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It's 2010.  What the...?  I spent the night drinking champagne and watching The Empire Strikes Back.  It was quite relaxing!

I haven't said much the past ~4 months.  I don't have a very good excuse other than being busy and not having a lot to say.

I'm thankful that, at the time of this writing, I still have a job. My friends and family are healthy.  Life is going smoothly.  What more could I ask for?

Here is to a year better than the last. May anyone reading this be blessed!

It has been a while since I have wrote... the Holidays are always a rough time. You would think I'd have more time but really since I'm going all over the place to visit with people I end up having less. I spent all of Christmas with my parents which was nice and relaxing. Dad and I saw Valkyrie on Christmas day - we both enjoyed it. Apart from that the best part was watching my nephew open the Christmas presents we brought him. He is 2 coming up on 3 soon, so he gets really excited about it and can't seem to figure out which toy to play with. I'll post some photos I took later on when I'm home after I find my camera. I seem to have misplaced it somewhere between my parents and my apartment.

For New Years JoAnn and I went to her cousin Sarah's place. We played Battle of the Sexes, drank beer and got to know one another It was rather interesting since it was 3 white guys and 3 asian women. It was the first time I met Sarah; I can tell why JoAnn looks up to her like a sister. We had a lot of fun talking about Hmong culture, social issues, etc.

The holidays were great this year... and I am totally not ready to start the daily grind up again.  I am also goign to take a class or two this semester.  That's all for now.

Talk about anticlimatic.  You're going along... and just like anywhere else in the game you are given a decision to make.  Unfortunately, that decision ends the game.  Game over.  My options ended up being kill myself or let someone else be the "hero". 

This person did a great job of summing it all up on Bethesda's Fallout 3 Cheats, Hints and Spoilers forum:

The voice over showed several pictures that had only vague connections to the monologue or none at all. You see about 4 series of these pictures and thats it! I hate how there's no specifics about what happened in each town/area you did quests for! I worked my butt off to make sure I left each town in just the right state. I spent hours doing quests in the hope that the ending would live up to the previous games' endings. What a total dissapointment!

I got to the ending with a full suit of completely repaired power armor and some serious firepower... but I had only completed about 60% of the quests available.  I am now going back through on an earlier save to complete these areas.  I just wish I was still ignorant to the crappy ending.  

Apart from this... the game is incredible.

I remember when I was younger how Thanksgiving meant eating Cornish game hens with my family (no - we don't eat turkey) and having a few days off from school was what the holiday was all about.  This past weekend was pretty nice... time away from work, visiting my family and eating loads of good food.

However, I am left disgusted with what American culture has become.  What a total socioeconomic failure.  Black Friday indeed.  You're telling me someone has to die because you are in such a hurry to spend the money you probably don't have on a bunch of crap that you more than likely don't even need?  You've got to be kidding me.

I didn't go out the morning of  Black Friday and for good reason.  After last year of going to Kohl's and finding a line of 100+ people in 2 lines at the registers I decided against it.  Now I am swearing it off entirely.  People are like a herd of  wild animals when they get into a group.  The more people gathered into a single place the more idiotic the group becomes.  Like a stampede of scared buffalo only rather than fear they are driven by a dollar amount tied to material objects.

Pathetic.