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Happy New Year December 31, 2004
Happy New Year to everyone. This year, for the first time I can remember, we're staying home for New Year's Eve. We can't exactly pack Sam up and take her out with us, and we waited too long to look for a sitter. It's just as well. I'm already tired.
Now for some meaningless statistics. In 2004, I:
- Made 247 posts on this blog
- Got 342 comments on those posts
- Posted 653 pictures of Samantha (woah...)
- Read 47 books
- Played 34 video games, many of them violent
- Watched 43 movies/DVDs
- Wrote 12 game reviews/previews for GameSpy.com
- Made 1,267 posts on the Quarter to Three forums
- Had one daughter (well, Ger technicall "had" her, but you know what I mean)
- Guest lectured twice in graduate-level classes at Alliant University
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Posted by Todd on January 1, 2005 2:43 PM:
So what was the best game? Mine probably has to be Half-Life 2, though I have FAR more hours in on Burnout 3 and Vice City on the Xbox.
How about your favorite book of the year? I absolutely loved Fast Food Nation.
Posted by Jamie on January 1, 2005 4:33 PM:
Yeah, definitely Half-Life 2 for me as well. Though Fire Emblem on the GBA had a savage hold on me for a couple of weeks. It got too hard, though, and I got tired of playing the same mission over and over again.
A lot of great books this year. Believe it or not, I read Orwell's 1984 for the first time this year and thought it was really powerful. Same with The Fountainhead, though it was less enjoyable to read. The books I enjoyed the most are probably the first 3 (so far) Song of Ice & Fire books by George R. R. Martin. They're high fantasy and Martin uses some of the staples of that genre (epic storyline, multiple points of view, supernatural boogeymen), but otherwise he breaks the mold and transcends the genre.