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It’s Christmas Eve, but I guess Christmas already happened for me? It happened Thursday. And I guess it’s going to happen again next Thursday? I dunno. Because of Jonathan and Shauna leaving town things have gotten different this year.

I mean, it was just on a different day. It wasn’t that different otherwise. My mother wanted to take a million pictures, but was also not very good at taking pictures and was never happy with them and wanted them posed but also spontaneous, so I tried to take over as usual to get her something she’d like. There were lots of dogs running around. We had a nice dinner and opened presents in the traditional manner. You know. Christmas stuff.

I was worried the whole me being me thing was going to be a big deal. It didn’t go as well as I had planned, but I could at least tell my mother tried, which at least seemed an apology for the many times she called me by my old name during the same celebration. I mean, she had Alexis written on all the gifts and everything, which is a decision I’m sure she had a hard time coming to, knowing her. She also bought me a very nice pair of female PJs, which is awesome, as I have seen the light on PJs recently and I will wear the crap out of them.

All the gift giving went well, I think. I seemed to give good stuff, which is, well, good. I always worry. I also got plenty of nice stuff. New Kirby and New Layton and New Dominion Expansion… Well, and a Boxee Box, but I already discussed how well that went and I will be dealing with that soon.

What really made me laugh and smile, though, was the other gift Jonathan and Shauna gave me. They got me this sweet My Little Pony throw. When I opened that I just laughed out loud. How silly and how perfect! Jonathan was like “That’s your favorite one on there, right?” and I’m like “Yeah, that’s Twilight Sparkle on there.” It only occurred to me later how much that question meant, really. I later tried to think of when I’d actually had a conversation about that with my brother. I had made off-hand references to stuff like John DeLancie being in the show and whatnot because I thought he’d find them vaguely interesting, but we never really talked about it seriously. However, I remember when we were shopping for my mother’s birthday present, way back in October, I saw the My Little Pony in Canterlot display in his store and mentioned something about seeing a similar display up in St. Louis. There was this frightening-looking Twilight Sparkle plushie, and I commented, more to myself than anything, that if that wasn’t so terrifying, I’d buy it, because she’s my favorite. I cannot remember talking about liking Twilight Sparkle around him any other time. Somehow he remembered that this long. That’s a brother who cares about his sister enough to know about her incredibly pointlessly obsessions that are probably just an attempt to have all the girly things she couldn’t have in her youth. Heh, I dunno. Recalling that just made it mean all the more to me.

Anyway, I guess that was Christmas! Of course, actual Christmas will be tomorrow, but I’m probably just going to go over to the parents’ and have dinner and go watch Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows with them. Not that that will be bad. But it’ll be different. Difference! Lots of difference in this year.

Hi.

I would like to thank Boxee for ruining Christmas with their amazing bullshit.

So I get this thing. It’s supposed to do all kinds of nice stuff like stream video and whatnot. I hook it up. It won’t connect to my wifi. I double check my password, etc. Won’t connect. This seems really weird, because the Boxee Box is a D-link product, and I am using a D-link router with basically default settings. But whatever, I go on their website to troubleshoot. I check all their settings, and I change stuff, and change it again, and change it again.
It won’t connect.
I change more stuff, and more stuff.
It won’t connect.

I eventually give up, decide my PS3 doesn’t need internet, and plug in ethernet. I finally get into a menu. I go to play a video from my computer.
Nothing.
I set up some stupid media sharing software from Boxee. I go to play a video from my computer.
It crashes.
I reboot and try again.
It crashes.
I reboot and try a different video.
It crashes.

I try to use a different method to get to my videos. I use a totally different menu.
It asks me for a username and password.
I have no idea what it could be asking for, it’s my files, but I type in every combination I could think of that I would use.
Nothing.

I have been fighting with this thing for 4 hours now. Fuck it. Thanks for ruining Christmas. I hope I can manage to return it without issue and without upsetting my mother, who had to figure out the internet and try very hard to get this for me. I feel terrible making her go to all that effort just to return it, but it would be worse to be stuck with this expensive piece of garbage.

Today was a day of Adventure, and fuck am I tired from it.
So I booted up my Atari and…

Okay, not that kind of Adventure.

