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Hey Dr. Nick!  Uh, I mean, Jamie!  

I have a review half written myself for Banner Saga. I'm just so busy it's hard to tear myself away and enter video game land. But I think about it often.  

Banner saga, eh? Never heard of it until I breifly looked it up just now.  I'll be looking forward to that review if you ever get around to it. No worries if you don't though.

It's good to hear from you whenever you are able. Your contributions are welcomed and no one expects the Spanish Inquisition you to be posting every day. 

Thanks dude. It probably wouldn't bother me as much if I emotionally just didn't care. But it's hard when you have the desire to do something, but not necesarily the timedrive to accomplish it with all the time.

I went through a long spell of not blogging. Life is just so dang busy! But I've been trying to write short blogs at least once a week about whatever I'm doing (for me, trying out an iPhone game for a few minutes and writing about it is easy subject matter for me). That's been working fairly well for me.

You know, I've been toying around with idea of playing and reviewing short or super simple games since it should take as long to write about it. Of course, I've also been telling myself that I need to be more concise in my future reviews so that I don't end up spending so much time trying to get into every detail.

Heck, there are times when I've forgotten a few major details that wanted to mention in previous reviews, but it come out just fine anyway. It's shown me that I don't need to try and cover every possible aspect.  Kinda hard to fight the compulsion though.

Good to see you're still around. I get folks are busy and have other things going on so if you have a free minute or two come say hi, and every so often I too post pickups on Instagram. 

Writing is hard and time consuming. My next major project is to study some writing to make it easier. I'm collecting grammar books right now. 

I use Flickr to post photos here. The process is a little bit obscure over there. Tami (Rangergirl) told me how to do it a long while ago. 

I've been using Flickr for YEARS now. It made it much easier to store and post photos for my 1Up blog back then. It threw me for a loop when Flickr updated the look and feel of the site because they changed the method for copying the url to your photos for posting elsewhere.  At first, I thought the feature was completely gone. I had too Google it to figure out how to do it again. Ironically, I still forget from time to time.

The way you have to do it on Flickr seems like a hack or something, it takes such strange steps to do it.

No complaints here. I understand completely, I am trying to finish a degree in IT and when I do write something it is short and to the point. Life. Right?

You said it!

Good to hear from you.  I haven't been on here much in the past week myself because my computer is giving me fits.

I always try to read you great posts whenever I can. Glad to see that you are still a review-writing beast. You and The Last Ninja. That guy is kicking my tail with his retro reviews.

Welcome to the wonderful world of being a busy adult. I hadn't posted a blog entry on here since February 5th, so don't feel bad. If you need any easy, but impressive recipes, shoot me a message. I do amazing things with porkchops and a can of cream of mushroom soup.

In the words of Doctor Strange: "Teach me"!

you will need four boneless porkchops, one onion sliced and sparated into rings, one can of cream of mushroom soup (get the good stuff, like Campbell's, the generic stuff isn't a very good substitute), milk (whole milk works best, you don't want your sauce too watery), and some seasonings. I'll make you a list of what I like to use and you can experiment.

Lightly brown the pork chops on both sides over medium heat in a large frying pan. Cover with sliced onions. Sprinkle chops with seasonings of your choice. Mix soup with about 3/4 of a CAN (not a cup) of milk and spoon over chops untll chops are covered. Cover pan and simmer on lowest heat setting for 1 to 1 1/2 hours. I usually serve them with rice pilaf and peas.

As for seasonings, I generally use salt, pepper, marjoram, thyme, rosemary (crush in the palm of your hand first before using), and sage. I don't measure, but a pinch of each per porkchop seems to work pretty well. You can try other herbs and spices once you get the hang of things.

Oh, and don't brown the chops too much, or they'll get tough. Just get rid of the pink on the flat sides. They'll continue cooking for the next 60 to 90 minutes.

Thanks for the recipe. Can't wait to try it. I'll let you know how it goes.

I've been a busy guy, too. I still love to play games but don't blog at nearly the volume i did when I was on 1UP, sadly. My wife enjoys watching my games/listening to the music, but I can't neglect her, and would never want to. :) All good.

Hey, I just noticed you're in Baltimore? Howdy, neighbor! I just got here a year and a half ago myself.

Welcome back man. Good to see you again.

 I know the feeling. I haven't really felt the urge to write anything of worth in about a year as well. I start a piece, then think it's garbage and scrap it.

 Hopefully we get some inspiration too, as I only recently got into your Review Rewind series. Sorry it took so long, but Ive been really enjoying it so far. I got hooked by your recent Metroid review and it's made me really want to dust off my old console *cough* emulators *cough* *cough* and try some of the games I've never heard of.