Say What I Think

G-d of War is a fun little game so far. It doesn’t do levels like most games I have played but I still enjoy it. This is a action base store and it is a game that has puzzles and your character. Some of the puzzles require battling your enemy and then you get circle above it head and then you have to hit either the triangle, square, X, or the O button, this is challenging and on some battles you will die quickly because the messing up seems to give your enemy the advantage.

Your character gets to choose between personal redemption, or saving the world of man and gods. I do not believe I have reached this choose in the game yet. Right now I am in the river flowing with lava and taking a break to think about the way to best pass by the enemy who are crawling on the wall. It seems if you can do your strong attack quicker then they can reach you, then you can pass them. This is what I am struggling with because it seems like my controllers don’t respond faster to me. The game does have 3 settings Easy, Normal, and Hard. Hard does not open until you have conquered the game in easier or normal. Easy is still a challenge, but I haven’t been gaming for a long time on the PSP. I used my Hubby’s before we him his new PSP, but the controls are similar to the PS3 controller so I think I am familiar with the controls.

The Graphics where great, I was surprised. The story line starts off with needing to find the sun god and get him back into the sky or the other will die along with man can because the god of evil is enslaving or something the gd of sun. The picture of the character look almost life like, and they move like real people would. Sometimes it is hard to see your enemy coming because it comes up from the ground but normally there a little round circle looking thing where the enemy will come out. The towns and temple are cool looking, in some places it is hard to see the treasures so take your time when your going through the game, so you don’t miss something.

This is a newer game for the PSP. Let me start by saying if you don’t much care for turn base games you will probably end up hating the game. I found this game to be frustrating from the very beginning. One of the first battles is against a character that is level 20, and you have to win the battle or else you lose the game. I was at level 3 or 4 when they had me battle this guy. This is unfair leveling, it was very difficult to beat it, and I died several times. Normally I do not like turn base games, I prefer action base games for the most, but there have been a few turn base that I have enjoyed this is not one of them. You start of with 2 character a man and woman, who resembles to princess of a town they end up in. Soon another and her dog joins the team. The dog can not do any training or anything special maybe later in the game. The character can be in 4 different classes of study to start with then as the game progresses more classes unlock.

The graphic  are good, I think there is a good story line just not one that you can get through. The graphics where a little on the dark side but it worked will for the time period the game should have been in. There is some voice acting it seems well mixed the voices aren’t over powered by the music which is good. The battle screen graphics are okay, there was really nothing that made me go oh cool, this is neat.

I did not like the fact that the game was 100% turn based, there is no walking the characters around in the cities, there is no looking for more treasure unless it in your battle screen.  Pretty much there is no freedom at all in the game. Buying weapons and armor isn’t easy to do neither, and the only treasure I got had a healing berry in it. The game would have been more enjoyable if I would have been able to level up my character before going into battles in the main story line.  I will give them this, their opening credits where nice, and for the most I liked the music they played.

I got a new hard drive and a wi-fi card for the computer though newegg.com, my husband got them for me.  When my last hard drive crashed we where less then a week out of our warranty and HP did not want to help us other then charge us a extra 30 bucks to tell us that the hard drive was not good which we already knew and would want to chard us another 300 bucks if not more to get the computer up and running after the install of the OS system. Our Rabbi was able to get the old drive up with Window Vista, and we were grateful and hoping to put a second hard drive in there but found our we did not need a second hard drive for what I need but found our it was my sound card that was the problem. The sound card is good but not for home recording it not a full duplex sound card meaning that it can’t play and record at the same time.  My old drive while installing different things in it kept crashing on me and became a real pain in the backside. Hubby and I decided it be best to get a new hard drive, and put Vista on the new one. I am finding I like Window Vista. The thing I don’t like about Vista is there no games in Vista Business, personally I like a couple of the games. I can down load those probably.

We Got a Seagate Barracuda 7200 hard drive with 250 Gig of space. It works great not catching or anything. The computer actually works better then when we had XP on it, it running fast. It was simple to install Window Vista, I had no trouble. I just had to open my CDRom and put in the Vista and Vista pretty much did it all for me. It took maybe a hour to do this, they didn’t even want me to call them but that probably because i forgot to activate my copy, and had 3 days lift to activate. The only thing we did not like about the hard drive thing it did not come with the cable for it, and did not say it, at least I do not think it did.