I woke up this morning, and I cleaned up, got in my car, and went to my grandparents’ house, where I fed them some dinner I made myself (which they claimed to like! Whoo!) and borrowed their truck. Trucks were needed for adventures, you see. The truck ran kind of weird for a little while, but after I got on the highway it seemed to have worked out all the kinks and went just fine. Well, besides the fact that it didn’t have a working radio and I got to listen to wind howling for hours. Whee.

Anyway, I drove my truck up to my pill doctor’s place in St. Louis, which was, in theory, the main point of the trip. That appointment went very well! I get to double my dose! Yay! And double it again in a month or two! Double yay! This is great news. Very great. Great. Great news!

Then, uh, I ate at an Applebee’s. And then I went to an arcade auction.

It was a really strange experience. There were all kinds of odd people there. People like me, who just wanted something cool for their house. Parents who wanted free entertainment for their kids and knew that arcade games on free play for testing would give it. Crazy collector types. People who really wanted Big Buck Hunter machines (seriously, those sold for more than anything! What the fuck!). It was a weird collection of people.

It was also just a weird collection of machines. There was this huge Final Furlong 2 machine that eventually sold for 50 fucking dollars because it was too huge and ridiculous for anyone to actually keep. It was just incredibly entertaining to watch because it was so ridiculous. Like, you chose from these horses who were anime stereotypes but also horses and were oddly super-anime in their little portraits, even though the game was kind of realistic? It was silly. There was a Frogger cocktail cabinet that went for much less than I expected. There was a fucking old tyme flip card movie viewing machine where you looked down into it and saw a flipcard movie. And it worked!

What I came there for, though, was a NeoGeo MVS. That’s what I’ve always wanted. There were three of them there: a two slot that was mostly functional, though I think it had a broken button on each side, a four slot that looked like it needed it’s screen adjusted, since the picture was showing outside the monitor a bit, and had a couple broken buttons, and a one slot that didn’t even turn on. I bid on the two and the four slot and, oddly enough, I won the four slot, which is really what I wanted, for $150 after taxes and auction fees and shit. I’m not too worried about the screen thing, from hearing about Patrick Klepek buying a NeoGeo on the Bombcast. It seems like there are hard-to-reach adjustors for that stuff, and I can make that happen. I also think I should be able to replace all the buttons and the joysticks without too big of an issue. I’ll also want to swap out the games: it currently has three games in it: some football game I couldn’t give a shit about, Samurai Showdown, which isn’t a bad choice, and Fatal Fury 2. I have to get some Metal Slug in there, maybe even two different ones, and I would really like a copy of Windjammers as well, because Windjammers is fucking awesome. Anyway, it’ll take some work, but it’ll work. And plus it’s a fucking arcade machine. Victory.

I had a weird experience loading it, though. That thing is fucking heavy, and I was alone! Thus, I employed a strategy I hadn’t been able to use before: the weak woman needing help with strong manly things. And, uh, it worked. I eventually had like 5 college guys moving this shit for me. I really appreciate it, because I mean, damn, I couldn’t have done it alone. But it was still weird taking advantage of the “perks” of my new gender, I guess. I mean, I would have helped move it much more than I did, but they just kind of took over and seemed to have it under control, so, you know.
Fuck, I am not looking forward to moving that heavy thing from the truck into the house tomorrow.

Anyway, that was my adventure! And now I’m fucking tired, so I’m going to bed. Later!

Today I played a Doctor Who MMO thing.
I was just looking at it and then I learned you could be a cat person so of course I played. I am a very predictable furry.

Basically, if you want to play a lot of shitty in-browser versions of Puzzle Fighter, Bust-A-Move, Pipe Dreams, and Sega Swirl, this is really the game for you.

You make your dude, and then the Doctor picks you up in the TARDIS! Whoo! I will give the game this: it looks really nice. It’s clearly flash-animated so that every animation isn’t individually drawn, but it has a great art style that looks really nice, and the little animated version of The Doctor is spiffy. Anyway, you go into the TARDIS and the Doctor says things like “Blah blah blah time crisis blah blah blah probably going to fight all the villains from the show since it’s relaunch in sequence blah blah.” And then he gives you a gadget, which is TOTALLY NOT A SONIC SCREWDRIVER because it sucks and you have to play little minigames to do things. Either that, or the Doctor is just really, really fucking good at Bust-A-Move, because he can unlock a door in like a second and it takes me clearing like 3 boards of Bust-A-Move to do that. Then you go out and you fight some of the plastic people from the first episode using your PUZZLE MINIGAME POWERS. I assume you eventually move to other times and places and fight other enemies from the show, but I certainly didn’t get that far. It’s also weird that, if I have gone back in time to the point where the plastic people were invading, then Earthlings don’t know about aliens. I’m a cat person. Shouldn’t they all be fucking terrified of me? World going to shit and whatnot? Or do they just assume the furry convention is in town or something? I assume they have furry cons in London.

