Caught In The Whirlwind
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The Weekend. A Retrospective
Dec 15th 2008
Another weekend, another huge retrospective post! Although as far as activities this weekend was a little slim on those. Just a lot of relaxing stuff going on.
Friday was the day that would never end. I had been looking forward to doing some old fashioned hanging out with my friends pretty much all week which was causing time to slow down to a crawl. But once 5 hit, it was all good. My dad came over to play some Madden 08 on the Wii, as we've started to do the weekly football games again. This week was a repeat of the last week because the game froze just as I was saving our progress when we got done. The highlight was probably the first play of the game where the first thing the commentator said about my dad's team was "They're in field goal range!" It seems he didn't have too much confidence in my dad's ability to score on that drive (and he didn't score actually)
Saturday was the hanging out day with my friends. I went over there with my Xbox 360 and Rock Band and we were just going to hang out and have a good time. Which we did. Rock Band was sorta spoiled by a crappy song selection by the game, but in the future we're just going to pick songs and not worry about the career mode.It was fun for a while but probably better off just going through the song list. We watched some Justice League Unlimited which was really fun (except for a couple episodes) and then saw the Dawn of the Dead remake which was really good and caused me to be afraid to sleep. Was just classic hanging out stuff that was very relaxing and fun.
Sunday was the usual get out and take care of all of my errands for the week, laundry and grocery shopping. After that I played some Synergy with Jay (basically lets us do a co-operative play through of Half Life 2) and got a little cleaning stuff done in the living room, trying to make it not look so much like something exploded in there. I tried to do the dishes, but realized I was out of dish soap and had forgotten to pick some up. Dah!
All in all, a really nice weekend. Ahhh, needed that relaxation after the alternating stress and awesomeness of the last weekend with the TSO concert.
I Feel The Cosmos
Jan 27th 2007
Ok, while it’s not Katamari Damacy, I did just finish Suikoden V the second time, this time collecting all of the stars of destiny (Stars…Cosmos…get it? Ok, I admit it’s bad…) The final boss was A LOT easier this time, and the ending much more satisfying than the less than perfect one.
My Dad was over earlier this evening for our weekly Madden ’07 Franchise night on the Wii. I had…an embarrasing loss in the second game. Something like 35 to 0. It was horrible.
This weekend is going to be extremely busy for me. Saturday is going to be taken up largely (I think) by going out to Syracuse with some friends of mine. Sunday afternoon, I’m going to play tech support for somebody I work with over at her house. She’s having wireless network issues. And in between all of that, I need to do some reading for my Western Civilization class.
The Wii Report
Dec 20th 2006
I got my Wii yesterday after much anticipation. It rocks! Although I knew it would by playing with other people’s, but…having it right there is even cooler.
Setup went really well, except for the minor hitch where I plugged in the audio cables into my TVs inputs for AV instead of the ones for the component cables. I need to get a switcher so I can change between the Wii and my PS2.
I played a lot of Rayman last night, trying to unlock games for the Wii gatherings that I’m going to be having coming up here soonish with my family. Those racing minigames are killing me. I also played some Madden 07 which makes really good use of the Wiimote and nunchuck controls. I lost the game, but it was a fun loss. My only complaint about Madden is that the kicking is a little…weird.
After that I played more Zelda. I had a saved game which I had been playing over at my friends house, but I decided to start fresh so I could get better acquainted with the controls. I’m almost back to where I was on my other save right now, and my plan worked…I definitely know where thing’s are located better now.
So, all in all…two thumbs way up on the Wii. I’m really glad I spent the money on it.
This seems to be my pattern too, getting a brand new console right before Christmas. I got my PS2 about this same time last year too.
My friends code would be 5712 9739 8199 4949, for reference
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