"you've got nothing to prove... stay afraid...."

i called off work for the third day in a row. i feel like crap, and will force myself back tomorrow regardless. i have since decided i won't be going to orlando as planned this weekend. which is a bummer, but, my health is priority numero uno.

i got stuck while playing, "portal," and discovered: gamevideos.com, and found a detailed video of the level i'm stuck on and how to get through it, and was really impressed at how far visual, video help guides have come... of course the downside to this is the site told me that i only have three more levels to get through and i'm done with the game, which took some of the fun out of it, but, if you've ever played, "portal," you would've understood why i had to look it up.

i'm also a little bit disenchanted with the achievements system on, "half-life 2," for the simple fact that when i had to go through the ravenholm section, under the achievements list, it said if i made it through ravenholm only using my gravity gun, that i would unlock 25G's. guess what, no it didn't!

still, despite the few minor complaints, i'm happy overall with the orange box still. ... i'm going back to bed.