posted 2007/03/07 at 13:46
Ah, it seems like a while since I've just posted about how bad a day's gone for me, but good grief did yesterday stink something fierce.
First of all, I had errands I was supposed to run yesterday, but none of them got done at all. When I went out to start my car, the battery was dead and it just wouldn't get going. Normally this wouldn't have been that much of a problem because I can always borrow one of the folks' minivans to do my running around, but my brother-in-law had taken one to work, and he'd left the other one with so little gas in the tank that it wouldn't start. By the time my father's battery charger had gotten the Camry up and running again, it was too late to do the stuff I needed to do that day.
Oh, but it gets better. Yesterday had actually started out on a good note, as I'd gotten my copy of the latest Japanese home version of DDR in the mail. Now, for those of you unfamiliar with how DDR (or video games in general) work, not every song in a home version of DDR is playable right away; in order to "unlock" (as it's called) songs, you have to do some other stuff, most of which is time-consuming and downright difficult, and is hard enough to do when the game is instructing you on what to do in English. Not only is my command of Japanese not good enough for me to understand the on-screen instructions without help, but my English-Japanese dictionaries wouldn't have even helped because the font used in the game is so small that I couldn't even make out most of the kanji. (Seriously, what is with video games using smaller and smaller fonts? Do developers assume that anyone who plays video games these days has a 52" television to play on?)
I didn't want to go through the hassle of unlocking all the songs in the game, so I downloaded a save file off of the Internet that had all the songs already unlocked and transfered the file to my Playstation 2. However, I then found out that the save file was corrupted, and while it didn't ruin other files on my memory card, it did screw up part of the memory card, and for some reason Sony didn't make it possible to clean up corrupted memory cards. From what I've read online, the only way I'll have to fix the problem with my memory card is either to buy a new memory card and transfer the good files over to the new card, or buy another device that will allow me to reformat the memory card (after transfering the good files over to a spare memory card, of course).
These are small things, I grant you, but stuff like this kind of makes it hard to get out of bed the following day.
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