Xmas in Happy Valley

Click Here for more pics
TIS THE SEASON TO BE A GAMER:
Pre-Xmas at work we had a video game “Mario Kart” tournament where I got booted in the first round, a “Dance-Dance Revolution” completion which I placed in the top three, and a day of playing random multi-player games including old school “Gantlet” and a twist on a the classic Packman where three people take the role of the ghosts and the fourth plays packman. For Xmas I bought myself “X-men” for the Xbox, and I bought Nicole two role playing games, “Syberia” and “Syberia II”. Of course when we were not watching movies, evil Nicole played her game endlessly and we never cracked open X-men.

MEET ME HALF WAY:
Since my parents didn't want to go to my sister's new place in Jersey, I decided to meeting Nicole in Altoona and bring her back to State College for an intimate Xmas. She left her family because she's Orthodox and their Xmas isn't until January. Her direction to Altoona failed because I took the first exit instead of the 3rd which she assumed I'd know to take, and I had no idea what Crackle Barrel looks like because I've never gone to one.

MEN DONT GET LOST:
Lost, I waited for her parents at a Sheetz but they found one a mile away from me (Later I remembered that stupid Altoona is the headquarters of Sheetz). Finally, I went back in the driver's seat and made it to the mall with directions from a random man to finally find the Myers family including their Schnauzer Tevy they brought along for the ride.

YAY PRESENTS:
Once reunited, Nicole and I bought Xmas presents for each other at State College's and Altoona's malls. We purchased robes for one another and I got her a red teddy from VS. I also bought myself some shoes, and in a sad series of events, lost the shoes in the mall and had to repurchase them. After some tedious laundry, shopping, and cleaning, we made some Xmas steaks and celebrated with wax under the one foot minny Xmas tree in my tiny apartment. Nicole has a device that melts candles to release their aroma, which is great because you can reuse candles, and have fun dipping your hands in the wax to make wax fingers.

I tried to show Nicole match rockets (matches wrapped in aluminum foil that shoot 5 feet) but the last of the matches I had turned out to be a dud, so I moved to the best gift ever, Shocking Tanks. The way these two remote control tanks work is simple. When you shoot the other tank with infrared light, the opposing tank registers the hit and your opponent receives an electrocution though the control, usually dropping the controller. You can set your control to low shock which will do one point of damage, or high shock which will inflict two points of damage. I guess that kind of represents shield which lessen fire power. First to inflict 6 points technically wins, but when you're shocking people, everyone wins.

Well Merry Xmas to you and yours...

Your Personal Hero
THE BAbbLER
pchewy
Anshu Gupta
http://psubabbler.esmartguy.com