I was feeling kinda ‘blegh’ yesterday and decided to make a little shift in life. I usually only read comics/graphic novels and lately there has been nothing that I want to read. I only like reading in trades, I have a whole host of problems with single issues, but that’s my thing. I’ve been waiting for some stuff to come out but it just hasn’t been happening.
After I picked up some cat food yesterday, I rounded the corner into one of our local bookstores and told them that I mostly read comics and was looking to get into “regular” books. I mentioned that I was interested in mystery and so I picked up “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” and “Bleeding Hearts”. I haven’t seen the GwDT movies so I should have a fresh take on it. I also know Ian Rankin from his work with the Vertigo Crime Hellblazer book he did that I enjoyed.
I’m hoping that reading something new and different will keep my spirits up and give me a new perspective.
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Whoa! A post! Finally! Where have I been?
Busy. That’s what.
We’ve almost finished unpacking our place and hopefully I’ll have some photos of the apartment without mountains of boxes.
I traded in a boat-load of old Xbox360 games that I don’t play anymore and they had a deal on where you get a bunch more trade in value which was amazing. I managed to pickup Prototype 2, fully pay off a Pre-Order of Ghost Recon: Future Soldier AND put like $30 down on the Pre-Order for Hitman. Very excited.
I had to throw out my old bookshelf because it was falling apart, and I got this really cool “leaning ladder” style bookshelf thats unobtrusive and looks baller. It even has a little space for some of my Batman: Black & White statues.
My Mom came to visit last week on sort of a surprise. She had a rough road trip and had to get out of there, so she booked it here. It was good because we managed to do a crazy rush unpack to make room for her. She had a really great time while she was here and it was nice to have her around for a week or so.
Finally, I’m going to try to grow my moustache longer than my beard. Last night was the first trim of the beard while keeping the moustache longer. We will see how it goes, I might hate it.
Most of the people who visit my blog are from the United States. Within that, most are from California, and within that, most are from the City of Industry.
That’s pretty neat. I didn’t even know there was a place called Industry.
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I had an inception ice cream sandwich. Cookie dough ice cream between two cookies. Incredible.
Since staying at the hotel for flooding, I’ve been watching tv lots. I came across the opportunity to purchase an Evil Eye pendant and chain on the shopping channel. The miracles of modern technology.
The folks at Strange Adventures found the long lost scene I had in a comic book. It’s the reason I have a beard now. To hide away from all the fans who would recognize me.
Well I haven’t updated the blog in a while. Reasons being I’ve been super busy. I know that’s a general “lack-of-blogging” reason, but I’ll break it down for you.
I’ve finished my work at The Coast and now I’m working at a company called Liberated that does all manner of things. I’m on to do graphic / web design, but the company does software development, web development, web hosting and they have their own CMS. So thats pretty great. So far its been much better than my last few months at the old job.
I’ve also taken up playing Magic very casually. It’s a hard game to play casually, as most of the players around locally are really intense. I have a few friends who are into it, but they’re busier than I am. Building the decks has been fun and I’m really starting to dig the gameplay.
Battlefield 3 has been taking a bunch of my time too since I’ve found a few regular players on Xbox Live. The enjoyment in the game increases ten-fold when you can actually communicate with people. Who would have thought?
Most recently our neighbours had a crazy flood in their apartment. Which means some of it has spilled into our apartment. Mainly on the bottom floor, but that is where the ugly carpet is. So the plus side is that it’s being ripped up and hopefully nice flooring down. It also forced us to do a bunch of chores all at once. Nothing we had got really ruined. JJ was awesome enough to grab a bunch of the things that would have been totally wrecked while I had to go to work.
That’s my life recently. Now I have to get back to work.