So I'm in the middle of one of the most wonderful times of the year.  Not that it's the holiday season, but it's time to burn all of the accumulated vacation and personal time I have at work before it gets eaten up into the dark corporate void of "unused time" which means I'm heading towards a seven of nine week.   
 
So what's a seven of nine?  I don't trust that if I'm not there at least a little bit, that I'll come back to work with monkeys hanging off the ceiling throwing poo everywhere and that if I'm gone for an extended period of time everything will be completely broken, so I set up weeks where I go in on Monday to make sure nothing broke over the weekend and Friday to make sure nothing's broken going into the next weekend, so out of nine days, I get seven off.  It also allows for me to take my two weeks of vacation and turn it into three weeks of vacation, and when I hit my five year it'll allow me to take my three weeks of vacation and turn it into five weeks.   
 
Going into the seven of nine caused me to take a good look at my gaming shelf and decide to hit up on some earlier games that I've been storing away but haven't had the time to really get into.  (I guess that's what a backlog is... ok, there's a word for it) so I started ordering the games that I was going to try to push through this week so at the very least, there's no games on my shelf still in the plastic wrap.  The order looked like this: 
 
Katamari Forever  
My wife and son play it, but I haven't had a good swipe at it and I marked this as a game to use as a break from the other games on the list but it's a Katamari game which means it never quite works out that way does it?  My son overwrote the old save file too, so it meant starting pretty much from scratch to rebuild what was already there.  So far I've cleared the main mode, just finished up Katamari Drive (which wasn't done on the old save file) and now I'm looking at it debating what to do next.
 
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
So I started playing this on Friday night figuring that if there was one game in my backlog that I wanted to finish this week, THIS was the game.  I've played it until Chapter 8 and stopped for some reason or another.  Then I picked it up, got to Chapter 14, then stopped for some reason again.  So I told myself that this game was getting finished this week as I got home from work on Friday, put it in and started playing.  When I looked at the clock it was 4am on Saturday and ending credits were rolling.  Great game, lots of fun, but like Enslaved, it's one of those games that has the problem of "there's collectables here, but don't look for them, advance the story already" syndrome.  I'm debating if I'm going to trophy hunt this or Enslaved and get all of those collectables but it's nice to have finally finished the game. 
 
inFamous  
I got this during the Walmart Black Friday sale, and I played it for a few hours right after getting it.  I was really digging on the game and I'm looking forward to heading back in and playing some more of tihs.  It got pushed aside for me to finally finish off Disgaea 3 (Platinum) and Heavy Rain (Wow... depressing endings if you mess up enough) but with that, finished and Uncharted already knocked out, inFamous goes up on the list of games to play this week. 

Assassin's Creed I & II  
I know.  People keep saying to just skip AC1 and move straight to the superior sequel, but I have both games sitting on the shelf.  If I play AC2, I know I'll never go back, so I'm going to try to start playing AC1 just so I don't feel bad about buying it and I'll have to temper my expectations of it being polished knowing the better version comes next. 

God of War Collection 
I have never finished a God of War game.  I never even owned GoW2 because I didn't really get into GoW1 when I had it.  I had no qualms about letting someone borrow it, and didn't miss it terribly much while they had it.  Time's passed, the game's been upressed, and it's considered one of the best games of all time, so I should theoretically play some of this because I'm interested, I'm just not pulled to it strongly enough to set the time aside to play it yet.  Like inFamous, for $10 this was a no brainer, and it's nice to have it. 
 
I might get in contact with one of my friends who's borrowing Valkyria Chronicles and see if I can get that sent back to me too.  I think that five months is enough time to let someone borrow a game, especially when I don't have one in return. 
 
Oh, and the card for UFC 124 doesn't look that great, but these are the cards that generally surprise you with competitive quality fights, so my wife and I are heading out to watch the fights tonight.  In the main event I have St. Pierre by mauling for 25 minutes over Koscheck.  I would love to see Kos win the fight just for the absolute CHAOS that would ensue in Montreal tonight but I just don't see it happening.