{"id":37,"date":"2004-12-16T13:43:26","date_gmt":"2004-12-16T21:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2004-12-16T13:57:05","modified_gmt":"2004-12-16T21:57:05","slug":"xmas-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/archives\/37","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"
Alright. My exams have been over for a few days, now. On Monday, I had my Statistics and my Chemistry exams. After my Chemistry exam, my sister picked me up, and we went to her staff party at a Japanese restaurant she works at, part time. That was good. I got to drink sake and eat sushi for free! There was even a karaoke setup… but it was all-Japanese, with only 9 English songs. :-\/ We thought House of the Rising Sun had not been defiled enough that night, so we had a go at it.<\/div>\n
I did some Christmas shopping at Park Royal before coming back, the next day. It’s been ages<\/em> since I’ve taken a good look around in Games Workshop<\/a>! Wow. They have so many new things in there! Lots of new models for everything! And the new Ogre Kingdoms<\/a> army looks pretty sweet. I miss painting. I was talking to one of the guys about the new stuff, and the new rules sound MUCH better – based purely on the rare\/special rule. Now, all those cheap-ass<\/a> war machines that some people *cough* Jesse *cough* like to use, are rare<\/strong>; only one rare unit per 2000 pts, thank you, very much. This means only one Doom Diver<\/a> for me, as well, but… I digress. Also, the new rules for uniting all the Chaos stuff is pretty cool. And the new Chaos Dwarf models<\/a> are a huge improvement over the old ones. Also, even though I already have the two prior starter kits, the new one looks so much better<\/em>! All the models are plastic, (like with every starter kit), but they’re made up of many more parts allowing you to pose them and stuff. Way better.<\/div>\n
Ah yes, back to the shopping… In my family, we usually only shop for one person, and everyone contributes a little bit of money for that one person. This makes Christmas shopping in a large family much easier. I was buying for my brother, who happens to be buying for me. I had called my brother and told him that they had a game at Future Shop that, I wanted, for fairly cheap.<\/div>\n
Me: Hey, they got Super Smash Bros Melee<\/a> at Future Shop for $40.<\/div>\n
Him: Okay. Well, why don’t you just pick it up then.<\/div>\n
Me: Um… okay.<\/div>\n
Him: And you might as well pick up anything else you see, too. There’s no sense in me having to go down there later when they might not have it.<\/div>\n
Me: Err… Yeah, okay…<\/div>\n
So I was shopping for stuff for my brother and myself<\/em>! I walked in between Electronics Boutique and FutureShop, and got some good deals on wicked games. So far, my bro will be getting 3 excellent PS2 games, and I will be getting 2 excellent Gamecube games. \ud83d\ude00 In fact, I made the argument, when I got home, that I will have much more time to play the games before Christmas, so I got to open them early. heh. Ironically, I did not get SSBM… even though I still want it. I saw another game that I hadn’t seen in many places for less: Super Monkey Ball 2<\/a>! Wicked. I also got Eternal Darkness<\/a>. So far, I’ve been totally enthralled with Eternal Darkness’ story, and haven’t tried Super Monkey Ball 2, yet.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alright. My exams have been over for a few days, now. On Monday, I had my Statistics and my Chemistry exams. After my Chemistry exam, my sister picked me up, and we went to her staff party at a Japanese restaurant she works at, part time. That was good. I got to drink sake and… Continue reading Christmas Shopping<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,3,1,6],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-geek","category-general","category-recreation","tag-games","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4jEMb-B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stevenbrown.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}