1 – I cleaned up cat sick.
2 – I did some gardening.
3 – I discovered Chime.
4 – I finished Onechanbara.
5 – I updated the About me page.
The cat sick was from Smudge Two. Most of the cats are either too scared (Gizmo) or too lazy (Tigger) to come downstairs and eat while Ethan is awake and rampaging around their eating space. When they do summon up the courage, I like to reward them by putting a packet of food down in the hope they eat while they can – Gizmo for one is getting very skinny. Anyway, one of the cats is too dozy to even be bothered by Ethan – Smudge Two – and whenever I put a packet down, she’s there too, eating away. She’s grown quite a belly over the past two months or so. And after one of her mammoth gorging sessions last week, she puked it all up again. As I discovered it, it was my duty to clean it up, it was without a doubt the biggest pile of cat sick I have ever had the fortune of seeing.
The gardening was fun. The previous owners of this house didn’t care much for keeping the garden trim and proper and as such, Ivy had taken over the ground, there were random plants all over the place, and the large green area is more of a bog than a lawn. Removing stubborn tree stumps, clearing the Ivy, finding doorknobs, finding numerous glass bottles, finding posh London bricks, unearthing a steel pipe that was 5 feet long, just getting dirty, getting stuck in and giving ourselves more of a blank canvas to work with when we come to making the garden actually look nice.
Chime is wonderful. Such a simple idea and very free compared to the usual, strict puzzler. The way the music builds up as you place blocks and make quads is sublime, it’s really rewarding. I’ll admit, at first I didn’t realise you could place blocks on areas where you had made quads and they had been stamped…
Onechanbara was a lovely experience from start to finish. Although lacking the depth of something like Devil May Cry, or even God of War, it still rang my bell. By the end of playing through Berserk mode I had almost mastered Aya’s twin sword Cool Combo – that seemed impossible when I first started to learn Saki’s much shorter Cool Combo. Once you get a feeling for the rhythm of it, it comes quite easily. I really hope there’s another Onechanbara game on the 360 at some point.
And yes, I’ve updated the About me page. Check it out.
