Still Alive

Yup. Still alive. Not that you'd know from reading this blog. My schedule has been a bit disorganized lately, and I haven't found a suitable time or location to work on my blog. I'm trying to set up a work space at home, we'll see how that goes.

I recently joined the gadget elite, when Becky got me an iPod Touch. I've never had one, just looked longingly over other's people's shoulders at theirs. I'm very excited to have one, and have been spending a lot of time with it. I'd love to hear of any good apps or games. So far, I've been loving Death Worm, Settlers of Catan, and even Scrabble.

I have to say, my biggest disappointment so far is the comic readers. I've checked out both ComiXology and the Marvel Reader App. The comics look great, the readers are easy to navigate. My problem? The pricing. Are you kidding me? The pricing on the comics is outrageous. The majority of comics I've looked at are $2 per issue. Maybe if they were new comics, comics currently on the stand, I could understand that. But we're talking comics that are 10 years old or more. And many of them are series with 6+ books in them. I'm supposed to pay $12 to read a 10 year old comic story? It's not just lame, it's insulting. Back in the day, I used to read tons of comics. Now, hardly ever. I would LOVE to read them, I would even pay for them, but not at that price. Even at $1 an issue, it's tolerable at best.

So the comic publishers have priced me (likely their main demographic, old comic nerds) out of spending any money on their products.

I did get a cool case for my iPod though. Skulls = cool.

I've still got a huge pile of games to play, and what am I playing? World of Warcraft. And having a blast. My kids are playing this great game called Animal Jam. It's really cute, a lot of fun, and they can't get enough of it. I highly recommend it for those young game players out there.