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Last night I finally conquered Psychobilly Freakout on Hard, and can now say I’ve five-starred all 48 career songs (six songs a set, eight sets - the Xbox 360 version has the extra song a set bonus) on Hard difficulty in Guitar Hero II.

I now have access to a new guitar: The Eyeball. It’s absolutely hideous and humorous at the same time. Its head is a hand throwing the horns. It’s the penultimate rockstar item. Now, I just have to do it again on Expert, and I’ll have beaten the game, plus I’ll have unlocked the Log, which is truly the most awesome guitar in the history of ever.

I do have to put a disclaimer: Technically, I’ve only five-starred all of the career songs on Hard. I still have two songs to move from 4 to 5, and one from 3 to 5 (”Six”, ugh), and I think I still need to five-star BatM as part of the Xbox 360 DLC, but hey, still, the Xbox gave me the credit and the guitar, so, woo!

Also, if you haven’t see the Rock Band Fender Strat, go now. My excitement for both Guitar Hero III and Rock Band are overflowing.

Well, okay, here’s some life-related content that isn’t (completely) about gaming. One of Lisa’s best friends is coming in from out of town and will be staying with us for a few days. They’re both into board games, so I’m happy — we’ll actually get to play some stuff I don’t get to pull out often and have fun and hang out and it’ll be awesome.

However, since nobody has ever used our guest room before, we’d kind of let things fall into a mess. We’ve busted ourselves cleaning and fixing everything up, and now we have two lovely guest rooms rather than the two shambles of clutter that we had a mere couple of days ago. Nearly three years, and they will be our first guests (ignoring that whole sister-in-law and her whole family living with us for several months thing).

Which also reminds me - August 1st marks three years in this house. Even without having reached that, we’ve now lived in this house longer than we have in any one single place since we’ve gotten married. Until 2002, we never lived anywhere more than six months (seriously, we moved every six months due to one reason or another for the first two years of our marriage, including cross-country moves twice), and we were there for about two and a half years, so now, we’re setting a new mark, and it’s a neat feeling.

I still have more posts in the pipe — I swear, someday I’m going to post the over 10k words I wrote up while in Europe in May. Someday. Soon. If you want to go ahead of me and just look at photos though, here’s my Flickr Collection of all 380+ photos, including both a massive single set of all photos, and smaller sets broken down by day. In fact, here’s a photo of my Lisa from our trip. I always get more comments when I post a picture, so, here you go.

Our seventh anniversary is Saturday! Crazy! Seven years! Love you Lisa!