Been a Long Time

Yes I know I failed and haven't blogged hardly I just been busy with work.  I got a job back in December and mainly been working.  So lets sum up the past months from December to Now.  November was thanksgiving and was a tough month at various points.  Reminding of not being around the ones you love and care for.  December was a excellent month a new job and some good news.  New Years I loved hanging with my friend Quallin and ringing in 2013.  January was ok just basically working.  February was a semi tough month, my cat Patches had to be put down.  Also I slipped and almost became super depressed and almost ruined my life, but I fixed it.  March was a tough month as well but me and my friends made it through the month.  April has started out good so far and I can't wait to see what the other months bring.  In fact I went to Pride on Saturday with a few friends and got to see a old friend, Roy.  I had met him through another friend and we lost contact just we both got busy in life.  Nikki was one of the friends at pride it was her first time going.  I once wrote about a Mark I liked one who felt like life was going excellent and nothing could stop him.  Now I am not to sure I mean sometimes it feels like the world is out to get me and sometimes it seems tough to go on.

The Bumpy Road

I know I know I been bad and haven't written in this since September.  Quite a bit has happened in nearly 2 months, lets sum it up and then get to the interesting title of this post.  Back in September things were going pretty good, then October rolled around and lets say the shti hit the fan, to sum it up briefly   Not going to go into to much details but at the moment not talking to a friend due to something I did and earning back trust till then.  Thats mainly the reason why October started off bad with that.  Not to mention my Grandpa fell and broke his hip and shoulder.  He fell last year and broke his lip around the same time of year, glad to say Grandpa went to Rehab and is doing better, I guess.  I say that since I don't hardly see him as much as I should or want to; long story for another time.  October was also the Zombie Walk which I went to same as last year it was fun got a few pics I posted up on facebook.  This year for Halloween I hung out with Kris and one of his co-workers, kinda that whole week.  I did something I never did before and thats waited with them for a game to come out at midnight, it was fun even though it could've been super boring.  But what do you expect when you have friends to entertain you with.  Halloween, Kris myself and Dan his co-worker went to a Hookah Bar it was fun we met some new potential cool people to hang out with.  I went dressed up in a prison jumpsuit, Kris was a Irish ship captain, and Dan was Ron Jeremy.

Long Time Coming

So it's not like I been neglecting my blog on purpose or anything I just been super super busy and some recent things have happened, although I should of updated it regardless.  The first major thing that has happened is my normal computer I use crashed so currently I am using another one from time so I m not online as much as I used to be.  Also each week I been going to my friends and we been playing D20.  Kris has recently started a campaign involving mechs.  Basically they are like human controlled robots and so our characters control them fight bad guys and sometimes we do it like the cavemen do.  We walk and go into buildings and shoot up the bad guys.  Also I started my campaign the Zombie Apocalypse campaign.  I am working on it like a tv show in the sense that there is seasons so I finished season 1 in fact today I finished season 2.  Believe it or not this is super tough to do since you have to get the stats of monsters which don't exist so I basically make them up off the top of my head.  This is actually tough as well since you have to balance a monsters strength vs how much damage a creature can do.  You don't want your zombies super powerful but you don't want them super weak as well.  Players in D20 need and want a challenge.  On top of playing Dr. Frankenstein I also been reading here and there.  One of the current books I am reading is called Haunted Hollywood by Tom Ogden.  This book is about various ghosts and also haunted stories in Hollywood one of the things I like though besides the supernatural aspect of it, they talk about the history of Hollywood.  I also got a few other paranormal books as well one by Syliva Browne and one by Mary Ann Winkowski.  I know lots of people and even recently have really questioned Sylvia Browne's physic abilities.  With that at the same time the few books I have read by her I did actually enjoy and learned learning something new.

The Dead Shall Walk

So this past week I played D2o with my usual friends, although I think this upcoming week I might take a few days off of it to take care of some personal things here and there.  Anywhos when we played we did a campaign that is a bit of fantasy.  Basically in that world evil monsters are going to take over the world and our heroes need to stop them or else the world gets destroyed.  Wednesday we played my campaign I been working on a Zombie Apocalypse setting.  This game basically took place Scottsdale but more downtown / Lower Phoenix area.  The survivors are trying to get out of Arizona and so far they ran into some zombies and some other things.  One of the things I need to do in a couple of days is amp up some of my monsters to make them a slight bit powerful edge.  I also need to work on a storyline even though everything can change at a moment.  One thing I learned being a GM(Gamemaster) is that they direct the story but players or characters can change the story.  The GM has to be ready for anything and even have some side options if the story gets messed up or even has a way to get the characters back on track.  Characters are the actors and GM is the director / writer.

