Merry christmas ranger girl!!!
FF X, winter, and other stuff
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 On 12/21/2016 at 06:12 PM by Ranger1 See More From This User » |
Really just another Random Stuff blog, just got bored using that for a title.
Playing: Hadn't played anything for a couple of weeks, just wasn't in the mood to continue 3D Dot Game Heroes for whatever reason. Oh, wait, it was the ridiculous sand temple area. Hated it the first I tried playing the game, too. It's this area with what the game calls quicksand, but is really just an alternate form of a moving conveyor belts type of puzzle. There's a ton of it, and it's not bad for the first couple of rooms, but then it gets tedious in the extreme. And I felt guilty for not wanting to finish, so I didn't play anything for a bit. And then there was a day of freezing rain and I suddenly felt the desire to play a long-ass jrpg. I'd been bad a few weeks earlier and got myself the HD remake of FFX and X-2, so I decided to play that. I'm having fun, I love the turn-based battle system, like the Sphere Grid, and hate Blitzball. I've just gotten past the Blitzball tournament and I'm on my way to the next area. I was going to be good tonight and go do my laundry, but I'd forgotten what living in an outlet town is like during the week before Christmas (actually, it's more like I repress the memory every year...)
Watching: Watched a couple of the movies on my list of "Movies I Really Ought To See at Some Point" list. Animal House cracked me up to no end. Apocalypse Now was good, but one of those movies I probably won't watch a second time. Jason and I also went to the movies last week to see George Takei's musical "Allegiance". It's loosely based on his family's experience in the internment camps during WWII. It was well done, it's the kind of thing that could have been heavy-handed, hit-you-over-the-head, preachy/guilt inducing, but wasn't. It treated the subject matter with grace, dignity, and some humor. I'm not normally a fan of musicals, but I really enjoyed this one a lot. I'm also slogging through Metropolis, another entry from my list. Two and a half hours of a silent movie is a bit long for my attention span, so I've broken it up into three chunks. I've probably watched a bunch of other stuff, but nothing terribly memorable at this point.
Reading: Nothing new here. I desperately need new glasses, mine are scratched to hell and my vision has changed and I know I need bifocals. Reading is currently uncomfortable.
Listening: Christmas music! I'm not feeling very Christmassy, so I'm hoping this will get me in the mood to at least wrap the presents I bought. CDs include: A Tapestry of Carols - Maddy Prior (mostly English traditional carols), Joy, Health, and Peace - Meridian (a mix of carols and other mid-winter songs done mainly a capella), Home for the Holidays - Schooner Fare (folkie Christmas music), Castlebay - Yuletide Revelry (more trad and folkie Christmas/Solstice stuff, along with some readings), Rejoice! - Jed Marum (more folkie stuff), A Celtic Christmas - various artists (trad stuff from the Celtic-speaking parts of the world), Medieval Christmas - Pro Cantione Antiqua, conducted by Mark Brown (Medieval music on medieval instruments, including some Gregorian chants), and New England Christmastide 1 and 2 (instrumental on trad instruments). Still looking for the rest of my Christmas CDs, I know there are at least two more that haven't run across yet.
Nature and fitness stuff: We've finally gotten some snow here, I'm guessing maybe 6" or so before the rain on Monday that then froze and turned everything to ice. The snow was great for tracking for a few days, I saw lots of deer, turkey, crow, and fox tracks. The fox came out of the woods and straight across our little field and climbed up and sat on a dirt pile for a bit before following a rodent trail across the snow. Or, I should say, under the snow. Voles and mice both make what are known as sub-nivean tunnels (which is a fancy way of saying tunnels through the snow), and both the fox and Beau like to follow them. The fox because he's hungry and needs a meal, and Beau because he's a terrier and that's his instinct.
I was doing really well with the running up until last week. The snow made things a little difficult, but I was still doing OK until the sub-zero temps and then the rain and ice of the past week. I invested in a set of IceSpikes, which are like really short drywall screws that you screw into the sole of your running shoes. Supposedly, they aren't supposed to damage the soles of your shoes, and are supposed to close up after you remove them. I really didn't want to test that theory out on my $160 pair of trail running shoes, so I bought a cheaper pair at Lamey Wellahan's today to try them out. I'll get them set up tonight so I can go running in the morning before work.
Well, PixlBit Nation, I hope you're all getting into the spirit of the season better than I am. Have a great holiday!
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