So yesterday was a video game Saturday here at my place. I had four friends over and we connected four xbox 360’s together into a local network and had five people on four screens.
(This worked out well as I have a 42″ LCD HDTV and two people can share that screen quite easily.)
Mostly we played Halo 3 because it was not picky about who had which version.
Personally I like playing Call Of Duty more, but the programers of that game make it difficult for players to put together their own local area network games.
1st) they require that everyone be on the same version of the game. So those who have been playing on-line and updating their software now have software that is incompatible with the original discs.
2nd) When doing a LAN game the programmers of Call OF Duty do not allow players to share screen. One player to a scree, so the max number of players in a system link game is 4. (‘Cause you cannot connect more than 4 Xbox 360 together in a system link.) With Halo of to 4 people can be on each Xbox 360 so you could have up to 16 players on a local system link game.

Because of this we played a lot of HALO 3. When we tired of HALO 3, we switched to Call Od Duty:World At War and played the bonus zombie levels. They are a lot of fun, but we could only play two people at a time. One on my machine and one on my friend’s Nathan;s machine.

We did have a break for dinner, that my lovely sweetie-wife made for us. A simple dinner of hotdogs and salads, but with good friends and good conversation it was very pleasant.

This afternoon we’ll do board and card gaming so my sweetie-wife can join in.

Life is good,

So it has been kinda slow day at the day job and I’ve spent a little break time on the internet.
I ended up on google maps looking at maps and pictures of my old hometown in Florida. (Verus my old hometown in North Carolina, moving when young can produce the two hometown syndrome.)

It was kind of odd the changes and the lack of changes. I found I could measure the distance from my old home to the home of a girl I was rather taken with back then. I used to walk from my house to hers and now I know that was about a seven mile walk.

(For those terribly curious, we dated, got engaged, never married and are now friends.)

I also saw a photo on google street view of a donut shop I used to stop at in the mornings on my way to school. Still there. I fondly remember getting a bag of donut holes to eat as I waited to be bussed to school.

I couldn’t find the old SunRise Theater where I saw so many movies. Either I was looking in the wrong spot or it’s history.

Curious the bits of memory and floatsam we gather in our lives.

I was going to write up something today and talk about the atomic bombing for Japan in WWII, but I was unable to get the work done.
For some reason quite unknown to me the arthritis in my knees began acting up today. They hurt when I walked to work, they got worse as the day went on and by lunch time I was limping quite a bit.
At lunch I needed to go a couple of blocks to a US Post office — to send Araceli off to a magazine — and by the end of lunch I was in real pain.
Luckily a co-worker offered me a ride home at the end of the day saving me quite a few steps.
When I got home it was pain killers and ice packs for me.
I’ve watched TV and very little more.