Jastef

Yesterday evening I brought home LEGO Star Wars II! I received a Best Buy gift certificate as an early birthday present, and having heard good things about the game went and picked it up. It's fun; the game isn't difficult (it's almost impossible to lose), and the trick is to look good while beating it. And, to pick up all of the extra side goodies that unlock the bonus content, which is additional characters, vehicles, and levels. Ethan came downstairs last night (couldn't sleep) while I was playing and sat next to me. The game is a bit more... simplistic than what I normally play, and he apparently was able to follow what was going on really well. Anytime I swung Obi-Wan's lightsaber or fired a blaster and blew something up, he said, "Oh no!". This afternoon at lunchtime I went out with a buddy from work to go throw a frisbee for a while. We found a park in Chinatown, but it was crawling with old people just milling around, and we were worried we would hit someone. So then we walked over to the Bank of America building and tossed the disc out in the plaza there, but a security guard shooed us away, apparently worried that we were going to hit someone :) Finally, we gave up and walked over to Moscone to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a very large grassy park area. We got about 5 throws in there before the guard at the park explained to us that "games are not allowed" in the park. Apparently they're worried we're going to hit the people sleeping on the ground? Thoroughly annoying that we can't play frisbee at a park. We finally gave up for the time being and headed back to the office. We'll have to do some more research before we try that again.