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My 1 year Kingdom of Loathing anniversary just passed. Jick sent me a gift, but I can't open it yet since I'm in hardcore. I wonder what it is. Hopefully I'll be ascending soon, but I'm stuck trying to get Boris's key in the Daily Dungeon. It's taking forever.

I started playing Kingdom of Loathing again a few weeks ago. I finally defeated the Naughty Sorceress and ascended. It's like reincarnating except you get to keep your stuff. Now I'm a turtle tamer. I'm playing on the hardcore oxygenarian path, which means I can't interact with any other adventurer, and I can't eat or drink anything. It makes the game a lot harder, but I'll get rewarded better hopefully. I'm having some setbacks so far, but I'm pretty sure I can finish the game again on this path.

But then KOL had some problems and has been down for the past few days. They're supposed to be back up soon. It sounds like they lost a lot of important data. I wonder how much stuff I'll have when I can log back in. Oh well, at least I didn't lose my account because of inactivity like Alex and some other adventurers in my clan did.

Alex showed me some cool games, so check these out when you have some time to kill. They're all pretty good.

Here's a parallel parking game. It's funner then it sounds. Kinda. Up and down on the keyboard are forward and reverse, left and right are steering. I haven't been able to beat it. But that shouldn't be a surprise since I can't drive.

Here's a snake game where you use the left and right arrow keys to move a snake across some platforms. Also sorta fun.

Here's a potato peeling game. Click and drag the mouse across the potato to peel, hover over the arrows to rotate. My best time is 2 minutes 30 seconds. Try to beat me.

A fun game where you move a squirrel across a cityscape. I'm mad that it resizes the browser window, but the coolness of this game makes up for that. You move the mouse to where you want the squirrel to go, and you click when you want it to jump. The music is great too.

From Tag Body Spray, Hide the Hotties. It's sorta like a memory game. You have to hide your girlfriends before their dads get there. Then you have to remember where you hid each daughter so you return them to the correct dad. I got up to level 2. It's really hard, but fun.

Etch a Sketch. You know how it works.

And finally, the best one so far, Poulaga Challenge. It's a very addictive chicken tossing game. You pick a character and enter a chat room, and make or accept challenges. Then you throw and catch the chicken. It's so much fun. I wish there were more people to play though. I'm up there as zer0cha0s usually, so challenge me if you see me.

This is an insert for a pool table that turns it into table golf. I don't know how to play table golf but I have two theories. The first theory is that you play just like regular pool except you try to hit it in the golf holes. Here's my much more entertaining theory:

Yeah like I'd imagine you have a tiny bag of tiny golf clubs and one of your hands is the caddie and the other hand is the player, and the caddie passes a club to the player, and you swing the club in your index finger and thumb.

That's funny that I'm quoting myself. I can't think of any better way to tell you about it though. After actually reading that page, it looks like my first theory was closer to being true. Oh well.

Googling "tiny golf clubs" brought up this page about golf trophies which gave me a great idea on how to get the clubs so you can play my version of table golf. That page says:

Some of the trophies are large and fragile. Please be extremely careful when transporting them. If moving them via a car it will be a very good idea to remove the tiny golf clubs from any figurine, and tape (masking tape) to the base of the trophy so as not to misplace it.

So what you have to do is get really good at golf and win a trophy that has a tiny golf club on it. Then you can use that tiny golf club for my version of table golf, which I'm going to call "pico golf" because it's like tiny mini golf. It'll be all the rage soon.

An online gamer stabbed and killed a man for selling his dragon sabre for real money. I mean I'd be pretty mad if someone sold my KOL items, but not that mad. But it should go without saying don't loan out your onling gaming items. Just the name "dragon sabre" sounds valuable.