After tickets running out on this movie the previous week, today i was invited to another preview of Olympus has fallen, don't worry, i will not publish any spoilers. move over Bruce Willis, this was like die hard 1, great action, funny moments, bearable amount of kitch and very good audience response, go see. before this preview show, they held various raffles after giving us tickets at the door (+ one more i found on the floor), but no luck here, they also had trivia and now i must spoil it for you, google can be wrong!!, yes, i was shocked my self. one question was who was the 1st president to have his picture taken, people shout us various names and get it wrong, with a crowd full of smart phones, people don't search, i quickly google the answer and come up with Quincy Adams, and no, answer denied! how an google be wrong? OMG, my whole life flashes before my eyes. Adams was the 1st president to have his picture take how ever he was not in office at the time, some other random president no one cares about was the 1st to do it in office..boooooooooo, now they add one more thing, twitter, if you use your tweeter account and hash tag to things, the movie name and Cleveland, you get a prize. you no i can't pass up a prize, but i don't have a tweeter account, so no choice but to succumb and enroll via the phone. the hash button is hidden, i used my seat neighbours to locate it (thanks random strangers) and do the hash thing, open my self for endless tweeter harassments and get head phones for my troubles. the riddle continues and now they want to know names of presidents from Ohio. again i use the sage advice of google ( i really should be able to answer this, at least one! , there are 7) i find a site called Ohio presidents, when people get prizes one by one, a the names run down, i get picked to answer and full of google confident i say Harrison, and again, answer denied!! denied, noooooooooo. how can this be. well this dude Harrison who died in office for natural causes (sure, sure. where was csi dc at the time) was not burn in Ohio but was a Ohio resident at the time of the presidency. again google fails me, i am considering using Bing, or god forbid, Ask tool bar. after the Adams question i search google for the answer on why google is against me today, and i find the other president no one cares about, Polk. i say Pol out loud and a second later someone behind me say James Polk, he gets the prise , cause he raised his hands, stupid rules. well after a fun evening i see a good movie, a free head set, lack of confidence in google and life time of tweeter ads- no pain no gain.
yesterday was St Patrick day, a day to celebrate those that passed, per my friend Sean. google say something else, but i lost faith in google. we are supposed to meet at around 2 at his house, i came shortly after and walk in the door as usual, but they are not in, too much trust these days. the following strange section is an attempt to display a battle in a D&D way. a game I play but don't usually talk about (failed attempt to protect my geek self). if you played it, you may relate, if you haven't , well not sure what you will think.
as i walk into the house i fall under a surprise attack but a vicious conniving monster, a tiny beagle of a dog named mocha who attacks me in fits of dominating wining and begging, i fail my saves and am forced to do as the dog bids me and take her out for a walk.
round one- still dominated , i use a standard action to find the dog's chain, a minor to chain my new master and a move action to take her out to the back, but the dog uses a double move action to head to the front of the house, i have no choice but to follow.
we had left and approach the curve, round 2 begins
the dog decide to double run and attempt to cross the road, not sure where too ,there is a bar on the other side, its a dog on Irish person on the greenest day of all. the dog tries to pull me to the road but i gain my senses and refuse to budge, few rounds pass with no action on either side. i play a druid on this campaign, a druid is kind of a priest of nature with control an affect on animals, which makes it strange that i cant control this bixch, is she an animal or made super strong by the vapour of booze that is free flowing today on the streets of Parma (Ohio, not Italy).
i use my superior will and we turn the other way, away on the side walk to the other side of the street (away from traffic) , there is a calm in the storm where we both catch our 2nd wind, i fear the dog would do her business and i don't have a bag with me, but so far she doesn't. when we reach the other block i decided to turn back and the 2nd part of the battle begin.
the dog want to go to the next street and pulls hard, i resist the forced movement and pull back, i use suggestion to coerce the dog to turn the other way, i role the die poorly and don't make it, the dog uses an action point and try to wail and beg again and gives me a puppy dog eye, i make my save this time and resist. i use a minor action to pick up the beast but she uses an immediate interrupt to wine and cry and i must let go. we both use grab on each other and we stand there for a few minutes , no one budges, i have to use lots of force to pull the beast my way and submit the monster to do as requested, in the end i make it and we had back, i am on the side walk and she walks across the house lawns, i am afraid she would poop here but she doesn't, not sure why did she cry in the 1st place, she only pees one time through the entire battle. as we finally reach the house across the street , i have to re force my will to get her across, but the beast is tired and doesn't resist much , but as she sees her owners she runs back home, and inside become again a cute and cuddly thing.
Sean and the gang come home and we sit down for a game of risk, the god of war version. i played risk years ago, but not this version, its different. the game only has 5 turns, the map is a variation of the ancient world including Atlantis, in these game any form of diplomacy and tactics are important. we each get our assigned territories and i agree to trade a space with someone else and try to maintain my forces in Anglia and Scotland against a major army in Ireland. this games moves slow but each turn changes the game dramatically. while i wait an Irish attach, the Irish are attack by Atlantis and get squashed, i try to make a deal, fail and get wiped out from that area, bill is back stabbing and regains Atlantis, my turn comes and i try to take over Asia minor region, in games of dice i am traumatized by lack of luck, i have few big territories next to a few puny forces, i attack and lose a lot , i hate dice, but i have enough forces to win the area and take some of Africa. but in this game too many things can and do change, luck is a factor here and Atlantis invaded Africa and kicks me out of most of Africa. there are some cards that have a strange affect on the game and i lose grasp of my continent. its only turn 2 and i think i will lose the game, the next turn i almost do nothing but re-enforce and make a deal with africa for mutual no attacks for 1 turn. i go last the next turn , while the other forces battle each other for the main territories and i am kind of left alone on the side as a non-threat. since i played first the previous turn and last on the 4th turn bill the ruler of Africa at this point pulls his forces to other areas. i get a card that lets me randomly destroy lots of armies in an area. the problem is that i can mess up myself if the dice roll equals Asia minor, i decide to cause havoc and go for it, and yes 3 which is Africa, exactly what i needed, i dilute his forces and attack and regain half of Africa, i manage to be 4th on the last turn and the other armies battle each other out and after i had a card that gets rid of 3 largest armies, those cards really changes the game, so random. chad goes before me, he rules the biggest Continent of germania and he now holds the whole of Atlantis, and then i get an awesome card. so exciting, there is an actual card to sink Atlantis!! so cool, i have to use it and piss chad off, then regain Africa in the lat turn to win the game! i never win these things, so awesome.
after that we eat corned beef, potatoes and cabbage for the rest- this is the Irish day after all, we also enjoy pretzels dipped in white chocolate (i don't think its Irish).
the next game is a dirty version of apples to apples, i will not reveal the details but its R-Rated, very funny with people who are not easily offended.
it was late by then and i headed home, a great st Patrick's day.
p.s one more thing for the 5 years summary, i am 15 months sober! (no coke of any kinds
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