I'm gonna write something, goddamn it.

I've let my blogging go to shit since the start of the holiday season, mainly due to not wanting to waste my time with the folks at the PC and getting a GameCube for Xmas. Also, work has been reasonably steady since I returned to the JCT. Furthermore, I am lazy.

Christmas morning was actually a surprise this year, as I couldn't remember if I asked my parents for a GameCube or a PS2. I would be happy with either, but the GC was a better deal: $99 for the system, two controllers and Mario Kart: Double Dash. My little sister got me NHL Hitz Pro, which is a fuckin' sweet little hockey game and my other sis and bro-in-law got me Madden 2005, which is Madden 2005. Those little mini-games in Madden are some time-consuming fun. MK: DD is the true successor IMO to the original Mario Kart for the SNES (MK 64 eats it), which was awesome on a scale usually reserved for 91-94 era Undertaker.

Something that still pisses me off about sports games are the difficulty levels. My current Dolphins squad is superhuman on Pro, but All-Pro turns the computer into an unstoppable machine of destruction and damned if I'm jobbing to Peyton Manning, but fucked if I can't stop his passes. On Pro, I'd get 3 picks, minimum. On All-Pro, he racks up 250 yards in three drives.

I'm in the third year of my Franchise, with this lineup on offense:

QB - Ben Roethlisberger (traded both Fiedler and Feeley for him)
RB - Trung Canidate (should have kept Clinton Portis)
TE - McMichael (forgot his first name, but it's not Steve)
WR - David Boston, Rod Gardner, Larry Fitzgerald (would catch bricks)

Roethlisberger won the OROY in my first season and the MVP in the second. Portis won the MVP in the first season, but I traded him for draft picks like a fucking retard. Fitz would have won the MVP last year if Roethlisberger hadn't had 4K+ passing with 55 TDs and a rating of 110+. I choked on a game winning field goal in the Super Bowl of my second season, killing the repeat. I was undefeated for two straight seasons at that point, which is why I'd like to play on All-Pro, but I need more practice, I guess.

I'm looking to pick up NBA Street 2 soon, although I may wait for 3 because the GC version will have Mario in it. I'd pick up NCAA Football 2005, but it's still going for $30 used. Also, it would be nice if there was an EA NCAA Basketball game on the GC, but NBA Live is pretty sweet.

Enough about video games, let's talk about the blog. It's doing well, the posts are solid and regular. Also, I don't have to delete a thread of local workers going at it like kindergardeners every three days and I can't start a holy war of my own with "foul" language, so it's all good. The posts are, however, very long and it pushes things farther down. There's a solution to it, by creating expandable post summaries, but I haven't had the energy to fuck the template up in an attempt to make this work, so if anyone wants to run at it, go ahead.