Suck-tastic!

Ever have a crappy day that turns out to be a crappy weekend only to be followed up with a whole crap filled week? Well that's me. Actually it hasn't become a full week of crap yet but it's been 5 days of suck so why stop there? Here's a quick run down of the suck that's been happening in my life. Arguments with my wife based on lack of sleep, Chuck E Cheese scaring the life out of my daughter (I'll kick that mouse square in the nuts next time I see him), tiff with family members and longest car ride home EVER! Okay, life can't always be a bowl of cherries and things will pass. But the weekend is over, it's supposed to be a new week filled with better things right? Wrong.

I found out on Monday that E3 has been canceled-ish. I say ish because E3 still exists but now it's going to be some thing different then what it was. No more big floor trade show, smaller venue, smaller attendance (5,000 rather then 60,000). Great, that pretty much too all the wind out of going next year since I couldn't make it this year. On a side note I still stand beside my decision to stay and help take care of my daughter. Even if I knew at the time this was the last E3 I would still stay home because my little girl needed me and I wasn't going to leave my wife to take care of her on her own. I'm upset and angry about the whole thing, but not at my family and certainly not at my daughter. It just really, really sucks. But then I think, maybe it's not going to be so bad. Industry people are saying this is a good thing for E3 and that they support it. So maybe I'll still go and check out this new E3. Nope, can't do that ether.

Tuesday I found the date for E3 is moving too. It'll now be in July rather then May so the plane ticket I had to cancel that's only good for one year might just be useless. Well maybe not quite. If I use it in, March let's say, to book a flight in July I should still be okay or maybe even use it for a family vacation that wouldn't be so bad. Which I might have to do anyway because I also found out that next E3 is by INVITE ONLY! MOTHER F$#*@) SH#@ DAMN C*@% SUCKER @&*@&$# *@&$!!! Pant, pant, pant…

It's been the running joke in my life for a bit now.

Q - "Hey! What's keeping you from going to E3 this year?"

A - "E3… E3 is keeping me form going to E3 this year."

Then to finish off yesterday the air conditioning was busted on the commuter train going home on the hottest day of the year so far. I was trapped on a train with windows you can't open for 40 min. The sweat poured down my face and it looked like I had dunked my head in a bucket of water. Everyone was so lethargic on the ride home. I now know what it feels like to be a dog in a car with the windows up on a hot day. Suck ass. I hope today is better.

Well, to end this on a better note I'll mention some nice things that have happened as well. On the weekend we went to a wedding of close friends and it was a very beautiful ceremony outside at their cottages by the lake. I was able to get some very nice photos. We got a new car seat for my daughter and it's excellent. The guy at the store we bought it at http://www.canadiankidsfurniture.ca/ in Kingston Ontario was awesome and even helped us install it correctly. We will defiantly go back to that store. My wife is hosting an attached parenting group now and while she's only done one gathering it seems to be a hit. Those are all good things, so I guess it's not all bad.

Oh yeah, and my wife is pregnant again! Woo! My family rocks ^_^