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Upon coming to work yesterday, it turned out that I forgot to sign my timesheet from last week. Someone had already paperclipped a note to it reminding me to do so, but a note obviously means that I didn't forfeit my paycheck yet.
When I got home, I noticed next to the kitchen sink, one of the controllers that came with the Nintendo 64 when we bought it from Cousin David. I asked Mom where she found it, and she said that she was cleaning some places out, and she found that thing inside a wooden chest. I tested it out with Starfox 64, but it turned out that this was the one with the defective control stick. Actually, that was exactly the reason why I bought some non-defective controllers from Ebay, but since we still have that one, maybe Brian can see if he can fix it. That free screw inside of it might have something to do with the control stick's problem.
(Speaking of which, I should also note that the time that Brian and I purchased David's N64 was exactly one month before Chronicles of 7th Grade begins. Along with the transparent controllers with the slow-motion and rapid-fire buttions, it also came with Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Starfox 64, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy. We weren't allowed to play MKT because of the blood and gore, and we got rid of that game a year after buying the console.)
A book I requested regarding John Peter Zenger had supposedly arrived at my library yesterday, so I had to come with Mom to the library when she was on her way to pick Marie up. When we were there, it turned out that it was actually due there Monday, but we did get another book on Zenger, albeit a much simpler one.
On the way home, Mom asked me what I had for lunch. I told her I had a Santa Fe sandwich, some pineapple chunks, and a slice of chocolate cake. She said she was gonna make fish 'n' chips for dinner, because she had a lot of fish in the fridge, but asked me if she should save it for tomorrow. I suggested that we save it, but later on, she made some regular fish for Dad.
We stopped at the deli near Yaphank Lake, so that I could pick up a carton of eggs for Mom. While I was there, I saw a basket of "Quacking Ducks" on the counter. They were these small, yellow, fabric ducks with round bodies, yellow flaps for wings, and orange flaps for legs/feet. Actually, I used to have a duck that looked exactly like that, which I named Duckbutt, but mine was twice the size, was smooth instead of fuzzy, and had plastic beans instead of that plastic sound-effect thing. Back when I was thirteen, I kept it among some other animals on my bed, put on a squeaky voice whenever I played with it, and annoyed the hell out of Brian with it.
Marie got DVDs of Grounded For Life from the library. We've been watching that show on TV for at least the past week, and we watched several DVD episodes last night. In one episode, the kids were playing this made-up game called Aggravated Assault 2: City of Blood (an obvious fictional equivalent to a Grand Theft Auto game). The mother found out about the violent game, confiscated it, and gave them some kiddy game instead. They somehow got it back, but in the end, they ended up being stuck with, of all things, Pong.
The console on which the kids were playing the game looked kinda like a Playstation 2, but it was a cool, metallic blue color instead of black. I even looked up Ultimate Console Database's Playstation 2 page, and it didn't list such a special-edition PS2. Actually, I remember seeing in Nintendo Power, six special-colored editions of the Nintendo 64 (Fire, Smoke, Water, Ice, Grape, and Watermelon), and separately a Pikachu-edition N64 with Pikachu's foot as the reset button. The former didn't appear in UCD's N64 page, and the latter was subtitled "Australian Pokemon N64 Special Edition", even though it apparently did get an American release. Finally, that game... even though it's hardly funny to see the name of something get changed, I do understand that that's actually a legal requirement unless permission is granted by the company whose products are being referred to. If anything is funnier, though, it would be "Grand Theft Walrus," which appeared in The Simpsons Movie, which appeared while the Simpsons stayed briefly in Alaska.
Moving on, Mom said she was unable to find my Group journal anywhere when she was looking around. She said that it's probably not in the attic, because that place is too damp to store anything made of paper. I also gotta be honest, I'm kinda starting to regret discarding that agenda book from 7th grade, which I did when I was cleaning out my bookshelf. Last night, I remembered that while my science class was learning about space, we went to the activity court to watch part of a black-and-white movie (on a huge pull-down screen) that involved a crew of people going to some planet, encountering a giant spider-like creature, and using some "weapon" that emitted a thick laser dot and a wierd bleeper-like sound. If there's any good news, I do remember that it was on a Wednesday, it was during either February or March, and I can rule out which weeks it couldn't have been. For example, it couldn't have been March 17, 1999, because that was the week of the 7th grade Science Olympics.
