We go'in cut straight to the chase on this one cause its 1240am and in the last 24hrs ive only gotten 5hrs sleep!  Saturday the 18th i did recon callin local stores to see  what time they were gonna open for the release of the new nintendo wii.  As a kid all the way to present day  ive always had the newest nintendo so certainly this cant be any different!  But bein the hype around the ps3 i hadnt have that too much serious thought cause spendin 499-599 in the shadows of havin a child born cant be justified!  was a good call anyways bein the lack of supply and word that the ps3 aint playin a lot of ps1 and ps2 games. 

 

I got a good list of stores and when they openin so im feelin pretty confident im gonna nail one somewheres.  But you never get too confident till you have it in yo hand!  Then i realized walmart is 24hrs!!  crap! i gotta work 6pm to 4am! plan b time.  i get ahold of a close friend of mine who did make mention they'd be out in the streets on that saturday so you know i gotta try to tap that source!  I get into negotiations wit her to see if she can do me this favor.  She says she's able so i arrange to get her my debit card for when she's able to get there.   Enroute to work i pass by a local walmart and do a lil recon to see how its gonna be out there.  sure enough... people camped out waitin. im thinkin ugh, this aint gonna be good.  go to work and sweat it out.  0000hrs comes around and i hear from my friend a lil later that nyte and strikin out.  I tell her to abort ill be goin plan c in the morning.  plan?

 

walmart- 24hrs

toys r us (bellevue, wa) - 0000hrs special opening to sell

target- 0800hrs

best buy- 0900hrs

sears, toys r us, circuit city- 1000hrs

fred meyer- 1200hrs

 

well by 0400hrs walmart is sold out and toys r us is closed.  I pass by target, toys r us, and best buy to see what the competition be like.  target? camped out. abort.  toys r us? no one in sight.  best buy? camped out. buy only a couple tents.  operation wii is on and crackin!

 

i go home and wake up (without an alarm) round 0810hrs.  knowin this i know target is 10min into their selling i get up feed my daughter (who was already up) get dressed and head out the door.  church starts at 1045 i cannot forsake God for a game... but im gonna try to get it before that time! hahahahaha  i call up to target... sold out w/in 6minutes. figured that much there were plenty of tents out there. by this time its 0820ish so i divert and head to best buy.  upon arrival theres people out there but no orderly fashion. just sporatic. hmmm i have my fubu puff jacket on, jeans, boots, and beanie wit ipod. im ready to stake it out an hour or two in the name of wii! when i get to the door i just loiter lookin non chalant and just listen.  a women is kinda 1/2 braggingly sayin she got the last ticket for a wii (the store was handin out tickets to people in line to secure a unit)  this kinda angered another motherly like woman who was there to get one for her kids she stormed off and i just non chalantly walked off too like i forgot somethin in my truck.  abort divert to plan d.  i head to toys r us wit 2 things in mind. 1) zero people in line at 430hrs that morning and 2) when i called the day before i got a lil insider trading info.  the employee told me they hadnt made their presale expected quota so they'd have a few more units available to sale.  now i didnt know if this few was 3? 5? 15? but im gonna roll wit it. i get there and theres bout 16people so it seemed in line. again im ret-ta-go! i get out get in line in the rain and hunker down like a bum in need of some serious dividends! its about 0835 ish round this time (toys r us dont open till 1000hrs) listenin to my ipod im deep in thought... plan e,f,g-z! hahahah i have visual on sears they open at 1000hrs but i dunno how many units they gonna get as when the ps3's were released they were only expecting 2 and they didnt even get those the day of release! non-reliable but possible wild card. but then i did somethin different.... i stopped thinkin bout how I was gonna do this and started do what i shouldve done. prayed.  the things we get and have are GIVEN to us and were ALLOWED to have. we are all on borrowed time we didnt make nothin and we dont OWN nothin. hunkered down im listin to Religion and Ethics Newsweekly a PBS televised show that i subscribe to their podcast. very informative and is all of course in regards to religious events (off all religions, denominations, and cults) 

 

