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I’ve been neglecting the ol’ blog a big, but things have been busy.  I’ve also been sort of stuck at figuring out a “focus” for where I am going with this site but on reflection, maybe that is just an excuse for me to procrastinate writing more.

Gaming

Not too much going on, been playing Left 4 Dead on PC.  Always fun shooting legions of zombies in the face.  Trying to catch up on the many single player games I let rot over the last year.  Watched a few MMO’s come out and fail (WAR/AoC).  Others shutdown entirely (Hellgate/Tabula Rasa).  By the way, I still hate Richard Garriott.  Otherwise gaming has been pretty quiet.

Music

Haven’t been writing much for a while now.  Mostly because I feel like I hit a wall in creativity and have just been recycling what I know over and over.  I really want to explore this more the next year with something truly different.  We’ll see.

Technology

Didn’t get to learn as much as I’d have liked.  I have pretty much completely moved away from Microsoft and ASP.NET and work mostly with PHP now, nothing much has changed other than some syntax.  The reason for the change is mostly because of accessibility and I just like the direction the open source community is going and didn’t feel that .NET was embracing that correctly.

Personal

My personal life started off as a bit of a mess last year but ended up turning around for the better.  Lost my job.  Ended a seven year relationship.  On one hand, it feels like a lot of wasted time, but on the other, I can’t even begin to measure how much happier I am.  Not really sure why it’s necassary to say bad things about each other now, but it appears I missed some type of memo that that’s what we’re supposed to do.  Ah well.  Some people need justification for the things in their lives while others can just accept them and move on.

I’ve been doing IT consulting/web development for Accurate Business Machines here in Sandusky, OH for a while now and that’s going pretty good.  If you need good deals on your office supplies/ink/toner, hit us up.

I am in a new relationship now and things are going great.  Got a new apartment which is a little bigger.  Overall, things are looking pretty good.  Now just to update this thing a little more this year.