Author: Andy Scheffler

Finally, working on this Kellogg’s project for Yahoo! pays off. The account manager just got an obscene amount of cereal, cookies, and other snacks delivered to his cube, free for the taking.

I took just about one of everything (I decided to pass on the Pop-Tarts), which comes out to about eight different boxes of cereal, three boxes of crackers and a box of cookies.

I’m only taking some of it home to share.

So once again, last night I had the “hey, we’re all back in high school for some reason and OH NO there’s a test I haven’t studied for” dream. From what I hear, I’m not alone in this dream.

What’s funny is that I remember walking down the hallway in the high school with two other people, whom I can’t really tell who they were, and one of them says “Hey, this reminds me of college!”

Okay, it was funny at the time, I guess.

… back to work.

I went through the video game release schedule for the next two months, and wrote down what I probably will buy on a post-it in my cube. Here’s what it says:

Mario Party 4 (GCN) 10/21
Broadband Adapter (GCN) 10/22
Animal Crossing e-Reader Cards 10/28
Phantasy Star Online Episode 1+2 (GCN) 10/29
DDRMAX (PS2) 10/29
e-Reader Donkey Kong, Urban Champion, Ice Climbers 11/11
Sonic Mega Collection (GCN) 11/12
Metroid Prime (GCN) 11/18
Metroid Fusion (GBA) 11/18
Master of Orion III (PC) 11/19
Phantasy Star Collection (GBA) 11/25
Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland (GBA) 12/2
The Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past (GBA) 12/9

And that just gets me into December… there’s still quite a few things coming out late Dec. / early Jan (Zelda for GC, Final Fantasy XI, etc.) Also, weirdly enough, 5 of those 13 are reissued games. Of course, the cost per game on those is much lower (the e-Reader games are $5 each, and the PS and Sonic collections have multiple games on them).

A few months ago, I knew a guy who worked here at Yahoo! named Kevin Fox.

I’ve also randomly wandered over to a website called fury.com a few times.

Just today I realized that fury.com is run by this guy who I used to know. Weird.

I just bought a tin of these Altoids citrus sours. On the tin is the text “natural flavor with other natural flavor”.

Uhhh… what?

I’m writing this from work, because something just happened that I have to comment on, but in order for it to make sense, I have to at least say what’s been happening recently beforehand…

Short answer? I’ve been working and playing video games. But then again, that describes just about most of my days…

Long answer: Got and played Kingdom Hearts, finally beat it on Monday with the “good” ending, but there’s still plenty to do in it, if I ever get around to it. Also got Star Fox Adventures yesterday, just started that. Also, I’ve been playing Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance and Super Mario Advance 3 on my GBA when I get a chance. Also bought the e-Reader for the GBA with a few games, and also to mess with Animal Crossing.

Oh wait, did I forget to mention Animal Crossing?

It seems that this game has actually gotten bigdumbthing to play a console game, and gyoza as well. We’ve got the whole community thing going there, but Luke’s able to put in more time than I have, so he’s a bit “ahead” in the game. (Measured by the amount of money he’s collected and what size his house is, the game is never really “finished”) Man, is this game addictive.

So anyway, I was walking back from lunch today when I saw a butterfly float by. I actually thought “Hey, I don’t have that one, I need to pull up my inventory screen and grab my bug-catching net.”

That was the punch line.

…

Okay, back to work.

For those of you who know me well enough, you’ll know that there’s no way I’m not buying this.

I knew that I had preordered Kingdom Hearts from ign.com, but couldn’t find the email. Without the email, I didn’t have the order number, and without that I couldn’t check the status. The email must have been caught by spamassassin and I didn’t pick it out of the spam folder before deleting it.

So I couldn’t remember, and was all ready to go buy it… when I got an email notification saying it had shipped. Good thing I didn’t order it again or something.

I suppose I could blame this on low blood sugar from Yom Kippur yesterday or something. Been feeling very spacy all day.

I hate it when I remember the thing I was going to include in the last entry, but it’s not enough to make a full entry on…

I recently finished reading “Blood Music” by Greg Bear. It seemed awfully familiar, as if I’d read it before, but I know I hadn’t. Then I realized it reminded me of a short story I read during high school. This week, I bought a collection of Greg Bear’s short stories, and it turns out that Blood Music was indeed based on a short story of the same name, and after reading it, it turns out it was the same story that I had read.

Funny how a story that I read so long ago, and that stuck in my memory, turns out to be written by an author that only recently has become one of my favorites.

So, Yom Kippur just started an hour and a half ago. I didn’t drink enough water today. I hope I can make it.

I’ve been playing around with all sorts of emulators for my laptop. I even got my Sidewinder game pad working on it. Fun fun fun.

I bought a bunch of Transformers at Toys R’ Us on Wednesday. Heh heh heh.

Once again, my face is famous. On the newly launched Yahoo! / SBC DSL page, click on “Tour”, then on the “Premium Features” rocket. For those of you who don’t know what I look like, I’m the guy with the fishing gear, and his kid.

Is it time to go home yet?