So anyways, I turned 25 this past sunday on March 2nd. I had fun as always, had a bar-b-que on Sunday and on Saturday I had a crawfish boil and went out drinking later that night. It was a blast I suppose, other then the fact that I'm getting older and ever since my accident 4 years ago, my body feels every day of aging that comes with it.

But, the great thing that made me smile this past Sunday on my birthday was the fact that everytime someone told me Happy Birthday my daughter Kiley was right behind me letting the persons know that, in her own words, "my birthday is coming, I will be this many" and she would hold up 3 fingers and then say "that's 3, I will be 3"

I got a good laugh out of it, because she was just so darn cute while doing it, but at the same time it was kind of scary, because Kiley is growing up too fast. She's getting very smart and very witty, it's cute and scary. This is mainly due to the fact that I don't want my little baby to grow up, but I know it's inevitable. :[

Ok, so I wasn't going to buy the Orange Box until later, just because I didn't have high expectations for HL2: Ep2. Well, after seeing the latest Tournament TV and seeing the greatness of Team Fortress 2, I must have this game. I will probably buy it solo, due to the fact that I already have Portal (bought singally). But, now that I'm getting two of the games, it kind of bums me out that I didn't just take the dive and buy the Orange Box from the get go.

So yeah, I used to play TFC, but I never really got into all that much. But TF2 just stomps the crap out of TFC, from what I can remember of it. The gameplay looks so deathmatch like, and the differences in classes makes it so diverse and puts a certain strategy into the game that others lack in. This is one of those games that only comes across my eyes ever so often that actually impresses me enough to think that this is a game that can take up a year of my life and still have fun playing the game. I mean, I'm sure that even after a year of playing this game, I will still be learning new strategies and tactics to win easier or just make the play better while I'm there.

I was super stoked to see that tournament, and I'm stoked about getting this game. I can forsee some late nights being filled with TF2 in the near future.

I know I for one always check my contacts whenever I'm on my profile page, which is very often throughout the day just to see if there is anyone tracking me.

There are a number of people I have had debates and discussions with on certain topics, so I felt that it would be a good idea to become their friend and track them, so that they could in return do the same thing and we would be able to PM each other and further our discussion on the subject at hand or debate about a certain type of game or gaming style. But no, I have a large number of people I'm tracking that just don't seem to want to track me back and share a mutual friendship.

This place is about making friends, and I feel the more, the better. I especially love reading my friends blogs and seeing what's going on with them when they post a blog every once in awhile, and I would like to have these others that I have started tracking to do the same for me so that I can see their blogs under my tracked blogs, so that I don't have to go search them out on their profile page, because if they had a knowledgable discussion on gaming with me, then they most likely are posting intuitive blogs that I could be tracking and comment on.

Maybe I'm just uncool and nobody wants to be my friend :P *goes emo* :lol:

Well, I didn't have much to do today. Well I did, but I wasn't in the mood to do things, just kind of a lazy day. So I napped on and off throughout most of the day it seemed like. That was a bad idea, because I ended up having a headache and feeling crummy from too much sleep.

On a positive note, some good things happened today. I was promoted to Officer in the TESFU (The Elder Scrolls Fan Union). I also got a good deal of work finished on my ultimate walkthrough guide I am making for the Morrowind GoTY. It's shaping out to be a great guide and I believe it will help many. I also became a Recruit in a clan I've been trying to become a member of on DoD:S. They are known at RtR (Right to Rule) and they are pretty darn good. They are actually the best clan I've seen on DoD, and that is why I want to become a member with them.

I've been fooling around with Adobe Photoshop lately and have made some pretty cool new things, such as my banner up there ^^ at the top of my profile page. I also have another one on my photobucket that I plan on interchanging it with, but it isn't finished yet.

I suppose that's about it for now, I don't really know what else to say that hasn't already been covered on today's news. There isn't many things going on in my life right now that are worth noting. Oh yeah, also for anyone who cares, my daughter had a blast on Haloween and I will be linking up some pictures to a blog, as soon as I take them off the memory card and put them onto the computer, so stay tuned for those.

So yeah, Gamespot was down and I had no idea why. I seriously started to get worried that I would miss On the Spot. And we all know, that cannot happen. I'm not quite sure what I would do if something as bad as that were to happen.

So, I just found this game in a used bin of Xbox games at Gamestop. I only payed $1.99 for it, so I'm hoping I get my money's worth out of it. This game got really bad reviews, maybe dismal is a better word. But, I'm going to play it anyway to try and shed my own light on the review and see if really is as bad as they say it is.

So today I went with my daughter on her first field trip. Let me tell you, it was amazing. I had the greatest time, but I think she had a little more fun then I did. We went to the Audobon Zoo, here in New Orleans and basically stayed in the "Safari" section the entire time, except when we went to see the tigers and panthers.

