Yeah… just changed this blog’s theme with a few hours of poking around. It’s based off of H5 by Jeff Starr which is one of my normal framework themes, as of late.

I’ll probably change some stuff but, I think it was a decent challenge which actually worked out!

After seeing how engrained into videogame culture FF:VII was at Comic-Con, I became determined to get myself out of the dark and get more than a few hours in. FF:VII and I have never been serious: we live a relationship of abandoned saves and repeated cluelessness from jumping into those saves from years ago. I decided it was time to feel the love. Found my “Greatest Hits” discs from storage and started playing with ePSXe on a P4/Radeon 9600 I threw together. After several late night sittings, I was suddenly 25 hours in and blown away.

No. I needed to get more serious. There were other games to be experienced after this… Crisis Core would be calling to me. I would have to rewatch Advent Children with the knowledge of the game’s entirety. I would dust off the PS2 and struggle through Dirge of Cerberus.

I decided to go the route of the PSP when I discovered that, with some persuasion, PS1 games run flawlessly and it would make my new love portable. Being myself, nothing would do except a broken PSP which was easily found from a friend of a friend. After hacking together a charger from an old bluetooth headset charger, I began looking into custom firmwares and simultaneously ripping any PS1 game I could find.

Messed with all sorts of goodies and even made menus from some images.

With some plugin help, I was able to move my ePSXe memory card to the PSP and load it up. I’m certain when all this is finished with, I’ll have another writeup… back to the game.

..and some money to throw at them! In less than two weeks, I have acquired two bikes (A late 70′s Peugeot UO9 and what seems to be an early 80′s Univega Viva Sport) which are getting loved here and there when I have spare time. So freaking ready for some consistently nice weather!!!

Don’t worry, that water bottle is gone.

God… what a powerful voice. Just discovered fun. recently which is strange since I’ve been a fan of The Format for a while.

Every so often, I hear some Freddie Mercury reminiscent vocal control and that epic, huge soundstage.

For some crazy reason, Everclear happens to be the headlining band for the Seattle Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon &1/2. A band which I never would have been able to see in my high school years suddenly is going to be at the finishing line after I run 13 miles. Almost feel like I should put together a running playlist to get myself in the millennial throwback mood when I finish.

Oh the days before online music distribution and how those lists of CDs available through subscription music clubs tempted me. So glad that my parents never actually let me do that no matter how many albums I told them they could include with my order.

Threw together a few songs for the online scrapbook. Apparently nonsensical songwriting was the cool thing to do.

Now that this auction has ended and there is no way that I can ever sell enough plasma to acquire it, I’m going to vent the last of my envy in a blog post. God it’s amazing. $510 doesn’t seem that bad either.

Floaty, auto-tuney bliss.

Couldn’t help but notice how similar these album covers were. I mean, they’re so close to each other in my iTunes library!