My bud finally finished that bathroom. That was far far too long of an undertaking, and my gaming quality of life was severely impacted during the construction. FOR THE WORSE. But at least it’s done, and we can move on and put the past behind us. I’m a forgiving kind of bear. Especially when the new bathroom’s kind of badass.
So one more time, here’s the bathroom that was just fine the way it is:
And my blinged out new bathroom.
The only thing that could have made it better was if it had lasers. It should have had lasers! Nicholas!!!!!
I’d actually forgotten it was Easter until I overheard Nicholas asking Pokin if she’d gotten me any candy for Easter and I was aghast to hear they hadn’t.
?!?!? What!! This is absolutely an Enormous-Easter-Disaster in the making.
As I was feeling all upset about everything and trying to figure out how to sufficiently express my displeasure, I noticed the USPS truck pull up with a package. A package! With my name on it!
Forgetting about my Absolutely-Enormous-Easter-Disaster-In-The-Making for the moment, I went to make my bud open the package right away. And inside, I was excited to find out that my best bear bud’s mom is actually way more thoughtful than my bear bud and she’d sent me a package!
My very own Peep Bunny! And Easter candy! Easter-disaster averted!
That said, my bud is still on notice to pick me up some Cadbury chocolate eggs. And stat. My Peep bunny and I are in need of more easter goodies.
A couple weeks ago, my bud mentioned that he was planning to demolish the downstairs bathroom.
Good. I thought. Good riddance. Who needs bathrooms anyway? They’re overrated. This bear especially, has no need for bathrooms.
So I watched it get torn up. Then Erik come to visit and help tear it apart some more.
And a week later they still continued to tear this bathroom apart.
Just how long does it take to get rid of a bathroom anyway?
Then it dawned on me that they weren’t just removing the bathroom. They were actually trying to fix it up. And it was taking a long time. And during this whole time, my gaming routine was getting severely disrupted.
I tried to stage an intervention. I sat down to talk to my bud.
No avail. He still worked on that blasted bathroom.
So right now days into this “project” I’m still sitting here left to my own devices. So I decided to vent my frustrations by writing a song. This song’s for you bear bud.
adapted by Sumi Bear, video for your singalong purposes
There was a time when my bud was kind
And the cocoa was flowing
And his words were inviting
There was a time I felt top of mind
When the world was a game
And the game was exciting
There was a time
It all went wrong
I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When scores were high
And life worth living
I dreamed I fought; yelled battle cries
I dreamed that odds would be forgiving
Then I was young and too naive
And worlds were conquered, new skills added
There were no days I had to wait
No takedowns untaken
No time was wasted
But some people come one day
With their tools sprawled all asunder
As they tore my hopes apart
And they turned my dreams to dust
He left me sitting at my chair
He filled my days with endless waiting
He took the patience of this bear
And he was still gone when nightfall came
And still I dream he’ll come to me
That we will start our gaming sessions
This dream had really better be
Or there will be storms he cannot weather!
I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I’m living
So different now from what it seemed
This bathroom has killed the dream I dreamed
We’re back in Eugene this week to say goodbye to my bud’s home. His dad sold the house and this would be the last time to come back and see it. I recall having a pretty sweet gaming set up here so I agreed to return. Plus I’d spent most of MY life here too.
As soon as we came back I tried to go to my old gaming room. But the door was locked. So I tried to look inside. What’s with all the boxes in there? Good thing I have an awesome new gaming room or I’d have a little freakout.
Well, if there’s no game room then I’m done saying my goodbyes. Goodbye Audel house. You were great while you still had a great gaming room.
This year, I got to go to CES for the first time. The opportunity to be surrounded by tech and gaming gadgets? Two words : bear heaven.
Except it was about as crowded as my last year’sChinese New Year experience. Should have known.
Still, I happily wandered the isles checking out weird fitness gadgets and trackers. And then we were at the 3D printer section.
3D printers!
