Patheticwood
The people who made our subdivision (Breland/Adams) are really up on the wood streets. I live on Postwood. In my subdivision there is also Ironwood, Harvestwood, Willowwood, Sandywood, Yellowwood, and Sugarwood. As if to prove themselves justified in making such horrible wood based names, we also have a street called Rebecca Pines. We are not quite sure what Rebecca pines for, but I'm sure it's a better system of naming streets.

The saddest lil' wood name popped up in six foot stylized script on a billboard advertising Adams' latest venture: Legendwood. That is just the worst.

Legendwood isn't in my mapping program yet so I can't cite lame names from it's subdivision.

Shipping Race
When Amazon shipped me San Andreas, they shipped it the Saturday before it's Tuesday release date and I got it on Wednesday. Ratchet & Clank III released last Tuesday. And rather than it being shipped early so it would get to me near the release date, as I'd expect when I preorder stuff, it didn't. Not only that, but I waited all last week, checking back at Amazon's Wheres-My-Stuff page, and still, it didn't ship. You'd think they'd have the curtsey to ship it the release date or, at latest, the day after. Nope, I got an email saying they shipped it yesterday, Sunday, which means today.

Now, The Urbz comes out tomorrow, and if I'm lucky they'll ship it today or something. Let's see which gets here first, R&C which was released last week or Urbz, released tomorrow. Both were preordered from Amazon.

Also of note, while I was waiting and checking up at Amazon, my Ratchet & Clank order couldn't be cancelled because it was "about to ship." But, it didn't ship and during last week the price dropped from $39 to $33. Why a game that has been given only perfect reviews by every game review place would drop it's price is beyond me.

Front Mission 3
Yes, I'm still playing Front Mission 3 and I'm determined to finish it before I start playing The Urbz. Yes, GTA:SA and all the other games that I have stacked up waiting for me to break open the plastic (Jak II, Ghost Recon, Combat: Desert Storm, Metal Arms, etc) will all have to wait. That includes Ratchet & Clank when it shows up, so really, no need to gripe.

In FM3, my mechs border on godlike at times. Nothing like seeing my four mechs take on 20 or so enemy helecopter, tank, mech, armored train, etc, and come out shining. Particulary nice is the character Ryogo and his mech N(oisy) Cricket. Often, this black painted ubermech will have it's legs on the verge of collapse, have it's sheild arm blown off, and still take down five more mechs.

I also made a mech out of spare parts before I sold all the captured Mechs that I'd forced to surrender. I just put a decent core, a good targeting arm, a light but robust shield arm, and some mediocre legs, a missle launcher and a maching gun on it, and named it Red Rover. Crud, this mishmash of enemy mechs totally rocks.

I only play this game when Nina is asleep though. So I only get in about two hours on most nights, but I did get maybe five on each of Saturday and Sunday. I figure I might get finished around Thursday. That is Thursday, February 24, 2005.

Oh, and I highly recommend it. It's a PS1 game, so you can probably mooch a system of a cousin or something.

And, while I'm drowning in games, I'm about to order Front Mission 4 this week. It's a forced allowance, see. I pretty much have to.
- posted by Nick Postagulous @ 9:31 AM