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I think I have ADD when it comes to video games. I have trouble staying with a game long enough to see it to completion. Sometimes I get frustrated or bored with a game and don’t want to play anymore. Other times a new game will come out before I’m finished with the one I’m currently working on. In either case I end up forgetting about the game I was playing, sometimes for years. So, my goal is to beat one of the games in my collection within a week. The unscored ones on the list are the ones I haven’t finished playing. We’ll see if that happens.

I’ve been hard at work over the past few days on a project for class. Procrastination sucks! Sometimes I wonder if I went into the wrong field. Maybe I should have gone into education or business. I’m starting to hate sitting in front of a computer typing all day. I think I’m already getting carpal tunnel. Oh well. The pretty pictures I get to create make me feel better…most of the time.

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“What straight black man sits there and watches the Oscars? Show me one.” — Chris Rock, this year’s Oscar Awards host.

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A couple of weeks ago I started having problems hearing in one of my ears. My ear feels stopped up and I’ve got this constant ringing. I can still hear out of it, but not very well. I’m not exactly sure what caused it. A couple of days before I had used some earplugs because I was using some noisy machinery, but I’ve done that plenty of times before. I didn’t stick the damn things in that far. After a few days of hoping it would return to normal serious I decided to go to the health center on campus. The doctor said that my eardrum was retracted and gave me some medicine to take. The medicine didn’t help at all but it might be useful the next time I have allergy problems. He had asked me to return for a follow-up, so I went in today. The doctor now wants me to go see an ear, nose, and throat specialist. So on Thursday I’ll be going to Tupelo to see this specialist. Hopefully, I’ll be getting some good news. Maybe I’m just paranoid and worried for nothing. I guess we’ll see.

Looks like the site is back up. The credit card that I used to pay for the hosting space recently expired. I never got around to giving my new hosting company new credit card information even though they sent me an email about it. Doh!

Earlier this week I finished playing my newest game, The Punisher. It was a really fun game, but it doesn’t take a lot to entertain me. In terms of graphics and gameplay, I’m sure there are plenty of third person shooters out there that are better (like Max Payne), but that doesn’t mean that this one can’t be fun. I think one of the big selling points of this game is the goriness. Even at the end it was still shocking to see some of the things you could do to the bad guys.

I really enjoyed all the cameos and references to other Marvel characters that show up throughout the game. I guess I shouldn’t spoil it anymore than that. Slaughter Mode is an interesting take on on bullet time. I didn’t use it much, but it came in handy at times. Like X-Men Legends they hinted at the end that there would be more to come. Overall, it’s a good game that’s at least worthy of a rental. I’ll probably go back and play it on a higher difficulty one of these days.

It’s not really surprising at this point, but UPN has now officially cancelled Star Trek: Enterprise. Too bad.