Today's Notes 12/23/20 - Happy Birthday to Me

 Good afternoon everyone,

Well it's December 23... which mean's I'm now a year older, certainly not wiser... but I think for many of us, 2020 has been a year many would like to forget. But time keeps moving forward, and well we all do what we can. Jokingly, as I am reminded year after year, I am virtually impossible to shop for because anything most things folks would get me as gifts I pretty much get myself. But I do appreciate all the birthday greetings I've gotten on Twitter, Discord and Facebook.

Last night's stream of ESPN Baseball 2K4 started early and ran about five and half hours, as my 2004 Philadelphia Phillis swept the Montreal Expos and Flordia Marlins in two three-game sets at home. One thing that bugged the hell out of me was why was Nick Johnson on the Expos roster. The A.I. didn't do a trade between the Expos and Yankees, the team I often associated Johnson with... and it turns out in December of 2003, the Yankees did traded him to Montreal with two other players for Claudio Vargas. But here's the thing, for as closely as I followed baseball in that time frame, for the life of me I don't remember Johnson ever playing for the Expos and later the Nationals. 

Today's Fitness Boxing session was solid, as we did the longer heavy workout which meant we did have a Hell Mode set to get through. Timing was a bit off today with Jabs, Center Ducks and Leave Weaves from the Orthodox stance and Jabs and straights from the Southpaw stance.  Since Fitness Boxing 2 has in-game achievements, we've already unlocked 30% of them... a lot of them does involve using other trainers.... so eventually I'll switch from using Lin... just not any time soon mind you. 

Loaded up Animal Crossing New Horizons, and so I experienced the 'Birthday' celebration, with Audie, Skye and Agnes being the ones throwing me a surprise birthday party which is pretty cool. It's little touches that, and the Halloween event from October that certainly keeps players wanting to continue playing it after getting the end credits to roll. Now of course December 24 is the in-game 'Toy Day' event, so good thing my inventory is filled with gifts for my Island residents lol.

Speaking of gifts, the great thing about having so many friends who are gamers is that they have Steam wish lists that makes it easy to shop for them, of course not everyone uses Steam or has a wish-list and I have to get a little creative. 

And that will wrap up today's notes, we'll see you later today for Twitch Sings over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!