Gamingwise, I played Tales of Symphonia on PS3 and Leisure Suit Larry: Reloaded on iPad. I bought the latter because it was 5 bucks on the App Store and I still had money left from a prepaid card, so impulse buy. Tales of Symphonia is as awesome as I remembered it to be, and LSL is funny.
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 On 03/18/2014 at 01:05 PM by Ranger1 See More From This User » |
I hope most of my friends have recovered from St. PaDDy's Day. I myself stay in, I don't have a lot of desire to carouse with the plastic Paddy set. Anyway, here's what 'e been up to in the last week:
Playing: I soldiered through Afrika, mostly because I really wanted to like it despite its flaws. And about a third of the way through, it got a lot better. It took getting decent telephoto lenses and a better camera to make it more fun. Also, once you open up all the areas for exploration, you get more animals and better missions when you send pics back to HQ. The Big Game segments were actually pretty fun. Your companion remains a useless pain in the ass except for during those segments when he or she is driving the jeep while you're taking pictures. I'm thinking about playing it through a second time and taking notes and writing it up as my character's journal and posting it here. It should be amusing, my character's partner will be getting a lot of abuse. The trophies in the game were amazingly easy, leading to my first ever platinum trophy. Sorry KnightDriver, I think maybe I actually do want to keep this game after all.
I also bought Treasures of Montezuma off PSN for $1.50, it was one of the minis. It's a pretty fun match three game and the price was right.
I'll go back to Tales of Symphonia and finish that and the sequel next.
Reading: Still not, and I should. I really need to finish the stack of books I bought last fall. The lighting in the cottage leaves a lot to be desired for reading, and I just haven't gotten around to buying a decent reading lamp. At least that's the excuse I'm going with.
Watching: Finished Kyle XY this AM. They cancelled it after a very short third season that ended in a cliffhanger. I hate when that happens. I'm partway into the fourth season of Supernatural, a show that I like, but it is seriously formulaic. Also, they do a shitty job in the research end of things. The last episode I watched (It's the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester) had Sam and Dean trying to stop a witch from releasing a demon called "Samhain". Samhain is an event, not a frigging demon. It's one of the Celtic cross-quarters and is the ending of the harvest and summer and the beginning of winter. It is when the veils between worlds are at their thinnest, they did get that part right. However, it's not pronounced "Sam Hain", it's pronounced like saween or soween". Takes about 30 seconds to google that. I know it's just a TV show, but it still bugs me.
Current TV shows being watched on a regular basis are The Amazing Race, The Blacklist, Cosmos, Agents of SHIELD, NCIS, Person of Interest, and Hell's Kitchen. I missed a couple of episodes of Revolution and Arrow and now they're not streaming on Hulu Plus, so I've lost the continuity of those two series. I'll just wait for them to come to Netflix and catch up there.
Iditarod: It's over for another year. The last musher crossed under the Burled Arch in Nome on Saturday at 7:42 in the evening, Alaska time. Jeff King, the leader, scratched before he checked into Safety, the last checkpoint before Nome. He and Aliy Zirkle ran into bad weather, winds so strong they were blowing the sleds, teams, people, and snowmobiles over. His dogs got blown off the trail into a pile of driftwood and tangled up. By the time Jeff King got them untangled, the dogs had had enough and quit, and Jeff did, too. Aliy got into Safety and crashed, only to wake up and discover Dallas Seavey had come into the checkpoint and checked right back out again. She left, and almost caught him, he beat her into Nome by two minutes. Aaron Burmeister of the dislocated knee was 10th. Newton Marshall, the Jamaican musher, was 43rd. The funniest thing? Dallas Seavey didn't realize he was first, at first. He thought he was racing for third place against his dad, when it was actually Aliy Zirkle behind him and not Mitch. And with the ending of the Iditarod for this year, so ends my interest in sports until football season starts.
Listening: The Saw Doctors and The Waterboys have seen some play this week, but I haven't been listening to much, too busy gaming.
Nature stuff: Saw what I think was a snowy owl last week flying low over the neighbor's field. About an hour or so ago, I watched a vole scuttle across my front yard and disappear in the remains of the flower bed. Now is the time when I start listening for the wood frogs, they'll be coming out of hibernation as soon as the pond ice has melted enough for there to be open water. They spend the winter burrowed under the duff on the forest floor frozen solid, their bodies producing an enzyme that acts like antifreeze and keeps the soft tissues from crystalizing and their cells from bursting. So many people use robins as a sign of spring (but they may over-winter sometimes), but my first signs of spring are the wood frogs and the woodchucks. Woodchucks are one of the few mammals around here that are true hibernators. The other two are a species of vole and little brown bats. When I see the woodchucks or hear the wood frogs, then I believe it's spring and not before.
Have a great week, people! I've got a birthday on Friday, so it's going to be a great week here!
. For some reason the T's annoy me more than most.
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