Two In A Month

I'm blogging again! Twice in one month, I'm on a roll :-p

We got guitar hero 3 for the Wii, and have been enjoying it's rock goodness. We played a bit with Bretto last night, and my skills were demonstrated... mostly that I can only get through about 1/2 the setlist on hard :-p But I'm working on it.

It's actually kind of interesting how it helps with playing the real guitar. It doesn't improve your skills mind you (the differences are just too great), but it does provide a good mechanism for keeping up your chops. Your ability has a tendency to fade over time, and this can keep you up. You won't get better, but it keeps you from getting worse, and you can play it without tuning, waking the neighbors, and with a friend, which makes it a great alternative.

I also saw a gameplay video for Pro Evolution Soccer 8 on the Wii today, and it looks pretty dang cool. They are doing lots with the controller to help with off the ball movement, which is about the only thing that game lacks (save for a release on the friggin PC here in the US).

The house stuff is coming along, but I'd really just like it all to be done, and to get on with making the adjustments/improvements that I want to mess with. It feels kind of weird thinking of having a house, but there you go.

I'm still having the constant battle with myself over time. I have a tendency to overestimate how long it takes to do things, whether for pleasure or work, and so have a hard time settling down. For instance, unless it's something fairly rigidly defined (like a 25 minute game of PES 7, wonder why I play that so much hmmm?) I tend to think that if I don't have 2 hours to do it, it's not worth getting started. Problem being that I don't have 2 solid hours to do something but once or twice a week, and playing is not the only thing I want to do.

I also know that this is silly, and it would probably be better do to 1/2 of something even if I do run out of time than to not do it at all, but every ounce of my mind tells me that leaving stuff undone is bad, but leaving stuff half-assed is far far worse. I would like to work on my weapons in Aikido and Escrima, to work out a bit more (simple isometric stuff), review and integrate smaller movements into my Tai Chi, play soccer and the other games I have yet to beat on my list, read the book for the second half of my CCNA test (of which I passed the first... while sick even... suck it routers! :-p), do some light carpentry work (especially with the new house), spend quality time with friends, my wife and others, learn a song to play and sing on my guitar, learn more songs/skills on the guitar, among other things!

It all seems so overwhelming sometimes that you just don't end up doing any of it, and feel bad. Or you do it and it feels like work, so you don't get what you want out of it. Yay for Catch 22 situations. Joy joy joy. I guess there are worse things that could be going on in life, but my schizophrenic nature of interest is really screwing with my mojo :-p

I guess the hardest part of all of this is soo much of it is down to when inspiration strikes, and it rarely strikes at a time when you can take advantage of it. Without the inspiration, I tend to feel like messing with it is a waste of time, as doing anything is soo much more productive when you want it.

So does anyone know of any good ways to strike inspiration at will? It would be a nice trick...

Are you pondering what I'm pondering Pinky? I think so Brain, but I don't think that a tree AND a hippo will make good superheros.