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Well, I finally have a few minutes here to post. I have been amazingly busy this past week or so and when I look ahead, it doesn’t look like it is going to let up any time soon.

Has anybody every played StarCraft? It’s a video game for the PC and is one of the best selling games ever. It has a single player mode, but nobody plays that. That multi-player is what makes it awesome. My brothers and I were hooked on it when it first came out (6?) years ago. We were up to the point where we played it all night long and then the entire next day. Needless to say, we were pretty good =) We had two computers at our house, so my brothers and I could play at the same time, on the same team. Calling out to each other when we saw a snaek attack coming, or a huge hole in the enemy’s defense. When I came to college, I sadly found that the Internet connection here wasn’t strong enough to support the multi-player version of it. Whenever I tried to join a game, it took forever to load and people would kick me out. However, this past weekend I was home for a night and had the computer to myself, so I decided to play a game or two. I ended up running into a few old friends and playing it for 6 hours =) We kicked some major ass, just like the good ‘ole days. Then I had to come back to this crappy school’s Internet. I was going through some major withdrawl tonight, so I thought why not just try and see if I could get a game going. I logged into my account and then started looking around and realized something….

….I could join the games! =) I found out that the port which had previously been closed was now open, which meant that StarCraft no longer took forever to load. I was the fastest guy out there. I played for 30 minutes tonight and then forced myself to sign off, since I had homework to do. This WAS NOT a good thing to find out right at exam times =)

In other good news, the MARINERS are getting into full swing here. They won their home opener tonight against the World Champion Angels, which is always a good thing! I updated the Mariners section, adding who I thought would make it to the playoffs. By the end of this week, I should have the playoff bracket set up and who I think will win the World Series. I also have an idea of how to put an up-to-the-date Mariners update on my front page. Hell yeah! I also updated my Mariners Scrapbook tonight. See, back in 1995, I started keeping news clippings and articles about the Mariners. I’ve updated it every month or so and it’s over 3 photo albums large now =) You guys should see it!

I’ve been having some MAJOR cravings lately for some “good” music. That pretty much means playing all my favorite 50 or so songs over and over and just jamming to them 24/7. I have them all pretty much on CDs and have been listening to them in class while I take notes off the overhead =) I realized that my music list over there on the left was a little outdated, so I went and updated that tonight.

This weekend I’m heading down to Charleston again to see Jess, who I haven’t seen in two weeks. It’s amazing how fast two weeks can fly by and then when you stop to think about it, it feels like it’s been forever since I got to see her. So needless to say, I’m excited about getting down there and spending some more time with her!

Gosh, I COULD be talking about how much school work I have right now, but all this talk about StarCraft, the Mariners, music, and Jess has put me in a good mood for a change, so I will leave it at that!