i am noky these are my random musings…

July Status Update

It's been a minute since I've checked in here. I decided to discontinue the FFXI blog. I don't have a good reason but it's dead now. So if I haven't been blogging about FFXI what have I been up to?

1. Playing FFXI - I stopped blogging but not playing. I'm level RDM39 now and back to leveling my subjobs (WHM and BLM). So I'll probably be around Qufim for most of my XPing getting THF, WHM, and BLM up to snuff. 
2. Street Fighter 4 - I missed out on the C3 tournament but I've been practicing a lot. I found a Tournament Edition stick and dropped the 150 for it. I took up a stick building project that has yet to be completed but I have all the parts for it. So many set backs have left me with a broken frame and useless wireless 360 PCB. Now, I need to cut a new frame and wire up the FightPad I bought to replace it. Shame for the FightPad? Not really, my practice circle has deemed my FightPad wonky and I personally have issues with it anyway. No real loss there.
3. Personal Stuff? - I don't know what to call the mash-up all the other crap I deemed just personal questing. Trying to figure out how to get where I want to go and actually motivate myself to do it. Good thing I'm still in college...wait...that's not a good thing...

So yeah, nothing terribly interesting going on over here. Not yet anyway. What is there to look forward to?

1. Game Design - I've been reading a lot of people's thoughts on modern game design. Maybe I'll chime in and repost it here.
2. Social Commentary - Personal questing has left me with a lot of generalized conclusions about the world we all live in. Maybe I'll be a giant bigot like many other bloggers and shove my short-minded views on a variety of topics there's no way I could possibly completely understand (meaning of life, careers, relationships, economy, society, etc.)
3. Boring information about my life and what I've accomplished - this is probably what will happen. Using my blog to catalog daily/weekly accomplishments sounds like a good idea right now (minutes to midnight where all the really stupid ideas seem pretty good).

What will probably keep me from posting here:

1. Final Fantasy XI - Usually if I'm bored I can find a reason to log on and join a PT. Good way to destroy four hours of time that isn't really free and should be used to study or work.
2. Street Fighter 4 - The backup to FFXI, I always need more practice on my arcade stick. Oh yeah, and I picked up Guile to complement my Cammy so I have to work on switching fight modes mentally.
3. The Internet - it's like TV for me. I get online and just burn hours double checking my e-mail, Twitter, Facebook, Engadget, and Joystiq. Hmm, maybe we need no-internet days? I like it. Lets start tomorrow - I'm going to shoot for no-internet every other day.
4. Television shows - I recently grabbed True Blood Season 1 and I'm watching the latest Burn Notice.
5. Really Bad Movies - Death Race, Never Back Down, and Max Payne are my latest conquests. It's kinda where I'm at right now, I really enjoy watching movies I know are bad. Oh yeah, I also just defeated Fast and Furious (The Fast and the Furious 4) - that was a classic (sike).