Wednesday, 26 February 2003

Stuff Happened

Friday we finally did the hike from Land's End to the Sutro Baths. It was a beautiful day and not very windy. We didn't explore all the paths though so I think we'll go back some day to do that. From Point Lobos we took the bus to downtown to meet up with David in the Playstation store at the Metreon. Dark Cloud 2 had just been released and we had read a couple of very promising reviews, so we wanted to playtest that. David also found out that DDR Max is out. The prices at the Metreon were too high though so we went to EB Games. David bought Dark Cloud 2, DDR Max and Parappa the Rapper 2.

Dark Cloud 2 is a fun game so far. And I haven't even had the chance to test all the features yet. The invention system is kinda fun, although I see me running around with that damn camera all the time trying to find stuff I can make a new invention out of. David also managed to get me interested in DDR. It's actually quite fun and a good workout too if you do it long enough. The harder songs are also insanely challenging for me at the moment. But I'm sure I'll get better with a little practice. DDR Max also lets two players play simultaneously on different difficulty settings. So David and I can play at the same time with him doing more complicated steps than me. That is a lot of fun.

On Saturday Pooh took us shopping for snowboard clothing for David. I found those cool earwarmers that wrap around the back of your head, thereby not messing up your hair. I had seen them first in Chicago on some of the people I met there and I'm glad I own a pair now for the next winter in Berlin. I was also very tempted to buy me a new winter/snowboard jacket because they were so reduced in price and I've wanted a new winter jacket for a while. Unfortunately though the women's jackets all have these icky pastelly colors and the men's jackets are a little too tight around the hips for me and have too long arms.

The evening was spent playing games and drinking with Pooh and Brina's ex-coworker John. It was the first time I met John in real life. He is a fun guy!

On Sunday David's sister Jennie came to visit us with her little daughter Gwen. We had fun playing with Gwen. She's a cutie.

Monday Michi and I had to get up early because the house cleaners were coming to, well, clean the house. So we left the house by 9:30am (which is really early for us). It was pretty overcast so we decided to go to SFMOMA. On the way there we came by a bunch of very interesting stores though (e.g. EB Games again where we checked for Masters of Orion 3 which of course wasn't yet available). We also bought a couple of new Lone Wolf and Cub books in a comic store at the Metreon.

We met up with David for lunch and later didn't really feel like spending more time walking so we we saw Daredevil at the Metreon instead of going to SFMOMA. On our way home we checked two more stores to see if they sold the third volume of Lone Wolf and Cub because the first store had been sold out of these. Alas, none of them had the third volume. All the stores had all the books except the third. Strange. We also happened upon a flyer for an asian film festival in March. That looks very interesting, so we'll try to catch a couple of films there.

Today (Tuesday) Michi and I went to "our bench" in Golden Gate Park where we read books (Michi finished Otherland and I continued to read Ender's Game) and I drew a bit.

  Posted by Edda at 06:33 CET