8/7/08 - Hostile aliens everywhere... Where's Samus when you need her?

8/5/08 - I didn't sleep last night. That's why I'm uploading this a few hours early... So I can go to bed early.

I bought a new wireless Rock Band guitar on Saturday. Then I exchanged it for one that worked on Sunday. Still a fun game.

7/31/08 - Today sucked. I hope tomorrow is better. Unfortinately, I can't really post about it.

7/29/08 - I finally completed Phantom Hourglass. It's both good and bad. The problems with the game come from the setting and controls, but it has excellent level design, which is the second most important thing a game can have. (The most important is being fun. Level design is almost always what best facilitates fun, so it's second.)

The problems: First off, you don't even play as Link. You play as Ciela, Link's fairy companion for the game. You fly somewhere and Link follows. To use an item, you fly to the target so Link knows where to aim. It also takes place on The Great Sea (One of WindWaker's two flaws returns here. [The other being that WindWaker was never actually finished.])

The levels are SO well designed though despite being annoyingly linear and short... Linearity is Ocarina of Time's permanent mark on the series. Twas the worst thing to happen to Zelda. In Phantom Hourglass though, the dungeons have become just as linear as the overworld had become, which almost made me decide to not finish this game because I don't like the fact that the series was diluted to be more like everything else. It's still a series full of great games... They're just not quite AS great as they would've been.

7/24/08 - Somebody told me a new Zelda game is in the works. I'm sure there's ALWAYS a new Zelda in the works... But saying it makes me happy.

7/22/08 - It's way too hot. Two air conditioners are not able to cool off my apartment given a few hours to run. I feel quite sick.

7/17/08 - You ever have a really good or really bad day, where it seems that everything goes right or wrong? I've had both numerous times each. But at the same time? Today's been a great yet simultaneously awful day for me. It's weird...

7/15/08 - Some construction company has until September to raise enough money to buy the building I live in. I just found out.

Also, new Tu/Th schedule started last Friday.

7/9/08 - I should probably set up an e-mail client so I can check my e-mail... It's been over half a year, I think, since I've checked it last.

7/7/08 - For those of you who're blind and therefore haven't noticed: I've updated the site's look! I reccomend checking out the "Other" section (More to come there).

Also, Independance Day just passed by here in the US. They always have fireworks here in Manhattan, over the East River, so I decided to walk there in the light drizzle to not see the fireworks. It was fun. Ten minutes after it ended, I nearly got there, turned around, and went back to my apartment.

7/4/08 - The staplegun at work is one of those stapleguns designed for people that like to staple their hand. Makes a great gag gift for people you hate. Out of 2 uses, 2 people have stapled their hands with it. The first was a guy in Home Depot, who one might expect would be better at not stapling their hand.

This self-torture device is built upside down, so when you pull the handle, a staple is launched out the BOTTOM of the front of the staplegun, unlike all other stapleguns in existence, where the staple exit is on TOP.

Today, I saw it's effects firsthand, and I must say... It's quite disturbing to see a staple in someone's finger... I know he'll be fine, but that's REALLY gotta hurt! Supposedly, it didn't hurt as bad as it looked like it did. The guy didn't even say "Ow". I think that says more about his adrenaline response than it does about staples in fingers though.