The worst part of work lately is that this season is usually one of our less busy seasons. They tried to take a day off of our work week to bank the payroll money, and they plan on taking TWO days off of the work week when we get back in January. They say we can file for partial unemployment, getting a minor cut in pay but overall keeping the same salary. Problem is, though, any kind of unemployment can take forever to clear. Gotta love little companies, though, right? Nice and cheap.
Bunny and I have been going to the movies a bit more. We saw Avatar [not in 3-D] and Sherlock Holmes most recently, both of which were great. They are definitely going to be added to our DVD collection in time. I also borrowed District 9 from my parents, who rented it and it was okay. I had no idea that the movie was documentary-ish and that really killed it for me a bit. Overall, though, great movie with some cool alien technology.
Then, of course with video games, I am always happy. Darksiders comes out in January, Batman Arkham Asylum 2 and The Force Unleashed 2 were announced. I'm curious about the Avatar game, but I get the feeling the movie was so graphically amazing, no game can really live up to it. I hear there's talk about another Pokemon game and the other day I found myself wondering if this new edition will be the first version to hit the Wii, as well as the DS. Then, there's a new Zelda out that has the same graphic quality as the last one, Phantom Hourglass.
Currently, I'm working on getting farther through Puzzle Quest for the DS. I played the game when I first bought it, but a friend of mine had been borrowing it since then. I didn't even realize how litte I had made it through until the past few days where I continue to play and I continue to discover more and more content. After this, I'm going to try to make my way through all of PH because I never beat it. Then probably finish off Chinatown Wars, as I was pretty far into that game, too.
Where the 360 is concerned, I've been jumping around from game to game with. The other day, I started another game of Arkham Asylum, intent on going through the motions again. I've already beaten Bane and decided I had had enough by the time you have to find the Arkham Batcave. Still a great idea, by the way. Then last month, I started playing Saints Row 2 over again because when I had beaten the game, it had been with cheats [really only cheats to get planes and whatnot] and I've already defeated one 2 of the gangs. Now, working on the Sons of Samedi, then the Ultor Corporation and I'll have beaten the game twice! Then, of course, there's masses of SD vs R 2010 in between everything, getting ready to do another season of Road 2 Glory, once Wrestlemania comes around in April.
That's something I'm looking forward to again. I had a lot of fun with it, I just didn't like the direction I had put myself in. Trial and error are my keys at this point, so I'm planning on running with the project much closer this time around. Plus, 2010 is a great game. Gotta love it.
Even Bunny's been more in touch with her inner gamer. She's been playing NEW Super Mario Bros. Wii with me, and the other day last week we played some of Mario Party 8 with a friend who stopped over late one night.
Speaking of Bunny, though, she's gotten me sick! That rotten little rabbit has been coughing up a storm for 2 weeks and last night, I started feeling the same kind of scratchy throat she had. This morning, I felt like total crap. Lovely, sick on my week off. I don't work again til the 5th and it looks like I'll be coughing most of the time. Of course, it's not Bunny's fault, but that's no reason not to pick on the darling!
