Weekend Report...
May. 17th, 2004 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWell, it was a Yamaarashi-chan weekend and the University Street Fair was going on and you know what? Omaha and I wimped out and decided to stay home. We didn't go to the fair, we didn't go to our monthly social Saturday afternoon, we didn't go anywhere. Part of that may simply be because we're broke. We looked at the weather report for the weekend and decided that we were gonna coocoon. We had stuff to do at home, paperwork, accounting, and the like. It was fairly sedate. We kept the kids fed but there were a few times I offered to engage them in games they said they'd rather play with each other.
FallenPegasus wandered over Saturday evening to share our quiet weekend, watching a movie downstairs in the den. I'm not much of a movie watcher so I fixed my Windows box instead. I was very good this time: I wiped the hard drive completely clean (it's sad that there's no way to do that from within Windows) and re-installed Windows 98 from scratch. This time, I let everything run its course, re-booted after every install, and it worked fine. I now have a GameOS'98 install, on top of which I dropped a copy of Tron 2.0, which is pretty good as games go. A first-person shooter full of references to the original movie and an obvious application of FPS technology: we've spent so much time making them realistic when Tron, with its colorful computer world, was a perfect match for the tech. I've only had it crash once, probably a game bug.
I did the usual things, naturally. Lots of chores to get caught up, gave the kids their bath Friday and Sunday (well, Sunday was Kouryou-chan only as I'd taken Yamaarashi-chan back to her mother's), let them try out their new toothpaste, Tom's of Maine, Orange-Mango flavored and they like it. Omaha made these amazing enchiladas from the Cooking for Kids book, although to an adult they desperately needed some hot sauce. Fortunately, I had some Racha. Kouryou-chan wet her bed Friday night so I had to use the upholstery cleaner on it. We bought a new composting bin since one of the neighborhood kids playing in our back yard shattered the lid on our older one, and the city was having its annual gardening sale, ten bucks for a bin.
Since the only "nice weather" day was slated to be Friday, after I got home with the girls I tried to get them to practice on their bicycles. Kouryou-chan isn't afraid of the thing so she started riding almost immediately. Yamaarashi-chan, in contrast, didn't understand why anyone would want to ride a bicycle. "Isn't that what cars do?"
Well, we'll work on that.
FallenPegasus wandered over Saturday evening to share our quiet weekend, watching a movie downstairs in the den. I'm not much of a movie watcher so I fixed my Windows box instead. I was very good this time: I wiped the hard drive completely clean (it's sad that there's no way to do that from within Windows) and re-installed Windows 98 from scratch. This time, I let everything run its course, re-booted after every install, and it worked fine. I now have a GameOS'98 install, on top of which I dropped a copy of Tron 2.0, which is pretty good as games go. A first-person shooter full of references to the original movie and an obvious application of FPS technology: we've spent so much time making them realistic when Tron, with its colorful computer world, was a perfect match for the tech. I've only had it crash once, probably a game bug.
I did the usual things, naturally. Lots of chores to get caught up, gave the kids their bath Friday and Sunday (well, Sunday was Kouryou-chan only as I'd taken Yamaarashi-chan back to her mother's), let them try out their new toothpaste, Tom's of Maine, Orange-Mango flavored and they like it. Omaha made these amazing enchiladas from the Cooking for Kids book, although to an adult they desperately needed some hot sauce. Fortunately, I had some Racha. Kouryou-chan wet her bed Friday night so I had to use the upholstery cleaner on it. We bought a new composting bin since one of the neighborhood kids playing in our back yard shattered the lid on our older one, and the city was having its annual gardening sale, ten bucks for a bin.
Since the only "nice weather" day was slated to be Friday, after I got home with the girls I tried to get them to practice on their bicycles. Kouryou-chan isn't afraid of the thing so she started riding almost immediately. Yamaarashi-chan, in contrast, didn't understand why anyone would want to ride a bicycle. "Isn't that what cars do?"
Well, we'll work on that.
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Re: Halotron
Date: 2004-05-17 09:12 am (UTC)The nostalgia point is strong: you wind up in an old Tron arcade box at one point, Bruce Boxleitner replays his old role, the music is riffed from the movie, and the visuals are spot-on. You even have an annoying companion: "Oh, please. I am much more intelligent that a bit. I am a BYTE!" You have a babe assistant, Mercury-- the female programs are, um, shapely. The light cycle competition is very well-done. And you have two opponents: the Corruption, an invasive resource-hogging, drive-fragging virus, and the Kernel, a security subsystem that believes you to be part of the corruption.
I've been enjoying it. And yeah, Halo will eat your brain.