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It’s come out in the past few days that Robert Jordan has a rare blood disease called amyloidosis. You can read the note he wrote on his publisher’s web site here. He gave a lot of interesting statistics, but is seems like he has a median life expectancy of 4 years. Of course he could live less than that or a lot longer than that.

I think the 12th and supposedly final book in the series was scheduled to be released in 2007 or 2008, but that may be up in the air now. I’ve known since I started the series that he wasn’t a young man. I used to jokingly say that if the died before he finished The WoT, I would find a way to kill him a second time. I don’t really care about all those other books he wants to write, I just want him to finish The WoT. I wonder if we would ever find out what was supposed to happen if the last book was never published.

I know I’m being insensitive by focusing only on the fact that I may not get to see the ending. I don’t know what it’s like living with amyloidosis and I don’t know what it’s like knowing that your life may only have a few mores years left in it. I hope that his treatment is successful, he gets those 30 years that he wants, and he can give us many more books. Where would we be without his long, drawn-out, artificially-inflated stories? We love them and we him for writing them.

Lately almost all of my gaming time has been devoted to a game called Tales of Symphonia for the Gamecube. It’s a highly addictive RPG that came out a couple of years ago, but I had never heard of it until late last year. Yes, the plot is a little involved, but the battle system is great and the audio and graphics are good too. My roommate and I beat it in about 72 hours and are currently going through the game a second time.

I re-rented Indigo Prophecy. This fulfilled a prophecy that I made in a previous entry. I like this game a lot more now that I’ve had a chance to really get into it. You get to play from the perspective a someone who has committed a crime and the detectives investigating the crime. Fun.

I also rented Buffy the Vampire Slayer for the Xbox and played it a little. Back when Pacman got this game I wasn’t a fan of the show, but now I am so I thought I would give it a try. So far it’s been a really fun game to play. I’m looking forward to spending more time playing it and moving on to the sequel.

Maybe I’ll be trying out DDO – maybe not.

“No power in the ‘verse can stop me.”

I copied an idea from Yeraze and added Google AdSense to the site. Hopefully, he won’t get mad. Actually, I applied for AdSense back in June 2005, but never went through the trouble of adding the code to this site. I even ignored the email from Google wondering why I hadn’t done anything yet. I figured I would just go ahead and give it a try and see what happens. Maybe I can earn back some of the cost of hosting this site.

I changed the Moblog section. I like the new options that Textamerica has made available for that. I’m sure I’ll be rearranging the sidebars soon.

I need to get out more.

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I’ve been sick these past 2 weeks and I just can’t seem to shake it off. The medicine the doctor gave me doesn’t seem to be doing much good. It’s hard to teach when you are so hoarse that you can hardly speak. I’m sure it isn’t helping that almost everywhere I go is cold – inside and outside. I hate being cold.

I’ll be spending the end of my days in Starkville with a roommate. A good friend of mine desperately needed a roommate and we’ve been hanging out a lot, so it makes sense. I’ll have more money to spend, so that’ll be nice.

The first half of the 2-day season premiere was awesome. They killed off 2 major characters in the first 15 minutes. They just happened to be 2 of my favorites characters on the show. I think the preview for tomorrow night gave away something big, but I’m still looking forward to it. Adios for now.

I’ve been playing this game that a friend of mine owns called Shining Tears. It’s a decent hack ‘n slash RPG. It’s not the best game in the world, but it’s much better when you play it in co-op mode with someone else. We’ve already beaten once and are working on it again in advanced mode. It’s quite a bit harder now.

I still haven’t settle on another MMORPG. World of Warcraft seemed like a great game, but I was trying to play it at the same time as I was playing Everquest II, so WoW got neglected. I downloaded the beta client for Dungeons and Dragons Online last night, and I think I can start playing it on Tuesday. Hopefully it’ll be something I can sink my teeth into.

I rented Indigo Prophecy from Blockbuster. Since when does it cost $8 to rent a game? I got busy and didn’t get to finish it, but it was an interesting game. I may rent it again soon so I can finish it.

Somehow the following entry from December 28 was deleted. I am reposting it here.

Christmas was ok. It’s just not the same without my sister around. I’ve spent so many hours recently watching DVD’s.
For my birthday and Christmas I got:
• money
• Firefly The Complete Series
• Tales of Symphonia (Gamecube game) and the strategy guide
• Pearl Jam Single Video Theory (DVD)
• Star Trek The Next Generation The Complete Seasons 1-7

All in all, it’s been a pretty good year. Next year will be better.

I spent some time today making the big upgrade to Movable Type 3.2. I like what I see so far. I hope nothing is broken. I also spent a lot of time deleting spam. I hate spam.

Happy Birthday to me…