My Name Is

Its been just over a year since my last blog post, and I've been away from the site for a long time, figured I should reintroduce myself.

I'm Codemunkee, a 35 year old IT Director from the boogie-down Bronx stuck (I mean, living) in Central North Carolina. Been a gamer my entire life, and a developer/architect for over a third of that time. I spend a lot of time in RPGs on just about any platform (I have 4 different platforms at home, not counting my PC), and currently playing Mass Effect and Jade Empire.

I also play Halo 3 and COD4, along with Forza, but I suck at them. But I like the competition. As long as I'm competing in a field of equally crappy players!

So, where have I been? A lot has happened over the last year or so.

Mrs. Codemunkee got pregnant again, and this time it stuck. We're 7 months in now, due in early March. Its a boy! So with that has come getting the house in order. I've become a pro with a mitre saw and other power tools that I just used to suck at (hey, I'm a guy from NYC, what do I know about home improvement?). We've had a new everything dropped into our home, and its looking great. The baby's room just got done and I did a damn good job if I say so myself.

I'll be wrapping up business school in August; the entire year has been spent doing homework just about every day. On a nice long break now so its also a good time to catch up on the stuff I missed gaming (which is why I'm STILL playing Jade Empire), and of course working on the house and the yard. That's been a great learning experience as far as putting together my business plan goes. I honestly never thought there would be so much to it.

The biggest thing of all, I guess, within the context of gaming, is my official retirement from World of Warcraft. Account's gone, game discs gone (except my goodies from BC collectors edition), and the game is uninstalled. I thought it would be harder than it was to quit. But I'm happy and enjoying my consoles again, and the whole buyer's remorse thing with buying games and letting them just sit on the shelf while I ran instances really late during the work week has subsided a lot.

That's mostly it for now. Hope to reconnect with you guys again. Shoot me a FR anytime.

CM