I think I’ve said this many a time, I’ve never had a good new years eve. It’s always been either me being sick or tired or not actually having a good time. I think most of it has to do with the fact that we try so hard to make this one night of the year super awesome fun.
But this year I think I’m playing it super low key…just going to a friends down the road for a drink and chillage…so hopefully this will break the trend.
I also just finished Gears of War2 yesterday (having taken a work at home day). It was a pretty good finish, quite easy last level compared to what came on the way to the last level. Now I just have to wait another 2 years or so for the next one to be released and drop into the bargain range. There’s also still Skibi’s Castle to conquer….respect.
In a stream of consciousness post, I upgraded my phone’s OS last night from an ancient Android 1.5 to a custom ROM posted by guys who finally bothered to root and mod the shitty Motorola Backflip, based on the only slightly out of date Android 2.1. I swear this is the last phone I buy from Motorola. I actually quite like their Blur service, which backs up all the contacts up automatically, but they make their phone so anti-upgrading in terms of building lock down on top of lock down even though they still ship an out of date OS without any intention to release upgrades themselves to people outside US. Fortunately the modders have put together a pretty good ROM as well being l33t enough to bypass their lockdown. The process was anything but painless though. If not for some persistence and searching, the phone would be either a brick by now, or still running 1.5. Basically it’s too hard and an arduous for your normal consumer to do, which is what I guess Motorola is aiming for, so they can sell another phone with a newer OS as an upgrade.
Finally, happy new year everyone. May we sigh less in 2011 with big wins ahead.
