NEWS:

02.09.04 - Terrence Marks:

Everything's coming up Spare Parts! We spent the weekend selling my car. Got three times as much as I expected, which is quite nice. We shipped my guitars out, which was so expensive that I pretty much have to join a band when I get out to California. I've got a Danelectro baritone guitar - I need to learn how to play it well; my goal is to learn to play rhythm well. I learned the first time listening to Syd Barrett and (early) They Might Be Giants - don't do that. It's all very straightforward. Need to listen to bands; learn to play with bands. Curent Certification Status - Final pass-through. Plan is to test on Thursday for 70-214.

02.09.04 - Terrence Marks:

Monday - FrostDemn Wednesday - Paul Stevens Friday - Sonictail Thank you all! We have another week of guest strips coming up after this. Then onto the next story!

02.13.04 - Terrence Marks:

Isabel made me heart-shaped cookies and heart-shaped french toast today...I got her Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga. Well, she thinks it's romantic and I'm not going to tell her any different. I took (and passed) Microsoft's 70-214 exam - Implementing and Administering Security in a Microsoft Windows 2000 Network. This means that I'm a Microsoft Certified System Administrator, which hopefully means something to the HR people out in California. My next cert of choice is Security+, which lets me accessorize my Microsoft letters to MCSA: Security. So that's where I'm headed. And my game of choice for the moment? Unfortunately, our PS2 is boxed up; I'm in the mood for FF7 or FF10. So I've been collecting trophies in Super Smash Bros: Melee, playing Mario & Luigi (when I can wrestle the GBA away from Isabel), and rapidly losing interest in Baldur's Gate II - I played through the original Baldur's Gate (with both Tales of the Sword Coast and Dark Side of the Sword Coast) and enjoyed it, but the BG2 mods are all too hardcore for me. I mean, I like a game with multiple endings, but there's a lot of wandering around and fighting random things and you'd have to beat about 3,000 orcs to see all the endings and do all the things. But they give all the orcs fear spells so during each fight I get to sit around for a few minutes while my party memers all run around like chickens with their heads cut off. I really don't like the whole "make the game harder" mods. I don't like time challenges or difficulty challenges or anything like that. I don't want to go through Super Mario Bros 3 without jumping or try to beat Civ 3 in under eleven minutes. It's not my thing. I want to play games because they're fun, not because they're extreme. So I want to keep playing BG2, but I want to be sure I enjoy it.