Bunco squad? Yeah they're coming!

The other day at work I called a particularly suspicious individual. I did my best to explain what I was calling about and assured the man of the legitimacy of the call. This man was not having it. Nothing I could say would satisfy him that I was calling from a legitimate company. He then ends the call with this statement: "Sounds like you are cooking a rams horn. We're gonna call the bunco(sp?) squad on you guys. Honestly, who says something like that? I did a little research, seeing as I've never heard that term before, and here is the entry I found on urbandictionary.com:

bunco squad
The bunco squad is those policemen who investigate confidence swindles. In use from the 40's through the 60's. Not usual among law enforcement today.

The original "bunco" was a dishonest gambling game. Perhaps a variant of banco, from Spanish banca, which is a card game similar to "monte".

Eventually the word evolved to mean swindling or fraud of any sort).

So there you have it. I guess it was an applicable term, albeit considerably outdated. Old people say some strange shit.

Now as for the "cooking a rams horn" portion, my quick and lazy searching produced nothing useful to explain what it meant. I guess that one is up for interpretation.

I'm gonna go cook a rams horn and try to avoid the bunco squad. Hope that shit is tasty.

The road to Hell has no deodorant

Generally the side of the building I work on tends to be freezing. Like so cold that it feels like you are warming up if it's 30 degrees outside. For a couple weeks now we finally have had heat. Which now I feel like I've entered a sauna in the middle of the Sahara. Which leads me to the other side of the building, which received our cold temperatures. One of the supervisors over there finally got fed up and complained, which seemingly pissed management off. They just made them all move to our side of the building. Enjoy your new personal sauna! 13 air conditioners and 5+ years in this building, you would think someone would have figured out a more comfortable way to regulate the temperatures.
So today again I sit here melting and I definitely forgot to put on deodorant today. Yay to being hot as shit and smelling like shit all day!

Video game ketchup and achievement hors d'oeuvres

I recently decided to slowly drudge through the mountains of unplayed games and content that I have neglected over the years. It has been a slow process so far. I tend to spend most of my gaming time playing the popular games shared with my online comrades. So the first on my agenda has been playing through the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 campaign. Let me just say, I don't understand how I put this off for so long. I am finding it quite enjoyable, almost as much as the first one. Perhaps it will get me in the mood to try out Modern Warfare 3. This task is for personal enjoyment and my incessant need for hunting achievevments. Unfortunately and fortunately I recently grabbed a few cheap XBLA games (Risk: Factions, Bejeweled 2, and Beyond Good and Evil HD). I seem to just add to the pile rather than do a lot of playing of the games I have.

It's like I'm late for my period, are we having a baby?

So yeah... I missed a few days here in the bloggityness. Sorry that I didn't call. I just slipped out from under the sheets and scampered right out the door.

Seriously though, I missed you! My non-existent following of my ramblings. I mean I have very little traffic, which by my own account probably has something to do with a lack of advertising myself more. I'm not a complete slut. I just put myself out there for a special folks to feel out. I would appreciate a following, even if it be minuscule. You know self-esteem and all. I do find blogging to be quite therapeutic regardless of who sees my entries or doesn't. Is this my triumphant return? Perhaps. Maybe I will blog like a filthy whore for a few days. Until I am worn down, tired and have an ample supply of self assurance to last me until the next time I get the shakes.

Gears of War 3 Liquid Green Skin code giveaway

Okay I am looking to gain some hopefully loyal subscribers. So I am considering having a giveaway for a Liquid Green Skins DLC code for Gears of War 3. Since I do not really have much of a reader base or any subscribers for that matter this is going to be quite the experiment. If you stumble upon my blog, subscribe, and spread the word to your friends. Also if you use Facebook, please visit http://www.Facebook.com/iongaming and give them a like. This will be an included stipulation for me having this giveaway. They are an up and coming gaming community focused on relaying positivity to gaming. I would like to help them grow. I will provide more details if I reach at least 10 subscribers. I believe once I hit 25+ then I will start the code giveaway.

Also feel free to follow me (@BrimstoneH2) on Twitter. Mind you I have a tendency to not update much. There is a daily update on what games I've played. I might try more frequently to update if I have more followers. *wink*

Battlefield 3 rocks my face off

I find everyday that I play BF3, I enjoy it more and more. It is such an amazing FPS experience. I love the variance of skill required to play well. The game does have your typical annoying players as with any FPS. For example, seems quite frequently you are winning a Team Deathmatch game and several of the other team start pulling out RPGs when your team is winning. Then you have your objective games where half of your team either snipes or doesn't tend to properly defending/attacking the targets. This of course is typical if most shooters. So I am not to surprised or concerned. If you roll with your own squad, you can usually compensate for the lack of usefulness in your teammates. I really love having to deal with bullet drop. Makes sniping feel more skillful, and out sniping a sniper because you are faster at adjusting for the drop than they are is very gratifying. As I level my vehicles, the combat structure becomes so much more robust and just plain fun. L. There is nothing like gunning for a chopper when you have a skilled pilot. It is so much fun running across the battlefield to look up an see an air fight between choppers and jets. So far I have avoided even renting MW3 because of this game. It just doesn't have the appeal it used to have with me. So everyone should avoid MW3 for at least a while and play/buy Battlefield 3.

Which I shall provide you with linkage to buy this awesome game and to the other for those interested in both or just one.

Bloody hell, cheers my good man!

So I was trained on a new project at work today (yay job security). I am kind of torn about the whole situation. Usually we make business to business calls during the day, but this project is business to consumer. We are calling people in the UK. This wouldn't be so bad, since over the years I've spent many hours gaming with Brits and have grown reasonably accustomed to understanding the accent, but the kicker is that I have to manually type in their responses to certain open ended questions. Which when my brain is working overtime to understand the thicker accents it makes it difficult to follow. I am not too sure why this project, unlike all the others, is not sent to transcription so that we don't have to risk messing up what we type. I can type 80wpm, but I become stupid in a situation like this and it feels like I'm doing like 25. I have so far noticed one thing that differs from calling Americans vs Brits is that they seems far more polite even when they don't seem too happy about things. Americans are dicks. And I get far more terrible English speaking/understanding respondents from my normal projects. Go figure right? So to all the UK residents I offer my sincerest apologies for calling you guys at 8pm and potentially interrupting your dinner. Cheers!