So its 2022 now and it seems activity on the forums really slowed down... I never forgot this place, though I did loose my password and couldn't log in until very recently. Still there was that talk about the forums shutting down entirely or having to move domains or something. Best I can tell, seems they hashed it out.

I really appreciate them keeping the forums alive though. I joined when I was twelve years old... When I say that my generation grew up with the internet, I mean that literally. Read my now archived journal and you'll see firsthand how atrocious my spelling and grammar was in those early days. Its wild to think I've been here off and on for 16 years, I mean, that's half of my life.

The current world status with the pandemic, coupled with some of my own life situations, has left me with a lot of spare time. At first this break I've been on has been wonderful. Completed a few games, caught up with a few things on Netflix and have had actual time to spend with my family. Im ready to go back out into my next adventure though. Took all the money I had and got myself a car. Little nervous bout the future but being back with my folks again has given me time to take things slow. It'd be nice to be active here again, I miss the old days, where I spent so much of my time literally just getting to know people. I don't know why I struggle so much more with that these days. When I was a kid, I cared just a little bit less about what people thought of me so maybe that explains it.

Either way, ima make a noble attempt to get back at it. Ill check around and look for survivors. Its almost as if the forums have entered some sort of "lost age" where everything is still technically active and works but the activity is stagnant. Like an abandoned city after a zombie apocalypse. Keep your heads on out there TFF! :cool:

9/14/2012

So I'm just waaaaay to lazy to bother posting my journal. If this means that it'll be deleted, I'm not too saddened. It's cool to re-read every once in a blue moon but it's about time nostalgia took backseat to progression. (oooh, that almost sounds scary. )

So I have absolutly no clue as to what a blog is supposed to be really, so I'm just gonna do as I usually do and talk about life. (My life to be exact, but you may have gone through similar stuff, so maybe it's yours too. :P )

Alot has happened since my last journal post... I don't know this for a fact as I've not checked when my last post was, but I'm pretty sure it's been awhile. Today was a particularly uneventful day but I got my hair cut again and although I really don't think it looks any better (I look much better with long hair) I do think it looks a great deal more respectable. (And joining the Army is a cause for looking respectable. Never know, might be an officer some day, riiiiight? xD )
My ship date is litterally like a week and a half away and to be honest I'm gettin' allittle bummed about not havin' a birthday... It really sucks. I've always tried to be strong when it came to this stuff, growin' up as poor as I did, I'd usually just shrug off not getting nice presents and stuff as no big deal, but this time I litterally don't want anything, it'd just be nice to have my mom and stepdad say happy birthday to me when I wake up late... I'll miss these lazy times. :')
We've recently come into a bit of money and that's been a blessing. Not just for the obvious financial benefit, but the fact that it just takes away lots of stress we'd have to deal with week to week. (sometimes we'd go on one paycheck for a month at a time, people say americans can't follow budgets, I dare them to tell it to my mom, she's super awesome when it comes to that kinda stuff, really makes me hope I can be financially savy when I start to earn my own money.) With this money came our ps3. I've of cource been playing games on it, but naturally it's not for me. I'm really like the only one who uses it now, since my folks seem to have lost interest in netflix. (As with money, came the time to rehook up tv. Something I could frankly do without.) So I've gotten a few games and have had super fun with it. It's been nice to play some modern games for a change, and get to enjoy them by myself. I usually had to play modern games at friends houses, and I don't have any friends (say for my step brother) that have a ps3. My favorite games on it are pretty old ones though, that I've known I would want the minute I got my hands on a ps3. MGS4 and Valkyria Chronicles. I'm a raging fanatic of both series' (almost more so VC but they don't have many games... and I've already finished the anime. :'( ) Right now I'm just trying to finish the first game so I can get Mussad (A crazy awesome scout.) I really like how the overall plot is basically WWI and WWII. (They barly change the names, making it EWI-II respectively) I have oodles of respect for Veterans who've fought before my time, (I'd give up my soul to time travel and serve in past wars, that'd be hard, but I'm just that kinda patriotic wierdo.) so it really is cool to see all these people from the first Europan war and have them on my team. (For example, Mussad is a scout who's really proficient in Trench warfare, he gets stronger in trench senarios. Why? Well he served in the first europan war (WWI) that was trench city right there! )
Well damn I think I've rambled enough... Life's pretty good, but this waitin' is killing me...

In Blood,
Andrew J. Bealor