I’m recently re-employed so that’s good, money helps you eat and stuff. Thus the lack of updates, however it wont slow my plans. I have a lot of awesome stuff planned for this site and another by the end of the year. As I progress I’ll continue to update, one to keep an online journal and to keep myself on track, and it may be nice to look back at one day when I finally complete the project.

Just so I have a record that I “will” do this and not loose interest like almost everything else. I will be working on a “special surprise” for most of the month of July and hopefully launching in august. This is something I have wanted to do for a long time, but have always had other project or no time. Well time is a plenty so stay tuned.

Couldn’t find much time to blog today. Been creating the basic lore of the world. I also have been talking to old military vets who frequent the pool hall right around the corner for me. A few of my characters are pissed off old war vets and I really want to capture the anger for them.

I literally have about 40 pages worth of world lore, character lore, powers lore and more, its amazing how it piled up. I almost think I should file this as a reference, maybe even create a database. I wonder if this is how some of the greats did it when creating their own worlds.

So a lot of my friends have been asking me what I think about microsoft’s new product kinect for the xbox 360. For those who don’t know its basically a camera that tracks your movements and can hear your voice like popular voice recognition programs for the PC. Its basically Microsoft answer to the Nintendo Wii, and a poor one at that.

Their whole slogan is “You are the controller” more like tool if you ask me, the thing is rumored to be 150 bucks, and all the games announced for it so far are Wii clones spiffed up in HD and sold by the MS pr machine to be completely original and awesome.

To garner interest they have teamed up with burger king to help advertise the thing. Their whole mantra is to get gamers off the couch… literally. “Hey honey that 1600 calorie meal was great! Screw Wii Fit, lets go burn it off playing some Kinect adventures!” I can just imagine a mod replacing Milo with king, which would be ultra creepy and interesting to play.

So enough goofing around here’s my final word. I think kinect will sell boat loads because people are suckers… no offense. Hordes of fat women will raid best buy like a fleet of interstate buses, throwing their Wii Fit balance boards into the trash and adopting microsoft’s Kinect to try and lose years of personal abuse. Only to have their xbox’s destroy all their fitness discs because their huge asses were bouncing around the room and moving it ever so slightly.

You think im joking but I have many a friend who work at either a gamestop or best buy and the fitness thing sells, it sells big time, and not to who you would think. The same people who buy a bo-flex to only use it once and let it collect dust in the den are the same people who will buy kinect, only to use it to say “xbox on”

When I was 18 and fresh out of highschool, I like a lot of kids took out one of those pre-approved credit cards that you get in the mail. Mine was from Orchard Bank, a name many may be familiar with because I doubt I was the only one. In the time I had that card I ended up racking up like 600 bucks in credit (not much compared to some but still) and decided not to pay it, defaulting the card to collections, followed by ignoring many a call on my cell phone until it faded away into oblivion.

Fast forward seven years, I now have good credit, and I credit card I barley use.

So what a surprise when I received another pre-approved card in the mail today. It made me chuckle because you would think they would have my name on a list somewhere on someone who screwed them over on 600 bucks, not to mention any fee’s they had to pay the collection agency. I guess in this debt based society they really don’t care, they prolly just saw my credit score (which is very good by the way) and figured, what the hell this guy might need another platinum credit card with an outrageous interest rate, lets send one his way.

Its makes me think back to the conversation I had with my dad before I even activated that stupid card. He tried to warn me, but being the big boy I was, fresh out of highschool and ready to take on the world. I figured my minimum wage movie theater job was enough to keep up with the payments, and still be able to satisfy my other teenager activities, which proved to be more important to me then paying off that card.

Got a lot done on the book today by the way, more on that later though, just felt to share that thought.

This time around im trying to create the world first before diving into the meat and potatoes of the story. Im doing similar things I used to do when I was DMing (dungeon master) a d&d campaign, but with greater detail. The world im creating inst fiction, well parts of it are, it is set in modern day USA, with the same history but a different future. Creating compelling characters to help drive the story is almost as important to me as the main character itself.

Its kind of like those old RPG’s where the main character didn’t speak, and you got an attachment to him/her because of the supporting cast. Obviously my main character is not going to be a mute, but I would like to combine that strategy to hopefully create an amazing adventure.

Other than that I have been watching a lot of cop drama’s lately. Netflix instant streaming has a nice array of them, and some of the movies make me think of comic books. Especially when powerful villains seems to allude the judicial system because everyone is bought and paid for. Made me wonder if spider man ever got angry because the King Pin somehow kept getting out of jail. Same with Superman and Lex Luthor. Might be an interesting story to try and tackle for today new comic book artists.

Well that’s all for today, back to more world creating and research.

So with all the free time I have been blessed with I have decided to resurrect an old project I had started in 2004. Back then I had an idea for a trilogy of books based on a story I had been dreaming up. I wrote half of the first book back then, but never finished. Last week I decided to read it and over time I had so many new ideas I decided to basically scrap it and re-write it with the same idea (I know im being very vague I apologize, but this is the internet and I don’t want to go announcing all my ideas).

Anyways my site will now be a blog about my progression of the book series to keep me from finishing it this time. I have no idea what ill do once the first one is done, I figure I have to create it first before I can fight for its existence in the world. Hell maybe ill even just self publish that kid who wrote Eragon did that.

So that’s, that and expect many updates on the book and other thoughts I have.

AFP

British supermarkets could start running short on some imported goods such as certain fruit and vegetables if the island’s airspace remains closed into next week, a trade body warned.

Christopher Snelling, head of global supply chain policy for the Freight Transport Association, warned that some items, could soon be in reduced supply if the volcanic ash cloud remained over Britain.

“There are no shortages yet, but we may start to see certain ranges affected if this carries on…,” said Snelling.

“The longer that UK airspace is closed, the greater the damage, not just to businesses here but also for farmers in the developing countries who rely on exporting their produce to Europe. Their livelihoods are in serious jeopardy.”

Supermarkets reported few problems so far.

A spokesman for Tesco said: “Fewer than one per cent of our products are air freighted.

“Where possible we’re using alternative routes to bring these products to the UK, for example by road and rail from airports which remain open in Europe.”

A Waitrose spokesman said supply of a “handful” of lines had already been affected, including fresh pineapple chunks from Ghana and baby sweetcorn from Thailand.

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