My Wi-Fi card was a ASUS WL-138g V2 PCI Wireless Adapter. I did not even need to use the CD to get this to work. When Vista install it install the drivers and everything I needed and was able to get on line right away. This is great. The internet speed is great better then my Laptop which is good. My desktop computer is in our spear bedroom that I am using for a office recording studio type thing. My Router is in the living room not to far away but has to work through the walls. I have full strength on the Wi-Fi card connectivity. I only had to find my server, and then enter my password and I was all set to go and was able to surf on line quickly.

Newegg once again did a great job of getting our product to us right away, even though hubby never got a email in his in box. I personally think their email went to his junk mail and he deleted it. When he went to their site he was able to find what he needed quickly. To be honest when he was telling me he didn’t get a email I was a little worried because it seemed odd, but we got it on Thursday and I been able to use the computer since Friday. I really do like the computer again. I think hubby and I can build our own computers now. We had our Rabbi install the stuff for us just to make sure it right, but he had us install the OS. I have installed things into computers a few times but never a new hard drive and to be honest that kindof scared me because what I need this computer for. Now in order to deal with the sound card I will need to increase the power supply. Would you believe HP put a 300 W power supply in there, when most makers stop using that like 10 years ago. Most computer have a 500w supply.

Tonight my husband and I went out to dinner, normally Friday night we do and I never prepare anything. I am getting over a stomach flue, and I was finally hunger tonight. My husband had suggest a couple of places but where all to heavy on foods. My stomach is still easily irritated. I have a serious allergy to pork products so it is hard to find places where I don’t have to explain about the allergy. I hate doing that to people but it has to be done and most places are willing to work with us very few have turned us away. Some have told me about 90 percent of their menu I couldn’t order. At Falafel King they had no pork products so that made my life a lot easier, they did have beef and shrimp. I do not eat Beef because it simple don’t agree it’s a mild allergy, so I try to avoid to. Shrimp I do not eat because I eat according to the dietary laws in Torah.

My husband and I don’t normally try new places we have our set places we go, but the last month we have tried 2 new places and each ended up being good for us. At Falafel King, they where nice from the beginning, first we wanted to look at a menu and then decide from there, because we can tell quickly when a place just simple do not work. We decided to try it, I felt so under dressed. I was wearing a pear of black sweats that where not exactly clean, I was being a slob. I don’t feel good so why worry.

When we walked into the restaurant there was music playing and they had a flat screen TV to the left of the door, it just felt really welcoming in there. They had a belle dancer there to never been to a restaurant quite like this one. We where seated at a near by table, and was lift with our menus, I asked for water and got some soda water. I don’t like it but my husband does so no big deal.

I had ordered the Falafel King combo, it was 2 very large falafels, to big for me to easily fit into my mouth, I think I had about 3 or 4 bites off of each balls, 2 rice rolls wrapped in grape leaves, 2 different types of deeps one was hummas the other I am not sure what it was any more but it had a egg plant base. It was very good. I will say this is the first restaurant that I actually ate the tomatoes on my plate, anyone who knows me, knows I will not eat tomatoes unless I hand picked them but those tomatoes looked really good and they were, and there were about 8 pita bread thingys. Overall my dinner was feeling and not to spice or acidic for me to be able to handle and there was no meat neither, I think this is the earliest meal I have had this week.

My husband had a Lamb Beef pita thing, with large fries and some dip he didn’t touch. He said he liked the iceberg lettuce which normally he don’t. He seemed to enjoy his meal and at it all but that dip stuff. I would say there food was great. There costumer service was good to.

What I did not like about the place is that they put me underneath a speaker with the music and it was loud but not unbearable, and he did ask if it was okay, and I said yes. I think the speaker caused him trouble with me because the music was in a range where my voice pretty easily blends in. Overall there was nothing bad that happened from the speaker being right over head.

