Religion Friday: Having a Shadow

Today at work, I had a job shadow from a local high school. To be honest, I've been dreading it all week. I didn't really know how it was going to go and I wasn't sure what exactly we would do at work all day to keep him interested and busy, but everything went smoothly and I think he had a good time.

This guy who came to work with me is getting ready to go to college in a year, and he's pretty sure of what he wants to do with his life. It made me a bit jealous.

I thought I knew what I wanted to do when I was his age, but really I was just fooling myself and was just going with what I thought would be cool (a youth pastor). It turned out that I'm not exactly all that fond of teens... particularly those in a typical youth group. It's just not my cup of tea. So once I got past that, I realized I had no plan.

I've now been out of college for nearly 4 years and am getting ready to go to seminary. The current plan is to get a degree to teach on the collegiate level, but even now I'm not sure what is right. I know that there is somewhere that God is intending for me to end up. I also know that right now it feels right to be going back to school. So how come I don't feel all that excited.

(Stupid analogy time): Maybe it's because having a job shadow was really just like seeing a shadow of my former self. Maybe it was seeing his enthusiasm and how much I've lost that affected me.

I ride a lot of waves of enthusiasm. One minute I've got a great idea for a book or documentary and the next I'm back to work and trying to figure out where to go. Perhaps this moving forward into school will restore something and help me to find some sort of purpose (well purpose isn't quite the word, but close enough).

Gaming Thursday: Fallout 3

There are some games that I can just play, without any clear goal in mind when I sit down. Those games are traditionally made by Bethesda (the hours I have put into Morrowind and Oblivion are second only to World of Warcraft). So when they put together Fallout 3, I knew I would have to play it, even though I have yet to play the first two games in the series.

Wandering around post-apocalyptic Washington D.C. is a wonderful experience. The characters that I've met and the mutants that I've killed have combined for a great ride thus far, and I'm really barely into the game.

The combat is fairly straightforward, you can play it completely as a first person shooter if you really want, but you will likely get incredibly frustrated with how often your gun misses in the beginning. For that, you have the VATS system on your arm. This allows you to focus your weapon on various parts of the enemy and let the computer targeting take over for a few shots while you watch your character's handiwork. I must say that it is satisfying every time I get a critical head shot and the bad guy's head explodes and I get to watch his eyeballs fly through the air.

Since I haven't been following the plot line too much, I can't say much about it, but I care about it much more than I did in either Oblivion or Morrowind. That, plus all of the side missions are really fun (and funny), so I don't ever feel like it's necessary for me to go back to the main quest until I really feel like it. I also really like the dialogue options. For the most part, I'm a straightforward good guy, but when I have the option to say something incredibly snarky and hilarious, I can't resist. For this, the writing in the game is great, I've laughed out loud a number of times at people's comments and things that I've seen and it really helps for getting immersed into the world.

The only problem with Fallout 3 is that it is distracting me from a number of games that need to be completed (Dragon Quest 8 and Okami in particular), but it's a good distraction, and I'm sure I'll wind up sinking way too many hours into it... especially now that I just found a really cool handheld chainsaw thingy!

World News Wednesday

I know this might be dangerous, but I think it's pretty funny too.

I really don't have anything to say about this aside from: I love zombies.

Bookish Tuesday: Never Make Promises

So, I'm learning that making promises about reading certain books within a set amount of time never really works out for me. I've been intending to have Cat's Cradle read for the past two Tuesdays of this blog and yet I've not yet cracked the book open. It's not because I don't want to read the book, but because I've kind of gotten a bit burned out by marathon reading the four Twilight books in a matter of 2 weeks.

Instead, I've been reading the text of Chrono Trigger on my DS as I play it every night and slowly making my way through Out of the Silent Planet for my book club during the day.

I guess something in me just has to rebel against my statements. If I say that I want to only play Dragon Quest 8 before I move on to another game, the cat will pull the plug on the PS2 after 30 minutes between saves so that I haven't picked the game up in a week. If I say that I want to move through Cat's Cradle by the end of February, I'll wind up finding myself distracted until the book disappears completely and I never read it.

With all this said... there is my excuse for why today's Bookish Tuesday is not about Cat's Cradle and is actually about nothing at all, and just wasted approximately two minutes of your life (depending on your reading speed).

