An update from me, seeing as I post here semi-annually now.

-I'm still totally single.

-I'm still at a job I work just about all the time I have. Whatever spare time I have is spent between reading how terrible a job (or the lack of work) I'm doing modding here, dealing with petty nonsense, or learning new things (I plan on looking into German some more again and am also learning more web technologies and such. I hope to benefit all of us with what I learn )

-I barely game anymore and almost convinced myself less than a week ago that I had lost my taste for it. Thankfully I had a rebound day this past Sunday and realize it's just a lack of time draining my motivation and enjoyment for gaming.

-My backlog is so insane I don't even want to bother with a lot of the games I have anymore just because there are other games I want to buy and play first instead.

-I'm supposed to be a gamrReview writer but I haven't written anything yet besides a short blurb for best racer of the year 2012. I have a few ideas kicking around in my head but they'll either get the site a lot of hate, tarnish my "good" name, or people won't understand it and won't pay attention to it because it won't support their agendas. That and I simply haven't had time to write.

That about sums it up. Nothing new or great or terrible has happened with me in the past year. I'll have been at this job and mostly absent from the chartz for 6 days short of a year by my count. I miss some of y'all a whole lot and wish you all the best.

Yeah, it's much the same for me. I have so much going on and it has been this way for the last year (1 year anniversary at the job today. Woot!). But once I had a free day and an urge to play, I went 13 hours with no problem.

I hope to be around as much as I can for as long as I can. I do have a vacay coming up in early April (using half my vacation days built up from 2012 - the rest I'm losing without extra pay but circumstances put me in a position where I simply couldn't afford to take my vacation without having a few projects fail at the company. It's unfortunate, but it is what it is) so I do plan on coming by more often that week.

I haven't started learning much German yet. I've spent most of my spare time looking into web technologies (jQuery finally!) and today I was inspired to look into a bit of Android development as well. We'll see how far any of these projects go.

The other thing leading to my apparent absence to the site is that I get most of my fill on discussing games in various more direct chat sessions with fellow members on the site. I feel that because I interact more with specific members I can discuss things with intelligently and deeply, the draw of this place has sort of decreased. I mean, you and I have had some short Mass Effect discussions already and with the opportunity to directly chat with folks like Kantor, Axum, Smeags, Trucks, Amp, Kasz, Khan, etc every day about gaming in various respects, I find less reason to post on here.

As for what's on my mind right now? Sweatpants. I can't wait to get into sweatpants.