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So during my Ratchet & Clank marathon, I've realized that I abandoned this game part-way through when I bought it ten years ago. I know this because I checked the date on my save files. And as Snee will tell you, my OCD makes sure that I play games in order, so that also means that I never played A Crack In Time or Into the Nexus. Oops! I wonder what new and shiny game came out to tempt me away from Tools of Destruction. Or maybe I got to the so frustrated I needed to stop or I was going to throw a controller phase. Who knows what was going through my mind ten years ago.

Yes, I'm alive. Busy and burned out at work and it's not even June. More about that at the end. I've been gaming more these days, so I actually have something to blog about for a change. And yes, true to form, they are all "late to the party" games that I'm sure everyone else played ages ago.

1. I rather expected more zombies and fewer TP hoarders when the apocalypse came.

It was a long winterish season up here in Maine. I say winterish because the weather never could decide what it wanted to do. One day it would be sub-zero, and the next would be in the upper 40s. It would snow, and then all the snow would melt. I don't do well with winter if there isn't any snow. It seems darker and more depressing, and all the outdoor fun stuff I like to do in the winter depends on snow. I never did get my regular snowshoes out, and the racing snowshoes got used maybe half a dozen times, three of those for the actual races.

I really need to blog more. Actually, I need to game more so I'll have more to blog about. But anyway...

Not much to report in my little corner of the world. I was supposed to buy a used XBox One from a kid who comes to the market, I even had the cash in my pocket for a week, but he never showed. When I asked him how much he wanted for it, he said $50. I think he rethought it, but I was planning on paying him $100, because I thought it was kind of a low figure and he's a nice kid. Oh, well. Jason's little brother is selling me his for $100, and I can pay him in installments instead of all at once. So yeah, there's going to be an XboxOne in my near future.

I haven't really been gaming all that much lately. I was usually too tired after getting home from work at the park, walking Beau, and making dinner, and then I started at the market and pretty much the same deal. Anyway, this is what I've played since the Ratchet & Clank reboot:

I suck at blogging these days.

Crap, it's been over three months since I last wrote anything. If it's any consolation, I lead a relatively boring life in the winter, so you really didn't miss much.

Late to the Party: As always happens after I finish a game that I've spent over 100 hours immersed in, I really hadn't been able to settle on my next game to play yet. So I booted up the 360 for the first time in months (mostly to see what was available as the current Games for Gold download), and cycled through what I had stashed on the hard drive. I frequently download the free games and then forget about them, so I went through and deleted a couple that I'd finished and knew I was never going to play again, and then decided to give Borderlands a try. And surprise! (please read in a sarcastic tone), there was an update. Oh, yay. So it did its thing, and I tried to get the game to play, and it made it as far as the Gearbox logo screen and froze my 360. OK, I'm used to the occasional freeze, usually when playing LEGO games, so I shut down the console and restarted and tried again. Same result. Hmm... Off to the internet; Yup, update breaks the game on the 360. Solution found, third time's the charm. However, I can't play the game online, which I'm mildly disappointed about. Now, I'm not normally into FPS games, but Borderlands is fun so far. I haven't made it very far into the game and I die a lot, but fun is being had. We'll see how far I get and if I continue to have fun before the whole FPS thing gets to me.