Yvette's Inner Geek Blog

Finally, Utah has changed the liquor law to allow 1.5 ounces of liquor in mixed drinks instead of just 1.00000 as it’s had for a long time. Yes, it’s that exact because they have special measuring pourers on the top of every liquor bottle in the entire state. Well, except for in private homes (like mine).

They still have a bizarro number of other stupid laws, like the one where you can’t have a mixed drink and sidecar shot with the same liquor in front of you. A different liquor? Different story. Any way you look at it, the laws are stupid and restrictive and the whole state just needs to lighten the fuck up on their liquor laws. Spend some tax dollars tightening things up so that teens have a harder time getting alchohol, or station some traffic cops around the state to encourage the idiot drivers to not be such idiots, okay? I mean, I learned that you’re not supposed to go through a red light when I started driving in Ohio, but that law doesn’t really apply here. It’s on the books, but I’ve never seen anyone get a ticket for it.

It’s the freakin’ Wild West out here about everything except the liquor laws. WTF, Utah?

What do I have to say for myself on this Monday morning? I had a good weekend, though not a hell of a lot really got done. I ended up having to work a half day on Sunday (blargh, I thought weekend work was over after quitting my hotel job). I didn’t finish any of the posts I wrote; even the one I’m most excited about which is an overview of all the 2008 summer movies for geeks. Iron Man is the first one on the list, and it opened already… man, I wish I had finished that Friday night. But now it’s Coming Soon to a blog near you.

But Free Comic Book Day on Saturday!  W007! Last year, I got there too late and a lot of the free stuff was gone. But this year I got a nice stack that hopefully will turn out to be good swag when I read through them. I did read through the Simpsons comic, though, because it’s generally my favorite free comic book.  

But the family room has a third coat of red paint on it now, and while it still needs more touch-up work (plus a second coat of white on the ceiling and new canister lights installed and Ben wants to tear out the two doors so they’re straight and put on new trim), it’s getting closer to the Most Awesome Hang-out Room Evar!!!1111 

I’ve been pushing for a foosball table ever since we moved in. Ben will someday give in and we will play and he will pwn me and I will be sad. But it will be worth it because foosball rocks! And my occasional victories will be cause for celebration! Fuzzy navels all around!  (Or just orange juice with 7up in it if you’re my Mormon friends or my friends’ kids.) A pool table would be cool, too… but same story on the pwning I’m sure and really, I’ve been spending too much time console gaming lately (in our beautiful red-walled room that I really love despite it’s unfinished nature) to even think about having another worthy piece of gaming equipment in my house. Besides, we have a big screen TV in the spot where a pool table would otherwise go.

Also, I beat The Simpsons Game last night. I had to play "Dance Dance Revelation" against God on three consoles: the Praystation, Xodus Box and Hii. The existensial ending wasn’t as contemplative as it could have been because I found out that I’d only "completed" 68% of the game… so now, if I want to be OCD about it, I have to go back through many of the challenges and collect game cliches, bottlecaps, coupons, Krusty cards and Malibu Stacy cards. Which of course I’ll do, and probably rely on a game cheat website for the really hard ones. Hey, OCD doesn’t necessarily mean not lazy, m’kay?

Here’s what the final Dance Dance Revelation scene resembled (though I played it on the Xbox 360, with all the family members on the dance pad rather than just Bart). The best part (aside from the Scorpions’ "Rock you like a hurricane" song) are God’s lines. And the fact that he’s a gamer. But don’t watch it if you plan to play the game and want to experience the whole story line for yourself….