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Since I haven't done a real update in a while, here what's up. It's fucking cold as hell this week. At the beginning of February we were in mid 60's for the low -- gorgeous weather. It got drastically worse and started to snow last week and it hasn't been above 45 since. Fucking groundhogs... I went and got Devil May Cry 3. If you haven't played this series, I highly recommend it. I played 1 and loved it; they totally ruined 2 by making it ridiculously easy, but redeemed themselves by making 3 ridiculously hard. I have never in my life been so frustrated and so enamored at the same time while playing a game. It truly is one of the most difficult games I've played, but how rewarding when you are on your game! Instead of relying entirely on your sword and guns for style points, you now have 4 distinct styles you can play with which opens up loads of hand-eye-candy as you hack n' slash through some very difficult missions. I am playing on easy right now and it feels like hard. Normal was next to impossible after level 2, but after playing a while, I feel a lot more confident. What is really nice is that the style moves and combinations actually work on bosses and there aren't a lot of 'lucky shots' from enemies or bosses that playing for style points (what you should always be doing) won't counteract. Kudos for making a game that actually pisses me off by being too hard. Just makes me want to play it more. I actually had to pay Uncle Sam 19 dollars this year because my accountant at work misstated my filing status and thus didn't withhold much from my checks. This really grated on me because they still took around $1000 of income tax out of my check and I didn't get any of it back. That is, of course, not to mention the $1300 of social security tax that I will never ever see. Thanks baby boomers! Thanks Roosevelt! Can I please do what I want with that dough? Like spend it? Has anyone ever heard of the time value of money? Then there's the icing -- CA state tax. They owe me 6 dollars. Yippee. If there is a god, Bill Maher and I are definitely going to hell. This week's new rules were over the top -- even for religion-hater Bill. The new rule went something like this: he put up a picture of one of those southern churches that got torched and said something to the effect of, "if you don't have to pay taxes, you can't call the fire department. I'll call the fire department, you can pray for rain." I couldn't help but laugh, but kept checking over my shoulder for thunderclouds. Another one showing a picture of an olympic luge team, "if most of your speed comes from gravity, you're not an athlete, you're a weight." I agree whole-heartedly. I am a little upset, however, at Bryant Gumble's little comment though. Leave it up to the whitest black guy on the planet to be racially divisive. Sure, black people are good at running and jumping, asians are good at table tennis and speed skating, whites are good at skiing and snowboarding, but if Dan Patrick (ESPN) said of the summer olympics, "the appalling lack of whites makes the summer games look like the million man march," the media and everyone else would have his head. Why are these kind of comments okay as long as they don't come from white people or criticize minorities? Sorry for the politics. I'll shut up now.