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Who’d have imagined that when I got a “real job”, I’d have be too busy to do just about anything… Just ask blizzard about my WoW account. I’ve fallen into the trap of New Year’s resolutions myself, which include everything from not bothering a certain person by trying to talk to them, to the perennial ‘get more exercise’ one that we all have, and so far so good.

One of my more odd resolutions is to actually play my Xbox360 rather than just let it remain as a shelf for a thin layer of dust. Luckily for my resolution Assassin’s Creed 2 came out, and I’m a sucker for this type of stealth assassination game. AC2 fixed just about everything that was a problem in AC1, with the exception of when you start to free run Ezio decides to go “full-retard”. I understand that this time around Ubisoft wanted to give more control to the player, but as you speed up, you really need to have some better pathing assistance. Oh, and those stupid box carrying morons that wander around and intentionally get in your path, have yet again made the top of my list of things that suck the fun from the game. So far I’ve put in WAAAAY too much time into the game, but it’s still VERY fun.

Unfortunately for my resolution is that I’ve bruised all the bones in my left wrist, and severely sprained my right one in a pretty nasty fall while walking through the parking lot at work… Not cool… It’s been over a week, and I’m still in an incredible amount of pain, which is not being helped by my ignoring the doctors advice, and am only wearing a fancy wrist brace on my left wrist, and (so I can do things) nothing on my right one. All I can say is, thank goodness for modern anti-inflammatory and pain-killing drugs, they may not stop the sharp pangs of pain from shooting up my arms, but it sure helps for all the times in between them.

Here’s hoping that your new year is a good one.

Tim