Well - I haven’t posted much since school started on the second. Things are good two weeks in, you know, considering classes last week were canceled Wednesday through Friday. . .
Someone hates Iowa. We’ve had a record tornado season already, followed by record flooding. Down town Waterloo and Cedar Falls are WRECKED. Cedar Rapids is going through it now - things are just not good in that department. You can check out some pictures here.
My preorder of Metal Gear Solid 4 royally screwed me over. It should have been here Friday, but I think between flooded roads and the detour on I-380 I’ll be lucky if it gets here Monday. So much for over-night shipping.
My weekend was going to consist of dominating the game by today, writing a review tonight, doing something socially entertaining later tonight, and rechecking my homework tomorrow. So much for that. At least the homework part is getting done.
One highlight to this weekend? Ace Enders (of former The Early November fame) released a free album online via Fuse. Checking it out now, half way in - and I like it. You can get the album (streamed or song by song) here.
personal
flood, games, homework, tunes
- LucasJ.Net has a new look. Not much done with it because it’s really not in use currently. Also - Postblink has a new look which you probably know unless you’re viewing this from my facebook feed. I’ve also cleaned up all the plugins - updated & deleted ones I’m not using. Apparently Akismet’s been working over time. It’s caught 46,245 spam comments. Time to delete that mess.
- Death Cab for Cutie has a new album coming out May 13TH. If you’ve viewed my Last.FM page lately, you’ll see that I’ve been listening to A LOT of Death Cab for the past week or so. I’m really looking forward to this new album - I’m not even going to download any leaks or buy on itunes for this one. CD quality for the win.
- The new Jack’s Mannequin album has unfortunately been delayed. Bummer. Speaking of which. . . Warped 08 anyone? Some decent bands this year. (Supposedly it’ll be even better in 2009 though, if you’ve read the Kevin Lyman AP Chat are interested in the possiblities mentioned.)
- I’ve finished skate. for the PS3. I liked the game a lot, even as hard as it was to get past the occasional frame rate drops. Supposedly you don’t see them on the 360 version though. (Come on devs! Write for the stronger system and then port…)
- As long as we’re going over games. . . I’ve finished Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction and Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune as well. Not quite done with Devil May Cry 4 but getting close. May put up some reviews on those, I haven’t really been disappointed with any of the games I’ve got for the PS3 yet. I also finally sorted out my preorders for Grand Theft Auto 4 and Metal Gear Solid 4. Time to concentrate on school for a while before those get here, obviously.
- And tomorrow it’s time to do some spring cleaning. On that note, I’ve gotta hit the sack.
gaming, music, technology
games, PS3, Warped