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Games of the Decade #12/Blog a Day #19

I made a list of my favorite games, and it's so darn long I have to break it into 8 parts, roughly following console generations. This, the first part, is about the Golden Age of video games: arcades, consoles by Atari, Intellivison, and ColecoVision and PC. 

Speaking of my wife (which I did yesterday), here is her collection of Dragon Age books. DA is her favorite game series and these novels are supposedly quite good. Similar to our Halo novels, these have not been read yet and three of the four were picked up second hand. But she'll get to them! And I wouldn't be opposed to reading these myself, perhaps, once I finish with the fourteen thousand other books I have.*

Good evening Pixlpeeps! I am writing today’s blog on Monday night right before bed. I figure this way I get my random thoughts down now before I forget them and I like using my little keyboard that I bought for my iPad. I wish I would have read the description and got the one that was backlit instead of getting one that matched my wallpaper. Oh well.

Games of the Decade #13/Blog a Day #18

Like I mentioned I might do in a previous BaD blog, I dug my Vita out of the storage area of my ottoman, cleaned it, and charged it. Now I'm debating playing either Xenogears, Trails in the Sky, or Tactics Ogre. Tactics Ogre is winning, because Xenogears is pretty tough, and Trails in the Sky is a huge, two game story. However -

I had an unexpected afternoon to play on Sunday since my work schedule suddenly switched to Saturday. I was in a casual mood and so, to the tunes of bucolic flute music, managed a crew of Gnomes around a pre-industrial town of mines, mills and mage towers. 

One time in high school we had an away football game that was so far away that we stayed overnight. One of the other guys brought the first Halo novel, The Fall of Reach, with him but then proceeded to socialize rather than read it. Weird. So I borrowed it and got about halfway through the book that weekend...and then never finished it. But I did like what I read. Fast forward the better part of a decade and I'm married to a wonderful girl who likes both reading and Halo. So while neither of us has actually read through any of these books yet, we always pick them up when we see them at Goodwill or a second hand shop. One of these days I'll have a Halo novel marathon.

Good morning Pixlpeeps and Happy Presidents Day! Special shoutout to the 29^th President Warren G. Harding!