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Bertman and I have been playing quite a bit of Mortal Kombat online lately. However, something has been missing.

Trash talk.

Now, the game is compatible with certain USB headsets. I’ve been looking locally, but they’re around $30.

Enter eBay.

So, I scored 2 headsets for Bertman and I tonight for less then $20 a piece. Not too shabby…

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It’s been a few months, and I’m starting to get the itch to change up the site again.

I’m not as to what kind of design, but the sire feels stagnant.

I’m thinking about going back to something similar in feeling to my blue design that debuted in November 2002. I think I want something with a dynamic header that I can change very easily on the fly. I also like the simplicity of the navigation. I feel like I have too much in my sidebars. The most expendable thing to take out was my LastFM album quilt. The next thing that may say goodbye is my Amazon.com book link, and possibly even my Google AdSense banners. I’m not making as much as I used to, so I have to sit down and question from a design standpoint if such a large skyscraper is really necessary.

I’m taking an extra 2 days off after we get back from the beach to relax and decompress a bit before going back to work. I think I may have to sit down for a few hours and mock something up.

In other non-geek news, Jess and I went to see ‘Superbad’ tonight before going out for some sushi. Everyone had told me this was a must see and I must agree with them. Although to be fair, I think my favorite part was before the movie even came on. The showed the teaser trailer for ‘The Dark Knight’ before the film.

I had a geekgasm.

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The Bertman and I were finally able to get together for a few hours last night to pummel each other in a contest known as Mortal Kombat. It’s literally been years since he and I have gotten together and played MK. And let me tell you, not much has changed.

I kicked his ass quite efficiently the first half of the night, and he was quick to return the favor by handing me mine the second half of the night. After the beatings, we decided to take our fight online and see what we could do. The matches online we’re as bad as some as we’ve faced, but people still tend to be cheap online. We did find one player however that seemed to be on par with our skill level. I played this person for 3 matches, finally winning the last match and securing my first online victory. Bertman played the same person for 3 rounds, but unfortunately I am unable to remember if he won or not. It was around that time that Jess came home and I was asking her how her night at work was and not paying attention to his match.

I’m sure he’ll let me know if he won or lost.

Today he’s at home all day watching his little girl, so I may have to hop online later and see if he’s available for a little rematch.

That is, after I get down with cutting the yards and getting some housework done.

As for me right now, it’s time to get off the couch, make some lunch, and then get this day started.

You know you’re getting old when you consider getting up at 9am sleeping in. On the weekend I usually wouldn’t even consider getting up before noon. This morning, I was up at 4:15am without an alarm, and forced myself to go back to sleep until 9am.

Yep, I’m getting older.

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I finally have a weekend off. Granted, I had last weekend off, but I spent 12 hours in a car and in New York trying not to beat the living shit out of a drunk, abusive asshole.

To be honest, I really can’t remember the last weekend I had off to myself. Granted, I have things to do like cut the yards, shampoo the carpets, and some general cleaning, but it’s not like I have to travel or go to work.

Also, I finally get to sleep in a bit!

Right now I am making some dinner before starting to play some Mortal Kombat Armageddon. The Bertman got his PS2 online, so I think we’re going to try and get some online carnage going on tonight.

Well, back to making dinner.

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Been ages since I posted one of these.

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In preparation of MK Day 2, I starting printing out the moves for all the MK games. It’s been a while since the Bertman and I really put in some good MK time, so we’re both pretty rusty.

I just got done printing out all the moves for all the characters in Mortal Kombat Armageddon.

It was 224 pages.

How many characters is that you ask?

Need I say more?

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