Y hallo thar

Basically I'm abandoning ship and going on a three-week trip in the wild
woooooooooooooo

This consists of kayaking and hiking and all that jazz. It's for an outdoor ed credit and I'm doing it with a friend, so it should be pretty damn fun. I hope. We're not even a camping family so I hope I manage to survive the wild. I don't look forward to hanging out with a group of guys who haven't had showers in weeks, but it should be fun nonetheless.

I'll be active again in like three weeks, not that I've been doing much of anything on GameSpot these days. Too much summer fun to be had. I'm sure winter will rejuvinate the ol' gamer in me.

God, my blog posts aredull.

I'm really tired and packing for tomorrow morning, hence how incomprehensible this is. But if I managed to spell incomprehensible right (maybe I didn't) then I can't be too bad, no?

So, buh-bye.

Just thought I'd pop in and say hi. I haven't been overly active on here for the past few months, simply because I just haven't been gaming. I haven't quit at all (details further on) but this past while has been busy and stressful and I just moved on to other hobbies for a period.

Nothing life-changing has happened to me, but I'm somehow always doing something. I've been babysitting a lot to make tons of money, been hanging out with friends a lot and having a good time, working out and playinglots of sports, playing tons of piano, and I've got a girlfriend now which definitely eats up time. And I was shocked to find out that she's a gamer! Her and her friends all love playing Mario Tennis, Katamari and the like, even though they're the complete anti-nerds who a guy would never pin as a video game player. So, excited about that. (About the girlfriend, not the gamingness. I'm not that nerdy.)

Plus, as some of you know, my Xbox 360 died. Not in the usual over-heating, red lights of death sort of way. Basically, my dog had to go to the bathroom and we weren't around to let him outside. Fill in the blanks from there. But I sent it in after de-smellifying it and they didn't seem to notice that it was dog piss that killed the console, so they sent me a new one with full apologies. Some may say that it was bad of me for tricking Microsoft into giving me a new one, but:

a) I'd bought the console less than two months prior and I was not going to pay another 600 for a new one. I'm a high school student, I'm not made of money! And
b) They're a pretty huge, multi-billion dollar corporation. They can take the blow.

As for what I've been up to in life, music has been a huge hobby of mine lately. I've been collecting and downloading tons of new music and I've gone from about 800 to 2500 songs on my iTunes in school year of 2006/2007. I've been listening to lots of rock, alternative, electronic, ambient, post-rock and some jazz.

Seeing as I have summer now and don't intend to get a job until fall, I'll probably be around here more often to rant in the forums and discuss games. Which brings me to my next point, I am actually gaming again. I didn't touch a console for months this spring, but I've played about six or seven hours of Call of Duty 3 in the last two days and I'll be picking up Gears of War and another controller ASAP. And if I ever get around to hooking up on Xbox Live, I'll make it public for anyone interested.

So how's everyone been? I hope I wasn't missed too much.

So, I finally beat Resident Evil 4.  Man, what a freaking amazing game.  Seriously, it's just all that I'm thinking about.    If you haven't played it, and I imagine you all have, then go and buy it immediately.  There's just... it's just so amazing.  My review is here.

So, yeah, this is pretty much a shameless self-plug for a review, but it's a big day!  I haven't written a review I think in a little over a year so I'm probably rusty.  Tell me what you think!

...Right over the forums.

BOOOOOOOOOOM!!!

I'm a little suspicious I have to say.  8.8 just seems low.  But I can judge for myself hopefully within a week.

I'm going on vacation again!  This time to a much less exciting place, but a great place nonetheless:  Maine!  Every year we visit our family friends' cottage which is on a nice quiet beach in Maine.  It's a great time to read on the beach  (I'll be reading parts II-V in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, which I seem to recall GGG is a big fan of.  ) and just relax. 

Out of curiosity do any of you live in Maine?  For some reason I want to say Robbie does (who's not even on my friend's list I just realized   I wonder if he remembers me ) but I'm not sure.

Aaanyways, I'll be leaving early tomorrow so we can finish the drive, so you'll be Freude-less for another week and a half to two weeks, depending.  Don't miss me too much. 

Continue to have a great summer everyone. 

Oh yeah, and y'know how I promised you Europe pictures?  Well I don't know where the camera is so I promise I'll do that when I get back from Maine.  And if I don't it means I forgot, so somebody remind me please!

Random fact:  Maine is closer to Bermuda than Florida is!