January 20, 2014

I stayed away from Battlefield 4 today. Not necessarily on purpose, I just never got around to it. And I kind of wanted to take a break. My right pointer finger is really feeling it, especially after I switched to DMRs because they are single-shot guns so I've been spamming the button a lot. I'm happy that the game turned out good (for me at least) on PC because I wouldn't have been able to play it nearly as much if I got it on Xbox and had to play with a controller. The mouse and keyboard are much friendlier to my fingers, wrists, and arms.

I did play a bit of Cook, Serve, Delicious. I'm still only a one-star restaurant but I bought some new food, a frier, a trash service to cut my trash duties in half, and had a few good perfect streaks when it came to serving the food. I'm still in the honeymoon period of the game and I'll probably lose interest soon enough but I'm enjoying it at the moment.

I finally got around to boxing up the two pairs of headphones I didn't choose out of my recent testing. One was bought through an Amazon seller so I have to wait to here from them to get a return label, but the other is all packed up and I can drop it at UPS tomorrow. Hopefully I hear from the other sell soon. Yesterday I had to email a website I ordered some prints through before Christmas and they payment showed up on my bank statement, but my account on the site says payment hasn't been received yet. They received it almost instantly but even if I had mailed the payment it would have gotten their by now. I want that to get resolved so I don't have to go through a whole big thing but also because I really want those prints.

I returned my rented DVDs tonight so I got out of the house once today. I didn't have anything else that needed doing out and about but it was a nice drive across town. The students are back in town so traffic is heavier and that is unfortunate, but the hot college girls kind of make up for it. Not really though. I would much rather not have to deal with traffic and be able to find decent parking spots than occasionally see a hot girl walking around.

I watched two movie today. The first was R.I.P.D. and I liked it. If I remember right it bombed pretty hard but I'm not sure why. It was pretty much Men In Black with dead people instead of aliens, so it had that going for it, but maybe people forgot they liked Men In Black. It was also leaps and bounds better than Green Lantern. That movie was awful and maybe people still had a bad Ryan Reynolds taste in their mouth. Who knows. I liked it though, and I'd watch it again.

The second movie was About Time because I have wanted to see it since I saw the first trailer for it on TV. I'm glad I didn't go see it in theaters. It was such a good movie, easily on track to make my top five because I was completely into the funny awkwardness of it. And then Bill Nighy. He is great and unfortunately he reminds me a lot of my grandpa. So that whole part of the movie was fucking terrible. It did make the movie better, I guess, but I was hoping they would go for the less said route of the uncle. I was worried for a bit it was going to be the sister but that was just a bit of misdirection. Then there was a glimmer of hope until they decided to have a third kid. If it had been me, I would have said no. Without hesitation. Two is enough anyway. It was neat that he could go back and have closure and end things in the best way possible but screw that. They should have stuck with two kids. So, the last bit of the movie was all pretty much downhill for me. It did have a nice, heartwarming ending, but they couldn't really recover from Bill Nighy. I was crying during the movie and then it took me a good ten minutes to stop crying after the movie. Leaving me slightly dehydrated with red, dry eyes, a slight headache, and now I'm going to have to go to bed with a still partially stuffed nose. Right now I'm just avoiding the whole thing in my mind because I can still feel it just below the surface and I don't need the flood gates to open again. I watched Gangnam Style when I calmed down a bit and the happy dude in the elevator made me laugh, which helped. I just want to fall asleep and wake up with these feelings a bit further in my past.