Diesel dispatch
Good morning, Somerville and surrounding satellites. In the Diesel with the battery I got last week. It's got like five hours of charge. Yay. Whitey is purring along happily. I feel pretty sure this is the last hardware upgrade it's getting.
I had a really good weekend. On Saturday I did all that writing for the Gameshelf and also started like three Angband characters who all died in like 5 minutes each. That's the only way to play, man.
Sunday I hung out with classicaljunkie, much as we did last Sunday, and perhaps this is becoming a habit. She pulverized me at Ticket to Ride, and notably this was a day after she apparently crushed vast multitudes across many games at Unity Games, an annual all-day tabletop event that I still haven't gone to. (I would if I had a car. There was plenty of carpool opportunity, but that wouldn't give me the ability to leave when I wanted, and I have a neurotic desire for this escape hatch at all times.) This is pretty good, because any desire to pull punches borne from her previous protests that I usually beat her at games died then. Henceforth, it's on.
We also drove around lookin for Guitar Hero 2 and those damn guitar controllers are apparently as rare are Wiis right now; in three stores clerks gave me the runaround of "No, we're out of stock, and they're not backorderable, but we get more in every week! Usually!" Not their fault and no hard feelings, but goddamn. The only two worthy new video games continue to be denied me, because they use specialized hardware and everyone in the Boston area wants one. (Yes, except you, I know.) I hate hardware.
I was surprised to see some PS3s in stock at one of the Targets. CJ asked me why I wasn't all over it, since it seemed reasonable to expect I'd want to upgrade from my PS2, and I had fun explaining Sony's last couple of years of anti-customer psychosis, culminating in this $700 game console with about five launch titles on the shelf behind it. Anyway, if PS3s were sitting on the shelf, surely Wiis will soon follow, right?
Finally, I wrote a monologue for the next Jmac's Arcade before bed. This will be a fun one and I hope to have it made before next Monday. Now I am procrastinating writing a SOTU-ish letter to the Volity community, one that I gave myself a end-of-month deadline to complete.
I had a really good weekend. On Saturday I did all that writing for the Gameshelf and also started like three Angband characters who all died in like 5 minutes each. That's the only way to play, man.
Sunday I hung out with classicaljunkie, much as we did last Sunday, and perhaps this is becoming a habit. She pulverized me at Ticket to Ride, and notably this was a day after she apparently crushed vast multitudes across many games at Unity Games, an annual all-day tabletop event that I still haven't gone to. (I would if I had a car. There was plenty of carpool opportunity, but that wouldn't give me the ability to leave when I wanted, and I have a neurotic desire for this escape hatch at all times.) This is pretty good, because any desire to pull punches borne from her previous protests that I usually beat her at games died then. Henceforth, it's on.
We also drove around lookin for Guitar Hero 2 and those damn guitar controllers are apparently as rare are Wiis right now; in three stores clerks gave me the runaround of "No, we're out of stock, and they're not backorderable, but we get more in every week! Usually!" Not their fault and no hard feelings, but goddamn. The only two worthy new video games continue to be denied me, because they use specialized hardware and everyone in the Boston area wants one. (Yes, except you, I know.) I hate hardware.
I was surprised to see some PS3s in stock at one of the Targets. CJ asked me why I wasn't all over it, since it seemed reasonable to expect I'd want to upgrade from my PS2, and I had fun explaining Sony's last couple of years of anti-customer psychosis, culminating in this $700 game console with about five launch titles on the shelf behind it. Anyway, if PS3s were sitting on the shelf, surely Wiis will soon follow, right?
Finally, I wrote a monologue for the next Jmac's Arcade before bed. This will be a fun one and I hope to have it made before next Monday. Now I am procrastinating writing a SOTU-ish letter to the Volity community, one that I gave myself a end-of-month deadline to complete.