Ever since I can remember, I’ve wanted a 3D printer. See, being a bear my size is tough. Things aren’t usually sized for spirit bears. I’ve gotten by this whole time because my bear bud occasionally throws me a bone and makes me things my size (like my sweet commander jacket and commander chair), but really we all know life would be more bear-able with more bear sized things.
So with much excitement I came across a contest! The New Matter guys were releasing an affordable <$400 3D printer and they were going to give away one every day! My chance to win one! (Too bad I missed it when they were $149 earlybird)
I followed the rules and tweeted my selfie to them:
Didn’t win yesterday but fingers crossed since today’s my last chance!
Wandering on, we ended up at the car section. I don’t care much for cars but I’d heard that they were previewing hydrogen cars and I wanted to see one for myself. We didn’t end up finding it but I did come across an orange car.
And then one my size!! Woah!
Maybe I can 3D print my own car in the future???
We continued to check out more cars, including checking out the Ford driving simulator
And then finally onto the gaming section. Check this out! A VirtuixOmni!
Next I got an autographed T-Shirt from Jordan Gilbert at the Intel booth. Just wish it was my size. See what I mean?
Finally I wrapping up the day by cheering on my bud when he got the high score of the hour playing some Benq game on their gaming monitor.
Glad I got to check out CES. Now back home to do some of my own gaming!
It’s a new year, and my bud decided there was no better way to celebrate it than by going to a developer conference. So we signed up for the AT&T annual developer conference. They were giving away tonnes of prizes, but unfortunately my bud was too exhausted to compete.
Still, just for showing up, you got some pretty cool stuff. For example, I got a nerf gun that I promptly shot off the balcony.
And I got to try my paws on a Phillips Hue developer kit. We didn’t get to keep that though. Too bad.
All attendees got to visit the swag room and pick out two goodies of their choice. My bud got a Samsung Fit and Myo, while Pokin got a Jawbone and a phone she gave away to someone else. I wanted to sell that phone but I allowed it this time.
BEST part of the whole thing though? Check out the new drone we won on the last day of the event. We were the last number they called!
Time to hook this up and go terrorize some other bears.
The one blingy thing we DID do on Christmas Day was we went to see a show. Since Pokin and PoOn wanted to save some money they got the kind of tickets that didn’t come with assigned seating.
So we waited outside the theatre for over an hour to make sure we got an okay seat. No matter. I was in good spirits.
Eventually we were allowed in. Show time!! Turns out the theatre isn’t super big anyway so there were no bad seats in the house.
We went to see V-the Variety show because nobody could decide what we wanted to see. So we got a little bit of everything. I got to see juggling, magic, physical comedy, some skating and some strong people lift other strong people. I liked it. Here was the cast. The two guys from the right were the guys who were originally part of the strong men sequence in Mystere. That’s cool. It’s nice to see other strong beings.
Good show. Go Nicholas, go faster. Let’s go gaming. Go faster.
We’re in Vegas, so there should have been so much bling! But my bud said we’d do a low key Christmas. It was so low key we did our gift exchange in a room with white walls and a white desk.
Still I was in a festive mood and I was a pretty generous bear this year. Santa Sumi went to* town*! I made sure my bud had some sweet presents.
And my bud didn’t disappoint. He got me a raptor.
And I got to try on some mittens.
There was even a calendar made with my face on it.
It’ll do for this year being a low key Christmas. But there still should have been more bling.
Word must have gotten out on the street about my home being some sort of bear haven.
Today marked the arrival of not one, but 4 more bears.
WHAT ARE FOUR EXTRA BEARS DOING IN THIS HOUSE???
This house is only big enough for one bear. ME.
I don’t like where this is going. I don’t need extra bears around. I liked being the biggest bear on the block.
Hmm. Then again, the big fluffy one is kind of cuddly. Maybe he’s not so bad. Ok you can stay, and I shall name you Blanket. And you shall not game, but you shall tuck me in and keep me warm at night.
