In the Last 8 or So Months...

So much has happened. Shortly after playing through old computer games like Doom, Duke 3D, Secret of Monkey Island, Starcraft, and Gabriel Knight, I found myself getting into tabletop Role Playing Games (White Wolf's World of Darkness, along with many of its ilk). I guess it filled a need in me to be more creative while taking part in a collaborative story. It was pure bliss to play a game where you had the freedom to do anything from taking drugs to murdering a woman and sending her rib back to a group of mages in a Tony Roma's takeout box. Not that I enjoy doing these things all of the time, but they are extreme examples. I do tend to digress as well...

Later that year, I made the decision to move to Virginia, which was pretty hectic. I had to say goodbye to a lot of people I've known back in CA, which was pretty sad, but oh well, life goes on.

I dropped my Astro City while rolling it off of the moving truck, and it exploded like a Cave boss would...nah, I'm just kidding. Astro Cities are built like tanks. It only suffered a miniscule scratch on top of it--and it even struck the curb as it fell! And this was after sitting for days in 35-degree weather while moving boxes weighing over 80 pounds pressed against it during the shipment. I suppose that is not as bad as getting baked in an oven or dropped into a river, but I was pretty paranoid it wasn't going to survive its trip to the East Coast.

So after many more months of getting settled in, I may be working again. That means I'll have more of a fixed schedule to begin a routine. Before then, I was simply dabbling a bit in Thunder Force VI and Mountain of Faith. I fired up Ketsui a few days ago and realized how much I suck more at it, but I realized the more I played, it all comes back fast like muscle memory.

Soon, I will bring you down, EVAC Industry. I'm not finished with you yet.