Super Bowl Sunday 2009

Last year's Super Bowl Sunday post is still sitting in the old blog, at bdoleza.spaces.msn.com. I'd have to say that between now and a year ago, it's been a pretty good year overall. We're pretty sure that Kevin's school hangups are behind us, and Cynthia is pretty secure in her new job. We'll see if
I can say the same thing once these Colorado state budget cuts come through!! For now, though, LG Life's Good!

Being a guy and all, it's naturally my contention that one of the main things that makes a Super Bowl Sunday a Super Bowl Sunday is the food! That's one of the may areas where I'm so lucky to have Cynthia. For the 2nd year now she's made appetizer meatballs for the game...nummy!! This year she made jerk chicken as well, it was so good. I wasn't exactly on the edge of my seat as far as the game goes...I never am...but there's something about the feeling and the overall atmosphere of the Big Game that I just love. The 5.1 surround sound helped, of course, though honestly my main concern the whole afternoon was getting my Alliance mage to level 46 in World of Warcraft! Which I did; I'm trying to get him as high as I can before my WOW account goes away in February.

I was just spending too much time on the game, and I finally canceled the account. It's still the most fun computer game I've ever played, and I'd keep playing it except that there's so much to do in it, and it all needs to get done, just like in real life, and you get to a point where you have to choose between the two. Except for the aforementioned Alliance mage, all my other characters are at such a high level that spending an hour or two a day in the game wouldn't really get them anywhere at all. I'd have to spend 5 to 6 hours on each of the three big characters to really get them leveled up or to get them new weapons/armor or to raise their skill level in their various professions--it''s just getting too involved now. It was great when I was a single geek hermit dude who never left the house, but I got it goin' on now and need to move on.

I have other games, and eventually I want to buy parts for a full-on gaming computer (right now I just have this laptop, that does decent at games, but gets hot pretty quick and isn't the fastest computer out there). And there are console games that I want to complete as well, though I'm not the console guy in the family--that would be Kevin! What I really need to be doing is looking into the possibility of taking online college courses in graphic design and advertising. I looked at courses at Capella University, the best online school I've seen out there that I've seen to date, but I only got as far as looking at their computer program, which looks awfully solid, but graphic design is the cool stuff! And I figure I've already gone to college and studied the stuff I NEED to study, and already have the computer job, so why not lean more toward looking at the stuff that I WANT to do. The stuff that would be FUN! :)