At one point I was pretty shocked at what there dancer was doing she was dancing with a sword on top of her head. Don’t worry she told me it was not a sharp sword. I wish I could do something like that but I am sure someone or my self would turn into a kabob if I tried. She even invited costumers to join her in dancing which don’t happen in a lot of places with the staff. She was a very kind young woman, I am assuming I am older then her by several years because she looked pretty young. I think my favorite thing to see there was her dancing with that sword! The food was good too, and we where amazed how much we spend it was a less then we have spent at other places which are well not like them.

On Friday afternoon, I order a monitor from Newegg.com they are for computer builders, my husband and I have decided to start doing this if things work out well with our first orders. I ordered a HANNS*G Monitor from them, I was impressed with how  quickly they processed and then shipped out my order. A little after 3pm I checked emails, and found out that they had already shipped my monitor out to me. Wow impressive that never happened before when I order things for delivery it always been a couple days wait before they send it out and then require a 7 to 10 day wait. I was glad to see Newegg options where so quick for me.

A couple weeks ago I broke my monitor, so it was time to get one. I had the monitor for 10 years, so I didn’t get to see much to be honest. I spent just a little over 200 including shipping and warranty this is great, because it was less then I would have at one of my normal places. I got my monitor today. It is a 19 inch, the only problem is one of the pixels is burned out. I don’t really care because I wouldn’t have noticed it without my husband telling me it was burned out. The monitor comes with speakers but I haven’t tried those, and to be honest I might not because I haven’t heard any good things about the speakers. I might use them to see for my self, but first I need to wait for my husband order. We got me a 2nd hard drive because my current one is having some issues.  I hope Vista won’t be to much of problem if I have to put it on a different hard drive because the current one keeps malfunctioning.

Back the the monitor. The hard thing on the monitor for me is changing the color and the contrast on the screen. The reason why it needs to be done differently then I am used to with my accent Monitor. My old monitor is a little easier to change that, but after I get used to how this one works it will become easy. The monitor stand only tips up and down there is no side ways movement which I guess is okay I can do with out that. My old monitor well was a fire hazard or getting to become with and didn’t move in any direction after I broke it. Having a 19 inch monitor is great, I can see the screen from across the room, I love it.

My husband and I decide to get a new game, with our trade in credits there where a couple that we wanted. One was 10 bucks more then what we had for trade in credit and the other one lift money in it was used. We went for Eternal Sonata. I have enjoyed playing it even though sometimes I get frustrated with it.

The world is in a dream world of Chopin, okay I was a music major in college for a few years. This is why I was interest in the game. It starts out with a girl jumping off of a cliff. In dream word if your going to die soon that the only time you can use magic. Kind of a sad story line but fits with Chopin, who wasn’t of good health to begin with. He was very creative in music.

I like how they have the game both action and turn based, and that it has clear chapters. It is easy to learn what is wanted because it shown in the screen so if you want a special attack it easy to know which one you will be using. There are 2 types of special attacks nighttime and daytime attacks they are very effective on taking down your enemies. It is easy to upgrade your team uniforms because their are treasure for doing that.

There is one thing I do not like about the game. It seems that they put you in your first boss battle why before your characters are ready to fight it. My first boss battled I died right away. My character was live 3 I believe. I decided to go back through the sewers and build up my characters, I got them to live 6 and went back and was able to defeat it. Most of my boss battles where very hard to complete so far, but I was able to get them on the first try. Taking down a boss is easier if you mainly use special attacks and have your healer polka in light so she can heal the team.

The landscape of dream world was very pretty, and like every game there’s a villain the king or count, I honestly do not say any different between a count and a King.

Well let me first start by saying, it not half as bad as people have made it out to be. HP should be glad I am not writing about them, still annoyed with them. I like Window Vista but there are a couple of things I do not like about it. I can not say their is anything I hate about window vista, I do have a few things that annoy me.  A while back my computer crashed, I had gave it to my husband and it got a virus. I had recording software in it which now is useless, it was made for XP and earlier. Okay when I bought the software a year ago I was making sure it was Window Vista Compatible because I didn’t think I’d get Vista anytime soon, and honestly got it a lot sooner then I thought I would.

