04/27/06 - Neverwinter Nights
Still haven't got my computer online, working from school, and I don't think I'll be expanding on what I was saying before. I did have something I wanted to mention though . . .

Now, I know this review is years late in coming, but I just bought Neverwinter Nights. I was never extremely interested in this game, but I've recently started reading Forgotten Realms novels (ooh, that's something else I should review!) and when I realized this was a DnD game, I just had to try it. So when I was at EB and found the Diamond Edition (game plus 3 expansions and a bunch of extra modules) for only 30 Canadian Bucks and tax, I couldn't help it. I'm not far into the game, but I've created a couple of characters.

The character creation engine, while not providing much in the way of physical adjustments, rival even The Sims, by my humble estimation. It uses almost every option and customizable feature of the Dungeons and Dragons character rules! For those of you who don't understand the completeness of this, here's a site (or section of one at least) that explains it. There are many others out there, you should run a few searches.

The graphics aren't great, but considering the timeline of this game's creation, its fairly impressive. I've played through the earliest stages of the first campaign, and watched a few cut scenes of the "Hordes of the Underdark" expansion, and I can see I'm in for a truly epic experience, not to mention a few good laughs along the way.

 
04/24/06 - Damn, the Cycle Continues . . .

Hey, real short entry today. Reformatted my computer and now my network drivers don't work, and it'll be a while before I get access to the original drivers, so I'm updating from school.

I don't really have a lot to say anyway, had a great time over Easter, big parties, only one small disappointment (aside from what I mentioned before about the party), and I finally managed to straighten out my apartment situation. I don't know if I mentioned this before, but I'm moving next week into a house filled with friends, which is actually where the biggest parties I attend have been taking place. Going to be lotsa fun (I hope), though I can only stay till the end of the summer.

Well, that's all for now, may be back with more details later in the week, but I'd say I'll more likely forget and just update you on what happens in the meantime.
04/16/06 - Happy Easter
Well, its Easter Sunday, and I'm sitting here in my parent's house watching Lord of the Rings on Dad's new 52" TV with Dad and Robert. My big plans for Easter got changed at the last minute because my parents bought a house and had to stick around to meet with inspectors and lawyers and such, but it wasn't a total loss. I had to move my party to a friend's house, and his parent's weren't gone the whole night, but it was a good party nonetheless, and I get to have Easter Dinner (er, supper, our big meal is gonna be late) with the family. Now I'm not staying in Clarkes Beach as long as expected, but I may get a couple days here to myself. Tomorrow after the folks meet with their lawyers they'll know whether or not they can leave town on Tuesday. If they can, then I'll stay here and have the place to myself, though I doubt there'll be anybody coming out to spend any of the time with me. If they can't, then I'll be going back in town on Tuesday, (fingers crossed), and I'll learn whether or not an important ship has sailed. It seems the deck is stacked against me, but I'm optimistic, and my spirit has yet to be truly crushed. You here me Universe? I will not be broken!

04/11/06 - Messin' Wit mah page . . . at school, hehehe

Heyo! I just figured out that I could edit this place from school, in FrontPage, without leaving a copy of my files on their computers, so now I'm just messing with stuff. I'm liking AngelFire a little more now, I may just have to buy more space on here some day. Hmm . . . how much have I used . . . ooh, only 8.9 of 20.0 MB!
04/06/06 - Natural High
You ever feel like you're totally buzzed, but you have no real reason to be? You know, its just a normal day, you've been eating normal food, going about your normal routine, but for no apparent reason you're just on cloud 9? That's how I'm feeling today. I can't really think of anything that could cause it. Well, I suppose there's the date I had last night, which seemed to go well for most of the evening, but, I dunno, it seemed to flatline near the end. I'm optimistic though, I blame the late hour (it was kind of "group date", 3 couples for most of the evening, and since dinner took so long, instead of going to a theatre, we went to someone's house to watch a DVD) and the extreme heat in the house. I'll see later on though, when I call her up try to schedule some one-on-one time. Wow, I really must be high or something, I never write such specifics on my blog on this kind of issue, but I can't bring myself to delete it . . .

Anyway, that's enough of that. I stayed in town again this weekend, 2nd in a row, and guess who called me to find out why? Rupe & Heidi's Mom! I thought that was pretty funny. Sorry Mrs. Gushue, I certainly enjoy drinking with you, I've got more important matters to attend here in town.

Oh, got a haircut yesterday! Nothing major, I kept pretty much the same style, but it's now two inches shorter. In case you're wondering, it's now a little shorter than the older picture in my profile, and they trimmed up the beard too. Its now just a mustache and a neatly trimmed Goatee. Most people say the hair change is barely noticeable, but I've gotten a few compliments on the beard. They put a lot of "product" in my hair too, which, frankly, I hated, but I left it in for the night and washed it out first thing this morning.