{"id":751,"date":"2006-12-02T11:53:19","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T15:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/12\/02\/home-again-home-again-2\/"},"modified":"2006-12-02T11:53:19","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T15:53:19","slug":"home-again-home-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2006\/12\/02\/home-again-home-again-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Home again, home again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always nice to get back home.\u00a0 Not that London is all that bad, but there is something special about coming home again.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/cgblog\/images\/misc\/macallan_18.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"Macallan\"\/>The lesion of the week was that you never, ever (and I was told repeatedly about the never ever part) have this fine scotch over ice.\u00a0 Oops.<\/p>\n<p>I typically have various bourbons over ice, but I am not a scotch connoisseur, so I had no idea that I was going about it all wrong.\u00a0 I did try it again later in the week, without ice, and I think maybe (just maybe) it does taste better without ice.\u00a0 When I got home last night I had a Makers sans ice, so maybe I am onto the next phase of my life.\u00a0 Still, summers are hot in Columbus, so the ice habit may be hard to break.\u00a0 If I want a warming drink, I typically think brandy, not bourbon (or scotch), but I think I now see the point (and maybe the light).<\/p>\n<p>I did not have a lot of time for gaming, but I did have a few minutes to check out the UK gaming scene at a music\/gaming store in the airport.\u00a0 It was interesting to such a large selection of PSP games (I did not check out the other sections) including many sports titles that I have not seen in the US.\u00a0 There was a snookers games, Pro Evolution Soccer 5 (discounted to 19 UK pounds) and Pro Evolution Soccer 6.\u00a0 In addition to usual suspects such as Tiger Woods and FIFA, they had something called ProStroke Golf, which looked interesting because the game lets you design your own courses.\u00a0 I did not see Madden or MLB, but they did have several NBA titles and NASCAR.\u00a0 I was going to pick up Race Driver (was jonesing for a racing game), but did not see it on the shelf.<\/p>\n<p>As far as gaming goes, on the return trip I spent several hours with Madden 2007; I will post more later, but for now it is enough to say that it is an excellent portable football game.\u00a0 I also spent some time with Lumines, Pinball Hall of Fame, and the NAMCO collection title.\u00a0 Lumines is a wonderful way to \u201cget into a zone\u201d and kill some time.\u00a0 The same can be said for Pinball Hall of Fame.\u00a0 I am at the point where I think I no longer have the patience for the poorly implement analog control in NAMCO, which makes the maze games and complete miss.<\/p>\n<p>Good to be back, and happy birthday to me.\u00a0 Today is number 36, which makes me feel like an extremely old fart.<\/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 always nice to get back home.\u00a0 Not that London is all that bad, but there is something special about coming home again. 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