Current mood:

chipper

Twilight Geek
So yeah, it's almost 3'o clock in the a.m. and here I am posting on LJ after doing some websurfing and playing World of Warcraft. LOL how dorky is that?
No real exciting news here, just don't feel sleepy for some reason and I guess I'm just a little bored.

Been insanely busy with work. The new job has been really giving it me with some brutal hours. It seems a week doesn't go by where I don't work at least one or two late nights and I've pretty much become a weekend warrior. However I do still enjoy it and I have to say the paychecks lately have been kinda nice, although they would look much better if the MAN didn't frickin' rob me of such a huge chunk every time.
Also there are talks of me taking up a different position in the company as an assistant project manager which entails a whole different set of tasks.

Got my economic stimulus check the other day, but just decided to put it away for now. I know we're supposed to spend it to help boost the economy but there really isn't anything I want right now, aside from perhaps a new video game once in a while. I'm considering getting a PS3 when Metal Gear Solid 4 comes out, but not really sure yet.

Speaking of video games, I'm looking forward to attending a LAN party/BBQ next Saturday which I found out about through Meetup.com. Not really sure what the PC/Xbox 360 ratio will be like but regardless it will be cool to meet some more fellow gamers especially since the Chicago Gamers Club kind of died down. If anyone is interested you can check out EarthLANParty. I don't know if the event is booked up yet but you can always keep an eye out for more.

In yet other types of games, the new Dungeons and Dragons edition is coming out sometime next week. In celebration of the new edition, Wizards of the Coast had a D&D session with my all time favorite webcomic artists, Scott Kurtz of PvP and Jerry "Tycho" Holkins and Mike "Gabe" Krahulik of Penny Arcade. The entire session was recorded on a podcast and being posted along with comics drawn by the artists to go along with their adventure which is so insanely cool. What was particularly interesting was that each of the guys had different experience levels. Scott used to play but hadn't done so in a while, Tycho plays actively, and Gabe was a complete newb to the game.
I have to say I was absolutely entertained just by listening to these guys play. Much like Gabe I've never played D&D at all but it definitely sounded like tons of fun.
Man I wish I had those guys' jobs.