Can't talk now, I'm gaming

This is going to be a short post, because I am very busy doing nothing useful. (I say that every time, don't I? It's not true this time, either.) I missed several posts now, so here's an abbreviated version of what I've been doing:

Thursday: short day at work. Boss acted weird by shaking my hand when I left. No clue what that was about. Girl Scouts after work. We did some planning, voted on our next few try-its, and made invitations to the investiture ceremony. We have a new girl, and my coleader didn't show. I was actually lucky about the new girl; we're always supposed to have 2 adults at any meeting. Her mom wanted to sit in on the meeting. Whew! I would have held the meeting anyway, though. Don't tell the girl scout council!

After girl scouts, Justin, Dragon, Elhaym and I went out to get some xp. We partied in the mire as a 73-75 party. It wasn't terribly slow xp, but it was frustrating due to the lack of mobs and the yucky nature of the flies. At some point, we had massacred everything but the flies and had to start killing them. Highest chain was 24, iirc. I got whm level 74, so it all worked out. There was a really nice static pair that joined us. An awesome rdm and a drg who kept forgetting to call his pet.

Friday: No work! As planned, I got up at a decent hour (I wanted to sleep in, but Justin can't ever find the alarm's off button ;;) and went to play Spyro. Turned on the ps2... disk read error. Tried a PS2 game... disk read error... banged on it a bit... PS2 game worked... Spyro still didn't. ARG! Justin could see how disappointed I was, so he gave me his credit card to buy a PS3. I was worried about using the card , because although I'm an authorized signer, my name isn't printed on the card. It worked out though. Target never even checked my ID, which I'm not really sure is a good thing. Came home, hooked it up, and spent most of the morning and afternoon playing Spyro 1. The machine itself is pretty sexy looking, although the original PS1 games look rather pixelated, especially when you get up close to the TV. The cord to charge the PS3 controller is about 3.5 feet long, so I was up close to the TV for a good 3 hours. I love the PS3s on/off and eject sensors. Way cooler than buttons!

When I got tired of Spyro, I went to tele-taxi for about 1.5 hours. I only made about 22k, all in the first hour. There was too much competition after that for my slow fingers. Then Justin, Elhaym, Dragon and I went out to xp again. I didn't get 75, although Justin's war finally did. Dragon got pld 74, too. We cut the party short about 2 hours so we could go assault. Noone ranked up, but it was fun.

My computer's been having problems lately. Some kind of glitch or bug or something is causing it to seize up and not let me do anything, on a regular basis. It annoyed me constantly all evening, eventually leading to Dragon's death. It also has been loading the game very slowly, causing various people to believe I've already zoned into an area, without me being able to actually do anything. This seems dangerous to me, but it hasn't led to anything but frustration yet.

Today: Spyro is almost done now, but I've stopped playing it. Justin came home for lunch about 20 minutes ago with a new game for each of us. I'm trying to keep this short (per day?) so I can go play Ratchet and Clank 5: Tools of Destruction. I am not sure about this game. I'm really excited about it, but RC3 and RC4 weren't that great; there was too much emphasis on the weapons. I don't think I even finished RC4. I got tired of "leveling up" the weapons. If I want to level something up, I'll go play FFXI! At least that way I can talk to other people while I'm "working" at a video game. Justin got himself Folklore, which he'll presumably play while I'm off babysitting his 6yo brother this evening. I'll be there all evening, so I'll have to play more rc5 tomorrow. After that, it'll be Friday before I can really play it again.

WIR: Finished The Grey King finally. I liked the ending way more than the beginning. I can't remember now which day I finished Devil in the White City but I did that, too. I've now moved on to Silver on the Tree, the last of the Dark is Rising sequence. I still need to finish Birth House, and then I will reread Golden Compass before going to see the movie.

Gotta run and go collect some bolts!