Well, I took a lot of pictures and got a lot of video's of her just having a blast, grabbing her friends hands and bringing them up to the fences and glass windows and pointing out every single inch of every animal we saw today. I love her, she is going to grow up to be so smart, at least that's what it seems like from this point. She's always asking what something is, and you tell her once and she has it down pact into her memory cells.

All the 2 and 3 year olds were wearing little safari hats and we stayed in front of every exhibit for a while, because they got to get construction paper and crayons and paint to draw and color the animals they were looking at. And then they practiced the letters that made up the animals name. The kids had lots of fun and made some interesting art pieces as well. When we were looking at a tiger she told me she wanted one, so I told her "we'll see" :P

At the end of the day all the kids were worn out and very tired, to my liking. I new the ride home would be a little more quiet as I had 6 kids riding with me. Well, after all the kids passed out, I hear in the background my daughter saying "Knock Knock" (and this is a little game we play, where you say who's there, and she will say Kitty Kat and just bust out laughing and do it over and over) but I wasn't falling for it, so I asked her if she had fun today and enjoyed all the animals that were there. Then for the next 20 minutes she was making different animal sounds from the animals that we saw. And the funniest one was when she went "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" and I was like, I didn't say anything sweety, and she made the noise again....so I was kind of confused, and then she said "SNAKE" real loud and went "Shhhhhhhh" again. So, that was her impression of a snake, I suppose.

All in all, we had a great day today, and I'm so glad I was able to go and be there for my child's first field trip.

Well, today is a very exicting day, and a very memorable one at that. My daughter is 2 years old, and she has been enrolled in a bible pre-school. Well, she has been in the top of her class since she was enrolled and has the best status of following the rules and not getting into trouble. Well, last week they looked through everyone's records and saw who was doing the best in their daily work and who was doing the best by following the rules and staying out of trouble and chose these few (15) to go on an awesome field trip.

Well today I get to go with my daughter on her first field trip and I will be video taping every moment of it. I am so exicted, I can hardly contain myself. I mean, everytime something new happens in her life and I'm there to witness it, it just lights my eyes up with joy and reminds me of how much I love her and am so glad that I was blessed with her.

Kids are just amazing as they grow up right before your eyes, and I've always heard that saying. But, it's just that much more amazing when it's your child and you are watching them grow up and doing your best to raise them as good as you can. There is nothing in this world that I would trade her for, she is like my best friend. She watches all the football and baseball games with me. She sits next to me a lot of times(if not in my lap) when I'm gaming and goes everywhere with me. She is just my perfect little angel and I love her with all my heart.

I'm sure the rest of the Gamespotters on here with children will understand what I'm talking about and realize why I cherish her so much and I hope(and am sure) you feel the same way about your kids. Seriously, I don't know what my life would be like to this day had she never been born, but I'm glad I don't get to know what my life would be like without her here, because I know it couldn't get much better with her being here.

Well, in a few hours when the stores open up, I'm going to buy a new power supply for this computer and two cooling fans. I'm also going to be purchasing another power supply, a new case and a graphics card for my new rig I'm going to be building here soon. Those are the things I plan to buy, but we will see exactly how much money I actually end up spending today while I'm in the store. I might splurge just a tad, as I have a habit of doing occasionally and come back with all the parts I need to build my new rig.

Although, I doubt that will happen, because I had planned to get my ram and processor off the internet. But, if they have any sales going on at Circuit City or a store like that on the ram I need or can live with and processor then I just might end up getting it. As long as it isn't more costly then what I could get it online for.

Also today I'm going to be deleting all the music off of my computer, but not before I organize it and burn it all to cd's. That should take up a good part of my day and I'm not really looking forward to it at all. I may just say screw it after the first 20 or so cd's and end up just deleting the rest.

Well, I have started playing this game tonight so that I can write up a review for it. It is for the X-box and is a few years old, but I thought I would review it for the gamers out there who still like to find and buy oldies. It will probably take me a little while to finish the game, because right now I'm devoting more of my time to DoW and UBO then this game. And it will take me a little while because the first time around I've decided to play it on the hardest difficulty setting. I wanted to start off the Conflict series with the first one they made which was Conflict: Desert Storm, but I bought it used and I can't get it to work, so I will have to bring it back to Gamestop tomorrow and trade it in for a different copy. Well, I will possibly come back and keep adding to this as I make my way through the game. So far I am on level 3 and am liking it. It's rather difficult to say the least due to the weird controls you have to memorize. At this point the only two things that aren't making it a great game that stands out, is the awkward controls for the commands and toggling through things and the graphics. I think of some of the bigger games that are out there for the X-box and how well their graphics are and then there is this. I've seen worse, but I've seen far better. I'm not sure if this is the most they could afford in the graphics department, or if they wanted it to have that oldy feel to it, since it is afterall Vietnam.

Update, October 4th.

Well I have finished the game and I have wrote up a review and posted it. In short, it was a really good game, although it lacked a little in graphics and the controls were a little awkward getting used to. But, what the game lacked was more then made up for in the cut scenes.