Another exciting day in Iraq
Another day of doing next to nothing, really. I'm suffering for some Symphony of the Night so I managed to download a copy and get a playstation emulator working. You don't want to know how much time I wasted doing this. So now I'm playing Symphony of the Night for the thousandth time except now with a keyboard and it's kicking my ass. I died fighting the doppleganger. The second boss. That's horrifying.
So right after christmas we started getting these goodie boxes in the mail. They're free stuff from something called Operation Appreciation or something like that. Some mildly useful stuff, a pair of socks, a knit cap, some foot powder, some snacks and other things that varied from box to box like a DVD or CD. Well I was out at the med clinic working on one of their computers and I saw a copy of the Lost Highway soundtrack lying on a counter. Now Lost Highway came out before I cared about David Lynch and it's yet to be properly released on DVD so I haven't seen the movie but the soundtrack was produced by Trent Reznor and he contributed more than a couple tracks to it. It's also got some David Bowie and Marilyn Manson (pre-Antichrist Superstar) so I'm borrowing it overnight to rip it. I was shocked. Some lucky bastard got the Lost Highway soundtrack in a free goodie box and didn't even appreciate it. This was seriously a diamond in the rough, everyone else got crap like CDs from bands you've never heard of (Hiroshima?) or bizarre DVDs (claymation Rudolph, I got a movie about Bobby Darin).
So a while ago Katie sent me in a food package some dried apples that I just got around to trying tonight. Let me say I won't be eating a single dried apple ever again in my life. Maybe it's because they've been in a plastic sealed bag for god knows how long but to say the taste was unpleasant would be a slight understatement. I didn't vomit but two slices were more than enough for me to seal the bag back up and hide it away for long enough that I don't feel bad about throwing out an almost full container of perfectly good (if you like plastic) food. So I'm glad my next package, containing my copies of Final Fantasy IV Advance, Mega Man Zero 4, and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow (!!!!), will include more snacks and noodles. I'm damn near out again.