Tone Parsons

Today was the day: time to pre-order Battlefield 2142

I’ve been a fan of the Battlefield series since 1942 came out. I’ve purchased every version and every addon pack for it (with the exception of Armored Assault). I’ve downloaded and played every mod of value.

Yet, I totally suck at it.

My kids, on the other hand, rock at it. So we all join on at once, form up a squad, and they keep me alive for as long as they can.

Today, I pre-ordered 4 coppies (one for me, both kids, and my eldest’s girl friend…. who also plays and has a PC at my house). The game comes out in mid October. It should be a blast!

On Saturday, the Spokane Shock took on the Green Bay Blizzard for the title of Champion in ArenaCup VII.

After a tie in the 1st period, the Shock turned it around and won the game, 57 – 34.  This was no easy feat.  The Shock were missing several key players (Isaiah Trufant and Jerome Stevens were missing, and star player, Charles Frederick, was injured in the 1st period and out for all but one play afterwards).  Thankfully, the rest of the team stepped up and took charge (expecially Kevin Beard and Antwone Savage).
We didn’t go to the game (it was in Puerto Rico), but did watch the game on TV.  While not nearly as exciting as being there, it was still an amazing game!

And speaking of the TV broadcast… the quality of the picture and sound was horrible.  The arena down there was barely occupied (they should have held the game here in Spokane… we fill every seat for nearly every game!).

We are soooo buying season tickets for next year.  I’m hoping to get section 204, row A (first row of the balcony on the 25 yard line).  If not, we’ll try to hit the floor in section 104, as close as possible to the field.

I was outside at lunch, taking in the glorious day that today is, when I heard something loud from above.

It was a hawk (I believe it was a red tailed hawk), circling above the break area outside. While that in itself isn’t exactly news worthy (I live in the Pacific Northwest… we have wildlife galore!), what happened next is. The hawk in question let out a second cry and suddenly dropped what it had been holding in it’s talons (a killdeer… which tumbled the 80 or so feet to the ground). I then saw what was going on.

3 more hawks were converging on the first.

A drama of aerial combat began to unfold before me. Hawks swooping at each other and each trying to drive the other away. The prize was the killdeer on the ground (which hadn’t moved since it’s release and subsequent plummet to the earth). After about 10 minutes, the original hawk broke away from the fight and the other three drifted toward the west (still going at it).

I had to go inside for a customer call but returned 10 minutes later to see how it all worked out. The dead killdeer was gone and so where all the hawks.

I did try to take a few pictures with my camera phone, but they didn’t turn out.

Other news:

My plans to rule the world with an iron fist are back on again. We’ll see how it goes this time (hopefully with less smoke blown up my butt this time). Of course, I cant discuss it yet… but soon, very soon.

Yup… I’m bored of it the old look and am heading straight into the land of “hey… that’s not the same!”

Everything is subject to change (and there will be a rotating banner at some point).

I still need to get the links up and running (I just changed it a few seconds ago… give me time) and have a load of tweaks to do.

EDIT – links and crap are up, so is the webcam. Yay, team me!

Now all I need to do is get inspired for the header (and make it clickable, so you can click on it, you clicky person, you!).

Oh… and before you ask.  Yes… it’s a hot dog, with a barbie head, covered in spagetti-oh’s.

What?