To Faire or not to Faire
Over the past few days I’ve felt the steady yearn to visit the NY Ren Faire before the end of the season. This means going this weekend (Sep 15 or 16), since I’ll probably be too busy the following weekend.
So why not just go?
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception – Archived review
I have mixed feelings about this one. I'd like to say it was better than Uncharted 2, but I find I can't. What's better: The graphics, the environments, the storyline, the voice-acting. Everyone put their all into making this the most cinematic of all the adventures. (If I were George Lucas and/or Steven Spielberg, I might considering…
Protected: Circle
Tonight was the first time I was in a Wiccan Circle since my health problems began. At the start of the day, I was full of energy and looking forward to it. Cleaning my apartment took a bit out of me, but I still felt decent. By the time of the Circle, I was feeling low, with…
Mage Knight night
Last night, I returned to Hobbytown to attend their game night. I brought along a copy of Mage Knight. I wasn’t sure that anyone would be interested in playing it, but I thought, “Either I’ll have fun playing this game, or I’ll have fun playing some other game. Either way I come out ahead.”
Protected: Gotta throw it out
It's a measure of how profoundly my appetite has changed when I have to throw away food I've kept in my fridge because it's gone bad. That never used to happen, except for lettuce and onions and such. Now I eat so much less that the food has a chance to spoil. I have an endoscopy this…
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves – Archived review
Now this was a horse of a different color. First of all, it had a "very easy" difficulty for us fumble-fingered oldsters. There were no impossible jumps like the one I talked about for U1. This doesn't mean I didn't have to replay some sections more than once to figure things out, but it never got to…
Protected: Good day, bad night
Yesterday was phone call day. Lots of friends and relatives called me to ask me how I was doing, and bring me up-to-date on their own lives. It was good to have that contact. Last night (early this morning) was a bad night. My eye ached and I couldn't sleep. I took a Tramadol, and resisted the…
Uncharted 1: Drake’s Fortune – Archived review
I'd forgotten the reason I hate platformers. I was playing U1 on my PS3, enjoying the story, not getting too bogged down anywhere because I was playing on "easy" difficulty. Then I get to the jump I couldn't make; it's the final vine jump to scale the fortress wall. I tried for an hour, and another half-hour…