It's 3:12 AM here in Haverhill. I'm not going to go to bed for at least another hour and a half or so. It's not that I can't sleep, it's just that this is my schedule now. At Dharma Buns I work nights, every night of the week except Sunday. This usually means I have to leave the house around 3:30 PM at the earliest and get back home around 4:30 AM at the latest. So now instead of sleeping 2:30 to 10:30 as usual, I sleep 4:30 to 12:30. Well, really 5:30 to 1:30 if I lose track of time.

That's been very easy lately. I finally broke down and got myself a Netflix account. Now at first this was so that I could rent a bunch of political comedies like Being There, Bulworth and The Distinguished Gentleman, about ten other, since they're all pretty similar to the one I'm working on now.

Jesus, my computer's been growling all night and I just got a pop-up that my weekly virus scan just completed. I've got to remember to adjust the schedules on all my gadgets.

During the holiday season Steam was running specials on pretty much everything and I really hit it hard with the impulse buying. After a couple of years of buying pretty much no new games except for an LOTRO expansion, I ended up getting a whole bunch of shit, some of which I regretted. I am shocked by how terrible Battlefield 2 turned out to be. Well, I shouldn't say shocked. I was more confused than anything else. It was like reliving the disappointment of Counter-Strike: Condition Zero, only I thought I was getting a real game this time, not just a deathmatch with bots.

Mass Effect was a great find, played it through as a complete dick and it was hilarious. Far Cry 2 and Kane & Lynch: Dead Men I've really enjoyed, exceedingly realistic and gritty but also a lot of fun. But Empire: Total War really sucked the life out of me. It's hard, takes a long time to play, involves a lot of micromanagement, but god damn it's satisfying when you start kicking every other country's ass.

I can't believe how fucking geeky this post was. Well, fuck it, last one was July anyway.