OK. Let's start off my first blog by avoiding writing a press release for The Writing Center of
CNU that will be needed to complete my Technical Public Relations Writing course, and by
avoiding writing an artifact paper for my Gender Comm. class, and by avoiding...

well, school in general.
I would be playing Overlord right now, but I got a 120gb HD for my 360 for $80 at work
tonight, which results in transferring my info to the bigger HD. CompUSA gives me one last
discount before we shut the doors, I suppose. Really my manager just decided not to be a
douche and let me haggle with him. I like $100 discounts as much as anyone. Thankfully
the fiance is reading "The Other Boelyn Girl", which leaves me free to procrastinate on said
degree-granting work; the 2 daughters are either sleeping or watching Shrek. I find that a
4-year-old should not enjoy watching Shrek, and watching me destroy demons or elves or
Middle Eastern soldiers or Locusts or grunts or... equally. Which she does, sometimes.

Except for "scary" things. Chainsawing Locusts = not scary. Playing "The Dishwasher" on
XNA = scary. And she gets bored with Skate. Kids.

So After getting nearly to my second prestige on CoD4, I decided to take some time off
from online and finish up most of the games I neglected to beat on single player. So I beat
CoD (every FPS should involve watching the aftermath of near-death in such a wonderfully
cinematic fashion), then Portal (HA! awesome), then Skate (except for a few film
challenges), and now alternately working on Overlord (predominantly), Mass Effect, Half-
Life 2 (which I had never played before), SDvsR2008 (which is technically a story mode...
technically) and I need to start DMC 4.

And why? Gamerscorewhore. No, not really. I just tended to picj up games and hop online
as soon as I could justify it, especially with CoD. I even need to finish teh Haloz story. FUCK
man. Most of these games I've had since release date.

It shouldn't be held against me. It's hard to tell your fiance that she needs to "SHUT THE
FUCK UP AND ENJOY THE RIDE", though I have tried to do so, with extremely bad results.
She isn't a gamer, unless you count Tetris and Zuma and sometime Psychonauts and Viva
Pinata. She DID enjoy watching me play through Bioshock (minus my "dumbass looking
around for random shit" - which, sadly enough, I only missed TWO fucking achievements in
my one playthrough: 1) beating it on the hardest difficulty and 2) I MISSED ONLY LIKE 5
FUCKING RECORDINGS!). Assassin's Creed has bored her to tears, which is lame, cause I
love it, especially since we got a 32" LCD for Christmas (or really my pending graduation, in
case my Mema dies before I do so) which makes AC looks fuck nuts good from the eagle's
perch.

So basically, despite trying my damnedest to do well in school this semester and all the
other life things I'm doing with variably high success rates (get a new job/better job since
the company is closing, be a good fiance, avoid pissing on the toilet early sunday morning
after a night of rum drinks and guitar hero, so on), I still am trying to find times to play
these games.

And I love it. So here's to 2007, my favorite gaming year to date.
Now if I can just finish this shit up before MLB 2K8 comes out. Lord knows I've been playing
the same season since MLB 2K6.