I really need to update more often. I keep waiting to update until I have something "real" to say, but everytime I find some outrageous topic, I feel I do not have the energy to write an essay about it.

Point being, I should update the inane details of my daily life, too, shouldn't I? I know that would please quite a few of my friends, all of whom tend to go into cardiac arrest upon the most minor of updates. Of course, when they see how minor some of them are, they awake from their coma ready to deliver me unto a deliious beating, but that is beside the point.

I bought Final Fantasy XI recently. Gamers do not need me to say more to understand why I have been conspicuously absent lately. It's the first MMPORPG in the FF series. I have never played a MMPORPG (Massively Multi-Player Online Role-Playing Game) before this one and it took me some time to really learn the ropes. Now that I have, though, I want to do nothing else. I go to work and count the hours until I can get home and start playing again. I sleep horrible hours and don't sleep remotely enough. It's sad, really. I find myself wanting to turn down offers to go out and be social, then have to force myself to do it, so I do not let myself become consumed in this fantasy bubble.

Tonight, I got lucky. The game has downtime because of system updates. Conveniently, I have tomorrow off from work and many calls regarding bar hopping. I have NO valid excuse for not going and even I know it. As such, I am going to go to the bars and I am going to have a good time.

How ironic is it that I buy a new computer and find myself constantly connected to the internet, yet I have managed to disappear from the net community?

Off to grudgingly put on some makeup...