Recently, the forum got uber-bombed by spambots. Rather than even bothering to fix it, I just tore the whole thing down since no one was using it anyways. Due to the forum never really getting used, I've opted to leave it as a sideline item for now. In short: it is now gone, and it ain't coming back anytime soon.

Will it ever return? Maybe. Someday. If the need arises. I don't see that day coming anytime soon, and as such murf-STUFF will be forumless for the foreseeable future.

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You'll notice the link is still visible for the forum. This is because as I am currently working on the new murf-STUFF layout, I have opted to just not touch things around here. So, that will likely be gone when the new layout comes later down the line.

Well, last night I finally hunkered down and got into the nitty gritty of making a new XHTML/CSS shell for murf-STUFF. Odd to think this will be the site's FIFTH design. It seems to get a graphical overhaul every year. In fact, it does. Come April, I'll have been "running" murf-STUFF for 5 years. I say "running" loosely as I seem to have trouble with the basic concept of updating the site with content.

I have some big plans for murf-STUFF. I'm not sure how/when/if they'll be implemented. Until then, content on the site will remain stagnant and rotting while I occasionally pop-in and write these little blog posts. I'm not launching Version 5 until I feel it is strong enough to come to the fold. However, free time is scarce these days it seems.

First and foremost, I has a girlfriend. Currently the time we can spend together is limited by the constraints of the cubicle lifestyle, so any time I can be with her, I'm there. She is the main priority in my life right now and to hell with anything else when Davis can have "Heather time."

Secondly: I'm a Dungeon Master once again! I have a pretty kick ass campaign I'm running called The Tales of Torazon. With some effort, hopefully one day you too may be able to run the Torazon campaign as I'm hoping for it to be part of murf-STUFF in the future. The campaign is pretty involved, and I spend a fair chunk of time plotting it out and writing out role-playing scenarios. The campaign makes mixed focus on role-playing, skill encounters and combat encounters. It keeps the players on their toes and makes it more engaging then: Oh no, monsters. Go to dungeon and kills them! The campaign is very story driven, and I'm loving it.

There would be a "thirdly" but what would fill this space is drawing to a close. January became very anti-productive when, as noted in an earlier post, a cat sprayed his markings on my desk. Thus getting my room in order became a two week endeavor. Things are getting back to normal, slowly but surely.

Hopefully, somewhere in there will be time to get work done on murf-STUFF and see other facets of my life suffer.

You know what sucks? Money does.

Actually, I take that back. Money sucks, but is exceedingly handy in a finance based society such as the United States. What sucks really is OWING people money. Debt sucks, and it sucks hard.

Today, I'm a little less in debt. Today is a glorious day. Today, after just shy of five years, I strolled into the bank slapped down a check and was like: "Guess what bitches? That truck? Out there? IT'S MINE NOW! HAHA!"

Today I finally sealed the deal and made the final payment on my car loan courtesy of an advance on my tax refund from my mother. It's nice to have that burden off of my shoulders. Now if only my student loans would disappear so handily. Oh well.

With my truck now paid off, and a hefty chunk of change back in my pocket each month I may end up getting a small loan later this year and finally pick up a laptop, and then save up towards finally getting a copy of Adobe CS#. I say "#" under the idea that I have no idea when I'll have that saved up or what version Adobe will be up to at that point.

Of course, if I get a laptop it's totally going to be a MacBook Pro. I'll probably transfer my CS2 stuff to the laptop and put CS# on my Power Mac. At least that's what I'd like to do. So who knows?

Well, that's it for now. Laters.

I joined Twitter and added a few days ago. It can be located at the bottom of the sidebar. I didn't feel like taking time to stylize it when I put it up. I'll save that for a future time.