I have Keith Sen|owski’s untitled here in my hands. I haven’t gotten through the whole thing yet (it will be a while0, and haven’t gotten through the CD yet, but it’s pretty slick. Game-as-art. I’ll have a realistic review of it eventually after the Honeymoon stage is over (I don’t want to give people wrong impressions and the like). If you ever watched SE7EN in that scene where Morgan Freeman is looking through the killer’s notebooks, and thought to yourself, “Man, I’d pay $5 to take a peek at those journals”, this may be the game you were looking for.

Also, thanks to the help of my awesome dad this last weekend, we got the ceiling fan from the guest bedroom upstairs brought down into the dining room where it is much needed (for some reason air just does not circulate well in there naturally). One step closer to Ultimate Gaming Room. Inshallah, the new Gaming Dining Table will be here this week. Hopefully in time for Wednesday’s Burning Wheel game, but if not that’s ok, it’ll be there by next episode.

What else… hmmm…

Still exercising. I’m now doing walking 1-2 times a week (approx 5 miles). I haven’t done DDR for a while, nor Power Yoga, but I’m doing the EMBARRASING (but demonstrably successful) “Turbo Jam” workout that I picked up for a third of the list price on eBay. In college, I used to go with my friends out to the gay bar at least twice a week in Green Bay, because not only was Za’s (the club) the best place for mixed drinks in the area, it had incredible music and awesome people; but make no mistake, it was very mucha gay bar, complete with “transsexual olympics” every Sunday night. Turbo Jam is like 2.3 times gayer than Za’s. BUT, now I’ve got this weird feeling in my stomach these days, and I came to the realization after a day or two that… Oh My God… Those are MUSCLES down there underneath six years of sloth! And they’re trying to get out, but ever so fragile and slow, like watermelon seeds buried in a sandbox. I do Turbo Jam 4-5 times a week (there’s a scheduled ‘program’ to follow for max results, and I’m trying to follow those as much as possible).

Finally, I got this computer program called “Yourself! Fitness” which basically creates workout programs for you on the fly. I’m loving it for mixed cardio and step-exercises and handweights. The 3d CG character is a little too robotic for my tastes at times, but the workouts are solid. I do this about 2-3 times a week.

That’s about it. This week I work Mon-Wed (but doing work training, so it’s pretty light compared to my normal work schedule), then I have Thurs-Fri off; Then I work Saturday, and have Sun-Tuesday off. That’s a lot of time to fix broken stuff around the house, update websites, push more game translation (Tenra Bansho), and maybe finish up another gaming thing of my own.