After wanting one for quite awhile I finally manned up and got a PlayStation 3 (ps3) last Saturday (January 10th), below is a recount of my first day with my ps3.
Girlfriend is not a nerd disclaimer: Lyndsey is worried that this rundown will make her look like a nerd, I would like to formally say that between the two of us if anyone is going to be dubbed a nerd it is surely
me. Although I do try to hide the fact by amazing feats of strength.
9:30am Wake up, urinate, shower, and get dressed. I seem to have slight headache, I am buying a ps3 today and I don’t like spending money this is probably the cause.
I have some running around to do first, so I get to that.
12:30pm Finished running around, it’s snowing, should be good for snowboarding later
1:00pm Pick up Lyndsey, and we head off to EB games to see if I can pick up a used ps3 controller and Metal Gear Solid 4 to save some money, it’s going to be an expensive day.
1:20pm Rummage through used controller bin, all ps2 or ps1 controllers and microphones, weak.
New controllers are 51 bucks, used MGS4 69 bucks, crikey! I buy neither.
1:40pm We go to Futureshop, their deals suck, warranty packages and what not but no games. However I find MGS4 for 59.99 new, which is cheaper than EB and I have a gift certificate so I buy it, stoked on this game.
I ask for Little Big Planet, but they are all sold out. Oh well. Lyndsey grabs some cheap girly dvd’s (Devil Wears Prada and something else I forget).
2:00pm Stop off at Quiznos for lunch, I get a large 5 meat stack and try to purchase a bottle of sprite to wash it down, the clerk informs me that its $2.50. F that noise, I get a fountain root beer instead.
Lyndsey asks what kind of meat is in my sandwich to which I reply “5 kinds”. I am so clever.
I can’t finish the sub, too much food. I fail.
2:30pm We arrive at Toys R Us. Came here to get a deal on 2nd controller only to find out that flyer is over but some Baby’s R Us flyer is out now I think that’s non child owning discrimination. Maybe I will start a class action law suit.
I Purchase ps3(80gb) and Little Big Planet. Rings up $519.00 my headache is a bit worse, I hate spending money.
3:00pm Arrive at Lyndsey’s we have about 2 hours to play before we go snowboarding.
3:10pm We had to switch around Lyndsey’s TV setup so that everything could be hooked up, ps3 has to run through VCR, and digital cable had to be set up different.
I had to run a power wire has to run across the floor to reach a different plug, I made a point to tell Lyndsey not to trip over it, can’t be to careful.
3:11pm Discard instructions.
3:12pm Video game time! Wait, no, PS3 tells me to plug in remote. I figured it was wireless would work magically some how, stupid me.
3:12.5pm Video game time! Wait, no, initial setup required. Input time, alias, date of birth, and earths rotation.
3:13pm Video game time! Wait, no, now updates need to be installed for Little Big Planet. Hrm.
3:20pm Video game time! No more waiting, let’s get awesome.
3:25pm At this point we get introduced to Sackboy, pretty cool guy, I put some red stripped boxer shorts on him and a crash helmet for safety and off we go into LBP.
4:00pm Game looks beautiful, and the learning curve is great allowing both Lyndsey and I to enjoy playing, we work out alternating level system since I only have one controller.
4:30pm Someone in the room mentions we should go snowboarding soon, maybe the cat.
5:00pm Snowboarding canceled, video games: 1 other activities: 0
6:00pm I go to the computer to pay off Visa, headache subsides some but I still hate spending money.
On the way back I trip over the power cable, the same one I told Lyndsey not to trip over…
No damage done, but I make mental note that I am stupid.
7:00pm Food we need food, orange tic-tacs are not food.
7:10pm After Swiss Chalet was too expensive we agree on Dominoes. Food we are getting food.
7:40pm Food arrives, pause ps3 and listen to driver talk about storm, I look outside, see storm, note storm as problem for later, note needing food as a problem right now, so I dig in.
7:45pm We watch John and Kate plus 8 while eating. I comment on Kate not looking bad for having 8 kids, Lyndsey agrees, however we also note that John is getting balder as seasons go by.
They took the kids to see Thomas the tank Engine, I like Thomas.
I work up a plan to create bootleg ‘Tomas’ the tank engine and take kids on rides, but not owning my own railroad foils this plan. Stupid logistics.
8:00pm Video Game Time again!
8:15pm Lyndsey likes stickering and decorating our pod (room in the game), fish are on the floor and flowers all over the roof. All those home decorating TV shows are deemed useless as a result.
9:00pm Lyndsey has made Sackboy look like a fairy. We play like this for awhile before making him look like a Globe Trotter, much more awesome.
9:30pm There is a level involving hopping low riders, whoever designed this game knows me quite well apparently.
10:00pm I encounter a level that’s pretty hard. Near mega man for game boy levels of frustration, but I finally beat it. I really hate Mega Man for game boy.
10:30pm I am starting to get tired and looking to tomorrow and start reading MGS 4 manual, looks sweet, this game is going to be great.
11:00pm My playing skills seem to be declining, Lyndsey seems to be getting better though, that’s cool I am comfortable with that.
11:30pm Room is filling up with cotton candy, I hate cotton candy, I have to eat my way out. What the hell is going on? Why is the room filling up with cotton candy??
1:45am I wake up, apparently I fell asleep, I am also chewing on a pillow the cat likes to sleep on, explains the weird dream and cotton candy like texture. I hate cotton candy!
1:50am Lyndsey is still playing, safe to say she really enjoys the game. She has beat quite a few levels and our pod is full of more crap. Oh vey.
2:00am I pack up ps3 and drive home (almost ending up in the ditch in the process) to get some sleep so I can go boxing the next day. Then come home and play MGS4 until hockey.
4:40am Sleeping, room is free of cotton candy.
