PixlBit

So yesterday, all my friends were busy doing Valentine's stuff and my date from Sunday was still in Dallas, meaning I didn't get any laundry done or see The LEGO Movie. 

Instead, after I searched for some sources online for my  own research, coded a few ads, watched the first episode of House of Cards on Netflix, coded another ad, did some cardio, and took a shower, I decided to go shopping at Wal Mart, due to finding an old gift card laying around. All I needed to get was a new light bulb for my ceiling light in the bedroom, but I also wanted some discount Wal Mart candy, and to maybe do some shopping at the GameStop and Game X Change nearby. 

I wound up getting 4 60 watt equivalent fluorescent light bulbs, a Big Bag of Pull and Peel cherry-flavored Twizzlers, a box of chalk-flavored Valentine heart candies, and some other Valentine's candies that I ate without properly identifying at Wal Mart. At GameXChange, I got Revenge of Shinobi on GBA, and at GameStop, I got Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.

The comedy of errors began when I asked the GameStop clerk if my Power ... whatever card I was signed up for the last time was still on file, if I gave her my phone number. She found it on record, so I went ahead and asked for what I thought was the cheapest Ace Attorney game there in the used DS section, at $13.49. Turns out, I had a different type of card, and the one that would save me %10 was $15 to get. I went ahead and just paid the $16.23 total to get the game at usual price. I know I should get that card if I plan on going back regularly, but I already feel like I need to stop spending on these retail games, so best not to encourage myself to spend even more money just because I have "coupons."

When I got home, I popped Revenge of Shinobi into my GameBoy Player, only to get the Game Boy start up screen and then that Game Boy logo frozen in place. So I tried it on my DS, which said there was no cartridge in the GBA slot. Curious and having noticed something weighting down the cartridge ever so slightly more than my other GBA games, which rattled around noisily when shaking the cartridge mildly, I put it in my actual GBA and it worked! Which I thought was bullshit, because I wanted to play it on my Game Boy Player, and the thing clearly had some sort of DRM-ish thing in the cartridge that locked it for GBA play only. I took it back, received $4.28 worth of store credit once I gave the game back, and bought a $9.95 plus tax copy of Spider-Man 2 I had been eyeing anyway with said store credit and another swipe of the card.

When I got back home, I realized my bulbs were the correct wattage, but much too big for my ceiling light's E-12 bulb slot. I didn't feel like going back out again, so I just replaced the light for my desk lamp I've been using, so now that's more energy efficient I guess. I also decided to throw the Kroger chicken I had cooked away, because it had become too damn dry for me to eat the whole thing (high-protein, high-calorie diet, so yes I was going to eat all of it) and I didn't want a repeat of last semester where I refused to throw old ground beef away and got sick even after cooking thoroughly. Some of the chicken was pink, so no dice there. I did eat some alfredo pasta my friend gave me, because I figured it would taste alright without the milk I forgot to buy, as opposed to the macaroni and cheese I planned to cook, and I fried a baked potato for myself after I got rid of the disgusting looking white stems that had grown on a few of said potatoes from leaving in my cupboard too long. Then I ate some peanut butter so I wouldn't be so far behind my 150g protein requirement, though I had already eaten roguhly 800 of my 2000-3500 calories with the candy, which always packs more of a calorie whallop than I expect. I really didn't eat that much, but apparently that stuff is made entirely of calories.

Oh and then the fucking swing button in Spider-Man 2 didn't work. But then I popped Metroid Prime in and noticed the button (R) was responding more slowly than other buttons. Then other buttons stoped responding altogether. Then I decided it was the wireless controller simply running low on batteries, since the light on the receiver started blinking and the light on the controller itself hadn't remained green when turning it on. I really hope that's it. 

But yeah, House of Cards was great yesterday, so I think I'll watch more of that and try to get more work and shopping done today. 

I'm GLAD that Valentine's weekend is over. That BaDass saint still deserves better.