General Obsessive List... moving on...

Truth be told, I haven't really be obsessive lately - I KNOW! RIGHT!? - anyway, I just haven't really in the mood to do just about anything... so I'm actually working on a lot of little things...

1) I am attempting to put together a webcomic, but I'm not very good at drawing, so everything is on the computer. I didn't have the money for Photoshop and/or Illustrator, so I downloaded a free vector-drawing program (kind of like a free Adobe Illustrator). The program is called InkScape and even though it helps me accomplish what I need, it's not terribly user friendly. And since I had spent a semester of college doing computer graphic design through Illustrator, I'm frustrated at the shortcomings of InkScape. I know, you get what you pay for and yada-yada, but it's still annoying to think out "ok, I just do this, this, and this" but then not be able to do ANY of that because the layout of InkScape doesn't allow it... so then I have the fun of trying to figure out how to do it in InkScape and get the same results. Quite annoying... Regardless, once I start working on sketching something out I tend to not stop until a)something else (like hunger) stops me, or b) I get too frustrated with the program.
2) I read multiple webcomics - one of which gave me the inspiration to start my own. So when I need to kill time I tend to catch up on them. I'm all caught up with the one that inspired me, Game Destroyers. It has a forum attached with a small community involved. I tend to take the 3 minutes or so to read the comic - which is updated daily, but WHEN each day is the trick... - and then head over to the forum, but since the author went on a hiatus back in May the forum has kind-of died... TT_TT. The second one I mainly read is Order of the Stick. But again, I'm all caught up and the author of THAT one doesn't seem to update at even the remotest of schedules. It's usually a 2-second look to see IF he updated, and then another 3 minutes or so to read the comic. It saddens me that he updates so infrequently since it's my favorite comic that I read. The third one I spend a lot of time on is 8-Bit Theater. I started reading this one after watching the Flash animations a fan did to help promote the comic. However, I lost track of the comic and only picked it up again earlier this year. So now I still have like 5 years worth of comics to catch up on (just finished 2004 - booya!) so this is the one I just sit and read (usually in month intervals). Other comics that I read, but only on rare occasions are: Sluggy Freelance (one of Remy's favorites aside from Game Destroyers), DM of the Rings (Dungeons & Dragons meets Lord of the Rings - literally, it's screenshots of the movies and scripted like a D&D campaign...), Lackadaisy (honestly, I've never read it, but it was recommended reading and the illustration is nice), A Modest Destiny (a great comic that I'm all caught up on and the author seemed to have abandoned... so I'm just waiting out it's return...), Zombie Grammar (introduced to me by one of my friends, very amusing - and instructional - and also showed me the site I base my comic characters off of).
3) I play an online game called Ikariam, however it is a VERY slow-paced strategy game, and so I just do this, that, and the other thing (which usually takes all of like 5 minutes to do) and I'm basically done for the day... If you want to play with I'm on Theta with the name Lycorinea (kinda a Greekified version of LycoRogue... right?)
4) Remy's one friend Jake recently got Diablo II (well the whole battlepack), and so he got back into the game and tried to drag me along. I actually really like both Diablo and Diablo II, but I'm not much for those games. I like RPGs that require puzzle solving along with them. Plus I never know which equipment to keep and to sell and how to build my character... I'm kind of like Jack Skellington: It confuses me, but I love it... ^_^ Remy and I used to play Fiesta, but we haven't done that in a few months now. I kind of want to jump back on again...
5) I was going to write about my Fall Line-up obsessions, but it got too long, so that will be the next post...
6) My biggest obsession right now, especially after watching "The Hero of Time" (see last post), is playing Ocarina of Time again. I'm maybe 1/2 way through the game (only like a 1/3 if I try to finish all the side quests....). I'm a HUGE Legend of Zelda fan (duh), and so I play quite often (actually was almost late for work yesterday because of it...). However, it's just not as much fun on the computer as it is with the actual controller in your hand, so *shrug* Perhaps I'll con someone into getting me an N64 emulator controller for x-mas....

Well, there you have it, the little obsessions that fill the void that is the non-work/non-sleep portions of my day ^_^