Over a month!

Well, it's been over a month since my last rant. Not like anyone cares, but it's worth commenting just because it's a reflection of the American culture I'm a part of. Like exercise, or eating food that's good for you, or most things.... you have to keep doing it all the time for it to work. Writing is no different. It's easy to write when you have ideas, but forcing yourself to write when there's nothing interesting to write about is much harder. I'm a fat lazy American. 'Nuff said. :)

Still no job. My roommate's job also dried up, in much the same way as mine did a year and a half ago... the investors pulled the funding and the company closed. In my case, it took a little bit longer. So money is non-existant and stress levels are a bit high. I keep sending out applications to real companies and hearing nothing back. I keep saying I'm going to work at walmart or subway... yet for months I didn't bother to apply there in the hopes I'd yet make use of this albatross of a CS degree.

*sigh*

No such luck. This week, I'm going to have to make the rounds again and visit all the local office supply stores (office max, etc...). I think I'll need to call a temp agency too. April is down to the wire time, and if we don't get some income soon, bad things will start happening.

On the more comforting side of things, I did fork out the cash for Dungeons & Dragons Online. I will play for one month and might even hit level 10. Steve is level 7 and will definately hit the top this week I expect. My group of friends is not organized well enough to get everyone on at once, but I've played with most of them at least a few times.

I'm approaching the 100 million ISK mark in EVE-Online. This game still rocks, and I haven't even joined a corp yet. My goals are to get a mining barge, to get a heavy industrial transport, and to get a battleship. I then want to have the skills needed to fly a freighter. I probably wont' ever be able to afford one, but if I can fly one, I might find a job with a corp as a hauler.

Two of my friends are almost talked into playing EVE... but they're afraid of it. The more I describe it, the more they realize it's the kind of game that can suck up every available minute of your days and nights. World of Warcraft was addictive, but it's a simple game. Once you hit the top, it's just boring grinding until you have all the items you want. Then, you roll a new character until they raise the level cap. EVE has no levels, no caps, no magical "uber" equipment that makes you unbeatable. It has enough skills to keep you training for 20 years, so it's all about making the right decisions for what you want to do. Equipment helps, but skills are more important, and player skill is (as always) King. It's a deep game.

The only other game I'm looking forward to is Vangard, and it still doesn't have a release date. Dark and Light is supposed to be out in a month, but the last time I logged into the SoG prequel game, it still sucked and I was almost the only person on. Even the die-hard fanboi's have abandoned that sinking ship.