The sorer I am on Monday mornings. My neck, back, legs and arms all ache like hell…and I’m only 27! But since the number of sunny, above-freezing days is getting smaller and smaller, I chose yesterday (a sunny, above-freezing day) to cram in all the yard work I could. Most of it went pretty well; we’ll see how my foundation caulking holds up. And only three of the four solar lights we bought lit up, though I don’t think that’s my fault.
I wonder if the achiness could also be from having spent the rest of the day playing Guitar Hero III. Prodded by a nagging fear that they’d somehow sell out (since, you know, it’s exactly like how it was when the Wii went on sale) I went to Target to get it at 8:30 AM, looking like a hobo and I’m sure smelling much worse. Not only had they not put the game on the shelves yet (at least not the version packaged without guitars), it was apparently buried way in the back of the stock room.
GHIII is pretty fun. It doesn’t quite match the perfection that is Guitar Hero II, though the song selection is overall much better (I say this despite the presence of “Black Magic Woman”). They added a bunch of cut scenes and peripheral animations that I guess are ok - unless it turns out they’re contributing to the insanely long load/save times. There are also new boss battles (with Tom Morello, Slash, and the Devil). It’s an interesting concept, but I’m finding them impossible to beat, so they end up taking away from the real meat of the game.