Caught In The Whirlwind
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The Weekend In A Nutshell
Jan 22nd 2007
I was meaning to make a post earlier, but it kept slipping my mind, so I’ve got two days of catchup to play here.
I had some friends over to my place on Saturday where we tried out the new Warioware game for the Wii. It was incredibly fun in a group setting, although very Japanese and very disturbing. Some of the games are…odd… It’s short as well. I think we covered everything we could do in the single player game in the couple hours we played it. It’s still a great party game. I’ll probably pick it up before my next party type thing.
One casualty of Saturday was my wireless PS2 controller (Logitech’s). The X button started sticking which, as one would imagine, could be extremely annoying when trying to play games. But more on that later.
Sunday was taken up mostly by me playing Suikoden V through again. I finished it the first time, but I’m going back through to complete everything and recruit the 108 Stars because I missed a bunch last time through. I’m using the Brady Games guide which is really well done. I’m nearing the end (finally). Almost there…then I can start working on the pile of games that I’ve got on my to-play list.
Going back to the Logitech controller thing, I tried taking it apart yesterday morning to see if I could fix the button, but no dice. Two of those screws are in there tight and I can’t seem to find a way to get them out. Well…they unscrew a bit, but they don’t come completely out no matter what I do. So I hopped over to Best Buy and picked up a 6 foot extension cable for the Dual Shock controller because where I usually sit is just out of the range of the standard cable. I think I’m going to keep going with this system. Wireless is nice, but the Logitech controller (the best wireless one out there) doesn’t really match the quality of the dual shock controller.
And then this morning I slipped on the stairs when I was taking the garbage out and slid down about 4 steps. Sitting down is very painful at the moment and I think I may have gotten a very small stone embedded into my right pinky finger. Today is not starting off well.
QotD: What A Waste
Jan 8th 2007
What’s something you bought, knowing it was a total waste of money?
I usually don’t buy things that are a waste in the sense of “I’m never, ever going to use this thing…” but I do have a tendency to buy replacements for things which still work perfectly well. I’m most guilty of this in the computer mice department. I have a drawer that has a bunch of perfectly good mice that I just stopped using because Logitech released a new mouse. I’m trying to curb my spending habits here, but, for some reason I just can’t resist a cool new mouse.
More expensively, It’s been with laptop computers. My last laptop before the MacBook was still working all right before I made the switch. It was acting a little strangely, but nothing too terribly bad. But the MacBook Pro was new and all shiny and I just had to have one.
Just a few examples of my “replacing things that are still working fine” problem.
Oooh, Buttons!
Aug 27th 2006
I’m pathetic. As mentioned in a previous post of mine…I have some sort of a thing for new mice. I’m not entirely sure what it is about them, but I see something with a scroll wheel and some buttons and I just have to have it.
So it’s not surprising that I just purchased a Logitech V400 notebook mouse for my MacBook Pro. It being a 5 button + tilting scroll wheel, compact mouse with a built in place to stick the USB receiver part. It’s really pretty nice. I played about 2.5 hours of City of Heroes using it while on a Task Force and it’s pretty comfortable for it’s size.
I’m a sucker for mice.

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