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You have entered the mysterious realm of Cody Allan Menzies. Within it's confines you will find the pitiful ramblings of a self-obsessed egomaniac, filled with horrifying tales of roleplaying, sarcastic reviews of movies, and the occassion lament of how little sex he is getting.


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Feb. 6th, 2010 @ 08:33 pm Mass Effect - The Musical
How I'm Feeling: nerdy
There are many reasons to love Mass Effect 2, but this might be my favourite...

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Jan. 30th, 2010 @ 02:01 am Saving the galaxy and killing my sleep paterns
How I'm Feeling: geeky
There was something I was going to do tonight. What was it? I know it was important...

Oh yeah, that's right. Sleep.

Stupid Mass Effect 2.

Now to play some more ... er, I mean sleep.
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Jan. 18th, 2010 @ 09:45 pm End of an Age ... Sort Of
How I'm Feeling: geeky
Just completed my first playthrough of Dragon Age Origins. I feel saddened that it's awesome awesomeness had to end, but at least it managed a kickass climax. Of course, I've only finished one of the six possible origin tales, so it won't be long (once I finish this post in fact...) that I will be once again diving into this wonderfully immersive and highly addictive game.

Now, for some meaningless stats!
Quin Cousland
Level: 22 Rogue Duelist/Bard
Personal Kill Total: 971
Party Kill Total: 2365
Time Played: 57:14:55 (ouch)
World Explored: 94%
NPCs Slept With: 4 (Lellianna, Handsome Lord Whathisname, and two bunny-pig things after a wild night)
Amount of Dragon Age Completed: 54% (!)
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Jan. 11th, 2010 @ 05:56 pm Report: First day back a work
How I'm Feeling: exhausted
My Soundtrack : Inon Zur - Dragon Age OST - Lelianna's Song
Grr! Snarl! Rend! Blood! Clocktower! Disembowel! Shred! Maul! Darth Maul! Obliterate! Rampage! Kill! Broccoli! Gnash! Slash! Bash! Crash! Dash! Gash! Rash! Destroy! Erratically! Murder! Stomp! Zatoichi! Impale! Boom! Siege! Attack! Mutilate! Maim! Annihilate!

Other than that it was all right.
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Jan. 10th, 2010 @ 10:00 pm End of the Golden Holiday
How I'm Feeling: nerdy
My Soundtrack : Inon Zur - Dragon Age OST - Dungeons And Dungeons
Le sigh. Tomorrow is my first day back at work. I cannot lie and say I'm looking forward to it. Heckarooney, I cannot be sarcastic and say I'm looking forward to it. I know, all good things come to an end. And at least they pay me.

Anyway, it has been a good stress-free holiday, filled with family, friends, Dragon Age, traveling, fun, Dragon Age, relaxing and also some Dragon Age. Did I waste my time? Fuck Yes! That is what holidays are for. A break from being productive. So it's mission accomplished on that.

Maybe I'm focusing on the negative. Perhaps work will be filled with fun and joy and laughter. Perhaps after work I can come home and play some Dragon Age. Perhaps I'll actually post something sensical next time...

Nah.
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Jan. 6th, 2010 @ 12:16 am Life is a Game and Gaming is my Life
How I'm Feeling: geeky
My Soundtrack : Takida - Losing
Had my first roleplaying session of the year today ... er, yesterday (stupid sneaky midnight). It was an all action episode of my Mass Effect RPG, and the session was a chaotic affair as we got back into the rhythm of things and tried to remember were we had gotten up to before the end of year break. Other than that it went pretty well with lots of damage being dished out, a totally gratuitous killing of a morally lax scientist, and ending with a race to save the Earth from Total Destruction TM. I've been please how the game has gone, especially since it's a filler campaign, and I'm glad the (mostly stolen) rule system I threw together has led to a more tactical game. Kudos to my players for putting up with me and making it such a fun scenario to run.

