Tuesday, May 10, 2016

April 2016 Entry

We’re already a third of the year in. It’s fast at times, but thinking back, it felt slow.

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- Didn’t get to watch NXT TakeOver: Dallas live, but I listened to it on the way home from work and finished it the next day (04.02). Great matches from top to bottom. American Alpha winning the tag titles was a great way to start the show. Zayn VS Nakamura, I’ve rewatched that match so many times. The crowd was amazing and it was reflective of the action they got.  

Wrestlemania 32 (04.03) was good. A lot of memorable moments. Great IC Title Ladder Match to start things off.  Wrestlemania moment with Mick Foley, HBK, and Stone Cold. The Women’s Championship being revealed and the match between Becky, Sasha, and Charlotte was amazing. Shane of course had the spot of the night. The event did end on a sour note, but I think most were expecting that.  

RAW the following night (04.04) was fun, but a little tame compared to previous years. Still very memorable with cool debuts. Enzo Amore and Big Cass, that was much anticipated and lived up to the hype.

Smackdown (04.05) was live in Houston and I went with a dear friend. The Main Event and Smackdown tapings were fun. We chanted, cheered, and booed a lot. I was going nuts as usual. I also realized I was sporting only Women’s Division gear (Sasha shirt and rings, Asuka mask, and Bayley wrist bands). Only downside was that this was the second live event I sported Sasha Banks gear and she wasn’t there. Maybe next time as me and two friends will be going to RAW at the end of August.


- I’m a fan of the Naked Gun movies. It was after watching those that I learned that it was based off a short lived TV show, Police Squad. When someone online mentioned that there was DVD collection of it, I had to buy it (04.11).  Didn’t watch it right away, but I did watch all 6 episodes in one sitting as well as the extras. Great comedy. Highly recommend it.


- My parents went with aunts and uncles for a 2 week trip to Barcelona (04.12). It’s always interesting with them gone. The main difference is I buy more fast food, ha.  

- Picked up the latest DC animated movie, Justice League VS Teen Titans, and Straight Outta Dudleyville (04.12.16). I really enjoyed the DC movie. While this iteration of Robin has been my least favorite, this was his best movie. All of it was done well. Can’t wait for The Killing Joke.
The Dudley Boys documentary was a good one. I was really surprised that they spoke about their TNA careers for a few minutes. No mention of Aces & Eights, but they talked about Bubba/Bully being world champion. Defiitely a good watch for fans of the Dudleys.  


- Went to the Japan Festival (04.17) for the 8th year in a row. Called up a friend I made from those flash mobs I used to coordinate to come with me. While we had gone a couple years ago together, this time was more fun. More of the same stuff as usual, but I enjoyed it a little more than recent years. Surprisingly, I did not see anyone I knew this year. Usually I’d run into someone I had not seen in a while, but not this time.

One thing we did that I normally don’t do is stick around for the cosplay contest. Not that I have anything against it, but I wasn’t really interested to watch them. We also stayed to watch a Jpop star perform. I forget her name. Had I liked her music more, I would have bought one of her mascot plushies that I thought looked cool. The weather started to get cold and rainy so we left as they were announcing the winners.

We ended up going to eat at Ramen Jin for dinner. I like the aesthetics of the place, but think that Tiger Den has better ramen. During the rides in the car and dinner, we were just catching up with each other and learning more about one another. We even made plans for future hang outs. But we weren’t done with stuff yet.

I suggested we go to eat rolled ice cream. Unfortunately, they’re closed on Sundays (but the Open light was on…). We ended up walking around and came across a bunch of massage places. After thinking about it, we tried out one of them. Originally, we were just going to get foot massages, but we opted for the back as well since it wasn’t that much more. It was the first time for both of us to be massaged with hot stones. Yeah, they’re hot. Gradually got used to it though. We ended the night by running through the rain (it got heavy during our massage) and heading home.   



