Dragon Quest 8

Finally done with the damn thing. This one took about 66 hours total, though not all of those hours were pure game play (lots of racking up coins at the in-game casino). Overall, I thought DQ8’s graphics were really nice (the toon-shading style works really well for the underpowered PS2) but the story and the […]

Upgrade

Finally did the upgrade to version 1.5 of wordpress. Now mine looks the same as everyone elses. Hooray. I managed to finally get a domain http://www.kendeeter.com. I’ll be moving everything there shortly and decomissioning chummy.mine.nu.

Finally, I feel normal

So for those of you who don’t know about it, the short story is that when I came back to the US after being in Canada for a couple years, I wasn’t able to transfer the credit record that I had built up there to something here in the US credit system, forcing me to […]

The smugsmug bandwagon

Finally got myself a smugsmug account. Unlimited, backed-up space to put full size frames w/o advertisements for just 50 bucks a year. I don’t really get how they manage to keep the costs under control. Anyhow it’s way cheaper both in time and cost than maintaining my own server to store photos (I might even […]

halfdome

As part of my slight freaking out about halfdome, I’ve been doing the stairmaster at the gym this week. On monday, I did it for 45 imnutes straight and it told me I climbed 1900 feet. Today I did it for 30 min and said I climed about 1200 feet. I think the total elevation […]