Movie Monday: Defiance

Daniel Craig is cool. He was a perfect pick for Bond, he made Casino Royale awesome and Quantum of Solace watchable. But the question remains: can he play a Russian Jew in the midst of the Holocaust, living out in the forest?

The answer is simply, yes. With the help of Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber), anything's possible though. The movie is more of a character drama than a war movie, surrounding the story of the lives of the Jews who have escaped to the forest and fell in with Craig and his Bielski family, who were basically bad-ass Jewish Russians.

The movie really made me want to read the book that it was based upon (which in turn is based upon a true story), in order to find out how much of it was true. I can say first off, that them speaking English in bad Russian accents was likely not true, but the rest of the story seemed just implausible enough to be based on a real story.

Aside from the reality of the story, it played out interestingly enough to keep my attention, although at times, I admit I struggled. The problem was that Matt and I had recently been talking about My Side of the Mountain, and I couldn't help but keep thinking that this movie was just that book with some Nazis in the background.

All joking aside, the movie was very well written, with plenty of food for thought on the ethics of survival and community. I only wish that it had been developed as a miniseries or something, in order to give more time to flesh out the camp aside from the few that we were introduced to. But then again, it was more a story about the Bielski family than the camp as a whole - and for that, the movie did a great job.

Gaming Thursday: Chrono Trigger

It's no secret that I love Japanese RPGs., particularly those released in the 16 -bit era Earthbound (as I've said probably too many times) is my favorite game of all time and Final Fantasy 6 is a very close second. However, one RPG from that time that many tout as their favorite is one that I barely remembered - Chrono Trigger. I know that my brother and I played it through when it originally came out, but because I think we also played FF6 at around the same time, I think it got pushed out of the way in my mind. So when the Nintendo DS release was announced last year and I picked it up after Thanksgiving, I was ready to give it another shot.

The thing is, I agree completely with everyone who loves it. The battle system works great, the character design is beautiful, the music is phenomenal, and the concept is cool... so why don't I love it? I've been trying to figure it out for a while now, and I think I came to an explanation when talking with a friend yesterday.

It has to do with the story and the main character - Crono. He's a cool character and the story is interesting, but for some reason I find myself not really caring about where it is going or how it affects the people. Part of this is because of Crono. He's one of those main characters who never says a word or really reacts to the situations going on around him and relies on the secondary characters to progress the plot with their words and actions. Now Earthbound does the exact same thing, so I don't think that is the whole reason (either that or my love for Earthbound is completely irrational).

The story isn't bad either, but it just doesn't grip me in the same way that FF6 did, with all its Star Wars-y goodness. But just the way they combine in Chrono Trigger leaves me a bit unsatisfied. With all this said, the game is still one of the best Japanese RPGs I've ever played and I would easily recommend it to anyone who needs a good DS game to suck up some time on a road trip, but if this actually comes true, CT will have some serious competition on the RPG front... and by serious competition, I mean it stands no chance in my mind.

World News Wednesday: The White House

We've got a new family in the White House, and reading this article made me curious.

Well, maybe curious isn't the right word. Daydream is better methinks. What if you had gotten to grow up in the White House? Spending your free time looking for those hidden passages and whenever you get tired, heading on back to the movie theater to watch High School Musical 3... I mean a super-awesome guy movie. That would be the coolest childhood, matched only by a castle or palace in Europe with similar passages hidden throughout.

Now, I have to dedicate my life to becoming the President of the United States so that I can explore in the middle of the night when everyone else has gone to sleep. I mean, it's not like it would be a stressful job or anything, right?

Bookish Tuesday: Y: The Last Man

I know, I was planning to do Cat's Cradle this week, but I spent so much time finishing up Breaking Dawn, and I had the opportunity this weekend to also finish the Y: The Last Man comic series when I went to my brother's house.

I've been a big fan of the story throughout the time I've been reading the series, and I was excited to see how Brian K. Vaughn was able to wrap it all together. For those who might not have heard of this comic, it tells the story of Yorick, who is the only surviving male human after a plague somehow wipes out every male in the world aside from Yorick and his monkey, Ampersand. The story follows Yorick as he travels across the world in an attempt to catch back up with his girlfriend/fiancee, who was in Australia at the time the plague hit.

