I havent long got back from work after doing overtime so some parts may seem a little odd. Yeah.

On a normal day, without overtime; Work consumes pretty much 70% of my day leaving me with 10% for eating, resting and enjoying myself and 20% for sleeping. Or something like that. So yeah whatever.

I originally posted the "I.O.U a journal entry" in the hope that I would think of something to talk about but I find myself just talking about how I failed to find something to talk about. I also noticed an on going pattern with myself regarding my journal entries over the past couple of years; they are mostly about my lack of time due to work/college or whatever else is consuming me, failures in general and also giving out false hope. Argh.

Went back and looked at a couple of journals from around this time last year and I find that im still pretty much in the same place I was before. Work > friends/msn/website. Something needs to change. Need to find a solution that allows me to do all the things I need to do but without the cost of my precious sleep

Also keep an eye out for a game called Left 4 Dead! If you didnt know; Its a 4 player (8 player in VS mode) survival-horror-first-person-shooter-multiplayer co-op game which looks amazing, mwuaha.
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@Brian: TOF is down, lost your livejournal link, unable to get on msn to poke you right now, argh! I need to get something sorted so that we can still communite without the need for msn, one of those wossname, the name escapes me. A erhm... I will probably remember later. Also started playing the new Sonic RPG for the DS for the past week on the train. Its not bad so far. The characters actually feel like they have some depth to them, some hidden history as well. And most the characters have grown up. So no more whiny Tails bitching about how much he needs Sonic so much and how he cant even tie his shoe laces without him.
@Louise: I didnt know you was on Steam until looking around the new layout recently and stumbling onto the link . Ive added you to my friends list if thats okay and talking about the layout. I <3 it to pieces. While green is my least favorite colour, you've used it in such a way it looks perfect. That and im able to appriecate it more because I understand the amount of work that goes into the planning and coding. So yeah It also looks like one of those layouts which normally features multi-colour options that allow you to change the colour scheme of the layout. Which I have always thought was pointless because most of them dont save the settings for the user :S But cool layout anyway

Oh crap, gotta go make lunch for tommorow and then sleep. Spent a little longer than I hoped writing this (yeah like an hour and a half longer ). Hope everyones doing okay!
Addie


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Hah I remembered it now, we could use pigeons to communite Brian The ultimate in communitation technology, pigeons! xD hehe.

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I haven't read through my contact thoroughly enough to talk about the place I work at seeing as its related to Microsoft and microsoft have spies everywhere but in short its about games testing which just recently have been pretty manic. I'm getting only 2 hours a day to myself, spending most my time at work, getting less sleep and so on...

I had intended to get a big art project out of the way by now but with only 2 hours a day, excluding weekends, which are spent recovering from the week working, I haven't been able to get properly started. So instead i have been planning EVERYTHING on paper during my train journey to work.

I am planning to do a big planet themed picture. Similar to a picture I did a couple of years ago called "Might of Heaven".

[@Brian: The picture you asked to be turned into a wallpaper ]

The reason this picture will be special is because I plan to add an extreme amount of detail to the picture. So this may take several months to finish or maybe years with the time I have . I might post the plans on my website just to give people an idea what i'm working on. Getting creative feedback when doing big projects is always good :3

In other news, i have a Nintendo Wii and I am really liking it My only issue with the console is that there is a lack of serious games on it. There are 10000s of casual games and kiddy games.

At the moment I have; Mario Galaxy, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Resident Evil 4 Wii edition, The Legend of Zelda: The Twilight Princess and a couple more which I cant remember the names

I have been playing Super Smash Bros. Brawl a lot recenelty. The online play is really fun but it would be better if it wasn't so laggy. Voice chat of some kind would have also been very good but the game has none. A part from that its got so much to unlock. Story mode took me 9-10 hours to complete on normal and even then you only reach like 70% completion rate. I still have more to do in story mode but not sure what else. I probably have to complete all the levels on hard or something :S if you liked the other Super Smash games then you will love this to peices. If you didn't then you will most likely not like this one

[Mostly for Brian]
I have also been playing my DS a lot as well. Mostly because I get bored looking out the window during the train journey to work . I'm currently hooked on the following games:
Soma Bringer: [link]
World Ends with You: [link]
FFCC: Ring of Fates: [link]
DoomDS: [link]

Once I find the password for my website I will run over their are update some pages and stuff. I also haven't uploaded anything to my youtube account in ages which I must do! ;S Addie needs to get organised.



