Happy Canada Day!

Canada is 142 today! Hurray! Thank god I am not that old! ;-)

Dull day

Today is dull as dishwater. It is overcast and it has been raining off and on all day. Nobody is enjoying the outdoors. I hate days like this. It is depressing and it makes think gloomy thoughts. To top it all off there isn’t anything interesting to watch on TV on a Sunday afternoon. Luckily I have some DVDs to watch. I spent about an hour and 41 minutes watching The Spiderwick Chronicles. It was pretty good reminded a little bit of the 80’s movie The Neverending Story.

Anyways I am bored as you can guess. You can only watch so much TV. Right now I am just playing games on my computer. Not much else to do other than eat, sleep, read a book, listen to music and stare out the window at the weather. I hope the rest of the summer isn’t like this. I don’t want another cool wet summer.

R.I.P. Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett

In case you have been living on another planet lately Michael Jackson died of a cardiac arrest yesterday at noon at the age of 50. It was a sad day. First Farrah Fawcett dies from cancer at 62 years of age and now Michael Jackson. I was too young to remember Farrah Fawcett in her glory days. Charlie’s Angels came on after my bed time but I do remember Michael Jackson. All the kids at school wanted to get Beat It jackets. Of course most parents balked at buying them because we were still growing and they didn’t want to spend that kind of money on a little kid’s jacket. I think only one kid at my school got a Beat It jacket the rest of us could only look on with envy. I got a fake solid red leather jacket but it couldn't be mistaken for a Beat It jacket with the zippers on it but I still was happy to get even that simple little red jacket. I was easy to please.

I also remember some kid bringing in the Thriller album and playing it on the school record player for everyone in the class to listen to. It was the first time I heard Michael Jackson sing. He sounded great so I asked for his Thriller album for Christmas that year. When I heard Michael Jackson died yesterday it was like a piece of my childhood gone. R.I.P. Michael

Getting rid of the messy feeling

I’ve been busy the last few days cleaning out junk from my closet and drawers. I can’t get over the amount of crap I have held onto including old receipts from buying college text books. I don’t know why I hold onto this stuff. I think I might need it so I keep it and than forget I have it. I am still not through going through my junk that I have collected over the years. My goal over this summer is to get rid of all my junk. Already I feel better having gotten rid of some of the stuff. There seems to be cleaner more organized feeling to the rooms in the house where I stored the junk.

My review of Sims3

I’ve been playing around with Sims3. There isn’t a lot of content. I find it lacking in hair styles. What happen to the Afro hairdo? I would like to see more hair styles for the wavy and curly haired types. Dreadlocks and short loose curly hair would be a nice addition also. Most of the hair styles seem to be for strait hair. I was also disappointed by the lack of paintings and furniture in the game. This Sims3 has even less stuff than the Sims2 which had less stuff than the Sims1. I wasn’t pleased with the Sims2 Stuff packs that came out. I figure it should have been added to the regular expansion packs. Now I have all these cases lying about taking up space on my desk. It appears to me that the makers are planning on doing the same thing with Sims3. I find that a little tiresome buying all those packs just to get more content that should have been added to the original game in the first place and no I don’t want to pay to download it off the internet either. That seems too much like work and a waste of money.

Another thing Sims3 only came with one neighbourhood to play with. I had to download the bonus neighbourhood off their site. I don’t see an option to create a new neighbourhood. All I see is an option to copy a neighbourhood which to me sucks. Why did they change things so much? Why couldn’t they have added on to what they already had with Sims2 instead of changing things so much that I have to hunt around to find things and find features that were there in Sims2 missing in Sims3? So far I like Sims2 better than I do this Sims3.

One thing I do like is the ability to easily customize things to my liking. I can change the colour of somebody’s pants and add a pattern instead which is cool and it is easy now to download and install stuff into the game. If necessary delete downloads too. I also don’t find the game is slowed down when booting up with add-ons like I did with Sims2. That is a definite improvement. Another thing is Sims are not a stupid as they were before and you don’t have to tell them to go use the toilet and other Sims in the neighbourhood age along with your Sim as well which is cool. No more childhood friends that stay children while you become an adult which is weird. I can also visit other Sims in the neighbourhood which is nice.

Here is a good and accurate review of the Sims3 from amazon.com
http://tinyurl.com/ktlv76

It is funny tongue and cheek piece about playing or should I say torturing your Sim creation.
Exploring the Mysteries of the Mind with the Sims 3
http://tinyurl.com/n28xej

Potter + ADHD + Magic = Bannana Bana POKAS!

Should I?

I am thinking of starting a new blog. It will be a picture blog of photos and drawings. I am thinking of a variety of stuff to post as opposed to some comic strip. I could do a comic strip but I am afraid it wouldn’t be very good. I guess it would probably be better than some of the other junk out there but frankly I would get bored real fast. I know I know I can barely post once a week on this blog but I was thinking a picture blog might be easier for me than writing blog posts. I can only rant so much. I just wonder if I should post pictures in this blog. At least when I have nothing to rant about I can always post a picture. What do you think? Should I have two blogs or have one combo blog of writing and my drawings?