The biggest problem with trying to post regular updates that are mostly just regular updates and not really specific to anything, like a game or a review, or a particular story or event, the problem is what to call these updates. Since I don’t really expect to post weekly I can’t call them weekly updates. And daily updates won’t work for sure. Maybe “Log Entries” will work. Sort of like in space games or in Star Trek “Captain’s log stardate…” Only maybe it will just be “Log Entry ##.##.##” or something like that.
So for the latest in my world.
The day job offered a couple of challenges the week before the Memorial Day holiday. I had some change controls early in the week that didn’t go as planned. They were fairly easily fixed, fortunately. Unfortunately, they were two in a row all before noon on Monday. That is so not the way to start a week. I also had a challenge to create a recurring job to clean up some transaction logs on a server. The choice was to either setup a job that would just keep an eye on a couple of databases. But since the name of one of them would be changing quarterly, I went with option two which was to setup the job so it would just clean up all log files over a certain size. For many this will seem like a fairly trivial task. For me it was a new opportuntiy to learn something and figure something out. And I succeeded so that’s good.
On the game front. Remember, I don’t get to play regularly.
So in Fallout 4 I have finally made it to level 5. Yay. I made it to Lexington, I think that’s where I’m at. I died like 5 times just trying to go a block. But I finally took out the two turrets and the two snipers so that’s progress. I’ve got a little better gear. I picked up some leathers and an enhanced chest piece. I’m not sure I’m making the best choices with my level up points in my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. categories. Oh well. Guess I’ll see how it plays out.
In Zelda: Breath of the Wild, I finally made it off the plateau. So now the reall game begins. I’ve made it to the next shrine and passed that test. Though, I did miss getting one of the chests in there. I might go back and see if I can still get it before moving along.
For World of Warcraft, I played for a little bit but not long. I have a hunter that I want to level up. I’ve got 3 toons at 110 and I’m going for the 5 toon achievement with that. My hunter is level 70 now. I managed to make it that far. I’m in Borean Tundra right now but as I got there at leve 68, I’ve covered a lot of the content, minus the dungeons, so I’m not sure there is enough left to get me to 72 to move on. As I was playing I realized that it had really gotten too easy. Especially playing DPS. Don’t get me wrong. I kind of understand the mindset of Blizzard for doing it. But I’m not sure I agree with it. In some ways it cheapens the accomplishment of getting a character to max level. The reward feels more for endurance than for skill. And that’s frustrating. But that could mean either, I should try one of the other roles or, that it’s time for me to branch out and learn some new games and play styles. I’m leaning towards the latter.
There are so many games out these days, with different mechanics and some incredible art and interesting stories. I think it might be time to learn how to play a few of those. Even the ones in first person view. Though, those will likely take longer to learn and to make progress. You try learning a game in 15 minute intervals.
With that in mind I picked up a couple of new to me pre-owned games for my Xbox One. I got Destiny and I got Watch Dogs. I haven’t started them yet. I’ve heard that Watch Dogs is a bit different than Watch Dogs 2 and I kind of want to check it out. Destiny interests me while we wait for Destiny 2 to come out. I saw the trailer and the announcement for it and Destiny 2 looks cool and like a lot of fun. I’m excited for this one. So in the interim, I think I want to give Destiny a try. We’ll see how it goes.
Another game I’m excited for is Rokh. It’s on Steam Early Access right now. I’m tempted to play it but since it is early access I may wait a month or two before getting into it. From what I’ve seen and read of it, with a few exceptions, this may be the Mars game I would have made. So I am really excited for it. Just not sure how early I want to get in on it.
I haven’t gotten back to Watch Dogs 2 yet. I may give that a shot here in the next day or so. I still need to get past that first mission. I know, sad.
I’ve still got that studying to do for the day job. I finished another chapter. Finally. I was sort of stuck on it because I kept getting interupted before I got it finishe. I’ve started the next one and it’s so far more interesting. And probably more useful. It’s on troubleshooting.
There are still a few things I need to do for my websites. And I’ve got a new project I’m working on for something extra I do at the day job. I have been running a hangman game and keeping track of the puzzles in a notepad page on one of my tablets. I need to put together a better way of keeping track of that. I’ve started the first step, getting the entries into something searchable. The next step will be to make it even more searchable and maybe even a web type app.
Now that you are all up to date on things. I think I’ll go make some art and play some games.
