July Sucked!

Yes yes, it's been over a month since I updated this. I'm sincerely sorry to my avid readers, all zero of you. The fact that someone I know took mention of the fact that I had not updated this in a while is actually quite heartening, so here's a hearty thank you to her.

I can not think of much in the way of non-personal content here. As it stands, I play Forza or Eve-Online, watch Deadliest Catch and work. When I'm not doing one of those three things I'm drunk or asleep, sometimes both. The last UFC, 72, was boring as hell and there were very few fights of consequence. All we learned from this UFC is who to not look forward to in the future. The video game summer slump is well in progress, and all the titles I have been looking forward to have either been pushed back or released demos that have un-sold me on games. I'm looking at you BioShock and Blue Dragon.

With that amount of bitching out of the way, there is something worthwhile I can talk about, and that is books. God I miss reading entertaining books, and it is something I managed to get done so far this month. I read Dune and Ender's Game, both fantastic books. Dune was fantastic in every way, well written, engaging, and a very unique look into the future that I think can only come from the past. If that doesn't make sense, it's because the book was written in 1965, before personal computers, before the internet and HDTV, and reality was quite different, and as such the outlook was. Who doesn't remember some Hanna Barbera cartoon from the 50s, where in the year 2000 people are flying hovercars, or all sorts of weird technology that we are in no way closer to than we were back then? It's because of this that this book was different, and I enjoyed that.

Ender's Game was good, that is until the last chapter. This is not to say it isn't worth reading, but I'll be damned if he couldn't have left that off and made the book much better. I also find this interesting becasue it is a case of "boy saves world from evil" which with the surge of interest garnered by this from everyone's favorite boy wizard, maybe we'll see some sort of media interest in this story. I pray we do not. The book was short and easy to read. It's something that your friends who don't really read books could get through.

Now that I have those two "sci-fi classics" out of the way, I am left with a void in which I have no books to read. I want to stay in the sci-fi genre, but I want to avoid the stars, that is to say Star Trek or Star Wars, as those just seemed played out. If anyone reads this and knows of good cyberpunk books, hook me the hell up.

It's no secret I'm depressed. At this point it's not so much that I need to bitch about it, it has ridden itself to a point of redundancy. I am going to spare you the depression talk for the moment, but be aware a heavy post is on the horizon. As it stands, I am more and more comfortable with the thought of leaving my current employer, even if I don't have another job at the moment, simply becasue the point of no other option is arriving.

I did not proofread this, so I apologize right now.