A weekend of hiking and old games
I spent the end of last week wrestling with Django and not getting very far. I’m trying to recode this site more or less from the ground-up in order to implement a few features that I’d like. Unfortunately I seem to progress rather quickly through the verbose error messages to the non-verbose and impossible to decipher sort. After a few days of this I was in need of a nice break.
Fortunately the weekend came around, and it was off to the woods for another round of geocaching. We chose 4 sites in a state park near us and took off, finding 3 of the 4. We probably would have gotten all of them if we hadn’t bitten off a bit more than we could chew for the actual hiking portion; we ended up going something like 6 or 7 miles if the park map is to be believed.
After collapsing back at the house, I decided to install and play around with some old computer games. First I gave Space Quest 6 a shot, but that one seems to have a bug that makes a certain portion unpassable. After that I installed Grim Fandango, a LucasArts puzzle game. It was a lot of fun (although frustrating as only these types of games can be) to play through some of that with Mrs. PA.
I also installed two demos of newer games off of Steam: Overlord and Audiosurf. Overlord received some good reviews in the gaming press when it came out a while back, but the demo was sort of “meh”, and I think at $39.99 I’m going to pass. Audiosurf, on the other hand, was a lot of fun. This $10 game allows you to play sort of a musical tetris, with your own audio files as the source material. You select one of your MP3s, and the game auto-generates a level based on the sonic profile. You then fly your ship through the level, collecting colored blocks in different lanes to make rows. It’s a bit hard to describe, but I highly recommend checking it out.
Oh, and I also got to watch Spain beat Germany in Euro 2008 :) It was a nice weekend! Now the week is upon us once again, so it’s off to the lab…
