What's Up? Week 19 - 2003

 Hot

Manu's baby 
Oh wow. Congrats!
TJ 0 
Freedom! At last!
Article in Pelit 
A bit of PR never hurt anyone

 Cold

Cash crisis 
More of a yearly thing, it seems
Lost laptop 
Will get a new one, but the data is gone forever
The you-know-which parts of the arcade machines 
Well you've read this before. And probably will again

 Games we've played the past month

Everblue 2 (PS2), GTA: Vice City (PS2), Chase H.Q. (PC Engine), Volfied (PC Engine), Kung Fu Chaos (Xbox), DOA Xtreme Beach Volleyball (Xbox), Super Mario Sunshine (GameCube), Metroid Prime (GameCube), Mad Maestro (PS2), Sonic Pocket Adventure (Neo Geo Pocket Color), Puzzle Bobble Mini (Neo Geo Pocket Color), Cosmic Smash (Dreamcast)

 Mikko's Rant

After the gloomy period generally known as the military service, I have now been a free man for about a month. It has taken - and will take - some time to get back on track with normal life, but at least I now have something of a steady income, so expect new items to be added into the collection during the next couple of months. I also had a nasty accident with the SAS airline involving the loss of a laptop computer, but it seems that my insurance company came through in the end and I am getting a new one. Of course, no-one can ever replace all the data that was lost, but fortunately I had at least partial backups.

During all the stress from my army duties, I found Everblue 2 to be the perfect chillout game. Just diving, no shooting or too many other near-fatal incidents (upon completing the game, I had only died once). Exploring the seabed was really interesting too, even though locating materials did become a bit repetitive towards the end. Highly recommended!

- Mikko

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