PixlBit

Blake, you make me laugh.

I have to start looking to replace the dozen or so Xbox games that disappeared from my collection.

I watched the first episode of Daredevil and I have to say I was underwhelmed. I'll watch a few episodes more and maybe it will grow on me.

I don't shop at Walmart. We have a chain of local department stores here in Maine called Reny's where I can get most of what I need, and for the rest, I go to Target. I try to shop local as much as possible, though. It's a personal choice. However, I will say that I do like the Walmart knock-off Oreos better than the real thing...

Ah, lenses! I want a macro lens and really good telephoto and a panorama and... However, I can't afford them. A good macro costs as much as a month's rent on my cottage.

Congrats. I gave up PC gaming for the simplicity of console gaming (and never being able to afford a decent gaming PC). I did start out my gaming life as a PC gamer back in the early 80s, though.

I think a lot of the fault of stuff not arriving on time may fall with UPS. I have a horrible time with UPS, Amazon usually ships out fine, then UPS screws it up on their end. I have to play find the package all through my neighborhood, and once they broke a CD in half in transit.

I love the TellTale games. So there's my two cents, for whatever that's worth.

I have Suikoden on disc, got it for $15 at one of the local places that sells retro games. They have set prices for their retro stuff, so if you happen to be there when something really good comes in, it's like heaven. I got complete copies of Tales of Destiny, Suikoden, and Vandal Hearts on the same day.

Hairdryers work well, too.

I could have warned you about mud runs, lol. My cousins do one in NH. I think they're insane. As for your shoes - let them dry out and then use a stiff brush on them and most of the mud should come off.

I was just there to make sure Andy had what he needed when he needed it. We had ten minutes to do the whole presentation. It was a group of about 150 people, and I don't speak in front of groups that big. It was a long way to travel (about an hour each way) for such a short amount of time, so I'm glad Andy knocked it out of the ballpark on this one.

I spent the day playing Jim Fowler to my boss' Marlon Perkins. He was doing a presentation for a conference and our intern was supposed to assist, but she was without transportation so I went instead. Of the four presentations at the conference, I think ours was the best. We got the most people coming up and asking how to go aout getting us to come to their school/library and do a program for them after the presentations were done. But then again, we wowed them with how to make a plaster cast of an animal track, showed them stuffed mounts of a bobcat, bear, and fisher, and showed them a bunch of other cool stuff like a moose antler and a deer antler.