So I said to Wai, "Stupid game... I'd rather do work than play this.".

Y'see, Sunday is one of my favourite nights of the week. In that relatively recent post I mentioned how I spend Fridays, and Sundays are some serious competition for Fridays. Sundays I very seldom see my friends, but I usually get up early and procrastinate for most of the day. On the average Sunday, I might have some work to do, but nothing really critical, and then I don't get anything done. And that's just peachy.

My stuff I wanted to do today included maybe some studying for a math test I have tomorrow, but more importantly some prep work for a report due for my philsophy class, which is technically due Friday. I'd like to have it done before Friday because I'm working Friday and won't be able to hand it in then. Probably Thursday will be fine. So, today was no big deal as far as having to do work is concerned. This is also in part due to me having done more than my share of the OS work at my job on Friday.

So Adam came over last night and stayed over, so it would be easy for him to go to the studio today. I got up nice and early, had some coffee and breakfast, and then some tea after Assarello left. I was looking for a good way to procrastinate when I remembered a webcomic that I read more than a year ago called Megatokyo. It was around exam time (a crucial time for procrastinators) and I read some 300 comics in a weekend to catch up on the story line. I liked the characters and the art is pretty great.

Today, I relived this brilliant era.

I read, just today, about 250 comics because I was bored and they were interesting. By the end it wasn't really because I was bored, rather because I was engrossed in the story. It's usually pretty funny, but not the laugh-out-loud kind of funny. Recently there were lots of corny geek romancey stories, and... well, I enjoyed reading it. So that's how I spent some time today. During the loading times (which were really bad in the middle of the day) I also did my reading for philosophy and listened to some tunez. The day wasn't really a total waste.

Even now it's not even 9:00, and I don't have class until 11 AM tomorrow, so I have a few hours left in me. So, I picked up my Gameboy and decided to play some Sword of Mana. The game was really quick and simple when I played it in the past, so a while ago I decided to try it again; I had never completed it. Then when Wai and I were having some discussion about annoying things in video games this week, I mentioned some enemies with shields such that you take all the damage you would've done to them.

A while ago, when I was playing this game, I was doing 40 damage to myself by hitting them, and that was annoying. Today, I played for about 30 minutes. I cleared a little area, and did a whole bunch of really boring story shit. It was so boring. It's amazing that a game that's so short can contain this amount of boredom, it's like explosively compressed boredom. Don't put that game near heat, or all the boring will burst out and kill everyone you care about!

Then I go to this city with no freakin' save point, leave, and hit one of those guys with the shields. How much damage does my guy do now? Critical hit. 250 fucking damage. What the shit?! That could kill like two of my character in one hit. So I died. And there is no freakin' way I'm going to sit through that boring crap again anytime soon. Even the good parts of this game aren't that compelling -- I'm beginning to think it's a piece of crap.

Yesterday I woke up, and the first thing I noticed was that there were some dirty dishes on the counter. I don't clean all the time (okay, let's not pretend: I very seldom clean), but I like things to be in their proper places, so I do things like go out of my way to put things in the dishwasher. I did so, and decided the dishwasher was full so I made the steps to run it. There's wasn't quite enough dish soap. Hm.

Well... I decided that I'd just put in a little squirt of hand dish soap. As I'm closing it, I'm thinking... okay, you know when you do dishes, Kyle? And the soap keeps expanding when the water runs into it? And didn't you see something like this on a sitcom once?
I just put all those nasty thoughts aside, for a few reasons. First of all, I think sitcoms with that kind of joke would be pretty stupid, and it's probably fake anyways. Secondarily, bad things never happen to me. Third... well, it was just a little bit of soap.

Naturally I came back in 15 minutes to see that there were some bubbles on the ground. It's a good thing I'm not Lucille Ball -- I just stopped it, took the dishes out, washed and dried them by hand, and there was no crisis. Most people in my family like crises, but I try very hard to pretend that they don't exist. Then I went about scooping the bubbles out of the bottom of the dishwasher and into the sink. Everything ended up being fine. I told mom about it, and she said not using hand soap in a dishwasher is something "you're just supposed to know".

I guess my dad didn't know either, because we made jokes about human instinct as it relates to the use of household appliances afterwards. So... that's how I spent the first two hours of my day on Saturday.

Right now... I was thinking the section of floor to my immediate left is kind of funny. I'm going to take a picture and then post it and explain why it's so special.

There are several important aspects of this picture. The first entertaining part is that it shows that I'm a bit of computer nerd. This was not set up, most of this stuff was sitting here for a week. The wires have always been like that, and I also usually keep my laptop on top of my desktop (desk bottom is more like it), and the hard drive is usually on the ground there unless I'm travelling or need some files on my laptop.

My personal favourite part is that I left a bottle of Canadian Club in my room from Saturday night when I had two drinks while watching a couple of episodes of One Piece. It like that I left it in the center of my headphones and never bothered to put either away. I generally only use the headphones if my parents are around while I'm playing music with a lot of bass. Sometimes I use them to listen to my discman if I'm using it, which is also on the ground here.

There's the garbage can... which takes a long time to fill, generally. I think that may be my second or third garbage bag since I moved here in November. Pictured to the left of the bottle of CC is a Bass EXE figure from the new Mega Man series which Josh bought for me. It's pretty cool. I wanted to keep the package because it comes with some little parts, but I don't know where to put it... I don't really have a place for toys. So, it gets to stay in this nice section of floor.

The shelf on the left has old N64 and Gameboy games. Neither is ever used. I've actually lent a couple of the Gameboy games to my very pregnant sister, Mandy, who is told to lie down for 6 hours a day and gets very bored. The orange blanket in the bottom left hand corner is something I was wearing a while ago because I've been computing with the window open all day. You might think that makes me an idiot, but the comfort level was just right.

Civilization III Complete is also next to the CC bottle and headphones. That's part of the reason I thought this picture was so great. It's like a summary of a weekend -- essentially, it wordlessly gives a vague description of this entry. Just replace Civ III with that stupid Sword of Mana and throw in some webcomics somehow. Oh, and the dishwasher bit, but I'm going to pretend that never happened... so maybe you should, too.