I cancelled my WoW and CoH accounts today and diverted that money to renting my own Counter-Strike server. Hopefully this will be a fun venture, I plan on running mostly surf maps, but it seems like it would be a good place for me to start working on building my own maps again.
I will post up the IP on here when I get a chance and let people know how to get a hold of me on Steam too.
So... I had a super long post I was going to put up here, but truthfully it was a bit whiny and even I got on my own nerves when I read it. The bottom line is that I need to find something I believe in if I am going to be truly happy in a profession. I love to hear people’s stories, and I love to help them out. I am also fairly good at understanding other people’s points of view, and communicating with them.
With that said, I have gotten a chance to put those skills to use up at work in a project management type of role. This is good because it utilizes my skills, but at the same time I don't know if it will satisfy the altruistic streak in me.
I guess we will find out.
So I am finaly posting up here again. I have been fairly busy with work, softball, basketball, and church activities. I registered a new domain that I haven't pointed to the site yet, but the concept will be fun, and I will write some more on it later.
In the mean time, I have moved the old posts over to another page and added a link to them on the menu. I will rotate posts from here and put them on that page when they get too old or I run out of room. With that out of the way, I am going to go and work on my other project!
Alright! After a little bit of work I looked around and found some ways to clean up the CSS a little more, and I have gone back and added in dates to the posts... one more post though and I am going to need to start an "old news" page =p.
Speaking of other pages I did a drawing from a bridal picture that was taken of my wife, and I will see if I can get that up soon. I am so out of practice though (not that I have ever been really good). The details are still way off, I think I will stick to some of the more basic stuff to get my shapes down for a bit. At any rate I will get that posted on the "Latest Works" page when I get a picture of it.
UPDATE: The picture is up in the latest work section you can check it out if you like.
Well I have the boxes for the posts setup, now I just need to figure out how to create a database and write up some PHP to archive these posts... I could probably use someone elses system, but that wouldn't be any fun ;)
As for basketball, I have been playing irregularly with one of the guys up at work, and we are going to be putting together a work team for a league. I used to be good at basketball, but 6 years of loafing around has just proven that I wasn't good at basketball, I just had more energy than the other guys.
Thats ok though, I am having a good time playing and it is a good workout. I really need to look into the strategy involved. I mostly played streetball growing up, so it wasn't very organized.
Other than that I don't really have much to rant about. Randi and I will be heading out this weekend to attend some weddings, and that means it is going to be a long and busy weekend.
So the site is back up for now as I try to mess with using CSS for layout and other sweet little tweaks. The header image is slightly off in firefox because of the box model issue between IE and firefox. I decide to go with what worked in IE in order to please the masses for now, but will be revising it later.
As for my struggle with sanity... I have decided to change a few things in my life that might make people who know me think I am crazy. I have stripped all of the games off of my computer, and decided that it was time to get down to being responsible and actually accomplishing things when I got home.
I don't want to say that games were an addiction for me but if I have them around I tend to put other things off in order to play them because of my poor impulse control ;). I have the desire to play the games so I do so. This desire hasn't gotten me very far in life, and while I did gain many skills from playing games I have to wonder how many skills I have passed up in the hours of fragging that I have logged.
I will be playing the occasional game on one of my many consoles (the wife won't let me get rid of those) but my goal now is to keep this site up to date, and to work on my artistic and writing skills.
Man I feel sorry for you guys that I have to unleash this on the world.