Lots to catch up on

So Halo 3 was released tonight, and a few of my friends and I went to Wal-Mart to pick it up. Unfortunately, the nearest Super Wal-Mart (the only one open 24/7) was about 30-40 minutes away from campus. We made the car ride interesting, to say the least, and also left the store with a nice promo ad that Wal-Mart apparently didn’t need anymore. I haven’t played it yet myself, but I’ve watched my friend play a bit, and it looks ridiculous. Everything about the game is absolutely amazing. He screwed around a bit with the multiplayer replays and then moved onto some Campaign, and I can honestly say that I wasn’t disappointed at all with any aspect of the game, so far at least. Everything was brilliant. I can’t wait until I get a chance to play it for myself (the copy of the game we picked up isn’t actually mine, it’s my roommate’s.)  One of my other roommate’s ordered the Elite edition of the game and apparently didn’t receive the video diagnostic disc that should’ve been included with it, but said that the helmet that came with it is almost big enough to fit on his head. Maybe a smaller friend of mine can squeeze into it.

Speaking of Halo helmets, I came across this very well-made Master Chief costume. I can’t even imagine the work that went into that, but how absurdly nerdy is the payoff? I hope that guy doesn’t wear that thing around his house or anything weird like that.

I decided to show up to my calculus class for the first time in about a week today, and my professor really wasn’t too happy with the fact that I’ve been absent lately. He says both my roommate and I have missed 7 out of 12 of the classes so far this semester, which leads the class. At least I know that if I’m not getting good grades, I’m still winning at something, right?

Another little interesting tidbit I came across is that you can prepare your own double cheeseburgers for less than the $1 double cheeseburger from McDonald’s. I’m definitely an advocate of the McDonald’s double cheeseburger, seeing as you can basically have an entire meal while only paying with the change in your car’s coin-whatever-it-may-be. Just think: two double cheeseburgers and a cup of water for only $2.16. How can you possibly beat that? Well apparently this guy has figured it out, and wrote up a great article about how you can make your own double cheeseburgers for less than $1 each. I suppose that at the very least, you can eliminate some of the guilt that comes with eating a double cheeseburger from McDonald’s; I know I feel bad every time I have one.

I still have some pretty interesting college stories to jot down at some point, but I’m going to cut myself off where I am right now. As a last little note, I’ve started using Windows Live Writer to manage my blog. Really the only thing I like about it so far is that I can write posts while offline (or laying in my bed in this case) and then upload them at a later date. We’ll see how it goes.