Too Much Gaming?

So Steam went and decided to sell Mass Effect 1 and 2 as a bundle for $9.99 and not only is that a great deal but the Mass Effect 2 was the digital delux version with a butt load of dlc and awesomeness.  Well I had beat ME2 on the xbox but had never played the first one.  Well when you play the first one and then import your character man it turns Mass Effect 2 into a completely different game.  No I truly understand how people that are utterly obsessed with this game got that way.  It is very interesting to have played through a game one way and then just importing a character from the first game completely turns the dialogue around.  I mean the default story was pretty cool but having molded and shaped the story with the first one is very interesting.  When I first played through the game on the xbox version I lost three of my squad mates I am shooting to get through it with no one dying.  Probably not going to happen I also need to get everyone Loyal too me.  I was kind of upset with Zaeeds loyalty quest because man that was a lot of Renegade points and I love going as Paragon as possible.  Well I am really starting to get the hang of using a keyboard and mouse instead of a controller it is too the point that I tried to play minecraft with my girlfriend on the xbox and man I was having a hard time using the controller.

I have been spending a lot of time playing games.  I did actually manage to go a night without playing any games last night ok actually that is a lie I played a lot of Candy Crush Saga last night.  Man I hate that game.
Man this blog is pointless and stupid.  ugh.

Much Love
M

First Gaming Computer Build.

OK so I built my first gaming computer and honestly I think it turned out pretty well.  I didn't really have a lot of money so my friend helped my build a computer that is easy for me to upgrade when the time comes.  The motivation for doing this was because I have really gotten into the feel of playing video games on a PC just using the keyboard and mouse just feels nice.  Also I don't want to be pinned to having to get one of the next gen consoles which are pretty much just going to be PC's anyway.  I would rather have something I can customize and update.  So here are the specs for what I got.

I got an AS Rock FX Socket AM3 N68C-GS motherboard.  So far it has been a very nice start up and at $45 it has been very worth it.  With that I am running an AMD FX4100 Quad-Core processor and I the reviews have been pretty up and down on this processor but for the beginning PC gamer like me it has been perfect.  Currently only running 4 GB of ram via a Corsair XMS3 stick of ram I do plan on upping to 8 GB really soon.  For a hard drive I am using a Western Digital 1TB SATA.  I remember a time when having like a gig of hard drive space was awesome.  I just dated myself there.  My first computer had only a 20 GB hard drive so I have no idea what I am going to do with 1 TB of hard drive space.  Haha.  For a video card I am using an MSi N650 GeForce GTX650 and again I am very impressed with the bang for my buck I have gotten with this build so far.  I have a standard DVD-RW drive and am using LOGISYS 430W power supply.  This is all housed inside a RAIDMAX Blade ATX-298WR Super Blade case.  I like this case because it has lots of room to add more stuff to it.

I have been spending a lot of my time since I built the computer in a closed beta for this game called Loadout which is just a wonderful fiasco of great fun.  It is a multi-player third person shooter game that is just a blast the art style is very Team Fortress with over the top animated blood and body dismemberment when being shot.  There are crazy moments when my head is only a brain and eyes or where I am running around one armed just trying to stay alive.  Usually I am not a huge fan of over the top gore but with this goofy animated style it is totally great.  I cant wait for the full version to be released.  Well I am going to go and pretend to work and hopefully get some gaming in this evening.

Oh I am still shackled to my console because I had pre-ordered Bioshock Infinite before I decided to build the PC so I am going to definitely be finishing that up and then also my friend bought me Skyrim for my birthday for my Xbox so I need to work my way through that.

Much Love
M

Breaking The Chains

OK so it has been a few days since I have posted something and I have done it.  I finally broke free of Facebook it was a nightmare actually.  I did not realize how many websites that I had registered with and when given the option to either create a login or to just use Facebook I just clicked on log in with Facebook.  So needless to say it took me all morning to go through all of those websites and change they way I log in to them.  So now it looks like I am free and clear of the Facebook.  I just got to the point where it was more of a hassle to block content from the site than it was worth, also most of the important people that I care about what they have to say I have on text.