The things I like most about Window Vista, even though we had tried to reinstall XP it would not bring the computer back up. We thought the Hard drive had fried, I will need a new Hard drive but not to replace the old one but to help whatever recording studio I decide to get next or at least the software program. Vista, was able to get the hard drive back up and allowed me to retrieve my files, now I do need to clean the drive because I am sick of the start up, I have to tell it if I want it to start with Vista or the earlier edition of Windows. Well Dah I want the newest install of Windows Vista, Why would I want to go back to the old which is broken. Seriously I don’t want to crash it again. There are some issues with the Hard drive so I am tempted to call Windows, and explain to them that I need to reformat the whole hard drive and then reinstall. I hope my license will still be mine. I have a few files from XP I am unable to get raid of, so my biggest dislike is the start up.

My next dislike with Vista is that Outlook is not in there, I like Outlook for my home email. That is okay I can use Thunderbird. They are good I switch over to them on XP a while ago when I was having issues with Outlook Express.  So no problem. The other thing which is annoying and keep in mind I got Window Vista Business, there are no games in it. Like the ones you normally get when you buy a new computer, okay I can handle that I hardly ever play games unless I need to do a brainless thing for a while to help me think or clear my mind. I can solve this problem by playing either my PSP or the DS not a big deal. But sometimes I like those computer games, I can download if I really want them. Considering I am mostly using the desktop for my music and when I go back to school for that if they changed to Vista. Okay so the problems I have I can work around and they aren’t bad at all. There are ways to handle it.

Now what I love about Vista, I like the little gadget thing on the side of the computer screen, it got a calender, clock and weather is what my computer was set with when I got it back from our Rabbi. Praise the L-rd for Rabbi, I am not sure if he set those gadgets up with what he felt I might like, if he did he got it pretty much right.   I think the weather thing is great, it not from Weather bug at least I don’t think, but it gives the local temperatures. Living in Minnesota it’s nice to have that feature, but weather bug is kind of a pain, I have uninstalled it out of all my computers. Weather bug kept giving me weather warnings which did not even affect my area, did the same to hubby. So I have been going to their site, or to our local news station site to find it out.  So far we have not had any serious weather in our area or state so I guess this summer will tell us if Vista weather maker isn’t that great but so far it is good. My husband has vista to and uses his desktop computer always, and said he likes that feature to. I like it because it also one less thing for hubby to have to download in his computer. LOL Hubby likes packing his computer with a bunch of stuff he’s a gamer.

I like that Vista did not add Window Works. I do not like Works, I used to but when I started using Office I started using that only for college. To bad Vista Business did not have a trail use of Word in there, that would have been nice, but my hubby wants Office to so we will buy one with 3 downloads and use that for us. The good thing is if our computers crash we can replace the Office a lot easier then if it crashed and we lost everything after downloading it on line. I just feel window Works takes up extra space, I have it in my laptop and have never used it, but not sure deleting it would do my laptop any favors worried Office might be attached to something that if I remove Works would cause trouble with Office but then again I have that CD so it wouldn’t mater it just be a pain.

I like what Vista has done to Explore, and their internet security. Yes I have to give the computer permission to do things but that good sometimes. I would much rather Vista ask are you sure, Xp never really did that. Vista also has a feature the helps you decide if a program will work well with Vista. I haven’t ran into this problem to much because most everything I have downloaded is for Vista, and things I need, or at least the program gets a long with vista.

I personally found Vista to be easy to learn, it not so different from XP that it is impossible but it is different. I think Windows improved on what they wanted, yes like all new software it had it’s trouble to begin with. Nothing ever starts out perfectly, but I think it might be safe now to have Vista, some of the things take a little time getting used to.

I am not sure if this is a law or what it is. My apartment building had to change their plumbing in the apartment building. Why am I putting this on my review page, because I felt it might work best because I am going to review the city I live in idea of Conservation. I am all for conservation, I have no problem with conserving water, I believe it is important during lower water levels so I get it. My idea is lets actually save it, not waste it.

