I took a day off from work and had enough time to get some stuff done that I've been wanting to get done. So, I turned my phone off for the three days I had off, and enjoyed them oh so much.
The week started off with me messing with my VCC (see below). I finally got it all set, and lemme tell ya, it's pretty pimptastic. It works so well. Basically, I have it set up in a Halloween game theme, since October is right around the corner. There's the Grim Fandango background, and Windows is themed in orange and black. I have a ton of games running smoothly on it, ranging from the old school NES to the more modern Dreamcast and Playstation One. It's awesome, guys. Seriously, I kicked back, grabbed a Mountain Dew, and played Tekken 3 again on a emulator. It ran perfect. All on a 42" LCD. After I put all of my roms and emulators on the VCC, I decided to whip out my older classic PC games. Only the really good ones that I enjoyed as a kid. So, there's games like Grim Fandango (which I'm currently playing through again, so my wife will understand why I call it one of the greatest games out there), Final Fantasy VII, Interstate '76, and some older games from the DOS days, like Lemmings and King's Quest. Boy, what a fun time it was setting up DOS Box for each game (took me about 4 hours to set up that alone). So, it's basically 90% done. I have the interface set percent, the emulators set up, and everything is operation A-Ok. I just have to finish installing my PC games, patch all the PC games to the latest, and install the rest of the Genesis and Game Boy games on the system. After that, boom! It's all set.
As far as other things, I almost completed Paper Mario: Thousand-Year Door. I just arrived at the moon, so I'm close to the end. The game is so long. I thought I could just rush through it in a few days, but, Nintendo had more in store than I imagined. The only thing I don't like about it is some of the quest seem a little tedious (a la White Commander). But overall, it's been so fun to play it. Unlike some RPG's, I'm not skipping all the text so I can complete it. It's a great little game. I'll probably be done before the next weekend, for sure. My Mario is wearing a Wario costume and is level 27 with no coins (I spend them on those pesky badges... gotta catch 'em all).
Last, I bought a few books to entertain the old noggin. I was watching Almost Heroes and decided to buy a history book. So I bought Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States (800 glorious pages of history). Also, I bought a book on the correct and incorrect usage of words. Mainly to expand my vocabulary more than it's backwoods heritage (even though I've never been there).
*UPDATE: Yeah, I'm returning this book. I'm not reading some marxist book. I thought it was just a history book but no, it happens to be a freakin' liberal hippy anti-war communist book. What a monkey.
So, that was my weekend. Also, I won something cool: Harvest Moon: Magical Melody. For free. No taxes on that.
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