- My PC is still out of commission. I did finally send the motherboard to get checked (04.22) so I’m still using my laptop (as I type). I did feel dumb in not thinking to hook my laptop to my monitor so that everything would be easier to read. My eyes really were hurting from reading off my laptop for so long.  

- Jo Koy was back in Houston and I found out about it the week of. I asked Agents Majordomo and PQ if they were interested. They accepted and we were set to go watch Jo Koy (04.23). Sucky part of the night was waiting in line. The show was to start at 11, but the crowd wasn’t let inside until a bit after midnight. It was okay though as I saw some familiar faces waiting in line.

It was the first time either had seen Jo Koy live and it was my 3rd. Some of the opening acts were the same from when I last went with my cousins. Jo Koy himself was great as usual. 40% of his jokes were recycled, but it was still enjoyable. I laughed so much that my throat hurt, ha.   

- One of my closest friends and I finally found time to catch up (04.24). We met to eat lunch at Cool Runnings, a Jamaican restaurant Agent Obsidian had recommended to me. The food was so good. Spent a good amount of time catching up and talking about work stuff. Afterwards, we drove out to get boba drinks and talk some more. We stayed there for a long time since the rain started to pour.  We joked around that it rains whenever we hang out, ha.

Our last impromptu stop was HER so I could show her how much has changed since the last time she was there. She was very much impressed especially since she knew where we first started. Definitely felt good showing her something I’m so proud of.  


- More female wrestler merchandise (04.25).  


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- I’ve been using Miitomo every day since it was released. There really isn’t much to it, but I do like the rewards you can unlock. Coins you earn can go to costumes, games, or discounts. I know eventually that those will add up. I have enough coins to download WarioWare Touched, but I just haven’t pulled the trigger on it. I have until July 1st to get it anyways.

I do enjoy taking weird pictures with Miitomo. If you follow me on Twitter, I’ve been posting them there.


- The Mr. Restti amiibo was cheap on Amazon, almost half off. So I decided to get it and take my obligatory photos with it (04.05).  


Same type of deal on Amazon for the Dark Turbo Charge Donkey Kong. It came with all the Skylanders stuff and those were actually cool (04.08). There were more and I preferred them over the normal set.  


- An extra reason for buying the Mr. Resetti amiibo was to get an early access code for Mini Mario & Friends amiibo Challenge (04.08). It’s pretty much the Mario VS Donkey Kong/Mario Minis concept, but with different amiibo characters of varying abilities. I tried it out and had some fun with it. I occasionally go back to it when I have a small bit of time to spare. The only cruddy thing is that you can’t 100% the game if you don’t have all of the required amiibo.

- The Mega Man cartoon on DVD lowered in price so I decided to snag a copy (04.15). While I knew it was bad back then when I watched it, rewatching it now…it’s so bad. I’ve only watched the first disc of it…it’s bad. Worse than I remember.  


- I played a bit of Twilight Princess when I had time (04.19). I don’t know why I’m trying to 100% it. Following a walkthrough probably helps with that. I really intended to just play the main story, but I find myself getting sidetracked. I’ll beat it eventually. Perhaps I should set a deadline for it. Maybe when another big game gets announced so I’ll know to set time aside for it.  


- Bought Star Fox Zero and decided to get the Fox and Falco amiibo as well (04.22). I told myself I would only get them if both were in stock when I went to get the game and they were.  


- Star Fox Zero (Wii U) – Review
https://www.facebook.com/WingedVoX/posts/1003524373068896
Had my first play through of the game on the 25th and beat it. I enjoyed it a lot. It was a tough adventure and my body was actually aching afterwards.  I understand the criticisms over the control scheme, but that was something I adapted to easily. And while I liked playing the game a lot, I only have gone back to play it once to use the amiibo. Someday I’ll go back and unlock the rest of the stages.  It just isn’t a high priority since I have other games I need to play.  


- Star Fox Guard (Wii U) – Review
https://www.facebook.com/WingedVoX/posts/1007925855962081
The extra game that came with Star Fox Zero is quite enjoyable. I found myself getting sucked into it quickly. The game mechanics are so simple to understand and the game offers quite a challenge at points. This will be one I’ll go back to when I have pockets of time to spare to play.


