Very fun, relaxing weekend. Saturday, I got up and met Cameron for racquetball at Lifetime Fitness. That was fun, I only won one out of about four games and my right arm is a lil sore now. But I'm sure as we do this more, it will loosen up. Then I came home, mowed the lawn (and the leaves), did the dishes, laundry, straightened the house some and was done with ALL this by 12:35PM :)

Then I relaxed some, and came up to LANlords Gaming and hung out and played a while. I went to Jason and Cordi's Halloween Party (pictures coming soon) that night and had a great time.

Today I slept in a bit, then opened LANlords Gaming at 3PM. Kinda quiet today, got some play time in on Asheron's Call. Waiting on my dinner to arrive (Chicken Wings from Cluck-U Chicken again).

Oh, and I also adjusted my availability at Big Bear so that I don't work Saturdays anymore. That combined with rotating Wednesday night coverage at LANlords Gaming will equal a lot more free time for me. which I am looking forward to enjoying :)

That's about it for me, just a nice relaxing, (yet productive) fun weekend.

Just nice and quiet. I suppose on some level I should wish it were filled to the gills busy here, but I am enjoying the quiet. I got the cleaning done here, read the parts of the paper I cared about, finished Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and am gearing up to play some Asheron's Call in a bit, perhaps.

Tonight has been a pretty introspective night amidst the quiet. I thought about a lot of things and have made some decisions that I am going to try out and see how they fit. The first and perhaps more obvious of these is posting a little more openly on here. There have been several thoughts I have had and considered posting, but held back as I was afraid that someone might not like to read them, etc etc. The simple truth is that I don't know WHO really reads this outside a few friends and family and I don't care. If you read something on here you don't like..... oh well. I do this page for my own enjoyment as well for my own indulgence. So I decided to post what I think and just be done with it.

Other things I decided are:

• I need to focus on myself more. I need to stop putting myself second in life.
• I need to put some time into my house, start working on projects even if its only 30 minutes here and there. It will all add up into completion sooner or later.
• I need to start forcing a normal schedule for myself, as best I can. My professional life is suffering from my lack of proper sleep. Which also ties into...
• I need to start the process of correcting my sleep apnea at ANY cost. This is going to be the literal death of me given enough time, I'm sure.
• I'm done caring/worrying/concerning myself/looking for a "girlfriend". While I don't put a lot of stock into the old adage "love finds you when you aren't looking for it", I do think that I just need to stop thinking about it. If something happens, it happens. If it doesn't, well I'm pretty used to being solo in life. This is a hard one for me at times, as so many of my close friends seem to have their partners in life at their side. While I am ecstatic for them, I am inwardly jealous like I have never felt before. This is no fault of theirs, of course.
• I need to finish the picture section of this page. This has been too easy to put off in the past, but I want to get it done. I have some neat (IMHO) pictures that really should be up there.
• I also decided that I am going to start using the webcam feature on a regular basis. I need to find/load/tweak the software that makes this work, but I am going to do this. I don't care.

I am sure there are more things that I thought about and/or decided. But that is all I can think of to jot down at the moment.

I want to make some things clear here: This is NOT a "pity Michael" post. I don't need, deserve, nor want anyone's pity. If you feel you want to discuss something I posted here (or in any other post) that's fine. I'm up for discussion if you feel something needs to be discussed. Contact info is to the left.

And on that, I will end this post just as the blissful quiet here has ended as the regulars argue about what is the best strategy of playing Startcraft at the volume level of a small invasion in full swing.

Well I had my consultation with the dentist yesterday to go over the plan of attack for my teeth. I was expecting a high figure, but I was NOT prepared for $12,570.00! I get dental insurance in January, but it won't cover anything on my crowns for the first year (which is almost exclusively what I need). Luckily they take payments, and none of my dental work is emergency level. It just needs to be done. So I start the first two of these crowns on November 25th.

Also, keep your eye on LANlords Gaming as we get a new site design underway.