Incessant Expressions

So my first week of working at home has produced a lot of free time and for me, that means toys! To start off, I bought Custom Robo Arena and Super Princess Peach for the Nintendo DS, Super Paper Mario (totally awesome) and Mario Party 8 for the Nintendo Wii, Forza Motorsport 2 for the Xbox 360, and finally a shiny new Nikon D40x digital SLR! Ok so technically Peach and the camera are for my girlfriend Jessica but I’ll definitely be putting the camera to use for concert photography since we can finally do lowlight reliably.

Custom Robo Arena is extremely awesome. It’s basically a very crappy RPG with “roll your own Gundam” mixed in since you can mostly build your own battle robot and kick some ass. I’m roughly 75% done with the game and if you like robot battle games, you should pick it up for sure. Super Paper Mario is awesome in its own cartoony/kiddy right. I love the fact that they’ve taken the dull 2D aspect of old platform games and added a comical (as in comic art, not the cheesy jokes) 3D platform fun machine. Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door was pretty fun from what I hear and this builds on that great franchise. Mario Party 8 is just what you expect: lots of fun and entertaining mini-games built on the successful Mario Party platform. Some of the motion controls for the Wii feel a bit tacked on — and very kludgy — at times but they add a new element to the game as well. For you racing fans, Forza 2 is simply amazing. I plowed through the first game on my Xbox and could not wait to get this one, especially since Jessica bought me the Microsoft Wireless Racing Wheel for Christmas! I’ve waited six long months to test out this bad boy properly and let me tell you, it’s pretty freakin’ awesome! I’m only about 15% through the game but this time the learning curve is not as high as the first game.

I also purchased a new Dell 2007FPW widescreen 20.1″ flat screen monitor to compliment my other one just like it. These monitors are amazing and now I have to figure out how to fit 2 17″ LCDs and 2 20.1″ widescreen LCDs on my tiny desk for work. I also got a new XFX Nvidia 7600GT dual-link capable AGP video card and 2GB of Corsair XMS DDR400 for my old computer so I can finally play City of Villains again and rip CDs properly. I can’t wait to hook it all up and use my old PC again, I miss it terribly. But now it’s going to serve as a dedicated gaming/CD ripping station since I can do everything else on my work PC.

All in all, the week was pretty awesome except for the utter boredom of working at home. I’ve ripped a lot of CDs into iTunes and listened to well over half of them already, and I ripped about 70 CDs in two days. I’ll try and post more this week because I spent almost all of last week trying to get acclimated to working at home and getting used to being at home all day.

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