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ok... so I finally beat that stupid battletech game. very anti-climactic. I've closed that chapter in my childhood, now I can get back to real life. I debated going onto battletech 2 - but I never came across it as a child. from what I understand, however, that seems to be the first real-time strategy game - the predecessor to command and conquer. I'm not sure when warcraft came out, but I thought it was after c&c. so that's neat, but in the five minutes I looked online, I couldn't find a place to download it [at least from work] :-P so I'm giving up that ghost, and I will complete ffvii... ugh. I'm such a dork.

I won't see lorie again for a year because she's leaving me on wednesday. so that really sucks. [not really a year, but you get the idea]... i guess that can justify me not doing anything all weekend while she's gone. when I play video games, I think the rest of my body goes into stasis and all of a sudden it's time to go back to work. [sarcasm] how awesome is that? [/sarcasm]

based on the tivo traffic from the last week or so, it looks like I should be able to get through most of the queue in the morning this friday. veronica mars looks promising this season, as does lost, and heroes. didn't get to watch battlestar yet, can't believe I didn't watch it this weekend. supernatural and ncis are cool too. smallville is starting to wear thin on me as of late, but I'll still watch it. I've made it this far, I'll watch it until they cancel it (probably this season or next, I'm guessing) I don't think it's jumped the shark, but it's getting close - they still manage to pull a good number of episodes out of their... um... hats.

today is columbus day. in celebration of the man who stumbled into the "new" continent thinking he had reached asia (he believed this until he died) but did, in fact, open up trade routes from europe to the americas. columbus' calculations were faulty, but luckily for him, the ocean didn't stretch uninterrupted from europe to asia... it really doesn't matter that there were others that reached the amierca's prior to him, they made little to no impact on the future, but let us not forget the diseases and pests that were brought over from europe, or the enslavement or displacement or destruction of entire indigenous cultures. without that, we wouldn't be where we are today... of course without the dark ages, we probably would be farther than we are today... but what's a little inquisition now and again? besides, nowadays, we seem to be moving in the other direction, all science, no faith... but that's a completely different subject for another time... so everyone raise your glass to columbus, because without him, we probably would be living very different lives, if we even would have existed at all... a lot can happen in 600 years...

but I'm just guessing about that.