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He can have an epic day as long as it's not so epic my team loses, lol.

As a fellow introvert with the inner monologue going on, I can totally relate. A former job, the death of my father, and issues in my relationship were causing extreme anxiety in my life a couple of years ago. Games helped, especially Journey and Flower. Flower's soothing music and gorgeous visuals and gentle game play did a great job calming the panic attacks that I was getting more and more frequently, and Journey, well, it's Journey. It was also good to play the Ratchet and Clank games and just blow shit up and get rid of the day's frustrations that way, too.

I remember some serious losing seasons...year before they won that first Super Bowl they were 5-11. Lots of 2-14 and 1-15 seasons, too. They made it to the Super Bowl only twice before 2001 and lost spectacularly both times. I really didn't get into football much before I met Jason in late 1998, so I only really started paying attention in 1999, but because I have lived in New England most of my life, I couldn't avoid at least hearing how bad the Patriots were.

As for my weekend, I spent it cooking - made an awesome beef stew for me and Jason, and an apple crisp for my friend Michael. Also made a really good baked mac and cheese from scratch. Watched some movies, watched the Pats game, and walked the dog. We're trying to get in a vigorous three mile walk in the woods every day, which gets a little more difficult at this time of year when it's pitch black by 5 PM, but we manage. Today, it's pouring and extremely windy, so we'll probably skip the walk today.

That sounds like it should be a fiddle tune, somehow.

Once upon a time when dinosaurs walked the earth and home computers were referred to as either Apples or IBMs and games came on 5 1/4" floppy disks, I used to play Wizardry. Hard drives were pretty much non-existant at that time, as well, and all my character data had to be saved on disk. I learned the hard way to back up frequently, as more than once my save disk would become corrupted, thus losing hours and hours and levels and levels and massive amounts of loot and gold. Hell, I had multiple back ups after one particularly heart-breaking loss of data.

Great catch indeed. 

What I want is a good game. Pats winning is a plus, but (Shh! Don't tell Jason!) it's nice to have a good, competitive game. I was hoping for more out of the Broncos, to be honest.

9-2, baby. It was fun watching the Pats demolish the Lions today. I, too, am looking forward to next week's game with the Packers, but for entirely different reasons, I'm sure. You're too young to really remember what a joke the Patriots used to be, so we NE fans are reveling in the win for as long as it lasts.

I haven't had any problems with it and I'm at the last boss battle. My cousin finished it and didn't mention any problems, either, and we both have the PS3 version.

Having lots of unread books around me comforts me. It means I'll never be at a loss for something to read or be bookless.