Overtime Part 3: Holy Hand Grenades

Ah, yes! Last day of Overtime for this week at least. We'll see if anymore is offered. Opposed to the other two quickies, this one will really be short!

So, I really plan on playing some Infamous 2 tonight. That's my game plan as of now. Of course, this could change, but it's what I'm going for at the moment. I'll prolly get my WoW daily quests done at lunch again.

Other than that, no major plans for today. It's Sunday but feels like it should be Monday. This week was longer than any other! I blame the overtime!

Like I said in my Twitter, you should check out Project Zomboid! I was begrudged when I said it was an indie game, but indie games are really where it's at right now! They don't have funding, they have extreme deadlines, and just tons of pressure. Well, that pressure can either produce a broken and terrible game, or a pure beautiful diamond! They're where the innovation is coming from right now in the gaming industry; at least when it comes to game mechanics. I wouldn't say they had the best story or writing, but they probably don't have time or money to pay a writer! Look at Minecraft.

Anyway, time for work!

Much to Say about Nothing

It's that time again! Yeah, that's right, close to my bed time! I'm not going to put up that last poem just yet, otherwise, I'd have to start writing more for the blog, and I'm tired right now! Not much happened today. More overtime, so I'm pretty tired earlier than normal. Tomorrow's the last day I have scheduled to do it, so everything should be back to normal tomorrow night.

No Infamous 2 or raiding tonight. Basically, I went and got cat food. My brother and I also ate at Pluckers. Now I'm home pretty much ready for bed. I really need to wrap Infamous up since I borrowed it from someone.

I did read a few pages of the Starcraft 2 novel. It looks like it could be interesting. I'm also trying to play close attention to how it's written, hoping it'll help me write better!

HTML is still on the list of things to do! So much stuff! Hopefully, I can pull it together soon.

Something I think is important to remember: Not every opportunity is for everyone. You may see it as an opportunity, and it may very well be one; however, it doesn't mean it works for everyone.

I think I'm going to dedicate a weekend day to playing Black Ops on the Xbox with my brother. He's leaving soon, and while I hate the game, I'd probably be upset if I didn't play at least some games with him. It'll be a surprise, I know he doesn't read this blog!

I tried out Google+, but I'm not that impressed. Meh. We'll see.

That's pretty much it. I still have a lot of stuff on the table. I want to do some movie reviews, game reviews, maybe some philosophical discussions (I need to use that minor somewhere, right?), but there is a lot on the table! I'll get to it I swear!

For now, it's pretty much bed time! Night!

Number 10

This is basically another quickie like yesterday morning cause I'm doing overtime again today. Ready to hit it hard!

This is also my 10th post! Woo! Big number 10! Sadly, I don't have anything profound or ground breaking to say, and while I generally don't complain in my posts, I think I will in this one. I don't have enough time for anything! I need more time! People always argue, money doesn't buy happiness; however, I disagree. While it doesn't buy happiness directly, it can buy time and more time can lead to happiness. That's what I think at least.

I was thinking of starting up a fictional, Zombie-themed blog. What does anyone reading this think? Is it too late in the game? What direction should I go with it?

Anyway, this was a real quickie since work is looming over me and not much has happened since going to sleep last night to write about! Later!

Blank Verse

And I'm back! Later than I thought, but here nonetheless. I'm actually about to go to bed because I'm going to continue with Overtime tomorrow and Sunday. But, tonight, I bring you my Blank Verse poem recently crafted for my poetry project. Blank verse doesn't have a rhyme scheme, but usually is in iambic pentameter. I tried! Here we go:

The Titan

The weary days end with such a whimper

Mediocrity holds no excellence

But still the mindless work drudges forward

Forcing the handicap worker further

His mind already decayed with dreams crushed

An empty shell looking toward the past

Deep within hoping there is still a chance

Salvation in a distant memory

Something to keep him awake day to day

A drive from a mythic land, a legend

Hoping to become the hero once dreamed

The stubborn empire swallowed all he was

Despite praise, despite the pure offering

Knowledge decapitated for what, nothing

Efforts ignored for such ignorance

The perpetually insane devours

Nothing left of his creativity

Your passion incited death; burning all

When rational, they said you didn't care

When jovial they called your fluff nonsense

For your facts, they whittle down to the bone

With your silence; they felt you ignored them

You understood the horrible truth

You had the position to give them the stakes

No winning, no, only degradation

And then he was gone in a puff of smoke

The worker, the drone, the husk of a man

His passion, his soul, his love burned away

A mere sacrifice to the soulless gray

The cold machine rumbles on, unending

I was actually pretty happy with how this poem turned out as well. I had my reservation in the beginning, but the subject came together for me once I got to the middle section. It is about a certain situation, or at least it was when I started with it. At this point it can be about a lot of different things, but I'll always think of at least two, and to pay tribute to one of those things, I gave it it's name. One of my friend's put a comment that I considered really positive after I posted this one, so now it's one of my favorites. I'm not that bad of a writer! :p

So, overtime went pretty good today; however, day ended with a lot less "umph" than I was hoping. Maybe I can do better tomorrow since I'll be doing more OT.

Due to OT, I didn't do too much else. Mark needed me again for raids, so I joined up and helped kill another Firelands boss bringing the guild to 6/7 down so far. They'll probably get the 7th tomorrow; though, I won't be there. Due to the learning curve of the fight, didn't finish up till late, so no Infamous 2 tonight. Hopefully, I'll get some time in tomorrow and finish it up!

I also need to read 3 books! Ahh! First, I need to get Starcraft 2's novel down since I have a due date, and then I need to finish up the video game story writing book. After those two are down, I can finish Anansi Boys. So much to read!

With all I have to read, I still need to do some more learning on w3schools.com for html experience. I'd like to get some wiki experience as well, but I don't really have anything to write on a wiki.

And speaking of things to do, I need some social media books. Ahhh! So much to do. And Dawson's trip home is coming soon. I wonder if things will settle down a bit after he's gone? Other than the house being a bit more empty...

Well, I hope you liked the poem! I'll be writing some more for the series soon, but I have one non-project poem I'm going to share next. Oh, any advice on cool people or companies to follow on twitter? Anyway, bedtime!