Caught In The Whirlwind
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Attempted Relaxation
Nov 12th 2007
I started out yesterday (Sunday) with the intention of doing as little productive as possible. I sorta succeeded except for the afternoon, but it was a good effort regardless.
I spent a lot of time playing Parasite Eve for the playstation on loan from my friends. It's a really nice game, pretty good graphics for such an old game, especially the FMV cutscenes. I had been working on it for a few weeks on and off (due to time constraints and other games catching my attention) and I finally finished it yesterday morning. I'm currently going through the EX Game mode where you get to keep your uber powerful weapons and armor from your last play through. There's more enemies and such this time through, plus another dungeon thingy to explore.
My afternoon was taken up by errands and running around to various electronics stores trying to piece together the best way for me to hook my iPod up to my Rogue's stereo. Still no pictures! Sorry 
I was going to take some today at lunch but I got sidetracked by some insurance problems that I had to call to get straightened out. My VIN number was listed wrong on my insurance and I needed to get it fixed before the DMV started sending me nasty letters.
After that, I did a little work on my Buddhism paper for world religions in my effort to not have to write the whole thing at the last minute. And then I watched some more Invader Zim which is an awesome animated cartoon thingy that I found through Netflix. So very random, and so very good.
Today I'm going to have practically no free time again because I have to go meet with my partner to work on our Software Engineering homework which is probably going to take up a good portion of the night. Sigh. I can't wait until school is over.
Gaming All Night Long. And Then Some.
Oct 8th 2007
My weekend was taken up by what has been called the long awaited Gaming Sleep-over. I basically went over to my friends new apartment for the whole weekend and played console games all day (and night) which was fun.
Lots of games were played, including Metroid Prime 3, Lego Star Wars II, Soul Calibur….THREE!, Guitar Hero 1 and 2, Parasite Eve and last, but not least, the GameCube remake of Resident Evil.
Really, the whole event seemed to be designed around me trying to play Resident Evil (survival horror zombie infested game) which I think was disappointing for the spectators. Instead of being totally petrified, I ended up being frustrated with the controls and running around like a drunk person an awful lot. Watching Jason play however, was fun. There was a lot of that on Sunday (since we didn't start actually playing Resident Evil until midnight anyway).
One of the best moments of the event was when Jason took over for me playing Resident Evil because I sucked at it and died way too much. He wandered around the mansion, looking for a zombie to do in. He found one, and this exchange (paraphrased) occurred:
All right zombie! You better be ready because you're facing a PRO now! Lets go!
*gunshots*
*zombie chomping sound*AHHHHHHHHH, THE PAIN, THE PAIN!!
*blood spraying everywhere*
*game over*
So THAT'S how the pro's do it! I'll have to keep that in mind.
Metroid was a nice surprise. I was kinda hesitant about getting it myself due to the controls. I'm not really a FPS on a game console type person. Mouse and keyboard for life! But the wii remote really works well for aiming and the controls were fairly responsive. I think I'm going to have to purchase it. Very nice environment graphics as well.
Another moment, that sadly, I feel I need to report is when Jason and I were playing Soul Calibur. I'm horrible at fighting games you see. I win here and there, but usually…lets just say the results aren't pretty. At one point my opponent decided to stop using the built in characters and have the game randomly design one, which is how I ended up fighting "The Leprechaun" Picture this. green shoes. green pantaloons, green gloves, no shirt and a hat that looks like it was stolen from the Lucky Charms guy. And yep, I lost to this guy, who did a little dance after he beat me up. Sigh.
Sunday we had a big breakfast when we all woke up, soo…around 1pm. I went to bed around 3am and Jason went to bed about a half hour before that. The full breakfast with blueberry pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, toast…the whole 9 yards. I was still full when I would normally eat dinner, but it was good.
After that, we watched Jason play some more Resident Evil until I decided that I really, really had to go do the laundry I was putting off. I'm borrowing Parasite Eve from them which is a fun sort of survival horror themed game with RPG elements, so I'm playing that in my free time.
Now onward to today. I'm probably going to call Canon this afternoon and order a replacement LCD for my camera since I sorta broke it a while back. Then I'm going fish shopping this evening to get a new fish (going for a Dwarf Gourami I think) to replace my MIA Zebra Danios.
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