Repus Yortsed's WWYD Journal

Day 1
I left work at 5:40 am. I decided to go straight home instead of stopping at McDonalds to pick up a pair of Sausage Egg McMuffins like I had used to do everyday. Instead of stopping at the first stop light I came to I cut through the nearby Shell gas station. I did this because that light often times doesn't change for a very long time after someone pulls up to it for reasons I don't know. After I turned out of the gas station I drove past several more stop lights, but luckily nearly all of them were green. Later, I turned off of the main road onto a side street and from there to the alley behind my house. A short ways down the alley I pulled into my driveway. I got out and walked up to the house and entered through the back door locking it behind me.

I walked through the darkened house and headed towards my bedroom. After unlocking the door I went inside. Once inside my cat meowed at me hungerly while I took off my coat and hung it up. I took the various items out of my pockets and put them in the basket on my computer desk. After taking off and hanging up my belt I took off my shoes. From there I figured I'd better take care of my cat so I went to the kitchen and got her a plate of canned cat food. I set it down and as she ate it I took her water bowl and filled it with "fresh" (the city water here sucks) water and then filled her dry food bowl. After that I cleaned her litter box and dumped the "waste" in the trash can outside the back door. I walked back into my room and turned on my computer then went into the kitchen to fix myself something to eat.

I decided to have the blueberry Pop-Tarts I had bought the other day and had yet to eat. I opened the package and stuck two of them in the toaster and turned it on. I went to my room and sat in front of my computer. From there I launched my web browser and chat programs. I checked the front page of GameFAQs for any interesting news from GameSpot and then voted "Yes, another flash memory player" in the poll. Afte that I check the few boards that I still frequent and then bumped the Rate the Game topic. After that I went to get my Pop-Tarts and as I returned saw the moron my roommated decided to ask move in sleeping on the couch. While eating the Pop-Tarts I checked the other websites I frequent and my e-mail. The only thing new in my inbox was from Toys 'R Us saying they shipped my copy of Bralw I pre-ordered back when they had a buy two Wii games, get one free thing a while back. After that I chatted for a bit and made a few posts here and there on GameFAQs and other sites.

By about eleven-ish I got hungry again so I made myself a sandwich with chicen, turkey, swiss cheese, and mayo. After eating it I decided to try out Castlevania 64 and see what it was like so I dug out my Nintendo 64. After a brief struggle with all the cords in my cords box I procured the controller as well as the av cables and power plug. I took everything into the living room and hooked it up to my older television. I had to unplug my roommate's XBox becuase there was already too much plugged into the power strip. I put the gmae in and turned on the console and was quickly greeted by a notice saying I needed a memory card to save the game. Since I didn't have one I choose to play without saving. I ran around the first area of the game for a while then went to the bathroom and forgot to pause the game. When I got back I was dead so I decided to call it quits until I could get a memory card. In the mean time, I put Super Mario 64 in and started a new game. I Played until I got eight stars then quit. After that I got back on my computer and chatted away most of the rest of the early afternoon. When I saw what the WWYD topic was I decided to go to sleep.

I slept until 8:00 pm and got up to my alarm going off. I took a shower and got dressed for work. I made myself another sandwich, ate it and then read some more of a book I had started before grabbing heading to work. On the way to work I had to wait at two stop lights.

Day 2
On the way home from work I decided to try the evil stop light. Unfortunately, it didn't want to cooperate so I had to back up and cut throught the gas station. As if to mock me the thing changed as I pulled into the gas station. Getting home was uneventful as was taking care of my morning "chores". After voting the never used a public Wi-Fi spot option in the poll I bumped a couple topics and decided to get started on my WWYD challenge. I went to Ed's board and posted five half-way decent ideas for future WWYD days in the ideas topic. When that was done I hit up Google to try and found a character counter so I had some idea of how much I had to write. I found one that also had the script for it so I saved the script as a .html file and the launched it in Firefox. It counted characters a bit differently than GameFAQs did, but it was good enough for me to get an approximation of how close I was. After a short while of typing I had surpassed my goal by a few characters according to GameFAQs so I rewrote some stuff so that I had exactly 4096 characters and yet no oddly worded sentences. I had originally thought about abusing the Bold and Italics tags, but I figured Ed would call that a loop hole and I'd have to write some more. When I was finished I linked to the topic in the WWYD topic.

After browsing for while I decided to do something I hadn't done in weeks, play Team Fortress 2. The last time I played it was a few hours before I went to the doctor and got a cast for my hand. Since I no longer had the cast I could now play. I started up my Playstation 3 and initially had to update the console's firmware after which I launched The Orange Box. After choosing Team Fortress 2 I did a search for a game on 2Fort, almost the only map I'll play, and joined the only game available, one on a West Coast server. After plaiyng that match and then rotating through a few more servers I found a European server that was going well and stuck around in it. I was guarding my team's Intelligence when suddenly I heard my cell phone ringing in the other room. I quick ran to answer it, but I missed the caller. As I returned I heard myself being killed and my intelligence being stolen. Because of that I was a bit annoyed especially since I didn't know the number that called me and when I checked the voice mail it left it turned out to be some automated thing that had the wrong number. Later on in the match I had jsut stopped the enemies from getting away with the intelligence when I stretchedd my legs and knocked over a can of pop I had been drinking. Of course as I cleaned up the mess someone came and took the intelligence. The rest of that match and the others I played were fairly uneventful and I played until about 12:30 pm after starting about 7:30 am.

After I finished playing I remembered that I needed to do laundry. I had to take a shower first so that the work clothes that I was wearing could get cleaned. After showering I started a load in the washing machine and got myself a bowl of ice cream. I ate the ice cream as I browsed some more on the Internet stopping to take care of my laundry as it got done. As I browsed I decided I should probably pay my cell phone bill. After I paid it I noticed that I could now get a new phone at a discounted price because my contract was about to expire and in an attempt to keep customres my carrier provided it for renewing. I already had a RAZR so I picked a MotoRAZR which basically seemed like a fancier version of the same thing, which was fine by me. After I chose what I wanted I tried to finailize the process and got an error. The site didn't say what the problem was, only that if I think I shouldn't have gotten it I should call their customer support number. Annoyed I decided to try again some other time and started to get ready to go to sleep instead wehn i remembered I wasn't finished with my laundry. I took the last load, threw it into the dryer and then went to bed. After I woke up I got my stuff out of the dryer and prepared, and then left, for work.