I have tomorrow off and the rest of the weekend.  I am going to finish off my last two days at Pizza Hut tomorrow and Saturday, but that's it there.  I really don't need the cash in my pocket.  I get paid every week at the new job, so *shrugs*  Tonight Lia and I went to Red Bowl where a friend of ours works and usually I gorge on sushi and that's it. But I didn't want to spend too much money.  I did get the Power Rolls(?) and traded the shrimp tempura for octopus and it only cost an extra 8 dollars?! It was good but it wasn't worth it.  The general tso's sucked too.  Came home, watched some Bridezillas cause it's my favorite... no, but it's entertaining and Lia likes it.  She just left and I could pass out any second now.  I do want to play some CoD4.  That's it. 

It's 2AM as you can see, and I do have to be awake at 7 to get my day started.  We're taking the event staff to breakfast tomorrow morning real early, and then we're just hanging out and doing some LAN'ning before kids start showing up.  I'm just real nervous and excited.  The night before our first event, me and two other guys got 45-60 minutes of sleep.  It was really unhealthy.  I got sick in the middle of the night, didn't have any breakfast the following morning and was just trucking the whole day on water, cigarettes and music.  Tomorrow will be leaps and bounds over the first, in terms of preparedness and physical alertness.  :) 

Let's see.  I got some new music yesterday.  I got the new Madlib album, Beat Konducta Vol. 3-4: In India.  And then Death Cab for Cutie's new/old? one, Plans.  I just got it for one song, Soul Meets Body.  And then when I got that album I was suggested to get The Postal Service album, which is real old, I know, so I did.  I've been straying off my beaten path of progressive metal, glitch, IDM, break beat, and just listening to some good ol fashioned tasteful pop music. 

I'm the only person I know who can go from Aphex Twin to Opeth to The Album Leaf to MF Doom in one setting.  Anyway, this is my last transmission until tomorrow night.

So, I've been here before.  I used to be addicted to this site but now I'm here with some redemption for lost time.  I started my own business with a friend and it's been going well.  We hold tournaments at the Courtyard Marriott in the University area twice a month, right now, on Halo 3.  Everyone whose coming out is really good and I'm happy that it worked out.  It could've flopped and I don't know what I would've done, but it's going well.  My business partner is my good friend, and despite some setbacks he's my right hand man and I'm happy that we're doing this together.  We're a good team.  My family is very supportive, in fact, I'm living at home until next year just to let CGL grow its wings and then I'll be off myself.  After high school I moved out, went to college, dropped out, moved to California, went to college again, dropped out, moved to Ventura, experimented with a very casual lifestyle, if you will, and then moved to Orlando, continued the lifestyle for 6 months before moving up here to North Carolina and now I'm getting my life together very nicely.  I'm dating a girl right now who hates video games, and I hate that she hates video games but it's all good.  It's just one of those things I shrug off, but there is a part in me that would like us to have that common ground.  I wish it were that If we have a bad day we can just jump on some Call of Duty 4 or any other game and just shoot off the kinks from the day.  She supports my endeavor with the league and has admitted to me that she didn't think it was going to do well, in a very supportive tone of course, and that makes me happy I suppose that it's prevailed.  I enjoy what I do, the people around me and sometimes I like to make sure all my ducks are in a row and I'm hoping blogging will help me.

Our second event is this Sunday and we've contacted a few news stations, GameStop is sending a representative out to hand out promo items and hang out with us.  We're pretty good friends with a couple of the managers in the area, but we know every single manager and so we're hoping for certain managers to show up while hoping others don't.  I contacted the District Manager today to "request" a particular manager.  Most of what we're doing is just networking that makes CGL what it is.  We go out every week and talk with people at different places, give and take, and establish relations with them.  It's thrilling, actually.  You never know what the day's going to bring you. 

MLG's next event is this July 11-13 and I really wanted to go, but time and money just will not allow it.  I'll actually have the money but we're spread out with our budget right now.  We're saving for like 3 different things right now and they're all expensive.  Turtle Beach headsets for the players, 400 dollars, business liscense, 300 dollars, 4 more XBOX 360s, 1200 dollars.  We're going to ride the 12 televisions and XBOX 360s we have until we grow out of them and we need 16.  We'll be fine with 12, I think through the Summer and into the Fall when Madden 09 comes out. 

I bring up MLG because the aforementioned event is in Orlando and my dad, whom I haven't seen in more than 2 years will be in Tampa, which is a good 45 minutes from Orlando and it'd be a nice excuse to go see him.  We just started to speak again 2 weeks ago and I really want to uphold my end on the sporadic contact where we make flimsy promises to see each other and then we don't.  In two weeks, I hope to be on the way down there.  We're actually not even holding an event that weekend because MLG will be holding theirs, and in case any of our players want to, they can go to MLG and not miss a CGL event. 

I don't want us to be seen as a rival of MLG.  That's like Jones Soda Co. getting off the ground and deciding to rival with Coca Cola Co.  It's just silly.  I respect MLG and what they've done.  They started as a LAN party in a basement in New York and have become 270,000 strong at any one of their events.  That's alot.  I look at MLG as an example for what works and what can be improved. 

I'm starting a new job either Friday or Monday and so tomorrow Lia and I are hanging out.  We need it.  Tonight we had a bit of a scare just because our 2 year anniversary is Sunday, the day of our event, and she's unintentionally making me feel guilty for being so busy, not just that day, but really, every day.  CGL isn't going to happen on its own and I just need her to understand that.