New Years

Happy New Years to all of you east coast and central time people. Still a bit to go for us further left people.

Remarkably sober this New Years Eve. Not because of some liver-loving desire to drink less, but more because the weather is crap out, all the parties I know of involve more people I don't want to be around then people I do want to see, and since the weather is crap out, did I mention the weather was crappy, I didn't head up to ye olde liquor store to purchase medicinal tonic by the name of 'vodka' for myself.

So, at home and goofing around with ancient video games right now. Just got thorougly pasted in a game of Starcraft. Still haven't found my Brood Wars cd. Learning that Terran marines die pretty quick without a medic, I need Zerg lurkers in order to hide units underground and have them attack from there, and I still suck completely at playing the Protoss. Soo need to find that damned Brood Wars cd. I know I've seen it somewhere in the last year, just not sure what room in my place it ended up in.

Hearing fireworks going off outside. Not sure if it is one of my crazy redneck neighbors or further up the road. Impressed that they got them to light in the rain. Though knowing my immediate neighbors they are possibly lighting hte fuse inside, running out onto the porch and then throwing it into the air to see it go off. I kid you not. I fully expect to hear ambulances visiting this road sometime tonight they are that big of frickin' morons.

A bunch of random thoughts on a couple ideas that never really even made it to the project stage kind of twisting in my head the other day and linked up in a very weird way. Less ambitious then most of my other current projects, in scope at least rather then theme. Playing now with just trying to make the lead character uniquely my own and I think I just hit on how to do that. Cool.

Anyways, going to be glad to see this year end. It has had its upsides in making some cool friends (some of whom I'll be meeting in person in a tendays time), some decent writing got done (some of it in the Storyball-thingy several of us worked on), and I read some good books and watched some good movies and anime.

But mostly this past year sucked. Spleenectomy, crappy weather for most of the year (dry and hot when it should be raining and now raining like mad when it should be cold and crisp and maybe snowing), work has been less prosperous then I would have liked, got little to nothing done on a lot of things I wanted to work on. Blegh.

Still, next year is a new year. Change I find to be inherently good. The world is a neater place this year then last with all sorts of cool new tech toys out there and wacky new advances in science. Tomorrow is a brighter day, pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, blah blah blah and all of that dreck.

I hate seeing the year end sober.