I was completely along for the ride until the final two collections. Not that they were bad, but I just didn't think that the end lived up to the story that led to it. For starters, the one main explanation of the plague seemed way too farfetched for the realistic tone that the book had been setting. It still makes sense and isn't nearly as bad as the explanation for the movie The Happening, but I kind of wish that they had left it unexplained. The other issues I had were minor and relate largely to spoilers, but suffice to say, while I was glad to have reached the end of the story's journey, I wish the ending had come about differently.

Another thing that really has nothing to do with the story, but more with comics in general is the amount of filler in this series. I have to say that I love comic series that have a clearcut beginning and ending with every issue in between holding a piece to the story (like Watchmen or Preacher) and when Y is focusing on the story, it is definitely one of the best written comics I've read recently. However, when they move away from the main story to tell something on the side, I get bored and antsy. I prefer to move the plot forward, side stories are awesome for off-shoot books, but I just don't like them getting in the way of me moving the story forward.

Oh, and since Brian K. Vaughn wrote this series, I have to mention... LOST season 5 starts tomorrow night! Woohoo!

Movie/TV Monday: Around the World in 80 Days

No, not the Jackie Chan movie, or even the Oscar winning 1956 version, but instead a British series from 1989 starring Michael Palin (of Monty Python fame) in his attempt to recreate Phileas Fogg's journey around the world without the use of air travel.

While I stuck this on my Netflix instant watch queue on a complete whim, it turned out to be a truly good series. Palin is funny when he needs to be and completely serious the rest of the journey, giving you a very unique look at travelling around the world. Much of his time is spent on different cargo ships (since there just aren't that many passenger boats anymore), and he meets some of the most interesting people during the travels.

Matt and I have already planned to start watching his next series Pole to Pole this week, and I hope that it's as well put together as this series was. I enjoy travel shows for the simple fact that I (like most people) wish that I could have a camera follow me on my journeys throughout different cultures and provide my own voice to the opinions of how beautiful this is or how good that tastes.

Too bad that will never happen, but at least by watching shows like this, I can get a taste of the rest of the world so that when I come into a massive amount of money I can actually go out and experience it.

Religion Friday: Frustration

Roger got me addicted to this today.

What was an exercise in incredible frustration (my high score now is 450) is now also one of my all-time favorite flash games. It's a lot like Snood and Bubble Bobble, only with the added annoyances of spinning and extra bubbles.

What does this have to do with religion though? Well for me, religion is an incredibly frustrating thing. I can never get it just right, and any time I think I'm coming close to figuring it out, it spins on its head and I wind up looking at a completely different angle from what I was aiming at with 12 new targets appearing in place.

Yeah, it's kind of a silly example, but that's how I have been looking at this thing called faith recently. Maye at some point I'll be able to wrap my head around the game (for lack of a better term) in its entirety, but until then I think I'm fine playing it and just getting really mad when things turn on me.

Gaming Thursday: Prince of Persia

Prince of Persia is a beautiful game. The colors and art style are great to see, and everything moves smoothly from place to place. It's also a satisfying game, when you string together a good wall run to a pillar to swinging on a pole all the way to the next ledge, it feels good. It also feels good that you can't die at any point in the game. Yes, this makes it easier than pie, but I like only having to move back a few jumps after Elika saves me rather than retrying an entire level (although, I think I still like the Sand mechanic of the previous games slightly better).

So with all this, you ask, why did you not finish the game? I'll tell you... pure and simple annoyance. Throughout the game, as you are renewing the land, you are collecting light seeds to restore power and be able to move to more places and get deeper into the world. This all works fine in the beginning when you are able to grab plenty of light seeds while you are going along to keep opening up the powers, but when it came to the point where I was 100 light seeds short of opening the next place and had already been through my unlocked areas, I didn't feel like going back.

I have nothing against the game itself, I still really liked it, but I stubbornly refuse to have to waste time going back through all of my completed areas to seek out one little jump that I missed containing a light seed or two, before climbing back up the same ledge to jump another direction and grab another seed.

Add to that the fact that the entire game (particularly the battles) plays like a glorified quicktime event (press x button at y time), that I never got to feel like I was the one doing everything, it was so automatic. Plus, battles are a frustrating combination of hitting block at just the right second in order to get a three hit combo off before the bad guy has his block back up and you are forced to wait for another opportunity.

I can't say that I don't like the game, because I really do, but I feel that there is so much wasted potential. I wish it had the same art style, but had taken the mechanics from Sands of Time and just incorporated that into the game. That, plus taking out the annoying searching for light seeds.

