Merry belated Christmas and Happy New Year! It was a pretty good Christmas this year. I got my wife a curio cabinet for her knick-knacks she had stored in the garage. She got me a new rug for my man cave and a mini-fridge. My mom got me a laptop. Pretty cool gift considering my desktop computer is seven years old. Just over two years ago I tried playing Warcraft and Guild Wars on my old computer. The lag was just so bad I had to give up playing them both after a couple of months. The last couple of days I’ve loaded both games onto my laptop and they run great, so it looks like I’ll give them both another shot. If I get bored with either one I’ll probably start playing Star Wars galaxies again. I used to play Ultima Online (for about three years), but quit after our guild disbanded. However, I sold the account for a couple of hundred dollars due to the fact I had a cabin on some ocean front property. I had a lot of fun with Ultima, but I think it was mostly because of the group of people I was gaming with. I’m hoping to rediscover that with WoW or Guild Wars. I doubt if I’ll pull any all night gaming sessions like I did with Ultima, but you never know. That’ll depend on if I can get the wife interested in playing. She doesn’t think it looks like any fun, but she used to say the same thing about Halo.