o goddamn this game

Dissidia is waaaaaaaaaaay too addicting. Can't stop playing. Did all those individual character campaigns, now doin what I assume is the end game campaigns, pretty much using Terra exclusively. Haven't used any villians yet, though gotta say none seem all that interesting. Except maybe Sephiroth, I mean really, I hate myself for saying this but, when is Sephiroth not interesting? Iono why I like Terra so much. Maybe cause I liked her game most, maybe I just like the annoyance factor of pelting enemies with little balls from far away, pretty much endlessly.

Aside from Terra the heroes I thought were alrite were Firion and Bartz. Tidus was kinda fun too actually, what with his agileness and, well, I think I just like throwing balls at people. But Firion got me with the varied attacks and how they force the opponent into position, seemed more mind-gamey somehow. And Bartz, iono, seems relatively quick and super versatile. I like versatility, though somehow Cecil turned out as my least favorite hero character, could not hit shit with his attacks.

So Dissidia is eating my time for now, but in a few days I expect I'll go get that Muramasa game for wii. Try and attempt to beat it before school, and then I think I'll buy me a psp game for when I leave for school. prbly crisis core, though I really want that prinny game too. Lots of games to play! Everything good always comes out right when I have to leave this hobby behind in favor of the books. I suppose everyone has thought it before but, seriously guys, more summer please. Just delay fall until november or somthin, no one will care, fall sucks anyway.

Drive Faster

So thanks to the glory of package tracking and google maps I now know that my PSP is about 131 miles away from me, sitting cold and alone in some UPS holding center. Did I mention I bought a PSP? I bought a PSP btw. The awesome silver one gamestop is selling packaged with dissidia. Anyway google maps tells me it would take 2 hours an 33 minutes to drive from their little holding place to my home. Delivery date is set to be in two days. Seriously? UPS needs to upgrade their vehicles, this just isn't fair right here.

Why is mail always bad news

I got summoned for jury duty. What the hell man, I didn't even get to vote cause they never mailed me my fucking ballot, how the fuck do they expect me serve on some fucking jury. Well I won't, not yet at least, I'll be in LA, so I need to tell them to ruin my Christmas vacation instead. This country fucking blows sometimes.

Feels like my summer has just been me running away from official forms. For the record, santa cruz is really on top of their shit when it comes to informing, LA sucks balls at letting me know what is happening. I nearly lost my housing and my spot in school thanks to that lack of information, last minute filled some forms out...deadline passed...still no word on whether anything has been resolved or not, I figure that is a good sign? This shit always happens to me, I know, mostly my fault and all, but still really annoying.

Curry

Tonight is my cooking night. My mother informed me when I got home for the summer that I had to cook one night a week, every week, if I was going to live at home this summer. It annoyed me a bit, its the kind of thing parents love to do, "I don't really feel like doing this so I'll make it a responsibility thing for the kids." So, me being me, I had to get back at her somehow. I chose to make curry every week, and I have, in hopes of annoying the hell out of my mom.

I learned something this summer though, my mom is much more resilient than I've ever given her credit for. Whenever its my night to cook, no one really ever complains, but I can see it in my dad and sisters body language, they are fucking tired of curry. My mom though, she enjoys it, I swear she'll eat anything as long as she didn't have to cook it. Even when the curry tastes like garbage she eats it without complaint.

And the unexpected part of it is, I've kind of been having fun with this curry night thing. I've been experimenting with it, seeing what works and what doesn't. My mom usually uses chiken stock for the broth in curry, but we didnt have any last week, so I used a mixture of water and milk. It was strange at first, but kinda awesome, it turned out really thick, almost like pudding. I've tried all kinds of other shit to get some kind of twist on boring curry, anywhere from strawberry jam to half a chocolate bar. Doesn't always turn out great but when it does its kind of a nice surprise, and even when ingredients dont mix well its almost always still edible. Tonight, I'm not sure how I'll attempt to screw around with the flavors, but what I do know is that I'll be making curry. And believe me, it won't be the last time.

hooray Ichiro

It isn't very often I just link to shit in this log, but this post is one such post. Ichiro is something of a hero of mine, find me a japanese kid of who he isn't, an I'll be damned if I didn't enjoy this THT article about him. Part I found most interesting was at the end where Smith attempts a rough conversion of Ichiro's Japan stats to equivalent mlb stats. It's fun to look at, and his observation that there doesn't seem to really be much of an aging curve here really strikes me as kind of remarkable. I do hope he has a good many years left in him, even if its at the expense of my A's, Ichiro is always great fun to watch.