Hey copmom, I told you I had a bad memory. Belive it or not, I used to teach math, though it wasn't my primary subject/s, lol I thought it looked wrong when I wrote it,. hehe
With regards to my reviews, being a scientist by training I'm just systematic. Anyone with a little time could do exactly the same or better than myself. Thankfully I enjoy writing them, and as I've said previously in another thread, writing them does help keep my brain ticking over. I've been moving over to more problem solving puzzles of late rather than the mindless ones such as Alien Shooter, Jet's and Guns and other of those genres (though I still love them) and my favorite genre the Arkanoids. I've even put aside (almost) the first person shooters that I've been playing religiously for several years now, for a more mind stimulating real time strategy game, and have just ordered a few more up to date rts games to help. I'm even thinking of getting some of those Nintendo DS brain training games, but I'm not sure which to go for as I've been told some are better than others, but I can't remember which is which, lol.
I wish I could write reviews like Merril does (though we've not seen her around for some time)i.e. with a little more pizzazz and prose to make it sound more interesting because I do think my reviews are rather dry. Which is partly to do with the systematic way I write them, but also because I don't give myself time to add the prose as I think it's more important to get them posted as early as possible so that the community can read a little more about them :)
I was actually hoping Lockett would take over the reins for a while as his reviews are getting really good. I was surprised to discover that he is only 14 years old;(which makes me feel a little bad about the way I admonished him on these forums over some stuff he'd said, which he later apologized for). so that I could catch up on some other stuff that's been pending for ages such as other larger scale reviews and the 100's of hours of film I've recorded since my accident, but never seem to get around to watching - when the RAM discs I use are full I just buy another pack of 10, lol. And visiting other sites. I've been kicked out of my job as a moderator on one map and modding site because all my spare time that was devoted to that site has been grabbed by this one, lol. Still, I love this site as it's opened my eyes to a whole load of applications I never knew I needed as well as stop my narrow minded persuit of only playing arcade games such as arkanoids and spending an inordinate time on my favorite fps games the battlefield series. (I've only played it a couple of times this year so far and then that was to test a new mod that's being released this weekend.
Hi Bluhoteyes, if I go for some major surgery, theres a change the problems I have now may be resolved. If I do nothing there's no way. The trouble with the surgery is that theres a very high chance (around 20% of coming out a paraplegic, because the area where the main damage has occured (burst fractures of T11 and T12)is very close to a small artery that supplies blood to the spinal cord - I wont go into details other than to say I'm looking into finding a world renowned spinal surgeon as the ones around where I live have no noteriety and success rates are much lower.
By the way, good look in yout teaching. Now that's a satisfying career. :)
'scuze the waffle - it's that time of day, lol.
