'Sup...?

So, I've been away for awhile, missed me? Anybody? Hmm...?

Had family visiting from out of town so that took some time while waiting for Gamefly to send something good my way. GF certainly threw some gaming lovin' my way...

I'm playing UT3! On the 360! Woot!

UT2004 is one of my favorite games on the PC. It is among the first apps to be installed after reinstalling windows and a criteria for successful tinkering with the winbox. If UT2004 doesn't work, the whole thing gets done again.

I was so excited to start playing UT3 the other day it was almost like losing my virginity all over again. Slap the disc in the box, sign-on, load, goto instant action and...die...respawn...instagib...respawn...splat!...WTF?!? It seems the default controls have some issues. Namely the developers dialed-up the sensitivity to max and the usual 'what does this button do'. Took me some testing with Crackdown & COD4 before I believed the sticks weren't completely screwed-up.

Now that I've got the controls squared away (for now), I started the SP campaign. Funny thing, I don't even remember if UT2004 has an SP campaign. At any rate, the UT3 SP is just a bunch of deathmatches, CTF, team play and control matches strung together around some rather loose 'story'. I figure I'll work through this getting the achievements and then maybe play with MP and Instant Action.

OK, getting back to the family visiting. My niece, her son and BF came down from Georgia to visit for a week. Stayed at my sisters place and I did the paparazzi thing following them around taking pictures.

Here are some...

The rest are on my photostream at Flickr.

Oh yeah, we had a blast. An active 4 yo, beaches, waterparks, zoos, beaches, sleep-overs at my place, the kid had a great vacation before starting pre-school. I plan to try next year to bring him down for a couple weeks without his mother. I figure we can hit the Orlando theme parks (Disney, Universal & Aquatica) and then head down here. His mother can then drive down and pickup her well-spoiled son. Probably be some type of summercamp/babyborrowers thing that I think he'll really like.