This past weekend I decorated my house for Christmas. No, I don't have a tradition of decorating the day after Thanksgiving, as do some families. I just do it when I have time, which happened to be right after Thanksgiving.
While I do enjoy the Christmas season and feel that Jesus' birth certainly deserves celebration, I'm not one to go all out with the decorations. In fact, my entire collection fits in two boxes: one for the tree, one for everything else. If it doesn't fit, it isn't kept.
The first thing I set up is my little ole' fiber optic tree. After my first wife and I separated, I inherited everything… Read more...
There is that life concept that states when we are young we have a lot of time but not enough money to do what we really want to do, but as we get older we then have enough money, but not enough time. As a gamer, this concept is equally true, except that you can replace money with video games. Such is certainly the case with me.
Going back fifteen years or more, I pretty much had to buy any game I played for full price, or at a slight discount if it was on sale. Back then that usually meant something within the $20-$40 dollar range. If a publisher gave away their game for free, it typically was either a demo or shareware,… Read more...