I am feeling a deep sense of dissatisfaction with my currently available selections of entertainment sources, in particular, my video game collection. Lin is knee deep in Neverwinter Nights, and since he has expansion packs for it, I don’t anticipate hearing anything more from him than simple grunts for beverages and whining about having to stop playing to eat dinner until at least Spring. This leaves me free to make whatever use I want of the television during those prime evening hours when I usually have no say whatsoever on the topic of how the TV will be used.

Thanks to the writer’s strike, there is nothing at all on TV to watch that interests me in any way or isn’t something I have already seen a thousand times before, and the hard drive on the DVR is only 21% full, and all those shows are things I want to record to DVD. Everything else has been watched and deleted. Also, the only movie I have on DVD that I haven’t seen is Spiderman 3, and of course Lin wants to see it, but he doesn’t want to see it now, because he’s a little busy saving The Forgotten Realms from some horrible fate at the hands of evil. So that leaves video games, of which I have a rather large selection. Radiata Stories lost my attention this morning when the Wind Dragon kicked my butt one too many times in a row (on line walkthroughs suggest being 75th level — I am currently 35th), and I don’t really like playing on the side of the stupid, misguided and somewhat evil humans. Alas, after popping in a number of my favorite games, I discovered I have played them all far too often, and it’s quite possible I will never want to play them again. That means the only games in the house I have not played are Lin’s games, and crawling around on my belly in a foreign country shooting people during a war is not my idea of entertaining escapism.

Thus … I am bored. Really bored. I am so bored I am contemplating setting up the Super Nintendo and playing Mario Brothers, even though I know it will drive me stark raving mad after 15 minutes.

Therefore, I need a new PS2 video game. That’s not likely to happen any time soon, due to budgetary concerns and my finickiness about what kinds of video games I like to play. But hey … a girl can dream that just over the horizon is the perfect video game, right?

I guess I’ll go watch one of the Shrek movies or sit in the living room staring at the wall. Doesn’t matter which I do. I want to play a video game, and I have no video games I want to play. This truly sucketh.