...when someone tells you the logical equivalent of:

"Since this looks, quacks, smells, waddles, swims and eats like a duck, it can't be a duck."

Huh? What?

~PS

So i think i've picked up a new video game addiction. I'd probably still be addicted to Katamari Damacy except that I don't have a ps2 (though i have noticed they're down to about $125) and the game doesn't appear to exist for pc's.

This time it's Neverwinter Nights (The first one, yes. In my typical style, i only get to video games several years after they're out of 'the scene'. It's cheaper that way.). I've been up pretty late a couple of nights this week fighting my way through zombies and bandits. This really isn't all that surprising.

What *is* mildly surprising is that I think i've got sheri addicted to it too. She was watching me play around with it one day and decided it looked spiffy. Spiffy enough that we went to the store & bought a pc version of it for her (her copy even has all the nifty expansion packs. Only $20 too.). Both of us did very little yesterday night except go through various dungeonish environments on various quests - every once in a while saying things like "you still alive over there?" or "wow, that was cool". Sheri's already found a few things in this game that i missed. Figures.

~PS

Saw these on the EP's blog. Curiosity won out. What can i say? I'm easily amused...

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 12 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

While 11 other people may have my name, I wonder what the statistical probability is that these people have a remotely similar personality.

Hopefully, pretty slim. The world is not ready for 12 of me.

You Are A Fig Tree

You are very independent and strong minded. A hard worker when you want to be, you play hard too. You are honest and loyal. You hate contradiction or arguments. You love life, and you live for your friends, children, and animals. A great sense of humor, artistic talent, and intelligence are all gifts you possess.

What's Your Celtic Horoscope?

Yeah, uh-huh. I could make a pretty good case for this being accurate (at least parts of it), but these things generally give overly generic 'readings' that anyone could 'see themselves as'.

oh well, it was fun. :)

~PS

So this last weekend was interesting.

My sister Jese and her friend Kate came to visit us for a couple of days. Kevin also came into town. After the unusually full week I had, the bookstore/coffeehouse/theological/oriental escapades didn't exactly make for a relaxing weekend, but it was quite a bit of fun.

The weekend *did* involve 'broadening my horizons', as it were. On saturday night, the lot of us went out to a japanese steakhouse. The kind where they cook the stuff on the table in front of you. I'm not generally a fan of oriental food, but this was pretty good and quite entertaining.

Sunday was pretty much the usual after Jese & Kate left.

Been trying to play a little more golf while its still nice out. I think i'm starting to get a little better at the game. I've now par'd a par 5 by making an *amazing* (read: 'lucky') 12ft putt. I'm pretty sure that's the first time i've ever done that.

~PS

So, as of last night, I have been introduced to a video game called Katamari Damacy. Odd. Little. Game. I am noticing a trend however: those games with the most ridiculous premises (see also: Ape Escape, Sheep) tend to be some of the most fun to play.

In this game, you play the son of the King of the Cosmos. Seems his celestialness has destroyed all the stars in the night sky, and you have to put them back. How does one do this you ask? Why, the answer is simple - roll a sticky ball around and collect as many things as you can (tacks, dice, flowerpots, dogs, people, cars, pieces of buildings), and launch it into space.

As tony said, "It's nice to know that LSD users can still find work in society."

~PS

It is a very odd thing to wake up in the morning to Boy Sets Fire overlaid with classical radio.

~PS

So I've started playing golf again.

Note that I didn't say I was *good* at it, just that I've started playing.

Like I said in my blog about going to IN, it had been between something like 10 years since I've actually played the game - and I wouldn't say I was any good then either - but it was fun, and I've realized I miss playing.

So last week I played twice. I played 9 at Pine Oaks on tuesday. It's a pretty nice course. Not that I played well at all, but it was nice to get out. On saturday, Joe and I got up early and went out to the Elizabethton Golf Club to play 18. That was a lot of fun.

This saturday we get to get up even earlier - tee time is at 7:56. Some contend that hour doesn't exist on saturdays.

~PS