Emptyeye

Yeah. Just wanted to say that I haven’t completely disappeared, although this will likely be the last post until at least Monday as I finally move into the apartment this weekend, and Jess and I will be without Internet access until Monday at the earliest. This may not be the worst thing that can happen; I have several games I haven’t even started playing yet, including one or two going back to Christmas of 2006.

Also, packing is hard. Right now I’m putting off packing up some of my clothes and the like, which I’ll move during lunch tomorrow. Then over the weekend, the real fun starts, as we get to move things like our bed and living room set and the like without the aid of a UHaul thanks to my being an idiot a communication breakdown between multiple parties.

A short edition this week, as I’ve been busy packing up for the big move.

• Speaking of said move, I’ve really got to get on renting a truck to transport our living room set. This is due to a miscommunication between Jess and my dad. Basically, Dad claims he said approximately “If you can’t find anything else, as a last resort, Marc’s uncle has a pickup truck”, whereas Jess claimed it was simply “Marc’s uncle has a pickup truck, so don’t worry about it.” As it happens, regardless or who misheard or misspoke, said uncle is away until Sunday anyway, and we’re going to try and move everything in Saturday. Perhaps you see the problem here (The set, while not technically an essential item [Really, I'd say the only true "essentials" are a bed and some shower stuff], would definitely be nice to move in Saturday).
• Also, packing is hard. I’m at the stage now where I don’t have that much of any one type of item (Example: PC games), so I’m throwing two and three types into a box to make the box’s storage space worth it (Example: This latest box is “PC/PS1/Game Boy Games”). Woo.
• I should really update my DDRecall page with my stats from Sunday. Eh.
• Thus far, Wizardry III hasn’t found any fun new ways of wiping out my entire party (Also, upon further investigation thanks to the Magic of Save States, the rock trap isn’t a teleporter, but rather simply a square that contains rocks that the game allows you to walk into…but of course, not out of. Note that while functionally it’s the same as teleporting into rock, I find the semantic difference fascinating). Indeed, I think I’ve found an unlimited healing item (Providing the character isn’t deceased or worse, that is). Wizardry…showing mercy? It’s not quite a totally foreign concept–Wizardry II had a similar item–but I’m at once grateful and a bit disappointed for the help.
• Finally, before I head to bed, here’s Chris “Not Brian Drummond ” Sabat doing his Vegeta voice. What makes it funny is what he’s saying (Which is “Momma Said Knock You Out” by L.L. Cool J). The best part: “Listen to the bass…go BOOOOOM!! Explosion!….unh.”

That’s not exactly the point of this post, by which I mean it’s really not the point of the post at all. But anyway, one of my job functions is taking various bank forms and loading them into the program of use at my workplace so that loan officers and such can print them out as necessary. One form in particular was interesting, as it discussed various forms that needed to be included with a package so that a loan can be transfered to someone else. The reason this particular form caught my eye was because practically every word on it was capitalized, except for one–”borrower”.

The full phrase was approximately “Good-Bye Form For borrower” or something like that. I don’t know if it was just a typo on the original form or what, but the subtext I took away from it was essentially “The customer is nothing, the forms are law.”

Just an observation. And with that, I’m off to find out what delightful ways Wizardry III to find to kill my entire party that I haven’t seen before (Though it’s gonna be tough to top the teleporter-into-rock, I must say.).

This past week, my main activity was signing the lease for my new apartment. Hooray for that. I’m pretty excited about it, and I’m slowly packing up non-essential smaller stuff to move little by little throughout the week since it’s right by my workplace. I have to admit that I’m also nervous about it. Not that I won’t be able to adjust to independence, mind you–I should be okay there, and I have enough saved up money-wise that we’ll be okay short-term even in the worst of scenarios. Rather, I’m a bit scared that Jess and I will move in together and discover we can’t actually stand being around each other every day. But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it, I guess.

Other than that, I haven’t done much this week. Once I get all settled in with the apartment and such, work on the album will finally continue. That will be a good thing for sure; I must admit to being lazy on that front of late.

And I’m still playing through Wizardry III. Just earlier today I found a particularly nasty trap that insta-kills your entire party. I was pretty sure it was a trap, but stupidly walked into it anyway out of curiosity, wondering what would rhyme with “clock” that would hurt. I wasn’t expecting “rock” (As in “You teleported into…”) to be the rhyme completer, though. Still, at least it only killed my party (In case I haven’t beaten it over all your heads enough, the fact that I am thanking the game for not doing something worse than killing my entire party–and yes, worse fates exist–should really hammer home how brutally sadistic the game is), and it was kind enough to ship their dead bodies back to the castle for me too!

Until next week…

-EE