Day 2: Easy Peasy (spelling?)

I'm about to go to bed at the end of day two. What have I been doing over the past two days? I've been playing chess mainly. Yesterday and today I played a bit of chess against Chessmaster, in an attempt to shake free the rust of several years. I had played against an app on my phone a bit but other than those rare exhibitions, it had been quite a while. I worked through a small amount of CT-ART 3.0, a veritable chess tactic encyclopedia, but my "chess vision" is not currently up to snuff.

I took the occasional breaks from that by reading a bit of a book I've currently got loaned out from the local library, Video Games (of the Opposing Viewpoints series). It's an assortment of short articles both pro- and con- relating to all things video game. It has some interesting bits, but mostly it's irritating. Take for example when it explained how MMORPGs are taking over the lives of children. It's leading example? Call of Duty (for those who don't know, just trust me that it's wrong).

Finally I worked through one lesson of Spanish on Rosetta Stone. Most of you are probably not familiar with the amount of work that would require, but I'm doing the full scholastic year setting (go big or go home right?) After it introduced me to some words for about 30 minutes, I followed it up with another 45 minutes of identifying them by picture, sound, and writing, as well as practiced my pronunciation and grammar. One lesson down, fifteen to go, and that's just for level 1.

Carol had a friend over tonight and they watched the movie Red, of which I was mildly interested. I steeled myself against the temptation despite the laughter that was coming from the room throughout. I wasn't about to end this little project of mine on day 2!

This upcoming weekend is going to be the true test however. There's a lot of time in a weekend. My past several weekends since Christmas have basically been spent playing through Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Fallout New Vegas, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (a coworker had recently purchased the game), and Fable 3. The rest of the time was spent watching 5 and a half seasons of Bones. I'll let you know how it goes!