The Prodigal Blog

I am currently star struck. I don’t know when the last time was that I felt this way. I just saw two celebrities…in the flesh…and they interacted with me…answered my question…nay even signed my book. Honestly, I haven’t been at such a loss for words in sometime. I just met Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins of PENNY ARCADE. Yeah. I know. Freaking awesome. That’s my assertion at least anyways. Don’t assume though that it was a raucous party. Because, well it was in a Barnes and Noble, and it was really just a book signing for their latest book. But still. Given their fame I’m surprised there weren’t more than the hundreds already there (ok there were maybe 100+ people there). They took questions from the gathered audience for an hour. I asked a question! They answered all sorts of questions. Mostly all heavy hitters: favorite game of all time, direction of the gaming industry, favorite novels of all time, who their romantic interests were in certain RPG’s, how they deal with games and...

.../theprodigalblog.blogspot.com/ant start projects . . . start: Hi everyone just writing to post up some things I'm up to and that have been exciting me. . . warning: LOST starts in 3 hours. . . verbose: I've been a wee bit busy with work and a few side things... Went hiking around Chantry Flats and checked out the waterfall up there since the recent rains. Pretty awesome. [no photo found] Played through Mass Effect 2 (very fun, definitely makes it pretty high on my favorite games played list) . . . Projects: things I will be up to... . . verbose: So I've got a few things that are coming out of the factory of my mind that I'm thinking of wrangling down 1. Wanting to read more. I am going to read the following books, starting from left to right. From left to right...Love or Die, Crazy Love, The Prodigal God, a Shelter in the time of Storm The plan is to read these books by the end of March. None of them is particularly long. I will report back with the results...or not....