Stay Tuned!

The final resolution! Underwater wackiness! The Former Head of Talking Heads!

But right now I'm too busy to go into any kind of detail. Soon, my precious....

Steamed

Another week and no news. On the thing. You know. The lump. So that's good, but there's still the "discomfort" I'm experiencing. And I think I may have figured that out as well.

I've been working out lately. Well, okay for the past ten years, but the past year I've been running. So follow along Moby's Patented Spurious Logic (Patent Pending):

1. First, the soft fatty tissues on my inner thighs started to be used up, reducing the radius of my upper thighs: therefore I bought new (smaller) pants.
   
2. I started growing muscle beneath the fatty tissues, thereby expanding said radius: therefore things got tight.
   
3. The, er, subject on the side where "my ears hang low" is where I'm feeling the pain.
   
4. Ergo, I've been compressing one of my boys every time I sit down. Thus the swelling.

Let me guess, too much information. Well that's okay because I'm going to consider the matter closed as soon as I go buy some parachute pants.

I had totally forgotten that I had tried the demo for Sins of a Solar Empire a while back. But I tried it again anyways. Still don't like it. But since Steam just put Left 4 Dead on at half price, I'm downloading it now. Zomb-Aid, biatches!

Waiting Game

Okay so I haven't heard anything yet. Call me paranoid (knew I could count on you Capa) but I'll feel much more comfortable next weekend.

I'll keep you posted. In the meantime, I'll be considering what game to buy next. Maybe Sins of a Solar Empire. Heard it's good...

Why Are We Waiting?

Still no news yet. Still waiting. You know if this process hadn't taken about a month to get to this point, I'd say that's a good thing. But with the incredibly laconic response time of the medical profession I've experienced in this province, I'll start to be cautiously optimistic next Monday.

And since I'm re-scheduled to take my scuba course this weekend, I'm catching a cold. Of course.

On the good news side, our new office space is quite amazing. Had a tour of the fitness center today and it doesn't suck. And considering some of the women on the tour, it certainly bodes well for the gym experience days of yore (remember Red Sonja?). Provided I don't get something removed, which means I won't be interested in the gym or the patrons. I know, positive thinking.

But ya gotta admit it would prey on your mind as well.

So I've been distracting myself with gaming. Specifically, Defence Grid: The Awakening. I've never been a huge fan of tower defense games, but the presentation and 3D-ness, not to mention the pure logical thinking, is a lot of fun. I'm starting to see why Capa made such a fuss about Steam. And for $20, it certainly is in the "impulse buy" price-range.

And I gave LOTRO another go (I had three weeks left) but ended up uninstalling again. It really was just a World of Warcraft wanna be and frankly WoW wither bores me (repetitive) or annoys the hell out of me (the other players). All I can really say is that they took a very, very respected and rich milieu and white-washed it with mediocrity. 'Nuff Said.

Except I'm kinda miffed at the way the downloadable content for Fallout 3 was presented. You have to be a member of Live for Windows. You have to purchase "points" for the content (and of course you have to buy more points than the content is worth) and from what I've been reading you need to do some serious computer configuration to get to the point where you can even download it. Seriously: I want to give them money in exchange for a product. They (Live) seemed to forget that a basic exchange of legal tender for the goods and services desired for purchase has been going on for centuries. You name a price, if I agree to said price I give you legal tender and in exchange you give me what I am buying.

Can't quite seem to do that in this situation. They have made it too complicated (well, okay annoying) and the price is significantly higher than stated in real world terms (ie money). Ergo, I give them no cash, they give me no product and I go spend it on something else offered by an entity that understands these simple, well accepted principles of consumerism.

And no, I'm not going to go download it. At some point, they will be releasing a couple more of these expansions (hopefully they will have figured out how to provide them) and eventually wrapping them into a single bundle on a physical medium which I will purchase from a retailer. Maybe.