Well, I survived the New Year and I hope you did too! 2009 was the second full calendar year for the blog, and it has been doing far better than I thought it would since it’s just the meandering thoughts of some middle-aged gamer. It’s definitely been interesting and I don’t see myself stopping anytime soon, short of some kind of emergency or epiphany of some kind. So let get right into December’s wrap up of the stats. A very cool thing happened in December, I got a new “Busiest Day” … Continue reading
As of sometime late last night the blog crossed a milestone. I had over 10K views in a year! This is the second full year of the blog, and last year I barely scrimped up ~3.5K views, so I’m pretty happy about getting over 10K this year. Not much else going on this week – I’m hoping to actually re-do some of my Enochian Tablet graphics to look nicer and to create sets with the letters on the boards (both English and Enochian). I’m even thinking I might be able to … Continue reading
I made it back home from my Christmas excursion up to Utah. It was very cold up there, and arriving the day after a large snowstorm – it was quite the winter wonderland as well. So it was a great setting for Christmas revelry. Some of the best stuff I got in my Christmas haul were some new coats from my Mom, a very cool Egyptian themed “oracle deck” plus all kinds of reagents and “smell goods” (a whole basket full!) from one sister, and some comfy new slippers (with … Continue reading
I’m just finishing up the packing ahead of my 450mi trip up to my Mom’s house for the holidays. It will be fun to see her and my sisters, and I’m also getting her hooked up with a shiny new laptop and high-speed internet. So hopefully she will have a much better internet experience than she’s been having for the past few years on an old iMac and dial-up – Oy! We tried to do this last year, but she protested too much, so this time I just did it “on the … Continue reading
Mostly I’ve been shopping and just generally trying to get ready for the holidays and all the other stuff that goes along with that, like preparing for a 450mi. drive up to my Mom’s house, making sure my laptop is all up-to-date with all of the latest MS patches and gaming patches, etc. And I’m seriously considering updating the laptop’s dual hard drives from two 80gig drives to two 500gig drives, the 1G RAM to 4G, and the XP Pro to 7 Ultimate. That will be a weekend project if I really … Continue reading