I remember the first game I bought from Loki. The year was 1999. Once I heard it announced on Slashdot, I anticipated for many weeks the release of Civilation: Call to Power. After a few unsuccessful attempts to buy it at CompUSA, I finally managed to get it one day. It provided me with many days (and nights) of entertainment building empires.

Since then, Loki has released a number of games. Some of them I have bought and played. Everything they did was top notch (except Tribes 2, when I wasn't willing to upgrade my video card for one single game). Sometimes, good companies die. This is one of those times.

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I haven't been posting much content lately, mostly because I haven't felt inspired enough to write anything. Unless I take some action to renew and regroup (something like that), I have to admit that the majority of my new year's resolutions appear to be on the fast track down the toilet. Stay tuned.

I guess life in general feels pretty meaningless these days. Not bad, not good, just... meaningless. Welcome to my world.

I wake up in the morning. I check my email, read the news, shower, grab a bite to eat, throw some lunch in a bag, and out the door. I go to work. I sit down in my cube (or sometimes somebody else's), and do something resembling being productive. I refill my water. Do some more work. Go to the bathroom. More work. I eat my lunch. Afternoon comes, rinse and repeat.

After work, I drive home. Check my mailbox (the physical kind). Grab some food from the kitchen. Surf some web, watch some tv, and maybe a movie. Usually, I watch Buffy (quality show), but not always.

I surf the web some more, maybe play some video games. Read (if I'm being a good boy). Go to sleep.

It's not a bad life. In fact, it's pretty damn good, even by American / western standards. Just.... terribly predictible. Feels lonely at times, but that's nothing new. Perhaps that's why I so much enjoy and revel in a really cool original movie, whenever one comes out. Adds a good spice to things.

What I have is good. Don't want to knock it, or fall into a recursive trap of self-pity (avoid that like the plague)... Sometimes, though, it just seems like life could be more. Is it unrealistic and/or self-defeating to think that way?

Blah. That's my silly ramble for the week. I think I'll go make myself a good yummy supper. Yep yep yep. And... Up!