After choosing to take a break from college to evaluate my position on where to go at this point of my life, I've still managed to keep myself quite busy for the time being. Despite the fact that the amount of projects I've taken up has caused me to socially wall myself from the outside world, caused my father to worry and cause a dent in his insurance plan, taken up a lot of my free time, but its all in good fun. Whether its fits of depression or resume building, you decide! This decision kind of helped me break my mold and attend to some of my talents.
 
Heres just a few things that I've been working on lately 
 
PODiMOUTH.com 
Alright, so I'm sure a number of you are ready to turn your nose up against podcasts, let alone video game centric ones. I aim to try to be as informative as I possibly can in both the podcast episodes and the articles I write. I also hope to someday cover independent game developers to a T since the aim of the website is independent development. PODiMOUTH started last year as a news front for local Katy/Houston, Texas indie bands. In addition, each episode contains music from said bands as well. To this day even, as the website has expanded to other forms of media to cover. Since it was being run by an old friend of mine, and I was recommended by another friend of mine, I was a shoe in for the website. I've actually been interested in becoming a journalist for years, however without any other connections nor the desire to start a personal blog that nobody would read (Such as this one, but hey...) I've had no desire to write outside of my high school newspaper class. PODiMOUTH however is officially classified as an official journalism entity.. Which means I can take advantage of the fact that I can go into conventions, press events (Provided certain expenses and other complications are taken care of) and gain access to other press privileges. Admittably, we're kind of learning about the ins and outs of video game coverage, but I promise (Along with my colleagues of course) to do the best we can do. We're open to suggestions for the website, review requests and listen to any feedback you guys have. 
 
In the meantime, my reviews on the site will find their way onto Giant Bomb, but any articles I write in the future will only be found on PODiMOUTH.com. Be sure to give your feedback on them since I havent received any opinions on them so far. Also be sure to check out Bit-Tronic, which I happen to be a co-host on with Ra-Ra as we comment on all things happening on video games, movies and more.You'll find the latest episode here. It also features music played by the local bands, and they're some pretty fine folks too. Very talented and free to listen to.  
 
Also, click those ads! Gives me some nice pocket money that I could make use out of.  

Sonic Cyclone 
Perhaps you've heard of InstantSonic. Very talented amateur musician, artist and voice actor. You might remember him from some hit radio plays including Sonic and the Death Cheese 1 and 2. If you havent heard them, you should stop reading this blog and check them out. You cant say this post hasn't shown you anything entertaining at this point.  
Anyway, hes been working on a SHMUP featuring the blue hog himself, however the game will feature all original animation, an original soundtrack and a fusion of classic Sonic and shoot-em-up gameplay as Sonic flies through environments fighting uniquely designed badniks. I'd provide a screen or two about the game, however I cant acquire anything from the game on this machine. I'll probably sneak one into the comments eventually. 
 
C++ Programming 
After years of working with Multimedia Fusion and briefly learning the basics of Java and forgetting them, seems like a good time as any  to learn an actual programming language, right? While C++ isnt really used for game development, its still a decent step forward for learning something that can be applied to other job fields. I've been hitting up a book "Sams Teach Yourself C++" and already a few concepts felt pretty familiar. The only issue I'm coming across is that I'm not really taking advantage of any of the exercises or attempting to build a program from scratch. I'll figure that out eventually though. I'm up to establishing classes and deconstructing integers and objects.  
 
Scott Pilgrim the Radio Play/Persona 4 Simulacrum Radio Play   
 
Voice talent? What? Me? I guess. People said they like the sound of my voice, so lets see where this takes me.

Theres plenty of other things I've been working on, however I'm running out of time for writing this (and I'm not going to correct any errors) and its getting late. I've also been working more hours at work, despite the fact that I'm still only earning $7.50 for a job thats going nowhere. But its still money. I intend to use it when I get back into college as a part time student, for the time being anyway. Anyway, I'll keep you guys informed on my things going on when I find the time. For now though, I've gotta get ready for bed.