Random thoughts

Hi All,

So, just a quick update here. First, I haven't given up on the Gaming Tournament, at the moment though, I'm still working on putting it together. There are way to many amazing games out there.

Anyway, two key reasons for the delay deal with Graduate School, where I lost all contact with last Thursday night and only just regained today thanks to my Internet Provider (ISP) thinking it was a hacking group of some sort since I'm always there logged in (almost 24/7). 'Sides that the job hunt I've been on outside of the military options took an very dramatic turn for the worst today with an unexpected no offer for a job I was under the impression I was the top candidate for. Long story short, it seems that I'm going to have to re-think my association with certain groups of people. 

Moving on from all of that, I have actually some rather exciting news. A random short story idea I had years ago which I stumbled across a few weeks ago, has now be re-edited and change to my current writing style to a massive degree, along with expanding from a short five page story into what has now become a monster (for me lately) seventy five plus page story. Now while I won't get too much into it at the moment, this has actually been one of the leading causes to my lack of getting school work done. At this point, it seems as though all I want to do is keep writing and expanding on the idea, while this may be OK in one sense, its very weird for me to be so focused on writing something like this. Hopefully, it might turn into something more, but it will probably just go back into hibernation on a random old hard drive of mine sooner or later. I'll try to update people though on it if I can. 

Anyway, my break from working on the massive amount of homework I've accumulated has lasted long enough for now. 'Til next time everyone,

Josh

Delay in Gaming Bracket

Hi everyone,

So do to some technological and Graduate School issues, I'm going to have to post-pone the game bracket for a few more days. Losing over a month of school work in Grad school after having it backed up in multiple places is not very good.

Hopefully, I'll be caught back up and all here in the next few days.

Josh

Gaming Bracket

Greetings everyone!

So I've decided that I'm going to start looking into my gaming bracket idea that I mentioned. Now I've been trying to figure out how to set this up while finishing up some last minute Grad School work.

So far, I've gotten the titles to the two different sides of the bracket setup, the left side or west, will be the modern games, containing games from the Playstation 3, Wii, Xbox 360, and PC. The right side or east, will be the class games, containing games from any other system you can think of. 

Some of the games I've already decided to put forth on this will however, be cross-platform having been released on more than just one of the systems. One of these will be Mass Effect 3, which I do consider to be one of the better more recently release games. Now worries though Star Wars fans, Knights of the Old Republic will be around here some where, I promise.

Now, if anyone has any suggestions for games feel free to comment below or message me on Twitter or Facebook! I'm more than open to suggestions since I've decided to expand the bracket from 32 to 64.

Thanks all!

Josh

Ideas

Hi all,

So I just realized how long it had been since my first initial blog post and figured I needed a new one. Along with hopefully a new and working schedule for blog posts, but I'll get to that soon.

Anyway, things have been better lately, minus the whole job search thing. That's something that still just spinning its wheels and I've almost decided to just wait until after I find something out military wise next month to do anything there. We'll see though, I'm more than open to anything that comes my way at this point, hence why I might end up doing some substitute teaching here in the next few weeks if some of my high school teachers have their way.

Anyway, on to the actual reason why this post is titled, "Ideas". I have been hit recently with inspiration madly with more random ideas than I can keep track of. Seriously, I have almost filled an entire megabyte of data with notes on my iPhone. It's even gotten to the point where I keep getting more and more distracted from my Grad school homework, like at the moment, oops!

Some of these ideas are standard little short story ideas, which I may explore to a greater degree sooner rather than later at this point, with so much free time on my hands. Others, relate to a few projects I've now pretty much taken control of, mainly helping to build a Dog Park here in Radford. With the level of community service I always tried and strove for during my time as an Undergrad at RU, this is something that I could actually see myself doing for a living in one sense. Other ideas with this for improving Radford I keep coming up with, but their still jumbled thoughts at this point, so we'll see what comes about.

Along with all of this, I have finally decided I might move back into doing some web-development to a small degree, but I doubt I'll do much of anything with it. 'Sides all of that, we'll see where I go from there, but now to mention a bit of what I talked about regarding a schedule for this, hopefully I'll post every few days, because I've been thinking about doing a bit of a video-game 32 seeded tournament after a friend of mine, S. T. Lakata, did a 64 seeded music/song tournament. (Speaking of which check out his amazing book in the Amazon store if you're a fan of Dystopian fiction novels.)

Well, that's the update for tonight, time to get a move on this Grad school homework. Got to love learning about International efforts in Peace Keeping.

Josh