Daves Personal Blog

It’s been a weird couple of weeks.. What can I say.. We had our drywall up about 10 days ago, however for some reason the guy that is supposed to come in and finish the walls is “busy”.  Well, around here, everyone is busy.. just get it done.  Sometimes I have a hard time having sympathy for people that lack the ability to plan well.

The new van

Work is going through growing pains again, but it’s like that at all places, all in all work is good..

We got a new car, pretty awesome there.. We got a 2004 Toyota Sienna that’s pretty much fully loaded.. I’m missing my remote car starter, and unfortunately I can’t get one installed in the van until the end of February.  Going to have to think about that one.  As well, our flooring should be here this week.  Our kitchen cabinets have been “Drawn out”, just waiting from the blessing from the wife.  The rebuild is going slow.. but it’s going..

Kitchen CAD Drawing

We’ve picked up paint for most of the downstairs, got to get the rest this week..

Once we get most of the floors in, we will start to move in furniture (some of which is on the way, others in the garage), appliances and such like that.

We are getting close folks!

It’s been a good week, odd, but good.

Big Daddy

I’ve had BioShock for a while, tonight I decided to crack it open and try it out.

These are my first impressions I had with the game.  The game reminded me a lot of a cross between a Horror Movie and a ride at Disney World.  There were times were I found it extremely hard to see things as the game is set in a underground city with electrical problems

The back-story is quite interesting and lends itself well to the game.  As I don’t usually play FPS type of game the controls were a little wonky to me, but you eventually got used to ‘em.  I was able to get through about an hour of play and the first puzzle.  The first puzzle wasn’t overly hard, I did fail it a couple of times while I tried to “get it”, however only took me like 3 times to finish it.  I assume it’s going to be harder as we go along.

The whisper and yells that are in the background are a little disconcerting, which lends itself to the game very well.  The graphics are good, and the game play seems to work well.  I did find that the camera seemed limiting, I was always bumping up against walls and getting stuck in corners, but this is probably my inexperience with FPS games.

So far, I’d give this one a 4/5 rating.. I hope to play this one some more.. I know it will frustrate me, but I believe it will be worth it.

So I was able to finally find a copy of Fable II.  It’s been sold out in a lot of the retail stores around here.. and I hate buying games over the internet.

I’ve only played this game for a total of around 1 hour and 4 achivements. So far the game has not let me down.  It had alot of the elements that I like in games.  The ability to go off the path and “Quests”.  I’m a huge quest hound which is probably why I like WoW so much.

The graphics on the gameplay and the fighting are nothing more that astonishing.  The cut scenes, what few there are, are beautifully done and add well to the story line.  The idea of the dog companion is great, I like that he helps find little things that you might otherwise miss, and playing ball with a dog is always fun!

As I said, I’ve only got about an hour under my belt so I can’t rightly say how the game is, but the gameplay, the graphics and the story are keeping my interest; for someone with ADD that’s a plus.  I will return after I’ve completed the game (if I can get that far) and give you and over view of what I like, what I hated.  As of now, I’d give this a 4.5 out of 5 stars.

I do plan on downloading the DLC (Knothole island), but will give my final review before I play that.

We saw Rileys go on twitter, we’ve seen various news personalities go on twitter.. now the next best thing, we have another local on twitter.

TheatreCR is now on twitter, you can follow them here.  They will keep us up to date on all the news with the theatre and breaking news as well.