Happy New Year - 2018!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful (and safe) New Years Eve! I did, killing time till the stroke of midnight playing a great round of Zombicide: Black Plague where my uncle (first time player) was the MVP! :)

I'm trying resolutions again this year, because I did absolutely terribly on them last time! :P

1. Relearn my old compositions (5 songs - I do have recordings to work of)
2. Complete chapter 1 of my web comic (harder than it sounds, given my track record)
3. End the Year with less weight than I started (Carefully worded so I have a chance!)
4. Finish a board game prototype that I'm happy with (good luck me!)

Are any of you doing any resolutions? Or is everyone else smart enough to stay away from them?

Lastly, here are the current blog survivor stats of my "one post every three weeks" rule.

I have been slack adding new bridges though.

Quests Failed!

Blergh, I know I'm a few days early but I'm going to call this now. I knew there's a reason I don't like writing up New Year's Resolutions. I'm one of those people that obviously just doesn't get them done! So let's take a quick look at that list from the start of this year...

Lose 12 kgs. That's just 1 kg per month!
Fail! I lost just as much as I gained and am back where I started. >.<

Start writing out the guild history, one chapter per 2 months would be good.
*Watches the tumbleweed*

Complete 10 quests for NWO.
7/10.

Make a silly game of my own.
I actually did this! Twice in boardgame form. They weren't any good though.

Continue the Today I Smiled series with 2 per month.
Definitely didn't do 2 per month, but still posted 24+ during the year so I'll give this one a pass.

Finish composing another song.
Neglected. Which is annoying since I had half a new song already...

Score: 2 out of 6.

Retry next year? In theory it should be easier now that I have more XP right? For the most part yes, but we'll see if I'm in a mood to put up another list later! :P

Lastly I am sad to report that I am down to 50 links to other blogs. That might sound like a big number until I remind you that I was on around 150+ at one stage after the previous Newbie Blogger Initiative. Sticking to my rule of "must have new content within 4 weeks (eg. one post a month)" apparently was too much to ask for around two thirds of the population. Is this a sign that blogs are dying? No, probably not. Just that I'm either too harsh on my criteria or I'm simply linking the wrong people.

New Year's Resolution

Happy New Year! I thought that for a change I -would- list out stuff I wanted to accomplish this year, and to give you a heads up of what you may be able to expect on this blog in the future! :)

Next year I'd like to:

• Lose 12 kgs. That's just 1 kg per month! Maybe we should all try do this? :P
• Start writing out the guild history, one chapter per 2 months would be good.
• Complete 10 quests for NWO.
• Make a silly game of my own.
• Continue the Today I Smiled series with 2 per month.
• Finish composing another song.

Coming up in January (see here for previous list):

• The Darklands story will be coming to an end / pause (done)
• Review of Chivalry: Medieval Warfare (done)
• Review of Redshirt (done)
• Review of Descent: Journeys in the Dark (done)
• Today I smiled x2 (2/2)
• Top 10 Reasons Why I Stop Playing Games (done)
• Review Brothers: A tale of two sons (done)
• Lose 1 kg. (lost 3kg!)

And sometime in the Future:

• Review of Hearthstone (beta) (done)
• Review Forced (done)
• Review Damned (alpha) (done)
• Review Lost Planet 2 (done)
• Review of Police Precinct (done)
• Diary of a Marked One may continue with Far Cry 3 (done)
• Dead Island Diary may continue with Dead Island: Riptide (done)