So what can I really tell to fill in the large amounts of missing information? I guess I’ll have to break it down by section.
Volleyball:
I seem to have found a tournament only team that consists of myself, my cousin, and 4 other friends. The funny thing about this team is that we only ever play together for tournaments that are held by the Calgary Sports and Social Club. We didn’t do too bad, we’re playing at the Intermediate Plus level which is just one tier down from competitive. We’ve placed 2nd and 3rd in the tournaments that we’ve played in.
We do need to play as a team more often to be honest. I takes time to build a cohesion and it seems that we just reset every time we end up playing together. It takes a game or two, but in a tournament setting, every point counts and it ends up hurting us. Ah well, it’s still a fun day spent with a pretty fun group of people.
That said, I feel that I could certainly work on getting my game up more. Drop some more weight (currently at 216) so that I can move faster and jump higher. Maybe then I can get to be really competitive. I don’t know what it is either, but I have felt that I compete at a lower competitive level now. I felt something click a few weeks ago, maybe a few months ago now, but it certainly made me view my game play differently. I feel like I play much better, but not at my maximum potential yet.
Dodgeball:
This game has ended up being a lot more fun than one would think. It makes you sweat pretty good, we play in the rec division due to a few of our players not being on the same level athletically as everyone else. But the games are still fun and we do well as a team. We’ve been improving every season and even last season we had our chance to play for first. Ended up second. This season is coming to a close pretty quickly and we’re ranked 4th so we’ll still have a shot at first.
Video games:
Starcraft 2 wise as a single player I’m ranked somewhere in the top 30% of the players world wide. 2 seasons ago I was among the top 13%. I guess it’s not too bad 😛 I defintely want to play it more, but it is just so much of a time sink to move up higher. Granted the pros get paid 50k for winning a tournament. I really would need to quit my job and focus on it if I wanted to do that. I just feel that I was born 10 years too late to do this as a job. Don’t get me wrong, players like White-Ra are 30 and still doing well in tournaments and pulling in some decent coin, but I’ll just do it as a hobby.
Dungeon Defenders is another game I’ve been playing recently with some friends as well. It’s a tower defence game that integrates a first/third person RPG interaction/elements. You protect a crystal from the monsters that spawn by building a variety of different towers, auras, barriers, and traps. There are scaling levels of difficulty and challenges. You also accumulate gear and have options to upgrade the gear as well. So there is a lot of customization available for the game. If you so feel like it, shoot me an e-mail (address in the right) with your Steam account and we can play together, the game is only 15 bucks.
Now the big news I suppose. I thought I had passed on playing The Old Republic, well I was wrong. I got into the closed beta 2 weekends ago and Bioware has me hooked. Now I’ve loved their RPGs that they’ve made, Dragon Age, Mass Effect, I even tried Jade Empire (didn’t get around to finishing that one though). The fully voiced quest interaction is phenomenal. It really gets you into the story like the Bioware RPGs do, but there are some MMO elements added in as well. Like elite mobs that you cannot solo. There are dungeons as well, called Flashpoints, that are very fun and challenging. That said though, my buddy and I were able to duo a 4 man instance with our companions.
So a few of my old WoW guildies will be joining me in this endeavour as well. I got into a friend’s guild and they had a open door policy so we’ve added about 50% to their current roster size. It’s going to be great to play with all these people again. I do miss that bit of socialization with that game. I also look forward to doing something challenging in a game that requires a group of people to do.
Social life/Random Stuff:
I gave blood for the 25th time in my life just this past weekend. Considering that I can only do this every 2 months, I can back track that I’ve been doing it consistently for at least the past 3 years… that’s quite a bit of time to be devoting to it. Like I’ve said before, I’m not doing it to get karma points, or even to brag about it, but I feel like it is something that I should be doing. I’m a healthy young man, and realistically, it’s a renewable resource. I don’t see why I shouldn’t be helping.
Had friends over a few weekends ago for Thanksgiving 2. I believe I should make this an annual occurance. It started a few years ago when a few of us friends got together for Thanksgiving because all our families are in other provinces/cities, or we all just ended up with no plans for it. Well now it’s just a group of friends getting together, potluck style, and having some good food and some great company. Crokinole was busted out, so was an old school Nintendo and some head to head Dr. Mario action. Apparently you can be a douche-bag playing that game… but I’m still the overall winner, douche-bag and all.
The house is still great, (I need to get pictures up here), but there is a few things that I need to fix. Loose floorboards, 2 bathroom fans that need to be replaced, drafty doors (which should be taken care of tomorrow). I technically own it, but it really doesn’t feel like it’s my house, like possession-wise it’s just somewhere I’m living. I do enjoy coming home to it every day, but it hasn’t really sunk in that “I own this place”. Not like the realization of the time where I got, “Holy crap, I’m buying a house”. Maybe it’s supposed to be the same feeling, but I think they should be different.
Alright, so as far as updates are concerned, I think I’m going to try to do weekly updates.
Current Track:
Usher – DJ Got Us Fallin’ In Love ft. Pitbull
(This song makes me wants to dance pretty hard).
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