Anyway, back to the game. Another thing I will give the game credit for is this: you really aren’t doing like… typical video game stuff in theory (although in execution, it’s just puzzle minigames, as I’ve said). The game has you unlocking doors, interrogating people, rewiring gadgets, and distracting enemies. You’re not running around with a gun and shooting people. You’re doing what the Doctor does in the show, which is to the game’s credit. You team up with a bunch of other players (in theory. This beta didn’t seem to have that working.) or if you solo, you get some AI characters to help you. You assign them to tasks and you do some yourself, or help them do them faster. “You barricade the door, you keep the woman calm, and I’ll hack this computer!” Again, in theory, really like the show, but in practice, it’s just playing board after board of these puzzle games, so it gets old fast.

The conversation, or “wits” minigame as they call it, is especially kind of bad. It’s like Sega Swirl, except there are ways to make special gems that do things like clear a whole line. In practice, this means that once you start a combo, it can kind of go on FOREVER. I had a combo last for a solid minute without me pressing anything in the game. And that combo didn’t give me enough points to finish off the task I was doing. Thanks, game!

The game’s microtransaction system really confuses me too. Going on missions and upgrading your gadget and whatnot requires “Energy.” The game always said I had 0 Energy, and was asking me to buy more, but it let me do everything anyway. Sometimes there was a number to the left of my Energy, which decreased when I did stuff. Maybe that was my actual value and it was a bug? In any case, it was not explained how Energy works. Is it a currency that regenerates over time, like in Spiral Knights? I kind of doubt it, though, as it’s required to buy clothing and TARDIS decorations and shit, so I assume it’s just a straight up microtransaction currency. If so, then that just seems really, really stupid. You have to have some way to keep free players coming back to play the game, so they’re tempted to spend money, whether that be “You can only play so many turns a day, unless you spend money” or “You can go in this special dungeon if you spend some money” or “You can play with this sick gear if you spend some money.” But just requiring a purchase to straight up play after a trial period, especially when your game is like this? That seems dumb. Then again, the BBC is stupid enough to price Doctor Who seasons at like 90 dollars in America for no fucking reason, so maybe that’s just that tendency shining through. Either way, the game doesn’t explain how this stuff works clearly, so who knows.

I… can’t suggest you try it? I mean, go for it, if you want. You don’t have to be a cat person. You could be, you know, a human. Or some green dude with a weird forehead. And maybe it’s just being aimed at kids, and that’s the problem. I mean, I could see having fun teaming up with my kid or whatever and playing this stuff. But I dunno if it would keep a child’s interest much longer than mine, unless they really, really wanted to see the outcome of the little stories in each level. Eh, I dunno.

The latest pony episode, Hearth’s Warming Eve, really just brings up more questions than it answers about society in Equestria. Sure, we learn some things. Equestria being an actual country, as opposed to a planet or plane of existence for instance. There’s also some silly, obviously incorrect bits in there, like Equestria’s original flag having Celestia and Luna on it before they existed, but I can give that one to the nature of the play being put on with little trouble. What really makes me interested, though, is that this episode takes my general idea about the caste system inherent in Equestrian society that I formed back when I was first watching season one and makes it canon.

The episode basically clearly states that, in the past, this caste system was in place: earth ponies were farmers and laborers, pegasi were warriors and controlled the weather, and unicorns were aristocrats and sorcerers. This… hasn’t changed much, even though the play that was put on would like to suggest it is. Pegasi are still in control of the weather and are the soldiers, I’ve never seen anything but earth ponies working on farms and such, and unicorns are mostly still the representation of high society and the elite. There is some level of social mobility, of course. Example off the top of my head is Photo Finish, representing high society and being an earth pony. But because you can’t practice magic without being a unicorn, and non-Pegasi can’t even get to and stand on Cloudsdale to help with the weather stuff, it just doesn’t allow for as much movement as one would want, realistically. You are severely hindered by your birth, and the talents granted by it, and that’s that.