So tonight I am going to try to make some more progress on Mass Effect 3 but I think we all know that most likely I am going to sit on my couch put Primeval on Netflix and read that is most likely what I am going to end up doing with this evening since the lady is working this evening.  Though I do have one thing on my list of must accomplish.

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Fast forward to the next day.

OK so guess what I did last night?  You guessed it I watched Primeval.  I did managed to complete one quest in ME3 so I kind of did what I was planning on doing.  I also managed to watch the first episode of Primeval New World and the last episode.  I only really watched it because of Andrew Lee Potts being in both to kind of tie together the original series with the attempt at a spin off.  It was meh.  I am a purist I guess and couldn't really get into it.  I did however like Connor saying that he had a wife and wanted to see her again because that at least gave us a touch of where we were left hanging when the original series was cancelled.

That brings me to this video by Swoozie   Diary of a TV Addict and it is exactly how I feel.  I mean I don't mind my shows being cancelled but I do wish they would give me a couple episodes of closure just to tie up the loose ends.   I mean Primeval was a perfect example SPOILERS!!!!!!!----------------you end off with another version of Matt telling our Matt that he needs to go back....  How can you leave me hanging like that.  I mean the series Angel did the same damn thing.........  Like Swoozie said man just give me three of four episodes to tie up the loose ends.... That is all I want.  Primeval hasn't been off the air that long I mean when you think about it the time between series of Sherlock is as long as Primeval has been cancelled just give me a couple episodes.  Show me Connor and Abby's wedding.  Show me Matt finally getting things all sorted out and being able to be happy.  That is all that I want....

That rant and this utter train-wreck of a blog post is finally done.

The girl and the Mine.

Well it is Saturday just any other Saturday nothing really exciting going on except for oh yeah I got my girlfriend utterly hooked on Minecraft.  She always complained about my obsession.  She never understood how I could play it all the time and how I could play it so much and how I could enjoy watching people play the game.  Well today she told me she wanted to try playing it with me on the xbox.  I haven't played that version in forever pretty much just been playing on the PC, anyway she decided she wanted to try it and after about three hours I had to get up and move on to something else but she just kept on playing it was pretty freaking hilarious actually.  At least now she understands the obsession.  Well actually it isn't as much of an obsession to me any more than it use to be but still.

So over the last few days I have been complaining about my hands getting cold and how I needed to still be able to use all my fingers and what not so I needed some nice fingerless gloves well today I got some nice new Jack Skellington ones.  I just wanted straight black but these are pretty darn nice.  

On the diet front I am doing a very good job.  I have been pretty successful when it comes to trying to eat Vegan I discovered that the cheese I am eating still has milk protein in it but for a start I think it is pretty impressive.  Also I have found that I get full a lot faster and stay full longer which is freaking great.   Well I am going to sit down and watch some more Primeval  until the GF is done with work.  It seems I cant get through a single day without watching some.

BB

M

Sriracha and Chickpea Burger

So for lunch today I tried some Sriracha.  I have been wanting to pick some up for a very long time and finally got around to buying some.  So for lunch I had a Chickpea burger with some vegan pepper-jack "cheese" with no bun and some sriracha to dip it in and I do have to say I was impressed.  I was expecting something much hotter than what it was.  It is definitely going to be a staple of my diet from now on.  This is how I roll I am always looking for a new hot sauce to put on everything.  It seems I just cant get enough of hot sauce.  Now while the hot sauce was great and the vegan cheese was good as always the chickpea burger patty was good but has an odd aftertaste that I am not really sure about yet.

So last night I had planned on playing some Mass Effect 3 but ended up going out to buy an awesome new hat.  By the time I got home it was time for Archer to come on and that is my Thursday to not miss show.  I really wish I had more to say right now but I think I am going to try to do a week in review blog tonight.  This is probably a cake, but hey we can try.

