hello faithfully departed!

I know it's been a while since you've heard from me, but things have been less than splendid here. Work sucks, but I'm coming up on my tour complete and I'll get my honorable discharge from the united states military in about 37 days. Also, due to the extreme stress I've been under, my immune system actually dropped, and I actually got Shingles. look it up, it's awful.

The only games I've been playing are Mass Effect... and after I kinda healed up some I rocked God of War: Chains of Olympus. Definitely reminded me that I'm a gamer.

Things are looking up though. I'll be heading down to Kentucky to visit my parents and my sister, and then heading out to Washington, where Jen's parents are. We'll be ending up in Seattle, where I'll be starting at the Art Institute of Seattle in the fall.

You can see why this is a strenuous time.

good news though, I quit smoking cigarettes, which I'm happy about. I went full time to Pipe Smoking, which I just love.

anyways, this is mostly for my old CCU pals, just a fyi as for where I've been.