In any case, even though these systems are still basically in place from back then, it caused a civil war, basically, back in the day, which the play depicts. While we learn that it is friendship that keeps a society together, it’s really unclear how Equestria was rebuilt so that the same ire wasn’t simply recreated in everypony. Clearly the founding of Equestria brought with it a proper economy, as ponies do have money, called bits. This would certainly alleviate some of the issues involved with demanding food from earth ponies that the play depicts, but does it really completely diffuse the situation? I’m not really sure.

One thing I am sure of is that Hearth’s Warming Eve is a propaganda holiday that works to make sure that everyone THINKS these sorts of pressures have been resolved, even if they haven’t. It’s an interesting comparison to Christmas, as they’re clearly meant to be compared, since both holidays use similar decoration and the like. Our Christmas tends to use a holiday that’s supposedly based in togetherness and generosity (outside of the obvious potential religious angle, which I’m not counting here) to power consumerism. It’s exploiting those nice feelings for greed’s sake, which is certainly something I think our society understands, even if we think it’s shitty to do. We can recognize it happening. Their Hearth’s Warming Eve is using a holiday based in togetherness to power some sort of political agenda. It comes off as a bit more sinister, I guess, which is something that kind of struck me throughout the episode. It seemed a little off for this world for this play to be done basically every year, everywhere in Equestria, that everyone went to see. To keep these ideas so firmly in the mind just seems… it’s strange. Because while it’s a reminder that we should be friends, it’s also a huge, huge reminder of the big gaps and issues plaguing their society. I don’t know why a different heart-warming story wouldn’t be told unless that was all part of the message. Songs are sung about how friendship keeps everyone together. Everyone learns the lesson they are required to learn, and nopony seems to question that this is something being fed to them for some reason, although what reason is unclear.

Or maybe I just think about a children’s television show too much.

Demons’ Souls didn’t do a lot for me, but fuck, I am really kind of getting into Dark Souls.

I really don’t know why, either. I mean, I think, for one, I picked a starting class that makes more sense to me than what I did in Demons’ Souls. I started as a Cleric, so I started with the Heal Miracle, and that really helped me out early game. I also feel like I have seen several people play through the first few hours of Dark Souls at this point, which made me very prepared to get past the early roadblocks and really get into how the game feels when you aren’t dying every five seconds. (Spoilers: It feels pretty awesome when things actually start to click.) Finally, I think it’s just that this game is much more streamlined and refined in very subtle ways. It’s more approachable. It’s ever so slightly more obvious what you should be doing. That’s very nice.

In any case, I’ve had some adventures! I ran around a lot uselessly because I didn’t realize there were shortcuts, which is always awesome! I died a lot, but I didn’t get angry about it, really, because I’ve just sort of accepted the idea that I am going to lose a bunch of souls every so often! (Though it does suck when you lose a humanity you randomly gained for some reason. Why do you randomly gain humanity, anyway? (One trip to a wiki later, it seems like you sometimes gain humanity for having your messages upvoted, so maybe that’s how I was getting them.)) I summoned some phantoms, who proceeded to utterly slaughter the Belltower Gargoyles while I watched in horror having no idea what to do. I bought a lot of equipment for my bonfire! I got hugged to death by a tree! I upgraded a shield! I shot a million arrows into a dragon tail! I used an exclamation point!

But really, when I went back and killed some of the big knights that I was running away from early in the game, overcoming them after a try or two now that I had leveled up and got new equipment, it felt good. Really good. That’s the kind of satisfaction this game can offer, I suppose.

Anyway, I find myself still wanting to play it, so, like a fool, I kept it from Gamefly. I guess I am playing a very Miracle-based character at this point, so I’m thinking I will join the Co-op Covenant thing so I can get Lightning Spear, the Miracle attack spell. That’s my next goal, anyway. We’ll see what happens with that, and if it can keep making me want to play it like I feel right now. We’ll see!

Okay, so I guess I’ll write a little about the Magic draft, then get some sleep.

Last night, we drafted! Yay! About damn time! We gave Innistrad a try, with it’s stupid flip cards. From a victory perspective, the draft went very badly for me, as I lost a lot. Jonathan made a ridiculous 60 card rainbow mill himself deck that somehow worked fantastically. Essner drafted werewolves. Duh. But Spaeth’s fairly straightforward black deck ended up taking the whole draft.

Drafting this set, there just seemed to be an overwhelming number of completely garbage instants in this set. Just really terrible ones! It also felt like there was a lack of solid low-casting-cost creatures, but maybe we just got unlucky with the packs we opened.

