John Zeitler

I’m exhausted, folks… Really, I’m shocked I managed to finish Mighty Switch Force. But with three games done for January I’m on track for the yearly goal, I think, as long as I keep up this pace. For now, I’m just going to go to bed and hope I have an easy trip home after work tomorrow.

At 8:46p, I completed Incident 16, the final stage of Mighty Switch Force for the 3DS. This is the third game cleared in 2012. Thirty-seven games remain for the 2012 goal.

I was exhausted when I got in on Wednesday, and I completely forgot to write a post. I have found that, amazingly, when I have to take the bus and I have to actually focus on the ride to make sure I can be let off at the right time, I can’t spend time composing posts.

I know that I am very easily frustrated by my own general incompetence. I am also aware that I come down harder on myself than anyone else ever could when I come across a situation that, through my own fault, causes me extended grief. I am further aware that complaining and angsting about it does little good in the long run compared to actively working to remedy the problem.

Today I forgot all those things for about an hour and a half.

But now, on the other side of it, all I’ll say is that I am going to run a game of Paranoia very soon and I am going to gleefully inflict the bureaucratic hell that I have just endured upon an unsuspecting world ten– no, a hundredfold.

So it turns out that when I started being more social and doing stuff outside of my house, this set a dangerous precedent for the times when I couldn’t actually get out. It’s to the point, really, where I don’t honestly know what I did with myself all day long on the weekends back when I was a loner.

You have no idea how utterly terrifying this revelation is.

At 10:42a, I completed the final challenge in WarioWare: Mega MicroGame$ for the Game Boy Advance (via 3DS Virtual Console). This is the second game cleared in 2012. Thirty-eight games remain for the 2012 goal.

I almost never remove posts from the main page, folks, but you may have noticed that the post from yesterday afternoon– titled “Your Moment of Zen”– is no longer there. There are two reasons for this. First, I later discovered that the vagaries of the news reporting cycle tends to muddle the times when certain facts are reported, and it’s entirely possible that the ESA’s statement of withdrawing support didn’t actually come after SOPA was declared dead. That’s the main reason why I wanted to pull the post down.

The second reason is that I hate politics and I don’t want this to become a blog where I ramble on about every little thing that happens in the dog and pony show that is the upcoming election. I said in my closing statement in that post that politics dirties everyone who touches it, and I stand by that statement at least. So, you can be assured that I will try to remain as moderate as possible in this matter as I can.

Allow me to clarify one thing, though: I was not censored and I did not receive even one request to remove the post. I chose to pull it voluntarily, because I didn’t think a cheap shot was warranted. I’m leaving up Wednesday’s post about the two bills, because that’s more representative of my true thoughts than a snarky wag of the finger. If more political reporting was that way– honest and fair instead of getting in every dig against “the other guy” as is possible– I’d feel a lot less antipathetic towards politics.

But since that’s never, ever, ever going to happen, I’ll just go back to my video games and television and leave the dirt to the experts.

The past couple days have shown me a lot about how I operate on a day-to-day basis. It started, of course, with the accident on Friday, but as the situation spiraled further away from the “plan”, I found myself incredibly calm and very well-organized in my thoughts. This leads me to believe that my real special talent isn’t planning so much as it is being able to pull solutions out of thin air every single time I’m hit with a setback.

I’m not exactly sure about this, but I think it means that I need to find room on the ol’ Zeitler family crest for a wing and a prayer.