Ok, so I'm like a little kid. Except I have expendable income. FFXII came out Halloween. I made a beeline to Game stop on the way home from work (it's about a block and a half from the apartment) get in line hoping it's not sold out. I'm not the only person in there. The guy at the counter asks if anyone doesn't have a preorder ticket. I didn't he looked and says, "Well you can't by the regular FFXII... We only have spare Collectors editions in stock.. "It's... (some amount I wasn't paying attention too because I was already handing him my card) more." A week, or maybe two later Guitar Hero II Came out. I had been in Best Buy the weekend before getting my mom a cd player for her car. It was her birthday. Bryan 'borrowed' her car and we had it installed. Good times. Anyway, they had the demo version out, we rocked out a bit, it was fun. I got home from the gym the day it was released and TJ was going to best buy.. (which is also, a block and a half or so from the apartment) Now, going into best buy has always been an expensive venture for me. If I get out with just a CD or DVD it's a successfully cheap trip. I had talked myself out of going to get guitar hero two. I didn't even have as much time as I wanted to devote to FFXII I didn't need a second game.... TJ was getting whatever, I forget, and I sat and played some STP, and yeah I walked out with Guitar Hero II.

Both games are definitely worth it. FFXII made some fairly major changes to the combat system, but after playing through the first handful of major battles the important stuff really isn't all that different, and when you're in the thick of something major has much the same feel to it anyway. The other thing that changes from game to game, the class change/power learning system is kind of an offshoot of the grid layout from FFX, but everyone starts in basically the same initial place and you can advance them how you like from there, at least from what I've seen thus far, there may be characters further down the road that're different.

Guitar Hero II is much the same, and the changes are all for the better. Plus from what I saw in the store two player mode is a lot more fun.


My body hates me right now. I got out of work early last Monday, and having nothing to do decided to try and get back into working out again. The Gym is a block from my house, there were no excuses why I shouldn't be going regularly. After working out on monday I weighed myself on the scale, and topped out higher than I've ever done, that was a little depressing. I went Monday through Thursday and took the weekend off.. (ok so I told my self at some point that I was going to go each day that weekend, and then at least one day that weekend, yeah I didn't go at all) Still I got home from work and went again Monday and all was well. Tj came with, we did a chest workout. I was tired after, and disappointed in how weak I was, but otherwise not too bad. Did mostly running/abs the next day then yesterday I got a text on the way home TJ was on the train behind me and was going to do a leg workout. Legs are a pretty easy group to skip usually but going with someone is good and so I tagged a long and did the workout with him and his buddy Ryan. I had dreams last night that I was back in double sessions for football. Seriously ow..

In high school we did weight tests during the season to track improvement and such. One was the squat test, seeing how many times you could squat 250 rep it on bench and so forth. I was never that great in the weight room, but I did somewhere in the neighborhood of 25 or so on the squat test, and then went and ran the quarter mile shortly after. Last night we did a 12,10,8,6,12 set, at no where near the weight, with breaks in the middle and my legs almost gave out on me walking down the stairs. My high school self is simultaneously laughing at and weeping for his nearly 25 year old counterpart. Oh well, nothing comes easily.


I got a development project to start on at work now. I rarely had new applications to develop with Risc it was just maintaining/updating existing stuff. It's a pretty big part of the system integration that the company is working on now too so it's pretty cool. I gotta finish reports and such and go home/force myself back to the gym so it'll have to wait.