Not Dead Yet

Wow, I haven't posted in ages. I've slowly watched my hits grind down to nothing. Two weeks ago it hit rock bottom at 0. Granted I wasn't exactly drawing in the masses before. Most probably made their way here because of my one time use of the phrase "Japanese school girl." Pervs.

So what's been happening? Stuff. I shan't bore you with the details for details sake. I'm sure they'll come up sooner or later. But mostly (to The Cat The Bat's disappointment) I've been playing Pokemon and struggling through a few electronics projects.

One, the Pokemans, have been fairly successful. It satisfies my geeky impulse to collect. Hell, they tell you outright you got to catch them all. It's like a requirement. The bonus here is that they don't take up space and clutter my already cluttered life. I haven't finished the game yet (110 hours played and counting(!?)) but there is always a Pokemon that I'm on the hunt for. Right now it's Rotom. Geez, look at him, he is a-freaking-adorable. And fairly deadly from what I understand. . . oh sorry, not deadly. No one really dies in Pokemon they just pass out. Which is good since the whole premise sort of comes off as a bit cruel as is.

The other, electronics, has been a painful affair that will probably kill me. But I've decided that I am going to stick with it and try to be able to cobble little gizmos together both for work and personal amusement. And to stop wasting money on Make Magazine. I buy every issue and don't do anything with them; well it's time to start. I'm having some success with minor analog electronics projects, nothing too major. Every time I figure something it's great. I feel like I've invented the wheel and cured cancer all in one stroke. But all I've really done is made a simple light chase with LEDs. Ah well, I'll take my victories where I can get them. I'd like work my way up to using microcontrollers, but we shall see. For now I'd just like to built a simple circuit without inducing chest pains.