Here my first question for my city, and apartment manager. How am I saving water when the shower head you placed in my bathroom causes my shower time to increase by 3 times. When I take a shower I try to do it quickly and when I shave my legs it takes me about 10 minutes longer. I took a shower after getting the new shower head in, my bathroom has one of those that removes from the wall and has a hose. I like this shower heads they are nice. Well the shower head they put in has basically such a tiny handle that it kept slipping out of my hands and I some how got a cut in my thumb. I still haven’t figured out if it was because of my fingernails or because of the stupid head. The water that comes out of the shower head isn’t very much, and when it came to getting the soap out of my hair, I think I got more water in my ear. It took me longer to wash my hear then the old one because the water didn’t get distributed with a wide enough circle. To get all the soap of my body I have to spray water and move the stupid head. My old shower head I was able to live it on the wall, to get all the soap out of my hair.  For the most I could get all the soap off with it on the wall, my new shower head forget it. Okay I can handle this I will just take more sit down baths and that will be less of a problem.

My second question is. Does it really make sense to lower the water pressure, in the kitchen when we do not have low pressure dish washer. It used to be I ran the dishwasher once and all my dish got cleaned. Since they upgraded the water plumbing, I have ran one load 3 times before it finally got cleaned. Seriously, I do not think I am saving water here! I think by the end of the second running I had used more water then with the old pressure. The third running was clearly a waste of water, maybe I shouldn’t look at it as wasting water because I need clean dishes. Today I talk to one of the ladies in the apartment office about this problem. I asked her, What am I supposed to hand wash all my dish, before putting them in the dish washer it kind of defeats the purpose of the dishwasher. I do rinse my dish before placing them in to get off all the stuff that not good for a dish washer. Okay so know I am wasting water in 2 places.

On to the Toilet plumbing. They put new stuff in there to. Here’s my third question, am I really saving water if I have to flush my toilet more then 2 or 3 times to get poop down all the way down the drain or other womanly problems. okay Sorry flushing the toilet once should be good enough. This should take away all the waste, this is what plumbing is for and why we pay for sewage so we can take a crap and flush it way. It not nice to have it stay around, this reminds me of the stupid story I heard growing up as a kid about the bugs on the log. I have a cat, I used to not mind a whole lot if my hubby or I lift the toilet seat up. Now I do mind because I do not want Otis playing in something nasty. I know I try to make sure it all goes down but sometimes, I am on the run. So how am I saving water, i flushing the toilet at least 2 to 3 times doesn’t this waste more water.

Lets see so my showers are taking me longer, my dishwasher needs to be ran more then twice and my toilet needs to be flush more then once. How am I saving water, wasn’t I saving more water with the old system. I do not mind updating plumbing or water usage things, but make sure if it updated it a update for the best. This was not a update for the best.  I do have to say I am disappointed with all the laws and conservation things that are being passed in Minnesota, and in my city because none of the Laws or taxes are helping people, it just money into their pockets. I do have to say this Gas taxes is insanely stupid and the democrats are more of a reason of all the taxes increases and stupidness. Since the Democrats took over our State Government we are being taxed more. I hope that they stop adding more taxes and stupid laws, it seems they just do things with out thinking about the outcome of what they are doing. They do not care about the common person the persons who are struggling to just make it daily. If my water bill increases because of their so called changed I might bring my bill to the city, and my past bills and tell them seriously I am not saving water. I know if I am not saving other citizens are wasting it to, so the system is broken. I wish I was a scientist because I would work on finding a solution for this.

It is a good kids movie. Disney for the most always does fairly good kid movies. This little movie is about a teenage boy who mother died and his dad was a cop who lift the police force, to become a renta cop. Dad worked at a dog catcher or a security guard for a mad scientist. The mad scientist was truly scary, he was a short little dude, that was messing around with dogs DNA trying to make a super dog.

The dog who became supper dog was a fail police dog, that was a beggal. He mistook a hamshank for a bomb. Well we know his comrades had  to pick on him. and make fun of him. He ran away, and got captured by what seemed to be the dog catcher but I think the pound would have been nicer place, so did his dog friend. Well he got away from the mad scientist, and found out he was superdog but didn’t want to be.

Once again Disney got the troubled dog and the trouble family together and rescued the family and brought them together.