Ahchoo. (Bless me.)

[weaselmom]

Today was completely devoted to the entertainment and indulgence of K & C's cats. I came away with only one scratch and it's my own fault for petting the kitten in an abstracted way. She playfully grabbed my arm, which startled me, so I pulled away, which startled *her*, and then there was bleeding and sulking all around. Serves me right for not paying attention. But I'm still allergic, and still asthmatic, and now it feels like I'm trying to breathe with a yak on my chest. The kitten does insanely cute things nonstop, so I even forgive her for batting her sparklemouse into a score of totally inaccessible places and yowling until I retrieved it.

Cats, like children, are best enjoyed when you get to walk away from them at the end of the day and go home.

S is immersed in an ultraviolent PC game called Grand Theft Auto III (clearly a popular franchise). He's playing "an ambitious, amoral carjacker clawing his way to the top of the criminal underworld." Huh. It's unnerving how quickly he has taken to jacking and wrecking cars (and fire trucks and ambulances), maiming and killing bad (or badder) guys, and smackin' da ho's. On the plus side, it's nice to have the company when I'm up in the wee hours. On the down side, it will be quite some time before I let him drive my mid-luxury sedan again.

currently reading: PC Gamer magazine, which gives GTA3 a 92%

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[weaselmom.livejournal.com]

Resident Evil, you say? Hmm. Must be a console game, as I find no review for it on good old pcgamer.com (http://www.pcgamer.com). Still, if it's all about blasting mutant freaks into quarks, then I'm behind it. There used to be an arcade game called Beast Blaster that consisted of a trigger and a screen full of zombies. Pretty much everything in the game was a zombie, so if it lurched or shambled, it got zotzed. I hate those games where you have to watch out for innocent bystanders. If they're still milling around in a zombie-ridden city, then they don't have the sense God gave gravel. I consider mowing them down to be a good day spent in Darwin's service. And who knows? They may be in the process of becoming zombies themselves but just haven't shown any outward signs yet. You can't be too careful.