World News Wednesday: The Price of Virginity

Okay, the video is pretty stupid (particularly the scenery that they show during the talking), but the subject is quite interesting.

So, is this girl evil and wrong or just creative? I've known people who got upset because a guy I knew was thinking about selling his arm space to advertisers (as in tattooing), but I just thought he was doing something different. As such, isn't this girl doing the same? If she has no problem with selling her virginity, why would anyone condemn her? Yeah, it may not go with my particular set of morals, but I can't exactly press my beliefs on anyone else.

Basically, the whole point I'm trying to make is... good for you, girly. You are going to make $3 million for about 20 minutes of work, and I'm completely jealous.

Bookish Tuesday: More Vampires

Because I loved being a teenage girl so much, I have already finished book 3 of the Twilight series and am currently cruising through the final book: Breaking Dawn. What has made me such a glutton for punishment? I dislike a vast number of the main characters and find them so stupid that I've almost punched the book in the face in the hopes that Jacob would feel it. However, I have been told by a reliable source that I will actually like Bella by the end of the series.

I don't know why I believe this, but hope is strong in these dark times... it's even how our new president-elect won.

Without rehashing too much of last week, I will admit that when the books start to get into the history of vampires and werewolves I really like it, but when I get sucked back to Bella in the present after these stories, my eyes roll back into my head and I struggle not to pass out from the raw teenage emotion that exudes from the page. Add this to the fact that I have now read the phrase "hard as granite" or "marble body" (and yes you can say "that's what she said") so many freaking times, that I need to buy Stephenie Meyer a damn thesaurus.

So, after I finish this final book, I've already planned Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle as my follow-up, in hopes of stimulating my remaining brain cells into a working machine to keep me alive for another 60 years or so.

Movie Monday: TRON

I knew deep down that at some point in my life I had seen TRON before, but since my most recent memory of the movie stems from my playthrough of Kingdom Hearts last year, I didn't know what all I was expecting.

What I do know is that the story may be a little weak, especially with how much is widely known about computers in current times, but the effects are still pretty well done. I can say that the inside of a computer never seemed so inviting until I was watching this. Well, not so much inviting since it was so deadly, but definitely good looking.

Having Jeff Bridges playing the main character of the movie doesn't hurt either. Even though I kept thinking about The Dude, I really think him being Flynn is really what makes the movie watchable. Having him back for the recently announced sequel is enough to get me back into the theater to see it.

I hope that the sequel focuses on a Nigerian computer manned by an evil scammer who sends spam e-mail throughout the interwebs and Flynn is forced to come up with an awesome e-mail filter program who smashes spam left and right. The climax of the movie will come when the deposed Nigerian prince finds a loophole in the internet and takes over every website, forcing Flynn (and Tron too) to fight their way all the way through pop-up porns and click here to win a Wii banners in order to restore order to the wild world of the world wide web.

...Yeah, that movie would reek of awesomeness.

Religion Friday

There are times in my life where I've been alternately mute, deaf, autistic, blind, had OCD or ADHD. I mean, I've never really been any of those, but out of nowhere I would act as though there was any number of things different with me. Before I got glasses, I thought that it would be awesome to have glasses (I was wrong) before I had braces, the same (again I was way wrong).

What brought this on? Low self-esteem? Perhaps, but unlikely, I've been pretty fine with myself throughout most of my life (aside from high school - but how is that different from anyone). I think it comes from a full on curiosity of how it is to be someone else. See, I've spent my entire life being me, and I never got the chance to be someone else. I think when I was at the character creation screen at the beginning of this game, I accidentally went too fast, and I never really thought out my attributes well enough, and I worry that I might have missed something important in beating the game of life.

As Confucius once said, "Be sure to know others, otherwise you'll never know yourself" (okay, I totally made that up, but it sounds kind of like something he'd say, right?) It comes down to this thing called empathy. I want to understand what everyone in the world is going through so that I can relate to them better. But because I've led such an easy life, I feel like I have to pretend in order to place myself in new shoes all the time to learn a new experience.

Yeah it's extremely stupid, I know, but I also know that part of my calling (and everyone's calling) is to be open and loving to my neighbor and sometimes I think that unless I understand someone else's experiences, I can't love them correctly. Instead I wind up with my foot in my mouth and a kick in my ass (although I'm not sure if its my other foot or someone else's).

