Spent a chunk of yesterday watching the funeral procession for Teddy Kennedy. Impressive to see how many people turned out for it, how many showed up just to stand on the side of the road and watch all the cars go by. Been interesting watching the programs about his life as well and how much he did and how little of it was used to promote his name or personal visibility. Truly the passing of one of the great elder statesman.
HBO did a special about him, “Teddy Kennedy: In His Own Words” I think it was called. DVR’d it but haven’t watched it yet. Probably won’t get around to watching it until Tuesday when I am somewhat planning to spend the afternoon watching all the other TV that recorded for me over the weekend.
Aside from watching that I spent a good chunk of time doing laundry and dishes and playing Champions Online.
Trying to decide if I need to buy more clothes or not. I tend to hate clothes shopping but I figure that if I buy a couple more outfits to wear around town for work then I might be able to push laundry back to a once-a-week thing instead of twice-a-week. Yes, the argument that ‘more clothes = less time doing laundry’ may very well be what it takes for me to go clothes shopping this year…
In Champions Online I have three characters I am playing mostly right now: Steel Crane (MA:Unarmed), Kinetica (Force Blast + some TK), Nightborn (Darkness + Sorcery). All have been fun and the game is just very impressive looking.
The Head Start event has been something of a disappointment though. The End of Beta with the giant robots was great, but the Head Start has had this Qularr (alien bug monsters) invasion event which seems a bit buggy. Enemies spawning in mid-air and being half dead from falling, NPCs killing them before the PCs get too, and some random weird sudden-death despawns.
A disappointment, but aside from that silly event the launch has been smooth as silk. No problems logging in or playing at all. Actually starting to think I need a second alarm clock so I have one to beep and tell me when I need to go to bed so I can get enough sleep to actually wake up when the other beeps to tell me I have to get up.
Not sure which to play today. All have been fun so far, I have another I have made (Electricity blast) that I haven’t really played yet. Still pondering making an Archery or an Ice (Chilljoy) or a Might (Protector One) or a Telekinetic or a Power Armor or a Gadgetry or a Twin Blades character…
So many cool powers, so much to try.