After languishing online for the past week I've yet to pop up for air after making an appearance on the Post Game Report, episode 80, which a lot of people are calling the funniest episode in a long time. Those praises had little to do with my being on there but it's an honor nonetheless. It was a blessing to be invited onto the show for an episode. A year ago today I was just getting back into serious gaming after being away for so long. Oh, sure, I had a gamecube and a Gameboy Advanced SP, but no serious gamer ever considered those real platforms. I listened to some podcasts, and eventually joined up on some forums, TAG being one of them. As an avid listener of the Post Game Report I looked forward to the hilarity and the shenanigans of the staff. It became my weekly crack. I never thought I would actually be invited to be on. I took the ribbing in stride, although some friends of mine claimed that I got owned and burned. I knew it was all in good fun. Once again gentlemen, and Phoenix, thanks!

Gaming

I haven't been gaming much lately, not since my brother borrowed AC2. I got MW2 back, but I've yet to get the drive or nerve back up to crack it open again. I need to finish Mass Effect so that I can really get into ME2. On another front I need to get back into my retro gaming. KOTOR and Indigo Prophecy are both staring me directly in the face wanting me to pick them up and play with them. Also, I really need to finish Shenmue. Sometimes it's hard because that game's soundtrack is so emotional. I can't play it and have a good time because of the sad music throughout the game. Yes, I am an odd duck. 

Music

Music is my lifeblood. I'm usually very scatterbrained as to the music I listen to. I have to be in the mood to hear certain things. This became very evident to everyone else a few years back when a friend tried to stick a 2pac cd in my stereo and I vetoed the notion. "You have to be in the mood to listen to 2Pac!!!?" he said with an exasperated look on his face. I currently have at least 4 full albums in my que that need to be heard. It does not bode well for me when I finally got a chance to hear the new Rihanna album I rushed out to listen to it instead of putting it in the que. That's one thing you have to understand about me... I am a HUGE music snob, but I am also a junkie for trashy/poppy/garbage/throwaway music as well. Keri Hilson for example stayed at the top of my last.fm page for weeks. If you look at my page for any period of time you will see people like Duke Ellington, Miles Davis,Radiohead,  Nas, John Coltrane, The Beatles, EWF and....Keri Hilson. Yes, it's tragic...I know.

Life

All I have to say about this is that I've come to realize that my problems are stupid and petty compared to the problems of other people I know. My anxiety over choosing which phone to buy isn't even in the same ballpark as some friends of mine who have to choose whether to pay a bill, put gas in their car, or buy food. You make tougher decisions when you have kids, which I do not. My woes of paying bills and only having 30 bucks leftover to spend before pay week ain't shit! And I feel like crap for even making them a subject of importance. 

Till next time. 1