Friday, June 8, 2007

Okay... now we're current... Some additional notes... The problem with the blog... the partition on my Powerbook I keep my blog on... something went wrong with it last night. A huge chunk of it is unreadable. And a ton of files were in that spot... including the database file containing my daily blog entries. And my backup was 4 days old. Fortunately, my fics are stored elsewhere. (I have a new/larger drive waiting to be installed but there are warrantee issues... and the whole -- Apple doesn;t design their laptops to have user upgradable hard drives. Add memory? No problem. Add a wireless card? Sure. Change the battery. Not a big deal. Replace/upgrade the hard drive? Expect to spend an hour with a screw driver just taking it apart. There must be over 50 screws to take out to get to the hard drive. Yikes!) I backed up everything important tonight... but there are a bunch of programs I'll have to reinstall when I replace the hard drive (though if I want to use them, I have them installed on my mini so it isn't a big deal.) 9:42:17 PM    Notes [] Uniforms... (From June 7th, 2007) Nothing on tv I want to watch... so I have soccer on ( MLS - Houston vs Colorado) as filler. Gotta wonder who picked out the uniform colors. One team is all in sky/powder/light blue (Colorado?). The other is in white and orange. (Is there a rule that socks have to match shirts (Except the goalies) ?) Watching them in HD? Makes the eyeballs hurt. The only ones wearing "Don't mess with me" colors are the goalies. I don't remember such clashing colors when I watched the World Cup last year... 9:34:46 PM    Notes [] Exploring... (From June 7th, 2007) Spent an hour tonight wandering around Croft Manor. Looks like Lara just moved in. Boxes everywhere. Other than a couple computers sitting on a couple desks in the library... this looks like pre "TR: Legend" (Yes, it SHOULD since it in theory takes place way before that.) I won't give away any details but... the basic layout of the Manor is the same as in Legend but the are some new hidden passageways and some things outdoors that are new. And some of what is in Legend is incomplete/unfinished so you can't play it exactly the same. I also think Lara has a new style of one move... when she jumps up from one ledge to another she sort of does a kick. This weekend we'll do some real exploring... 9:30:20 PM   9:33:15 PM    Notes [] In Search Of... ( From June 6th, 2007) So... the Tomb Raider Anniversary (10th Anniversary) video game ( PS2/PSP/PC only) was released in the US yesterday (last week in Europe). I wanted to get it at Best Buy - their sales flyer for this week had it listed for $19.99 (it is a $29 game) until June 9th (this coming Saturday). The flyer said it would be available BY 2PM today. (They put their new games out on Wednesdays even though most games are released on Tuesdays. No, I don't know why.) I went there at lunch. They didn't have it. I tried again after work (and I wasn't the only one asking) and they didn't have it. It wasn't in the pile of games that came in on today's truck (according to the sales person who went looking for it for me). So, does this mean they won't get it until NEXT week when they get their next load of new games? After the sale is over? Some website oddities -- Their website has the game listed as available NEXT week (June 12th) in their regular PS2 game listings. If you look it at that entry also says it is backordered (back ordered? It just came out even if they don't have it yet. Maybe everyone who couldn't find it in a store ordered it online to get the sale price? It wasn't backordered yesterday. If you check availability from that page... it lists a bunch of stores in my area that SHOULD have the game in stock RIGHT NOW. Including the one I couldn't find it at today. I think somebody screwed up here. Wild guess -- someone got the release date wrong, they ordered a bunch of copies, whomever does the weekly flyers used the official Eidos release date. So there are a bunch of copies "on a truck" that won't show up until next week. AFTER the sale is over. And of course, they don't do rain checks on sale items like this. Guess I'll go buy it somewhere else since I'm not going to get it at the sale price anyway. Assuming I can find it anywhere around here. (I had to order the 2nd Buffy game from Amazon because no one carried it.) And as for Target... they have it being released on June 7th. But it is available only online from them. Guess they don't expect it to be a big seller. Wal-Mart says online only also... but no date. Circuit City says you have to order it for home delivery Who's left? Amazon has the June 5th release date -- but they say it ships in 8-9 days so they must not have it in stock. Toys-R-Us -- their website says June 8th release but I don't see any way to figure out if it is online only (Amazon actually resells Toys-R-Us or they used to. They might be waiting for them to get it in...) at 9:28:55 PM   9:31:19 PM    Notes [] Need to stop buying DVD boxed sets (From Saturday, June 2, 2007) Just because it is something I want to see/watch and it is cheap (aka 'on sale')... is not a valid reason to spend money. At this point I have enough tv show/anime DVD sets to make it through the summer until new network tv starts again. Let's count: 3 seasons of Stargate SG-1 (I've watched a few episodes but not all of them. I like the characters but a lot of the episodes are basically the same thing repeated.) 1st Season of "The Rockford Files" (Gritty realism without the modern music/action heavy episodes of modern cop shows) Cagney and Lacey - 1st Boxed set/season. (Much better than any other cop show I've watched. But I'm taking it slowly thru the set.) Firefly - not sure why I haven't watched it yet. I've had it for years. (It was on sale) Bones - Season 2 (Okay, it isn't out yet... but as soon as it hits the shelves I plan to get it.) And then there's the anime... First couple episodes of "Excel Saga" (Amusing but I don't think I'll buy the boxed set.) Magic Knight RayEarth - (2 seasons - 49 episodes - 20 minutes each) bought last week. Working my way thru it now. Not what I expected. I find the "mini character" insertions annoying (not sure of the technical term - it's when mini versions of the characters replace the regular characters for a moment). Excel Saga has similar things but at least MKR has a coherent story I can follow in my old age. Escaflowne - on the slow watch. Mouse - made it half way thru before the blatant "fan service" got to be too much (it's only 12 episodes - 15 minutes each. I'll watch the rest eventually.) Jubei-chan: Lovely Gantai no Himitsu - found the entire (4) set of DVD's at the used bookstore today. Wiki says there's a sequel, also 13 episodes. I also have a few single DVD's (movies, etc.) in the to watch pile... not going to list them here. 9:29:01 PM    Notes [] Lost Posts... My hard drive on my Powerbook is misbehaving... I lost the partition that had my blog stuff on it. I've sort of lost everything since June 2nd. (I did a backup at that point because of all the stuff I deleted (And have backed up somewhere else) (I've recovered a lot of stuff but since the chances are the hard drive will fail completely in the next week or so... I'm only getting the basics running on it until I get the hard drive replaced. I'll repost it but I've lost the comments tied to the entries. Sorry. 9:19:39 PM    Notes []

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