Status

Yeah, I know I promised an update, but honestly I can't let you know how it is working where I work – NDAs and stuff. So, back to what I can tell you.

First, having no internet access sucks. I'm piggybacking off of someone's wireless connection. Nothing worse than that.

I've played through Bioshock and saved the little sisters. The game lives up to the hype. Go and get this one and pay full price. It saves me a review. Actually, CliffyB has a really good review on his site which mimics my thoughts – check it out.

At midnight on September 25 I was one of the dorks who joined the rest of the world in launching Master Chief to the status of being the richest video game character on the planet. Four of us from work went to Best Buy and joined the rest of the people who were waiting for ummm... a video game. Well, I was there to get the schwag. I got a t-shirt and a hat... and some blow-up phallic thing with Halo on it. I actually bought the Legendary edition to sell on e-bay at Christmas when the fleecing usually hits a fevered pitch.

Am I going to play it? Probably after I get it through Gamefly. I can wait. I never got past the first few chapters in Halo 2 – so I’ll be totally lost. My friend Alan Noon has a good writeup so far, so check his site out: http://alan-noon.blogspot.com/.

My next two games are Stranglehold and MOH: Airborne. Stranglehold is pretty much the demo all over again. Without your “Tequila Bombs” on Normal the game is actually pretty difficult. Fun? Not really, I just felt like I was grinding it out. Hit the trigger, new guys spawn, kill them and move on. Meh.

MOH:Airborne is a different thing altogether. I had to put it down to go to work, but it made me a half hour late. Damn! I think I was having fun! So, we’ll see how the rest of the game shapes up.

So what's it like working for Marcus Fenix?

I haven't worked there a week yet, so next week I'll write a little something.

The Trip Down

Thursday was the day to make the trip down to Epic in North Carolina. So I packed up the car on Wednesday and put the final items in that night. The car was packed and only Michelle and a backpack could finally fit in.

There was a little wrinkle - the driver's seat in my car wouldn't move from the position I have it back in for the last few years. We tried oil and WD-40 and it still wouldn't budge. So, I would need to drive the whole way - this was supposed to be 14 hours according to Google, Mapquest and Yahoo.

We started out at 7am and went through Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia and finally North Carolina.

All went pretty smooth until we hit the mountains in West Virgina/Virginia. People were flying through these mountains and when we hit them when it was dark. I almost got rear ended by a trucker who was going way too fast. I was easily going 70 mph on the straightaways and doing turns at 50-60 mph. It was pretty much a white knuckle ride the whole way.

Also, in West Virginia the rust that was supposedly holding my muffler together gave way and the ride got incredibly loud. This did not make me a happy camper with the mountain driving and the dark.

We did need to stop and take breaks, but we didn't get to Cary until 2am and the trip taking nearly 18 hours almost had me batty. I was exhausted after the mountains, noise and the amount of time in a packed little car.

The trip ended safely and I got my muffler fixed the next day, but I think it would be a trip I would be reluctant to do in a car again.