If you have all been wondering where I have gone, the answer is nowhere, I’m still right here. I have just been totally glued to the Age of Conan MMO. Yes it is true I have an addiction. I have alway been a huge Robert E. Howard fan, and Conan is his most popular works. It came out and my friend Dave got me into it. It is visually stunning and amazing to play. I really have just been having a blast, but at least I know that I have an addiction and when I go away on vacation next week it will be my withdrawal period. Maybe I can be more productive when I’m away from the game. We’ll see.

Something’s On the Move from the album “Stormwatch” by Jethro Tull

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Whether you want to admit it or not, Gary Gygax was an influence on society as a whole and produced a generation of people who understand the joy of a natural twenty. He will be missed.
Comic courtesy of gaintitp.com

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To quote a Stan Ridgeway song. It was a lost weekend, but a good one. Just felt it went by way to fast.

Friday night was good, finally no work for 2 days and the Patriots played their first (sort of) football game since the AFC championship game. It was good to sit and enjoy a football game. I know I’m a addict for watching the preseason, but I like to watch where the players are at and see the young guys, who are doubtful to make the team, competing for a spot.

Saturday started off slow. The pool installer was behind a day because of the rain on Friday, so I didn’t get to watch him install my pool. I took it easy and got ready for my first good game night in nearly a year. Finally got to play some fantasy RPG D20 system, in my friend Dave’s world. It was a great night, we accomplished our mission, though I came one save away from dying. The only issue I have with my character, is that I have a serious lack of direction. I just don’t know what he wants to be or do. It makes it hard for me to play him, and do him justice. I just have to try and figure it out, talk to Dave and the other character, Rich, and see if I can figure it out. I just need to find his nitch in the world and I’ll be better off.

Sunday was the day! The installer came and set up my baby, my pool! I will post some pictures later on. It came out great, fills that area of the yard like I thought it would, and I can’t wait until we can start swimming in it. It was about a 5 hour job, though I still have to do the fence around it. He gave us a 100 bucks off the install and after the fact, I figured out why. Each section of fence, and there are a lot, needs to be cut to size. That will take me a while to do, but at least I know that I will do a quality job on it. The water truck comes today and the electrician tomorrow, so by the weekend and hopefully before we will be in it and enjoying it. My in-laws visited that afternoon as the guy was finishing up. My father in law is very much against the pool, so I figured it would be a bit of a “I don’t think you should have done this!” visit. Thankfully it wasn’t. He didn’t even bring up the points he had so many times before. I guess he saw it as it was already in so he couldn’t stop us now. We’ll see how that all works out in the end.

Well, that was my weekend. It went by so fast that it felt like I lost it, but in hindsight, it was really a good one.

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This does look very cool, and being a huge Zelda fan from the old days, I will definitely check it out when it comes out.

“GameDaily’s Robert Workman gives us a preview of Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess due this fall on both GameCube and Wii. The article talks mostly about how the Wii-mote provides different gameplay over the GameCube, a few comments on possible graphic differences and how Nintendo stays true to its roots with classic Zelda sounds.”

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Ok now I know that the world is going to hell in a hand basket. I hope they do a better job of policing these games than they to Grand Theft Auto. I can see the headline now, “The Sex Game made me Rape her” as some 15 year old gets his hands on one. OMG!

“Is sex in the MMORPG universe the next big thing?”

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What in the world are we coming to? I can’t imagine why sane and rational people could ever believe that someone killed another human being, BECAUSE OF A VIDEO GAME!!!! Who could believe that. If this kid could take another persons life, and he read the bible all the time, would it even get metioned. I think not.

Some very cool and very strange things indeed.

Apple tries to do it’s part for the enviroment.

Ok it’s wrong that they got suspended, but is soooo wrong that Third Graders even know what oral sex is.

Ok this is just insane! what in the name of all that is holy is wrong with this world we live in.

Here you are your news for Friday May 19th.

Here are the news stories I found interesting today.