I'm up late because I can't get to sleep. I'm starting to realize that I'm kind of a total wuss when it comes to illness. I have a pretty minor head cold but the stuffiness is keeping me from laying down, so awake I shall stay. It's times like this that I'm glad I work the night shift.

If Wendy's has given me nothing else, it's given me like half a dozen great songs that I probably would never have heard if I didn't hear them on the Wendy's speakers as I mop, vacuum, dust, scrub, and polish. A perfect example of this is the song "My Finest Hour" by The Sundays. I have never heard of The Sundays, but I freaking love this song. At first I couldn't figure out the name of this song, and could only make out the lyrics "We are who we are." While usually that would be enough to feed into Google search to get the song name, a drunken Jezebel who goes by the inexplicable moniker Ke$ha (sic) apparently has a "song" with that as the title, so no dice. Also, the lead singer of The Sundays sounds alot like the lead singer of the Bangles, so I thought it was a Bangles song.

On a side note, I beat Kingdom Hearts and am now (re)playing Chrono Trigger on the DS.

Social Networking

 "My name is Braff Zacklin. I was an international race car driver. One day, a baby carriage rolled out onto the track. I swerved into the retaining wall to avoid it. The car burst into flames but the baby miraculously survived. I WAS that baby." -Roger the Alien

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I'm really lukewarm about this whole Google Plus thing. I don't even know if you're supposed to spell out the "plus" or just put "+."

The problem with social networking sites is that to get the most out of them, you wanna use the one with the most people. And to do that, you have to follow the herd from one trendy site to the next. Myspace to Facebook, Facebook to Google Plus, and then off to the latest super hip site 3 or 4 years from  now.

On one hand, I'm tired of drifting from site to site. When I first heard about Google Plus, my gut reaction was to say "Fuck it I'm ending the cycle here." But then what do I do? Stay on Facebook and watch as everybody I would be interacting with disappear? being alone on a Social Networking Site is pretty pointless.

So despite my misgivings, I'll probably end up joining Google Plus. And people will post statuses (Or whatever the Google Plus version of Statuses are) that read "Hey remember when we were all on Facebook? LOLOLOL"

This summer has been pretty uneventful video game wise. I've picked up a few choice SNES games from that vintage game store in the Wellington Mall, like Lufia 2 and Secret of Evermore (Google it, I don't care). And I got Ocarina of Time 3DS. But otherwise not much, which is fine I suppose. I should be saving my money, and I'm so over keeping up with gaming at this point. I don't know what it is, but I just don't get psyched about new game stuff like I used to.

I've been looking through my games for something to play in these last few weeks until School starts back up. Obvious choices were Megaman X, Mario 3, Marvel VS. Capcom 2 blah blah blah. I realized I really wanted something I could commit to, not just play for a half an hour a couple of times. An RPG would work, and I hadn't really played one since Dragon Quest 9.

 It's funny to think back to how people initially reacted to Kingdom Hearts when it first came out. I remember being 12 and not knowing what to make of it. The Action RPG genre is so played out at this point that it's hard to imagine a time when it wasn't. The first thing I noticed is how much easier it is than I remember, even on difficult mode. My first thought is "Well, yeah, I was fucking 12." But the more I thought about it, the more I think the reason Kingdom Hearts felt so difficult back then was because it was so unique. Squaresoft probably realized that making it too hard would have overwhelmed alot of people. I mean, if Kingdom hearts were released, say, last year it would have been universally considered the easiest game ever. But in 2002, it was a real toughie.

That is not to say games have gotten harder. But in the 9 years since KH was first released, genre straddling games have become the rule rather than the exception.

So a little while back I got that Dunkin' Donuts triple flavor Captain America Coolatta. The cup is reusable, but it's divided into three parts so it's pretty impractical.....

Or is it!

I have Chocolate and Strawberry syrup. I have Milk. So now I'm drinking chocolate milk, strawberry milk and (ugh) regular milk simultaneously.

So that's how MY summer's going.