The Bill Report
Been a long week. I just didn’t feel much like talking about the whole Barbaro thing. It sucked. Not much more I want to say about that other than it’s great to see him doing well, even though he is by no means out of the woods yet.
OK game stuff:
My HoMM5 review is up.
I’m also waiting on review code for NFL Head Coach (PC) for review at CGM and I’m just now starting to play Gallop Racer 2006 (PS2). I’ll be doing a review of Rise of Legends (PC) for GameShark, despite the fact that it’s been out for a bit. I still want to play that. OOTP 2006 (PC) is literally right around the corner and I’ll be doing that review for CGM as well. Finally, GameSpy has assigned me Spellforce 2 (PC) …so I certainly do not have a lack of stuff to do right now…which for a freelancer is a good thing.
I also have to say that I am jonesing for a good arcade football game and I hope NCAA fits that bill. I feel like it’s been ages since I played one that had any teeth and I hope I am not being off base in thinking that NCAA 07 will be a lot better than the last two editions.
Life stuff:
Don Pablos is buying us a new 61″ Samsung. Yeah, I’m still big screen HDTV-less, but not for much longer. As you may remember, my wife was assaulted in a Don Pablos parking lot a few months ago. Our medical bills, after insurance, was around 2K. So Don is sending us a check to cover our costs, which we have already paid. So Mary wants to use the $2,500 check to buy the TV. Not sure how I feel about that…watching the Sopranos on a new 61″ DLP and thinking that my wife had to take a pounding for me to sit there and watch it. Still, she’s adament about it.
I’m also in the middle of my first neighbor dispute. People that live outside the city will certainly be able to relate to this: we’re debating over the rerouting of field tile. Our neighbor’s tile is linked to ours, an it’s linked to his downspouts which will undoubtedly conatins leaves and other debris which is then routed to our curtain drain, which can get backed up which will then ruin our leech bed and run us about 6K to fix down the road. The debate is actually over I think because we’re cutting the line off at our property because this dope won’t fix it himself even though we offered to run the tile to our back lot if he chipped in, which he refused. Ah well. Maybe I can sooth this 50 year olf roofer with a free copy of Madden? Doubtful.