Well hello Gamespot. Or, shall I say, those of you who use Gamespot such as I, for I am not simply addressing the site. How's life for everyone? Good I hope? Neutral at worst?

Oh, by the way Gamespot, was my last blog not good enough for Soap Box? It was shorter and more concise than half the Soapboxes I read, and it was not mindless or fanboyish like most of the other GTA IV editorials you prolly read.

Life for me's good. I recently got the last chunk of airsoft stuff I'll be getting for a while. It's all quite awesome. I got:

A wonderful spring pistol, the MK23. It came with a spare clip and a *mock* silencer, and it's great. The clips are durable and weighted, which assists the rest of the gun in feeling dead real, and said clips also hold 25 BBs. Buy a two pack of mags like I did, and you've got four clips and 100 shots. It's great. The gun is also meticulously detailed, powerful, and accurrate for a 20 dollar gun. I'm severely impressed and I never wanted to be a Navy SEAL more in my life (it's...the pistol they use...).

I also FINALLY got my five pack of clips for my assault rifle. Having sold my original one to a friend, I went a good two and a half weeks without any way to shoot my gun. Now I have FIVE CLIPS. It's the coolest thing ever. It goes perfectly with my VEST!!

The vest is the last thing. And the vest is sweet. It was 45 bucks for a full sized, adjustable (and when I say adjustable, I mean..never mind I'll get to that later) HUGE vest. It has four main pockets for clips, three for pistol clips, two more on the belt for pistol clips, a holster on the left ribcage for a pistol with another pistol clip on THAT, an all purpose pouch, and a radio pouch. It's even got pouches inside it for holding maps. So I have my four assault rifle clips in a main pouch each, a walkie talkie in my radio pouch, two pistol clips in the big pistol mag ones, along with a speedloader in the other one, and then one clip in the pistol itself, and one on the pouch that's on the holster. The two on the belt are too small for my clips, so they don't have a use, yet...

Anyway, enough about that, before I go rambling on. At any rate, aside from ammo, I'm not buying anything for a while, until I get my +400 dollar sniper rifle in mid summer.

In terms of books lately, I'm just about to finish Endwar. Yup, Endwar. A novel based on the new Tom Clancy game. Did you all know there was one? My friend told me about it a little while back and let me borrow it, it's phenomenal. Read it if you care anything about TC games, modern war, or good action.

Movies? IRON MAN. Ah, what a fantastic movie. I was skeptical at first when I saw that teaser trailer way back. Skeptical becuz of the whole basis of the movie, captured and escaping by making that armor THING..well never fear, they pulled it off really well. I haven't been this surprised since Transformers. It was very similar in why I had been skeptical and the things the movie did to completely address potential dumb things. It's hard to explain...but yeah. ILM (Star Wars, Pirates, Narnia, Transformers, Harry Potter, etc...) did the CGI, some of their best work ever. The acting/casting was great, awesome characters, great plot, excellent fights, and of course the F-22 Raptor scene was awesome. On that note, I loved the stuff they threw in for the military junkie. (Iron Man)"What's the altitude record for the SR-71?" (most of crowd) "Huh?" (me) "DO IT, DO IT, DO IT!" (Iron Man) "Let's break it." (me) "YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!"

Ok, so maybe it didn't go quite like that, but that's paraphrasing. :P But yeah, things like that made the movie that much cooler. Oh, and Nick Fury? Sam Jackson? 'Nuff said, right? ;)

Gaming has been mixed up lately. Some Splinter Cell online here, some Vegas 2 online there, some Tomb Raider Anniversary this way, and even three Halo 3 matches that way. Three matches for the first time in forever, getting slaughtered, too, was all it took for me to be like, "DUDE I LOOOOOOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH!!" Over the summer I need to become readdicted to that game so I won't get killed every time I pick it up after a week or longer :P

That was it in a jiffy I suppose.

Oh right, I almost forgot. I need input.

I wanna write another story, and perhaps this should go on the Writers' Lounge but I'll throw it up here too. My options are:

A story about a deranged vigilante fed up with his Spam mail who tracks down the human being responsible for creating spam. Tone: Humorous

A story about my suburban neighborhood that suddenly becomes under attack by terrorists or some other enemy. I alone take up arms to fight them and see what happens. Tone: over the top

A story centered on the rising issues, conflicts, and debates about the "lines" to be crossed in the future of genetics. Don't be skeptical, I know a bit what I'd be talking about and it's very valid and at least interesting. Tone: Serious

A pseudo sequel to my "Africa Tale" that followed a team similar to the Rainbow teams in Tom Clancy's universe, only this one would be about a Splinter Cell type op. Tone: Serious

What do you think?

Until next time, I've been an irmeleeman5995 craving summertime, and that's a mouthful to say!