Today is my birthday! Yay! Hopefully all goes well tonight as I have plans to celebrate with a bunch of my friends. My last 3 birthdays weren't anything special and just went by like any other day so hopefully that isn't the case this time.

So in the period of about 2 months time I've twisted my ankle a total of 3 times. The first 2 times were on my right ankle and now, just recently, I twisted my left ankle while my 2nd injury isn't even fully healed yet. First time was the worst playing tennis, second time was playing basketball, third time was bad luck as I accidentaly stepped on a ball and rolled my foot off. It feels as if I'm being punished for actually trying to get outside and have some fun. So now here I am without much of anything I can do for a few weeks which really pisses me off. I want to get back out on the courts as soon as possible.

For those of you who don't know, Best Buy is having a sale on a ton of games this week for $10. You can find the whole list at cheapassgamer.com or other sites.

I picked up..

I was thinking about getting some other games but this is the only game I actually really wanted. Some of the games I already had anyways like DMC4.

Oh and btw, if you can't find the game at Best Buy, take the ad to a Walmart and get a price match. They'll have to call a customer service representative to approve the price change but it should work. That's what my friend did to get his copy of Soul Calibur IV. USA only it seems.

I can't figure out if I like this game or not. This game feels rushed as it is very glitchy. Usually I can forgive a game that has a few bugs but I keep coming upon them in this game so much its just ridiculously blatant. Tomb Raider Legend and Anniversary weren't as bad as this. Those were forgivable at least. Controls aren't as solid as in the previous games either. The camera can drive you nuts sometimes and cause you to make some jumps in directions you didn't want to go. They made the puzzles really obtuse too so rather then feel clever about solving something, most of the time I say to myself "Wow really? That's how you're supposed to do it?". Sometimes its hard to tell what piece of geometry in the world you're allowed to scale or not.

That probably sounds all bad but when the game is actually not messing up on you its rather fun. I just wish these problems didn't bring it down so much. I'm a sucker for good platformers though so I'll probably finish it before I have to return it to the video store. I used a free rental coupon so I can't really complain too much. I do still want Tomb Raider Anniversary but I will not be picking up Underworld even when its cheap when I can get the far superior earlier entries in the series.

For those of you who didn't know, I was sick for the good portion of the week but I'm finally over it. Funny thing is that I rarely ever get sick like 2-3 times a year at most and they usually last for only 1-2 days but this time I got hit bad. I haven't been that badly sick in years and I'm talking about since I was in elementary grade school.

I blame my friend who visited me on leave from the Navy who I hadn't seen in months and looked like he was getting sick as soon as he was back. It was worth it however considering I rarely get to see him ever since he entered the military. The weather here seems to have cleared up also. The whole week I was sick there was also some pretty heavy rain. Fitting for the week and my condition I suppose. I feel bad for my friend who seemed to pick the worst time to take his military leave considering the weather and how he was also sick. It might still rain later this week here but at least I'm not sick anymore and I can get back to doing regular things exercising and being able to go out places.