I bought an electric guitar, and I'm teaching myself to play it in the middle of the night with my amp plugged in! If I were someone else living on my floor, I'd be pissed!

So I got my orders last week: 3 years shore duty in Hawaii ( Read more... )

So Pensacola's pretty cool. It's beautiful down here but it's hot as hell, too. The other day I figured I was either getting used to the heat, or I was so dehydrated that my body was shutting down and death was quickly approaching. But I'm still here, so I guess I'm getting used to it ( Read more... )

Well, howdy. It's been like 65 days by now, if my grasp of time is the same as it was before I left for basic. As I write this I'm in the USO lounge at the Dallas - Ft. Worth airport, with a couple of shipmates from Basic, because our flight from Chicago was delayed, and as a result we missed our flight to Pensacola. So we're spending the night ( Read more... )

I leave Monday for Basic, after which I won't get to a computer probably for 3 months. If you've got any goodbyes to say, say 'em fast! And lemme reciprocate with:

See you in like 3 months!

Thank you, God ( Read more... )

Tonight( or I guess by now last night) we celebrated Boolo's 21st birthday in grand form, mainly by going to Dave & Buster's and playing games we wouldn't normally spend money on (House of the Dead, for instance) for several hours before a few of us retired to a hotel room he and his girlfriend rented, where they all drank (I stuck to a delicious ( Read more... )

Finally, a good point about EA buying Bioware in a soul-crushing move that left gamers weeping ( Read more... )

Yeah, so Tuesday I walked down to the Navy recruiting station at about 9:30 in the morning, and I didn't get home until Wednesday at about 5 pm. It happened pretty fast, but I'm now signed up as an Information Systems Technician in the Navy, scheduled for departure March 31, 2008. Apparently they're very eager to have you if you score well on the ( Read more... )

EA Games now owns the only (in my opinion) decent RPG company in the industry, Bioware.

Just because you can buy companies to lessen competition with your shitty products doesn't mean you should.

Oh well, at least this means we'll get to see Jade Empire 2,3, and 4, and KOTOR 17.