raybear | I'm underloved, I'm underfed, I wanna go home.

Before I left for SF a few weeks ago, I downloaded a bunch of random Calfornia, San Francisco, and birthday songs to throw onto my shuffle. You know, to be all festive. One of them was The Mamas and the Papas "It Never Rains in California" which is a song that Damon and I often joke about whenever I have my obligatory freakout about escalators being outdoors with no shelter in L.A. The song pops up today on the ride to work, and I haven't really listened to it in years, I just knew the melody and the words to the chorus. Damn! That isht is depressing. Let me hurry along to this Camera Obscura song to cheer me up.

So, for my birthday, I got lots of amazing time with amazing people, which is what I wanted. And a only few tangible items, though even those I mostly bought for myself. Except for my gift from

thebrownhornet who dragged all the way from Orange County and up to San Francisco....a Nintendo 64 console with two controllers, a memory pak, and a copy of both Goldeneye and Perfect Dark.

And here's a guy's webpage who says Perfect Dark is the best First Person Shooter.....ever! A bold statement that I can respect because of my own bias.
http://www.dailyraider.com/?id=2026

I hooked it all up last weekend and got it going, but then I haven't touched it much since then, mostly because I'm afraid of losing hours of my life to it when I should be working on something else. But today is Friday and after crossing a few things off my to-do list this morning, I decided to fire it up. It is highly entertaining. And although I fumbled a bit the first time I started it up, to get a handle for the controllers, it only took a couple rounds before I started to slip right back into Perfect Dark with no problems, lots of it coming back to my memory while also cracking up at the things I had forgotten about. (For those unfamiliar with the raybear history, brownhornet and I met almost eight years ago at roommates, and during the entire spring and summer, we played our jointly own nintendo unit while eating rib tips and fried chicken and occasionally watching action or kung fu or horro movies from the video rental place around the corner. It was the foundation for our friendship.) Awhile back, I had considered buying myself a Wii for my birthday. Instead I got a N64. And I'm way happier. Because I mean, the Wii will still be there in a few months. But this isht is only getting more obsolete. And you know, history.