Otakon: Part 1

Well folks, it's finally time to get around to covering the highlight of my summer: Otakon! I'll begin the coverage of my trip with my friends Blake, Bryan, Patrick, and Ian, and I'll hopefully cover it in two to three segments.

To begin the weekend, Bryan and I stayed over at Ian's house the night before and played some video games and what-not. The other two couldn't stay the night so we picked them up in the morning. Good thing I stayed over at Ian's, because I was able to discover my favorite Street Fighter character: Zangief. I seem to enjoy playing as the grappler characters for some reason. I think it's because of my love for those flashy, lengthy, cinematic types of moves. Everything started with the Bloody Roar video game series. It sparked the interest in fighting games for me as a kid. We also played some Burnout: Revenge, which is my favorite racing game.

We left in the morning, and because Tom had to drop out from the group, I did't have to take my car to Baltimore with us. Therefore I went straight to my house in the morning while the other two went to pick up Blake and Patrick. Thankfully this had happened, because my car isn't in the best of shape, and the air conditioning no longer works properly. The trip wasn't too long, as it only took us around an hour and a half. We got to the hotel and they let us park there even though it was too early to check in. After that, we headed over to the convention to get our badges and check out the first day of the festivities.

One of the first places we went to check out was the video game arena. Boy was that huge. I'd bet it was around 1.5 football fields in size. They had everything from Super Smash and Halo to Naruto and all sorts of other Japanese games. Actually they brought in many Japanese consoles to play some of these Japan exclusive games. From there we ventured to the Dealers Hall...

Well, I'm out for today!

Till Then...

Mental Turmoil

I'm back! Yay. For once.

There's one main topic I definitely want to cover sometime this week, which is Otakon! I'm very tired tonight, as I had an eight hour shift followed by an outing to the Phillies game, so I won't start on it right this minute, but I'll get to the first entry tomorrow, I hope.

As for now, as most of you may know, my long time girlfriend of 3.5 years and I have recently broken up. The break-up wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but in all honesty I'm having a difficult time getting over her. I thought it'd be easier than it's turning out to be, but it isn't. Sometimes I even find myself texting her when I know that it's probably not the right thing to be doing. I'm really hoping that my mind can figure out what the hell it's doing sometime soon, so I can get my feelings all sorted out.

A main contributor to my "mental indecisiveness " is my current family situation. Hayden ended up back in rehab, as we sent him there today. It was very difficult for my parents to send him there, more so my mother. My mom's mood tends to rub off on me as well, so whenever she's depressed, I'm depressed, which is very difficult to deal with. I know that sending him was definitely the right decision, as we all know he needs more help to deal with his issues, it's just my mom was hoping that he would only need one time through. This will be his second. All I can do at the moment is have some faith and believe in the kid. And also hope my mom gets a little better, however I'm not sure when that will happen.

Gah, enough with the whining, haha. I should probably get some sleep now, considering I have to take my car in tomorrow morning at 7:30 to get an oil change

Till Then...