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- A few things happened on the first day of April. The last thing that happened was that the Agents that were closing were tasked with painting the walls of escape room 4 (04.01). It was actually fun to do and definitely a different thing we’d be doing whether it be work or fun.  
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDqXGZZIXbJ/

The other thing that happened earlier was that a guest was hitting on me a lot. It was very interesting. I played along as much as I felt appropriate as I was still working. The main thing I did do was tell her my real name afterwards. Agent Obsidian was very disappointed that I didn’t ask for her number. It was…odd. While all signs pointed that she was interested, I did feel like she was putting on a show for her friends. Plus it was April Fools’ Day (stupid reasoning, I know). I could be wrong and should have just gone ahead and ask for her number. Oh well.  

- The first of April also signified Agent Yeti’s 1 Year with HER. Since she had that day off, we planned a surprise for her the following night (04.02).  It helped that Agent Majordomo had friends occupying the conference room for a special birthday gathering. I asked that he and Agent Blue decorate our briefing room while she was doing tasks in the break room. Agent Widdershins and I were busy doing some cleaning so she wouldn’t have to.

Once the briefing room was decorated, I had Agent Majordomo “ask” all of us to help him with a problem he was having with the doors leading to that room. I filmed Agent Yeti going in to see her surprise. Her reaction was great, ha. I also got her a silly gift of a children’s board game called Yeti In My Spaghetti. We then proceeded to play a couple rounds of it before we cleaned up and wrapped up that work day.  
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDvgsikIXTS/

- Agent Blue and I went to meet some previous customers on our off day (04.03). It was the first time he and I had met customers outside of HER to pick their brains. This couple had done and escaped all 3 of our rooms and the girlfriend even brought her work team to try out Episode 1.
We met them for lunch at Sushi King. After some general introductions and ordering our food, we asked a series of questions and listened to their answers, observations, suggestions. After lunch was over, Agent Blue and I went to Bite Macarons to recap everything. While we did get some good information from them, a good number of things were typical things that other customers have said/asked. Still, it was a good experience. Both of us agreed that we would do it again with select customers.  

- Something Agent Incognito had been working on was to convert Mo’s Safehouse into Spanish. It was a good project for him that took a while to complete. There were a few test trials here and there, but we officially started accepting Spanish Sessions at the beginning of April (04.04). So if you’re interested in booking a Spanish session, click the link below.  
http://www.houstonescaperoom.com/spanishsessions

- Not the first time we’ve had to do it, but we had to close up shop for a day due to the flood (04.19). Don’t want to put the staff or customers in any danger.  

- As usual, we had our monthly meeting (04.20). It was the first time (that I can remember) that Agent Raynor was not part of our meetings. Either way, it was business as usual.  Afterwards, a few of us stuck around to play Cash N Guns. Pretty fun to play with more people.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEcnCLOoXU_/

- We started promoting our Teacher Appreciation Day/Week specials early (04.21). Wanted to make sure that teachers had a lot of time to plan things out. Turned out alright for being our first official thank you that we’re going to probably do more of in the near future.  
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEeEwK-IXSt/
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEoX4_5oXST/

- And the monthly blog post is up (04.30). This one has a puzzle you can try at the end.  
http://www.houstonescaperoom.com/blog/herapr2016

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- It’s been rough without a fully functioning PC. Not that operating with the laptop is difficult. It’s just more convenient with the PC especially since it was upgraded to perform better and faster. The main thing I’m missing out on are a few video projects I need to get done for HER. Soon though.

- Tiffany – I Just Wanna Dance (MV)
Didn’t have any videos to post for April, so I’m sharing this one early. I’ve only seen the video and haven’t heard the rest of Tiffany’s album yet, but I suspect it to be good and definitely reflective of her style. Congratulations and having more of your dreams come true, Tiffany.

Thank you for reading. Be healthy, be safe, be thankful, and be loved.



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