PixlBit

Yeah, I kinda want a 2DS. It'll have to wait, though, as I only have another four weeks before I'm laid off for the winter. I'm hoping to find a job working for some mom and pop outfit and not a big box store like Target, which is what I did last winter. Not that Target was bad, I just don't have the mindset to work in that kind of environment. LL Bean was worse, I at least felt like Target appreciated me as an employee.

We had five, count 'em, FIVE thunderstorms between 1 AM and 7 AM. Every time one would roll through, the pets would repeat their earlier behavior and wake me up. By 6, I was ready to kill them both. And it's been very dry here, too, since June which was the 5th rainiest June on record. And we were still an inch below average rainfall as of midnight. May have made up for that last night, though.

My park isn't that big, only about 250 acres. Pretty easy to maintain, too, as we don't have a ton of equipment like my last park. I have a riding mower, a push mower, a weedwhacker, three chainsaws, and an ancient Kawasaki Mule to take care of. There isn't much mowing or weedwhacking, as we're mostly woods and hiking trails. I spend more time unclogging the three toilets than anything else!

I recommend doing what I do: get a tote for each system and keep an inventory sheet. I actually made a data base, but I'm eventually going to have an inventory sheet with each tote listing the contents. OCD much, you think?

If you do get it, let me know how you like it.

That was my favorite part of the first game, too. It was one of the few things the first game got right, actually.

And just when I'd drifted off to sleep came thunderstorm #2...

Bloodshot and Hellbent are about a vampire who makes her living as a thief/private detective. She accepts a job from a client who happens to be a fellow vampire, but he's blind. He wants his file from when he was being experimented on (hence the blindness). Along the way, she acquires a "partner" who is an ex-navy SEAL drag queen. Hijinks ensue. I don't normally go for vampire novels, but the characters are really good in this series.

Luke Perry never did much for me. Lou Diamond Phillips on the other hand...

I always liked the PS1 version, because it was the first console I ever played it on. The long load times just never bothered me, maybe because I had nothing to compare it to. I really like the DS version, too,and I got the OST as a preorder bonus for it.

I understand where you're coming from with the end of summer thing. I re-read the Lord of the Rings trilogy every late September/early October for the same reason. It was the time of year when I first read the books, and also the time of year when Frodo first set out from the Shire. The leaves start changing, the first frosty nights start, and Orion reappears in the night sky.

Happy Chievo hunting! I'm going back to climbing buildings and knifing guards in Rennaisance Italy shortly.

I saw that shortly after it went to video. Didn't like the ending...

I kinda liked it. Not as good as the original, but I didn't think it totally sucked.