The birds were singing in every tree

I bought a Playstation3 a little while back. It came with Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. I have already completed the game and found it to be decent, but not nearly as great as everyone says. I would give it about a 6.5 to a 7....whereas it is usually rated at 9+. The "plot twist" toward the end of the game just felt totally unnecessary and silly. The controls were sluggish and enemies would shoot at you from SO far away when you can just barely see them. Oh well. I might play the second one, but I will want to play a demo first to see if they fixed the controls issue.

I already have a decent list of ps3 games I want to play. skate, Assassin's Creed, Demon's Souls, Borderlands, and inFamous are on that list right now. Erin and I borrowed Little Big Planet from my brother, so we will be playing that a bit right now. It seems a little simplistic right now, but at the same time, seems like it could really widen up.

I finished the guitar neck I had been working on with tru-oil. I really like the feel of it and the satin finish I got by rubbing it down with #0000 steel wool after rubbing on several coats of the oil. I also got a pair of guitar bridges (one of them will go on the body I have been working on) and drilled the installation holes in the body for them. I started to put a coat of clear poly over the painted body, but it wasn't taking it too well. While removing (again with #0000 steel wool) the poly, I wound up sanding through the paint that I wanted to keep...so I think that body is as finished as it will be. I'll have to scuff the whole thing down and repaint it -- at least this way I can smooth a bunch of smaller things out and hide my repairs better...I will string the body up and play it acoustically for a little before I commit to making a pickguard and figuring out pickups/electronics for it.

Christmas wasn't bad. Erin surprised me by buying me a new skateboard. It is this one. We went to her grandparents' ranch on Christmas day, spent the night there, then drove to Katy for the day after and then back to Austin that evening. Then we woke up early to go to San Antonio to go to the zoo/visit my brother. Erin had her other 2 wisdom teeth out Monday and I had to go back to work on Tuesday. My new skateboard is pretty nice, though. I REALLY needed new trucks, and I really noticed the difference while I was riding a bit at my parents' house.