Day: February 22, 2006

Yesterday was Zelda’s 20th birthday! The Legend of Zelda was released on February 21, 1986. Granted, it was released in Japan on that date and the North Americans didn’t see it until the following year. But still!

I feel freakin’ old. This reminds me of last night’s conversation with Mom and how she wants new living room furniture and I was saying how they just bought that furniture but she said it was 20 years old! Gak. I cannot believe that.

So here’s another snapshot of the past – Zelda. I remember popping in the GOLD plated Nintendo game into the system and having the start screen pop up with its mysterious soundtrack. I must admit that I needed a few tips along the way to finish this game, but it was amazing nonetheless.

Zelda 2…meh, not so much.

Zelda: A Link to the Past – now THERE was a video game! My fave of the series (but sadly, I have only played those three)…it was like a souped-up version of the Nintendo version…better graphics, more items to collect, you name it, they had it!

I am hoping that I will begin my descent back into playing video games with my most recent download of Zelda 64: Ocarina of Time. I hear it’s the best one out there. In some ways, I don’t mind the fact that I’ve grown not to care for video games as much anymore…I enjoy that I go out and do things…but at the same time my inner self is screaming “Man, how could you NOT be interested in playing this game? This is Zelda!!!”

Please post any comments on your memories of only one of the cooler franchises Nintendo has to offer!

This post is dedicated to Mike, who caught a different bus this morning and missed an epic event.

Park the car, walk to the stop, stand inside grumbling about the bus that just took off (isn’t that *always* the case?), and I hear PAF!

I think nothing of it, but notice a bunch of people looking in the direction of the parking lot so I take a glance and see some poor guy’s bumper has been ripped clear off of his car!

I ask what happened and here’s the story.

Imagine yourself driving eastward to an intersection. Imagine a huge bus heading westward to the same intersection. One would imagine that you both stop, right-of-way ensues, all is well.

Not in this case…turns out that there is no stop sign while heading westward on this intersections (this in itself is not really odd, it’s a parking lot three-way stop and not a major intersection) so the bus keeps going through the intersection while the car must have misjudged and when he’s turning north into the parking lot, he clips the back of the bus with his bumper! PAF! Bumper is hanging by the tail light wires as he parks the car!

Shitty start to the morning I tell you!

In other news, I realized that I get to work at the same time if I take the later bus (as in this case) at 7:20 instead of the one at 7:10. Well I’ll be. I’ve had my suspicions before but this is verified now.