An Overdue Update

School has kept me extremely busy, so I've been neglecting things like my blogs. Well, my personal blogs for fun. I had to start a blog for a class, so that one has gotten all of my attention lately (you can check it out here if you're interested).

Besides school, I got a new laptop and Halo ODST in September. My old laptop has given me tons of problems over the years, like the battery dying (and if I hadn't removed it, the battery would have eventually killed the laptop). The newest problem was that a purple vertical line appeared down the left side of the screen. If you want to see what I'm talking about, check out this page. Apparently this was a common problem with the HP ZD8000 laptop. I decided that this was the last straw, so I went out and bought a new laptop. The new one is an Acer. It's a million times quieter and cooler than the ZD8000, and also a lot faster. I'm still getting used to the keyboard (it's not as sensitive as the ZD8000's was when it worked properly), but so far I'm liking it.

Halo ODST is another thing I'm liking. I preordered it in the summer, and was counting down the days until it was released. Luckily it didn't disappoint. I haven't been able to play as much as I'd like (school is keeping me very busy) but I'm enjoying it. The campaign is a bit off - it's not as bad as Halo 2, but not as good as Halo 1 and 3. But once you play through it, you unlock the entire New Mombasa Streets, which is a lot of fun to wander around in. And the multiplayer is fun too. You battle with up to three friends against waves of enemies, instead of gainst other players. It's really tough, but great fun.

I also went to see Streetlight Manifesto in Toronto back in September. They were amazing! You can check out the pics on flickr!

The one thing I'm sad about is my lack of time to write. I wrote a quick poem on Apocalypse Madness for last month's quote, but missed writing for the September quote. I got to post this month's quote, and I'm really hoping I'll have time to write a couple of stories for it. Hopefully I'll be able to sneak some writing time in during the end of next week when I should have a bit of time.

Home from Toronto!

I am now home from Toronto! I had a lot of fun during my trip and cannot believe that it is over already! Now I'll have to catch up on sleep....

The first night I hung out with a couple of friends in Brampton and we had a Bad Movie Night! I would go into details, but I am trying to forget about one of the movies we watched (Queen Kong). The next day I went back into downtown Toronto and stayed with my bro. We had many wacky adventures (like buying yogurt spoons). Sadly, I did not take many pictures, but what I have will be going up on Flickr.

Toronto!!!!!

I have to get up bright and early tomorrow because I'm off to Toronto!!!!! My flight leaves at 6:30am, so it's going to be an extremely early morning. But I can't wait!!!!!

Home from Toronto

I know, I didn't really say anything when I was going, but now I'm back home! I was in St. Catherines and Toronto for a week, from Nov. 11 to today. I did waaaay too much shopping and barely managed to stuff everything into my suitcase! All in all, it was a great trip (although I was a bit sad that I didn't get to go and see Eagles of Death Metal).

While on my trip, I managed to read a couple of books (Twilight and Spud in Winter; see the List for my reviews), and take a ton of pictures (they will be on my Flickr account hopefully in the next day or two). I took in the new Bond movie. I went to some of my favourite Toronto restaurants as well as a couple of new ones that I enjoyed. I took in the ROM, and managed to catch the end of the Christmas parade. And I still had time to hang out with my bro, playing random video games and watching cartoons. The only thing I didn't get to was and writing; I wanted to get my Apocalypse Madness story written, but just didn't have time. But all in all, this was a great trip!