When we thought things at home could not get worse, we were wrong Last week, my wife had a break down and shortly after that she was diagnosed with a burn-out by her psychologist. So far we though we could manage, but now things seem to get a bit tense. Just imagine... Me with ADD, (possible) Asperger's and HSP. Our son with Asperger's and HPS, and now my wife with a burn-out. Right now I'm trying to take care of most things around the house (including one of the sources of my wife's burn-out, which gives me enough chaos as well ). And with our son going to his new school gives enough troubles as well (remember the part about the schoolbooks I wrote a few days ago?). Of course, he has to get used to his new daily schedule, and we think it'll take him a few weeks to adjust... But till then, we're in a bit o chaos at home. Because of that I might be a bit quiet on my blog, as well as on twitter. I will try to keep my blog updated at least twice a week though, while on twitter I'm probably a bit more active...

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With the whole bunch of books our son has for his new school, I had to make space in the bookshelf... Over the years I have collected a large amount of (Advanced) Dungeons & Dragons books, as well as other RPG systems (including all books of TSR's the Alternate role-playing system). Though I know it's very likely I won't play any pen-n-paper RPG for the coming time (and I haven't played one for a couple of years already), I want to keep all books I have. But there's still the issue of making space for our son's schoolbooks... Going through my collection of RPG books, I found a bunch of printed eBooks, that were collecting as much dust as the rest of my collection. Since I have those still in digital form, I decided to remove those books (one shelf emptied already). Then came my Warhammer models. Okay, it sounds more than I actually have... I started collecting a Ogre army a couple of years ago, and assembled only a few of them. But I also still have a converted Kroxigor Champion (a real old one already, and it's an awesome model - pity I don't have a scanner here to show you), as well as the Bretonnian King (I don't remember his name - Leon something ). But looking at the Warhammer stuff I also saw that I really displayed those few models on a lot of space, and the tools, paint and other stuff I need to crate them, took an aweful lot of space as well. All the Warhammer stuff was on 4 shelfs, and after reordering stuff, it only uses 2 shelfs now. Still the subject of the books and models collecting dust... I'd love to play both (Advanced) Dungeons & Dragons as well as work on my Warhammer models, but right now I don't think I'll be able to. But if someone around Alkmaar wants to play, please let me know

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Today was the first day our son had to go to his new school. Though not a real schoolday, he sat in the class for over an hour for introductions, and afterwards he received his books. Now those books are a problem. First of all, I'm glad I went along with him, because they were quite weighty. Secondly, when we were home and took a closer look at the books, they were all ...how to put this kindly... pretty old. Half of the books were clearly used more than one schoolyear, while others were in such a bad state that if I had to hand out books, I'd be ashamed to give those. Some were even in that bad a condition, that they were taped with ducktape by the school After contacting the school, our son has to report at the administration tomorrow so that the they can exchange / mark the books as seen "used" and we don't have to pay afterwards for them...

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Finally it's time to sell my old PlayStation 2. After we didn't play with the console for about half a year, and while last 2 years we've only played about 10 hours with the console, we  though it was a waste to let it collect more dust than it did so far... First off the PS2 itself... We've put a lot of money in this one at the time, putting an Infinity chip in it, making it region free, allowing us to play non-EU games as well... And the stuff we've bought for it is a lot... 2 memory cards, 2 controllers, 2 extension cords for the controllers and a couple of (original) games. Then there's one jewel amongst the games, and one I will miss for sure: ICO. This game in it's original form, along with the 4 cards is one of the real collector items for the PS2. I was lucky to have found one, I played it with a passion, and I feel sad to part from this game But is it the end for all consoles for me? Yes and no will be the right answer. I'll stick to PC games for sure from now on. Because of the sheer power of PC's, they'll always be better than console games. But I will keep my PlayStation Portable fos sure. Though not really a console, I will keep this one. The PSP is (for me) one of the better handheld consoles with great titles. It's also very handy to have one when I'm travelling

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I know I've said that I like Allods, despite that it's a RvR MMO. And that still is true. But right now, I'm a but burned out of Allods and MMO's in general. I could blame a lot of things about MMO's . For instance that they're no innovative enough, that they lack content and other stuff like that (which is mostly true), but in general it's just me at the moment. My ADD is playing tricks on me constantly. Where before my burn-out I could play MMO's for hours, these days, playing them for 2 hours is already enough for me. Somehow MMO's seem dull to me now. Yes, little innovative, lack of content, but even playing Allods, where there's a lot of humor involved in the game, I still can't keep my concentration up. I hope my concentration will be back again some day. Not only so that I can play MMO's again as I used to, but also because I can get back to work as well. It's like a two-edged knife now... No concentration, being on long-term sick-leave and no MMO's, or have my concentration back to the fullest again, work and play MMO's once again... I'll give single-player games a try for now, but I doubt they can keep my interest for long as well... I still have Dragon Age: Origins, Mass Effect (1 and 2) and BioShock 2 on the shelf here and I really do want to play them...

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