One paragraph to rule them all

This is like shaving, I swear it is.

I suck at shaving. I have an electric shaver, which is a good thing - as long as you shave every few days (if not every day), shaving with an electric shaver is fine. It does a decent job, with a minimum of effort. Therin lies the seeds of complacency. From a clean, freshly shaven face, each day's miniscule iteration blends into those of previous day's, and before you know it you resemble a gruff sea captain. One more day. One more tenth of a millimeter - It won't make that much difference...I'll shave tomorrow. It goes on for weeks. And then I am Chewbacca. In that situation, trying to shave with an electric shaver is like trying to mow the lawn with a whippersnipper, but with more physical pain. So out come the cheap manual razors, with their mysterious duality. On the one hand, they are sharp, like a ninja's katana - eager for blood and possessing an enthusiastic eagerness to mame he who weilds them. On the other hand, they seem to want to clog with hair, like an overachieving shower drain in a dormatory at a high school for early developing boy-chimpanzee experiments. I end up having to chop my face up with one of these every time. I haven't used my electric razor in at least 6 months.

And so it is with blogging. I keep meaning to write stuff on here, but it doesn't happen. And now I am going to recap 4 months in a paragraph. One paragraph to rule them all.

I got to go to a couple of places for work: In Paris I ate snails, walked about 15km, and took a million photos. In San Diego I ate good mexican and as much untried varieties of fast food as I could (it's good!). I did a metric bunch of work both home and abroad, and barely logged into World Of Warcraft. I got Guitar Hero World Tour for my birthday (The nice lady at the KMart layby desk 'found' me a 'spare' copy 'out the back' after I was told my actual copy that I had been paying off for over a month had been sold to someone else. Or should I say 'someone else'). I played it a bit and then had to open up my drums and solder a bunch of joints. I played it some more and then had to open it up again and solder more joints. I am either hitting it too hard, or the assembly line workers are being whipped too hard. There is enough material here for a HUGE rant, but I can't! I am Chewbacca! All I can do is HHHUUUUURRRRNNNNNGGGGHHHH. GHWT is awesome though. I saw ultrasound pictures of my littlest one. I became Lead Designer at Interzone. I made a game for gamejam, but I just havent had time to finish it. It is about a little white rabbit mutant who escaped from the lab and has all sorts of crazy powers. I made a dollshouse for my daughter for Christmas, and I DID finish that. It rocks out, and makes me wish I was a 5 year old girl.

So there it is, in one paragraph. In conclusion, I should shave more often. HHHHUURURRRRRGGGNNNHH!!

And now, with great mysteriousness, I will work on some software I have not touched in a long time. A long time. If I am successful it might prompt me to mention something about it on this blog thingy.

Goodbye 2008. You have been alright, you know, for a year. We were never really close. I guess that's my fault.