So, how can I continue expressing love for strangers without knowing all of their life story? Currently, it comes down to a kind word or gesture, but I think in time I might be able to develop better ways to be open to people. Maybe I'll order a couple hundred Chick tracts to keep on my person at all times...

Gaming Thursday: Lich King (for real this time)

World of Warcraft and I have had an on again-off again relationship for almost 3 years now. There are times when she gets really boring and I seek solace from my 360 every night, and other times where I can't help but staring into her beautiful face for hours at a time relishing every pixelly detail. The Wrath of the Lich King launch in November brought us back to a good part of our relationship, after months of stagnation (a few of which I even left her completely).

As much as I like doing end-game raids and instances with my guild, there is nothing quite like taking your first character through unknown areas and experiencing the quests and locales for the first time. My travel between 70 to 80 was pretty brutal in one sense because of my refusal to change Aziraphale from a healing spec to anything that does some sort of damage. However, this also gave me a good chance to spend time actually looking around the continent of Northrend, and I have to say Blizzard completely outdid themselves. Northrend is leaps beyond the zones of Outland, and quests were varied and interesting enough that I never really found myself getting bored.

The new Death Knight class is so awesome that I haven't played it for longer than 2 hours. The only reason I haven't invested more time into him is because I like to finish everything I possibly can with Azi before moving to another character. From what I've heard though, Death Knights have got a really cool starting zone and the quests that you go through before you enter into the regular world of Azeroth are supposed to be some of the best that Blizzard has done.

Quite possibly my favorite addition that Lich King has brought along is the much discussed phasing aspect, wherein things that you do actually have an affect on the world. The place where this is most obvious is the Icecrown zone, where I started off in a corner with only one safe place to land. As I quested along and helped the Argent Crusade (and later the Ebon Knights) gain ground, they set up new encampments and safehouses for me to enjoy. The only frustrating thing about this phasing is whenever you are trying to help someone else complete a quest beyond where you've been, because if it is not within the same phase for both of you, you won't be able to see them or the mob that they are attacking. It makes sense to be that way, because your character has not helped the factions advance that far within the zone, so you shouldn't be able to see it, but it would be nice if while grouped with someone like that, the game could help out a little.

The other super awesomeness of Lich King is the focus on story. In Burning Crusade and the original WoW, I rarely paid attention to quests and where they were leading me, but there is something about Arthas and his story (perhaps it's because Warcraft 3 was my first introduction to the world) that got me interested in the things I was doing around Northrend. Plus, there are those times that you get to run into Arthas and see the effect that your quests have had on his plans (normally very little).

Now for the downside. Just like before, Lich King can become boring. I'm already level 80 and the guild is raiding, but as nice as that is, I don't know how long I can keep doing it. It's cool getting better gear and learning how to become better at fighting through different bosses and raids, but with the 360 in the same room now, it's becoming harder and harder to say no to a game of Left 4 Dead or putting some time into Fallout 3.

I will say that the unequivocal best (and worst) part of WoW is the people. If it wasn't for my guild and friends around it, I wouldn't be playing. And as for you Horde who like to come up and kill me when I'm in the middle of combat and then camp me... screw you.

World News Wednesday is changing!

Wednesday is changing to whatever I feel like posting from now on. It's not that I don't like writing about news stories, but I have such a hard time always finding something good to write about. That, plus I read news and write news stories all day at work, so it feels too much like work to do it.

So, if there's a big interesting story, I'll be sure to talk about it. Today, I was going to do something about the UGO buyout of 1up, but you can go to nearly any gaming site and read enough about it without me having to throw myself along in it. That, plus I talked about it a month ago when it was just rumored.

I'll do what I can to keep Wednesdays interesting, I think I'll do some music talk, but we'll see. Stay tuned, sorry for swapping it up on you, but I think its for the best. Who knows, maybe we'll switch up the whole blog.

Bookish Tuesday: Twilight (and New Moon)

I went ahead in finishing up the second book yesterday and although I'd like to say that I did it just for this blog, I'll be honest and say that I'm sucked in. The problem is that I don't particularly like the books. I like reading it and I keep hoping it will go somewhere I'm not predicting, but I'm constantly disappointed.

