Category: Travel. Time travel, that is.

I hope someone ends up reading these lines, written in a ragged, soiled loincloth.

It's been 3 days now. Unable to communicate. Impaired. My cable company crapped out on me and I'm cable-less and internet-less since forever. My beard hosts strange parasitic creatures, as I try to scrape some nourishment off from trashbags. Yesterday I let a couple of Jehova's Witnesses in to my house, just to have someone to talk to. After a while, they mumbled some weird excuses about being late to a party and took off. I asked them if they would return on monday, but they wouldn't answer. Perhaps my overgrown toenails freaked them out.

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The flipside of having no internet (there is actually something good) is that it is easier to focus on games. Finally got hooked to Viva Pinata and it's PIMP. With a capitol, bling P. Raised about 21 or 22 levels throughout the weekend, and I just got the big garden. It's a shame this got marketed as a kid game. It's complex but highly rewarding.

Rented PunchOut!! I'm getting my ass kicked!! Lol. It's a good dose of nostalgia hidden inside a swift kick in the balls. Some of these guys are harder than I remember. I'm still stuck with Super Macho Man, my W/L ratio is laughable and I don't even reach title defense mode yet. I wonder if I ever will. Motion controls are horrible, though.

Got Prince of Persia and PGR4 as Father's Day presents. w00t. Tinkered around just a bit with both between VP mammoth sessions. PoP is actually GOOD. I was very surprised. PGR4 is...just like PGR3...and 2...and 1. Crap. I wonder if a wheel would make these games any better or more fun.

Watched 300 and Guy Ritchie's RockNRolla. Good stuff, although the latter falls short from the magnificence of Lock, Stock...

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Because it's father's day! And... I'm a father, y'know? So...I want...presents and...stuff. Ok, you are spared this year, but next time I want a golden chariot pulled by alligator turtles with custom flames paintjobs on their shells. That way I canlet the unwashed masses gaze at me in awe.

This month has been really slow for gaming. In terms of finished games, at least. The Uncharted 2 beta is too awesome to stop, and even though I've played it extensively, I'm not burned out on it. Too bad it's going to take a while to get the full game. Thanks a million, you know who.

Perhaps this weekend I'll go back to Valkyria Chronicles and The Lost and Damned. Maybe I'll finally try Viva Pinata! I always wanted to be a gardener in my nonexistant free time. Which is something complicated because I have no garden, nor space for one. Maybe that was for the best. Once I had a small cactus on my office, but it died. How can a cactus die? Those things spawn on the desert, FFS. The. Desert. Maybe I have lots of negative energy oozing through me, affecting every living being around me.

May is the hottest month of the year around these shores. And I don't mean "hottest" as in "OMG teh hawt" like one could say when seeing GodMode walking down the streets in hisred high heels and top tank. No, I mean hottest as in "I am Satan, puny mortal, and I'm going to scorch you until your balls pop out!".

At the moment of writing this, we are at 31°C (88°F)which feels like 36°C (97°F). At 7 pm in the evening. At noon you could feel sweat running down your asscrack like a river.

Besides the unbelievable heat, things are going a-OK. Finally got to buy some games for my unused PS2 (recent buy), including MGS3, SoTC, ICO and Rogue Galaxy. First things first, which means MGS3.

Edit: WTF am I doing with Condemned in my "Now Playing"? I hated it!