Too much time playing games, not enough time writing about it.  But Malachi's playing some LBP on the PS3 so a truncated Days 2 and 3 of the Playcation. 
 
Playcation Day 2:  This was ALL about Disgaea 3.  I started playing it shortly after waking up, and eight hours later I was still grinding levels, playing around with Reverse Pirating, and trying to relearn how it was that I got my Disgaea 1 characters into the 5000-6000 level range.  Then I remembered on accident as I jumped into an Item World of a piece of equipment I just bought and didn't equip.  A Geo Panel Termination later, and my characters were getting tens of thousands of XP instead of hundreds, and hundreds of thousands of Hell was dropping into the coffers.  I spent most of the time powering up lesser items to play with the reverse pirating but in general I had the same reaction to Disgaea that I had with P3P.   There wasn't the tension and stress that Demon's Souls brings, and playing DS actually made the future of playing P3P and Disgaea better in comparison.  I did play around with my thief in Demon's Souls again at the end of the night, killed another boss, made another Magic Spell and finally got some sleep. 
 
Playcation Day 3:  It was off to an errand and my PSP with P3P was handy and I needed it.  I had to wait in a lobby for two hours waiting for something, and didn't notice it much at all.  After finishing it up, it was nap time as Malachi was getting in some LBP and with three other people running around the screen with him, I was loathe to boot him from the game.  I always worry when people play LBP "with me" since I'm never the one playing, and people must wonder how the hell I have Demon's Souls trophies but have such a difficult time with LBP without realizing it's actually a 4 year old at the helm.  After nap time, I woke to find my daughter was out with Grandma, my wife was finishing packing up for this weekend's trip, and I took Malachi to the Nicklecade.  I love watching Malachi's reaction to the place, since his eyes light up with wonder much like I suppose mine did when I was in the 8-12 year old range and going to the Playoff Arcade back in Worcester, MA.  Best moment of the whole time spent there was watching Malachi, after much begging, get on the Dance Dance Revolution machine and flail around like a madman before realizing that the game was over.  It only took about 30 seconds but I swear it knocked an hour off of his awake time.  I went on the machine with him, and bad foot and all slogged my way through three songs so he could continue flailing about when I realized something important between the second and third song.  He was actually catching that he was getting an E rank while I was getting As and Bs.  He seemed a bit dejected about the whole thing but when the music started up again, it was lost on him as he went back to happily stomping and dancing away as the lights washed over him.  But I need to keep in mind, that even at four years old, he's starting to keep score.  
 
Probably the best thing about the way this broke down was I had to work on Monday and Friday, which meant that I'm not walking into a hornets nest on Monday.  I found out that one of the largest clients I have let people in the office know that they were going to be coming in for a visit on Tuesday, or Playcation Day 1.  When were they going to be there?  The next two days which means I didn't have to deal with them at all.  I found this out when I listened to my voice mail on Friday morning on the way to work that I missed them, and I couldn't have been happier.  If they called me in, especially on Disgaea Day, I probably would have been in worse shape than I was going into the Playcation, so no sweat off my brow.   
 
And one of my friends had a BBQ today to celebrate buying a new house.  I'm proud as HELL of my man Tadao and how he's pulled himself together so damn tight.  I met his SO for the first time which means that we absolutely need to spend more time together, and I got to meet his mom who now could put a face to the person who was her son's slave driver when he was one of my Magic the Gathering judges.  To be fair, I never gave him more than he could handle, it's just that he could handle A LOT.  And when Tadao was on, he was out of this world, when he was off... he made me white-knuckle it.  Fortunately, he was rarely off without a reason, it's just being observant enough to figure out what that reason was.  It was odd since the people I saw there from my MTG days were the people that I honestly missed when I walked away from it.  But I'm glad I'm gone from it, running a game store nearly killed my love for gaming, and it's good to get back in touch with that and see that it's still there, I just need to work a bit harder at making time for it. 
 
But the thing that made me laugh the most was when we were walking through his front room and I saw the Rock Band drum set in the corner and asked what he was playing.  "Ohhhh... wait a minute, you've GOT to play this, it's insane!"  Tadao walked over and pulled out a copy of Demon's Souls which made me laugh.  
 
"You blocking the Playstation Network notifications that was showing me racking up trophies in that game over the last few months?"  We'll have to figure out how to get into each other's game and create some havoc one of these days.  If I can figure that out and we can arrange time, it'll be fun running through the Shrine of Storms with someone I know.