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First up – terrible news. The Flash – the finest comic produced by DC Comics – is being cancelled this month. It’s supposed to re-launch this summer, but it’s going to be a long winter and a longer spring while I wait.<\/p>\n

I won an ebay auction for a backup wookie – in case the wear and tear on the traveling orginal proves to be too much for him. ChewieII, as he’ll be known, will be put in cryo-sleep when he arrives.<\/p>\n

I got a new playstation 2 for christmas and it’s allowed me to play some games that I hadn’t be able to with my aging PS2. One of those games is Lego Star Wars – hilarious. The little lego dudes can use The Force to move around other legos and solve puzzles. The lightsaber battles are cool too.<\/p>\n

I also fired up an old game called Okage: Shadow King. I’ve played a couple of hours of it, but I think I’m going to stop and sell the game. It’s…boring. The storyline has promise, the writing is good – but there are a number of elements that make it nearly unplayable.<\/p>\n

1. There’s a significant load time when going from room to room in any building or town. And 98% of those rooms are empty, or occupied by an idiot. The time spent just trying to find something useful is terrible.<\/p>\n

2. The hero fights his first boss battle with a stick. Not a mystical sword, not a potent spell, no might armor. A stick. First time in – and I got killed. And this was before I’d figured out the save points – so, I had to start over from the beginning.<\/p>\n

3. The first dungon has the second boss, who I defeated fairly easily. Then I saved, went back, and battled some ordinary monsters. Did one point of damage, then got poisoned, put to sleep, and killed in the next turn. <\/p>\n

4. If I have to battle one more random demon chicken, I might lose it. <\/p>\n

I should just eject the disk and go back to Xmen II where I belong.<\/p>\n

I was in a couple of stores over the weekend and was amazed again at the lack of awareness. I didn’t realize I would need the reflexes of Spider-man to navigate a grocery store without being run over. After some careful study, I think I have figured out why it’s so dangerous.<\/p>\n

A. Shoppers are distracted by the bright lights and shiny colors.
B. Each one is given a steel cage on wheels with primative steering – and they navigate the store by pushing this weapon in front of them.
C. There are no traffic signals or arrows on the floor – no defined right of way. <\/p>\n

Randomly moving, distracted people with weapons. Why not give them all shotguns as they walk in? Might save some time.<\/p>\n

Also over the weekend – I helped a friend of mine’s aunt with a computer problem. It was, thankfully, not something I could fix – since the fix would have involved 1.5 hours of a download to install. It was AOL’s problem and I got out of there with a sigh of relief. Now, I like helping people with stuff – but sitting around watching a computer download some software is not my idea of a rip roaring good time. I got some notes together for when she calls AOL and I think that put her on the right track.<\/p>\n

I’m in the process of cleaning up my spare bedroom\/library – since it’s a cluttered mess. Of course, this has led to utter chaos through the entire upstairs as I decompress the room in order to organize it. The chaos is still there, and I fell down the stairs when I tripped over some clutter this morning in a desperate attempt to reach the bathroom. I’m okay, if you’re concerned.<\/p>\n

That’s it for now… back to work..<\/p>\n

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