Hardly ever on here anymore. Teaching didn’t afford me with a lot of free time before the end of school, and holiday-related traveling has not afforded me a lot of time during the break. Currently, I’m back in Burlington with Katie, spending New Years here, and then going back to Kingston on New Years Day for classes on January 4th (fun… :( ).

Anyway, while in Stratford for my family Christmas (which we call Dinner Day, because it does not coincide with Christmas), a speedy Stu bolted into my field of vision at Zehrs while I was picking up supplies. What followed was a lengthy conversation about awesome things that were so astounding that people in neighbouring areas of produce had to tear off and consume their own ears because their brains couldn’t handle it.

He asked me about being his second in Resident Evil 5. This was an unfortunate impossibility, because I was going to be heading back to Katie’s house the next day, and everything up until then was booked. I was heartbroken, because I really want to play Resident Evil 5 with a competent RE-player such as Stu.

Anyway, during our conversation, he talked to me about stuff like Andrew fleeing the country to California due to some sort of dangerous extortion problem, and the question of what happened to New Years.

A fair one since I didn’t really say anything to anyone. But, after last New Years, I didn’t know that there would be anyone to say anything to. As we’ve grown more and more spread out, each New Years has been consisting of less and less people, to the point where last year had 5 people (Binks-Andrew-Stew-me-newcomerKatie) plus random drop ins from my two roommates (who were intoxicated, and maybe looking to get a Little Caesar in them). ;)

Anyway, I decided not to coordinate and plan a New Years celebration this year (after seven [?] years of consistently having it) because I didn’t know if people were still interested, or if they would be making their own arrangements with new groups of friends. Previous attendees have stopped attending to spend New Years in more “festive” locales. I don’t fault them for that. I just figured more people would head that way.

I’ve noticed that Brendon is hosting some sort of LAN party, so I’m relieved to see that some of you are still finding time to do something. More and more stuff makes attending something like this on New Years a difficult predicament (and I now fully appreciate all of Binks’ scheduling difficulties from the days when he was with Erin and they were celebrating a family Christmas on New Years Eve).

Anyway, my apologies to those who were disappointed by the absence of many many long e-mails in their inboxes this year. Maybe we can add an additional “get together gaming day” to the calendar during some other holiday window, because I do enjoy gaming with you all (and people in the teaching option - Katie included - aren’t the biggest “gamers”). I’m going through withdrawal some times.

Anyway, hope you had a Merry Christmas and I hope you have a Happy New Year.