{"id":1006,"date":"2007-08-12T09:40:21","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T13:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/08\/12\/home-at-last\/"},"modified":"2007-08-12T09:40:21","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T13:40:21","slug":"home-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/08\/12\/home-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Home at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is good to finally be home again.\u00a0 What a long trip \u2026 Edinburgh for four nights and York for two nights.\u00a0 I spent a good 18 hours traveling yesterday between trains, planes, and automobiles.<\/p>\n<p>From a gaming standpoint, I spent very little time with my PSP on the plane; just could not get into anything.\u00a0 In Edinburgh I saw Wii \u201cin stock\u201d signs on a couple of store fronts on Princes Street for 199 British Pounds.\u00a0 No bundles \u2013 just the system.\u00a0 The PSP 80GB unit was going for 800+ British Pounds, but included your choice of a couple of games (decent titles such as Resistance), Blu-ray movies (I assume the 5 free deal currently running), and an extra Sixaxis controller.\u00a0 Still, I could not imagine spending $1,600 for a game system, regardless of the pack-ins.<\/p>\n<p>When I am traveling, gaming always takes a backseat to the local sights and sounds.\u00a0 In the case of the UK, that means checking out the various historical sites, pubs, and trying all manner of different beer.\u00a0 I happened to be in Edinburgh during the annual Festival.\u00a0 I arrived in time to see part of the Fringe Parade.\u00a0 Crazy stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it is great to be back home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is good to finally be home again.\u00a0 What a long trip \u2026 Edinburgh for four nights and York for two nights.\u00a0 I spent a good 18 hours traveling yesterday between trains, planes, and automobiles. From a gaming standpoint, I spent very little time with my PSP on the plane; just could not get into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2007\/08\/12\/home-at-last\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Home at last<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}