My New Hat :)

<3

M

What't My Style?

So I have been doing a lot of thinking about what is my style, fashion wise.  I mean I have been very limited in style because of my weight.  I pretty much always had like two pairs of shorts to wear and a handful of 3XL Dickies shirts.  Since I am losing weight I think it is time to start thinking about what my style is.  I mean I am a big fan of vests.  I don't really know why but I just really love vests.  I also really love button down shirts of the short sleeve variety. I love my Doc's but my weight caused my feet to fatten up a little so I cant really wear those yet.  Then you got stuff like accessories.  I love pocket watches and different types of hats.  I think that I really need to dive into this and figure out what I can do.  Also facial hair will need to be figured out I have been wearing a beard for awhile mostly because it covers up the fatness of my face, but if I am going to be losing weight I might be able to start shaving again.  These are the things I have been pondering as of lately.

One thing I did settle on is that I am growing my hair out.  All my life I have had buzz cuts, mohawks or just plain bald shaved heads.  I want something new so I am going to grow it out as long as I can.  I have been told that the probiotics will actually help out with this.  I am also going to try not to dye my hair though there is a downside of the fact that I have quite a bit of grey showing up.

On to a little more serious note I am not really sure what to make of North Korea and all their blustering.  I am just trying to figure out what makes them think that if they lash out at South Korea that there isn't a very good chance that all the other countries of the world, I mean even their "allies" are backing away from them, aren't just going to sweep in their.  It doesn't make any sense to me.  I tend to think that they are just kind of like the little drunk man on the corner who is pissed off at the rest of the world and decides to just scream at the people passing by.  Just to be heard.  Well that is the extent of my real world issues for the week.

So it was supposed to snow around here and as usual people rush out to the store to buy everything just thinking that they are going to be snowed in. I live in the city.  Even if it dumps like three feet of snow we are usually dug out in like a day or two.  I can survive off my own fat stores for that long.  I don't understand why people around here think they need to rush out to get like a months worth of groceries.  I grew up in the middle of nowhere now in that kind of situation it might be for the best to do that because if we would get snowed in it could be like a week or so.  I don't get it here in the city.   OK and there ends the rant section of this rambling mess of a blog.

Blessed Be
M

Delicate Grip On Reality.

OK so I think I am starting to lose grip on reality again.  It happens from time to time.  It seems to happen mostly when I either find a great series of books to read and the series is over or I find a great TV series to watch and the same thing happens where it is over.   I tend to overly lose myself in the world that the writers of the books or shows create and it becomes more real to me than the physical world that I can touch.  The last time it really happened badly was when I got hooked on the Special Agent Pendergast books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child.  Now I currently think it is because of the Primeval situation that has pretty much taken up ever free part of my mine that isn't devoted to breathing and eating.  Though I do think it might have taken over some of the eating parts.  Which is not a bad thing.

So I decided that I do what to go Vegan there is one down side.  I currently have a good chunk of food that is not vegan but is vegetarian and in todays economy people cant afford to throw away food so I am going to have to wait until these couple of cans of tomato soup are gone and these cheese ramen instant lunches that I have floating around.

I know there are probably people out there saying "No if you really want to go Vegan you need to get rid of all that stuff now."  Well I have to support my family and this food cost money while yes it didn't cost a lot of money, the ramen was on 39 cents a thing, it still cost money that I don't have a lot of. Plus I am not doing this for a moral reason.  I am a big supporter of people eating meat though I don't agree with how a lot of meat is processed and the animals are treated.  I do think that eating meat is just fine.

Well I guess I should pretend to work.

Blessed Be
M

Veggie or Vegan with Alice and a Breaking Dawn.