Anyway, in other news I have been playing far too much Dragon Age, which is more solid than the Stone Age, cooler than the Ice Age and tastier than the Saus Age. Thankfully awesome things like roleplaying and Katiemonster's 4th birthday have given me reasons to step out of the house. Otherwise people might start thinking I'm antisocial or something.

Anyway, that's me for the night/morning. Back to work next Monday, so expect more bitching after that.
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Dec. 31st, 2009 @ 11:32 pm Out with the old, in with the New (Year)
How I'm Feeling: optimistic
My Soundtrack : Inon Zur - I Am The One - DJ Killa Remix
Hope that 2009 brought everyone more smiles than frowns, and all the best for 20X.

Night, one and all!
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Dec. 28th, 2009 @ 11:26 pm Having a Happy Holiday
How I'm Feeling: cheerful, no really

Warning: This post contains many instances of the F-word.

Here I am, chilling out on the Coast and having Fun.  Yep, I said it.  Fun.  Lots of Fun in fact.  It's been a while since I've felt this relaxed, and even the running out of happy pills has not dampened my spirit (memo to self - see doc for more.)  Been chilling out and catching up with family, friends and more family, eating good food and generally not lamenting the lack of cellphone coverage and peddle-powered interwebs. 

Christmas was pretty awesome and managed to get happy drunk instead of mopey, hate the world drunk, which was fun for a change.  As usual, I was the designated paparazzi for the day and merry snapped of many a photo until people were sick of the sight of my camera, and spent as much time chatting away and feeling like I belonged, which is a nice feeling.  I was also in charge of entertainment, and my choice of movies went down well (btw, if you want a really strange but oddly complimentary double feature, I suggest Up followed by Gran Torino. It works surprising well) and ended up gifting most of my selection to my bro and sis-in-law.

Today was my usual pilgramage out to the family batch with Dad and Granddad.  We had fun walking the beach, getting chased by psychotic sea birds and enjoying the brilliant weather (second memo to self - geeks burn easily.  Ouchies.)  I also suffered from a bout of temporary insanity and briefly believed I was thirteen instead of thirty as I found myself bouncing merrily around the rocks on the beach with the utmost glee (and defying the laws of physics with my grace and balance.)  Sometimes you forget how much you love a place until you're standing on a rock watching the rough surf race towards you.  It has been a great trip, but that was worth it all by itself.

Tomorrow is more mingling and overeating with la familia, and then returning to the bigsmoke on Wednesday.  I look forward to catching up with my Christchurch based friends and reverting to my normal grumpy self.  I miss him sometimes. 

Anyway, hope everyone had a kickass Christmas, and will see you in the newish year.  Just remember, two more years until the world ends.  It's true, Roland Emmerich said so.

Outa here :D
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Dec. 20th, 2009 @ 11:04 pm A Good Weekend
How I'm Feeling: happy
My Soundtrack : Karen O - Where the Wild Things Are OST - Rumpus Reprise
Okay, time for me to say something that I seem to rarely be able to say. It's been a good weekend. There, I said it. And mean it, too. Always a bonus.

Did I get up to much? Not really, but what I did get up to was fun and satisfying. I spent more time with a smile on my face than without. That counts as a victory in my books.

Saturday was movies with [info]zakzahn and [info]niennahirilfea. The rather eclectic selection consisted of Where The Wild Things Are, Zombieland and Something, Somthing, Something Dark Side. None of them were bad, though they were varying degrees of good. Wild Things was, for my money, simply amazing, and one of those films that the term "Movie Magic" was invented for, though I would think twice before sending a child to see it. Zombieland was amusing and occasionally clever, and a decent choice for a Zomedy if someone has rented all the copies of Shaun of the Dead. Something was a little bit hit and miss, but when it did hit it could produce tears of laughter.

