I've become both excited and disappointed with the computer gaming industry. Operation Flashpoint 2 has been on my mind all day and night since sunday, because the first was such an amazing game. It helped quiet my desire to join the Marines a while back, yet was still fun as sin. But I cringe now at shots of Aliens Vs Predator: Extinction. The AVP strategy game I've been waiting for for so long shouldn't look just like starcraft given a warcraft 3 makeover. There's more to the license than that. I need to buy a scanner.

Built a fence, smoked, wrote up a character for a spetsnaz campaign set in the vietnam era. Exciting day. I need to buy a scanner.

No longer will you be sad and empty, dearest diary.

I have lost my pencils. I had derwent sketching pencils that were used to produce most of the drawings on my page. Now all I have is twenty boxes of 12 Portfolio Aquasketch Drawing Pencils. So instead of my F to 9B spectrum, I have 240 6B pencils. I'm also coughing a lot from sandblasting in a giant hand-made cabinet at work. Silicosis for everyone!

So it's a good day, in all.