Day in the park
Last week was full of mindless hours of gaming: MAME, World in conflict beta, and Richard Burns rally. Nothing really blog worthy, not even world in conflict, as it seems I’m terrible at RTSs and that’s that. Luckily this week was a tad more progressive. I ordered a new DVD drive(an LG GSA-H54NK) which I trouble-shot(shooted?) for an entire day trying all sorts of things until I realized I was using the wrong type of ATA cable… truly a “D’Oh!” moment. The day before that a friend of mine dropped by my house with an NES advantage of all things. Apparently the car parts place he went to had a small thrift store inside where he spotted this thing. It was layered in black crap(figuratively) and it looked like someone salvaged it from a port-a-potty -not very pretty, but I vowed to clean it up. So over the course of two days I spent about 4 hours with: paper towels, Windex, tooth picks, and Q-tips and restored it to it’s former glory.
See those seams? Oh yea, those where once filled with… black stuff, or what I referred to earlier as “crap”. Oh and if I took a “before” picture the ugliness would’ve broken my camera, so yea, I avoided that. 
On Thursday(this week, not last) I went to the bay area all day for a Giants game. It was great, I haven’t been in the bay area for ages and the last time I saw the Giants in person was at the old candlestick park - which I believe they now refer to as “Monster park” since Monster cables bought the naming rights. First thing you notice when you visit the bay area is the marine layer, nice and cool weather with occasional fog. I’m from the lower foothills bordering the valley so I’m used to extremely hot and dry weather. The marine layer is nice at first but as the day progresses it gets even colder and by 6 o’clock you better have another layer prepared(I brought along a sweatshirt). Our seats of the game were in the upper-upper deck but we had a phenomenal view of the bay and we could still see the ball being tossed around so there was no loss(not a bad seat in the house really). I really regret not bringing my camera it was a beautiful day in a beautiful park. On a side note I had some excellent fish and chips for lunch right there in the park. I also had some wonderful Alaskan halibut in Berkley for Dinner later on, I don’t think I’ve eaten that much fish in one day before. Though the best part of the day by far was the fact that the Giants actually won. Quite fast too, the total time of the entire game was around 2 Hours and 30 Minuets!
Great day, now I’m back to sitting in my chair playing shmups mindlessly all day. Or am I?