So I have been looking at ways to make me feel better about myself as well as just feeling better in general.  So I am going down the road of Vegetarian again.  There was a time when I went two years without eating meat and I honestly felt so good both emotionally and physically and it was only because my daughters mother that I gave up on it and started eating meat again.  Oh and on a side note finally my divorce has been finalized.  Well I felt so good when I wasn't eating meat it made me wonder why I am not doing that again.  I would like to eventually go full on Vegan but honestly I don't know if I can give up cheese.  It might be a good thing for me to do because it does seem that dairy products tend to not agree with me from time to time.  So that is my goal also the probiotics seem to still be working pretty well.  I know that it is only been three days but as a person that spends much time with stomach pain the last couple of days free of it has been great.

So last night I was able to sit down and watch the Alice mini series with Andrew-Lee Potts and it was pretty darn good.  I am a big fan of different twists on classic stories and I really felt that it was a pretty interesting story.  It did get corny in a lot of spots but in all honesty the best kind of scifi stories are chock full of corny.  I love it.

I also sat down and watched the last Twilight movie and well lets start with what was really bad the special effects were horrible but the acting was probably the best in the series.  Though it was carried by Michael Sheen as Aro.  That man can just straight up act no matter how bad the lines are he can some how make it seem worth it.  He does such a great job of carrying the role of being totally power drunk but yet also giddy in a childlike manor.  He was definitely the highlight of the movie for me.  I have read all the bucks and I did have to suffer through them mostly because with these books usually the first half of each of the books would be so slow but then like the last ten chapters would be just utterly fast paced and would somewhat make up for it.  I was lucky to have forgotten about most of the end of the book so I was able to be surprised a little bit.  For fans of the romantic vampire stuff that has been so popular now it is well worth the watch well those people don't really need my recommendation because they will have already seen it.

I am trying to decide what movie I want to watch this evening but most likely I am just going to watch the latest Bones on Hulu and then start watching Primeval starting with Series 1 Episode 1 yet again.  Either way I wont be complaining.  Though I probably should play some more Mass Effect 3 this evening.

Blessed Be,
M

Probiotics and Primeval

OK so to start this off I am giving Probiotics another try.  I am prone to stomach issues and I had tried to take probiotics a year ago and it so happened to have coincided with me getting a horrible bought of sour stomach.  I don't know exactly what the sour stomach is but that is what I call it.  What happens is I get massive stomach pain and then when I burp honestly it smells like raw sewage.  Well my mind instantly associated the probiotics with the stomach issue.  Well over the last year I have gotten the issue one other time and there was no probiotics involved so I was finally able to get myself away from thinking that was the problem.   Well even just after two days I was able to start to feel a difference in the way my stomach was feeling so I am going to stick with it.  I take the probiotics twice a day so I will see how it goes.  I also learned that it can help make your hair grow which is cool cause I want to grow my hair long.

On to the second part of my post today.  OK so I have a habit of finding great TV shows after they have been cancelled and last week I discovered Primeval a show than ran for 5 series (in the UK for some reason they call season series)  I fell in love with this show after just one episode and over the last week watched all 5 series.  Bare in mind they are the usual BBC length where the series is actually like between 7 and 9 episodes a piece but I was hooked.   I loved it so much I am actually starting over again .  Honestly the best television I have found to watch is Doctor Who, Sherlock (which kills me with its incredible amount of time between series) and Primeval (sadly no longer making new episodes)  All these shows are BBC shows. That cannot be a coincidence.

Well I am done for right now going to try to write another blog tonight about my new diet regime.

Multi For Him and Vitamin C

Well it has been a little while since I have blogged so I felt that it was time to kinda do a little check up.  So after weeks of fending off the various colds and other bugs that are floating around this time of year I finally succumb to something as pedestrian as a sinus cold.  It was a pain but luckily the fact that I have maintain a healthy course of a Multi-Vitamin and a Vitamin C a day I was able to limit the amount of days that it really affected me to one.  Also I know that the fact that I have been a year and three months without a smoke plays a large roll in the fact that the illness did not stick around as much as it would of in the past.  I am still trying to find out where I want this blog to go I know that it tends to be all over the place ranging from movies, to gaming to diet and what not.  Maybe some day I will settle down a simple subject or to or as a good friend of mine does with her blog she has days of the week where she writes about different things. I am contemplating that route but haven't figured out where to start so for now this is going to just be a weekend kind of wrap up.

