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I keep telling myself I'm going to be better at blogging, and I write a blog post, and then I disappear again. But then again, up until a few months ago, I hadn't been doing much gaming. And then I was too busy gaming to be bothered to blog. So, here's what I've been up to:

I will admit it, I am a Dragon Quest addict. I've had DQ XI for two weeks and I've already sunk over 100 hours into it. I work, I eat, I walk the dog, and sometimes I sleep, but mostly I play DQ XI.

At a time when I really shouldn't be spending money on things I don't need, what do I do? I buy two new games. I should feel remorse and guilt, but I don't.

And the busiest weekend for our state park system is at hand. And this year, it's even busier than usual because our governor decided to make them free for Maine residents. While this seems like a great idea, it's wreaking havoc with us foot soldiers (aka park rangers), because most of our parks have already put half or more of our crews on seasonal layoff, leaving too few rangers to deal with too many park visitors. My little park filled at 10:45 this morning, and it didn't let up until a little after 4:00 this afternoon. There were two of us to deal with it from the time we opened the gates at 9:00 until the closing person came in at 1:00, and one of us had to be in the booth. Michael has blisters and my arches are killing me from walking from one parking lot to the other for hours on end. What does that have to do with gaming you ask? It means I have zero energy left at the end of the day after I have walked the dog, made and eaten dinner, and cleaned up whatever messes the cat has left me, and I hate when my work life interferes with my gaming.

Wow, it has been a long time since I wrote a new blog post! I've been busy with work, Beau, gaming, and the movie watching project I started a couple of years ago.

Several weeks ago, I was in the mood for an RPG, so I dug out Tales of Berseria, which I bought when it came out, started, and never finished. Almost a year later, I knew I wasn't going to remember a thing about it and just started over. I just finished it last week and spent some time mopping up the last of the side quests and grabbing a few trophies. No way will I ever get a platinum in this game, some of the trophies require multiple playthroughs and who has that kind of time? 

Sorry I've been among the missing. I've been recovering from one of the worst cases of the flu I've ever experienced and the pneumonia that followed it. Good times!

We've had a lot of sub-zero cold, a blizzard, and another snow storm since I last posted. I had to work during the blizzard. They eventually closed the market at 5 PM, so I did get to go home early. And the storm on Wednesday happened on my day off, and I spent the whole day gaming.

It's been too bloody cold for too long here in Maine (and most of the rest of the USA and Canada), and the only time I've left the house in the last week has been to go to work. It's been so cold the dog's been switching which hind leg he stands on mid-pee. Today, however, a heat wave erupted and it got up into the mid-twenties. So I drove to Portland, picked up Jason, and we took Beau to the beach. And after the beach, we hit the mini mall with one of the book stores we got gift cards for, and it also has a Goodwill, and down the street is a Bull Moose Music.

While browsing through the sale games on PSN, I came across this game. It looked kinda cool but I hadn't heard anything about it. But, hey, it was on sale, so why not? Our download speed here is incredibly slow, so I left the PS4 in rest mode and by the time I got home from work, it had finally installed. I needed a break from Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2, so I figured I'd check out Yonder. This was a little past 9 PM. Next thing I knew, it was 3 AM! So that answered the question of "will it be worth it?"