6:01PM
Word up.
Been a while.
For the record, and because people will ask, I’m doing fine financially. I work for the state, and they’re paying me decently.
As for where I’ve been, my life has been pretty heavily invested lately. See, normally, I’m torn between the games that are out now and the games I rediscovered while I was bored while waiting for the new games to come out, so there are either two or three things catching my interest at all times. Lately, though, there are a few more, and they’re rather...well, they’re the each-you-alive variety of time consumption. On the mental table right now, I have:
1) Silent Hill: Origins
2) Command and Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath
3) The original Command and Conquer timeline games, and Red Alert 1
4) GIRLFRIEND
5) The brain-asploding fatigue factor of work
6) Studying for the MCSE, and in that, I mean reading a study guide in order to learn what would normally require twenty thousand dollars worth of school to learn...my roommate is, indeed, paying that much to learn all this, and it’s only because he did that I got my hands on worthy study material
7) Trying to get a fourth roommate
8) Solving the problems that a fourth roommate would create
9) Determining the possibility of moving to a different place because our management’s thumbs are perpetually brown
10) Running my RPG again
11) Trying to finish editing a 636-page novel
12) Writing a new novel of indeterminant length, that is currently on page 185 or so and isn’t even really at the meat of the story yet
So I’m busy. Bugger off, you vultures.
No, wait, don’t bugger off. Truth is, I need you. See, I’m heartless and mean until I want you for something. I’m like all men. And all women, come to think of it, you e-a-vil vixens, you. I need proofreaders, yo (see item 12 above). I need to know where I’m making typos, and whether I’m conveying the right impressions about circumstances and so forth. Don’t abandon me just because I abandoned all of you for like a year! It wouldn’t be f....okay, it would be completely fair, but it would be failing to be unfair in my advantage, which, to me, is unfair. World revolves around me, if y’recall. The sun and planets are in on the conspiracy to make it look like it’s not really that way, but don’t be fooled. Aristotle died just days away from being able to conclusively prove that we live in an Egocentric universe.
And yes, I know that somewhere out there is a Mitriphrenial weirdo thinking “Well, if he needs proofreaders, why don’t I have his stinkin’ book yet?” This is Jess’s fault. She’s hoarding it. Ordering another one would cost me thirty bucks, and I don’t want to pay that until I’m done with the editing. Then he can read at leisure without having to worry about providing feedback. If he still cares. I’m kind of an ass. I mean, I wouldn’t want to read my book.
Anyway, about the proofreading thing, the trick is that you would have to have read the first book to understand anything, so that limits the utter crap out of my options. My two most beloved readers of the first one have dropped off the face of the planet, so they’re no good, and the only other one I can rely on has bronchial pneumonia and has to stay in bed all week. And also has two kids to watch. So I would need someone to read my whole first book and then start in on the second. Unless Cassie wants to provide me with the unreal amount of feedback I require. Hey, people who like to be heard and have your opinions count? This is, like, the first time in the history of the internet that it can make a difference. Seriously, the first. No, forget all that nonsense that the TV is telling you about the online economy and the user-generated revolution. This is the first.
I got an Ask Dr Dave question that I wanted to get to while I’m here, though, so lemme tackle ( this one )
So here's what I've done ( recently )
And that's that.
Big love to all of y'all, even if your opinions differ dramatically from mine. I'm still all about The Love. Yes, capitalized.
Current mood: 
rushed
Current music: Nightwish - End Of All Hope