I’ve had a busy couple of weeks. Between running, working, and those other little things that come up… well, y’know… This quasi-drought it killing my garden. It sucks. Sure, I can pump water on it all day long, but the moisture bakes out of the soil in less than a day anyways. Some of the plants are doing okay — after they get established, they flourish because they can get their roots down deep enough — but the seedlings are slow and suffering. If I get even a dozen carrots out of the patch this year, I’ll be surprised. I spent a couple hours building Claire a sandbox the other day. We had looked at a couple of the plastic doo-dahs, but I figured it [...]

I make no shame of my geekery here on this blog and I have noted on occasion [1] [2] [3] [4] that I’m a bit of a sucker for Final Fantasy games, in particular having played through VII at least three times. That particular game was the motivating force behind my original purchase of a PSOne back in the days of university, and the only PSOne game that has been loaded into the PS2. So, you might imagine my subtle joy when I not only acquired a copy of the prequel to that particular installment of the game, Crisis Core: FFVII, but when it also turned out to be a fairly decent game in and of itself. Alas, a half-dozen hours curled up on the [...]

I’ve been somewhat negligent on my gaming these days, what with all the yard work and other mini-projects consuming my time. Heck, I’m lucky if I can find an hour to sit down with a book, it seems. But I have been dabbling a little and have two recommendations: Final Fantasy VII I’m not going to recommend the game, per se — at least not today. It’s a great game. I’ve (almost) finished it three times. But who’s got forty hours to devote to that kind of thing, these days. That, and it’s ten years old. However, I found a remixed soundtrack to the game. A GAME soundtrack?!?! You ask. How… how… uh… huh? I’ve been listening to it for the morning. It’s not for [...]

Reading: The Return of the King but only because the next installment in the infamous Peter Jackson trilogy is soon to emerge on the bigScreen and I want to be fresh before I watch it. Listening: When I’m plugged in, either Jack FM (96.9 Vancouver) or Loveline mp3s off usenet. Playing: In starts and bursts, and then desperately appologetically to my wife until I find the next save point, I’m about thirteen hours into Final Fantasy X. The dialogue sucks, but I’m still playing it. Watching: Hopefully nothing. I’m boycotting Survivor, and watching some REAL reality television. It’s called the news. Doing: Waiting for my new notebook to arrive from Dell. There was that inital let-down from the tease delivery of (just) my surge protector, [...]

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I spent a few hours in front of the brain box this weekend. First, I was again eagerly involved in yet another bout of role-playing and moved my current game of final fantasy seven on the playstation up to the (approximately) 15 hour mark. That, by the way, is fifteen hours net total, and not “another fifteen hours.” In other words: time before this weekend + time this weekend = ~15 hours and not: time before this weekend + 15 hours = obscene amount of finger pain For those with any knowledge of what I’m talking about — unlikely, but possible as I have been getting people searching for “nude final fantasy” pics on this site — I am just on my way to Nibelheim [...]