Been about 10 months since I last posted, so what have I been doing in that time?
The short answer is… Not much.
Got my book blog started back at the start of the year, though I only manged a few posts there before work absolutely murdered my free time.
Not too long after my last posts in October the STO closed beta started up and I was involved in that up until launch. I played for a little while after launch, but the same work project that killed my blog time also killed my gaming time and I have never quite gotten back to STO. Good game, with flaws, will write more about that another time.
Still off and on playing some Living Forgotten Realms 4E D&D. Kind of meh about it for the most part due in part to the very uneven module writing, the pain to find games that are near enough to me that I don’t spend more time commuting to and from them than actually playing, and the fact that where I live is the East Rift region of the living campaign and a lot of the modules don’t necessarily adjust well to that region (a big heavily dwarven populated hole in the ground) so at times the stories are just… odd.
4E Dark Sun is out before the end of the month, might try to get a home campaign going for that then. Always liked the setting and just have to hope they do a better job with it than the piss-poor version of Sigil that showed up in DMG2 (poor poor Planescape).
Ordered a Kindle, should arrive near the end of the month. Doubt it’ll cut down on my book buying, probably just enable me to more easily spend far too much money on books, but it will cut down on the number of huge piles of books in my house that may someday fall over and bury me.
Despite not playing much STO, still hanging out on Coldfront IRC with the crowd that I met online leading up to the launch of STO. Fun people, amusing to chat with.
Finally gave in and started using m Facebook account for actually social stuff (and games, stupid time-wasting facebook games) instead of just having it to lurk with and look for updates on Civ 5 and Civ Network (which I thought was supposed to have launched by now but I guess will be next year after Civ 5 now).
Still no Twitter. Twitter is the enemy. Bah!
Speaking of Civ 5, got that pre-ordered and Sept is going to be a crazy gaming month with FFXIV, Civ 5, Valkyria Chronicles 2, and something else that I have pre-ordered by is escaping me at the moment all coming in that month. Also Atelier Roronoa (yay! a new Atelier game, on the PS3 but hopefully it is still a good game series and not just prettier graphics and worse gaming as seems to be the trend) and Fable 3 are up and pre-ordered for later in the year. Will have to actually check to see if my 360 is still running before Fable 3 arrives as it’s been ages since I’ve used it (been playing a little on my PS3 with ‘Grand Theft Horse’ and ‘Trinity Universe’.
Writing projects have been slow going. Need to just take some time away from work and gaming and just focus on my writing and get through some of the sticky parts of the stories I have been working on and just get them done. Be nice to get some new ones finished. Will see how that goes.
Garden turned out pretty well this summer. Cucumbers and peppers turned out great, though my tomatoes are still all green. The couple of sunflowers I had last year spread all over the yard and damn near took over one whole side of my garden. Was kind of freaky, kept thinking ‘Day of the Triffids’ or the Ringworld sunflowers when I was going outside for a while. Finally pulled most of the sunflowers out when I spread barkdust to keep the weeds down in the flowerbeds.
Still have some remodeling to do in the house. Still need a tread on the stairwells and need wood down the entrance hallway. Likely going to hire someone to do that as I broke my hand since I did the hardwood floor upstairs and I am not sure it has the grip strength and endurance anymore to do that much carpentry work.
Other than that, not much has changed or happened in the last year. Sure there were other big events or happenings that would have made for good blog posts when they happened, but looking back over the year not much stands out right now.
Plus, I am eating lunch while writing this and really should finish up and get back to working now.