We had a nice visit from Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell tonight!!! They advertised this about one week ago and I was a bit in shock. A few of you I told this to, and now some of you are probably wanting to kill me! **l** Unfortunately I could only get one autograph. If I could've I would've got at least two more.

A little story on the picture taken of us. My camera (being 5 years old now) took a bit of time to do it's thing. The guy taking it said it must've been a record, which we all got a chuckle out of. At the end of the pic Bruce and Jeffrey both did a face plant on the table acting like it took a lot out of them! **lol**

  Hope you're all enjoying the holiday!!  And hopefully some of you aren't getting shit faced and blowing up stuff at the same time.  Never a good combo.  **chuckle**

Okay, for those of you in the group for the skit this year I was able to submit our skit application at 2:30pm today EDT.  I know the registration opened at noon today online, but medication I'm on put out for a couple of hours.  I'll get into that in a bit.   But the skit has been submitted, we're still at Journeyman level due one award won out of all of us (me back in 2001), we do need to schedule a weekend here soon to record our lines because this is going be a bit nuts on stage.  I put everyone down for craftsmanship judging, but if you don't want to you can change your mind at the con when we check in.  And I made sure Cascio's name would be pronounced right.  :D  **chuckle**  I put a note in there.   So if anyone has questions, call, e-mail, message, or respond to this post!   

Hopefully we'll hear back in about a week if we're on the primary list.  Usually there's a good chance if you register within the first 6 hours or so.  :D 

Onto the medication note.  Apparently I reinjured my right knee again.  Doctor noticed a little swelling when I try to bend it.  It's not sprained, he thinks I hyper flexed it.  Plus I found out I have rubber legs.  My legs just below the knee can bend a bit to the sides.  Not a good thing because that makes me more prone to sprains or having a blowout (thankfully not yet).  Some people are born with this so it's not an over the time thing.  I didn't do anything crazy for working out.  Just light stuff to get started again and probably due to some repititious stuff with the legs and joints is what did it.  So now I'm scheduled for a month of physical therapy to get my legs strengthened back up.  Luckily there's no surgery involved and I don't need that, not now or ever if possible! 

http://streetfighter.com

There's a lot of stuff showing here for the preview of the new Street Fighter IV game due out in early 2009!  Yes, the original cast of SFII is in it with four new characters:

Abel - martial artist with a military background, but has amnesia
Crimson Viper - new chick, looks like an SNK person
El Fuerte - luchador wrestler
Rufus - looks like a popcorn munching, beer "gutted" something (no background info was release on him, just a pic)

And when I said the original cast of SFII was back that does include the bosses.  Bison is back and was able to transfer himself into a new body.  So Shadowloo is on the loose for the final time (this is a prequel to Street Fighter III).  Not sure if more characters will be implemented into the game.  A lot of us are hoping for Alpha characters to be included.  Same thing for the Super Street Fighter characters of Fei Long, Deejay, Thunderhawk, Akuma and Cammy.  But the game is long from being done and a lot of us are expecting more characters to show up.  Hopefully I can play Guy in this, otherwise I'm itching to give El Fuerte a spin.  :D

For the High Definition Remix coming out for download the screen shots look amazing and saw a video on youtube of the game play.  Very smooth!!!   And considering Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo HD was also redone by Udon artists, yeah I'll actually buy that version to (got one for the old PS1 and my GBA).  Particularly if it's updated.  Speaking of Udon, read somewhere we can expect new comics to hopefully come out this summer.  Well it's summer, and I'm itching for the new issues!  Plus in the Zero Legends they showed a sketch of Guy for a possible Final Fight short series.  :D 

Oh, you can check out info on the upcoming movie Street Fighter:  The Legend of Chun Li.  I know, I know you're all thinking, not a repeat of the Jean Claude Van Damm trainwreck.  Well reading the website, it's only going to feature a few characters.  Chun Li of course, Bison, Charlie Nash, Balrog, Vega, and Gen.  But from reading the cast list and the movie crew got in a Hong Kong martial arts team in this might turn out be actually decent.  Considering we have Kristin Kreuk as Chunners, Neal McDonough as Bison,  and get this, Michael Clarke Duncan is Balrog.  Oh, for Gen, Robin Chou of Mortal Kombat fame will doing the roll.   I'm a bit leary on this film considering the last one, but it's looking quite promising.  So we'll see what happens in a few months.  :P


OTAKON SKIT NOTE:  I'll be submitting the skit on Wed just after Noon eastern time.  That's when the e-mail opens up on that stuff.  Only thing I don't really have from all of you is age.  With the exception of Maranda I know at least one of you is 22, and the other two I'm guessing are 21.  Maranda I know you're 19.  :P  Dang kids.  **l**   And yes, Casicio said yes to doing Ryu, which will add to the hilarity of what i plan on doing to Spiker's Ken.  :D   We do need to schedule a weekend to get together and record our stuff on CD.  Considering the skit premise this year, can't use a microphone.  So we need to do that sometime in July or else we'll be scrambling and I don't want that!

Alright, I'm looking at getting GHIII for the PS3, but I'm concerned that the wireless controller won't work with the PS2 copy of GHII played on the PS3 and any prior GH titles to that. Main reason for this is, I can't use my GHII controller for the PS2 on the PS3 despite the controller adaptor. Apparently Activision and Redoctane have not put a patch push to the PS3 to allow that controller to be used on the PS3. So you see my dilema.

I do want to get GHIII, but I do want to play the older GH's on the PS3 and use that new controller.

Any guidance on this?

For those of you wondering, my knee is a whole lot better from Sunday. I think I strained in one spot from all the walking on Saturday. With the hills and me still breaking in a new pair of shoes, should've expected something. But no problems today, just a bit of residual soreness, but no stiffness.

