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Well I noticed my blog entries have cut down since I decided to keep the blogging to more of a personal level - but then again who needs yet another news site anyway - and lets be completely honest (I am a big boy I can take it).  It is very highly doubtful that you are heading over to my humble blog to get the latest news stories in the gaming world anyway

It’s Sunday afternoon and I randomly decided to take a moment and blog about my weekend, and other recent happenings.  

If you are looking to hear me rather than read about my ramblings you can head over and check out episode #5 of the 360voice podcast, which was just recently released a few days ago - and of course you can always head over to 360friendspot.com for the friendcast every most monday’s.  We just recorded Epsiode 5 thursday, and I will probably put the finishing touches on the editing tonight.

I rented Kung Fu Panda, mostly to have one of the recent released games to talk about on the podcast, and perhaps for some easy gamerscore.  The game is actually interesting for a kids game - I mean I am not addicted and need to play it every waking hour but I have enjoyed it more then LOST for example.  The achievements for the most part are on the easy side, but there are a couple that might take a bit of work.  My son loved watching the game on the tv, so much so that I had to stop playing a few times since he was throwing things around like Po does and causing trouble.  He liked it so much that we had a family trip to the movies to watch it on the big screen.  That was the first time I have been to the movies in a while, and during ‘prime’ hours to boot - I forgot how expensive it is for a night at the movies.

I gave the CIV demo a spin too -  but I didn’t play for very long.  I used to love the series on the computer so I was pretty excited to give this game a try.  I am not sure if my interest in that genre has dropped or if I just missed having the full computer setup for controlling the game, but I just couldn’t get into this demo.  I haven’t totally signed the game off yet, but I might give it a rental first.

I went through and deleted a ton of my xbox live arcade games which I am almost definately not going to play - freeing up about 2 gigs of space on my hard drive.  I had to at this point I didn’t even have enough space to try more the 1 game demo at a time.  I have the Bourne Demo and Grid Demo downloading right now - Bourne I almost definately want to play the full game (its top of my gamefly queue), and grid after watching this video I definately want to at least give that a rent too.

I also played some COD4 to get in on the double XP weekend - but like any multiplayer shooter I can play for a while and enjoy it - but it starts to just feels like the same over and over again - spawn, die, spawn, die, spawn, die - so yeah its probably due to my lack of skill

I have quite a bit of traveling coming up in the near future.  This Friday I am heading to the airport at the crack of dawn for a weekend in Boston.  I am going to head over to GamerDNA and meet everyone there and then the rest of the weekend isn’t really set in stone, but I am sure I will get some gaming in with Fatty Chubs and ChangeAgent - and maybe at a beer…or ten.  Sunday is Father’s day so I am headed back home on an earlier flight on Sunday to spend it with the family - should be an interesting adventure though.

Then two weeks later we are taking a family vacation to Toronto, and a few weeks after that is my weekend trip to NYC that the company takes us on every year.  So my gaming might be neglected, but fun is still to be had.

Today we did our normal running around and shopping that we do most every sunday - but on the trip I was able to pick up my Wii Fit and finally replace the one that was lost or stolen on my amazon.com preorder.  Speaking of preorders, I am still waiting on Ninja Gaiden II, which I got a notice that the game was not released from the manufacturer delaying another game - i have my doubts if I will get this one either.

The final item for this jam packed weekend is I am taking my son to a Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Yankees game.  It’s an event my company is invited all the employees to come hang out, watch the game and have some food.  Baseball might be a bit advanced for my son to watch, but luckily its in an area where he can just run around and play with my co-worker’s kids - so we are giving it a shot.

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