Week of change

So this week, Monday to Thursday I did quite a few things dealing with change in away.  One of the usual things me and Kris and our friends did was play D20.  The change in this was my character basically fired his MP5 where as normally he wouldn't, he even helped out by trying to take a few enemies out even in a warehouse battle.  On Monday I rearranged Kris's mom to make more room and put up some totes that needed to be organized.  Then Tuesday me and him attempted to see what was wrong with his truck, we still haven't solved the problem but it's looking like a easy task.  Overall it was a fun week although I didn't work to much on my writing project.  However it gave me a chance to come up with some new potential ideas for stories.  However I still have a hard project coming up soon after I finish writing my current story.

Memorial Day Weekend

So this weekend is part of memorial day weekend Monday I am going to Kris's to help clean and organize his room, this is a regular thing for me.  For some reason he doesn't clean his room so I do it for him, for whatever strange reason I find it fun and like it.  Tuesday and Wednesday is the usual d20 days to role-play for fun.  I was thinking today while I was outside smoking a cigarette I heard some kids playing Marco Polo in a pool.  It reminded me of when I was young and played games in pools like that or did splash contests.  Also who can't forget Shark and Minnows or any of those old games, also can't forget swimming races.  Sometimes I wish I was a kid again the downside would be not knowing my current friends who I care about.  The plus side you wouldn't have to worry about all the adult things in life.  If I had a option to remember my friends and know them when I was a kid or back in time I would do it.  I truly honestly believe that the people you meet today and your friends come into your life for a reason.  So for anyone who reads this what do you think about my scenario I posed.  If you could go back in time and had the option of knowing your current friends or not knowing them, what would you do?

Moving On

So don't worry or anything I haven't stopped blogging just been busy this past weekend.  I was helping my friends sister move.  Her and her family moved from a apartment to a house.  It wasn't to bad besides not having a light in a u-haul to help move and organize things.  The other thing that wasn't a helping thing was the solar eclipse.  I have this weird feeling the solar eclipse effects peoples emotions and might drive some insane.  It was fun overall and I enjoyed helping my friends move.  The thing I liked was being part of a family helping people move and getting along..  One of the people I helped move I had met once before and I felt with moving and just being 10 years younger then me that we got along.  We talked alot more and I feel they earned my trust and respect and vice versa.  Also I played d20 again with my friends John and Sarah.  They are part of a group called Thunder which I might join being as I am a prospective in their clan.  This whole weekend seemed to be about being a family or something associated with the word family.  I am glad all my friends are like a big family to me.

Lucky Number 20

So yesterday I went and hung with one of my best friends Kris in Mesa near where he lives.  He invited me over to hang out with some friends of his at their house and basically we played d20 modern.  Basically d20 modern for those who don't know is Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) but set in a modern world.  So D&D might have elves, dwarfs, trolls, hobbits where as D20 would have mobsters, doctors, news reporters.  It's a fun dice role-playing game and I recommend it to anyone who might be interested in table top role-playing.  This particular campaign was set in a post apocalyptic world.  My character is named Joel Sullivan and he is a private detective.  He met up with Kris and his friend party somewhere in Texas and they joined up heading to boats got side tracked with a gun battle on the way to the ships and even stopped in a cyborg trading town.  One of the things I like about the system is you can set up a character pretty much how you want.  My character is mainly better at ranged then melee attacks but I still had him enter a melee tournament and he still did decent.  Just like in real life or even a story the characters interact and obviously do combat.  I tend to prefer the interacting more then combat but it depends on the mood I am in.  For some reason I have always loved the character name of Joel Sullivan and this goes back to my first time ever role-playing.  Kris, Me and some other friends were playing this campaign that our friend Steven did, it was basically Resident Evil meets Phoenix Arizona.  My character started out as Jack Daniels and made it out of Phoenix alive and all of the people who made it out got new names by the government so they could hide what happened in Arizona.  So I picked Joel Sullivan as his new name.  When I get to posting some of my stories for fun one of them is going by notes and memory of the various things Jack and the fellow characters experienced in Arizona so look forward to that.