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I suck at blogging these days.

Crap, it's been over three months since I last wrote anything. If it's any consolation, I lead a relatively boring life in the winter, so you really didn't miss much.

Late to the Party: As always happens after I finish a game that I've spent over 100 hours immersed in, I really hadn't been able to settle on my next game to play yet. So I booted up the 360 for the first time in months (mostly to see what was available as the current Games for Gold download), and cycled through what I had stashed on the hard drive. I frequently download the free games and then forget about them, so I went through and deleted a couple that I'd finished and knew I was never going to play again, and then decided to give Borderlands a try. And surprise! (please read in a sarcastic tone), there was an update. Oh, yay. So it did its thing, and I tried to get the game to play, and it made it as far as the Gearbox logo screen and froze my 360. OK, I'm used to the occasional freeze, usually when playing LEGO games, so I shut down the console and restarted and tried again. Same result. Hmm... Off to the internet; Yup, update breaks the game on the 360. Solution found, third time's the charm. However, I can't play the game online, which I'm mildly disappointed about. Now, I'm not normally into FPS games, but Borderlands is fun so far. I haven't made it very far into the game and I die a lot, but fun is being had. We'll see how far I get and if I continue to have fun before the whole FPS thing gets to me.

I keep telling myself I'm going to be better at blogging, and I write a blog post, and then I disappear again. But then again, up until a few months ago, I hadn't been doing much gaming. And then I was too busy gaming to be bothered to blog. So, here's what I've been up to:

I will admit it, I am a Dragon Quest addict. I've had DQ XI for two weeks and I've already sunk over 100 hours into it. I work, I eat, I walk the dog, and sometimes I sleep, but mostly I play DQ XI.

At a time when I really shouldn't be spending money on things I don't need, what do I do? I buy two new games. I should feel remorse and guilt, but I don't.

And the busiest weekend for our state park system is at hand. And this year, it's even busier than usual because our governor decided to make them free for Maine residents. While this seems like a great idea, it's wreaking havoc with us foot soldiers (aka park rangers), because most of our parks have already put half or more of our crews on seasonal layoff, leaving too few rangers to deal with too many park visitors. My little park filled at 10:45 this morning, and it didn't let up until a little after 4:00 this afternoon. There were two of us to deal with it from the time we opened the gates at 9:00 until the closing person came in at 1:00, and one of us had to be in the booth. Michael has blisters and my arches are killing me from walking from one parking lot to the other for hours on end. What does that have to do with gaming you ask? It means I have zero energy left at the end of the day after I have walked the dog, made and eaten dinner, and cleaned up whatever messes the cat has left me, and I hate when my work life interferes with my gaming.

Wow, it has been a long time since I wrote a new blog post! I've been busy with work, Beau, gaming, and the movie watching project I started a couple of years ago.

Several weeks ago, I was in the mood for an RPG, so I dug out Tales of Berseria, which I bought when it came out, started, and never finished. Almost a year later, I knew I wasn't going to remember a thing about it and just started over. I just finished it last week and spent some time mopping up the last of the side quests and grabbing a few trophies. No way will I ever get a platinum in this game, some of the trophies require multiple playthroughs and who has that kind of time? 

Sorry I've been among the missing. I've been recovering from one of the worst cases of the flu I've ever experienced and the pneumonia that followed it. Good times!