This weekend was a very horrible kind of weekend.  Nothing profound or life altering happened but I did manage to have a horrible migraine from Saturday night all the way into Monday morning so that was a horrible experience.  I am laying the blame on the massive amount of caffeine that I consumed on Friday in the form of way to much tea, coffee and diet sodas on Saturday.  I haven't had a really horrible headache in years so this one really wiped me out.  My daughters were over this weekend so Saturday I just pushed the pain away and did the best I could to spend some time with them though once Sunday morning rolled around and their mother came to pick them up I hooked the little guy up with a Ninjago DVD and curled up on the couch to keep myself from tearing my head open.  On several occasion the little guy would come out and be like "You can sleep more I am just watching more Ninjago."  Eventually I woke up and it was 1 in the afternoon and the headache was still there.  It stuck around for the rest of the day finally starting to subside Monday morning just in time for work.

I just traveled in time.  Started this on Tuesday and bam now it is Wednesday.  I am not really feeling the whole working thing today.  Or blogging thing right now but I just wanted to get this thing up and posted since I need to get something up.

Oh and on a side note I am doing this Caffeine Free Week thing where you give up caffeine for the week and yeah that is a thing and it is rough.  I will post some more about that as the week goes on I hope. 

Much Love
M

Caved In.

Well I caved in and bought Minecraft for the PC and honestly I could not be happier.  The sky really is the limit when it comes to what you can do with this game.  Also I hate to admit it but I feel my gaming preference beginning to shift from consoles to PC.  Currently I have only been playing on peaceful just because I still haven't gotten use to the controls of a PC that who AWSD is a little crazy though using a mouse is far easier than using an analog stick to to aim. Also the addition of mods and texture packs are pretty awesome.  Currently I am only using the Optifine Mod and the Boardercraft texture pack which is awesome.  I don't really have too much else to say right now.  The diet is going pretty crappy but each day is a new day.  Today I made sure not to bring that much stuff with me to work so that I am limited to just my breakfast and what I brought for lunch I also didn't bring any money for the vending machines.  We will see how it goes.  Most likely I will just stuff my face when I get home.

M

Cupcakes and Ice Cream Cakes!!!

Man where did this weekend go?  I mean honestly I have no clue.  I don't really know what happened to Saturday I do however know that Sunday I ate some cupcakes and some candy along with a homemade ice cream cake.  Well not the whole ice cream cake but a lot of it.  I also had probably some of the best lasagna I have ever consumed.  Way more of that than I should have.  I look back on Sunday and it is no surprise that I can barely see my toes sticking out from my gut, OK that isn't true I can still see my toes but I wonder if it is only a matter of time.  Today is am starting over (yet again)  I wish that I could get a little more support at home over this but I kind of understand that people don't like to do that kind of stuff.  Everyone wants me to talk to a doctor and go the surgery route but I know that I can do this.  I have done it before I know that I am not fat because of a problem with my body I am fat because of a problem with my mind and because I don't say know.  I also am the master of making up excuses.  An all time favorite is the well it is the weekend I can start over on Monday.  That is the one I used this weekend.  Then there is also the well I lost five pounds so I can have a treat.  That treat almost always being like an entire pizza.  I want to do this and I want to do it right.  The thing is that I know what the problem is I know what I need to do to fix it though this is probably one of the first times I have actually spit it out without more excuses.  Well I just wanted to get that off my chest for right now.  We will see how things go.

