The nerdery continues

After last week's no sleep stretch, I've reverted back to my Prevention Comes First self and have stocked up on the following items:

1. Wine

2. Benadryl

3. Computer games

Although I have waxed rhapsodic about computer games in the past, I am very particular about what games I'll try. None of this Star Wars stuff that makes it sound like fighter pilots are dropping bombs in the office downstairs when Phillip plays, or anything that includes the words "war" or "craft" or "dragon" in the title.

So anyway. I went through my new Nancy Drew game pretty quick and now I have borrowed another masterpiece: Grim Fandango. People, this game is HILARIOUS. (And hard. I searched for the cheat sheet about five minutes into it. But I'm pretty lazy.) A bit more sophisticated than the Monkey Island games and just as difficult to maneuver the characters. I spend half my time trying to walk Manny through a door.

I've decided that adventure games are pretty cool. I kind of sort of remember King's Quest from when I was kid, but the game I really liked was called Masquerade. I have googled it to no avail, but it's ancient. You start up on a cartoony picture of a dead body (I think) and you have to figure out what to do from there. There is no mouse and no character to move around. You have to type all your commands in and you don't know what command is going to work. (Also, if you got really really frustrated and typed in a bad word, the game called you a potty mouth and kicked you out. But we never EVER did that.) My mom played it too and eventually one of her friends gave her a piece of paper with all the correct commands written out in order. My first walkthrough!

So... yeah. I planned to watch the Emmys last night (thank you TiVo, King of Fast Forwarding Boring Acceptance Speeches!) but Grim Fandango got in the way. Sigh. (Which isn't to say that I don't know who won. Where is Lauren Graham's emmy? Where?! Did they NOT see the episode where her parents are getting married again and she looks at Emily with the meanest stinkeye ever and says "WE'RE THROUGH." Did they NOT get chills?)

In other news, today is Election Day (okay, Primary Election Day) and your trusty blogger hopes to attend a certain election night party for the sole purpose of collecting blog fodder. Let's all hope we're toasting a win and not drowning our sorrows.