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Speak up my darlin’ I have been waiting

Been a long time coming on this update but it seems as though life has been entirely too nonstop these days, in a largely good way. Lets start with the holidays. They were good, got to see a bunch of family, got snowed in for Christmas (not that it would stop me) and still had a pretty solidly entertaining time all around. Oh, skipped turkey day. Ate a bunch, drank a bunch, good times. New years eve was spent, as always, at home. It just seems like the best idea considering MN has a fair number of drunk drivers anyway (lady in SD who blew a .708? Yeah, MN resident. Guy in St. Paul just got his 20th DUI, etc) and amateur night is not a time to be out of the road. Plus, its frankly just nice to spend the time sorting out the end and the beginning of the new year. Plus playing video games is always pretty great.

Work is past its mind numbingly busy season and I made a decent amount of money. That said, having the time back is way more important to me at the end of the day so I am glad that its over and that I am starting to get back into the swing of things outside of work as well. Now that its the new year as well it means that it really and truly is the time for me to figure out what the hell I am going to do with myself career wise. Time will tell I suppose with whats available. Doesn’t help that I think the recession is going to hit a bit more.

Video game wise things are good. Beat the ever loving crap out of AC2 on a single playthrough and now I need to decide between my collector self (and hey, maybe I will play it again…. maybe) and the fact that I can sell it for most of what I bought it for still. That said, aside from the fact that it was too easy (in my opinion) and it had some bloat with unnecessary additions to the game, it did improve on the first one in really every way. Story gets fucking weird part way through, fair warning. Otherwise, I have been playing some 1943 again and its still fun. The most recent game though has been Trials HD. Its a fun game. Its a frustrating game. Its … I dunno whether it was good to spend the money on it or not. I have played a fair amount of it and I think if it were easier it would feel like a waste. That said, I am not very good at it. Although I can see myself improving every time I play which is actually a really interesting phenomenon. Watching people do the final level with no faults in super fast times? Well, it is impressive to watch. Plenty of other videos of trials (and its various levels) on youtube as well.

Started reading again recently. It has been kind of a shame to me that I didn’t read much for a while considering how much I enjoy reading. Read Logicomix last week and I would recommend it to people. Next two books in the queue are “The girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “The Gathering Storm” I believe. Who knows though I might get distracted and go back to some other books or something. Either way its sort of surprising how much I had missed it.

In other news, since tickets are bought and such, later this year, and not terribly far away actually, I am heading to Korea. Thanks to the wonders of the date line it will be a day and a half of travel local time to local time to get there and roughly …. 0 hours to to return. Actually technically I return a half hour before I leave in local times. That one will be a first for me. Either way, looking forward to it, no doubt about that. Have another, much smaller, trip in the works for this summer as well. That trip is still under wraps for the moment since tickets aren’t bought but it should be a good time if everything comes together the way I expect it to. So yeah… traveling again.

Lately I have been feeling a need to disconnect from the net a bit (odd for me to say really). Its going to be an interesting experiment to see what exactly happens witht hat and how it all pans out. I think that it will  probably be a good idea for me though, at least in the short run.

Man I was about to say something really pretentious and crap. Good thing I caught myself. The gist of it is that “09 was, at the end of the day, a pretty good year for me” so lets leave it at that. Hope 09 was good for you and here is a song that I heard earlier today that always catches me off gaurd.

Bunch of other stuff too but that can all wait for now.

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