portal
finished Portal (1st person puzzle shooter by Valve, for those of you non-gamers) this morning, finally. just got the orange box last week (yay black friday deals! only $25) and spend probably the best 2.5 hours of my gaming* life in a long time playing portal. i can’t believe i took this long to get around to it. i haven’t hit the advanced maps or the challenge maps yet, but i’m looking forward to it.
the way things are going at work though, it may be after christmas before i can get to it. working on work, and i need to be done with it like yesterday. yikes, right?
sara and i played a lot of mario party on sunday, which was awesome. some enforcer friends of ours popped in and we had some four player action as well. and pizza. and the day before that, sara and i had a brainwave and put together a projector screen for our new mitsubishi HC1500. we got some really nice fabric at Jo-Ann Fabric that was extremely opaque (intended for windowblinds), some extra thread, etc., and then went to home depot and got an 8′ long 2″x2″ made of some crazy hardwood that wouldn’t bend under its own weight, and a length of PVC pipe for the bottom to pull down the screen good and tight. got some shelf brackets, eye bolts, drywall screw combos, and s-hooks for the hanging mechanism, and while sara sewed up the loops at top and bottom for the 2×2 and the pie to sit in, i measured and hung the brackets. once complete, it looked awesome. we watched annie hall. the projector isn’t in the best place (we had to keystone a little), but it looks really good, and i can’t wait to get some component cables for the Wii so that we can see it all in glorious 480p.
yeah. 480p. i don’t have anything that does 720p or 1080anything yet. one step at a time!
*: sara found this post which did not originally including the adjective ‘gaming’. i am chastened.
