A Gamer Lacking

For as long as I have been playing games (yes all the way back to Atari) I have loved the Flight Genre.  More so the Sims than the Arcades, but they each have their benefits and their drawbacks.  I remember buying Microsoft Flight Simulator back on DOS 5.0 and I sat there and flew that little Cessna for days and days.  Then I found the Jane's series of fighter pilot sims, again I sat and played for days and days.

All this stems from my love of flying, I always wanted to be a pilot, still do, and when I have a more stable life I will get my license.  My Gamertag/Nickname/Handle of "Shadow" came from playing Fighter Pilot games over LAN, and 14.4 modem, I was apparently my target's shadow, it stuck.

Fast forward to modern times and the modern generation of consoles.  Since the 360 is my primary platform let me list the flight games I currently own for it.

H.A.W.X.
Over G Fighters
Ace Combat 6 (Bought the big kit with the Flight Stick on this one)


I have owned Blazing Angels, and I think, Blazing Angels 2

The reason I still own the games above is simply because they are Good, Over G is the closest to a modern sim, HAWX is a great very arcadey game, and Ace Combat sits somewhere in between the 2.

All of these titles are good, but where is my GREAT title?  I see the new Ace Combat previews, and I see the next HAWX previews, but I wont hold my breath.

My biggest complaint with the current flight games, it has to be that no one plays these online...I would love to be up in the skies dogfighting again!

That is it for now.  Thank you for reading!

CVL

Redux

Wow, may 9th was my last post. Sheesh

Well it is time to start the blog anew.

First, why the reboot?

So much has changed... oh so much

But most importantly, I am now a podcaster and/or a games journalist

so here are some links to the cast/site. I will be posting here and there, I also am leaving old posts up, who knows someone might want an insight into my past sometime?

Twitter:
http://www.twitter.com/ShadowCVL

TheDeadRoomSite

TheDeadRoom Podcast:

iTunes
Zune
RSS

Glow Ball!

Don't know if anyone reads this but...

Its 1:14am and I just got home from my first time playing glow ball.

Its Golf at night with Glowsticks on the pins, in the cup, and in the ball.

Its hard as hell to even hit the ball strait but it is soooooo much fun

Special thanks to Bkingx and Jkeyes0 and some friends from work for making it a great evening!

AND I got to experience a new drink I hadn't tried, Captain and Coke, I don't know why I had never tried it before but its one of the best mixed drinks I have ever had.

Glowball gets a \nn/ from me, and so does captain and coke.

Today is Mothers day and I wanted to say to all you moms and grandmoms out there that includes moms of Humans and Pets, Happy Mothers Day, I appreciate you!

Everyone have a great rest of the weekend. Ill post some VLOG stuff soon!

Sup?

Hey anyone that still reads this...

Why havent I blogged? because my life is insane!

Whats new? not much

I kinda sorta stopped playing WoW... it got boring, Kenny tells me itll get better but I just cant bring myself to play.

Life at ACS? Intersting as ever

I have more friends, and im making more every day.

WE did get approved and ordered our CapEx

So we got 150 machines from Dallas (that are crap) we deployed 40 someodd today and I deployed 22 saturday, and 32 previously... so we are about halfway there... woot...

We also got 169 new PCs from dell... we havent deployed any yet, but they are ready... finish up the agent machines, take care of the licensed agents (Agents with Office), then the supervisors with gateways, I think Sylvia will be first, shes my work BFF.

What else?

House still hasnt sold...

Going to the movies with Jordan, Mark, and Brady this sat... havent seen them in a looong time

Thats all for now

New News?

Yes I know I havent posted in a looooong time, but I have thought about it.... sorry..

Anyway, whats new...

My dizzy thing was an inner ear infection... the dizziness went away a couple of weeks ago.

I am still smoking, but the weird thing is Im not chemicly dependant on it... I had 1 yesterday... i just enjoy the buzz i suppose... that and all the cool kids are doing it.

The house still hasnt sold... sigh http://www.vltek.com/house.html i really wish it would sell soon so that i can move to lex.

Work is going pretty good, they still havent opened a req. for our new person... frankly i doubt it's going to happen... Igor and I have handled it so far... but its killing us slowly. Now some of my friends are going to be moving up and moving on... Sigh

My divorce was official on 7/8/08... so yay

Im not sure there is much else to say... I will blog more as i can remember to... honestly its jordan that makes me remember to.... pathetic huh?

Oh wait...

