Games, Fences, and Work

Well, Mom and Tom are on their way to PA for a mini vacation. Mom is showing Tom where she grew up. Hard to believe that we really have never been there as adults. (Not that I fully qualify as an adult most days of the week.)

I'm out of my zone today and celebrated by picking up Soul Calibur 4.

Here's a mini-review of my two latest video games. Haze really does kind of suck. I didn't want to say it. And I it's not just because I keep getting eating alive in multi-player games. I think it finally hit me when I got to the big "plot twist" in the story line. All I could say was, "Seriously?" Banal doesn't really cover it.

And then of course multiplayer is kind of bland, etc., etc. I went online to see what other people were saying and all of the reviews -- all of the reviews -- were terrible. No more impulse video game shopping for me! Check the reviews first!

In a similar vein I took a chance with Soul Calibur. Like Haze, everyone expected this to be a great game. Unlike Haze, it seems to be live up to the expectation so far. There are no "combo moves" in the game; I'm still getting a little used to that. And the manual is like a myster novel with no climax or resolution. But it's fun so far. I'll try multiplayer once I finally get a handle on how the moves actually work together.

Got assigned a change for work at 5pm this Friday afternoon. I don't know what bugs me more: the fact that so many things get scheduled at the very last minute, or that I really am just an SA now. If I ever had to switch jobs I don't know how I would explain the transition from what I did before this job to what I'm doing now. "Well, I was an effective leader in charge of budgets, a data center that I built, a national network of doctors' offices that I built, and had my own team of technicians. Then I moved up to applying service patches on Windows servers and dealing with filespace issues..."

Last but not least, I'm taking the plunge with my fence finally. Not having a fence in the back yard has bugged me the entire time I've owned my house. And the situation got worse when my neightbor put up a fence that was well over my property line. (I didn't realize how much until recently.) Long story short: he took it down, I'm putting something up, and it's going to cost a fortune to do the entire thing.

I'll feel very, very good having it finally done though.