Today was dinner with [info]keenie and the Katiemonster, which is always awesome. Dropped off their Christmas prezzies, and got to see Katie's ecstatic reaction to the Muppets DVD I had got her. Keenie just got three discs worth of Bastista porn. Somehow, I think she is happy with that :p

Two days of work and then I go on holiday until the middle of January. Damn am I looking forward to that. Happy holidays peoples, just in case I do get to do it later.
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Dec. 17th, 2009 @ 10:46 pm Iron Man 2 Trailer
How I'm Feeling: geeky
Just watched. Two words: War Machine. Two more words: I'm sold.
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Dec. 7th, 2009 @ 09:20 pm Not dead, just feel like it
How I'm Feeling: drained
My Soundtrack : Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers - Wounded Marines
I am officially sick of being sick. Though I am now recovered enough to go to work without fear of rushing to the little big boys room every fifteen minutes, I still feeling wasted and lacking energy. I hope to recover more fully for roleplaying tomorrow night, but players, don't be to surprised if I call the session off last minute.

Last week started off good and then went down hill. My family was over last Monday and we spent the day together as they tiki-toured around the malls. It was good to see them and good to have a day off work, so I has suitably satisfied. Tuesday wasn't so bad either, thanks to taking another day's leave, but by the time I got home, by stomach was beginning to give signs of evaculating, and it wasn't particularly caring what end it went through. Wednesday I managed to show up for work only to be sent home for being too diseased, managed full days Thursday and Friday but my stomach kept jumping up and down. The weekend I finally succumbed and spent most of it in bed, usually getting up to go to the lav, which often on short notice. I was more or less feeling human again by the end of Sunday, and everything seems more settled today, save for the drained feeling I spent the day fighting. Another hectic day at work did not help much, but I only need to survive until the 22nd and then holidays until mid-Jan.

My folks are over again this weekend for my auntie's 60th, so it will be fun to see them, and I do have a shit load of movies I need to catch up on (ironically, despite all the time I had free sick, I didn't manage to see a single one.) I will also try and be socialble and catch up with people I wanted to see but couldn't due to my self-imposed quarantine. Think positive thoughts, that the way. Right?
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Nov. 7th, 2009 @ 09:14 pm Noble End for a pack of Savages
How I'm Feeling: content
My Soundtrack : Rammstein - Mein Herz Brennt (Theme to Noble Savages)
My Noble Savages finally reached it's climax today after a long hiatus, and it was good to have the majority of my players back under the same roof for an final even that was as social as it was game related. It was also nice to see Lesley and Paul again, who brought their recently spawned orc Darwin along for his first roleplaying experience. I like to corrupt them early :D

The session was loose due to my work related stress keeping me from properly planning out the scenario, but people had fun as the hacked and laughed their way to saving the world one last time. It was a good feeling to give the game have resolution, even as scattershot as a lot of today was, and I actually feel slightly elated to have the game off my conscience. It's true, unfinished games haunt my soul. I think a lot of roleplayers can probably sympathize with that.

Anyway, time to try and sleep so I can be fully rested and relaxed before everything hits the fan on Monday (again.) It's been a while since I've felt this relaxed.
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Oct. 22nd, 2009 @ 10:39 am Like a Gerbil in the Rat Race
How I'm Feeling: You figure it out
My Soundtrack : The voices in my head.
Yeah, It's been like forever since my last bitchfest.  I haven't felt like sharing the angst online, and have been avoiding the usual online hangouts in a desperate attempt to prove how unhip I am.  But my courage has failed me.  Considering this the cyber version of me jumping up and and down and waving my arms in the air screaming "Look at meeeeeeeeee!"  As in real life, it is best to just pretend you didn't see it.

I love my job except when I don't.  I love roleplaying but barely have the energy to become engaged with plots swirling around.  I love my Dexter and but my attempts at a career as a crime-fighting serial killer are hindered by my squeamishness at the sight of blood.  I love my Nero Wolfe except when I run out, which is now.  I love my 22 inch widescreen LCD computer screen except when it blows up and needs to be replaced by my crappy 15 Viewsonic.  Which is also now.  I seem to have a love/hate relationship with my life.

