Video Games

Carly came over last night and we played Haze all night. Or rather, I should say that I played Haze all night, because she and Dawn went to bed at a reasonable hour.

I could go on and on about what draws me into games so much. Beyond a general compulsion to play them period, and the general fun-factor they have, each genre is a little different. With FPS games, First Person Shooters, the compelling reason is that I hate to suck. And I am kind of bad at FPS games -- especially on a gaming pad; I'm a little better if I can use a keyboard and mouse.

But when a game ends and your kills are at, let's say, 9 total, and the leader has racked something like 43 kills, it's just hard to put down. Never mind the fact that the thing I almost lead the board with was "most times died."

Sure, I don't play FPS very much, and it was my first night, and I wasn't at the bottom at least. But I really hate not being good at something. I don't know if I'm getting older or if kids are getting much better. (Or maybe they're not spending enough time doing homework.)

Anyway, as the morning sun grew brighter and brighter this morning, I knew it was time for bed. Two hours later, work paged me.

The thing about being on-call 24/7 for a whole week is that it really don't matter when you go to bed. If you sleep at a normal hour, you'll be page in the middle of the night, and vice versa. And I expected to be paged this weekend, hence taking a day on Friday to spend with Dawn. But man, two hours of sleep. (It's really sad that it's so hard to find people to swap shifts with nowadays. Things have really changed at work.)

I had to bow out of any activities today because the work call ended up being a ridiculous all-day affair. (It's still going on.) I missed out on a trip to Pei Wei and a the video game store. --We thought that Soul Caliber 4 came out today.



Turns out that it comes out on Tuesday. Silly day to release a game. But they traded in some of the more crappy PS3 games that I've purchased like Warhawk, Folklore, and Viruta Fighter, and pre-ordered Soul Caliber 4. Pre-orders get a free Soul Caliber t-shirt, so come Tuesday, I'll be geekier than ever.

The good news is that I was able to nap a couple hours, so I'm not feeling morbidly bad. In fact, for now, I'm quite peppy. The wall of fatigue will hit me a truck in a few hours, but if I have to stay up all night and sleep working and sleep during the day -- well, throw me into that briar patch if you must.