Oh WHY THE HELL NOT.
Before you go and wonder just what sort of life-upending disaster could have befallen me to leave me in the sort of state where I actually update this journal, the answer is: illness. Don't worry, it's nothing serious, but it is certainly annoying, and obviously it's been quite a long illness seeing as how I've gotten to the idleness point of updating my journal. But since words, for the most part, failed me, please explore the embedded links for FUN PICTURES!
I had a fever and now it's a sinus infection. It's been nearly two weeks now, but I won't worry until it's actually been two weeks, which won't happen for another few days. For now I'm dealing with verrrrry slowly-improving sinusitis. Pain, fatigue, pain, and more pain. At least the cough's gone!
As for what I was doing before I became a stuffed-up blargh monster... um, I still work at Far West, I've made some new friends, at one point I was improbably dating three women at once through no particular effort of my own but that all resolved without drama and I am now dating only one of them and her name is Channing and she's made entirely of magic, and at some point along the way I went a little manic and got a stupidly big TV and some new game systems. (For a while I had actually all but stopped playing video games, but I've been making up for it the last two weeks.) I also have a beard, for some reason. And glasses (beard not pictured).
As usual I find myself wholly incapable of writing about matters of the heart (see above non-gush about Channing) and I'm newly disinterested in typing about video games (see below for contradictory evidence against this), and I'm still abusing commas and disgusting myself, so I'm pretty much just updating this so that later I'll have some dates to point at and important nouns to notice. I really don't know what else to say.
I started this entry twelve hours ago and only now got around to finishing it. I don't know why I can't commit to this, even on a day when I literally have nothing better to do. I am still thwarted by my inability to feel creative without a stimulus. For instance, trying to make this an interesting journal entry has been a labored and pretty much fruitless effort resulting in few entertaining phrases, but here is what I instantly wrote when Brian e-mailed us simply to say he'd upgraded our network setup and that "all enet ports in the house (except #7, wherever it is) should now be live":
Yay!! But, don't ever try to find Port #7. It's buried several miles underneath the foundations of the house, in what was once an indian burial ground for demons, but is now an egg-storing chamber for mirelurk facehugger hatchlings, and they get really mad if you try to unplug their ethernet cable. They're still trying to grind to level 80 in World of Lovecraft. Ask me sometime about the FIRST David, and what piece of him was the bit we managed to pull out of the Hellgate before he was swallowed up, in order to clone the second David, who finished running the ethernet cables without incident. (Also if you're ever in the backyard and you're digging a hole, don't dig very far.)
I dunno, I think "World of Lovecraft" is pretty funny.
I didn't intend to abandon this journal, but I seriously have no desire to write in it. To be honest, I only started typing this this morning because I was sadly noting how few of my actual friends update their journals, then felt a pang of poignant regret and figured change begins at home, or something.
Maybe I'll try again tomorrow. I might even PROBE SERIOUS EMOTIONAL DEPTHS. In fact, to avoid the temptation to go on and on about video games, I'll get that all out of my system RIGHT NOW: FEAR 2 is scary good fun, Flower actually made me cry tears of joy, Retro Game Challenge is a MUST BUY for any DS owner, Noby Noby Boy is inscrutable but worth the asking price for the conversation alone, Fallout 3 was well worth my 82.5 hour playtime (but don't bother with Operation Anchorage, seriously), I love Mirror's Edge but I'm the only one who does apparently, I liked LittleBigPlanet but didn't love it (user levels are nearly all crap and the controls are fiddly), Burnout Paradise is tons more fun now that they've added a 'restart event' option, Rhythm Tengoku Gold is great but not as joyously sublime as the first, Uncharted came free with my PS3 but I still found it too dull to finish, and Silent Hill Homecoming was fun to watch Scott play but not really up to the standards of the first four, Castle Crashers is a total blast with four friends, Braid did amazing things to my mind, I'm still surprised that I beat Mega Man 9, Rock Band 2 is great and Guitar Hero World Tour sucks, and Mother 3 is my new FAVORITE GAME EVER OF ALL TIME, SERIOUSLY. There, I think that's every fascinating video game opinion you may have "missed" during my LJ absence.