Zelda and Laundry
just had four days off from work, taken because it was my 5th wedding anniversary. (Seven years together!) Thursday was gaming night, although we spent more time playing the Wii than gaming. We also went to see 300, which was excellent. Friday we bummed around, mostly, going out for Chinese with Felonious. Saturday my folks came over, bringing us one of those nifty garden plaques as an anniversary present. Sunday, I tackled Mount Laundry, and that was an all-day project. Actually, it’ll be a two-day project before I’m done, because I got it all washed, but now it all needs folded.
Also, between loads of laundry, I played the original Zelda game, which we downloaded into the Wii. I’d like to point out that I beat the whole game in just a hair over seven hours. I seem to recall spending weeks on that game when it first came out. *sighs* Granted, I also downloaded a walk-through for the game, which was amazingly helpful, because I couldn’t remember how to do a damn thing in the game, but still. I had forgotten how incredibly tedious Zelda could be. It’s an awful lot of running around to the same places over and over again.
And now, from the “Well, Duh!” files: Moody Teens: The Excuse Is Chemistry — THEY answer back, throw tantrums and argue the point, but teenagers may now have an excuse for their moody behaviour. A hormone produced by the body to calm itself down during periods of stress seems to act in the opposite way in teenagers, making them more anxious, according to research published in the journal Nature Neuroscience.
Someone spent money to figure this out. Next time, pay me the money, and I’ll just tell you how it works. Okay, okay, technically, no one knew the exact chemical mechanism causing the moodiness of teens, and having discovered it, we might be able to parlay the discovery into a useful treatment for other things, or use it as a stepping stone to learn some other new thing. Body chemistry is like a puzzle, that way. Still — couldn’t they have picked an article title that didn’t make the research sound so damn stupid?
And now, sadly, I have to go get ready for work.
