Hiii, everybody! So here's the thing. I was bored, and then I thought, 'hey! I have a blog!' So here I am. Basically, the last month went like this:

I got a Wii from Sam's Club online that came with Zelda and Madden Football. We found some controllers at Walmart a couple days after the thing was released, so we picked up a second complete set. I've always hated Zelda, but Twilight Princess has me hooked and I've clocked nearly 50 hours on it and am not finished, yet. As a result, I purchased Link to the Past and Wind Waker and am currently playing those, as well. I am officially hooked on Zelda, and Twilight Princess is officially the second best game I've ever played. Okami, of course, remains as number one best game I've ever played and will probably never get knocked off the top list. Sadly, Okami replaces Riven, which is becoming less and less of a favorite game of mine.

Capella and I have been poking around with a tabletop RPG called Werewolf: The Forsaken. I've heard about it before, but apparently, the creators of the game, White Wolf, decided to completely rewrite all their World of Darkness games and Werewolf actually interests me now. Unfortunately, we don't have nearly enough people to attempt a game. We were planning on trying it in IRC, and I have a dice rolling bot I downloaded, so we're all set... Except for people.

I also purchased Shadow of the Colossus, which is a puzzle/adventure game for the PlayStation 2. I haven't really played that, though. Too busy with Zelda.

I officially bought the soundtrack to Okami. Authentic and imported from Japan. 5 CDs, 218 songs, and a running time of 5.6 hours. All accurately translated and ripped into iTunes. Best music ever. No exceptions.

I got into the World of Warcraft expansion beta, but I'm not supposed to tell you that.

We went to see Apocalypto when it came out. It's a very neat movie that you should see, if violence doesn't bother you. It is a very story-driven movie, propelled mostly by acting and the occasional Aztec speech. Anyone giving this movie bad ratings because Mel Gibson made it is a dumb-butt. Get over yourself and go watch a good movie.

With a couple of my friends, I exchanged the HDTV I had because it wouldn't properly render DVI signals. It was a known issue with the April 2006 firmware, and there was no known fix but to exchange it for an earlier or later version. Thankfully, HHGregg has just got in a new shipment of August models and I was able to replace it and it works flawlessly. Some of the backlights seem to bleed through, but I'm not going to be picky. It works.

I bought rechargeable NiMH batteries for the Wii controllers, so now I'll never run out of power.

I reformatted my laptop after a failed attempt to install FEAR Combat. Not only did FEAR not want to start, but it then took me five hard reboots to even get the Windows XP startup logo to appear. So I backed everything up and reformatted. Laptop is running incredibly fast and without any problems... I should've done this earlier.

I got a few things for Christmas. I got a toaster oven (yes, be quiet, I wanted one), a reprint of an old 1912 book about the Titanic (betcha didn't know I was a Titanic history buff), Chronicles of Narnia 4-disc set, Lady in the Water DVD (another good movie that got poor ratings because it was too intellectual for the dumbskull mainstream reviewers), some masking tape (because I've yelled at people for losing it, so now I have my own), some tennis balls for my dog (which you didn't know about) that he's already chewed through, and some crazy funky sign to hang on the bathroom when you're using it (because people enjoy trying to break in when I'm using it).

I've started playing an online game called OGame, which is basically like a webpage-based game of Tradewars 2002, where you start off with a planet and then build up your resources and forces into a power worth reckoning with. It's a battle-centric game where the sole point is to build up forces to raid other planets for resources so you can build more forces and raid more planets. It's a very neat game to run in the background, since it takes realtime minutes and hours to build and research. I'd recommend you at least try it, if you're online a lot and get bored. I'm in Universe 18, if you really wanted to know.

I signed up for college, too. Classes begin the week of January 8th. I'm taking Computer Information Technology, specializing in Microsoft Networking, Cisco Networking, and Network Security, at least for now. The really nice thing is that after applying for FAFSA government aid, this semester isn't going to cost me a cent. Woohoo! Free college! Being poor for so long does have some benefits in the United States.

TW, Edrick and I have been playing Homeworld2, since my reformat. GameTap actually works on my laptop now, so I've been able to take a look at the games available to me. I've always wanted to play Homeworld2, but never so much to make me actually go out and buy it. So now that I can play GameTap, we three have been playing multiplayer. Has a crazy learning curve, but once you figure out where everything is, it starts getting easier and easier and you can concentrate everything on maneuvering your assets in a 3D space environment. Very awesome... We three played against a Hard AI lastnight and very nearly got ourselves killed. I'm going to toot my own horn and say that the three Battlecruisers I made helped us survive long enough to get a foothold and mount an offensive. Later, I found out that the only reason we actually lived was because the enemy has literally used up all the resource mines on the map and had simply run out. How we survived that was beyond me... But our defenses were tight enough to fend off attack after attack until we broke out with the Battlecruisers and completely destroyed their forces.

I got into the Vanguard: Saga of Heroes beta, too, but I'm not supposed to tell you that.

...and I think that's it. You might get more specifics later. But probably not!