On a whim, I got a pedometer and decided to track how many steps I took in a day. I remember that a coworker was doing ten thousand steps a day for health, so that was part of the reason I got interested.
Turns out I’m nearly at eight thousand steps (seven thousand eight hundred eighty four) and it’s only two in the afternoon.
So much for that.
So I downloaded the demo of Puzzle Quest from gamedaily. I think it’s a good thing that the game is hard to find, because if I ever do get a hold of it, there goes my already scant free time.
The game combines Bejeweled with a Role Playing Game set in a fantasy universe and it actually works.
Bejeweled is already compelling enough as it is, but when you add an RPG element with customizable character growth—it becomes difficult for me to walk away.
The basic gameplay element is matching three or more symbols on a grid. Each symbol represents one of four types of mana, bonus experience, gold, or damage. When you “fight” an enemy creature, you take turns on the grid, matching symbols. When you match skulls (the symbol for damage) you take down some of their hit points. Matching up mana symbols nets you enough mana to cast spells that can do various things, for instance heal damage you’ve taken, or making the enemy lose their turn.
Overall it’s a lot of fun, and even if you lose the battle, you earn experience, so no gameplay session is ever negated.
Which is a good thing, in my opinion.
So far, I’ve been unsuccessful finding it at my local best buy so I may just have to break down and order it online.
The strange thing about the demo is that it looks like a completed PC version, and yet there hasn’t been an announcement of the PC version.
No matter what day of the year it happens, this is the worst day to come in to work.
I hate Daylight Savings Time.
I understand that there’s a benefit in it somewhere, but I’ve yet to see it in my lifetime. All I know, is that once a year, my body perceives that I’m an hour ahead of schedule—I’m at work or school an hour earlier than I have to be. Of course, the night before, I stayed up an hour later than I normally do because I look at one of my many clocks and believe that I have another hour before bedtime.
Needless to say, today, the first work day after traveling an hour into the future, I’m not very productive. Right now, I’m just sort of wobbly and a bit grumpy.
On the other hand, it can’t be as bad as folks in Indiana, who just started observing DST last year. Last year ended their 40 year streak. Now they too, have an annual cycle that features hour’s worth of time travel.
Welcome to an hour into the future!
I know, it’s overwhelming, just wait a few months and we’ll send you back.
Yes, I know it sounds silly to me too, but we all do it. Everyone except Arizona and Hawaii.
Lucky bastards.