When I got home, I noticed next to the kitchen sink, one of the controllers that came with the Nintendo 64 when we bought it from Cousin David. I asked Mom where she found it, and she said that she was cleaning some places out, and she found that thing inside a wooden chest. I tested it out with Starfox 64, but it turned out that this was the one with the defective control stick. Actually, that was exactly the reason why I bought some non-defective controllers from Ebay, but since we still have that one, maybe Brian can see if he can fix it. That free screw inside of it might have something to do with the control stick's problem.
(Speaking of which, I should also note that the time that Brian and I purchased David's N64 was exactly one month before Chronicles of 7th Grade begins. Along with the transparent controllers with the slow-motion and rapid-fire buttions, it also came with Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Starfox 64, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire, and Mortal Kombat Trilogy. We weren't allowed to play MKT because of the blood and gore, and we got rid of that game a year after buying the console.)
A book I requested regarding John Peter Zenger had supposedly arrived at my library yesterday, so I had to come with Mom to the library when she was on her way to pick Marie up. When we were there, it turned out that it was actually due there Monday, but we did get another book on Zenger, albeit a much simpler one.
On the way home, Mom asked me what I had for lunch. I told her I had a Santa Fe sandwich, some pineapple chunks, and a slice of chocolate cake. She said she was gonna make fish 'n' chips for dinner, because she had a lot of fish in the fridge, but asked me if she should save it for tomorrow. I suggested that we save it, but later on, she made some regular fish for Dad.
We stopped at the deli near Yaphank Lake, so that I could pick up a carton of eggs for Mom. While I was there, I saw a basket of "Quacking Ducks" on the counter. They were these small, yellow, fabric ducks with round bodies, yellow flaps for wings, and orange flaps for legs/feet. Actually, I used to have a duck that looked exactly like that, which I named Duckbutt, but mine was twice the size, was smooth instead of fuzzy, and had plastic beans instead of that plastic sound-effect thing. Back when I was thirteen, I kept it among some other animals on my bed, put on a squeaky voice whenever I played with it, and annoyed the hell out of Brian with it.
Marie got DVDs of Grounded For Life from the library. We've been watching that show on TV for at least the past week, and we watched several DVD episodes last night. In one episode, the kids were playing this made-up game called Aggravated Assault 2: City of Blood (an obvious fictional equivalent to a Grand Theft Auto game). The mother found out about the violent game, confiscated it, and gave them some kiddy game instead. They somehow got it back, but in the end, they ended up being stuck with, of all things, Pong.
The console on which the kids were playing the game looked kinda like a Playstation 2, but it was a cool, metallic blue color instead of black. I even looked up Ultimate Console Database's Playstation 2 page, and it didn't list such a special-edition PS2. Actually, I remember seeing in Nintendo Power, six special-colored editions of the Nintendo 64 (Fire, Smoke, Water, Ice, Grape, and Watermelon), and separately a Pikachu-edition N64 with Pikachu's foot as the reset button. The former didn't appear in UCD's N64 page, and the latter was subtitled "Australian Pokemon N64 Special Edition", even though it apparently did get an American release. Finally, that game... even though it's hardly funny to see the name of something get changed, I do understand that that's actually a legal requirement unless permission is granted by the company whose products are being referred to. If anything is funnier, though, it would be "Grand Theft Walrus," which appeared in The Simpsons Movie, which appeared while the Simpsons stayed briefly in Alaska.
Moving on, Mom said she was unable to find my Group journal anywhere when she was looking around. She said that it's probably not in the attic, because that place is too damp to store anything made of paper. I also gotta be honest, I'm kinda starting to regret discarding that agenda book from 7th grade, which I did when I was cleaning out my bookshelf. Last night, I remembered that while my science class was learning about space, we went to the activity court to watch part of a black-and-white movie (on a huge pull-down screen) that involved a crew of people going to some planet, encountering a giant spider-like creature, and using some "weapon" that emitted a thick laser dot and a wierd bleeper-like sound. If there's any good news, I do remember that it was on a Wednesday, it was during either February or March, and I can rule out which weeks it couldn't have been. For example, it couldn't have been March 17, 1999, because that was the week of the 7th grade Science Olympics.