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Calling Audrey

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Calling Audrey
Photo-A-Day #1542

Eva posing with her new shirt from Mimi. She is also holding her toy phone. She takes that phone or even our phones and pretends to call various people. Most often she calls her friend Audrey. It is so cute to hear her say, “Hi Audrey, howya doing? Howya feeling?” It is a riot.

Today Allison and Eva were off visiting friends in NH. I was home and decided that it was time once again to thin out the closet. Whenever I do this I take everything I own out of the closet and put it onto the bed. I weed out the hang up stuff first, shirts and pants and other items. I have a Phoenix Coyotes Hockey Jersey for some reason. I think I liked the design of the shirt but I’m not a hockey fan so I’ve worn it very infrequently. I think I was going to wear it while playing roller hockey, so that shirt has been with me since college and it is all but brand new. That is about the weirdest thing I have in the closet everything else is pretty ordinary. I decided that I was going to make more room so I used space saver bags on all the long sleeve shirts and sweaters till next season. I also used the space saver bags to put a bunch of handmade wolf pillows that my sister Tara made for me, into storage till I have someplace to put them. And I used the bags on the bedding for the futon in the guest bedroom/office/art room/play room and future room for Eva and any possible siblings (nothing to announce). So things got put away and cleaned up.

I have nothing but praise for the space saver bags. I used my Dyson Animal to suck out all the air. I have the filter removed for the time being because I cleaned it yesterday and it still needs some more dry time. Without the filter you couldn’t even believe the suction! I was able to reduce items down to nothing after a couple minutes. These bags are great! I do have to say that my Dyson Root 6 is a disappointment. Oh, it does a fantastic job cleaning up messes but with only 6 minutes of actual usage time compared to a 3 hour charge this makes very little sense. I guess it is for the spot cleaning but I always see that the spot is much larger than it first appears.

While Allison and Eva were gone I also played a little more of the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Video Game for the Wii. After seeing the movie, reading the comics and playing the video game I can say that the video game has the better story. The comic tells the movie story better than the movie (and less crass) and the movie is great for watching huge robots kick the tin out of each other. I have yet to read the novel of the movie and will eventually because that usually fills in many of the storytelling gaps in the movie. For instance in the first movie we never learn of the fate of Barricade in the movie. He’s (Barricade) chasing everyone along the highway then Prime tussles with Bonecrusher and kills him (Bonecrusher). We never see Barricade again and that is because Prime killed him too. While Barricade does not show up again in Transformers 2, Bonecrusher does for some inexplicable reason. The only thing I can think is that Bay had the robot created in CGI already so he figured he’d use him again and no one would notice. I noticed. I noticed plotholes you could walk Devastator through, sheesh.

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Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Game for Wii

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Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Game for Wii
Photo-A-Day #1537

I picked up Transformers Revenge of the Fallen video game for the Wii. If you would like to buy it I’ll add my affiliate links to Amazon at the bottom. Just to be clear whenever you see a link to Amazon it is an affiliate link. I want to make sure that everyone is clear on that. I make a little bit of money on each sale through Amazon.com on every sale that originates from here.

Some bloggers are probably saying duh we have those links on our blogs as well. That is great I think that if you discover something great to buy that you enjoy and you want to let someone know about it that you can make a couple of cents on recommending it than great. However you must disclose. It is hard to disclose an affiliate link to Amazon without being over the top, like I am right now. I’ve been reading a bunch of other bloggers on this issue because the FTC is looking to crack down on bloggers for not disclosing affiliate links. I figure that most bloggers know by now that clicking on a link from a blog to a place where you can buy something is most likely an affiliate link and if it is not then the originating blogger is either lazy or not bright. Making a little bit of money through a blog is okay and disclosure is important. Do I put a disclaimer at the top of every post that says.

“The links contained within are affiliate links if you click them and buy something I earn money.”

Do you think that is tacky? Do you think that is enough? Am I clear, honest and non-deceptive? I don’t know the answer but I am willing to talk about it.

So, not that that is out of the way… I just played nearly one hour worth of game time on the new Transformers Revenge of the Fallen video game for the Wii. The gameplay is a little different than the game for the first Transformers Movie. For one thing you can’t go anywhere you want, you pretty much fallow a set course. I played as Bumblebee, Ironhide and Sideways. Gameplay is much easier than the first game and it is pretty satisfying overall. I do love how you could basically destroy everything with the first game. I like the little cut scenes because you actually get to know the names of the characters. The voice work is good too and you will notice a difference in the voice of Soundwave from the movie vs Soundwave from the game. Fans will be pleased with that aspect of the game.

I have not played the two player mode yet but soon. Also there are not campaigns for the individual factions Autobot and Decepticon, you play a campaign straight through. Along the way you can unlock a bunch of cool features like videos and images. I need to play more to give a proper review but so far I like it.

In other news I downloaded the Transformers comic books on iTunes to my iPod Touch. These are the two prequels, Transformers Alliance and Transformers Defiance. Then there is the movie adaptation. Reading the comic prequels is an important prerequisite for the movies because you learn the backstory and you also get down the names. That and characters who are not in the movie also get a chance to shine in the comic books. They are only 99 cents and the great thing is that you don’t have to store them in boxes all over the house.