March 9, 2013

A good chunk of my day was spent watching YouTube videos and messing around on the internet. I also managed to get in a bit of Battlefield 3. The new DLC is coming out this week and I wanted to see if I could remember the controls. I ran into hiccup when I had to type in the code to renew my Xbox Live membership. The code entering went fine but when I logged into Battlefield 3 it acted like I have never played the game before, popping up with all the DLC announcements and unlocks. Then when I jumped in a jet, the controls were all screwed up. I'm not good at killing in jets but I can fly one when the controls are right. But I forgot what my button layout was. It was something weird but I tried a few different combinations and nothing was feeling right. I'll have to mess around with it some more later. Tomorrow I kind of want to try Halo 4 again. I haven't played that game since the first week I think. If I remember right it came out a week before Black Ops 2 and after Black Ops 2 came out I kind of forgot all about Halo 4, even though I really liked it. We'll see if I get around to that.

At work tonight I finished watching Grosse Pointe Blank and it made me remember why I bought it in the first place. I was also really liking the soundtrack. Then I watched Rolling Kansas, which is also a really good movie. I was going to work on my blanket but I forgot the yarn I needed so I spent the rest of my night reading Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver. I've passed the halfway point and have about two hundred pages left. I am liking it so far. It is kind of like Groundhog's Day but with a teenage girl who dies at the beginning of the book and then relives the day of her death over and over again. A fairly interesting premise and I have been pleasantly surprised at how the author has been able to tweak each day as it is relived. I like the book even though I am constantly reminded that the main character is kind of an awful person a lot of the time. I am interested to see if she will get to redeem herself.