So today is my birthday. No idea what to expect at this point, which is fine :) I'm hoping for a few games, like Shadow of the Colossus and Digital Devil Saga 2, as well as a few Alternator Transformers (Prowl FTW!). We'll see what people were actually able to find ;)

I've also managed to get insomnia for my birthday. Gotta love it when it's 5:30am and you can't sleep. Luckiily I've put in extra hours this week so I'm going to try and just put in a half-day tomorrow. Hopefully it goes through as planned.

Sites continue to come together, which is nice. Managed to finish up a work-related site as well, which is always good. We're actually going to be converting our existing sites (http://chizorising.com, http://polaritygame.com, http://templegames.com) over to PHP so that I can actually do something with them. They were built in a rarely-used language that I can't handle at all, and that is only slowing the server down.

I think today is the day that this page will go public. Yay!

Well, eBay must have known it was my birthday today. Or more accurately, some guy in California must have known it was my birthday and chose that this would be a good day to list a bunch of beatmaniaIIDX stuff. He put up beatmaniaIIDX 8th Style Limited Edition for $65.00 Buy It Now. Needless to say, I jumped on it. It's nigh-impossible to find for under about $140, and way out of print as well (the Ltd. Ed. is, at least). And I think my Mom was looking for a few more things for me, so perhaps this will end up being from her.

Came up with a wild idea today to try and make a Beatmania cab-like setup so that I can get more of an arcade feel (or at least play standing up). Going to have my brother try and help me get the old TV in and set up again so that I can start on this. Hopefully it all goes like I want - now I just need to get my JP PS2 back from my brother...

Man, I can't wait until my Pop'n Music controller comes. Finally figured out how to play 9-key Pop'n Music - by plugging in my two Beatmania DJ Station Pros and doing a bunch of key config alterations. What we have now is 10 keys total (clustered together in groups of five, about a foot apart), with the middle button of the 9 used in PnM duplicated on each controller. It kinda makes sense when you see it, and it lets me get a decent idea for the game, but man, it's still pretty funky.

And of course the guy that I'm buying the controller from isn't shipping it out for a few days still. So much for maybe having it for this weekend. Blah.

Well, my new pages are coming together nicely. Went ahead and bought another domain tonight; I had wanted the .com, but it's currently in use so I had to settle for .net. Going to see if I can grab the .com when it expires on the 26th.

I'm happy with the look, though I'd like to do what I can to differentiate it from the original theme that I used. I re-did the header graphics and am slowly playing with the CSS. Still have a bunch of icons to do however. I think it's all coming together quite nicely.

Hopefully I've also rigged the comments on the blog to input a name without having to register. Of course it means that no one will be able to register and people can't do custom titles, but I'm fine with that (most people don't do titles or subjects anyway).

I want to keep working, but I know I should get a few hours sleep. Ah well.

And we're up and running. Spent bits and pieces of the last few days getting this up and running. I was never real fond of Livejournal, so hopefully this works better for me. I've added a wedding gallery as well, for all of you who weren't able to see it in person (or have since forgotten what it looked like - it was almost 3 years ago at this point).

So I'm back in Ohio, and have been for some time. The move went fine, though we got some water damage on some of my stuff. Megan and I are actually living with my mom for now, and it's working out ok. Seems strange to be living at home being 28, but given the circumstances... It's been a nice mutally beneficial arrangement, as we all just pitch in on everything. It's good for my mom to have us around both emotionally and financially, and the reverse is also true.

My job, which I got right after coming out here, is stressful, so I won't go into that. It's at least in the same industry that I was in before (card/board games), so that's nice.

I've been starting to get back into music games & RPGs lately, which is kinda funny as I didn't do much with them for quite some time (after all, my gaming has tended to be the non-video type, as that is the industry I'm working in) after being so very into them for so long. Guitar Hero was worth every penny, though now I'm aching to play Drummania again. And of course my Drummania controller was in the box that never arrived from Japan. I got a rather pricey replacement 3rd-party controller, but it's somewhere between horrid and acceptable (more towards the horrid end, but it's better than nothing). And of course it doesn't help that I go and find things like this on Yahoo Japan Auctions. 980 yen, no bids. And of course, it's pretty much a controller only (if I'm gleaning info from the description correctly), which is exactly what I need, as I have the stand, sticks, bass pedal, game, and box. Konami is going to do another production run, but it's looking like getting one here to the states will run somewhere around $100. Bleh.

And, that's pretty much that for now. I just hope that the next few weeks go decently, given the fact that this Christmas will be very much unlike any other...

Well, my new pages are coming together nicely. Went ahead and bought another domain tonight; I had wanted the .com, but it's currently in use so I had to settle for .net. Going to see if I can grab the .com when it expires on the 26th.

I'm happy with the look, though I'd like to do what I can to differentiate it from the original theme that I used. I re-did the header graphics and am slowly playing with the CSS. Still have a bunch of icons to do however. I think it's all coming together quite nicely.