barely fatal

I’ve been off sick for a week, off the job, off the internet. After many visits to different doctors and a whole bunch of tests (including electric shocks) they still have no clue what it actually is that I have, but I’m taking some meds now (beats sitting around waiting, doing nothing) and we all hope for the best. I’ll go back to work tomorrow, I’m not contagious or anything (apparently). But the whole story leaves me be a little nervous and uncertain of where this is gonna go. I have appointments for more tests within the next month, maybe we’ll learn more, or it’ll just go away, or I’ll simply die, well, we’ll see I guess. Long live the modern medicine. Oh, I don’t have HIV by the way, isn’t that a relief. But they somehow failed to let me know my blood type. I would guess it’s … huh, U, as in Unknown.

I watched a lot of shows, no surprise, given all the free time on my hands (when I wasn’t sitting in some doctor’s waiting room reading month-old tabloids). I enjoyed my birthday presents, The Wire is still the better show compared to The Shield, but season 4 lacked a little action. The Shield has plenty of that, but lacks a little … acting. I could use a break now from cop shows. What’s hot and available as a box set?

I very much enjoyed playing through Ghostbusters, as an extension to the movies it really does a good job. All the well-known characters and locations – *sigh*, almost like going back to my childhood. We used to play GB on a C64 back in the day, holding the proton back now and busting with Egon and Ray feels like coming home. The textures look a little washed-out in some parts of New York, okay, but the faces look just like real. The final boss fights could have been a little more complex. This is not an open world game, you go into an area, catch the ghosts, move on. But hell, I’ve had fun doing so. Even after picking up a team mate for the third time in a fight. The Vigo portrait in the fire house has so many great lines to say, the Stay Puffed fight, Bill Murray’s voice, the destruction you can cause with your packs … I just wish it was a little longer. But I’ll be damned, I’ll have to get the movie on Blu-ray now.