That’s us! Right now, we have no less than four gaming consoles in regular use, and we haven’t even bought the Playstation 3 yet (and too bad that is, as the one that is sold now isn’t backwards compatible, meaning we’d have to have both the PS3 and the PS2 out still. Why, Sony? WHY?).

As you can imagine, this causes some trouble for us - our TV just doesn’t have enough inputs to serve all consoles at once. For now we’ve got a switcher box thingie (does it show that I’m not all that tech savvy?), and I guess when we move over to HDTV we’ll have to make use of HDMI splitters. Right now the poor Gamecube has been banished to the other room (fondly known as the library) with the smaller, technologically inferior TV. Sometimes, at night, I can hear it crying.

However, the Gamecube will see its renaissance soon, as Grand Theft Auto IV is out next week, meaning Tor will be glued to the main TV where the Xbox 360 is hooked up. For some reason, I always want to play when he’s using the TV, but no amount of fluttering eyelashes and/or sexy dancing will drag him away from the violence galore that is GTA.

Who knows, maybe I’ll end up finishing The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on the DS while the main TV is busy?

My respect for the Norwegian prime minister, Jens Stoltenberg, just went up a bit - apparently he is an active online gamer (article in Norwegian)! His genre is strategy, and he goes under the gamer nick/tag Steklov, a cover name said to be given to him by the KGB.

“I would be England and someone else would be Germany. Then we’d build a small peasant army and a fleet and crash into each other, and I’d be devastated.” (loose translation)

Who would have thought?

Dear Nintendo,

Thank you so much for making a game that requires me to yell into the poor DS’ microphone. It really made my day, sitting there on the couch yelling “WHOO HOO HELLOOO WHOOOO” so that the inventor guy would sell me the salvage arm for cheap.

I am looking forward to a Final Fantasy game where I can sing for gil. Please look into this.

Sincerely,
Renate - self-proclaimed Nintendo fangirl

I’m anticipating the arrival of the new Funcom adventure game, Dreamfall, so I just had to make a theme out of these images. :D
Click here if you can’t see it.
Yes, I know it is slightly offset in IE. Apparently, IE and FF reads div borders differently - IE sees them as INSIDE the div, FF sees them as outside. So I just had to decide which browser I wanted to make it looks its best in, and as I primarily use FF myself, the choice wasn’t too hard.
Also, if it doesn’t change on all subpages, I’ve no idea why. Probably some cookie issue? :S It’s like that for me on several themed sites - some pages change, some don’t.

My eBay-purchased copy of Syberia arrived yesterday, just a week after it was mailed from Canada! So very pleased. It works like a charm, too. Note to self: Leave positive feedback for seller.

I started work for real yesterday. Had some brief training on thursday, to learn how to make labels in this funky archive-label-making program. Then yesterday, I went in to convert the client list to an Access database file. Phew, that was interesting. We had some issues with permissions and stuff, so eventually I just had to copy/paste all of it. Did you know Access has three types of pasting? It does. So… I then had to make it sort by birthmonth, not by name. Problem is, the birthmonth isn’t in its own field, it’s numbers 3 and 4 in a string of 11 numbers.
Me: o_O
IT-guy: If Excel can pull those numbers, then so can Access!
Me: How does Excel do it?
IT-guy: I dunno, why don’t you find out while I go write my report?
Me: O_O …ok.
I eventually found out how to do it. Got the new field over in Access, sorted by birthmonth, then by date, saved the database to the memory stick thingie, ran over to the temporary archive, and tried to connect the database to the program. Success, it works! But what does it sort by? SURNAME. >.< Just about then, I ran out of things to try, so we decided that I should call the customer support on monday, cause I had only 15 minutes left of my workday, and they probably didn't want to have to pay me overtime.
The day was made better by the fact that I was called a SMART YOUNG PERSON. Hurray!

So, I broke WP the other day. Broke it baaad. I installed this plugin that, according to people, would let WP view php or something on its pages, so that I could implement Flinx in the WP themes. However, after doing what the website for the plugin told me to do, I got errors from the most unlikely files. Stress! Eventually I just had to remove the plugin, then upload fresh copies of a couple of files. Never again.

Link's getting so big, aww. He's also taken a liking to the bathroom sink. I will sometimes find him sleeping in it when I go to brush my teeth or things like that. Yesterday he went to lie in it after I washed my face, so it was still wet, and he kept slipping and falling around. So cute. ^_^

Edit: Ok, most subpages should work now, as they are all converted to WP pages now. However, if you first click on a subpage, then click on the link to the blog again, it goes back to the default theme. o.O This baffles me, and I have no idea why it happens. Nada, null.

Today is Tor’s birthday. So I felt like congratulating him here as well, even though he most likely won’t read it. Not that I know wether or not he reads my site… Not sure why he would though, he probably hears enough from me during the day/evening. I talk a hole in his head sometimes, I’m sure.

Nothing new on the site front. The webserver decided to hate me again, so it’ll only let me log in, but not change directories. And as I have two websites hosted at the same account, that means that I can’t even get to merilin’s root directory. Bleh. Yup, same error I had some weeks ago. It’s only doing this to me, it seems - everyone else can log in just fine. I’ve tried connecting to other servers, and they work just fine, though… So the problem can’t be all me either.

I’ve had this urge to play Syberia lately (the link will take you to the homepage of Syberia2 - don’t think the first has one.). So I got out my game CDs, installed it (issue during install, but it worked eventually with a minimal install), only to find that CD2 won’t work. So I’m stuck about halfway through the game, if that far. Bah.
Being desperate to play it, I started browsing eBay (as Play.com was sold out. Oh, the horror!), and yesterday I finally got my hands on one. :D I didn’t want to risk it, so I used BIN and got it for £14.99 plus postage. Sure, it’s not too cheap, as Play.com had BOTH games for the same price, but hey… Desperate times calls for desperate credit card use.

In cat news, Moppe is still disgruntled and Link is still a devil disguised as a cute little kitten. Really, he is. He attacked Moppe head on yesterday, several times. Moppe almost bit his FACE. o.O
And at night, he transforms into El Gatito Diablo. If I have to get out of bed to check on something (which is often the case, cause I’m terribly afraid of open windows and unlocked doors during the night), he’ll hunt me. It’s scary, I’m telling you. Suddenly he’ll jump out from some dark corner, or behind a door, and when I say jump, I mean JUMP. Mostly, he’ll reach up to my waist with his jumps. He’ll have his front paws spread wide, and his eyes are huuuge and round, making him look rather insane. He usually doesn’t have his claws out when he does this though, thankfully.
The claws, however, are always out when we go outside. We have a kitten harness for him, and a leash, because he’s too little to be outside all by himself yet. So I’ll carry him outside and into the park, and he’ll desperately wriggle around and claw at me, to make me put him down so that he can lie down and do nothing. Preferrably in the middle of the road.
So really, he’s just like any other cat: Stubborn, insane and convinced that the world is out to get him.

I better get going now, have to drop by the pharmacy to pick up more allergy meds (I’m allergic to cats, heh), and decorate the cake I made for Tor. Maybe do some vacuuming too, there’s kitty litter all over the hallway floor. Can’t accuse him of not digging enough, that’s for sure.