I already suck...

So, I figured I'd spend this past weekend playing MGS Portable Ops (or MPO as it is apparently known) while I was away on a three day vacation with my wife. You know, relax around the hotel, break out the PSP, play a game whose storyline I was destined to laugh at, write about why I like the PSP better than the DS (mostly a screen thing), and turn it into one of those cool blog posts where I riff about games and mix in some interesting anecdotes about what I was doing (I had a cool story lined up about playing the PSP in the hotel bar while I downed $9 drinks).

Well....that got shot to hell fast. Firstly, because the MPO disc I rented from Blockbuster didn't work (reason #482 why I shouldn't have canceled my Gamefly account) I had to return it for the Splinter Cell PSP, oh, sweet irony. Well, I had no desire to talk about that, and ended up spending most of the weekend playing the Sega Genesis Collection and watching GUTS on Nick GaS (the worst channel name ever). Secondly, I ended up coming home Monday to find the new Harry Potter book on my desk. So I spent all day Monday and into Tuesday morning (bout 1am) reading the book. So, Tuesday came and there I was, exhausted from lack of sleep and with nothing substantial to talk about in video games. I decided to let the day pass and maybe post something on Wednesday if an interesting topic came up. Sadly, the only thing that really caught my eye in the video game world was the sudden "The sky is falling!" syndrome with the Xbox 360. And I had no desire to discuss that because there was nothing to discuss. It's the same old overreactions from a video game community that has a long, proud tradition of overreacting. Big deal. Then, to top it off, I ended up having to go sign up for my fall classes yesterday afternoon (a 45 minute drive one way) and that pretty much shot my day.

So, to cap it off, I had a relaxing weekend broken up by my inability to secure the game I wanted to play followed by my inexplicable decision to stay up till 1am to read a book from a series I only partially like, then ended up not having anything to discuss and ignored my new blog for almost a week.

As I said, I already suck.

Hopefully, I can do my WoW idea this weekend. I talked to my wife about it (who is an integral part of that plan) and she seemed lukewarm on the idea, but I have faith in my powers of persuasion. I also happen to think that I might be, finally, getting a PS3 on the near horizon. So, hopefully, I'll actually have something to talk about there in the near future.