I got a card I really liked. It was called Mikaeus, The Lunarch. That is a fun and powerful card, and I often paired him with this equipment that gave Hexproof, but he really didn’t go off as much as I would have liked. He was a bit too slow to get going for the draft, I suppose, and it’s always hard to keep a large number of creatures on the board in a draft because, in general, you’re more likely to trade to get rid of threats because you don’t have any other options to deal with those threats. Thus, he wasn’t as useful as he could have been.

Really, though, those stupid flip cards are the main thing here, and they just weren’t anywhere interesting enough to justify how fucking annoying they are to have in a deck. I mean, they were fine. I used some for easy beats and threats. I also got this planeswalker, and he was kind of a win button. But seriously, just… every time I shuffled the deck and saw those cards in there, it just frustrated me. I wanted to see all the card backs so I knew everything was okay. Bleh. It really was as stupid as I expected it to be. There were no surprises there.

Anyway, that was definitely a Magic set! It certainly isn’t going to get me back into playing Magic as much as I used to, but it was a fun diversion for an evening, to be sure.

I just fell asleep at my desk, so I should probably get to bed… this day just seemed… gigantic… A lot happened… I worked and I drafted and I hung out with friends and then I talked with Essner and cried a lot and then I just kind of collapsed here in this chair and fell asleep. Whee.

At work I keep playing boss. I don’t know why I do. I go out of my way to fix problems I could just ignore, and everyone asks me how to do things when I honestly just barely know how to do them myself. All this register stuff: I was never trained. I’ve just made it all up as I went along, and it seems to be correct. People are constantly asking me for advice, how to do this or that, and I just do my best. I hear someone saying something wrong to a customer and I step in and fix the problem. None of that is my job. They didn’t fucking want me as the boss. I don’t know why I keep doing that.
Well, I mean, I do. I want to be helpful. It just… yeah… I catch myself doing it and I just get frustrated with myself a little for giving them for free what they wouldn’t hire me for. I’m not sure they deserve it. But the individual people I work with are nice, so…

And Essner… I… I don’t know. I was going to write about the draft for tonight, but maybe tomorrow… I just finally got up the guts to talk to him about what was going on between us after it was all over. There was an awkwardness there. He didn’t seem to really want to acknowledge my transition. We had a really strange conversation that needed to happen. I’ve been trying to explain it to people I’ve been talking to afterwards… well, before I fell asleep at the desk… and it never comes out right, so I’m not going to explain in specifics what we said. I cried. It was hard. He’s not 100% behind me on this huge life thing that has done nothing but made my life better, at least from my perspective, and that is just hard to take from your best friend. But that bond… what we have is still unbroken. Not shaken a bit by this. He was completely honest with me about his feelings and his struggle to understand this, when it would have been easier to make excuses or dodge the subject, and that means something. That’s respect. That’s friendship. He knew this has made me feel so much better, and he’s thankful his friend doesn’t feel like shit anymore, you know? This is something we’re going to have to work through and figure out, but it’s not going to ruin us as friends. I’m always going to be there for him, and he’ll always be there for me. That’s just how it is. There may still be awkwardness ahead, but it’s nice to know that’s not in jeopardy.

I’m going to try to sleep, I suppose. Innistrad talk tomorrow, I guess? I don’t know. Goodnight.

Well, I turned in my final grades, so I guess my first non-student teaching class is officially over. Yay?
It was a really weird experience, but mostly a positive one.

For one, it was strange just kind of being completely and utterly on my own. I mean, I didn’t expect the intense oversight I had as a grad assistant, because I had been hired to do a job and I am an adult and will do the job. But goodness, I had like no contact with anyone, really. I was mostly just completely alone. I talked to a fellow teacher once the entire semester. Everyone in the offices left the moment my class started. I really probably could have done just about anything I wanted, as long as nobody complained. That’s just kind of a weird feeling, especially when I am so obscenely shackled at, say, Kohl’s, even though I am supposedly the boss of my little team. Again, I’m not an idiot. I’m there to do a job, one I believe is kind of important, and I’m not going to fuck that up. But knowing I could and probably would get away with it is kind of weird.

