and other stuff.

I'm still plodding through the PC version of Mass Effect. Unlike with my 360 version, I amdefinitelygoing to keep my save game files in order to carry over all of my decisions into Mass Effect 2. I've been eying Bioshock 2, which is odd. After playing the first game, the sequel just sounded like such an attempt to cash-in. But after watching the video from Revision Three's Co-Op, I'm tempted to return to Rapture again.

I'm trading No More Heroes in to Goozex... whoop, spoke too soon, I already have a taker. The game was repetitive: ninety minutes of boredom punctuated by twenty minutes of mildly entertaining. I don't know why this game got so much hype; maybe it's simply because it's an "adult" game on the Wii.

Maura's car has just returned from the shop; not bad, they took less than a day to repair the leaks in her transmission.

We finally finished repairing our fireplace. First, we got the chimney cleaned. Then, we got the flu repaired. Then, we got inch-thick cracks sealed with high-temperature cement. Finally, we cemented over the ash capture box at the bottom of the fireplace. All of this in an attempt to keep our family room from being so freaking cold all of the time. We were losing heat through the fireplace like we had a hole in our wall. February's in Michigan are not fun with a draft.

I'm liking the new ranks that 1up has, though I'm amazed that the release is still buggy. That seems inevitable. I think Thumpp needs more QA testers to find these bugs. My custom rank came from a time in band rehearsal. I rolled my bass guitar backwards up my body, and noticed that the strap was now wrapped around the instrument. Hence, it was a mummy. My guitar player has never let me forget that; he finds it hilarious. Weirdo.

That is all.