I was going to load a lot more pictures but I'm giving up now. I've been fighting with the computer and the server for way too long now. I'm lucky to have one up and I'm calling it good. I couldn't sleep this morning, after playing GH with Michele last night, and more after she signed off. By nine am this morning I decided to go to Mickey D's and get some breakfast, so Ozzy and I popped in the car and drove through the neighborhood and snuck up on MacDonald's. Imagine our surprise on our drive home to find that the service road, the area between the freeway and the road, was on fire in two places. I slowed down and grabbed my camera. There wasn't too much traffic and the guy who was behind me pulled into Best Buy anyway.
As I finally pulled through the dense smoke lingering over the street, I noticed there was a police car was parked in the opposite lane with his lights flashing, keeping his eye on the fire. There also seemed to be one out on the freeway, parked and doing the same thing. I pulled away from the smoke, noticing that Ozzy was shaking again, as he does around smoke. We came back home and had our breakfast, smelling of grass fire, which lingered quite a while.
I played again today on GHWT, then Michele came online and we played together for a bit. Last night was a bit longer for me. I stayed up until after midnight, after Michele signed off, until my fingers were having problems bending normally and my mind wasn't actually telling my fingers what to do anymore. I was in a zooooooone.
Tonight I was doing okay, but my mind isn't at that zen place again. I get distracted to easily. I would begin a song and notice the strut my guy was doing on the stage as he was waiting and realize I missed the beginning of the song. Restart. Or one time I was playing and they did a close up of the drummer and she was wearing a leather bra. Huh? Aww, I lost my place. They do the details so well but it gets distracting. The best part of playing for me has been the learning to ... well, kinda zen out and pay attention to the music. I got over it last night and did a couple of perfect songs. You get gold stars for that. Yay.
Ugh. Must put something in my stomach. G'night.
1 comment:
I bet that was a bit of a shock as you were driving down the road! Was it a controlled burn, or just so small they were only keeping an eye to make sure it didn't spread?
We have been playing RockBand 2 a lot, that game is a lot of fun! I decided since we had to play it from the beginning anyway I might as well do it on hard. So far so good! I have played some on hard that I had never tried before.
The one thing I really wish they had done however was to change it so you could adjust the difficulty on a per-song basis. GH did that and that was one of the things I liked best about it.
We have a lot of beginners giving it a try as well, which I think is the whole point of the game. Having people at different levels of skill playing at the same time. This is where I think RB really shines. If your new friend gets stuck or hits a hard part and drops out, you can save them. In GH you have to start over. Both of them allow you to use the energy to help them, but allowing you to bring back a band-mate twice (three strikes and you do need to start over) helps get you to work together more.
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