0900 comes around (ugh finally im soaked and freakin cold!) and the front door opens and an employee comes out. part 1 of the moment of truth. do i pray? do i listen? do i bumrush the door waivin a 9mm and holler out "BREAK YO-SELF FOO! GIMME A WII NOW!!" no, better stick wit pray and listen for the moment.  the employee advises that if you are a presale person youre good to go and dont need to wait in line.  no one moves.  he then advises he has a limited amount of tickets and only 1 per family per person and to stand in a single file line. from there once you have a ticket you dont have to stand in line anymore.  part 2 of truth. he goes down the line givin each person a ticket.  gets to me im the 23rd ticket and hes got a stack of at least 10more in his hand as he continues on down the line that has now formed behind me as well.  from there people break out and drive off to return in an hour or so. the ticket tells us that you have till 1100hrs to come back and get it otherwise you s.o.l. and its up for grabs.  i still dunno how many units they have. 3? 5? 15? does this ticket mean im 23rd sucker that shouldnt have procrastinated and now have to go in the back room and strip for the chance to be in a lottery for the possiblity of gettin one? Im a boxers man 100% the mall dont open till 1000 where am i gonna go to get some bikini briefs, speedo, man thong or whatever to increase my chances???  if i hit'em wit this short, outta shape llcoolj body.... they aint ready for this! LLCOOJL- Ladies Love Cool Lon!  ive come too far i aint leavin. i go back to my truck move it to a slot closer to the front door and stage there warmin back up for part 3... strippin...i mean waitin.  by this time i meet back up wit my close friend who was on her way to church and she drops off by debit card (thank you babygurl!!! preciate your help!) i funds transfer over the money via phone to assure i got this covered.  come 0935 i see some others who remained in the lot start approachin the front door again.  im #23 ticket if this is a 1st come 1st serve i need to increase my chances i aint got no thong to strip! i get out and approach the new line but this time im like #6 in line. if 1st come first service i just moved up 17 spots! ipod'n it and now wit a hood cause its pouring now.  come 0958 the door opens again. the same emp comes out and advises that if you didnt have a ticket you s.o.l. and that there weren’t anymore available.  So the dude in front of me had to cut out cause he didn’t have a ticket.  Rest of us headed toward the entrance and straight to the back to get the wii.  Getting in there this juv/teen brisked walked past me in the elementary school “gotta be the 1^st in line” fashion I almost pushed his immature butt into a display.  They for some odd reason or another they were all goin over to the accessories! Games, controllers, etc. I was like… ya’ll crazy I wanna secure a UNIT first ill come back for that ish!  So I go straight to the checkout hand her my ticket and am sale number 1 for toys r us!  From there cut out went home, changed, got my daughter together and off to church we went!

 

The next day (Monday) after dropping my daughter off at preschool I head over to tar-jey (target) to get a 2^nd controller.  They have the remote but no joystick (nunchuk) odd, but whatever ill find one at another store.  At this time the mall is still closed and I aint gonna wait another 40 minutes till it opened so I go home to sleep.  Wake up shower and start makin phone calls to try to find a nunchuk controller. Fred Meyers, walmart, targets, best buys, circuit citys, gamestops.. you name it I called’em.  NO one had’em.  I called a target in Lakewood they said they had some of the classic controllers (used to play some of the ol’ school games that are avail for download on the wii channel. Nes, snes, genesis, Nintendo 64, turbograx 16 games) they said they had 3 I was like coo im coming there now.  I get there there 30min later (drive time and gas) and cant find’em on display.  I find an emp that works that area and she was like “oh… I just sold those not too long ago”  I Blacked out again.  I better get meds for that cause someone was about to get HURT up in that store.  You don’t make me drive miles outta the way burnin gas and time and for nothing?? Them people about to make me act my race up in this store!  I walk away and straight out the door. HOT!  Get back to makin phone calls and comin up short again wit results.  I end up later on callin walmart in federal watts and they say they have 8 for sale of the classic controllers.  So I am like cool ill get 2 of’em.  Go home get my ish, get my carpool buddy and hit the road.  Stop at linen n thangs to get my turkey platter 22pc set thing, then over to walmart to get my controllers.  I go in there to the display area…. Empty… Im blacking out again….. wait… I can control it… no need to.. turn.. over displays…. I gotta go to work I cant be arrested for felony malicious mischief…. I got this…  I approach an emp and advise him I had just called and was told there was 8 avail for sale still of the classic controllers… he goes to another display case that’s locked up and filled wit games.  This dude is trippin but whatever.  He hunches down to the very very bottom of the display that’s lined wit games and is reaching in the back…. What the… is he gonna half cock a game downward in a bookshelf that will open a secret chamber?  He’s reaching for controllers that are stashed back behind there! I ask’em “well do you have any nunchuk controllers back there too?” he was like yeah how many do you need? I looked at my carpool partner wit disbelief! After all this haggle and hassle and it comes down to 45min before work last stop and a store wit a secret stash!

 

So in the end for thanksgiving (3 days later) all controllers were up and in working fashion and the kids had a blast playing!

What it is and what it do my peoples?  Alot has gone down in the last couple weeks so much so i wasnt able to come here and write in this unpublished autobiography! 

 

I took off a couple weeks ago for our anniversary yet.... we didnt do jack! 9yrs wit a person overshadows 2yrs of marriage hahahaha anyways while i was off (and she worked) i painted and completely set up our son's room.. Ceiling to floor and bordering (Noah's Ark), set up the crib all that it looks so good i didnt think i had that home interior skill in me! (dont worry, no queer eye for the straight guy ish goin on here yo!) 

 

I got an early (EAAAAARLY) christmas gift from wifey that i very much appreciate and love.  I had a 40gb mp3 player that i was very content wit yet after loadin all my music that was 34gb of space!  6gb till a full load! unacceptable! (keep in mind though thats 10yrs or so worth of cd's)  So wifey bought me a 5th generation ipod video (black)  Wow its so nice gotta lil bargain on it too from a sale online that the store pricematched (ya'll know me! a bargain shopper!)  So since then ive been uploadin uploadin uploadin cd's.  In the homestretch now.  Since i got that i went ahead and had them install an ipod interface in my trailblazer to control the ipod through my dvd/navi deck.  well that proved to be obsolete cause you couldnt tell what the heck you were choosin selectin anything! so i had them UNinstall that and put in a harman/kardon ipod controller and display screen.  Oh its HOT!  and since they were in there doin that work i had them finally install the 10.4" flipdown screen for my kids (and ya'll if we ever who-ryde down the skreets!) and dvd player underneath my dvd/navi soi didnt have to reach around in obscruity to change out the movies.  wired it for a ps2 as well so we ret-ta-go now! Then came the fun.