Im playing WoW now... yeah thats a big one... I dont play every night but i have a Orc Shammie to 10 and an Orc hunter to 14... i play the hunder more cause i can learn the game better as he is easier to play... my next chars will be a mage and warlock.


now thats it.

Help Me Please

Hi everyone...

Had an interesting few weeks...

Anyway, this last weekend I went out of town with ashley, went to kings island.

I need some help.

When i ride roller coasters or anyhting jerky I get kindof dizzy and cant focus on anything... its like im concussed... i get a little nautios but have never thrown up and can even eat. Is this motion sickness? Ive tried dramamine, and all that does is knock me out (even the non drowsy kind)

But here is the interesting part... yesterday im sitting at home, I went out to the garage and had like my 3rd cigarette of the day and suddenly BAM that feeling hit me again... this was at like 3pm. I barely made it into the house before i collapsed for about 30 minutes... waht the hell caused that?

Today, just a few minutes ago Im sitting in my office chair and BAM here is that feeling again. Last night it lasted till after 10pm.

Last night food seemed to help a little... but it didnt at kings island...

I should note that the feeling i get at kings island has happened every time ive ever been there... but it just randomly hitting me started yesterday...

Help?!?!?!?!

Yay Toast!

Spent the day in Gtown yesterday at Frank Shoop

Had been looking for a car forever that met my needs (Decent mileage, Decent Price, Sporty, and Heavy) well I found it finally...

http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?ct=c&car_id=241530042&dealer_id=92387&car_year=2007&model=CHEVMONT&num_records=25&systime=&make2=&start_year=1981&keywordsfyc=&keywordsfyc=&keywordsrep=&keywordsrep=&engine=&certified=&body_code=0&fuel=&awsp=false&search_type=used&distance=50&marketZipError=false&search_lang=en&make=CHEV&keywords_display=&color=&page_location=findacar%3A%3Aispsearchform&min_price=&drive=&default_sort=priceDESC&max_mileage=&style_flag=1&sort_type=priceDESC&address=40601&advanced=&end_year=2009&doors=&transmission=&max_price=&cardist=17

2007 Monte Carlo LT

Features?

Pretty standard... Tho standard is surprising these days...

It has a MP3 CD Player, Dual Climate Control, and Remote Start, I think thats everything above standard... its pretty cool... and yes I traded in the gas hog..

The car was out of need to get Barbaras Name off the Title, along with the gas mielage and reliability issues that were starting with the blazer.

Divorce

So tonight is the night I sign the divorce settlement...

How do I feel about that?

It hurts... but life moves on.

Whats left? Im not sure but according to the Ex Wife the divorce should be final next week... sigh, thats some time i wont get back that I really hate to lose. Im 26 and ill be unmarried... I realize friends of mine (patrick) just got married at 28 but even if I were to marry Ashley it will have to wait at least 2 years... so ill be 29 (yes i can do math) before actually getting married IF it works out. Im not sure if it will or not.. but Im at least happy with the relationship, and after a strange talk last night she is too.

I dont have a lot to say... still no tax stimulus check... which is odd...

I started expensing my phone and internet so thats cool... 173.95 a month extra, that brings my salary above 40, so yay.

Im pretty tired today... cant wait to get to the house tonight and crash totally.

Later

26

Today I am 26, does that mean anything special to me? Not really

I didn't do much over the weekend... I'm enjoying being able to stay in lex some nights, makes gas cheaper and I get to sleep next to ashley.

That's it for now

1 day or 1 year older, doesn't make any difference.

P.S. yes i edited the post because i felt different about it

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Oi Vey

So, on the way home yesterday a wonderful thing happened... my check engine light came on...

went to O'reilly auto parts and they scanned the code for free (Kudos to shops that do this service now, when my Mazda's check engine light came on it was 107.00 for them to read the code, and 12.00 to fix the problem) and told me its a misfiring cylinder... yay... not dangerous as i understand it. So I called mace at goodyear (Good guy, dont mind giving him my car work) and its going in sat morning to get fixed, mos tlikely its wires or plugs, and since I didnt replace the plugs or wires when i got it (it had 58,000 miles) and its now at 86,500 its probably the plugs or wires, it may never have been done. Sadly 350 was his estimate... say bye bye tax stimulus... i wanted to use that to pay off beneficial... oh well... another few months of payments to them.

In other news, Ashley passed her MIT test yesterday and is now officially the Associate Manager of cici's in Nicholasville. If you go there and eat if shes there say hi, who knows she may throw in a free drink if you mention my name.

thats it for now..

Chow