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Well, I *believe* this is the last home game for USAFA this season. It’s gonna be big! It’s between USAFA and Army, I can only guess that would be Westpoint.

I’ve been thinking about a couple of things lately. One, I’m going to explore what kind of garbage I can create using cafepress.com. It seems pretty cool how you can create your own shirts, and once in a while I can come up with something witty that makes people laugh, so let’s see how successful that’s going to be.

I’ve also been thinking about my future and my future with gaming. Lately I’ve been having alot to do on my plate, and I don’t foresee that changing. I haven’t really been gaming that much, except for the few minutes in the early morning I spend playing KOL… and I would hardly call that gaming. I miss running around and blasting people online, or playing BF2 or original EQ, WOW, DAOC, etc…. But every time I think about starting up a game, I think of all the time I’d be wasting when I could be doing something else, like *not* gaming and getting work done, or going out or visiting friends. It kinda makes me sad, I miss the escape that games bring, but I know I spent alot of very quality time “escaping” back in the day, and every time I feel that urge to game, I think about the debts I still owe to the world, and I just get sad and resign myself back to a fate of hard work. Well… I wouldn’t say “sad”, but just not ecstatic. I’m still happy for the most part. Or maybe it’s just contentment? I at least like the fact that I have alot to do, and it’s all important somehow. I remember during my gaming days, when I would go out for my occasional breath of air between 5-hr long bouts with mobs, NPCs, and stupid players, I’d always feel ashamed of something, what that would be I would never know. But I somehow felt like shit after gaming for so long. Maybe deep down I knew I was wasting an entire day on my epeen, and not enough time on my real life that I needed to get shit accomplished in.

Anyway, I don’t think I’ll be gaming. I was just having a few conversations on it tonight, and this is the final conclusion I’m coming to. No WoW… no EQ… no more. There’s too much at stake in my real life, it would be a waste of what little time I have left here on Earth to be gaming so much. Maybe when I’m retired or late in my career where I might have more time, but somehow I doubt I’ll ever see the kind of “spare time” I cleared during college.

Other things I’ve been thinking about: Japan. My We <3 Katamari OST CD came in the mail the other day, and it’s been in heavy rotation on my computer and in my car…. I don’t know why, but I really really really love the songs from the Katamari games. I’m insane like that, as Lynch would say. I usually don’t listen to the J-POP, and I’ve tried it and only liked stuff from Ayumi Hamasaki and no one else for some reason. And at that I liked only her club mixed music. Somehow I keep thinking about Asian dance clubs and how much I would like to see one. Or maybe just a Japanese dance club. There’s this one song by Ayumi Hamasaki called “Fly High” I think… the video is pretty cool. She’s in some club, sexy as hell (of course), and it’s just a really nice vibe. Like a raver party without the drugs and the passing out and the general ugliness. Maybe that’s why I like Japanese stuff… when I think about it, I see a blunt honesty in many aspects of the culture. Very little reservation, ready to adapt. That’s what I see, anyway. I’m sure people can prove me wrong, but that’s just the way I see things.

Also, I was thinking about the prospect of visiting the Philippines, and I was discussing it with my good friend, my brother from another mother Lorenzo. I was thinking specifically about terrorists and criminals abroad who target Americans and how dispicable I thought the whole thing was. Terrorism is the reason I signed up, so at least I’m doing my part in hopefully one day making international travel and culture mingling less scary than it currently is today. I really do want to meet a Muslim on the street and not be scared, but these days the times make people crazy and do crazy things.

Anyway, good night. I’m tired, and I have a thing tomorrow.

-TJ