Blogging and blah

I want to blog again, but about what?

We've all seen what happens when I try to blog about my life and that always winds up supremely boring. About my interests, then? But that would probably turn out pretty boring too. In any event I've felt extraordinarily pent up and have felt the need to express myself through writing without having to resort to campy and poorly written fiction. Maybe I'll just keep a record of what I do write, or whatever pithy bits of art I create. Meanwhile interspersing what little bit of unfortunate angst I may be suffering at the moment. Plus when I blog they don't really tend to be planned out events, mostly me just rambling aimlessly in an attempt to put off doing something. At the moment it's sleep.

I mean I could very well write about my interests -- certainly. That would probably fill volumes of space. As a gamer I tend to be somewhat opinionated and overly critical with my reviews, so I suppose I do have a lot to say there. Twitter has become my link machine and how I've come to keep up with the zillions of games I've been following. But I guess 140 characters aren't really enough to express how I feel over a particular subject.

Lately I've been kind of absorbed with Lovecraftian lore and what not, as that tends to happen every now and again in cycles. So I've been trying to pen a little short story in the same vein drawing massive influence from the Call of C'thulhu. Ph'nglui mglw'nahf C'thulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn, yo. It's just real fun to explore the psychology of insanity, stringing words into sentences and sentences into paragraphs about things that don't make any sense.

In any event I need something to occupy my time, even if it's just for a short while. So Ill try another attempt at blogging, take a page out of some of my friends books and keep at it. Maybe I'll produce something worthwhile and valuable. Who knows? The more I think about it the more I like the idea. There are actually a shite ton of blogs that I follow off and on, and I always really enjoy them. Even the ones when I only check once or twice a month. I've decided to forgo sleeping tonight in a heroic effort to reboot my sleep cycle. Though Ive already failed miserably two times in the past two weeks. Tomorrow ought to be different though, because Ive got work in the morning. I say tomorrow but I really mean three hours from now. Something is terribly wrong with me.

So I suppose then I ought to brainstorm what I could write about. I don't want to burn myself out immediately so lets see. Twitter is something I have been thinking quite a bit about. I didn't really understand it at first, and to be terribly honest, I still don't really understand it. But at the same time its been a massive interesting experiment and I am somewhere between disinterested to addicted.

Ah yes, gaming as well. I am currently actively following a single game, but there are several more that are somewhere on my radar. That game is none other than Star Wars: The Old Republic. Being a massive Star Wars fan aside, I am also a major Bioware fanboy. I could talk for hours about how Ive idolized the founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and Dr. Greg Zeschuk. For the longest time I convinced myself that I wanted to be a writer for Bioware, that I would give up so much to be a faceless intern in the back of the writers room pitching ideas or writing for characters. I decided that I haven't got the chops a long time ago though, and besides, I am not a very consistent writer. But also on the MMO front I'm looking towards The Secret World, though things have been pretty quite in that realm.

I do more than just look forward to games, I do actually still game. Right now most of my time has been taken up by a game called Armed Assault, and I have just started playing with a community called ShackTactical. A few things I could probably write about how interesting that is, not to mention the other sixty some odd games I've got on steam. Hell, lets look at my profile right now. AP@Steam In the past two weeks I've put in 52.6 hours at the time of this posting with ArmA2, X-COM, and Fallout 3 stealing the top time investments. Things have been so slow and I've been so desperately bored that I have dropped an irresponsible number of money on games through steam. The whole instant gratification of buying something and then having the game twenty minutes later is magical to me.

And then I guess I could probably intersperse some personal stuff when I need to. Since I'm pretty much writing to myself at this point I cant imagine that it would hurt or worry me any. Maybe Ive got more to say than I previously thought.

EDIT:

Actually it seems my Steam stats are off. It currently says Ive played over 102 hours this week, with 51 of those hours in Pirates! I can assure you I haven't played the game for more than maybe an hour.