the pay would be less than what I would get at Progressive. My shift would [...]

NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

So guess what everybody? Burnout Paradise trophies are NOT retroactive! After months of promising us that they would be. I’m simply crushed and speechless. I’ve put 150 hours into that game, plus another 20 hrs into Burnout Bikes. And now I have to delete my entire save game and start [...]

Short gaming update

Not much new right now.  I am enjoying The Force Unleashed but I got distracted this weekend with Burnout Bikes and the double XP event on PS3 Call of Duty 4.
I really like playing COD4 online but I’m really not that good at it.  There are some stages where I can do pretty well, but [...]

lol bunny!

more animals

THIS is intense!

Found this on Giant Bomb. Jeff Gerstmann’s right, just watching this makes you feel like you’re in danger!
Downhill skateboarding

A too-true story called: The Husband Store

A store that sells new husbands has opened in New York City, where a woman may go to choose a husband.
Among the instructions at the entrance is a description of how the store operates:
You may visit this store ONLY ONCE! There are six floors and the value of the products increase as the shopper ascends [...]

The monkey wrench I was afraid of

Well, I was afraid of this. I received an email today from DFAS with a tentative job offer, pending a “security investigation.”
Here’s the problem; the email included a salary and the pay would be less than what I would get at Progressive. My shift would be 10am-6:30pm and the email did not specify if any [...]

The end of week 2, plus more boring contemplation

We spent the whole day at Bank of America today learning about pricing, how it works, and how to explain it to customers. I’m not sure when the last time you looked at your own credit card statement was, but if you haven’t, go ahead real quick. I’ll wait.
The only thing harder than understanding how [...]