Much Love
M

Damn You Philly Pretzel Factory

Man Thursdays are great days......... You know why I love Thursdays?...... PHILLY PRETZEL FACTORY!!!!! OK I love and hate them.  So the amazing company that I work for they really know how to take care of us.  Mondays they provide bagels, Wednesdays are a catered lunch I don't ever partake in that because of the inability to count the calories.  Thursdays is PPF (yummy)  I allow myself two of those and then Fridays they alternate between Pizza and Subs.  I don't eat the pizza on pizza days but I definitely enjoy a little Roast Beef Hoagie on Hoagie Fridays. 

OK I am done talking about that.  I was trying to think about something to write about from last night but I realized I did absolutely nothing last night.  I watched a couple of iHasCupquake Minecraft videos last night caught up on the Minecraft Hunger Games they played well the first and second I had already watched them both from Captain Sparklez and AntVenoms perspective but it was really cool to see it from Cupquakes perspective because you got to see the drama from the air. I also caught up on some of her old Quake N Bake videos which are freaking awesome.  If you are into nerdy edible treats they are worth the watch.  Geeky yummy snacks abound.  It lets me satisfy my food addiction without actually eating anything.  She also has a great series called Geeky Goodies that teach you how to make all kinds of geeky and wonderful decor things.  Pretty awesome.

On the diet front yesterday was a great day I stayed below my calorie limit and that is always a plus.  I need to hurry up and get paid so that I can buy some better food to eat though.  I am staying below my calorie limit but the quality of the food isn't as good as I would like but I am going to make a change to that. 

I think I slept on my wrist weird last night because I woke up and I could barely move it.  It even hurt shifting my car on the way to work.  I have it wrapped and I hope it starts to feel better soon...

In the realm of TV I am going to try to giving Breaking Bad another chance this evening I watched like the first like six episodes but I kept losing interest in the show every time that Walt would do something evil and decide he wanted to go home and bang his annoying wife it always annoyed me.  OK well I am running out of stuff to say and am probably going to start rambling soon.

Much Love
M

Minecraft Obsession

OK so my daughter was telling me about this game called Minecraft and that it was so awesome and there were videos on YouTube and I was like sure I will take a gander at this since she loves the videos.  I was not impressed I thought it was such a stupid idea for a game.  Then it came out as part of the Xbox Arcade and I downloaded and for her.... I was hooked the first time I spawned into that blocky world and was forced to survive that first night.  The first time I heard that freaking hissing sound and was blown to bits by something that I didn't even see I knew I was in for a bad time.  I have finally made the decision to upgrade to the PC version of the game and really give into my obsession.

I am choosing to lay the blame for my addiction to Minecraft not on myself but on YouTubers like iHasCupquake, AntVenom, sethbling and of course I cant mention Minecraft and YouTube without mentioning CaptainSparklez.  What these incredible people are able to do and create with this game is amazing I love games I love gaming I will admit it though I am horrible I suck beyond all belief but that is not what games are about they are about fun and creativity and killing time.  Minecraft has created the perfect tool for doing all of those. 

Even now as I am typing this blog post I am being destracted by Cupquakes Minecraft Single Player videos.

OK enough about that I just wanted to take a moment to rant about something that I take enjoyment from.  On to another note the battle against the bulge is going I am slowly making some progress which is a good thing I don't want just rush in and lose a bunch of weight.  I have been down that road before and after the rapid weightloss it was always just a matter of a few months before I have put even more weight on.  So I think that going slow is the better way to go.  I am hoping to get this blog and everything about it more organized and less of a mess.  I am hoping that just by typing everyday perhaps I will get better at it.

Much Love
M

Damn You Steven Moffat!!!!!!!

OK so seriously I love/hate Steven Moffat.  This man is the single greatest bane of my existence except for being fat I guess, but he controls my tv watching schedule and always messes it up with his non-standard release times and breaks between seasons of his show.  I am pretty sure that he just sits around and BBC goes "Hey when you going to get us some new Doctor Who or new Sherlock?" and he just goes "Fuck you guys I am Steven MFing Moffat I will give you new shows when they are ready and you will air them and you will like it."  Yes I am sure that is how the world works.  No seriously I love him he is an amazing writer and what not but no I hate him... haha.  OK well that is all I am going to rant about right now the weekend was really uneventful for the most part I am still going day to day and failing as much as winning but not quitting.  I am hoping to get things back on track and perhaps have a little more to say this evening.