Secondly, it was just odd having such a small class. Everyone always says they want small classes, and there were a lot of awesome benefits to having such a small class. I could address issues one on one with everyone, and really make sure everyone understood the material. I got to know my students way, way better than I normally do in a class. But, you know, things like the normal three people being gone for a class, but that literally being over half your class? It affected me a bit more personally than I should have. I mean, I always caught myself. I understand all that shit. I’ve been a student. But it does make it harder to just go ahead with the lesson when you’re down to like two people. Lecture just seems weird then. Any kind of planned activity, really. Although it did make for some worthwhile classes.

Finally, it was just awesome to be me in the classroom for once. There were no problems in that regard. My mother’s pointless fears could not have been rendered more ridiculous. I am doing this stuff. It’s me. Fucking fantastic.

Yeah, I say this was a successful semester. We’ll see how I handle a larger course load next time around, hm? And hey, that’ll help me not be so trapped in horrible Kohl’s schedule hell, which will help a lot.

For some reason, before writing and posting this blog, I decided to update WordPress. Gods, that’s always a fucking stressful experience. I mean, I will hand it to WordPress: it’s been a long time since updating WordPress caused anything to explode. The automatic updates just work, and that’s nice. But goodness, I clicked that button, and then the horror of what I’d have to be doing to get this all up and running and a blog posted before bed just hit me, and I was waiting nervously for the update to finish. Again, nothing wrong happened, so good for it! But yeah. Whew.

After I got out of work tonight, I stood in the parking lot for about… 20 minutes? 30? I was listening to my co-worker talk about his family woes and all the problems he was having with them. He told me a lot of stuff about past dick moves his family had made and things of that sort. What seemed to have started this was that his family seemed to have scheduled Christmas when he couldn’t go because of work, and was expecting him to just call in or whatever, and this put him in a frustrating situation. A lot of what he was rambling about made me glad I have a relatively small family, to be sure. Scheduling is still an issue, but at least it’s not that much of a hassle. But mostly I was just glad I could be there for him. It just seemed like he didn’t often get to open up like this, probably because he is constantly trying to put up a “tough guy” barrier when, I dunno, he’s clearly a sensitive, really nice guy. I’ve somehow managed to be, for a long while now, unaffected by all that. I’m honored he wanted to open up to me, and after it was all over, he told me he felt a ton better, which made me smile. Least I could do, hon! I’ll listen any time.

Speaking of talks with people, I called my Grandma just to visit today, as well as thank them for letting me borrow the truck for stupid crazy plans I have going on next week. Anyway, that was nice: I don’t call her enough. However, during the whole thing, looking for things to talk about, I started discussing Brer moving down here and moving in with me. It’s about halfway through me talking about this that I realize that I’m not sure if my parents ever told my grandparents that I had a boyfriend. It was another one of those dumb things I had to “protect them from” for no fucking reason for so long. That silence is broken now, but I’m not sure if that subject was ever directly breached. Her reactions seemed to indicate it hadn’t been. I went on like nothing weird had happened, because nothing did. I was just telling her what’s going on. But I just worry, because she quieted up when she’s normally very talkative. Oh well. She knows now, either way. Not like she can stop him from becoming part of my life. Heh.

Kale wanted to buy me Corpse Party for Christmas because it was something I mentioned wanting, but the only way we could figure out how to do it was to buy me a PSN card and then just let me buy it with that. However, the entire process of doing this took like 4 to 5 hours spread over two days, because Sony and PSN Suuuuuuucks. First off, my PSP can’t see my wireless network in the house. Fuck if I know why. Even broadcasting just on Wireless B, it still can’t connect to it. So I go, sure, I’ll just buy it on the PS3 and sync it then. But then I had to update my PS3, of course. Then I had to find the game on the Playstation Store, which is just a terrible, terrible experience. Xbox isn’t perfect with that stuff, but goodness. I knew I wanted to buy Corpse Party and it still took forever to find it. Then I had to download it at a snail’s pace. It was half a gig, something that takes about 10 minutes to download when I’m, I dunno, grabbing an anime episode or something, but it took like half an hour. Then I tried to sync it, but whoops, I need to update my PSP. Of course, it wouldn’t just do that like I’d expect. It told me to connect my PSP wirelessly and download it. Which I can’t fucking do! Because it can’t see my network! Hurray! So I manually put the update on my card, updated THAT, then finally slowly synced THAT, and then I finally had my game. What a user friendly experience! It’s no wonder Xbox is my console of choice.

Anyway, I’m getting some sleep. More work tomorrow! Hip hip hurrah! Later!