Feeling Strangely Fine

Wow, it's been a little while since I've updated. I apologize. I've been extremely busy of late. I've been socializing and working on some writing and I've also got a completely updated design for my new website I've been working on, which I think looks a lot better. It's still a little rough around the edges, and needs further tweaking, but it's coming together well, and seems to render well in both IE and FireFox. All this, plus the regular stresses of being a single dad trying to keep some semblance of a social life while still working full time, well, it's been a crazy week.

Mike turned me on to something called weBOOK, which, while suffering eBay syndrome like so many other sites (that is, the inappropriate capitalization of letters in its name), it also suffers from some minor usability issues, and a severe lack of content. However, it's a new site with a relatively fresh idea, one I have to admit that I wish that I'd had. Mike and I started posting our current writing project work there, though I have been procrastinating hard on this week's story because I've simply not been feeling it, which is really too bad, because it has some real potential. I'll get it, though, I refuse to give up.

As I get more time with that site, I will try and post a full review of the site itself and how it works.

In other news, I'm now 25% of the way through Grand Theft Auto IV, which is still doing a great job of keeping me interested. I'm pretty sure that I'll finish this one. To be honest, I finished both III and Vice City without any problems, but that was a long time ago, when I was just a punk-ass kid. San Andreas just didn't appeal to me, no matter how much I tried to play it, which is why both the Xbox and PC versions have never been more than 30% complete. I don't think that either III or Vice City would really appeal to me now as much, having played IV, because I just enjoy the main character so much more

Anyway, I should sleep, something I've not gotten a lot of lately. I've just picked up the "new" Chuck Palahniuk book, Snuff, which has apparently been out for a while, and I just didn't know it. I also picked up The Bourne Ultimatum, the last of Ludlum's Bourne series, which reminds me, I need to check reviews on a couple of titles I saw, which are apparently continuations by another author. I'm always leery of those, because they are tantamount to fan fiction, and I've never read one that speaks in the same voice as the original author. I've heard good things about a couple of Clany titles that are written by other authors. So, maybe?

For now, however, good night and farewell. I shall return. (apologies, as well, for this post's inconherency... I'm a little tired.)