I've never quite understood how the most important Christian holiday got roped into something that involves a giant rabbit distributing candy to the children of the world... Allegedly, it has something to do with the abundance of eggs around Easter time (which were then decorated), due to the forbiddance of Catholics to eat eggs during Lent fasting. But it just seems terribly wrong.

Anyway, I'm going out of town for the weekend, to visit my grandmother for Easter. So, I thought I would post up some quick thoughts before I go.

I think I've mentioned this before... I'm an active member of the GameSpot HeadCrab Union, being a news editor. I write brief articles detailing daily news about all things Valve, as well as edit the other writers' work (when necessary) to ensure style compliance, proper linkage, etc. It mostly involves removing unsightly tags from the HTML that is generated by the GS embedded editor.

However, I'm interested in learning more about the Union system. I've indicated that I'm willing to be a charter member of a Union about the GNU Image Manipulation Program (open-source photoshop, or close enough). So if that happens I won't be able to do anything else formative for another 30 days.

But there are plenty of nonexistent (or dying) Unions that I would love to be a part of. For example, the Magic the Gathering Union & the Dragon Quest Union are both languishing in either MIA or AWOL(!!!) status, which is just disgraceful. As I've mentioned before, I'm a big fan of all things Enix, and I was really into MtG a few years back. I'm also a fan of mixed martial arts (e.g. UFC) but I don't know how successful a Union about it would be...

Speaking of Dragon Quest, I'm about 40-50 hours into Dragon Warrior 7 with no end in sight. There hasn't even been much mention of the game's villain. My group is pretty powerful though, with my main character about half-way to mastering the Dragoon class. Gabo's a pretty powerful fighter, but I think I'm going to take the summoner route with him. And Maribel is my master of all things magical. This is a great game so far, but nowhere near as difficult as I remember the older DWs being (1, 2, 3, & 4).

That's it for now. I hope everyone has a nice Easter, if you observe. Or if not, just have a great weekend!