As a few of ye out there in yespotland might have noticed I was not around so much during the latter half of 2008. I had a computer meltdown right as I was headed into an unfortunate and rather problematic time in my life. It had been a few years since I'd bought a new computer so normally I would just thin down some spending and pick one up but unfortunately my aforementioned times were a bit tougher than normal and I had larger bills to pay for what I perceived as more important things. I have a rather bad connection at work but I'm rarely at my desk and it's a bit of a problem if anybody else wants to use it at the same time (I know...such a sad work).

Then suddenly it dawned on me that my sad and rarely used Wii console has a web browser on it! Sure it's just awful and slow and glitchy and the full screen doesn't fit and it's rather ugly and...did I mention it's slow? But regardless of all these faults it did allow me to stop by from time to time and say hello to a few people here and there albeit for short periods of time and with somewhat tersely written text as the keyboard I has likes to cut out now and again -- but still I existed!!! Finally at long last my Wii console proved useful for something other than terrorizing my cat (a story for another time).

Of course in November I picked up Animal Crossing and now it gets a daily workout but still up until the computer meltdown I pretty much never touched it. Such a strange little sad system for my household but I got it as a gift so I don't feel too silly for having the old waggle machine laying about my apartment.

But then Xmas made its annual appearance and lucky for me it coincided with the offices at THQ busily getting rid of their computers to get all nice shiny new ones replete with all those extra cool shiny new things that those crazy tech kids like to talk about excitedly amongst themselves. A very good friend of mine is a semi-muckity muck over there and so for a very nominal fee I once again was ready and raring to go on the internet with a used and plaing looking, but very happy, computer all prepped for civil duty outside of the gaming industry!

Since it's not a computer meant for public use I keep finding little things that should be in there that just aren't and, with the mighty help of my cat Shoes, we are slowly getting it into a nice state of normalcy; normalcy for me that is. Sorry if it seemed like I was just ignoring people or not commenting in your blogs and all those things but it was very difficult to load up media heavy things like blogs on my little Wii machine and it's been a slow process in getting my 'puter all up and running. I'm not much of a computer guy but I'm fairly decent at poking and poking and polking until I get it working.

That's my long-winded excuse anyways. So hello again people!