Much Love,
M

Oh Beef Jerky

I have decided that Jack Link's Teriyaki beef jerky is probably the greatest snack food I have ever had the pleasure of sticking in my mouth.  I have always been a big fan of Jack Link's but it wasn't until I was enjoying a bag of the Teriyaki jerky this morning that I realized I love this stuff.  I mean when you think about it yeah the sodium in it is insane but when you look at only 80 calories a serving and 14 grams of protein a serving it is a nice little pick me up when you are dragging and need a little bit of energy and are trying to stay away from sugar and coffee. 

Also I am already starting to seen an improvement in how I feel even after only two days of not stuffing myself into a food coma every day.  I did eat a little bit more yesterday than I had wanted.  What can I say I am not perfect and that slice of chocolate cream pie just looked so delish last night.  The upside where as I would usually eat that and go "Well I already screwed up I might as well just keep eating."  I didn't this time I said well I ate that and really shouldn't have I just wont eat anything else this evening which it being at 8:00 PM wasn't a bad thing.  So I am just going a day at a time I am hoping that soon I will have dropped a few pounds and will be able to walk more without having to worry about my knees supporting my weight.  That is my first goal.  I just want to be able to walk without my knees hurting or getting winded.

Enough on the dieting front.  I ordered a copy of FF12 from Gamestop to play since it is probably my second favorite FF game of all time next to 7 though I will always have a soft spot for the end of X when you got to hear a FF character say I love you for the first time it was special.  OK on to 12.   I have always loved that game I always thought that the voice acting and the story was always top.  I managed to dust off my PS2 (Still one of my favorite systems ever) and started that baby up.  I had forgotten about a few of the annoying things about the game for example the camera controls when walking are a little bit annoying and also the battle system is a bit different.  Also the size of the Playstation controllers lol.  I have been playing my 360 for so long I had forgotten how tiny they were but after a few minutes I was starting to get the feel for it again and I am sure it is only a matter of time before I am back to slashing through the game.  I am going to try to play it all MLG style no strat guide or anything like that.  Luckily it has been so long since I played it that I don't remember anything about it.  :) 

Well that is it for me right now.  I am going to try to perhaps write a little something this evening to keep myself moving with this.

Much Love:
M

The New Year

Well so the new year is upon us and I finally caved in and got myself an iPhone and I hate to admit it but I totally love it.  I had been one of the biggest voices in my circle of friends and co-workers against the iPhone for the fact that they controlled what kind of apps made it into the market place so in my opinion it limited the third party options well I discovered that having that kind of control makes it so that the apps you add to your device wont utterly bog it down.  In my android days I would load my phones up with apps and they would eventually crash and force close and the phone would just reboot all the time.  If you know what you are doing the customizability of an android device can be a great thing but honestly I never really know what I am doing so the same thing that first attracted me to android phone eventually pushed me away from it.  OK well that is enough about that.

So over the holiday I lost a friend.  He was a guy that I honestly didn't think I would become as good of a friend to as I became.  He was also not much older than me and where as he did live a very hard life with years of alcoholism that probably contributed to his death (they don't know exactly how he died yet).  His body was found early in the morning so it looks like he went in his sleep.  Our lives do not parallel in really any way I do drink but not at any kind of regular frequency but it still made me think about the fact that I am not healthy.  I am incredibly overweight and feel that I am only a few pounds away from having a heart attack.  Since I have this new iPhone I all of these tools to help me be more organized I am going to try to take advantage of it and get my shit together.  I am not going to make a new years resolution because the second I do that I fail.  I am just going to try harder to be a better person a healthier person.  A person that will be around longer for my ghouls (girls).  Well I don't have much else to say at this moment but I am going to try to also keep things more up to date here.

Blessed Be.
M