I absolutely love the latest kids’ blog entry. I’m not sure why THIS particular entry moreso than others, but there it is. It could be that it was the first entry in a very long time that both Lisa and I worked on at once, the first that had a very clear theme, or because I left work early twice last week and spent more time than usual with the kids – and of course, it was a lot of fun. Probably a combination of all of the above.
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We’re watching season 3 of the Wire and we’re just about half way through it, and I’m still not sure how I feel about it. It seems, so far, that this season is focused on the criminal aspect and the bumbling cops who can’t take them down. On the police side of things, it seems too much like ER or Chicago Hope. On the criminal side of things, the story is very interesting, though it took a turn for the ‘meh’ at the end of episode five.
Lisa hated season 2; it seems there’s a love hate relationship with that particular season across the interwebs. I’m still in love with it, only because the characters were brilliant. Frank Sobotka is one of the finest characters I’ve ever watched. His character evolved brilliantly. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a character as well defined as Sobotka. That being said, it looks like season 3 has zero relationship with the previous season, other than as excuse for where the major case squad came from (which presumably will last until the show ends).
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This is the year of the RPG. If you’re looking at statistics, I need to finish 8 games to get sixty percent. It may be all RPGs.
In other news, my xbox 360 appears to be close to death. I will of course attempt to mod and fix it if that happens. However, if it fails to work, I will be dumping my collection in the fastest way possible. It’s a shame – this is the year that all those great games seem to be coming out for the 360. Fortunately, I managed to grab Mass Effect 2 by trading in quite a few rare (but uninteresting) titles. I’d hate to have the 360 die now, it’s one of the very few games I’ve been looking forward to.
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Every year I get excited about working on the car. Maybe this will be the year? I did manage to completely sound deaden the car when Nora was a newborn. But with two kids?
On the flip side, there’s several hundreds of dollars of equipment I haven’t installed which is just collecting dust (and losing value). Maybe if I can’t swing installing it this year I should just sell it all off and be done with it.
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