Greater Gargadon

So finally, all the suspense in waiting for me to blog again has finally ended. :P It seems that blogger has upgraded their technology since I last blogged, so now I'm using this new template that for some reason seems to be screwing up my sidebar links. I've done a temporary solution for now, but it still looks kinda crappy. And I think the width of the posting area is too small. But other than that, I guess it's okay.

I had a couple of interesting convos yesterday, one of them was with Bao, and the other was with Jason and Duy over dinner. I was thinking about posting the whole MSN convo with Bao, but then I realized it probably wouldn't look that good on my new template, and so I'll just link to it:

http://www.baomon.com/blog/alan-blog-dec-10.html
(thanks sir!)

Because of these talks, I've been motivated to try to accomplish some things in the past that I was never able to do, and also to change more and become more efficient at things and better at communicating. To that end, I'm going to try and blog more often. I dunno how often that will be, since I'm still in the middle of finals and then I have Urbana and a lot of Christmas stuff after I'm done school, but I'm thinking a lot of time I spend doing other stuff like reading Magic sites could be better spent elsewhere.

Also, I was going to practice expressing opinions by giving a review of Tales of the Abyss, or something else, but that will have to wait for another time. I'll give it some thought over dinner perhaps, and then maybe later I deal with some other stuff that's been annoying me. (Why does the hydro company require a $685 deposit? I've already had to pay so many deposits this term. Hope I can actually get them back next year...)

Oh, and I'm pretty satisfied with my new computer. I think I'll give it a 9/7. :P