To the detriment of you, our readers (both of you), we apologize.  We have been too busy actually playing games to post here.  And contemplating and changing life-defining career choices.  So, a quick recap of recent activities.

We played a ton of Rock Band this weekend.  Sally on hard guitar, me on hard drums.  And we’re still having a blast.  We had to keep taking breaks due to my weak, almost fragile, thighs.  That kick pedal gets intense on some of the songs.   Our little band is almost up to 400 stars and we can breeze through the toughest of songs with ease, unless they’re actually hard.  The Outlaws song gave us a problem initially, until we realized the drum section is pretty easy (though soul crushingly repetitive).  Iron Maiden’s Run to the Hills, however, gave us more trouble.   And those were the songs in a two song random set.  Which was harsh.  We even tried a couple songs on expert as a duo and it looks like we might be inching our ways towards that difficulty, though I think I’m going to have a harder time getting used to it than Sally.

We are also playing around with Lord of the Rings online along with our roommates (who still need pseudonums, hint, hint).  We’re all pretty much at level 10 after a good long session yesterday and are enjoying ourselves a fair bit so far.  It’s nice to have a very WoW-like experience but without it being WoW.  Our little party, er, fellowship of a Guardian, Hunter, Champion, and Minstrel seems like a good little group.  We all went through the intro and then headed to the Shire, though we grow somewhat weary of the delivery quests.  Anyway, we have lots more of that game to chew on and write about.

The only other news is that I am actively looking for a new job now.  My dream job would be a web development position with a game company, though we’ll see if that actually pans out.   There seem to be quite a few jobs out here that I’d be perfectly happy with.  But, if you happen to know of a company looking out for a pro PHP/MySQL developer (or similar technology, I’m just most familiar with those tools), let me know!

Now, back to mining some more copper…