Yes, the great morning leaf push went off. Got the front all done, so there's quite a pile for the Webster Brigade to come and suck up in their special vacuum truck. I just have to wait until the two trees (only one is mine) in back to finish and that will be that. For here, anyway.

 

My first one was just to reload her printer software, as it would be so much work to learn how to scan without that silly little button on front. Why did it stop working anyway? It scanned, so it was talking. Oh well.

 

Then I stopped over to Rebath, his bank website was always asking him weird questions to prove his identity. Guess his cookies got messed up. I also handed him a keyboard, and told him were to stick... the usb cable to see if that solved his keyboard problem at home.

 

Then off to the 3:00, which... was nothing. I guess what I was looking for wasn't there anymore. Oh well.

 

Back home again, ordered a birthday gift for mom. Put in my most recent bank statement. It's very, very odd. Two months ago I was spot on, I must have been. This month's statement mysteriously shows $800+ I can't account for. I went through very carefully my online statement for the past couple of months thinking maybe I missed something? But no, every single item checks out. So why doesn't my bankbook program show it? At least I seem to have more then I think, rather then less? That's the preferred situation, I believe, if you asked four out of five people on the street, four of them would say, yes, that was true, while the fifth said nothing because you didn't ask them. 

 

Not sure what to do about it, usually if I'm off I'll just correct it and go on, but this is a rather substantial amount, so I would like to know where I've gone wrong, calculation wise. I accounted for every transaction up to and including today via the bank website, so... huh.

 

Ate dinner. Three calls today, well, five, but one called right back and said forget it for now, so, whatever.

 

Spent an hour last night trudging through some mecha base skating around a snow field but found out it was totally optional? And I couldn't get through it anyway? Thanks, stupid, invulnerable, white force field plot device thinger! I've played for 22 hours and I'm not even 2/3 the way through yet? Wonder if I'll even finish it before Sean gets back. You know what I liked most about the fights in FF7? They were short! *smash* *smash* VICTORY! Not *ten seconds of animation* *attack* *react* *more animation*. Honestly, 18 of the 22 hours I've played are probably me watching something flop around onscreen. Here's an idea! Every RPG comes with a "story mode". No battles, can't lose boss fights, just walk around, talk to people, find treasure, experience story. I know, I know, watch a movie, right? But seriously, I don't want to beat up that stupid monster again. I'm going to win. Once that is assured, who cares about going through the motions? The story, sorry, the INTERACTIVE story is what I want to experience. Not your battle screen again and again. 

 

Actually, this is what I like about Mass Effect. The bad guys are right there, you shoot them, they stay dead, now you can explore.

 

LEARN FROM THIS EXAMPLE, JRPGS! I'm not 8 years old anymore. Fighting giants for hours to level up enough to beat Kary should not be needed... in 2010. 

 

And remake FF7. That's all I have to say.

 

Well, enough ranting for one night? No, I'll tell YOU when you've had enough!