Spore Care Bears

So on my first day of Spore I started with a totally unoriginal creature. I made a pink, fuzzy, cute and cuddly care bear creature. You get to structure your creature and customize it with parts to make it look a certain way, and I think I did a pretty good job with the likeness. You can also customize the behavior and traits of your creature based on how you use them...

So I made a race of ferocious carnivore care bears. I ran around the whole planet in packs ravenously devouring anything that moved and was unfortunate enough to cross my path. Soon the care bears will take over the planet and build up a mighty civilization bent on destruction of the universe. Oh I love games like this so much.

Spore

Spore finally came out today. While I'm installing it, I'm writing about it to curb my excitement. It's probably the most complex and innovative computer game to date. It allows you to take a single-celled organism and slowly evolve it into more and more complex forms. When you have a fully evolved intelligent organism, you get to create a tribal society. When your civilization grows even more, you can take over the whole planet and build massive cities and technologies. When that's done, you can launch into space and conquer the universe. It's so immersive and huge. I hope I don't get too addicted.

Paypal

Today I discovered the wonders of Paypal. This could mark the beginning of a beautiful career on the internet. All the constant worries of identity theft have made me wary of ever letting my check card numbers hit the computer. But now I can earn money online, save it in my account, and pay it off without having to ever put my real account up there in the virtual world.

When Work Clouds The Life

I work at a small business which I love, but it's very demanding. If I were at a big company there would be at least 3-5 people doing my job. Even in my company there used to be 3 people doing my job. I barely have time to finish all my tasks even when I give it 100% and buzz through the work at breakneck speeds. It leaves me pretty exhausted. And when I get home, I find myself watching training videos to make me more valuable at work. It's so hard to balance life and work sometimes.

Almost Tired

Here I am again, just tired enough to not want to move but not quite tired enough to sleep. It's kind of the opposite to that state when you just wake up and are still halfway in the world of dreams. I guess this is a good place to blog. Somewhere between consciousness and sleep.