Golden Anvil

Well, Friday I blogged about what I was planning to do this weekend, so it's only appropriate that today I take a look at what I actually did this weekend.

Well, last weekend I spent a lot of time playing different games. I think mostly that was because it was nice to have a weekend without any obligations. Well, this weekend I think it's time to get back to some of my normal tasks. Mind you, I'm still sure I'll play at little. In fact, I ordered Gears of War II for the XBox 360 because there was a great sale on it (and I was intending on eventually buying it anyway), and it's likely to arrive this weekend. I'm not sure if I'll be able to hold out for long against the lure of playing that. And Angela and I would like to play another game of Arkham Horror this weekend. And some Castle Crashers. And I'll have to put some more time in on TrackMania. And I'd like to play some more Titan Quest with Dad. Oh yes, and we'll be playing Guild Wars on Saturday.

Err... So much for not doing much game playing this weekend...

I was looking around the room for inspiration on what to blog about this evening. Nothing much was coming to mind. To me, that's the sign of a fairly good day. Nothing particularly noteworthy happened, which means I'm feeling pretty laid back.

I did have some things suddenly come together in my current project at work. All of the sudden, some things I've been working on for a while just started getting finished up and I can finally see a bunch of the pieces all in action together. Kind of nice!

Ok, raise you're hand if you're reading this. I want to know who's out there, but I'm too cheap to offer swag like sareth...

I might try to get back in the habit of posting here again (I did so well for longer than I initially thought I'd last). The event that's triggering this is that I'm planning on participating in NaNoWriMo this year. Is anyone else out there going to give it a shot this year? If so, let me know so I can set you as a friend on that account. I suspect I'll need plenty of encouragement. Anyway, I'm planning on recording my progress here on my blog. Hopefully the public nature of it will help encourage me to stick with it.

...is that I end up rambling about a variety of topics instead of staying focused. Ah well. Such is life. Want to know what I've been up to lately?

You must, otherwise you wouldn't be reading...

Let's see, my free time this week (you know, the time when I should have been writing nice posts for you guys) was pretty much spent playing Microsoft Flight Simulator. This game (yeah, yeah, the hard core fans would probably shoot me for using that term) has actually been entertaining me even beyond my expectations. I've had fun flying around all sorts of places I'm familiar with. I've enjoyed going through the tutorials and flight instructions, and I'm just now starting into some of the various missions.

Another long delay since I last posted. It's been a pretty rough week. We had another round of crunch time at work (we managed to get the beta out the door). Then I spent about 11 hours on Friday working on the seven day roguelike challenge with gauntman (that went pretty well, although we didn't make quite as much progress as we'd like). Saturday got all taken up with various errands and such.

However, today went pretty well, and I'm feeling a good deal refreshed.

Welcome to another long post. I guess that's what happens when I haven't updated regularly for a while...

Wow, 9 days since my last post! Some of that is excused because I was off on vacation (although I technically had internet access there, even if it was slow). Then I had the excuse of having to catch up with things after getting back from vacation. My only excuse after that can only be that we had a deadline at work on Friday, and we've got another this coming Wednesday. So, I've come home after some long days kind of tired out.

No particularly big news today, but I don't want to get out of the habit of posting.

I slept in a bit this morning, and have actually spent most of the day feeling relatively good (it seems I'm only deathly ill during work hours). I entered most of the last of my books into my LibraryThing account, played some games with gauntman, finally watched a little more Babylon 5 (it'd been a while, but we've been rewatching the series, and we finished season 3 tonight), and at last I got around to updating the spreadsheet that we use to track how well we do on our budget. It's actually a clever little thing, and I'm rather pleased with how it's turned out.

At any rate, I got a lot done today, and I'm starting to feel better, so it was a pretty good day. I'm off to do a little reading in bed now. Good night all.