Anyway, consider yourself bitched at.  Until next bitch.
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Aug. 31st, 2009 @ 07:14 pm Raugh!
How I'm Feeling: aggravated
My Soundtrack : Highlander Season 3 - Finale Part 1
It's amazing how one fucking shitty work day can undo the good buzz of a pleasant weekend.
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Aug. 10th, 2009 @ 10:33 am Weekends are too short
How I'm Feeling: contemplative
Spent a lot of quality time with Keenie and the Katiemonster this weekend, which was fun as always, and in exchange for some babysitting duties I was well fed with both food and good conversation.  Ended up watching, ahem, "Finding Emo" as Katie calls it, as it is one of the few DVDs I own that are fit for child consumtion.  Not a bad way to spend my time, and it's nice to know their is at least one young blonde who looks forward to seeing me :p

Anyway, back at work now, and all ready wishing for the weekend again.  It' would be nice if they could swap the days around.  Two days work and five day weekends would kick ass. 
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Jul. 14th, 2009 @ 08:46 pm Noble Failure
How I'm Feeling: melancholy
My Soundtrack : John Ottman - X2 Complete OST - White House Attack
Due to various outside factors affecting my player's ability to attend gaming (work, travel, babies), I've decided to put my Noble Savages on hiatus until further notice. This is a bit of a disappointment, but is nobody's fault, so I will just need to roll with it. Now I need to complete my Mass Effect rules so I can run that in it's place...
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Jul. 3rd, 2009 @ 07:34 pm Codys on the Verse of a Nervous Breakdown
How I'm Feeling: exhausted
I am not in a good way. I know it, others probably suspect it, and I need to take charge.

The last couple of weeks have been hell for me. Work has been one intense MF over the last couple of weeks due to large numbers of staff being off sick and an ever increasing workload, and I'm all out of happy pills and do not have a chance for a refill until next week. I am barely sleeping, and motivation constantly teases me with the promise of actually doing something only to retreat whenever I try to take it up on it's offer. I try to keep a brave face in front of my friends and colleges, but part of me is slipping away.

I beginning to feel like I'm living the Ron Livingston's speech from Office Space (if you've seen the flick I'm sure you'll know which one I'm referring to) and though intellectually I know this is not the case, emotionally is a different story . In fact all I seem to feel at the moment is rage and depression, and the swing between the two seems to becoming more frequent. Some days I can pass for normal, others it feels like it's clock tower time. I need to get my shit in order, before my perception becomes reality. I have some time off coming to me mid-July, at which time I will flee home for a couple of days. I hope that will do me so good, but considering how close to the bottom I seem to be I fear it will just be the eye of the storm. I need to affect a change. I've done so before, but I need to add some permanency to it.

I don't like taking the happy pills, but they at least mellow me out. I don't like putting on the act for my friends, but they have their own issues and don't deserve mine. I don't like being overwhelmed at work, but if I'm not constantly moving I think I might break down. I don't like whining in LJ, but this is probably the one place I can be honest, even if only to myself.
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Jun. 26th, 2009 @ 11:15 pm End of Weak Week
How I'm Feeling: relieved
Some wine, some conversation, some awesome company. The best way to end a truly shitty week.
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Jun. 25th, 2009 @ 11:02 pm Autobots - roll out!
How I'm Feeling: nerdy
My Soundtrack : Steve Jablonsky - Transformers OST - Autobots
Okay, usual dealy thing for the movies on Saturday. Meet up about four-thirtyish to get tickets, grab something to eat and generally socialize until 6:30pm, upon which time we which 2 1/2 hours of giant robot porn.
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Jun. 25th, 2009 @ 10:18 am Seeking Transformers
How I'm Feeling: Giant Robot Porn Geeky
Currenly plotting/scheming/wetdreaming of going to see Revenge of the Fallen this Saturday.   Anybody want to tag?  It will be Giant Robot Porn.  Can't go wrong with that. 

Please reply via comment, text, or via the Autobot Matrix.  Which is cooler than the Keanu Reeves Matrix.  It has cookies.  Cookies that transform.  Into robot cookies.  I should try this sleep thing, shouldn't I? 
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