Had a fairly boring weekend. Mowed the lawn and did some shopping on Saturday before going to a watering hole to play some trivia (came within 18 points of a perfect score – good for #2 in North America); and did absolutely nothing on Sunday other than taking a long walk in the morning. Spent most of the day watching the new implementation of Roots and doing laundry.
Also took a walk on Saturday morning. Both walks featured tiny bits of rain which did not mitigate the ungodly heat and humidity. You’d think that it’d be comfortable at 5:30 in the morning. Not at all. This is going to be a long, hot, summer.
I’ve been sneezing my head off for the past several weeks and it’s really getting annoying. Picked up some Claritin and Flonase last week to see if either of those will help. Just started a regimen of the latter yesterday. I’m not sure exactly what I’m allergic to at this point. Thought it was the cats, but I’m ruling that out for now. Also thought it might be a new detergent that I started using about a month ago, but switching back to the old one hasn’t yielded any improvements.
The Puff’s company is pleased, anyway. Can’t buy enough of the stuff. Here’s hoping that a couple of weeks in Canada will clear things up at least temporarily.
In my spare time, I’ve been amusing myself for a couple of months by playing two computer games in a series called Medal of Honor. Both are first-person shooters (in that the action involves a scene as it would be seen if you were in it, and you’re shooting at things) set in WWII. The first one, Medal of Honor, Pacific Assault, puts the gamer in the marines at Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and a few other Pacific islands. The second, MoH, Allied Assault, has the player landing at Normandy and fighting through the French and Belgian countryside.
Both are graphically excellent, and seem to be fairly historically accurate, too. Both have inspired me to look up details of several of the battles that “I” have been involved in (Tarawa is fascinating. I wouldn’t mind visiting).
I found it somewhat amusing that, when I watched Saving Private Ryan last Monday (Memorial Day), it became apparent that a number of the scenes depicted in MoH, Allied Assault were taken directly from the movie. Not just close or similar, mind you. Exactly. From the scenery and “battle plan” for D-Day to the towns, weather, and sniper towers throughout the movie.
Anyway, they’re fun games that kill time and make me curious enough to look up WWII history, something that previously hasn’t interested me in the least. I’m currently watching an HBO series, Pacific – you can probably figure out what it’s about. Quite well done.