Thursday, 28 February 2008

I have the rest already~

I cleaned the windows of the dirtiest house I have ever seen in my entire life yesterday, inside and out, it was like something out of a horror movie. Kage said they were the dirtiest windows he had ever cleaned, and he's been doing the job for six years, they actually reckon none of the windows had been touched in at least 20 years.
This was a level of unclean you had to see to behold, this was no simple dirt that you would be familiar with. If you were to throw a bucket of mud at a window it wouldn't be anywhere near as dirty as the windows we had to clean, a layer of mud can just been wiped off, but these windows had decades of grime, grease and dust building up on top of eachother, compacting down and solidifying itself for longer than I've been alive. Even after going over the same pane a third time the water would still ooze off it completely black, it made me appreciate every other window I clean for the incredible level of immaculacy that they all hold.

Outside of work I've been looking at joining the TA again, but won't be seriously thinking about it until I've got my licence and sorted out if I'm buying a car or not. Hopefully I'll be motivated to make this endeavor go a little bit better than the last three failed attempts, even though two of those weren't my fault. I am especially committed this time as I don't give a damn about anyone or anything in my life aside from driving, with no distractions I just want to do it and occupy myself completely with it.

In other free time distractions I briefly contemplated the purchase of the 360 Arcade game Triggerheart Exelica. I feel the same inexplicable attraction to vertical scrolling shooters as the next otaku, but the problem is that I'm simply terrible at them. I tried the demo and quite enjoyed it, I would've bought it straight away if it wasn't for the crippling anchor system.
The anchor attack grabs enemy ships and allows you to spin them around and throw them across the screen, this removes most of the shooting and dodging that genre defining games like Touhou have become cult classics because of. I think that damn anchor alone made the crucial difference in this sale.

If I thought Initial D Eurobeat was fantastic music to start with, I didn't truly understand how good it really is. I have a favorite selection from the three main Initial D D Selection albums copied onto my iPod and these are pretty much the only tracks I ever listen to, but to mix it up a bit yesterday I put on some of the tracks I don't really listen to, and some that I had never even heard once before, it absolutely cheered me up to the maximum. Spark in the Dark, My Only Star, Love & Money, Lost into the Night, I can sit back and sing along to these tunes at the top of my voice for hours, they're simply such fantastic songs. I had two lines from Za-Za - Love & Money stuck in my head today, I don't know the song well enough to remember the rest of it so I just had that short snippet going round in my head all through work, and because it's not in my favorite selection yet I didn't have it on my iPod to listen to, making it incredibly frustrating in a strangely good way.
They're such great songs though, I can't wait to have my licence and be able to drive places singing along to them as loud as I can, the simple thought of that is the blissful dream that gets me through the degradation each day provides me.

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