The Moon that is Harvesting

One of my rituals, when visiting such massive purchasing venues (IE: shopping centers) as WalMart or Superstore, and which garners me a fair number of unapproving glances from the wife, is the rooting through of the electronics section in search of a shiny, bargin bin deal. This weekend, whilst browsing for camping gear at WalMart, was no different.

I arrived just in time to find random, disgruntled Walmart employee #2021 distributing a shiny new bunch of bargain bin games. I began rifling through the pile with glee, hungry for a deal. Thankfully, after parsing through a wide variety of Star Wars games and Army shooters, I came across the gems of the batch, brand new copies of Harvest Moon - Save the Homeland and Harvest Moon - Friends of Mineral Town for a paltry $18 (CDN) each.

Despite my absolute love of all games RPG, I have never managed to play through a Harvest Moon game. I have come exceedingly close in the past, but always something has prevented me the purchase. Now that I have the games in my possession I am quite excited to begin my foray into the farming simulation genre.

What is the point of this story? Basically that bargain bins of all kinds are to receive copious amounts of love from gamers searching for obscure media and also that something that combines farming with dating and tops it off with an RPG interface HAS to be good.

Random Meanderings

For anyone interested, I have successfully completed the final revision of all chapers for my book without burning out. There were times during the process that I thought I was not going to make it; working a full time job while writing a book on a strict deadline is not something I would want to do again. That being said, I am proud of myself for finishing and feel that the whole experience has been a positive one with an end result I can call a true accomplishment.

In any case, since I have been doing nothing but working as of late, I have been really slacking for the last couple of days. Having a few beers, spending time with the family/wife/friends that I have been neglecting due to overwork. The end result is a minor recouping session in which I may or may not get much work done. My apologies to those affected by my slacking (as in those who read my blog, or those that I do contract work for), but I truly need a brief vacation.

Thankfully, an opportunity to go someplace both warm and full of partying has presented itself to me and I am set to head off to Vegas in mid-July. I have been to Vegas once before, but not since I turned of age. That being said, I am looking forward to a couple of days of lazing in the sun and taking in the sites that can only be found in Sin City.

New Pics

Thanks to my new "gallery" enabled photo gallery, I have been adding pictures to it like crazy. Have a peek if you like to see what me and my friends/family get up to in our spare (haha) time.

• Jake's BDay in Edmonton
• Grandpa's 80th Bday
• Derek's 25th Bday

There should be quite a few more pics added after this weekend as tomorrow is my birthday (26, holy crap!) and we are all heading out to Trevor's cabin for a total gong show. Should be fun!!

Lee Babin | 6.22.2005 [return]

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