Dusting Off Cob Webs
Still alive, still kicking. Life is good and I guess I've reached a nice equilibrium of contentment. The need to journal what I then considered to be my eventual downfall has disappeared and I’ve found it difficult to come up with a purpose for this bloggy thing in the aftermath.
I’ve been playing an obscene amount of Europa Universalis II, as well as a modded scenario for the same game. World of Warcraft has become a minimalist occupant of my time, though I still log in from time-to-time to start a new toon and kill n00b mobs for awhile. Pwn!
We just returned from a furious road trip that lead us to Vicksburg and then to New Orleans. Vicksburg was awesome and the audio tour around the park is pretty special, very beautiful country. It’s impressive that you can still see the trench and earth works 160 years later. Now, I’m a moderate Civil War enthusiast and I find it all fascinating, but after about two hours you do get a little tired of looking at little plaques and monuments and all those cannon start to look the same. We did get to see a demonstration of an Enfield rifle and 12lb Napoleon Cannon, pretty nifty. If you do go, don’t make the same mistake we made, take water and food on the car tour. Especially if you like to stop and check shit out along the way. They say it’s an hour, but it takes a lot longer and they don’t have any concessions inside the park.
New Orleans was an experience, we stayed in the French Quarter and indeed we walked through the French Quarter at night. I don’t want to say I was scared, but I was nervous, though I drew courage from the person walking beside me, who being a foot shorter and 120 lbs lighter seemed not the least bit concerned. I think the thing we took away from New Orleans is that they probably could stand to run a broom through the French Quarter and maybe scrub it up a little. It’s pretty nasty, stinky and dirty, but despite all of that, and Mom tells me it’s always been that way, I found the place thoroughly enchanting and I’d love to go back.