pp2's blog

I work in an office.  I am an office monkey.  I've never worked in an office environment til this past January, when I was taken off the floor in receiving because apparently the powers that be identified some kind of ability in me to oversee part of the office and troubleshoot problems that arise in the SAP system we use.  Of course I haven't actually received the promotion that goes in line with this job (but you can bet I do the work), but I'm hoping to by the end of the year.  In the office, as with all other areas of the warehouse I work in, we use mostly temporary labor.  I would say

First off, I absolutely need to thank gamerchicklet again for allowing me to attend the LAN this year.  Things are fairly tight on my end financially and I would not have been able to afford a ticket, but unfortunately for her chicklet was unable to attend, so she quite generously let me use her ticket instead.  Props also to Phreak who was going to pay for my ticket herself before chicklet stepped in with her offer.  Ok, now that we have the fact that I'm in fairly pathetic shape let's move on to the weekend:

First off, I absolutely need to thank gamerchicklet again for allowing me to attend the LAN this year.  Things are fairly tight on my end financially and I would not have been able to afford a ticket, but unfortunately for her chicklet was unable to attend, so she quite generously let me use her ticket instead.  Props also to Phreak who was going to pay for my ticket herself before chicklet stepped in with her offer.  Ok, now that we have the fact that I'm in fairly pathetic shape let's move on to the weekend:

Like most people on this site, I've been console gaming since Pong was cutting edge.  One advantage I believe having been a gamer for so long gives us over the timmie-come-latelies is perspective.  Yeah, anyone can look back on the SNES, Genesis, NES, Commodore, etc and take note of the simplistic play, of how a lot of fun was squeezed out of a little processing power.  But our experience gives us perspective moving forward.  We remember when that tiny amount of processing power, when those stick figures dancing across the screen represented an advancement in technology that blew us away. 

Like most people on this site, I've been console gaming since Pong was cutting edge.  One advantage I believe having been a gamer for so long gives us over the timmie-come-latelies is perspective.  Yeah, anyone can look back on the SNES, Genesis, NES, Commodore, etc and take note of the simplistic play, of how a lot of fun was squeezed out of a little processing power.  But our experience gives us perspective moving forward.  We remember when that tiny amount of processing power, when those stick figures dancing across the screen represented an advancement in technology that blew us away.