Daily Archives: February 27, 2009

Braid

I had been wanting to purchase the Xbox Live Arcade game Braid, for quite some time having especially liked the demo. I do not know the reason, but the normal price of 1200 msp (Microsoft Points) seemed too high to me, no matter how much I enjoyed the demo, and so I waited. The deal for this week on Xbox Live is that the game is only 800 msp, which after you do the conversion of dollars to msp (80 msp = $1) is a difference of $5, so I went ahead and downloaded it.

There is also a delightful theme that was released for the Xbox 360 dashboard, but the new premium themes cost 250 msp, which is about $4 just for a theme. I’m not sure I’m ready to put down any money on that either.

Lightbox [Update]

Lightbox, for those of you that do not know, is the “thing” that allows the pictures to pop up on the website in their own neat little box with the shaded background. It also allows the viewer to go easily, through arrows on the right and left of the picture, to go to the next picture in a set. I use this feature whenever I either post pictures on the front page with a post and also in the pictures section of the website where I keep special holidays and events.

I am happy to say that it is working again, but quite honestly I do not know why it is working again. I know that after the update none of the pictures behaved right with the plugin enabled, and I spent several hours trying different things to get it to work, but all that was to no avail and I left the situation unresolved with a post on the front page. Now everything seems to be working as it should, so that’s good.

Weekend Visit

Michelle came over for the weekend. The kids and I finally had a chance to give her the presents we got her for Christmas. She was very pleased with the Guitar Hero: Aerosmith game with the guitar, because apparently that was on her wish list and she did not get it from anyone else. I unfortunately did not get a picture of her with her presents, because I wasn’t actually home when she opened them. The kids were just so excited to have her open the gifts finally that they did not wait till I got home.

It was nice having her out for the weekend. It has been a long time. Hopefully she will be able to come out again soon.