Year End Foodcation

Yesterday was Asarah b'Tevet, but I didn't fast. I should have set an alarm and woken up before sunrise for breakfast, but I stayed up too late. Sigh.

Like I mentioned in my last post, I'm on vacation now. I tend to save up a big chunk of my vacation and take it at the end of the year, since I get Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day all off, so it's easy to get a long string of days off without using too much time off. That said, I'm not really doing anything exciting. Tomorrow lisekatevans and kryptowright are coming over for dinner and to watch Dark City, and then lisekatevans is having her 40th birthday extravaganza this weekend, so there are events on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. I went out to Armenian food at Sayat Nova with goodbyeomelas last night, after Japanese class, and then walked over to Millennium Park to see the holiday illumination. On Christmas Eve I'm participating in the ancient tradition of my people and going out to Chinese food with friends, and on the 27th aaron.hosek and I are continuing our annual year-end tradition and going out to brunch at Svea. I don't have any New Year's plans yet, but we'll see what comes up.

...a lot of these plans are about food.

Last weekend, my sister wanderluster_kp had enough time off to come down from Michigan, so she and I gathered at my parents' house for the weekend. We ate delicious family dinner, went on a walk with her three dogs, and my parents loaded me down with chocolate and leftover turkey and frozen fish and then wanderluster_kp drove me back into the city. It was nice, since she and I almost never get a chance to talk. This is partially because we never used to want to, but getting older has changed that. After she dropped me off on Sunday, I did chores around the apartment , went to my Call of Cthulhu game in the evening and finished up our run of The Sense of the Slight-of-Hand Man, and then went to sleep late. Definitely been going to sleep pretty late.

Today, I'm planning to get a haircut. That's it. Hooray for vacation.

Game Review: Triforce

Newbies can't Triforce.

Someone linked to an article on Kotaku about this game, saying that it was a take on the original Hyrule Fantasy, but with puzzles involving warping of space and perspective. I loved Antichamber when I played it, the way that the puzzles all involved changing how you thought and trying actions that would be nonsensical in a normal game. Walking backward through a door led to a different room than walking forwards through it did, A window might look on two separate rooms, neither of which is the one on the other side of it. I grew disenchanted with Antichamber when it turned into more colored goop puzzles than unorthodox thinking, and I was hoping that Triforce would recapture the feeling of the first half-hour of Antichamber.

It was fun, but being another Antichamber isn't what it was trying to do.

I don't...I...what?

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