So the class I am taking twice a week now is… I can’t come up with the adjectives for it. The closest I can think of is that I can literally feel the seconds of my life passing me by as I sit there. The boredom is palpable and the instructors lack of preparedness is just shameful.
But I need the certification from it and it is the only class going I can reach during hours I have free to take it so I am basically screwed.
It really wouldn’t be that bad if the instructor was just better prepared. He is an amusing fellow, full of stories and anecdotes meant to make the material more interesting. Except he doesn’t know the actual text we are using very well. On top of which he hasn’t actually looked at the problems we are supposed to be solving in class so it is often up to us (the students) to walk him (the instructor) through finding all the information needed to solve the problems.
Not fun.
Had meant to do a yard sale today. Get rid of some of the crap I have laying around the house that I never use anymore. Except it rained today. I actually am rather glad it rained, it feels like Fall might finally be here, but it is messing up my plans somewhat. Eh… C’est la vie.
Champions Online continues to be a mix of fun and perplexitude. Fun to play but every so often I run into a game dynamic that makes me go, “Er.. Wha?” and I am once more left wondering what the testers in the Closed Beta were actually doing for feedback since I have a hard time imagining this not having other people questioning the logic involved.
Still, as much as I say that, it is a very fun game. Lots more variety in the ways to build your character, the Southwest Desert is simply the best designed zone I have seen in a MMO both in terms of the layout of the areas within it and some of the actual fun variety of missions and tasks.
The game is getting a lot of bad press at the moment from the fanbase. Their own stupid fault really. They should have known better then to roll out a sweeping balance patch on launch day without having it tested first. Big patch, then a day later opening the public test server up. Definately the wrong order to do things in.
Finished the first book in the “Soldier’s Son” series the other night (“Shaman’s Crossing” by Robin Hobb). It was a good read, but didn’t feel like a great one to me. Still, if you have been a fan of the other series that Robin Hobb has written you will like it. I found the narrative viewpoint a little disorienting myself and the story itself just didn’t seem as interesing or uniquely engaging as the previous books by the author.
About mid-way through the second book now and it has continued to be a good series but I am loosing hope that it’ll be a great one by the end. Still, I do again recommend it to fans of the author or of the fantasy genre (specifically the ‘young boy coming of age’ sub-set of fantasy). Just I won’t be pushing it on all of my friends, whether they are fantasy fans or not.