View From the Bushes

I mentioned earlier that I had gone on a diet, and I guess it must be working. Today is payday and traditionally a group of guys goes out to for a steak lunch every payday. I figured I'd been pretty good up until this point, so I decided to tag along. I ended up getting a 9 oz. filet mignon. In my 'past life' I would eat 24 oz. porterhouses without batting an eye, but today that little filet just about did me in. Now I admit to having a couple of pieces of bread and a bowl of clam chowder on top of that but still, if anything, I should still be hungry, but instead I'm stuffed to the point of being a little queasy. I'm hoping that's a good sign. Maybe my stomach has shrunk...

A possible contributing factor is probably that I'm sleepy. I stayed up too late playing KOTOR; I would have gone to bed earlier but I had to win this damn swoop race (one of the mini-games in KOTOR). There were three tiers to the swoop races: the first one I passed without any difficulty, the second was hard but eventually I finished the course with a time of 22:44. For the third tier I needed to beat a time of 22:51, having just done that I figured no problem. It may take me a couple of times, five minutes at most. Over an hour later I was still at it. I had read all the pointers on the internet. I tried different shifting styles and time and time again I would miss it. The key to the swoop races are these booster pads. Fly over them and your speed dramatically increases. I noticed that when I was in the highest gear these booster pads no longer worked. I figured that you were already going as fast as possible, which seemed to make a certain amount of sense.

Yeah right... My son begged me to play my game for five minutes before I left for work this morning, so I thought I would give it another shot. Lo and behold, it was a bug. After going all the way to my ship and returning, it turns out that the booster pads do still work in the highest gear, which was obviously the key I had been missing last night. I'm guessing the bug crept in between the second and third tier. If that was the only bug I wouldn't be so mad, but it's been crashing on zone loads and kept sticking me in an empty room every time I tried to go to Tatooine. Still, it's a lot of fun I'll have make sure to avoid it long enough to finish my Lewis and Clark book and send the edits on the Midnight adventure to Greg at FFG. I know I missed a link yesterday, so I better toss one in.

Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero
Ross