Skyrim

So I said I wanted to write more often, but of course I did not fulfil that promise - that is just who I am :P . But there is a good reason...

On the 10th of November I receive a package, possibly send from Sweden the day before so it got here rather quickly. Actually one day before it should.

I anxiously returned home and opened the package. Inside was a DVD, which I quickly inserted in to the DVD drive of my computer. An installation menu popped up and I clicked next several times, looking forward to the sweet piece of software that would soon be inside my computer. Then suddenly it gave me a weird alert box: "The game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim cannot be installed yet, because it has not been released yet." ... MothaF*

Finally the day 11-11-11 had arrived and I could start playing Skyrim! At first glance the world ... blows you away, and it continues to do so even after 50 hours of play time. I still have not finished the main story or even visited all of the areas or the largest cities. It is massive!

I have been in love with TES ever since I first played Morrowind almost ten years ago. Oblivion was maybe even better, and now Skyrim have turned TES to 11. Several of the annoying stuff from Morrowind and Oblivion have been removed or changed, such as the stupid Acrobatics and Athletics skills or the cursed "everything-around-you-follows-your-level". Man I hated running into roadside bandits wearing the insanely expensive glass armor.

Skyrim starts out, like every other TES game, with your character being imprisoned. This time you are heading for the block when suddenly dragons attack and you manage to find a way to escape. Skyrim is bloody as hell with decapitations, mutilated bodies and the like - definitely not for kids or the weak. Love it! :)

Other Stuff

I am using quite a lot of time on Skyrim and will continue to do so, but I do manage to sneak other stuff in to my daily life. One such activity were to join the forum at Anime Kita, an anime-community based in Aalborg, Denmark. They have a large meeting two times a year, spanning a whole weekend, which I just missed. They usually also meet IRL once a month, but I have yet to attend any of these. Maybe in January. This is basically my attempt to actually meet people in my area with some of the same interests as me - damn social stuff.

Other stuff this past month:

• Christmas dinner with my colleagues. I got an annoying headache, even though I barely touched the alcohol, and went home before the party got kind-of crazy (or so I have heard).
• My mom turned, uhm, well lets just say 35 and ignore the fact that my sister is then apparently half a year older than her mother.

Rest of this month:

• A Christmas dinner with my friends.
• Christmas Eve with my family in my apartment.
• New Years Eve with my friends.

Next month:

• Incoming packages from Japan containing a total of five figures! That means I will almost double my collection.

Hopefully I can soon write a blog entry about my trip around Europe ...