I spent the better part of this evening install ing ePSXe for linux. (This was after I tried both using wine+ePSXe for windows [failed to detect video plugin] and PCSX for linux [keyboard input troubles].) Everything was going fine. I figured out how to get the framerate at the right speed. I watched the intro movie for Final Fantasy VIII. And then…the text was scrambled, completely illegible. I messed around with all of the settings for both the XGL plugin and the MesaGL plugin for at least an hour, to no avail.

Sigh. I guess it is not in the cards for me to replay FFVIII this summer. Soon enough XII will come out, I suppose.

On the up side, a) Ma and Papi have finally come back to America, even though it is only for a little while, and b) in the process of troubleshooting ePSXe I changed my gtk1.2 theme to Plastig. So now my non-functional ePSXe looks pretty, as will all of the other gtk1.2 (mplayer, ???) applications that I never use.

It is getting warm and I am thinking about maybe going to the pool with Mummy in the mornings before all the scary teenagers come out. I need Maurie to teach me how to crawl properly. I can do it for as long as I can hold my breathe and then I have to stop because I don’t know how to breath and keep going. (Do you read me, Maurie?)