Oh Noes, the Haxxors have stolen the Internets

I had no home internet access between Tuesday and Friday. Apparntly there was some sort of issue with our home router and the way verizon's DSL was leasing our IP address. At the end of the lease, it seemed to lease it to an individual computer, and not to our router. Anyway, as you can see, the problem was fixed, with out having to call up Verizon tech support, I might add =P. As to why I didn't post last night, well, that can be best explained by combining Oblivian, misc. work stuff, Lumines Live's release on the 360, and the book Horus Rising.

Speaking of the Lumines Live game, I have mixed feelings about it. I'm happy that it's on the 360, in fact, the reason why I got a PSP was for that. I love the game. But there is the other view of the game. The whole 'episodic' crap to it. For example, the vs CPU 'episode' won't be coming out till 07. I don't mind buying the add on, for the game itself only costs 15 dollars, and you get a single player challenge mode, a skin editor mode, vs local, and vs live. I paid 23 dollars for my copy of Lumines on the PSP, and that was after it was discontinued. So 15 + episodic content doesn't really bother me. What does is that it's not there! I loved VS CPU, and I want to try out these 'mission' packs, but... gah! It's like some sort of Arcade Void that defies all logic. Microsoft probly has it on some disc somewhere in their infernal server room, laughing at us because we don't have access to it. But that's enough rambling on Lumines.

No, no story yet. I've determined that if I'm going to be serious in writing, that I'd probably have to give up, or at least seriously mitigate my inolvement in, gaming. I love both of those things, though. Yet I'm far more addicted to gaming than I am to writing. Who ever says gaming is not addictive is a filthy lair, yet out of all the harmful stuff to be addictived to, I'd view gaming as the most harmless one. Still, at least I have my blog to write in. That's something, right?

As to work, well, I'm debating on leaving WGB to work for my parents full time. I would need to talk with both them and the store's manager/co-owner about it. Yet I don't know if I want to do it though. It's just that I know I'm not going to learn too much more from WGB, and that's because of a mixture of lack of opportunities, and because I'm starting to feel that my manager wants to keep IT in demand by prohibiting knowledege of the subject to others. That would include me, to a certain extent. Of course, this could just be paranoia speaking, but still. There are a few other things about him that I find unsetteling, too, but I won't mention them here in my blog. For now, anyways.

Music wise, I've started listening to a new band called Cruxshadows. They're not metal. They're a gothish technoish type of band. I'm normally not too big into Techno, and I'm even less into making a 100 different versions of the same song fgor CD sales, but their lyrics are pretty cool.

I'm sure I've kept you up long enough reading all of this, so I'm going to call it a night. ~Night

Northwind

The first albumn that I have been waiting for anxiously has finally released. It's Falconer's Northwind. The reason why I really wanted this albumn was because it uses their orginal vocalist, which is the whole reason why I picked up their first and second albumns. Overall, it is worth the wait. Gamma Ray is coming out with a new albumn next year, but considering their last two new albumns, I'm a little leary.

Work has not been too good. For the past two weeks I've only gotten 3 hours each week. According to my manager, not much new setup has been needed, and not too many errors have occured. He's been bumped down to part time, so it's not looking too good. At least the job at the station gives me enough hours to pay my bills. Although I don't particullary enjoy working there, money is money. And when you need it, you don't complain about it's source. At least, not to too many people =P.

Will apparently doesn't have a girlfriend. Apparently he told that in order to sound impressive or something. Anyway, his parents ended up finding out about his "girlfriend" (I might have mentioned something to his sister...), and got somewhat angry at me because he had to explain to his parents on the phone why they don't need to change their winter plans. I feel he deserves it. But that just may be a vindictive quality in me.

I'm going to Orlando over the weekend with my family to see the Halloscream thing. It'll be good family time, but I do wish I could be working on Friday instead of traveling.

Anyway, Oblivian is calling, and like a Kajit Skooma Addict I must return to its embrace.

Oblivian

So little time, so much to do in Oblivian. I think I'm officially addicted to that game with the number of hours I spent last week on it. It's also why I have this late post. It's just, it's a good escape from life. Unfortunately, it's not as good as sleep.

Outside of oblivian, I'm also working on another short story. I'll post it here when I finish it. As with most of the drek I write, it's going to be horror. I have the begining, and a good viewpoint on the ending, but I really need to get the middle done. Hopefully I can do that soon.

I might take my 360 offline for a few days, I've spent waaaay too much time on it. If I don't have to work tomorrow morning, I'll post again then, since I have a lot to just vent. That's all I do on this blog, but...

It's Staph, not Staff

Well, you know those things I get on my arms and legs occasionally? Those weird, painfull sores? Well, my family dragged me (almost kicking and screaming) to a doctor on Saturday since I have another on my right hand (hurts to write with a pencil), and it has been diagonesed as a Staph infection =(. Apparently I've had it since the first one, and these things are it's number one symptom. That means I've had it for about a year and a half. So now I'm on 2 antibiotics. And I really dislike taking medicine.

School is going ok. Though I need to devote more time to Calc 3. I did a 79 on the last test, and I feel I need to get a B in the class. I hope to spend tomorrow night studying the course material for the test on next Monday. And maybe some of Saturday.

Anyway, I know it's a short post, but I can't think of too much else I should add right now. Except maybe that I work either too many hours or not enough. Anyway, night!