Long week

Spent most of this past week in meetings. Long, tiresome, dull ones. Got to mock a clients IS department one day. Help another client build a new server and testing lab on another day. Have a network install this weekend. Been up early most days, haven't gotten to sleep until late pretty much everyday regardless of when I wobbled to bed. Just a very tiring week.

Spent today, yesterday since it is past midnite now, doing laundry and making some shopping trips for groceries and collapsing in front of the tv to finally beat Jade Empire on my Xbox.

Turned out to be a surprisingly short game, I think it clocked in at about sixteen hours. Missed a little bit in Dirge near the end ( stupid Dawn Star ) but I think I did most everything else an Open Palm character could do. Rather fun though. The basic UI and game design was much the same as the KotOR games, but the combat wasn't the silly hacked off turn-based of those and was instead pretty free-form and semi-button mashing. Okay, actually it involved jumping behind the foe and hitting them in the back until they turned around and then jumping over them again and repeating, but still was fun.

Went with a balanced character using 'Legendary Strike' and the longsword as his main weapons. Never really seriously used the other weapons or fighting styles and didn't bother with the magic until pretty far in when I got bored and started beating up foes by turning them into stone pillars and then shattering them. All in the name of justice of course.

Nice to have an Xbox game in my stack of actually completed games. I think Mechwarrior and KotOR were my only other Xbox games I had beaten. Still have all kinds of PS2 RPGs to beat, but figured I'd play with the Xbox for a few days instead.

Got on and did a little CoH around midnite. Got the 'Toothbreaker' badge with my high-level blaster ( with some assistance from a furry blue brute who kicked much red cap booty ). Was fun, not too many other people still on at that time but had a bit of banter and chatter taking place still.

Sleep now though. Have to be up again before too many hours have passed. No rest for the weary, wicked, web worker.