Done with PoR, now I really need Radiant Dawn.
I did an unholy video game run on Saturday, and I played through most of the last 10 stages of Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, with the exception of the last stage (which I played Sunday afternoon). Aside from a couple hours where I transitioned from sleep to consciousness, ate meals, used the restroom and showered, I spent all my awake time playing Fire Emblem… and I was awake for 3+ more than I’d usually be on a Saturday. I finally beat the game… but I am unsatisfied. The final battle was anti-climatic, the game leaves lots of questions open, and even though I tried to get level A support conversations with as many male/female pairs as possible, nobody had an ending where they got married! In fact, the support conversations had zero effect on the ending. (I know because I read all of them, even the ones I didn’t get, on GameFAQs.) But after thinking about it a bit and doing some reading on Wikipedia, I realized all this was simply a preparation for the Wii sequel, Radiant Fire. Now I really, really, really want to play Radiant Dawn, but I think I need a little break from Fire Emblem.
As you can tell, my life hasn’t been particularly exciting. I’m still blowing off wedding-related stuff, which is kind-of not good, but whatever. I can’t think of anything to talk about today, so I’ll just put a few random pictures up:
Geoff, Rodney, and Kelvin enjoying our “new” couch, called the “Wolly” at the worst-furniture-store-ever Black Sea Gallery (but in actuality is Stanton International’s model 490), on a movie night. We watched The Protector, which was awesome. Unfortunately, we accidentally watched the international version, which has an extra half-hour of plot (not-so-awesome). We also watched 2046, which is not as awesome as The Protector.
Heh heh, Fry’s sells bras.
Daffodils from Daffodil Days this year. They weren’t as fresh this year,
so they didn’t last as long, but they were still pretty.
Squirrels are, indeed, the ninjas of the animal kingdom.
New thing I learned today: Black Water Rafting is a cave adventure offered in New Zealand, where you climb and tube through underground, water-filled caves.
I was distracted at work today and looking at honeymoon options. We’re considering maybe heading to the South Pacific, strongly leaning towards Fiji and New Zealand. One thing that looks interesting and is unique to New Zealand is black water rafting. Mmm, wandering around wearing a wetsuit, dorky miner’s hat, and dorky inner tube soaked in cold, muddy water in pitch black darkness in narrow caves covered in worms … sounds like fun! (Seriously, I’m intrigued.) One of the pages Kelvin showed me had a picture from the New Zealand Tourism website, and I think it’s probably the dorkiest picture of two normal looking people I’ve ever seen:
“Yeah! It’s totally fucking dark! Yeah!”
(quote courtesy of Kelvin)
I mean really, their facial expressions totally don’t match their current state and surroundings… I couldn’t stop snickering at it at work.
