Lots of stuffSo, lots of stuff has been happening lately. I'll try to sum it up:-Work is going well. I've gotten settled in, and there's plenty of work to do. My manager decided that I should be in charge of our current software release, which has been interesting at times. But since we're not supposed to do the actual release ourselves (for audit purposes), managing a release consists mainly of writing up some instructions and listening to someone else follow them. Not too hard. -We finally caved in and bought an XBox 360, which will probably be our Christmas presents to each other, and possibly birthday presents as well (we've spent over $500 so far, and we still want a couple more games and 2 Live Gold accounts). Now we're both addicted to Fable 2, but that's okay because it's a really great game. Seriously. We used to have some problems with it freezing during play, but installing it on the hard drive seems to have fixed that. We really want Left 4 Dead too... we played a demo and it is awesome. And it's very re-playable, since the location of weapons and zombies are randomized each time you play. -We just got back from Texas, where we spent Thanksgiving with Charleen's family. That was a lot of fun. But we needed to bring a bunch of stuff for people down there, plus we were trying to save money, which meant that we needed to drive there. We've driven there from Champaign before (a ~13 hour drive), and that was bad enough, but this time we drove from Naperville and brought our dogs with us. On the way down we left at 6am and didn't arrive until midnight (18 hours for those of you who hate math). On the way back we left around 6am again, made fewer stops, and managed to get here by 11pm. I don't want to do that ever again, but I'm sure this won't be the last time. But I am thankful for 3 things: (1) our dogs were very well behaved, and didn't really cause us any problems during the trip; (2) gas prices are really really low; and (3) our car gets about 40mpg when we're driving on the highway. It's about 1000mi, and we only had to stop for gas twice each way. -We've decided that we hate Arkansas. Our route took us diagonally through that state, and it felt like we were in that state forever. -I still spend hardly any time on the internet - even email only gets checked every once in a while. I probably will be on XBL a fair amount though, especially once we get Left 4 Dead, and if my wife has her way, Phantasy Star Online. -We're always open to new games, and we're a few years behind the times - what games would you recommend? |
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