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Tuesday, November 12, 2002

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Ok... so a lot has been going on. I went to the Doctor on Thursday to get everything checked out. After the initial appointment he sent me off to go get x-rays. They took them, everything was ok... nothing major, muscular... but it would take a few days.
It's still bugging me, but feels like it's getting better. It certainly had me nervous for a bit... but glad it turned out to be ok.

I've been so occupied with my health that I didn't get to much else the past week. I took yesterday to do my laundry, come cleaning, and picking up. I got my DVD burner working, fixed the issue with video not showing up on the laptop correctly (overlays issue with the 3D card drivers, disabled overlays completely for both DVD & AVI), and burned my first few DVD-RWs (archived some DivX) and DVD-R. I made a South Park Season 6, Disc 1 & 2 with episodes 601-603, and 604-606. The quality is somewhat lame as they were smaller files... but it worked. It doesn't seem possible to scale the video quality to fit more on a disc. I might just need a more advanced program. They burn fairly quickly - about 15 to 20 minutes, and the ready-made templates make it easy to bust out a DVD with animated menus and nice graphics in no time. The media is expensive $10 & $15 a piece for DVD-R or RW media, but it's worth it and still cheap - considering. The DVD-R played no problem on the PS2, the XBox is also on the compatibility list for the drive so no worries there. All in all I'm pretty happy. I feel accomplished =]

Transworld Snowboarding for XBox is good -- very nice scenery, interesting control scheme (grabs are on the right stick, pressure sensitive), and the tracks are a nice design with lots of alternative routes. There's a "goal"-oriented progression, much like Tony Hawk. You have to achieve a certain number of objectives to unlock the next level. Maybe it's the fact that I'm stuck, but it's not fun like SSX Tricky, but maybe that's due to playing SSX Tricky so much. It's better multiplayer -- but that always depends how much the person you're playing against has played it.
I'm still not fully decided on it...

Labels: 2002