The main thing I am constantly disappointed by is Bella. I don't like her. I don't think she's very sympathetic and I don't think she's a well-rounded character. Although I've just been informed she changes for the better in book 4, I think that it's stupid that I should have to read 3 books before the main character (and narrator) actually becomes interesting. It's not that she couldn't be a good character, but she just wastes so much time being either completely smitten or broody that I don't feel she is explored enough. I wish more time was spent exploring Carlisle (the dad of the vampire family), because his character actually seems interesting, and I definitely think there is a lot to explore there (although, I've got two books to go, so my wish might get answered).

I also don't think that the writing is particularly that good. Not that I'm a particularly good judge (as you can see), but a lot of the time the romance and relationships seem forced and unnatural. However I can't really knock it for this, because it is written as an attempt to get teen and tween girls to read more and I like that. Christine made a good comment on the post from yesterday:

I am not a huge critic of writing, but I know good writing when I read it (i.e. Tolkien, Jordan...). I don't know how many times "his glorious body" or "the smile never reached his eyes" hit the pages but it was too many.

It's not a matter of her conveying the story, or even the emotion of the characters, it's just that she seems to reuse the same descriptors over and over, and it kind of gets annoying.

And yet with all of these complaints and problems that I continually see and whine about while I read, I can't stop reading them. Part of it is because it's just a piece of mindless entertainment that I feel like I can just zone into without having to take my brain along, but part of it is because it is actually an interesting story and I keep hoping that something new and unpredictable will actually wind up happening.

As a complete aside, for those who have read the books (and even those who haven't), here is something I've been wondering: how does Edward (or Jasper, for that matter) make it through school the entire day, when girls are experiencing their time of month? When Edward is around Bella in particular, does he just leave for a week, and then come back? Yeah, I know it's a disturbing question, but just a thought.

Movie Monday: Twilight

Since we'll be talking about the book tomorrow, I'll try not to waste too much time today on what was changed and how bad the movie is in comparison.

That being said, as an adult male (well, adultish anyway) going into this movie, there was very little made for me. I'm not talking huge action blowing up sequences, but just some character depth and some non-moody teenage girl dialogue. When Bella begins to fall in love (I almost put love in quotation marks, but I thought it was too cheezy) with Edward, it lacks any sort of rhyme or reason. You could maybe attribute it to him being a vampire, but then why don't the rest of the girls in the school become as obsessed as Bella does.

Oh, sorry for spoiling the movie. As a brief synopsis for anyone who might not know, the movie is based on a book about a girl who moves to Washington and falls in love with a vampire. After she discovers his secret, she then tries to be accepted by him and his family and hopes to be turned herself so that she can spend the rest of her life (would it still be considered life, or just undeath?) with Edward.

Aside from the plot itself being pretty silly, there were a number of points throughout the movie that Katie and I laughed out loud at... and they weren't meant to be funny. First of all, vampires are okay with being outside in the sun, the only problem is that they sparkle like diamonds when the sunlight hits them. Seriously, what the hell? What sort of survival/predatorial mechanism is this? Supposedly this drives Bella wild with love (or lust, it's hard to tell with her acting), but all it would make me do is laugh at him for sparkling like a diamond (say it in an effeminate voice, that's what makes it funny).

The rest of our laughs came from the ridiculous dialogue, my favorite being "hold on tight, spider monkey" (thanks to Brian for the heads up on that one). When you added it to the nonexistent chemistry between Bella and Edward, it left most of the movie in shambles. You are supposed to believe that Bella is an interesting and different teenager, but she's so wrapped up in herself and her interactions with everyone outside of Edward are so short and undeveloped that I never really felt like she was anyone special.

I also found that the climax seemed to really just be thrown in so that there was a big ending. It doesn't serve much purpose outside of showing that Edward protects Bella and doesn't want her to turn into a vampire. I'll admit that I like the idea of the other vampires in the world, but without giving them time to develop, I found their appearance and the supposed tension they bring to the story to be lacking.

Basically, what I'm saying is that this movie is probably perfect for the teenage girls that it is aimed at, but I didn't exactly care for it. Tomorrow, we'll go further into vampire lore when I get to talk about the book and more about why I don't care about Bella, but for some strange reason I'm already over halfway through the second book.

Gaming Thursday: Wrath of the Lich King

Sorry, it's already Friday afternoon and this post still isn't ready. My new year has been quite a bit busier than expected, so I'm going to have to hold this Gaming Thursday until next week.

Thanks for the patience, and for those who don't have any... jog on.