An extra minute of Pokemon Alpha Sapphire/Omega Ruby footage.
Dammit Nintendo! Why you no give me more gameplay?
You're hard to love Ninty, but harder to hate.

Now I'm envious. I don't know how you felt in that storm on a boat, but I could sure use a little adventure. Here it's office and screen and in the evening getting the kids to bed routine all the time.

Most of its ends up in my stomach. That island is blessed by the Gods, and produces what on earth is closest to [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrosia]Olympian Nectar.

Weeeeeee.

Go for "Vin Doux". With some fruit. Preferably melon, though apples and pears will also do.

I think the wife and I have finally (80%) reached a decision on what to do for our home property in the future. Was considering building a new home some 30 miles from our place - even bought the land - but there are some significant location-based reasons for staying where we are now as we grow older. Family, proximity to medical stuff and shopping, transportation possibilities if we can no longer drive, that sort of thing. And then we were up in the air about trying to buy the neighbor's empty in-town lot so I would have room to build an on-site shop for my business stuff.

It looks like cooler heads have prevailed and we're now looking to make upgrades to our existing home and garage on our small lot. That'll save the money of buying that other lot, we'd be spending money on the place anyway in preparation to sell it, I'd have to update all of my customers with the new contact info, and a bunch of other factors that seem to point toward staying-put as the smart thing to do.

With a few compromises here and there I think we can accomplish the big goals of giving me the necessary working and storage space, giving the house a major energy-reduction retrofit, and also making it suitable for handicap accessibility should the need arise in the future. Just gotta come up with the money and some plans. Won't be easy since this house was built in 1922, but anything is doable.

well it has taken almost 3 weeks but I finally managed to change a light bulb

I have traded 8 games by the classifieds.. :)

I found and had a beef cup noodle, I know that may not sound much but it meant all the world to me. I pretty much had my hours cut at work, and even with my pay increase I make less money than than I had before, then my computer decided to BSoD on me due to an annoying driver (or software) error I can't seem to locate, and a slew of other really tedious (not computer related) things just kept hounding me and hounding me. In a depressed state I walked into my kitchen looking for something to eat since I had not really eaten that day. I open my cupboard and on the shelf sitting there was a single solitary Nissin Beef Cup-Noodle and a smile cracked on my face. I put it in the microwave grabbed a cold drink, went and sat crosslegged on my deck watching the sun on the horizon, and ate, it was absolutely wonderful. It was then I realized no matter how dark things may seem there is always something precious (no matter how small) there.

It kind of reminded me of the old story of the man, the tiger and the strawberry. Once there was a man being chased by a tiger, he runs, and runs and runs. Without seeing it coming he goes over a cliff, quickly snagging onto a root protruding from the side he clings for dear life. He looks up to see the tiger looking down at him, then he looks down to see another tiger looking up at him. He looks at the side of the cliff only to notice a strawberry busy in arms reach with a single solitary strawberry growing and glistening in the sun. He takes the strawberry and eats it. It is at that moment he smiles because it was the most delicious strawberry that he had ever tasted.

That cup noodle, as silly as it may seem was a strawberry moment.

That Smash Bros. won't be ruined by way of forcing the Skylanders toy stuff on you.

One of the reasons I like to come to GoG is because it is not filled with Americans obsessed by their own self-importance. Today, one of our political leaders got the boot by the voters and at least 1/3 of the country is reacting in complete glee at his downfall. The man's politics were not my politics but coming to this thread reminded me that its possible to find happiness in something other than the suffering of one's fellow human beings.

Wow! At my work, someone had left a bunch of old PS2 and PC games, and some DVD movies, on the coffee table, with a note "Please help yourself, for free.".

There were some I either have already, or was not really interested (some boxing game for PS2? No thanks.), but I decided to take the following (PC) games from the pile:

Peter Jackson's King Kong
The Battle for Middle-Earth
The Battle for Middle-Earth 2 collection (including the expansion pack, The Rise of the Witch-King)

I mean, wow! At some point I was actually hunting down the latter two games, and bam, now someone just gives them away for free? I would have paid good money for them you know. In fact, if I found out who gave them away, I am still ready to offer some money for them, or at least a beer.

The King Kong game had a written note "Does not work on Windows 7". I wouldn't be surprised if that is related to the copy protection, but I'll have to google for it if it is really impossible to get it to run on Windows 7 and newer.

I have two Windows XP PCs too, but they are probably not fast enough for the game. The game appears to be made in 2005 according to Mobygames. Maybe it contains some kind of stringent Starforce or SecuROM crap that makes it fail on newer Windowses. It might be I just don't have a suitable PC for it (ie. fast enough, yet still running Windows XP).

EDIT: Well, ok, as I suspected:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Jackson%27s_King_Kong_%28video_game%29#Technical_issues It says the digital version below is DRM-free though, so I presume this works in Windows 7:

http://www.gamersgate.com/DD-KK/peter-jacksons-king-kong-the-official-game-of-the-movie

Oh well, at least I didn't pay money for this retail version... It is an "Ubisoft eXclusive" budget re-release, but I guess it has the same Starforce copy protection. Maybe it is possible to strip the copy protection away, and make it work that way...

The story told by Kahn Souphanousinphone :)

The best memory I have was a "strawberry moment". Those moments are so strange, but so perfect and satisfying.
I'm glad you found that beef cup noodle :)

What made me happy today was seeing my physician. As always, she was incredibly helpful, caring, and cheerful. More so than just about anyone I've ever met. It's impossible not to smile when I see her.

Happy - buying tv tuner card
Sad - very poor freaking pisspoor reception :(

Way back in, um, 1987, my best friend and I used to play a cardstock game that came in an issue of "Dragon" magazine. He always kicked my butt. I think I won once. Couldn't remember the name, just that the setting was some kind of cavern or something, and that there counters like archers and bears, and I think it required one die.

Anyway, for the past three or four months I've been feeling rather nostalgic and have purchased quite a few issues of "Dragon" from the late 80's and early 90's. I couldn't for the life of me remember which issue the game had been in. Two more arrived yesterday and I was ecstatic to discover that I finally got my hands on the issue that had the game! It was called "Nibar's Keep." Now if only we didn't live in different states, I could try to regain my honor.

My mom and I having a heated and built up argument and then resolving it with both parties happy.

Also, this : "Silicon Valley: A Five Part Series"