Friday I
received Star Trek: Elite Force 2. I immediately installed it.
Unfortunately it requires a CD to play and I couldn't get a disk image
to work. Anyway, it's still much like the first one. Much better
graphics, partly due to better hardware. The elements are the same they
just look better. There are five different weapons plus the tricorder.
The Tricorder seems to be quite a bit more important now. You can use
it to analyze items, there is a structural integrity mode that gives
you a special vision where you can see environment objects (like walls)
that you can shoot, and it's used to operate controls. You can't use a
weapon with the tricorder which is kind of inconvenient. You can't
search if you have bad guys shooting at you.
I played for about an hour including the tutorial and unfortunately I
still get motion sickness. This has been a relatively recent
development, within the last three or four years. It may be because I'm
using my PowerBook monitor instead of a good CRT monitor. I think I can
play it for about half an hour at a time though even not every day.
Later that day we had dinner the El Torito that is a couple of miles
south of Great America. I got there about 45 minutes early because I
had to take Simon to pick up his car at about 17:45. Then I drove down
El Camino Real for about 45 minutes, making my way slowly to Shoreline
Boulevard. Then I cut to the freeway (passing by Tell Me where Sweet
and Donald work) and got to El Torito at about 18:45.
So I read some more of Clinton's book, I guess about 30 pages until
everyone else arrived. There was Woo and Fulton and Woo's friend
(Albert?). Meanwhile before they got there it was quite loud with the
mariachi singers entertaining a party.
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Since we
didn't play basketball on Thursday I had some money saved up so I could
splurge on a big meal. Even had flan for dessert. Probably too much
food because I paid it for it that night with a bit of heartburn.
Anyway, the guys decided to play Never Winter Nights next. There aren't
that many choices where I can play with my PowerBook. Really, I think
I'd rather sit out a round of games and rest for a couple of months.
So Stephanie gets these Borders coupons in her email, which she then
forwards to other people including me. It's kind of strange since the
coupn says that the "original coupon must be redeemed at time of
purchase" and to "void if copied". But you have to print it out on your
personal printer so I guess that doesn't count, though you could print
multiple copies. Maybe they yse unique numbers to keep track.
I guess I'll try the coupon Saturday since I want to get some
ready-to-bake pizzas from I think it's Papa Murphy's near the
Albertsons. That's a weird concept -- a "restaurant" that sells to
ready-to-cook food only. It means that they don't have to have ovens or
a dining area or charge sales tax since it's food. But there are few
foods you can do this with, pizza being one of them. Pretty clever.
I get from dinner about 21:00 or something. Dave calls me later saying
that he's a bit late for work and that he'll drop off my tape tomorrow.
Now I'm thinking "dude it's not that important". But I think about it
more and maybe a few years ago I mentioned something about not getting
my tapes back from Julie. So all these years Dave and Julie have been
thinking I resent it when people keep my tapes. When I don't because
that particular thing is not that important to me. Could be that I'm
reading too much into the situation.
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