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Further Gaming: The Ni no Kuni Demo
In addition to finishing FF13, I've also spent some of my PS3 time lately playing the demo of Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch. This is the jointly-developed Level-5/Studio Ghibli RPG. Level-5 is the company behind Dragon Quest 8/9 and the Professor Layton series. Studio Ghibli is... well, Studio Ghibli. Can this game not be awesome ( Read more... ) -
FF13: Complete!
Finished FF13 tonight, after a very long hiatus. I had basically been making good progress from when I first got the game to my first eye surgery back in March of 2011. I tried to pick it back up a bit too soon afterwards, before I'd sufficiently healed, and then just got distracted by things and put it aside until a few weeks ago. It was kind ( Read more... ) -
Blegh.
Yeah, haven't been doing well at all in updating the journal lately. Been busy with things, mostly work. Making no promises on increased frequency of posting. -
Post-hurricane report.
Good news: We are fine, our families are fine, our neighborhood seems fine, we didn't lose power, and damage is minimal. Yay ( Read more... ) -
I am not so good at predicting this whole baseball playoffs thing.
So I went into the Orioles/Rangers game thinking that was it. Instead, the O's won. So I subsequently went into the O's/Yankees series thinking this would be reasonably good for us, as we'd split the season series against the Yankees, so we had a pretty decent shot ( Read more... ) -
But now I have no faith.
Out of the four teams we could have started the post season against, Texas was the one I least wanted. They consistently beat the Orioles, and often by a very large margin ( Read more... ) -
And here I was just hoping for .500.
Uh. Holy crap. The Orioles are in the playoffs. May not know for a few days if it's as a wild-card team (and thus certain values of "in the playoffs") or winning the division, but whoa. Last time this happened, I was a junior in college. I have memories of doing homework in the dorm lobby while watching the games. My grades may have suffered ( Read more... ) -
Making up for lost time.
Welp, Operation Post More Often kind of hit a snag, although given the material in my last post, it's probably not incredibly surprising. Work got busy and stressful, I got tired, and all the things I wanted to write about didn't seem nearly as urgent as they had been ( Read more... ) -
With apologies to Jane Austen.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that no one ever, ever has enough time to get done everything that they want to do, and that the more one would like to just sit down and complete a specific task, the greater the likelihood that something else will come along and completely disrupt things.
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Summer ends and autumn perseveres.
I really like this time of year when the temperatures start to cool down a bit. The average high is still in the low 80's, but the nights are getting cooler. We've had some lovely temperatures the past couple of days, although to get them we had to make it through some severe storms on Saturday. It wasn't so bad where I am, but a bit to the ( Read more... )