happy!KA

After a huge hiatus, I've started reading again -- kind of. I've gone back to my lost love Bertrand Russell, more specifically to an anthology of his that I bought two years ago during a trip to the Shakespeare festival. The book's OK and kinda reads like a Nietzsche volume (which is not to say that the ideas presented therein share even a remote similarity), but it's still good and satisfies my crackwhore-esque need for subjective analysis.

My friend Peter says Blizzard is potentially working on Diablo III. I would've gotten shrill and accused him of playing with my emotions, but he averted that crisis by sending me a link to an article instead of sending me actual text in his email body. The article basically said that Blizzard has some interesting job postings on its site lately, and that they mention the DI and DII dev teams once or twice. If they make a Diablo MMORPG, I'm gonna find some way to get long-term sick leave.

Lots of family stuff coming up for me in the next couple weeks. It's so odd how, at the start of the year, a whole bunch of family gatherings and friend gatherings occur all at the same time. It's nice, but tiring after a while. On the upside, my brother's birthday is coming up soon! My brother is so god damned funny, I love kicking around with him.

My friend from college is gonna be a daddy! It's so bloody unreal when friends get married/have kids; maybe it's just me, but I find it's a total paradigm shift every time I hear of it. In this case, I'm particularly interested because the father is a guy I probably should've gotten off my ass and dated while I had the chance (not that I want a kid -- I actually hope I never breed -- I just think the guy is awesome). Dah well, such is life. On the upside, science! I'll get to ask a whole boatload of totally inappropriate questions about the kid's development and not feel a shred of discomfort.

Rose and I created a private forum on FS Connect where we can just write freely. It was a weird idea I brought up a couple weeks ago and that she was willing to go for, and so far it's been really fun. Maybe someday, should something worthwhile come of it, we'll share it with you guys.

Also, we finished LoK: Defiance. Alright: after watching some of the FMVs at the end of the game over and over again and giggling like a schoolgirl, I can honestly say that I don't understand how someone could play the game and go on believing that Kain and Raziel aren't a couple. An interesting bit of trivia that may get you thinking: the series is written and produced by a couple women. You go, ladies! You tear that vamp crown from Anne Rice's head! I heard one of the women left the company, though, and I can only hope the shoddy message board community I read that off of is wrong.

Stupid shit: I bought a sexy MAC keyboard for my PC and I LOVE it. It's so HOT. The length of my fingernails makes me sound like a neglected dog walking on ceramic tiles when I type, but the keyboard itself is still HOT.

♠ KA