Spring Is Dying

Because today the temperature actually rose to 26 degrees.  My God, the kid that grew up in Edmonton in me still isn’t used to these southern temperatures…

Sickness Continues

It’s good thing we mostly stay at home.  I expect we’d both be sicker right now with constant exposure to other people.  For all I know the Wife’s blah-ness could have resulted from last week’s little outing.

It's Official

I don’t like Heathrow airport.  Compared to other airports I’ve been through the layout is inefficient and there’s an incredible waste of space.  Oh well, it’s only for layover to the final destination.

Quiet Friday

Resident Evil 5

Oops

I kind of surprised myself by powering through Infamous on Hard difficulty and actually finishing it.  Of course, this isn’t really “finishing” the game any more than it’s considered finishing a Grand Theft Auto game if you only play story missions and ignore all that wonderful optional stuff just lying around in wait, which is exactly what I did for Infamous.

Moving on to a much slower, more leisurely round 2 of the game.

Sunday Doldrums

Yup.  The usual.

Whoo!

Harmonix releasted a funk pack!  James Brown, Earth Wind & Fire and Average White Band!  Holy hell, playing funk on guitar is HARD.

Wow.

Every once in a while a game comes along that surprises you simply because you had no (or even low) expectations about it.  This is one of those games.  Best described as “Electro Jr. Goes To Liberty City,” Infamous is a non DC/Marvel superhero game.  You control a guy named Cole suddenly imbued with eletrical based super powers and are let loose in a Grand Theft Auto styled open world.  The results, as you can imagine, are chaotic.  I actually wasn’t paying too much attention to this game, despite the fact that it had been hyped almost since the dawn of the Playstation 3, but after playing with the demo last week, I was intrigued.  After picking it up today, I am impressed.  It is incredibly fun to run around, grinding across power lines while hurling lightning balls at people and climbing around the sides of buildings with the agility of an electrified monkey.

And Done

Aquanaut’s Holiday has been thouroughly explored.  Probably the only game I’ll ever play in my life that lets me examine sea slugs, swim next to Megalodon and… chase after the planet Mars.

Don’t ask.

Saturday In Shelter

Another day at home, though there was plenty of good reason since the hottest day of the year so far was also accompanied by one hell of a rainstorm.  People were almost getting knocked down on the street by the force of the wind alone.