Scop’s Blog

Heh, sorry about that. Kind of forgot to renew the domain. So that was it. Year one. Things certainly are not where I thought they would be when I started this, but they could be a lot worse.

Every day, I get up and drive to work, where I rub elbows with some of the best game designers in the world. I know things a (true?) game journalist would strangle an ox to find out, but a niggling little thing called an NDA keeps my pen away from the page. I enjoy the work, but it is not permanent. I am a contractor, and my employer/customer owes me nothing. One of these days, they will tell me not to come in tomorrow.

When I saw the new web hosting fees it would take to keep this venture of mine going, I flinched, I faltered, and this blog died. As more of my friends took notice, they asked me why my site was down, and I had to think it through again. A career in journalism covering video games is still very much my dream job, and this website is my best avenue into that job. In the end, I could not give this up completely.

It was easy to ignore the cost of maintaining this site during the first year. I bought the web hosting on a special, and only paid $30 for the entire year. Now, I pay monthly, so I should have much more incentive to get use out of it. That, or I will have to keep justifying it month after month. Either way, this site will not stand idle.

A lot has changed. As I type, I am listening to music from last.FM as it is playing through my Xbox. I am backing up my hard drive right now, so that I can upgrade to Windows 7. Games I salivated over last year are sitting on my entertainment center, thoroughly enjoyed or ignored. A puppy is curled up under my desk, stirring every time I shift in my chair. Tomorrow, I am going to go back to work. At a game studio.

This rambling post is not a second wind. I am not attacking my keyboard with renewed vigor. This is not an upbeat promise that I will get my act together and start posting content on any kind of schedule. This is my way of saying…

…stay tuned.