December 22, 2007

Popcap ate up my Friday before Christmas, and other rambles.

Here is a well-worded rendition of this epic tale. Oh, the horror! That said, they are all fun, especially Bookworm Adventures, which is the reason I went Popcap game shopping. Stuff like Zuma and Peggle is really good for use during podcasts… I haven’t played Bejeweled 2, but I played Puzzle Quest for who knows how long so I know what to expect… I have no idea what Insaneaquarium is, but I own it now. I might try it after I finish this post. Anyway, I bought them because I wanted them and I wanted something to keep me occupied until Christmas (I find that I only have about an hour or two of FFXI in me a day, at most) and I wanted to reward myself for doing better than expected in school and actually saving a good deal of money up… I think I have more money in the bank right now, split between my two accounts, than I have had in my life. (Granted, this is not an insane amount of money we’re talking about or anything, but still)  It’s kind of a nice feeling, especially since I haven’t been especially working towards it… I think I might let that slow-building savings account eventually go towards some sort of lappy, like the EEE PC (if it drops another 100 bucks, I was so sad that they overshot their estimated price by like… 200 bucks, I was ready to snap one up), or just a new computer in general…
Anyway, the point is, expect at least a review of Bookworm Adventures, because it is completely great. It was even mesmerizing Jonathan as I played, and he sat next to me and called out possible words for me to look for. I have a feeling I’m going to wish it was longer, though. It would also work really well on, say, the DS. They should get on that. They have other Popcap crepe on there, don’t they?
I also just bought the new Halo 3 maps. We only played like 3 custom Foundry levels, but already I realize this was a good purchase. It was fun as hell. There was a really well-done game type Morbid Coffee made called Love on a custom map called The Battlefield (I hope you get that joke) that did a really good MGS sort of experience that will be even greater when he goes and tweaks it a little more, for example. It’ll be awesome. Too bad I’m working again Sunday, so it’ll be at least another week before I can join the Tyrants on Halo Night again.
In other news, I don’t have a Robogoose yet. This saddens me, because I’ve used like 30 Robotic Eggs. I waaaaaaaant it! Even though I’ll never uuuuuuuuuuuse it! Especially since I bought that P.R.E.S.S.I.E.!
And now, a list.

Things I still need to do before Chrissymas (not in order of importance)
1. Listen to and blog the last Listening Time CD in my stack
2. Finish up the little stuff I need to do on Grandma’s presents before I can no longer get to one of those photo printer thingamajigs.
3. Wrap the rest of the presents.
4. Fuck, I dunno… play more Bookworm Adventures? Something like that?

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