I've been listening to a lot of Great Big Sea of late, and this is the song that's stuck in my head at the moment. I thought it would be as good a title as any.
This morning I woke up to the sound of my cat breaking out of his room and coming down the stairs. If you haven't been to my place, the room we're keeping him in is a little hard to describe. You see, the room is only about 5 feet tall, but it's not because to ceiling is too low...It's actually because the floor is too high. The floor kind of juts upwards but the ceiling doesn't follow suit. I think it was originally intended to be a kind of storage area that the landlords thought they could pass off as a bedroom.
The door to this room is nothing more than a closet door that the cat can easily push open from the inside. Leading from the door is a set of 3 wooden stairs. Since Sam got sick, I've been terrified that he would get the door open and fall down the stairs, causing worse damage than what's already been done. Therefore, Dan and I came up with the solution of putting a door stop under the door so that the cat couldn't just push the door open, hopefully keeping him safe from any nasty falls.
This morning, I woke up to the sound of something clicking on the stairs. I didn't realize it was Sam's claws until he was toddling into my room. I have no idea how the door stop came lose. Dan thinks he heard it fall out from under the door sometime in the night, but didn't think much of it. I wonder if Sam did it, and then decided to surprise us in the morning? We may never know.
Also, I accomplished something today which I have never done before. I finish a video game all by my self! That's right! I made it all the way through Beyond Good and Evil, and completed it!
This may not seem like a big deal (or it may, depending on how pathetic you might label me for never having finished a video game before). But when I was young (as in 8) my parents bought a Nintendo for us. It came with two games: Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros. My parents told us that they would not buy us any more games for the Nintendo until we beat the games we had. Duck Hunt was never a game meant to be beaten...the ducks just went faster and faster till you couldn't shoot them any more. Mario Bros, on the other hand...
I made it to level 8-1 (there were 4 sub-levels per level, if anyone remembers) and I could never get past it. The level was too long, and I never had enough lives. Obviously, you couldn't save at any point in the game, and it was all timed. So of course, if you died completely, you had no choice but to start over from scratch. And so, my parents never bought us any more games. However, our cousins gave us some of their old ones later on, so we did eventually get to play other games as well. But I never beat any of them either. Most of them never even really held my interest. I think the only two I really enjoyed playing were Double Dragon II and Super Mario Bros 2. Even then, I couldn't beat them. Same problem...I always died before I could finish.
But I finally did it! I actually really enjoyed the game too. Though I thought they could have made it a little longer, and maybe gone into the plot a little more. There were a couple of things that were left unfinished...obviously to leave it open to possible sequels... and I wouldn't even mind a sequel...I just hope it doesn't fall into that "sequel trap" that most things like this do.
Now it's time to finish up Final Fantasy IX and X. I'm sure I'll be kept busy for a while...
In terms of video games, anyway...
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