Weekly Updates...sure why not

It seems I've fallen into the trap of updating on a weekly basis, so I might continue such. Or update more often though I don't see this as a possibility. In either case not a lot has happen as of last week. Been spending most of my time studying for the A+ example. Should be done with one of my books this week, the other book is in a .pdf format and I tend to review it while I'm at work. Different view points of the example is always a plus. There's also the practice exam on the CD-ROM I need to look over. One of the main benefits I've gained form this as a result is that I've become insanely addicted to reading technically stuff again. Not necessarily a bad thing but I'll probably need a library membership soon or the wallet may take a couple of hits in the future.

As for the past weekend spent most of it lying on my bed listening to Harry Potter book 5. The other remainder was spent on playing some Puzzle Quest 2 and reading about 2-3 chapters a day. For the week thus far its been more of the same. Reading, keeping track of the budget, small bits of gaming on and off. No specific games have been focused on as of yet. I did pick up Minecraft again so I'll be doing many silly things in that. Though I still do play Puzzle Quest during some down periods of say 5-10 minutes when I don't want to give something a good solid hour or two which is good. Though to give brief overview these are the titles on the top of my head with priorities in parenthesis.

Wii: Okami (Low), Twilight Princess (Medium)
Playstation: Final Fantasy 9 (Medium), Parasite Eve (High)
PC/General: Puzzle Quest 2 (Low), Killing Floor (Low), Borderlands (Medium-High), FF3 (Medium-High), Minecraft (Medium-High).

Only reason Parasite Eve is kind of high on the list is due to the nature of the game. After 5-8 hours of gameplay I'll either hit a wall or I'll be pretty darn close to finishing the game so not a huge deal. Borderlands, FF3, Minecraft, FF9 and Twilight Princess are all quite tempting and overdue for clean-up in terms of finishing them. As of right now I don't have a lot of time to play game (which is a bit different) but once I finish reading the book the amount of free time I have (with the exception of A+ practice examples) the amount of time should be more plentiful.

Anime wise I do have a handful of series I want to watch and/or give about 3-4 episodes a chance before I can be super critical on them. Sort of the whole "don't dis it before you try it" sort of deal. Arakawa Under the Bridge, Eureka 7, and then possible re-watching FMAB is current on the list. I might pick up a manga to read but that's extremely up in the air.

Last 2 weeks though I've spent inside my house for obvious reasons so I would definitely like to get out and do something different this weekend. Part of me wants to travel outside the state to do something completely random (sort of a mini road trip). While the other part of me kind of wants to chill with friends, though not 100% sure on this one. Been definitely enjoying the alone time and not sure if I want to 'chill' with peeps yet. On the same note though there is a plentiful pile of games and anime I wouldn't mind getting though uninterrupted and at my own pace. Heck for all I know there's a possibility that I'll lie in my bed upstairs and listen to Harry Potter book 7 lol. Won't try to predict the future on this one.

So overall in about 2 weeks I'll be at my dad's house for 2 months. I've ranted to myself about this several times but this will probably be the first time I'm actually documenting it. Overall I'd have to say I do much better lifestyle wise when I'm living by myself. Usually if I have a friend that I stay with (minus college where both individuals seemed distracted by studies) there's a tendency to kind of I guess 'walk through life' rather than 'climb the stairs of improvement'. I know a good bit of this depends on roommates overall as they can reflect your living style greatly. Have to definitely agree with this as when I was living with Chris-san I spent a great deal more time reading the Bible and with Tyler well.....I mean both have there benefits one is oddles of fun all the time the other is constant progression (wanted to say vigilance here so bad, curse you Harry Potter).

This by itself can easily contribute to low will power in my opinion as my will power use to be much greater. Though this can be argued as I haven't 'played' a mmo in well over 6 months (brief touched wow on PTR and BlackRO but didn't play them for months at a time). So on displaying a sort of control there. Finding as of recently going back to the single player style games in which if you screw up its your fault as compared to the recent move in the multi-player environment in which if Jim fails you also fail (which can lead to trolling, never an enjoyable thing and not deemed with discussion in this blog entry). So not surprised that I'm find that all these single player games are appealing to me again.

Nothing else really on the top of my head, actually looking forward to the weekend, getting home and pushing the studies a bit further. The break from this will be quite awesome. I may pick up a non-academic reading for the downtime or grab the Network+ book not sure as of yet. No longer worried about job options as I know once I get these certs I have a much stronger feeling that I'll be in a better boat. Team meeting about to start so gonna call it there and the thoughts are running low. Thanks for all that read this :).