Another year, another...DirectX? Uh yeah, I guess that'll work.

Yet another month, yet another day, no end in sight, nothing significant to say. Where am I going from here and when will I get there? How the hell should I know and why the hell should I care? Heh...

Looks like I got past the seasonal contract date with Best Buy and now am a part time worker there. The job's not bad and the pay's decent. Now if I only knew what to make of my financial status, now that I actually have one. Money tends to complicate things, which is probably why I'm rather loose with it. I might have to actually figure out how to do taxes now and any investment options I can take. Hopefully it won't be too painful.

I'm wondering if I should go back to school though, or at least take a second look at the computer science/video game design field I abandoned. Yeah the International Academy of Design is a painful memory, and the job hunt was fruitless. But coding was something I enjoyed, even though I obviously wasn't very good. I'm still with Phase 3 but I haven't been motivated to do any work, which might lead me to believe that I have turned my back on a career in said field. But when a former classmate and good friend approaches me to do a small project on an iPhone, I feel ready and willing to learn to work with the Mac platform. Heh, maybe it's just the poor management at P3, which is also one of the reasons I've avoided logging onto MSN Messenger recently.

Whatever the case may be, I don't think I've quit on it just yet. But at the same time, I also find it hard to get into other things. I was attempting to learn the art of lockpicking. Having received the necessary materials to get me started, I find myself not actually starting to learn, one of the main reasons being that I don't know where to start. I mean, there's loads of info on the next, forums, etc., but I don't see a definite starting point. Maybe I just need more motivation. A book would probably help. I don't want any formal training yet though, I want to see how far I can get.

I finished my Megaman Zero 100 point hard mode run in mid December. It's about time, huh? After months of failure, it's done. And the cycle will soon repeat itself with MMZ2. I think I'll be starting on that maybe mid-February at the latest. Maybe I won't succumb to shaky nerves this time, now that I know what to expect when undertaking such a task.

Having only played the last game in the series, Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams, I've also picked up the Onimusha essentials collection. I finished the first game and I'm nearly done the second it seems, but I probably won't play the Critical/Issen mode at first. Can't wait to get started on the third one, after glancing at the box art to see that one of the characters is modelled after Jean Reno! Hahaha, that's awesome! What's not awesome though is my failure to do issens...

Still playing Soulcalibur 4 and sucking (blood) with Raph. Having participated at the Toronto regionals, it's painfully clear that I will not improve any more than I am right now. No amount of theory or casual matches will fix this. And what's even worse is that I dislike playing online, which could also be stunting my growth as a player.

Oh well, I still like fighting games anyway. Like 'em enough to try my hand at Street Fighter 4. I don't know if I'll be dedicated to that game as I am with SC4. It doesn't look like I will though, seeing as how I could be playing it at Lovegety Station but I'm not. Well, it is a pain to get there without a car 'cause public transportation leaves you at a fair distance from there.