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Just cleaned out my inbox for DA. Over 5,000 messages from art submissions to comments to journals and so on. ;X A wii bit much me thinks ;X

Well it has certainly been a long time since I last updated my journal. I feel I almost faded away into the depths of the net.

I dont want to start by saying things like "I promise to do this and that and whatever else that needs doing which I have been saving for years XD" but instead I will say this; I have began working with photoshop and webdesign again.

We shall see.

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Oh crap I forgot about this place.

Well heres a quick random, note form style, rundown on life atm: work=busy as always, website=hacked/dead for now, coding new layout at the moment seeing as I dont like the old one

I need to get in contact with old friends more, most of them probably think i'm dead or I hate them or something on those lines :/

I also have to many unfinished projects atm. Driving me nuts because most of them are at the stages I really dislike working on >__> (coding normally )

I really should clean up my gallery and upload some new stuff.

Did everyone have a good christmass and a happy new year?

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Oh crap, I forgot to do my monthly updates. I guess that means this has to be twice as much this time?

Work hasn’t been as busy just recently. As a result of this, I have been training in different sections which is good news. More work. More money. But less time for myself and this website. I guess its not that bad, seeing as the work I do pays for everything whilst this website doesn’t. Yet. :3

Hehe but as usual I have been so busy and tired that no real progress has been made on PWUK or any of my other personal projects. Saying that though, whilst on the train I normally doodle and sketch random logo ideas and layout designs. I also spend 10 minutes in the morning doing some random photoshop stuff, just so I don’t go out of shape. Hopefully the next time I update, I would have made some noticeable progress.

Unreal Tournament 3 beta demo coming soon! (this Friday apparently) I really cannot wait much longer for the full release. I loved UT99 so much and ended up playing the game for years before getting bored (5+ years, XD). I just keep forgetting to pre-order my copy. Looking into getting the collectors edition but I cannot make my mind up just yet.

Its been so long since the last update. Here’s all the things I have been up to since the last update;

I went out and grabbed a copy of Bioshock for the PC on the second day of release. Then completed the day in less than two days, on hard, using mostly the wrench. It’s an amazing game with awesome visuals and a brilliant atmosphere but I just found it too easy. I completed the game and got the evil ending (Harvesting all the little sisters). The ending scene itself is incredibly short. I idea what the good ending is like but I was pretty disappointed with the evil ending, so I’m not going to waste my time trying to get a good ending just for another short ending. I might go back to it in a couple of years when I have completely forgotten everything about the game, but who knows.

My parents got me a Nintendo DS as an early birthday present. They presented me it on the same day I got Bioshock, which was a little cruel in my opinion. I am currently hooked on the new Zelda: Phantom Hourglass for the DS. Its like Zelda: The Wind Waker in a way but just portable. Here’s a quick list of games I like playing on my new shiny DS; Zelda: Phantom Hourglass , Bleach: Kokui Hirameku Requiem 2nd (Jap), Sonic Rush and Sonic Rush Adventure, Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Ring of Fates (Jap), Glory Days 2, Mario Kart DS, Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords. Oh and Final Fantasy XII Revenant Wings (Jap). Not to much really...

I have not done anything over the past few months worth uploading and showing anyone. It’s quite depressing to be honest. I need to work more and sleep less! That’s the solution! More things around here would get done. Either that or I would become an official member of the legion of the damned (referring to the undead, nothing else) instead of a part time member.

Aargh! Out of time. I will add to this later. Maybe. Or just make a new entry. Maybe.

Oh, I almost forgot. It’s my birthday tomorrow...


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