Bob, if you're reading this I picked up vol 1 of Red Dwarf today. **l** And no thanks to you I'm now on a quest to get the rest fo the series. :P And was the ship captain the WY company guy in Aliens: Director's Cut??

I had a free day off today so I went up the Oxford Valley Mall (north of Philly and close to where I live in Jersey) and found out the Suncoast there went the way of the dodo about a month ago!!!

Great, only three or so left in the region and they're all a nice little drive away!

Picked up LEGO Indiana Jones for the PS3 and Ninja Gaiden II the day after for the 360 (thought this was coming out the same day next week as Metal Gear Solid 4, took me a bit off guard)!!

LEGO Indy is quite the compliment to LEGO Star Wars. Has the same style of humor in the game (with a few Star Wars jokes thrown in for the fun of it too!), game play focuses more on brawling and picking up weapons. Get a kick out of smacking things with the shovels. :D Just like LEGO Star Wars this one is a fun game to get into and addictive! I didn't go to bed until midnight the day I bought because I wanted to finish Raiders of the Lost Ark. Now that I've got a lot of character unlocked up through Temple of Doom I can go back to pick up stuff I've missed.

Ninja Gaiden II can be a pain in the butt!! And that's on the normal level! This one picks up about a year or two after the last game and once again we've got Fiends and the Black Spider Ninja Clan causing trouble. Main plot is revolving around the Archfiend this time around. And yes, there is a big boobed blonde in the game this time and she's CIA. **lol** In addition to the usual hack and slash attacks now you can maim various enemies and if they're limbless (can still attack and in some cases get pissed off), you can attack those guys with a finishing move. With the system upgrade to the 360 for this game, you actually get to see the trail of death left in your wake. Yep, dead bodies and limbs are left for your viewing enjoyment. **lol**

Air Force Week in Philly is over. Finally!! Things started off alright, then kinda went in the gutter a bit for a short time. Memorial Day a number of us were in Bridesburg, PA to march in a parade. Which turned out pretty good, I always enjoy venues like that. Reminds me of home with the big parade there and the base using all the Groups in different uniforms to march. Tues a number of us had a feeling we might get pulled here and there for stuff happening in Philly and boy did we. Unfortunately those of us who left around 9am didn't get back to the base until 10pm (I didn't get home until 1030). We were told last minute, you're coming back late. We attended three forums over most of the same information from a couple of generals and we were a rentacrowd mostly. **lol** Got to see a bit of Independance Hall and the Liberty Bell before being whisked away to U of Penn for a forum that didn't start for two hours. At least we got free Starbucks (for those of us who went into the store first).

Wed went a whole lot better, we were told to meet at a spot at 445pm and then headed into Philly to watch Fighting for Life. Very well done movie on what our medical personnel are doing in Iraq and what some of our injured go through after coming home. Compared to years past where the wounded would recuperate in field hospitals we can now get them stabilized and flown immediately to medical facilities in Europe or stateside. If any of you get the opportunity, I strongly urge you to watch this movie. We didn't get home until late that night too, but at least we didn't have to go anywhere until later. Got half the day off you could say.

Thurs and Fri were setup for the airshow and a few other things. Saturday the airshow got rained out, but Sunday's weather made up for that.

But to cap off a busy week, I got a few things I've been waiting for! Two CD soundtracks from Play-Asia.com (ran across this site online) finally came in. Got Rumble Roses XX and Ridge Racer 7. One of the members of The Colonial Fleet (Battlestar Galactica fan group a number of us are a part of) sent me a ton of extra screws to put on the next two cranial helmets I'm about to start on for more costumes. :D He still won't tell me his source! **lol** A bonus from him was a buckle for the tool belts used by the deckhands in the show! I can now take that side release off and sew this one on finally. Then the yellow shells for the first of the last two helmets I'm about to start on came in today. :D No need to paint these ones, they're for the yellow coveralls this time around. The final helmet will be another orange one, might use it as a spare or do a give away at Dragon Con with it. You may never know!!! **l**

Stimulus check finally showed up the other day (still think these were a dumb idea, despite getting money from the IRS) and I finally broke down after a two year hiatus on my first reservation that I had to cancel, I bought an XBox 360 Elite with most of the trimmings. **chuckle** Also ordered a number of items needed for costumes this summer.

Had to get another 50ft network cable (yes, I don't have a wireless lan setup yet, maybe next year so I get my money's worth out of the current box), two standard audio cables (one for the system, the othe for the TV) to hook into the DVD/receiver/stereo, one extra controller with power pack, small recharge station, and HDMI splitter (didn't have to buy the box, too expensive).

So I finally go around to reorganizing the cables aka the "rat's nest" on the enterainment center a whole lot better than the first time around. Then connected the new system and had at it. Before anyone asks, NO I DID NOT BUY HALO AND WILL NOT GET IT. There are way better FPS' out there and even though Halo has a great storyline, IMO it's not the schniznit no matter what some emo fanboy/fangirl will say. Republic Commando is where it's at. :P **l** I did get Ace Combat 6, Gears of War (limited edition), Dead Rising, and Rumble Roses XX. All used of course, but I'm putting in for Ninja Gaiden II here soon same with Metal Gear Solid 4 for the PS3. :D I even ordered up the strategy guides if they were still available online. I like having some good visual elements, FAQs are good, but can lack in certain areas. I plan on tearing up Ace Combat here soon and scare some kids online. **snicker**

Can't believe the arcade titles on XBox Live!! I knew of the TMNT Arcade game (hoping they get Turtles in Time and the old X-Men arcade game from Konami, but seeing some on there took me by surprise, they even had Streets of Rage 2! Yep, I'll be doing a few downloads when the time comes.

So any of you yahoos that come out this way, now you have another item to mess with when it comes to inhouse entertainment. **chuckle**