Well I chose an awful time to start writing online. Not that in the beginning it matters much as the one person reading this is… Well me, but it will affect getting the ball rolling so to speak and finding an audience. That said, I suppose I owe an explanation to… well myself and the one troll surfing through the tubes late this night looking for something to complain about. Well, I don’t really have a good excuse. I got sucked into my third play-through of Mass Effect 2 to gain the aptly named “insanity achievement,” with my second Shepard imported from one of my four saves in ME1. It’s funny really, in Mass Effect 2 you must complete various loyalty missions to gain the loyalty of your team so that they can focus on the mission without distraction. That’s sort of how I felt while going through my final play through of ME2. I can now focus on the mission, er, blog without distraction.

That’s not quite the only thing though. I also forgot that I was going far north to Wisconsin to see my wife’s family. If you’ve never been to Wisconsin I can sum it up this way. WIFI is sparse and it’s typically cold. Beyond that, there are tons of delicious beers and cheeses, which are great for getting fat and shitfaced, but not so conducive to healthy blogging practices. There’s also plenty of serene, if not, “awe-inspiring” landscapes to scope out. 

Nick Shepard with his trusty Dr. Pepper recon hood from 7-11. Truly the most stylish devil in the galaxy.

This trip also reminds me of why I no longer watch television. What do I mean? I mean I don’t pay for sports, movies, gameshows, shit reality TV, soaps, and biased news channels that I never watch. That’s like paying a crazy old woman to yammer on about her irritating, going nowhere children all day! Why would you do that?! Tell me America, what’s so fucking great on TV that I can’t find on the internet? Keep this in mind; I hate game shows, sitcoms, sports, and wasting money on a service I didn’t use when I had it. Why would you waste your time waiting to get information from a flickering box when you can have the Internet at your disposal? Granted, there are some decent shows on air right now, but I’ve got Hulu for that, and I get em without commercials. The reason I’m even mentioning the degradation of American television in recent years and why it irks me is that there’s no Internet connection where I’m staying. All of my favorite articles, videos, comics, all out of reach of my Mac Book. Sure I can still see the majority of the content on my iPhone, but AT&T’s crappy 3G network doesn’t really extend to the region of Wisconsin I’m visiting so everything loads at a snail’s pace; and the screen is puny.

Beyond the television, her family’s well, and I can’t fault them for not having an Internet connection. It’s not something they use everyday and they can get to the library which provides free WIFI broadband easily enough. When that becomes too much of a chore however, I think they should really look into getting the tubes hooked up to their place.