Long time no blog

Okay, so I haven't written anything here in awhile. Let's see, what's happened since last July?

• I played straight from Half Life, through Half Life 2, through Episode 1 and 2 and I loved every minute of it.
• I started playing Company of Heroes online with my friend Joe. We kill Nazis on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
• Team Fortress 2, baby!
• I jumped on the Companion Cube meme, desperately wanted a plush Companion Cube, and when they came out, realized that $30 was way to much to spend for a plush box.
• I was still very happy when I got an Aperture Science parking sticker for Christmas.
  
• I went to E for All and spent five days in the hospital with shingles.
• I became Acting Director of the IMGD program at WPI and I'm kind of run ragged with that.
• I became a GHII neophyte, then a Rock Band neophyte (I love them, but I'm lost beyond Medium difficulty)
• Finally finished Halo. That's right, the original Halo. I meant to work through Halo and Halo 2 in time for the Halo 3 release, but I still haven't started Halo 2, and now that the media blitz is over for Halo 3, I don't really feel the pull to play any of them, ever.
  
• Decided I kind of hate Metroid.
• I think I spend more time playing games on consoles than on the PC, and this scares me.
• I realized it's hard to take screenshots of games on consoles.
• Despite all the warnings, I bought and played a lot of Spider-man 3. I did not finish it, because it became too annoying.
• All these games that I did not finish, I want to go back and finish them.
• I got my wife to play Lego Star Wars with me. Then I regretted it, because she really sucks and dies too often and I can never get True Jedi when she's playing and then I started to wonder why I ever wanted her to play with me in the first place.
• I still have to go back and replay most of Lego Star Wars in free play mode, but now I can only do it while my wife's not around or she'll want to play too, and that'll wreck the entire point of playing, which is to get all the collectibles.
  
• I fell asleep while playing Mass Effect.
• Played Starcraft: The Board Game and decided that I liked it enough to buy it. Now I'm wondering when I'm ever going to get enough like-minded people together to play it.
• Got all the way through Puzzle Quest on the DS, then did a bit of Elite Beat Agents, and am now slogging through Age of Empires. I think DS games are somehow more personal than other games, because no one really cares what DS games you've played.
• I think I'm playing more current games than I ever have before in my life.

And I realize that's mostly just a list of games I've played in the last 6 months, but each and every one of those is an idea for an entire blog post. So next time I get on this thing, I'll just look at this list and start writing.