Corner of Bourbon & Division

After a very long day yesterday that was preceded by a very short night of sleep, I decided to sleep in a bit today. That went well. :)

So now I'm having a very late breakfast, in the company of my cats, before I start gathering my stuff together in order to take my bike to work again. Of course, I don't feel like moving at all, so that may be problematic. ;)

I finally worked up the nerve to try Resident Evil 4 again on the PS2. I was slightly less of a wuss this time, partly because I now knew what I was getting into. So I made it past the really scary first scene, and wandered around the little house-thing with my heart in my mouth, and then nearly got killed by bandits. Or something. Peasants with scythes. It was a little surreal, since I have no idea why they were there or trying to kill me, save perhaps to be there to make me practice my shooting. As it turned out, they were easier to dispatch with a knife. Go figure, AND I saved on ammo. Go me!

Thanks to toughlovemuse and my experience with DragonQuest VIII, I now know that it is okay for me to go into people's houses and break their stuff in order to get what's inside. There were no NPCs to bump into, so I don't know if I still apologize to them. ;)

I made to the first save point, anyway, and by then my nerves were kind of jangling, so I turned it off again. I get the feeling that this game is going to take a loooong time for me to finish. Maybe I'll get used to it after a while, but for now it's turning out to be highly stressful to play. ("OMG there's got to be a zombie right behind that corner! AUGH!" Ironically, I have yet to run into a zombie.)

That's that. My plans for the rest of the time I'm here include a shower and more coffee. I have to leave in about an hour and fifteen minutes, so I have plenty of time to get stuff done, as long as I don't try my hand at RE4 again.

Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.

Been getting up early the past two days. As in, before 07:00. No idea what's wrong with me, except that the weather is not conducive to sleep.

I got a ton of stuff done yesterday morning, which was all errands. Zipped around town all morning by BMW (Bus Metro Walk), came home intending to do some cleaning, and passed out between 14:00 and 19:00 for the world's longest nap. So much for cleaning and cooking.

So cleaning and cooking will happen today, right after I get home from Meeting. At least I won't be all tired and frazzled from running errands all morning, which should make things easier. I've already cleaned out the litter boxes (*pats self on back*), so that's at least one thing I won't have waiting for me.

I appear to have finished Dragon Quest VIII, too, although I keep hearing that there's an end quest that unlocks at the end of the game, which has not in fact unlocked for me. I don't know that I'm going to go back and poke at it, though. By the end the game just didn't have my attention anymore, although I was pleased to note that it had a happy ending. :)

I think my next PS2 acquisition will be one of the Resident Evil games. I am in a zombie frame of mind these days.

I just have to make sure that I don't succumb to another nap on my return home this afternoon.

Is it as pathetic as I think it is to weep uncontrollably at the end of a video game?


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Yeah, I thought so.

Dear God, but that was sad.

I'm still more than mildly obsessed with this game, although the New!Shiny! has worn off considerably since I got it. It's a good thing, too, because I was beginning to be very very sleep-deprived after the first week.

( The rest behind a cut-tag, to spare you the boredom of it all )

I got myself a PS2.

Yes, am now officially a computer gamer. Or whatever it's called.

Final Fantasy X is very, very pretty. Unfortunately, I can't figure out how to save my game, which means I've had to go through the entire beginning sequence four times now. Before you ask, I did in fact RTFM, and the FM sayeth that there should be a "saving sphere" every now and then that I must use. I just haven't seen any so far. Either I'm blind, or else I just haven't got far enough in the game for it to warrant saving. I'm slightly annoyed by this, but thus far that has been outweighed by the shiny. :)

Um, can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

*goes back to RTFM again*