 

Lemme tell you somethin, if theres a way God gets back at you here on earth for your sins... its in the dentist chair.  I normally go every 6 months but my last 6 month appt i cancelled due to shift changeover or somethin i cant remember and never rescheuled as i was tryin to consolidate my trips up north.  Well we had a maternity appt that day so i made my dentist appt that day as well.  Get there all's good till the cleaning (of course) they have some kinda hydro cleanin thingy and that thing aint no joke! Im no punk in the chair at all but this was the 1st time EVER i was so close to sayin "you know what lady, im coo thats enough!)  she was workin my gumline somethin fierce!  now i know it was all my fault from not flossin as i should (maybe if they made an electric flosser like my electric toothbrush maybe ill use it more often!) sheesh!

 

My wife has been crampin up alot in the finally stages of the prego of our son.  Due Dec.11th she started havin contractions on the 6th so came home from work mid-day.  after a few hours i ended up goin to get our daughter and loadin everything up and headin to valley medical (from pierce county yeah thats a drive havin a prego woman in tow wit no lights and sirens!)  Of course they're doin remodelin at the hospital so the main entrance is completely blocked off and the emergency room parking consists all of uh 8 slots maybe? FULL HOUSE THAT NIGHT! prego? i sure did park in the v.i.p. no parking zone RIGHT in front of the door lol.  threw on the hazards took her into er got her a wheelchair.  asked them where the birthing center was but they were that busy to not even tell me just said have a seat we'll get at you in a minute (well... not those slang words lol) am i gonna wait? hex naw i sat her in the seat and wit daughter in tow pushed her through the maze of hallways (the "detour" as its marked). arriving in the main lobby finally i get her to the birthing center and they get her a room and all checked in.  after the exam and the monitoring etc they were in fact REAL contractions.  bein she has 5 weeks till due date they didnt want her in official labor at the moment so they gave her a shot to stop them immediately.  told her it'll make her feel like she had 5 cups of coffee.  sure enough she did start gettin a lil wired and jittery it was quite hilarious lol well in the meantime i get a voicemail from work.  its the onduty supervisor at the time who was checking my whereabouts as she got fed bad intel that i had already dropped off my wife at home and was to be headin into work and hadnt arrived.  well the insensitivity of the voicemail wasnt even about how my wife was doing, not even if i was ok bein the nature of the weather i very well couldve been in a DITCH somewhere needin help.  but no, now welfare check its all about basically WHY ARENT YOU HERE AT WORK?  oh i was piiiiiiiiiiiiiissed.  who needs to feel like their JOB is more important then their WIFE in premature labor??? completely insensitive.  so i call back and "advise" this person that i never told anyone i was on my way to work as we were still in the hospital, yet that when she was released and home safely THEN i would be at work and whoever told you that gave you bad info.  Did she become sensitive then? psst, i start gettin interrogated about and ETA?? are you serious???  If i had another gig lined up someone wouldve caught a dialtone right then and there cause that is completely unacceptable.  She does end up gettin discharged finally around 2020hrs and of course my priority now aint gettin her home safely but now "i gotta get to work as soon as possible".  bein she left her vehicle at her job i took her and my daughter there dropped them off and assured they got on the road and off to the institution i go.  Of course on arrival they have the audicity to try to scold me again! this time about not informing THEM that i was coming in! i was like are you serious??? i DID call you when it went down initially and i TOLD you to put me out all 10hrs of my shift and if i was able to come in i'd let you know.  they tell me "well you didnt tell us you told someone else here and we found out through them you were comin in" i was like i didnt tell them anything i didnt tell them i was on my way i told them that when she was released and home THEN id be on my way but bein we were still in the hospital even when you left your message i wasnt enroute.  she recoils now and says "well im just goin by what they told me" i was like what??  ok this facility now runs on 3rd party he say she say.  i told'em i didnt call you cause i had NOTHING to report we were still in the hospital.  conversation was deaded. yet i get mandatoried to work 4-6am before i even sign up for my console and breaks. and they wonder why some people just say screw you and your system and stay out sick even when they not.  Im doin the RIGHT thing in the situation and comin into work even though my prego wife just got released from the hospital yet i get haggled and harrassed while IN the hospital and even when i arrive to work!  Wit that night over I rally back the next day to have a great work shift surrounded by many of my peers that are my friends.  With one we created this game that we play every night (that we work together) called "tell me somethin good!" its kinda a one sided game since i ask the question and she answers but i dont have to answer my own question hahahahaha!  She told me of a childhood toy that i was happy to reunite her wit a picture of later on (bucky the wonderhorse) hahahaha!