Well it doesn’t seem like it’s already December. But here it is the first of the month. Time flies when your having fun? Two thousand and two is just around the corner.

There are a few things I’m looking forward to in 2002. January 31st is the day my site turns four. That’s kind of cool. I think it’s amazing that this site has lasted four years.

The Star Wars Geek in me is looking forward to May 2002. It opens May 15th? I’m going with that faith stuff that the religious people always have that Episode II will be good. Better than Episode One at least. Asking for Jar Jar to be cut into little bite size pieces is asking for to much?

Three years. So here it is, that day that has significance to probably just me. Seeing as it is my day that I have set aside to do my “year in review”. The first order of business would be to read the last two years worth. The Year In Review 1999 and The Year In Review 2000.

This year has been the same. Every year is just about the same for me. I have a well knit group of friends. Friends I wouldn’t trade for anything. And I am the same every year (besides that one summer I couldn’t listen to Billy Joel in my car, that is). The 1999 bit I wrote is a definite list of people I couldn’t do without. The 1999 bit I just can’t top. It really does sum it up.

This post is a departure from the last two years. The last two years were written and posted by 10:30pm. 10:30pm being the time the post I wrote when I had just got fired. This one had to be done in advance. As I stated last time, I’m going out for a beer at the Bop.

Okay on this Wednesday I’m going out for a drink to celebrate the third anniversary of me getting fired from the Holiday Inn. I may or may not have mentioned something about me getting a keg. Well times are tough at the hotel formally known as the Holiday Inn. So it’s a buy your own kind of deal.

So if your out and about on the 28th around nine pm, I will be down at the Bop having a cold one. Everyone is welcome. Friends, Enemies, and anyone in between. This is a good chance for you peoples I haven’t seen in a while to get back in touch with me.

Drop me a line in my e-mail or throw in your two cents in the comments to let me know if you can come down to the Bop.

Here’s Hunt who had this to say in the GuestBook:

Name: hunt

Comment:
you really need to get a life

Fuck cunt.. I mean Hunt. Can’t you do better than that. Geez man I’ve been insulted a lot better than that in the past. Why don’t you expand your witty banter and come back later and try this again Jackass.

Anyway here’s Hunt’s ip address 172.146.63.234 and he/she is an Aol user who found my site looking up the phrase “hotel management company”. You use Lycos and you tell me to get a life?

Well beside my DAoC fix, I have a few other games I’m playing that keeps me from getting outside and seeing the real world.

Tom Clancy’s Ghost Recon. Wow! This one is awesome. If you remember when I talked about Operation Flashpoint and how much I dug that game. Well Ghost Recon has it beat. Big time. Ghost has the other Clancy games like Rainbow Six and Rogue Spear beat also. It’s the closest thing to getting actual combat experience. Wonderful graphics and sound that puts you in the battlefield.

Empire Earth is also eating away at my free time. This one is made by one of the guys who did Age Of Empires. You could call it Age Of Empires 3. Full 3d and it expands on all the features and ideas that made Age Of Empires such a fun game.

Return To Castle Wolfenstien the sequel to the classic id game Wolfenstien 3d is also on my pile of current games I’m playing. RTCW is a cool WWII flavored shooter that is a lot of fun. And man does it look good (if you have the hardware).

And finally you have Aquanox. Aquanox is a game that I picked up just because it takes advantage of all of the bells and whistles my GeForce 3 is capable of. When I got this one to work it sure did look great. Amazing graphics! But this bad boy doesn’t like Windows Xp. In fact Aquanox fucking hates Win Xp. Out of the box it wouldn’t even run. A patch was released today that got it running. For a little bit. Very sad. It may be a great game, I just don’t know yet.

That’s about it for now. I’m also trying to pick up a copy of Wizardry 8. But have had zero luck in finding anyone who has a copy. Sometime when I have time, I need to get out and see some of my peeps. Who I have been neglecting because of my crack like habit with DAoC.

So I don’t know if any of you pay attention to stuff on my site or not. On the right below the Hotelblues.com email login there is an info box with my guys name and level. I have been updating it as I have leveled up. I’m sitting at level 16 at the time of this post. The more I play DAoC, the more I love it. There are some deep elements to this game.

It really is more than a hack and slash kind of rpg. I recently took up trade skills. And this is where the game gets interesting. There are a number of trade skills. Weapons crafting, Armor crafting, Siege crafting, and a number of others. I picked up the Weapons craft. Weapons a player can make are superior to what the npc’s sell. And I figured it goes good with my fighter type guy.

I also had the privilege to get some time grouping with a Guild Mate named Aix who is level 19. Now this gives the lower level members of the party a huge experience boost. I made two levels in one day. In a number of hours actually. I got to say the joining the AOD Guild was a fine decision. Grouping up with other players is the way to go. Having Guild Mates makes it so much easier to find a group.

There are so may things to look forward to as I gain levels. I also continue my trade skill apprenticeship. The higher my trade skills are, better weapons become available for me to make. Then there is the realm vs realm aspect of the game.

This is the player killing feature that is abused in other mmorpg’s. In DAoC realm vs realm is just what it sounds like. You can’t kill players in your own realm. When you get to a level you can handle life in the frontier areas you can meet new people and kill them. No talking, so the immature taunts of teenagers won’t fill your chat interface. Realm vs Realm is handled like an encounter with a foreign people. And it’s small raids in which you can try to conquer parts of the enemy territory. Really cool feature. If a player has sufficient skill in the before mentioned Siege craft, you have actual medieval siege weapons to help with your conquering of enemy castles.

If you play Everquest or any other mmorpg I suggest giving DAoC a try. You may forget all about those other games.

Ok I’ve futzed around with the way things work at the site. The GuestBook has been upgraded to a snazzy cgi script. And you all know how much I dig cgi scripts. All of the old entries are still there. You can get to those pages by digging through the Archive. So be the first to sign the new GuestBook.